Book Blogging

My marketing manager Mary and I spent some time at Eighty-Two (soon to be Bantam Coffee Roasters) today! We each had two lattes (vanilla for Mary, plain for me) and contacted a total of thirty-five book bloggers.

THIRTY-FIVE!

So far I've heard back from exactly zero of them, but a couple of them have followed my Instagram page. And, I mean, it's still early. So... fingers crossed.

I need to get some reviews, you know? And when I say "reviews," I do mean for all the things. Have you read The Way Back? If so, please post a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Have you read Just Whistle? If so, please post a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Have you read Like A Flip Turn? If so, please post a review on Amazon or Goodreads! Seriously, for an author, reviews matter a LOT.

In fact, I dare say they matter the MOST.

I met a really nice lady at Eighty-Two today and she was telling me all about this challenge she's doing. She came over to greet Augusta. (I took my Kerry Blue along for part of the brainstorming session, but then had to take her home when another dog visited the coffee shop. The other dog was quiet and well-behaved; Augie was overly barky.) Anyway... back to the really nice lady. She is in the process of reading one hundred books written by obscure British writers. All of them are women and all of them are from the 1930s, I believe. Interesting, eh? She sometimes reads modern things, though, and is going to look up my books. I gave her a business card. She might even come to my book signing on December 2!

Okay. I've done enough marketing and promotional stuff for one day and what I'd like to do right now is spend some time with Bas, Bert, and Lucy. So... I'm off to work on some NaNoWriMo stuff. Poseidon Jr. will be proud because he asks me every day how many words I'm up to and the answer has been a pretty stagnant "three thousand eight hundred and eight," which is 17,859 words behind where I'm supposed to be. But who's counting, right?

The answer? Poseidon Jr.

Therefore, I'm off to do some writing.