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Anatomy of A Website Crash

November 29, 2011
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  Sit back and grab a chair and allow me to spin you a tale of self caused cyber woe. It starts with, as most of these tales do, with an errant click of a mouse and misreading of two simple words: now or later.   All right enough of that. Seriously, I have issues.…

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The Official Blog Tour for Because of You

October 15, 2011
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So remember a few weeks ago when I was wondering how one coordinated a blog tour for a book launch? I was somewhat confused about where the process began, what I should be doing to promote my book and what I was going to screw up. Twitter came to the rescue once again and a…

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Guest Author Carly Phillips

September 7, 2011
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Guest Author Carly Phillips

Today, I’m honored to have Carly Phillips here to celebrate the release of her latest novel Serendipity. She’s the New York Times Bestselling author of over 30 romance novels with contemporary characters and plotlines that today’s readers identify with and enjoy. Carly is a stay at home mom of 2 daughters (now almost old enough…

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Guest Author Laura Griffin + Giveaway!

August 29, 2011
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Guest Author Laura Griffin + Giveaway!

Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome back a good friend of mine who also happens to be one of my favorite authors. Laura Griffin is back, celebrating the release of her latest suspense novel SNAPPED. Laura’s giving away an autographed copy of SNAPPED today along with a 20$ gift card to B&N to one…

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Blog Tour? Where Do I Even Start?

August 14, 2011
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Okay, need some advice for a newbie author. I suppose at some point I need to start a blog tour schedule. The problem is, how do I even begin? Is it something I just go around to my favorite blogs and ask someone if I can have a date on the calendar? Or is this…

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BECAUSE OF YOU Back Cover Copy

August 13, 2011
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BECAUSE OF YOU Back Cover Copy

So this post was going to be very exciting for me because I have the back cover copy of Because of You. But this gets even better because now Because of You is available for preorder!! This is kind of big for me. This feels like a moment where I feel like, yes, this has…

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Author Pics: The Final 2

August 6, 2011
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Author Pics: The Final 2

Ok gang, I’m down to the final 2 pics to choose from. I’ve used a bunch of the other pics in various locations but for the pic at the back of the book, I’m between these two. So what do you think?

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Author Pics: The Results

August 1, 2011
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Mission Analysis: Copyedits

July 13, 2011
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One of the things that drives my battalion commander nuts about me is that sometimes, not often mind you, but just sometimes, I have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. I know that in the past, when looking at revisions or changes to a story, I’ve defiantly done this and the result…

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The Year of The Twittah at RWA

July 9, 2011
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So I was holding off on blogging any more until after Sherry’s backlist giveaway was complete. So this was the year of Twitter. Everywhere I turned, people were talking to me and the introduction went something like this: “I’m so and so, from twitter.” And yes, names and usernames rang a bell. Conversations that had…

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