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Influencers, Reviewers, and Goodreads Part 2
I’ve been thinking A LOT about Goodreads/book reviews and all that other stuff we discussed on Wednesday (click here if you missed it) and about the article I linked to. And here’s the thing: I can...
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some recent reads and thoughts
First of all, thank you so much for all the kind words, thoughts and well wishes this week on the loss of my sweet Golden. Second… I’m not sure why, but I don’t talk a lot on my blog about books I...
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Marketing, Untraceable, Thinking Outside the Box for Successful Platform...
How’s that for a busy title? This will be a short post (I think—we’ll see when I’m done). I’ve been following a fellow YA writer, S.R. Johannes, around blogosphere a little lately. (And by following, I...
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Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Stephanie Perkins
This is more than a book review. This is a story of how I fell in love with a couple of books and the author behind them. And this is a lesson in how much a writer learns simply from reading good books...
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Four Reasons I loved Fracture by Megan Miranda
Fracture by Megan Miranda Website Facebook Twitter Description taken from Megan’s website… By the time Delaney Maxwell was pulled from a Maine lake’s icy waters by her best friend, Decker Phillips, her...
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Wildflowers from Winter, Katie Ganshert, and a giveaway!
Katie Ganshert springs from the starting gate with her debut novel, Wildflowers from Winter. The writing is lyrical and warm. Her characters are full of very real problems. And due to my own recent...
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What I’ve been reading… Submerged by Dani Pettrey, Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Let’s talk books today. What have you been reading? I’d love to know in the comments. As you’ll see in today’s post, my tastes are varied. I thought I’d mention a couple of books I’ve enjoyed lately...
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Platform building: Is it impossible for novelists?
I received my copy of Michael Hyatt’s Platform Get Noticed in a Noisy World on Friday. And while I have not read the whole book YET, I have watched some of the videos that I received after buying it...
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Dystopian – Ultimate in Crossover Potential. And some books I’ve been...
If an adult who doesn’t read much YA literature asked me where to start as far as YA, I’d have to recommend a few of my recent dystopian reads. For some reason, dystopian seems to reach a large...
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Some Thoughts on Authors Commenting on Book Reviews
I saw the most interesting thing while I was perusing book reviews yesterday. Not my own book reviews, obviously, because I don’t have any books out yet, but someone else’s. And it wasn’t even a book...
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