Booksquare

It’s been a little over two years when Booksquare suggested I blog over here. It was December 2004. My first book was out, and BS thought people might want to read about a first time author’s trials and tribulations. Or maybe she didn’t think I’d really do it and has been secretly laughing about it […]

I’ve spent the day at camp in 90 degree plus heat with 12 first graders. While I should be cooling off with something like an ice bath, I checked my e-mail first. Someone forwarded me the wikipedia entry on hack writers. You know what…I am one. Yes!! Hack writer – From Wikipedia

Wouldn’t You Like To Know…is a new blog for Isabel Swift, a member of Harlequin’s New Business Development team. There’s an interesting mix of what’s new at Harlequin and her own personal insights. For instance she shares her experiences at the BEA as well as information on Harlequin’s On The Goâ„¢ (HOTGo) program. Wouldn’t You […]

I am positive that at some point in the future Booksquare will read this post and know this was the exact message that sent Booksquare on a downward spiral. It will also demonstrate my (extremely) limited html skills. So, here goes: Today’s links of interest: School Serving Up Books To Students When you’re dishing out […]

Whenever authors talk promotion, usually author branding comes up. Let’s be honest, my writing career is in its infant stage. We’re still paying off the college student loans, so throwing a lot of cash into publicity is just not in the cards for me right now. I’m just doing the standards of booksignings at the […]

You find some amazing things when you go troll through the Internet (okay, I was googling). I found a nice mention of Booksquare in The Christian Science Monitor. …the fact is that book blogs can be vibrant and sharply opinionated, full of odes to favorite authors and jibes at everything from “cheesy” bestsellers to the […]

Sometimes I wonder when the reporters will get bored with this topic. When I was in journalism school, we were told to be very careful of falling in love with our own words. Of being so enamored of our slant of the story that we forgot things like facts, research and basically avoiding the easy […]

Ugh. The agony. The kids were in bed, the dh had ordered us a movie and I’d just typed my name in the google search engine. Then I found it. A tiny blurb that didn’t look like a glowing rec for my book. I had to click. Dh very selfishly didn’t want to hear me […]

Last week I had an interesting experience…I substituted for five days in the first grade. (I say five days rather than a week, because for some reason five days just seems longer!) I taught freshmen before I settled down to write, so the differences are numerous. In first grade, the students are shorter than I […]

When fascinating news abounds, it is difficult to pick and choose the right stories. After all, could anything be more intriguing than the fact that a group of influential authors have formally asked Oprah to reinstate her book club? Oprah, after all, has done more to introduce literature to the public than many publishers. It’s […]