Tag: authors
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June 04, 2008 05:18 PM EDT --
Well, I wrote this book called Ghost to Coast, a handbook of ghost tours, paranormal investigation groups, and haunted hotels, and another called T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do: Blues Women . . .
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March 26, 2009 10:02 AM EDT --
I just signed and mailed my first ever publishing contracts to The History Press!
Thanks to the seminars I attended last year at OmegaCon and the Writer's Conference, I was able to determine that . . .
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September 12, 2009 11:16 AM EDT --
I was looking at weread.com for my books and saw Haunted Marietta listed. I didn't know it was listed already! But it's on Amazon for pre-order. Go look at it here, please!
Haunted Marietta . . .
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November 20, 2008 07:46 AM EST --
I'm posting this to invite everyone who has a book (or more) out there a place to post their title and their website. Here's mine:
The Long and Short of It - (poetry) 1st edition $6.97 print; . . .
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July 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Hello all,
So my book Practically Posh was just released and is already sweeping the nation, or at least my office, literally.
Yesterday, Marissa, a co-producer on the station, was . . .
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August 04, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
A Question ...
Do you primarily buy books online, or do you prefer going to your local bookstore?
I used to prefer going to the bookstore, but over the past year, I primarily order books . . .
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September 30, 2009 04:43 PM EDT --
My marketing person at History Press let me know that she paid my entry fee to sign Haunted Marietta at Marietta Square at the Harvest event on October 17th. I am going to Charleston on the 10th to pick . . .
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November 08, 2008 07:36 PM EST --
Here is an idea to boost everyone's sales. A contest in which everyone who purchases a participating author book is entered into a contest to win a stack of books.
Bookpile Contest
1) . . .
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June 26, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
and it's beautiful!
T'ain't Nobody's Business is an actual book now!
There was one extra page in the middle that I elected to take out, so I resubmitted it with that change and . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:31 PM EDT --
The point I am about to make is reiterated before me as the word "blogger" is underlined in red in my Microsoft Word document. Spell check has no idea what a blogger is, and, for a long time, . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:14 AM EDT --
Tomorrow, my fellow Gather author Erin O'Riordan will be sharing background information about her erotic romance novel, Beltane, on my blog. Come out and leave comments for Erin and show your support! . . .
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June 09, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
In AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY , I tell six separate stories, each of which reveals an "untold tale" that your schoolbooks left out.
These six stories cover a broad range of our history, . . .
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June 24, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
I realized today that as I anticipate havng this book finished, I am not thinking about taking a break from writing. I just plan not to start on another book right away. So, when I got this quote on Twitter, . . .
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July 20, 2008 01:10 PM EDT --
I sold my first two copis of T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do this morning! And I wasn't even trying! These ladies just asked me if it was for sale yet, and I said it just went on sale, . . .
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July 14, 2008 03:34 PM EDT --
This has now happened to me enough times that it's worthy of a write-up. Someone will ask me the innocent question, "What's your book about?" and, though I could wax poetic about it . . .
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June 16, 2008 03:36 PM EDT --
Whenever I do an author's visit to a school, I always bring along my portable "Don't Know Much About" game show. For an hour or so, nobody is "bored by history" as I turn . . .
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June 27, 2008 10:23 AM EDT --
Whenever I am researching one of my books, I love to stumble upon an "ah-ha! moment" -- one of those delicious morsels of completely surprising information they never told us about in school. . . .
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June 06, 2008 11:01 PM EDT --
Hello Fellow Gatherites,
As you know, there are many talented authors that are Gather members. As an author myself (of the award-winning Darkness Descending), I know that having an independent review . . .
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July 01, 2008 11:32 AM EDT --
So as I am preparing for my book release, I found it ironic (and maybe somewhat serendipitous) that I met up with the Queen of DIY: Martha Stewart.
When I was first imagining the content, style, . . .
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October 27, 2008 09:01 AM EDT --
Apparently it's sorta well-known around here that Peter Joseph Swanson is a novelist. Huh.
Back when I first got to know him (in high school) nearly three decades ago (*sob*...we're . . .
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