Posts Tagged: the marriage pact

Procrastination: a Poem

posted on 05/04/2012

This haiku is forNational Poetry Month,which was in April. Happy May! 🙂

A Word About Ethics and Title Confusion

posted on 04/17/2012

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 […]

Recapping My Free Promotion Experience on KDP Select

posted on 04/11/2012

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 […]

And Our Kindles Shall Grow Fat on Freebies

posted on 04/04/2012

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 […]

Free Chick Lit eBook Promotion – April 3rd through 5th

posted on 04/03/2012

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 […]

Stranger than Fiction (Parts Three and Four)

posted on 03/26/2012

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 […]

SERIOUSLY Stranger Than Fiction (Parts One and Two)

posted on 03/23/2012

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 […]

Be a Force for Good: Review a Book Today!

posted on 03/16/2012

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. […]

Seeds

posted on 03/01/2012

Front Field For today’s blog, I’m including some pictures from our family farm in South Georgia. These were taken back in December 2008. I have always loved the farm, and always struggled with what it represents. The farm has been in our family since the late 1800’s. It’s part of who I am, and memories […]

Mii and the Wii

posted on 01/10/2012

This morning I stepped onto the Wii Fit for the first time in a while. I had to replace the batteries just to get it going after months collecting dust. If you have a Wii Fit, or have used one at someone’s house, you know that the little guy ‘talks’ to you when you weigh […]