Posts By: MJ Pullen
M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.
I know many of the folks reading this blog have already downloaded and read my first novel, THE MARRIAGE PACT, but in case you know people who haven’t and you think it’s worth sharing… In celebration of Memorial Day, all day Wednesday May 22nd and Thursday May 23rd, you’ll be able to download TMP for […]
Did you ever have one of those weeks? I did. Week before last, actually. Some people would say, “when it rains it pours.” I would say, “it felt like our house was on a vortex of crap.” Those of you who have or have recently had preschool-aged children understand that once your kid goes to […]
This haiku is forNational Poetry Month,which was in April. Happy May! 🙂
I remember distinctly how I heard about Jeffrey Eugenides’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, The Marriage Plot. I was in Target with my boys last fall, probably trying to keep one of them from destroying a rack of clothing and the other from screaming his newborn head off while we finished our shopping. We rounded the corner […]
Whew! It was just over a week ago that I decided to try the experiment of putting my first novel The Marriage Pact on a free promotion through amazon’s new KDP Select program. I’d just read this blog post by Will Entrekin, and it got me thinking about whether a free promo might be a […]
Well, my experiment with amazon’s new KDP Select program is going gangbusters. At this writing, it’s been a little over 24 hours since I put The Marriage Pact on free promotion. There have been 15,279 downloads so far, and TMP is at the top of the Kindle Contemporary Fiction List. It’s Number 6 on the […]
If you are into great chick lit, need a spring break read, or just want to help a newbie author get noticed, then this is your moment to shine! For the next three days, you can download THE MARRIAGE PACT (http://www.amazon.com/The-Marriage-Pact-ebook/dp/B0055LH79Q/) for free on amazon.com! It will be yours to keep, and you don’t have […]
This is a continuation from the previous blog entry about a week I couldn’t have made up if I’d tried. It will make more sense if you read that one first.Part Three: Situation Comedy After Tuesday’s crisis, you would think I’d had enough drama for a good long while. Apparently, there is never enough drama […]
Part One: Prayer I’ll be honest: prayer has never been a big thing for me. I spent most of my formative years as a staunch agnostic (yes, that probably is an oxymoron — decidedly undecided). For many more years I was a kind of spiritual wanderer, searching for a home. Now that I’m happily settled […]
I’ve written before about my experience with self-publishing and the changes in the publishing industry. The subject continues to fascinate me as a reader and a writer. The world of books is in flux, to say the least, and readers are presented with an overwhelming array of choices. Hardback and paperback, sure. Familiar authors, yes. […]
