Posts Tagged ‘Terri Giuliano Long’

Guest Blogger: Bestsellers Are Not Born. They’re Made! by Terri Giuliano Long

Bestsellers Are Not Born. They’re Made! Terri Giuliano Long When I published my debut novel, In Leah’s Wake, in October 2010, I had no clue as to what I was doing. Stupidly, too embarrassed to self-promote, I posted the book on Amazon. That was it. I mean really it – not even my parents knew I’d published the book! I sold two books in October, four in November, and thirty-four in December. For a month or so after the holidays, as people bought books for their new Kindles, I sold a few copies a day. By March, with sales lagging, and I realized that, if I didn’t do something,
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First Chapters: In Leah’s Wake by Terri Giuliano Long

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In Leah’s Wake By Terri Giuliano Long CreateSpace/Inspired Quill (September 27, 2011) Women’s Fiction Chapter 1 September Zoe and Will Tyler sat at the dining room table, playing poker. The table, a nineteenth-century, hand-carved mahogany, faced the bay window overlooking their sprawling front yard. Husband and wife sat facing one another, a bowl of Tostitos and a half-empty bottle of port positioned between them. Their favorite Van Morrison disc—Tupelo Honey—spun on the player in the family room, the music drifting out of speakers built
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Pump Up Your Book’s 1st Annual Holiday Extravaganza Facebook Chat Party!

ATTENTION:  WINNERS ARE NOW SELECTED FOR PUMP UP YOUR BOOK’S 1ST ANNUAL HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA FACEBOOK CHAT PARTY!!!  CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT IF YOU WON!  HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY EVERYONE! WE’RE HAVING A FACEBOOK PARTY!!!! Pump Up Your Book is proud to host the 1st Annual Holiday Extravaganza Facebook  Chat Party for authors touring in December 2011.  What better way to set the holiday mood by having a chance to talk to your favorite authors and win some wonderful prizes for you or to give to that special person for the holidays?  ‘Tis the season, right???  We’re giving away more than 50 prizes including books, gifts  and cash awards!!!
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Pump Up Your Book Live! November 2011 Authors on Tour Chat/Book Giveaway Party Friday Night!

The Pump Up Your Book Live! November 2011 Authors on Tour Chat/Book Giveaway Party will be held this Friday night, November 18 starting at 8 p.m. eastern time.  Chat with your favorite authors including Jason Krumbine, Terri Giuliano Long, Mike DiCerto, Noah Baird, C. Elizabeth, Veronica Blade, Jaime McDougall, Michelle Richardson, Cheryl Malandrinos, Frank Zaccari, M.E. Patterson and Glen C. Strathy! You can also win prizes! To find out more details, click here. See you at the party!!!


In Leah’s Wake Virtual Book Publicity Tour Nov/Dec 2011 & Jan 2012

Join Terri Giuliano Long, author of the women’s fiction novel, In Leah’s Wake (Createspace/Inspired Quill), as she virtually tours the blogosphere November 14 – January 27 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Terri Giuliano Long Terri Giuliano Long is the bestselling author of the award-winning novel In Leah’s Wake. Books offer her a zest for life’s highs and comfort in its lows. She’s all-too-happy to share this love with others as a novelist and a writing teacher at Boston College. Her life outside of books is devoted to her family. In her spare time, she enjoys walking, traveling to far-flung places, and
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New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘In Leah’s Wake’ by Terri Giuliano Long

Terri Giuliano Long will be touring November 14 – December 16, and then again January 3 – 27 with her women’s fiction novel, In Leah’s Wake. The Tyler family had the perfect life until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn’t want to be perfect anymore. As Leah’s rebellion escalates, her parents, Zoe and Will, wage a desperate battle to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Justine, must bear the burden of coping with the destruction her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. In Cortland, Massachusetts, where money and image reign supreme, the Tylers, once town royalty, soon find themselves isolated, the subject of vicious
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