The good news for Northeast Texas is that the hurricane turned east just south of us, so there was no significant impact from Ike here. The Gulf coast is another matter, and my heart goes out to all the residents there who lost homes and are still stranded. As life settles back to normal for […]
In Texas, most of us are preparing in one way or another for Hurricane Ike. Where I live, the storm will probably hit as a tropical storm just to the west of us, so we may be in for some pretty severe weather with possible tornadoes. What fun. 🙂 So I have spent part of
Chugging right along on my tour. Today I am at http://zensanity.blogspot.com/ for an interview. When I started this tour, working with Pump up Your Book promotions, I wondered if the interviews would get redundant after a while, but the blog hosts have been wonderful about asking different questions, so there is something fresh each time.
Still going strong on the virtual book tour. Today’s stop is a short review on BCF Reviews. http://bcfreviews.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/one-small-victory-by-maryann-miller/ Yesterday I forgot to list one of the stops, so here is a link to that one. http://www.thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/ Here I got to write a bit more about how the central character was developed. I always find it
Day five of my virtual book tour. Or it could be day six, I don’t know. I’ve lost track. I admire folks who can keep up with a jillion things at one time and make it look so easy. Me, I have to spit my gum out so I can type. Anyway, the tour is
Welcome to the Blog Train Scavenger Hunt, chugging from url to url. I hope you enjoy this brief stop at my blog. Somewhere on this page, you’ll find a hidden word, plainly labeled, that is part of a famous saying…not too famous though, so you’ll have to use some brain power to assemble all the
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The tour started up again today after a weekend off. Today I am featured athttp://www.thebookmuncher.blogspot.com/ I got to post about a crazy booksigning event at a senior center. We writers must choose our audiences carefully. 🙂 And don’t forget the “Blog Train Excursion” starting today. This is a great chance to win a bunch of
A writer friend came up with this great idea for a new contest. It’s called “Blog Train Excursion” and it’s a scavenger hunt for words. Contestants will visit a series of blogs to find words to complete a famous quote and the winner will receive a virtual prize basket containing sixteen e-books, one of which
I am starting a virtual book tour this month to promote my new book, One Small Victory. This is a new twist on the standard author tour that used to take authors across the country to meet readers in bookstores and other venues. Publishers used to arrange the tours, especially for big name authors, and
A growing health problem in the United States is people who cannot get medical care because they don’t have a primary doctor for referrals. An article in the September AARP Bulletin addresses the shortage of primary care doctors and it doesn’t bode well for the future. It doesn’t bode well for the present, either. More
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