It's the last day of August, fall coming on just a little too quickly, but welcome just the same. A major focus for the past nine months has been on marketing and promoting A Better Life. What in my mind was a necessary evil became a joyful, enlightening and rewarding experience. The book launch, the … Continue reading Turning Points and Transitions
Category: Marketing
Publicity
When the press release for A Better Life was sent out by Beth D'Ovidio at the New Hampshire Writers Project, it was picked up and published by The Eagle Times in Claremont, as well as The Concord Monitor, and also resulted in an interview and article in HippoPress. Having such support and assistance with marketing … Continue reading Publicity
Motivation
When I began teaching, I was thrilled at how intrinsically motivated my third-graders were. They were excited about learning new things and I did my best to nurture their passion. There was a lot of discussion and controversy at the time about giving rewards to students for learning and how it could affect them in … Continue reading Motivation
On The Road
My husband and I prefer road trips to any other travel. Since publishing A Better Life, our road trips have been fairly local, to independent book stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The other day we visited one in Milford and one in Peterborough, New Hampshire. They were the first two bookstores that did not … Continue reading On The Road
On the Shelves
This weekend my husband and I and one of our granddogs went up to our house on Lake Todd in Newbury, NH. It is where I do much of my writing and where I continue to be inspired and focused. As my work on the new novel continued, the marketing and promotion continued as well, … Continue reading On the Shelves
The Launch
The book launch for my first novel was a night of innocence and revelations and joy, of pride and congratulations and joy. Everything was perfect. People asked about the story, the characters, the time it took to write the book, about where I got the idea. The conversations were easy and I signed about forty … Continue reading The Launch
