Monday, May 6, 2013

Reckless Abandon Blog Tour Wrap Up and the Month Ahead

Wow, April was quite the busy month around these parts!

The Blog Tour for Reckless Abandon was a great success! The winner of the giveaway over at The Book Bag was chosen and I'm so excited to get this book out to her. I really hope she enjoys it!

Every blogger on the tour was gracious and wonderful to get their posts up on the scheduled dates with zero drama or complications. I hope their traffic got a bump out of it because they're all fantastic book bloggers. Anything you could be looking for in the realms of Romance, Erotica, Women's Fiction, Chick Lit, or many other genres can be found reviewed on these sites. Readers are the lifeblood of published Authors and I can't begin to thank them enough for doing just that - reading my novella. Thanks for taking part in my tour!

But none of it would have been possible if it wasn't for Samantha at Chick Lit Plus for her super organizational skills to pull these fantastic bloggers together for a most successful tour! Thanks Samantha!

If you'd like to re-visit, or visit for the first time, any of the bloggers from my tour click over to the Tour Page on Writesy Press.

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May is shaping up to be just as busy as April was as I revive some old projects, breathe life into a couple of previously shelved projects, and also start something new.

My digital journal, Randomness and Lunacy, is where you'll find me most of the month. I'm doing a month long of music inspired posts. So far I've written/published/scheduled to post up through May 8 and I'm very proud of the stories included. Many of them will contribute to my new creative non-fiction project.

The possible memoir will be a slow and steady piece of work for me through the summer. In addition I also plan to edit poems for my soon to be re-released expanded Trying for the Moon.

I also plan to take the sequel for Reckless Abandon in a new direction this month and I've already got a few thousand words down on paper. I think the storyline will be enjoyable for readers and might answer some of those lingering questions they may still have after finishing Reckless Abandon. I may not finish the draft by the end of the month but I'm goaling myself to have a first draft ready by June 11.

As my own Agent I set the deadlines but that doesn't make them any less real. Sometimes I think the added pressure is good for me though. Call it the perfectionist in me or whatever you like but I like to deliver on the promises I make. I'm expecting to spend the rest of the summer editing the novel and pulling cover art together. If this next one ends up as a Writesy Press Publication as well then I hope to have it out by August. However I'm considering other options with this one.

I've already self-published two books and though I enjoyed the experience I think it's time for me to really buckle down to find an Agent. I'd really like to see what it's like on the other side being published by a traditional house. We'll see what happens. By August I could completely change my mind and decide to dive right back into the frantic weeks spent publishing another book!

Have a great May folks, see you out there somewhere in the written world.

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Reckless Abandon Blog Book Tour Starting Monday

It's finally here! The Reckless Abandon Blog Book Tour starts Monday. hosted by CLP Tours I'm making stops at ten blogs across the tour and really look forward to you all getting to know these bloggers. They review or share information on my book and don't even get paid more than a copy of the book to do so much.

Thanks awesome bloggers!

Starting Monday I'm going to be updating the tab on the Writesy Press site with the direct links each day. Please note that I'm a human so the links may not be up immediately when the post goes up (I have to live my life, sleep at night, you know, stuff away from the computer) but I promise to get them up asap.

Thanks...no, wait...HUGE thanks to Samantha March at CLP Tours for once again coordinating a fantastic tour. Can't wait to hit the road!

Enjoy the stops and please say hello, enter giveaways, and share the links with your networks. Thanks all, see you in the blogosphere!

Friday, March 29, 2013

Reckless Abandon Blog Book Tour Announcement

Good morning friends! I just received the hot new graphic for my upcoming Blog Book Tour, organized by Samantha at Chick Lit Plus. What do you think?

Eye catching, no?

All the info you need about the tour is there on the button but to reiterate...

This is a ten stop tour spanning fourteen days from April 15-29. I've submitted excerpts from Reckless Abandon, responded to some ah-mazing interview questions, written a handful of guest posts, and I anxiously await multiple reviews of my latest novella!

To get the tour schedule and links to the bloggers taking part in my tour you can visit my publishing house site, Writesy Press, or for the list of bloggers feel free to stop by my CLP Tours page.

Oh and don't forget there wil be giveaways** as well! So make sure you check out each stop on the tour to enter for your chance to win an autographed copy of Reckless Abandon in print.
Hope to see everyone on the tour, stop by and give these bloggers a big high five because they are dong this for nothing more than a copy of my book and their love for reading. They deserve some recognition for that.

Also during the tour will be my one year anniversary of publishing Ripple the Twine so stay tuned for info on some special deals I'll be running on that book as well.

** Giveaways open to residents of the USA only this time around, sorry friends but shipping costs for outside the US have become prohibitive.