It’s the zombie apocalypse! In other words, back to school day here in North America. I’m blogging about the trials, tribulations, and joys of this yearly milestone at The Jaunty Quills. Come chat with me for a chance to win His Mistletoe Bride, one of my historical romances from The Stanton Family Series.
Click here to join me at The JQs!
I’m interviewing Griffin Steele, the hero of Confessions of a Royal Bridegroom, at The Romance Dish today. He’s an entertaining rogue, that’s for sure, so please stop by. You could win a signed copy of Confessions! Click here to join in the fun.
And I’m thrilled to tell you that uber-romance website Fresh Fiction picked Confessions as their Fresh Pick today. That’s exciting because the Fresh Pick books are chosen by a group of readers and are never paid promotions. I’m over the moon with the reviews this book has been receiving, and truly honored that Fresh Fiction thought enough about it to make it their daily pick!
See you around the blogosphere!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been invited to join an absolutely wonderful group of romance writers on their blog, The Sisterhood of the Jaunty Quills. It’s one of the best group blogs in the romance blogosphere, counting uber-talented writers like Shana Galan, Kristin Higgins, Mia Marlowe, and Robyn DeHart among its members.
I’ll be blogging twice a month with the JQs, and I’ll be linking to JQ posts fairly frequently from now on–which is good news for my readers because those gals know how to have a good time! The JQs also host guest visits from your favorite romance writers (with giveaways!), so you’re going to want to stop by on a regular basis.
In fact, why don’t you stop over right now and say hello!
It’s another year over! Can you believe it? To celebrate the New Year with a bang, over 200 authors and bloggers are going crazy and sending out so many prizes, fun parties, experiences, and other goodies, that it’s a bit scary. Each author has a favorite New Year memory, book, idea, or way to party and we’re going to share with you!
And while we do that, we are EACH doing a giveaway. Yep. There will be over 200 giveaways on each blog hosted by that Author or Blogger.
But that’s not all….
We have THREE grand prizes. You as a reader can go to EACH blog and comment with your email address and be entered to win. Yep, you can enter over 200 times!
Now what are those prizes?
1st Grand Prize: A Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet
2nd Grand Prize: A $300 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
3rd Grand Prize: A Swag Pack that contains paperbacks, ebooks, 50+ bookmarks, cover flats, magnets, pens, coffee cozies, and more!
The fun starts tomorrow, so be sure to drop by!
I definitely have a love/hate relationship with social media. It’s like crack, luring me in with the promise of a better tomorrow, until I realize that I have totally wasted today on Twitter, or Facebook, or Goodreads. But is it really a waste? I’ve stumbled across so much fascinating information by using social media, discovering all kinds of interesting articles, blogsites, and websites on history, pop culture, politics, and the arts. I rarely surf the internet anymore. Rather, I follow the specific links I find on Twitter or Facebook. Even better, I’ve discovered people. Wonderful, funny, intelligent people, including writers, publishing industry professionals, and readers, from all over the world. Some have even become friends, and how utterly cool is that?
So it seems that what I have to do is manage my addiction and use social media to enhance my personal and professional relationships, and support my work. To that end, I’m reading a couple of really good books that deal with social media. One is a fabulous how-to book by Kristen Lamb, entitled We Are Not Alone. This is a social media guide for writers, and it deals with the big questions about social media and why people – not just writers – need it. The book also provides a nuts-and-bolts guide for setting up your own social media sites and accounts in clear language that is truly helpful to techno-peasants like me!
Kristen writes for Who Dares Wins Publishing, an independent publishing company created by Bob Mayer and Jennifer Holbrook-Talty. Bob Mayer is another great resource for writers and anyone aspiring to get published. He uses the skills and mindset he learned as a Special Forces soldier to teach writers how to conquer fear and bring discipline and positive change to their professional lives. Bob is also a really good writer and an all-around cool guy. Along with Jenny Crusie, he wrote one of my favorite books, the hilarious Agnes And The Hitman.
And you know how I found out about some of these folks? Through social media, of course. I even follow them on Twitter and Facebook.
How about you? Social Media: a positive vision of the future, or the bane of our existence?