Believe it or not, I have a variety of things to blog about tonight, but, energy escapes me! I’m tired, tired, tired. It’s still early, but I’m going to bed NOW and getting some rest! It really wore me down, spending the majority of last weekend at my day job! If I had to do that all the time, I’d be a mess!
For those of you who don’t know, I’m an accountant at my day job. It’s close to audit time, and I spent the majority of today (Saturday) at work, and will probably be at work all day tomorrow.
I’m about ready to go to bed now, I’m so tired. I’ll be posting more book reviews soon…
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I forgot to mention awhile back that my stat counter has surpassed the 20,000 mark! So, my blog has had the pleasure of over 20,000 hits! Wow!
I was going to review The Flower Of Grass today, but, I’m too tired. Hopefully, I’ll get to it within the next day or so.
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Feeling a bit under the weather. Everyone in our house has colds. I read a great book last weekend: Riding Through Shadows by Sharon Ewell Foster. I purchased this novel from Crossings years ago, but never got around to reading it. There’s a sequel and I look forward to purchasing that and reading it.
I’ll post reviews on Sharon’s novel as well as Dark Pursuit by Brandilyn Collins soon.
I received my cover flats for Milk Money from my publisher today! The cover flats are different from my mockup! They changed the cows as I requested! I’m so excited! As soon as I can get a pdf or jpeg of the new cover I will post on this blog and on my websites! I should have my author copies soon!
I visit a variety of blogs daily. If interested, look at the sidebar to the left and you’ll see the list of blogs that I visit regularly.
One of the posts that I read yesterday from Rachelle Gardner’s blog has been on my mind. She had a guest blogger, Editor Sue Brower from Zondervan. Here’s the part of the post that’s been on my mind:
My pet peeve is to see an author turn valuable blog space into a book review site. I know, if you promote Jane Doe’s books to your fans, she will promote your book to her fans. The “blog tour” has become a key component on most marketing plans. I just get frustrated when I want to want to learn more about a favorite author and instead find a commercial for someone else’s book. Do you realize you are spending your precious writing time promoting other people’s books? AND, you’ve lost an opportunity to dialog with your reader when they have proactively sought you out? Think about who you want your audience to be and how you want to interact with them, then blog accordingly.
My first thought was, ouch! Although I am an author, I still spend a lot of time promoting others’ books. I promote my own, also, and my books, as well as my author interviews, have been featured on other authors’ blogs.
I guess I’ve pretty much turned my blog into a book review blog because I don’t have anything else to blog about! I spend a lot of time reading novels (except when I’m on deadline). So, after I read a book, I’m going to blog about it. Also, my life is pretty boring. I mean, do people reading this blog really want to hear about the trials and tribulations I had a few months ago when I was potty-training my son? I go to work as an accountant each day, and my days are pretty predictable.
Sue does have a good point about how to figure on how to interact with readers though. I guess that’s what I’m still trying to figure out. I have a section in the sidebar, where I’ve invited visitors to ask questions about writing or how to get published. I’ve received a few questions, which I will answer soon, but I don’t get enough questions from blog readers to justify spending a lot of blog posts on responses.
If anybody has any ideas on topics to cover on this blog, besides more book reviews, then throw them at me! I’m open to suggestions! Meanwhile, I’ll continue blogging about books and whatever else crosses my mind!
Hubby and I will be heading to the polls mid-day tomorrow. We all need to pray before we cast our ballots.
Don’t you wish that election day was a holiday? Most people have to scramble to get to the polls in the morning before work, or in the evening, after work. We should just get a day off so that the polls aren’t so congested in the early and latter parts of the day! Since both hubby and I work fairly close to one another, and the polls aren’t that far away, we’re gonna take a long lunch break to vote.