Take One--Please

Tomorrow, I will attend the Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference in Woodbridge, New Jersey. (Address: The Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel,  515 US Highway 1, South Iselin, NJ) There will be a "goodie" table at the conference for authors to place their promotional materials. There will be pens with authors' names, there will be free books, there will be emery boards engraved with authors' names, and there will be sticky notes with authors' names, too. 

I have postcards and brochures. I bought the postcards from Vistaprint, but I made the brochures on my own. I went to the grocery stores and bought four bags of mini-Milky Way bars. The cashier glanced up at me and asked, "Trick or treat?" 

I taped the candy to the postcards. Obviously, there are people who will take the postcards, eat the candy, and throw the postcard away. Such is the life of an author. Promoting is a tough business.

If you are a reader, you should visit the Book Fair. It will be open to the public from 4:30 to 6:00 PM. I will be there with more mini Milky Way bars. Stop at my table if you're hungry.

A Little GIF for You

With the second round of edits out of the way, I am gearing up to promote Daddy Wanted. To me, promotion is more work than the actual writing of the book. However, I love little animated gifs. This one is currently destined for the Romance Junkies website, but it may wind up in other places as well. I spent a ridiculous amount of time making this--mostly because I haven't done it in a while so I forgot the procedure.

After I finished the gif, I went on to make an Advanced Reading Copy of Daddy Wanted so I can send it out to reviewers. (If you are a reviewer and enjoy sweet, contemporary romances without sex, let me know.)

I had postcards made and still have to send those out, too.

I'll be putting up an excerpt from the book here--and probably on my Facebook fan page as well. So much to do!