Archive for January, 2012:

New Book for Review: Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry by Dr. Laura Maciuika

Dr. Laura Maciuika will be touring mid-March to mid-April 2012 with her self-help book Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry. Stressed out? There is plenty of real external stress, sure, and a serious stress epidemic going on. Then there is what we do on the inside, often without even realizing it. Conscious Calm focuses on the internal patterns of stress creation we may not even notice, and describes how to get free of these patterns for good to find lasting calm. Integrating psychology and neuroscience, and combining practical wisdom from both East and West, Dr. Laura Maciuika explains the inner stress traps that so many of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Downtown Green Virtual Book Publicity Tour March 2012

Join Judy Christie, author of the Christian fiction novel, Downtown Green (Abingdon Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere March 5 – 30 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Judy Christie Author Judy Christie loves to help busy people slow down and enjoy each day more – in her series of novels about Green, Louisiana, and her Hurry Less Worry Less nonfiction books. Judy started her writing career as the editor of The Barret Banner in elementary school and has kept a journal since she was nine (and still has all of them). She likes strolling around flea markets, walking in the
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New Book for Review: Nonfiction/Legal ‘Grinding It Out: How to Create a Six-Figure Law Practice’ by Chris Shella

Chris Shella will be touring February 6 – March 23 with his nonfiction legal how to book, Grinding It Out: How to Create a Six-Figure Law Practice. Learn everything you need to know about starting your own law practice. Chris Shella discusses the good and the bad of running a successful law practice The secret to making sure you get paid is revealed with specific steps designed to guide you through the A, B, C’s of a Six-Figure-Law-Practice. You can visit his website at www.hiredgunlawyer.com. If you would like to review Grinding It Out, How to Create a Six-Figure Law Practice, please fill out the form below or email
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1/22/12 – 1/29/12 Pump Up Your Book’s Weekly Twitterville Roundup

1/22/12 – 1/29/12 Pump Up Your Book’s Weekly Twitterville Roundup Happy Sunday! We decided to start a weekly roundup of all the most informative links we have found on the web that we’ve tweeted that have to do with book publishing, book promoting and social media that would be informative to the published and about to be published author. This week’s tweets include informative articles on self-publishing which I highly encourage authors who are planning to self-publish to look into first. Enjoy! Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/28/why-every-entrepreneur-should-self-publish-a-book/ via @techcrunch Indie Epublishing: A Beginner’s To Do List http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/indie-epublishing-a-beginners-to-do-list Help! My Book’s Not Selling http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/help-my-books-not-selling Join the Book Publicity
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The Canker Death Online Book Tour February, March, April 2012

Join James Bottino, author of the fantasy and science fiction novel The Canker Death as he virtually tours the blogosphere in February 2012 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About James Bottino James R. Bottino’s life-long interests mix esoteric and disparate fields of study. By day, his foremost influences have been the study of literature and the art of writing. Following these pursuits led him to read anything he could in these areas and to complete every under-graduate and graduate course available to him in the field of creative writing. Following this line, he taught high school English throughout the 1990’s, focusing on the teaching of
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Casey and Kyle Online Book Tour February 2012

Join Will Robertson, author of the comic Casey and Kyle: I’m Saving Up for a Big Brother!!! as he virtually tours the blogosphere in February 2012 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Will Roberston WILL ROBERTSON enjoys playing music and working on his serve in Tennis. His favorite beverage is an Iced Tea with no lemon. He loves Tacos and Panini Sandwiches and is fond of road trips. He is an avid mini golfer and an aggressive bumper car driver. He lives with his wife and two children in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. His house is yellow. He started drawing comics on a road trip when
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Henry Wood Detective Agency Online Book Tour February 2012

Join Brian Meeks, author of the mystery novel Henry Wood Detective Agency as he virtually tours the blogosphere in February 2012 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Brian Meeks Brian D. Meeks found a love of writing through a random act of blogging. On Jan 2, 2010, he was overcome by boredom and found blogger.com. With little else to do before the football game kicked off, he wrote a piece about woodworking. Later that same day, while visiting a woodworking forum, he found a button labeled ‘blog’, so he cut and pasted the piece he had written and then went to watch football. The next
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No Innocent Affair Online Book Tour February 2012

Join Edward F. Mrkvicka Jr., author of the nonfiction Christian book No Innocent Affair as he virtually tours the blogosphere in February 2012 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Edward Mrkvicka Edward Mrkvicka is a lay minister and counselor, and life-long Bible student. His religious writings have been awarded Best Christian Book of the Year, Best Christian Study of the Year, named a National Best Book Awards finalist, and a winner in the Christian Choice Book Awards. He has also been awarded the prestigious Faith Writers Seal of Approval. His efforts on behalf of families, understanding adultery, and the devastating effect of divorce on children
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Act of Grace Online Book Tour February 2012

Join Karen Simpson, author of the contemporary speculative fiction novel Act of Grace as she virtually tours the blogosphere in February 2012 on her second tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Karen Simpson Karen Simpson is passionate about the craft of writing fiction, the art of quilting, and the discipline of historical research. She received her bachelor’s degree in Animal Husbandry, M.A. in Foreign and International Trade and a M.S. in Historic Preservation. A historic preservationist trained in heritage interpretation and administration, the subjects and themes of her fiction are often taken from the stories she discovers while doing research for museum exhibits. In 2009 Simpson was awarded
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New Book for Review: Alternate Historical Fiction ‘Coma Story’ by Stephen Manoj Thompson

Stephen Manoj Thompson will be touring April 2 – 20 with his alternate historical fiction novel, Coma Story. Coma Story resembles a fresh David vs. Goliath. In order to get back the Oil Islands, a de facto U.S. territory located roughly in the center of the Indian Ocean, the narrator, a coma survivor, must recall his lucid dreams. Living with a post-coma condition that no one could understand, Aldan Foy’s fascinating coma journey explores the link between conscious dreaming and creative problem solving. Based on the clever happenings of his dream episode, Aldan along with his multi-talented Chagos friend, Tarzan, conspires to gain back Chagos Archipelago from the Union
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New Book for Review: Paranormal Romance ‘The Genie Ignites’ by Kellyann Zuzolo

Kellyann Zuzolo is touring March 5 – 23 with her paranormal romance book, The Genie Ignites (Book One of the Zubis Chronicles). Bethany O’Brien is a 21st-century woman with a career, ambition and bills. She has no recollection of how she once felt about a nearly 4,000-year-old genie named Zubis who suddenly invades her world, but he certainly remembers her. In a previous incarnation, Bethany was an important temple priestess who apprenticed to the djinn. Zubis, powerful and alluring, is infuriatingly bemused by Bethany’s skepticism. Once upon a time, he vowed to love her forever and has no plans of breaking his vow. And although the priestess she once
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Daddy’s Home Virtual Book Publicity Tour March/April/May 2012

Join A.K. Alexander, author of the thriller novel, Daddy’s Home (D’Vine Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere March 19 – May 11 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About A.K. Alexander I started writing when I was nine-years-old. I used to write short stories on my dad’s notepads. One day he read one and he said to me, “You are a writer.” It stuck. My dad is still my biggest supporter and he is also my mentor in many ways. I went to college at The University of Southern California. My parents though didn’t think that “creative writing” at USC was a
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New Book for Review: Blood: The New Red by David Grant

David Grant is touring in March with his literary fiction novel, Blood: The New Red. Blood: The New Red begins at an after party where Mickey, and ex-adult movie star turned supermodel, is aligning himself with one of the top Designers of Seventh Avenue. While trying to land a job on the runway Mickey is thrown into the center of a scene where sex is often the motivation, the wine is served by year, and cocaine is back in full force. Juanita, Mickey’s girlfriend is having difficulties staying sober, fully clothed, and off of her famous boyfriend. Mickey goes to work for Fashion icon Paul Johnson, one of the
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New Book for Review: Dog Memoir ‘Charlie: A Love Story’ by Barbara Lampert

Barbara Lampert will be touring March 5 – April 20 with her dog memoir, Charlie: A Love Story. Charlie: A Love Story tells of the beautiful love between Charlie, a Golden Retriever, and his best friend Barbara. When Charlie turned eleven and started having some health problems, a gardening journal Barbara was keeping quickly became mostly about Charlie. So his story is told in journal form while it is taking place. And because it was not meant for publication, it is an intimate look at an incredible connection between a canine and a human. And the story of that connection is told by Barbara, a psychotherapist who specializes in
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New Book for Review: Historical Coming of Age ‘The Promised Land’ by Valerie Stocking

Valerie Stocking will be touring March 5 – April 20 with her historical coming of age novel, The Promised Land. It’s 1966, just two years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and twelve-year-old Joy Bradford’s life is changing dramatically. Born and raised in the white suburbs of Connecticut, Joy is moving to Willets Point, Florida to live with her mother Jessica because her parents are divorcing. Hoping it really is the Promised Land that her mother describes, she joins in Jessica’s enthusiasm only to find out how horribly wrong that vision is. Unfortunately for Joy, the move does nothing to change her mother’s
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New Book for Review: Historical Romance ‘A Heart That Dares’ by Jill Limber

Jill Limber will be touring March 5 – 23 2012 with her historical romance novel, A Heart That Dares. Amanda Giles, an unconventional and free-spirited young artist, has to fulfill a deathbed promise to her brother before she can take up her life as a Bohemian in New York. She finds herself swept up in the perilous life of an undercover espionage agent for the Army of the North with handsome young Army Captain. Daniel McGrath. Daniel knows his preoccupation with the woman posing as his wife puts them both in grave danger, but he finds Amanda has no intention of abandoning their mission. As the danger increases, Daniel’s
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New Book for Review: Historical Romance ‘Montana Morning’ by Jill Limber

Jill Limber will be touring March 5 – 23 with her historical romance novel, Montana Morning. In the Montana Territory town of Dennison, the law allows a woman to save a man from hanging if she agrees to marry him. Battered and nearly unconscious with a noose around his neck, Katherine Holman decides Wes Merrick is perfect husband material. Under the terms of her father’s will, due to a youthful indiscretion, she must be married to inherit. She expects her ‘husband’ to leave as soon as the deed is in her name. She wasn’t prepared for the fact that the man she has chosen turns out to be an honorable sort
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Confessions of a Color-Blind House Painter Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Selwyn Mills, author of the autobiography, Confessions of a Color-Blind House Painter (CreateSpace), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Selwyn Mills Selwyn Mills served an apprenticeship in decorative painting before starting his own business in 1956, which lasted until his retirement in 1992. He worked as a craftsman painter, wrote for the National Paint Journal, served as President of the National Painting Contractor Association in Nassau County, New York, and taught faux painting. While painting professionally, Mills earned his doctorate in psychology and operated a successful private psychotherapy practice. Dr. Mills
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Book News: Braxton A. Cosby & “Uncle” Bill Cosby at Hue-Man Bookstore in NY

I would love to give a big shout out to Braxton A. Cosby who toured with us recently. He and his uncle THE BILL COSBY appeared at the Bill Cosby Signs Copies Of “I Didn’t Ask To Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was) Booksigning held at Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe in New York City in which both of them put on an excellent show. Watch!

New e-Book for Review: A Boy Called Duct Tape by Christopher Cloud

Christopher Cloud will be touring March 5 – 23, 2012 with his middle school adventure e-book novel, A Boy Called Duct Tape. About A Boy Called Duct Tape Pablo Perez is a 12-year-old poor kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape” because his tattered discount-store sneakers are held together with…you guessed it, duct tape. He can’t escape the bullying. Pablo’s luck, however, changes after he finds a $20 gold coin while swimming in a river near his home. Pablo later buys a $1 treasure map at the county fair. The map shows the route to the “lost treasure” of Jesse James. Pablo can’t
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New eBook for Review: Contemporary Women’s Fiction ‘Paris Adieu’ by Rozsa Gaston

Rozsa Gaston will be touring March 5 – 23 with her contemporary women’s fiction novel, Paris Adieu. The first time Ava Fodor visits Paris as a nineteen-year old au pair, her French boyfriend introduces her to the concept of being comfortable in her own skin. If only she knew how… One Ivy League degree later, she’s back for an encounter with a Frenchman that awakens her to womanhood. If only she could stay…. Five years later, Ava returns to Paris as a singer/pianist. She falls for Arnaud, whose frequent travel tortures her. While he’s away, a surprising stranger helps Ava on her journey to self-discovery. Armed with the lessons Paris
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A Book and a Chat Host Barry Eva’s Dos and Don’ts for Getting on Internet Radio Shows

A Book and a Chat Host Barry Eva’s Dos and Don’ts for Getting on Internet Radio Shows By Barry Eva Back in February 2009, after appearing on a few radio shows, and with experience of running a couple of local TV shows narrating stories from my romance book as well as filming local karaoke, I thought… why not try your own radio show. Loving a good old “chin wag” as we say in England I thought it might be good fun, little did I know just how much. Here we are almost three years on and over 400 shows later my show is still hitting the airwaves three to
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Defending Jacob Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join William Landay, author of the family drama thriller, Defending Jacob (Delacorte Press, Jan 2012) as he virtually tours the blogosphere from February 6 – 29, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About William Landay William Landay is the author of The Strangler, a Los Angeles Times Favorite Crime Book of the Year, and Mission Flats, winner of the Creasey Memorial Dagger Award for Best First Crime Novel and a Barry Award nominee. A former district attorney who holds degrees from Yale and Boston College Law School, Landay lives in Boston, where he is at work on his next novel of suspense. His latest release is Defending
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Chasing Glenn Beck Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Michael Charney, author of the political nonfiction book, Chasing Glenn Beck: A Personal Experiment in Reclaiming Our Hijacked Political Conversation (Riddle Brook Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Michael Charney Michael Charney is a principal with Charney Coaching & Consulting LLC, where he provides expert services in the areas of team building, communications and succession management. As part of his responsibility for social media strategy and business platform development, he also provides regular blog, Facebook and Twitter postings. As an executive and leader he has pioneered work in corporate social
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New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘Dark Is The Sky’ by Jessica Chambers

Jessica Chambers will be touring March 5 – April 20 2012 with her women’s fiction novel, Dark is the Sky. How far would you go to protect those you love? Twelve years earlier, Olivia and Joel Cameron invited the family to spend the weekend at their new country home. Olivia hoped to provide them all with a much-needed escape from their anxiety over the recession crippling the nation; instead, the visit ended in tragedy when Scott, Joel’s wild and outrageously sexy youngest brother, was found dead. The repercussions tore the family apart. Now, Olivia’s sister Violet has persuaded her to host a reunion. She claims it’s time they finally
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New Book for Review: Do You Dare To Be Yourself? by Andreas Dudas

Andreas Dudas is touring in April with his self-help/leadership book, Do You Dare To Be Yourself? Best selling author Andreas Dudas has solutions for those facing a career or life change in his new book, Do You Dare To Be Yourself? Developing Power in Life and Leadership Through Authenticity. The book can be described as “Who Moved My Cheese” meets “If Life is a Game, These are the Rules.” Based on the author’s real experience gained from all over the world as project director, life coach and manager in top executive positions , the book offers frank thoughts, vivid examples, concrete advice and mental techniques all designed to inspire people
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New Book for Review: Special Delivery by Christian Author Kathi Macias

Award-winning Christian author, Kathi Macias will be touring mid-March to mid-April with the second book in her Freedom series, Special Delivery. In book two of the “Freedom” series, readers find Mara fighting against her attraction to Bible college student Jonathan Flannery, even while wrestling with risking her own precarious safety to become involved in the rescue of another girl who is pregnant and desperately wants to escape her captors and save her own life, as well as her child’s. Halfway around the world in a brothel in Thailand, a young girl named Lawan is rescued with the promise of being reunited with her little sister who was adopted by
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Letters on Balboa Island Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Kathy Holmes, author of the women’s fiction novel, Letters on Balboa Island (Createspace), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Kathy Holmes Born in the City of Angels, raised on Walt Disney, and inspired by the dreams of both, Kathy Holmes grew up in southern California halfway between Disneyland and the beach. Tantalized by the tropics since Adam Troy set sail on the Kon Tiki in James A. Michener’s “Adventures in Paradise,” she traveled to tropical destinations such as Hawaii, Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Asia Pacific. Eventually, she moved to Florida
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Acts of God While on Vacation Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Richard Tillotson, author of the literary comic fiction novel, Acts of God While on Vacation (Arlington Avenue Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Richard Tillotson Richard Tillotson has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Borneo, a playwright in New York, a copywriter in Hawaii, and is a relative of an English Lord, all of which helped him write Acts of God While on Vacation, a National Semi-Finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and named “Hawaii’s best fiction book of 2011” by The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He works in Honolulu
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New eBook for Review: Medical Thriller ‘Equity of Evil’ by Rudy Mazzochi

Rudy Mazzochi will be touring March 5 – April 20 with his medical thriller, Equity of Evil. In hopes of a quick and lucrative return during harsh economic times, a Venture Capital Fund makes a risky investment to start a challenging new business that appears capable of reaching profitability with modest capital requirements. The real challenge: optimizing one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures in the World — abortion — by replacing oftentimes seedy and life-threatening back room procedures with clean, safe and dignified alternatives. An unfolding world of deceit, rape, human trafficking and assassination becomes deeply personal as Roman’s sole love interest secretly uses one of his
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Elysia Strife, A PROMISE IN ASH

❤️"Today my blog tour ended, with another great review which made me end the tour with a big smile! What a fun way to end this incredible 4-week tour. I will surely miss it. I want to thank you for arranging it so well and for being there for me whenever I needed. Thank you!!!"

Miri Leshem-Pelly, SCRIBBLE & AUTHOR

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Sharon House, BRIMSTONE AND WATER

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Michael Allan Scott, GREY DAZE

❤️"Just wanted to thank you for putting together a great tour for You Won't Remember This. I think the author was pleasantly surprised and overall very pleased."
Bacon Press Books

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Lauren Carr, Best-Selling Mystery Author of Mac Faraday, and Lovers in Crime, Mysteries

❤️"Thank you again for all of your help and support for my recent book tour. You were so supportive and responsive, and I enjoyed working with you. It was a great tour and I really enjoyed it, especially when my book hit the top 100 in the two subcategories! That was awesome! Thanks for "pumping up my book!""
Monique Roy, ACROSS GREAT DIVIDES

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Kaylin McFarren, BURIED THREADS

❤️"Thank you for a great virtual book tour. I thought it went really well and it was great to have a wave of PR that flowed through the two month period of my book release. I'm working on my next book - and will definitely reach out to you when it comes time to market! You were a delight to work with and really made me feel looked after. As I've mentioned before, I just don't know how you do it all."
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-- Lou Aronica, STORY PLANT

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-- Alicia Singleton, DARK SIDE OF VALOR

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-- Suzanne Jenkins, PAM OF BABYLON SERIES

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-- Malana Ashlie, GRINGOS IN PARADISE

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---Deborah Woehr, PROSPERITY: A GHOST STORY

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--Kathy Holmes Eckardt, REAL WOMEN WEAR RED

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–Vincent Zandri, MOONLIGHT FALLS and THE REMAINS

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–-World Ahead Media

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--Mary Ann Loesch, NEPHILIM

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How do you make sales happen for you?

A lot of hard work! I sponsor a lot of on line parties, festivals and contests. Book sales don’t magically happen, believe me. An author has to work hard to earn her readers. And then she has to work hard to keep them by giving them something they’ll enjoy reading. I try hard to make my books worth a reader’s time.

-- Sheila Roberts, Author of Winter at the Beach