Posted in Book Promotion, Reading and Literacy on Apr 30th, 2010 No Comments »
What do a children’s author, Hartford school librarians, and a brewing company have in common?
We all share a desire to motivate kids to read!
I promote my books with free visits to schools throughout New England. I create a win-win for the schools and myself by offering an educational and inspirational program to students at no [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Reading and Literacy on Mar 4th, 2010 No Comments »
On January 26 this year I visited two elementary schools in Hartford, CT. These are inner-city schools without the funding for outside programs, and I would venture that none of the students had ever seen a live author before. Visits to poor urban and rural schools rarely cover my gas expense, because the students can’t [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Reading and Literacy on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s another Web post that I missed at the time it was made. The American Booksellers’ Association, or ABA, featured me in their weekly newsletter, Bookselling This Week, back in July.
Author Wins IndieBound Points Contest
July 22, 2009
To mark its first anniversary, IndieBound has drawn a winner for the IndieBound.org points contest — Julie Hahnke [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published, Reading and Literacy on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Once again the summer has rushed by at high speed! And as I’ve said before, when things get busy blogs get neglected. Those silly luna moths certainly required a lot of care, but it was because I had so darned many. What was I thinking when I ordered 120 eggs? About three weeks after they [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Produced, Getting Published on May 15th, 2009 No Comments »
The Indie Next List pre-announcement came out today: http://news.bookweb.org/features/6782.html
It’s hard to believe ten days have gone by since Indie Bound told my publisher The Grey Ghost was #3 on the list! Since we landed in the top ten, we were invited to submit a video “book trailer” to link to the Indie Bound Web site. [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published on May 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Blogs work opposite the way they should. When there’s nothing going on, there shouldn’t be much news. Yet, that’s when I have the time to think about posts and write well thought out observations. When events get exciting and great news is bursting out, there’s no time to read each day’s e-mail, let alone think [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published on Mar 5th, 2009 No Comments »
I have to apologize (for the lags between posts) to my regular blog followers—and the Web stats prove you’re there, albeit the strong silent types! I’ll always wait until my “schemes-du-jour” pan out before I post about them. I’m throwing a lot of ideas up against the wall, and the walls often seem to be Teflon. [...]
Posted in Book Promotion, Getting Published, Reading and Literacy on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
So many great promotional ideas have excited me over the last two years, but so many don’t survive the birthing process for any number of reasons, that I’ve been reluctant to post on current efforts until something has, or actually is occurring. I’ve been quiet for the last month, working heads-down on a new project that’s had me fired [...]
Posted in Bagpiping, Book Promotion on Sep 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
The weathermen can’t decide what to call it: tropical storm, sub-tropical storm, nor’easter, and most recently, low-pressure system meets high-pressure ridge (sounds like a date.) Regardless of its name, there’s a nasty storm headed north this weekend. Through tomorrow we’re looking at 3-5″ of rain and 20-30 mph winds with gusts to 40. Pipes in [...]
Posted in Bagpiping, Book Promotion on Sep 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Later today I’ll give a live radio interview on Celtic Crossings, a weekly program on WMUA radio 91.1 FM. I’ll be on at 4 pm, and you can listen live at this link:
http://www.wmua.org/listen.php
Louise Dunphy, the host of the show, will be speaking to me about Through the Eyes of a Raptor, and the upcoming Pipes [...]