Kindle Giveaway

I'm participating in a Giveaway Facebook party tonight! I hope you'll join me and four other authors from 7 to 9 pm Eastern Time. One of the larger prizes we're combining to present is a Kindle Fire. Enter the rafflecopter, and join us at the Facebook Party by clicking on the picture below.

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Party Time!

As social media assistant at Eskape Press, my job is to keep the company and its authors in the public eye as much as possible. One way to do this is by having our monthly Facebook parties. Have you ever attended a Facebook party? What happens is that someone sets up an event, but instead of everyone meeting in a specific location, attendees simply agree to be on Facebook during a specified time. If you join the event, all posts to the event page appear on your news feed, and you can engage in some lively conversations that way!

There are lots of advantages to hosting a Facebook party. As a host, the main advantage for me is not having to clean my house or rent an alternate location. I serve “virtual snacks” – which means I find pictures of food and post them. I don’t have to worry about disturbing the neighbors because unless someone posts a video clip of someone being noisy, the party is pretty much silent. The downside, of course, is that you’re not actually meeting these people in person – but since the attendees often come from all over the world, it’s worth the price.

Anyway, I’m helping with a party tomorrow night (Thursday, June 5), and EVERYONE is invited! The party runs from 6 to 10 pm EDT, and each half hour a different Eskape Press author will be your host. My turn will be from 8 to 8:30 EDT, and I’m giving away some handmade note cards as well as some ebooks. Others have more generous prizes – but you’ll have to attend in order to win! Here’s the link for the party. Hope you’ll join us!

https://www.facebook.com/events/749587185091931/

Simply click on the link and then click JOIN. Then on Thursday night, all the posts from the party will appear in your news feed. Hope to see you there!

Connecting with Readers

          This has been an extremely challenging week.

          I received edits for my historical novella last Friday, just before leaving for a weekend scrapbooking retreat. I got permission to hold off working on the edits while I got caught up on my scrapbooks and had a great time with friends. 

          So then I got home on Sunday afternoon and dived into the week. The first part of the week is always hectic - I took care of my grandkids, went to a band rehearsal, went to make hats with my sewing group, taught classes, went to orchestra rehearsal - all while trying to write and edit. 

          Not much got done.

          For some reason the edits this time were much more difficult for me to do. I’m not sure if it’s because there seemed to be more edits, or if this particular editor and I didn’t see eye to eye on certain things. What should have been a two-day job ended up taking all week. 

          I’d also signed up to host at a facebook event for authors and readers of sweet romance. Since I was still struggling with edits I started to wish I hadn’t made the commitment. But thanks to my writing partner, Stephanie Michels, I had a few gift cards to give away, so I quickly threw together a quick script, and I did my first shift on Thursday evening. 

          What fun! my hour wasn’t well attended, but the half-dozen ladies there were so warm and welcoming and engaged with each other. It was so much fun I was inspired to get a few more prizes together for my second shift on Saturday. Again, interacting with people who loved to read (as well as engage in a lot of my other hobbies) was so uplifting. I actually got my edits done and sent!

I can’t do a facebook party EVERY week, but in this case it did the trick and got me out of my funk. Thank you, ladies.

          Goal time: Other than the hats I hemmed on Tuesday, the only sewing I did was to make these sachets which I gave away on Saturday night. And I’m STILL trying to find time to read - I WILL get Savage Deception read - soon!

A Kindle Fire for your Summer Reading

A very energetic pair of young authors at Astraea Press has organized a wonderful Fan Fest event on Facebook. Over 40 authors are participating in a virtual party and mass giveaway on Wednesday July 16 from 9 am to 9 pm. Most of us have donated our books, and we'll be available throughout the day for author chats and to answer any questions you might have for us about our books, our writing lives and whatever else you want to ask us. Astraea Press is giving away a Kindle Fire!

To be a part of this fabulous summer celebration, just go to https://www.facebook.com/events/370292336405909/ and indicate that you're "going" to the party. The more you stop in that day, the more chances you'll have to win some of the prizes donated by the AP authors.

To enter the drawing for the Kindle Fire, scroll down to the Rafflecopter (the white rectangle below) and sign in either using your facebook account or your email.  I'd be thrilled if one of you would win it!

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