Writing Your Way Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Writing Your Way

Join Julie Smith, author of the how to writing book, Writing Your Way: The Great American Novel Track (BooksBNimble), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Author

Julie Smith Julie Smith is the award-winning author of twenty novels and as many short stories. She’s a former reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the San Francisco Chronicle,  as well as a veteran of her own online writing school, plus an editorial service she founded with two other writers. She’s also taught writing at the  University of New Orleans and in numerous private seminars. During her long career as a novelist, she has created four mystery series, including two set in New Orleans where she lives, featuring homicide detective Skip Langdon and poet/P.I. Talba Wallis. In 1991, she won the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. Counting all the novels, all the stories in all the anthologies, the odd essay, and a progressive novel or so, her publishers include just about every big publisher– Ballantine, St. Martin’s, Tor, Walker & Company, Knopf,  Doubleday, Avon, Harper-Collins, Berkley, Warner,  and Oxford University Press– plus some smaller ones, including Akashic Books,  Carrol&Graf,  Allen &Unwin, Taplinger, and Four Star.

Her latest book is a how to writing book titled Writing Your Way: The Great American Novel Track.

Visit her website at www.booksbnimble.com.  Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/booksbnimble and Facebook at http://on.fb.me/nMW52h.  She welcomes your email at Julie@booksbnimble.com.

About Writing Your Way: The Great American Novel Track

Writing Your Way WRITING YOUR WAY is a no-nonsense, jam-packed book on writing fiction that came directly out of the author’s belief that most writing teachers need to cut their students a little slack. Edgar-winner Julie Smith’s approach is to help you find your own writing method, not bombard you with “unbreakable” rules. But make no mistake, she’s going to give you plenty of how-tos—on plot, character, setting, voice, point-of-view, dialogue, pacing and marketing.  As well as plenty of practice exercises. And lots of motherly advice.

She also thinks most writing books are so absurdly padded they’re a waste of students’ time. Or they’re all about getting in touch with your inner writer so you can finally get started. WRITING YOUR WAY is for the pre-published novelist who is way past that. It gets right to the point. Offering nuts, bolts, and marketing methods, it’s a thick, dense concentrate of wisdom learned from years of actually… writing. Smith’s the author of dozens of novels and short stories and the founder of Writers’ Track, a method of teaching writing by conference call. She has also taught fiction both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Book Trailer

Watch at YouTube at http://youtu.be/VJz8BK366P0

Watch the hilarious outtake at http://youtu.be/ELNoKkde78c!

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Giveaways, Contests & Prizes!

In celebration of Julie Smith’s new release, she will be appearing at Pump Up Your Book’s 1st Annual Holiday Extravaganza Facebook Party on December 16.  More than 50 books, gifts and cash awards will be given away including an e- copy of Give Me a Break: No-Fuss Meditation and two three book book bundles!  Visit the official party page here!

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Writing Your Way Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

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books kk Monday, December 5

Guest blogging at Reader Girls

Tuesday, December 6

Book reviewed at Reader  Girls

Wednesday, December 7

Guest blogging at Bookin’ It Up

Thursday, December 8

Book reviewed at The Book Connection

Friday, December 9

Guest blogging at The Top Shelf

Monday, December 12

Guest blogging at Colloquium

Tuesday, December 13

Book Giveaway at Colloquium

Wednesday, December 14

Book reviewed at The True Book Addict

Thursday, December 15

Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Reviewed at Krazy Book Lady

Friday, December 16

Book reviewed at Inky Blots

Chat with Julie at Pump Up Your Book December Authors on Tour Facebook Party!

Monday, December 19

Book reviewed at Literarily Speaking

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Julie Smith’s WRITING YOUR WAY VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on December 5 and end on December 16 ’11. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book. Thank you!

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