Pamela Morsi at my Signing

My book signing at the Twig went great. I met and autographed my two novels for Pamela Morsi. She is hilarious, inspiring, and ultra awesome! A USA Today Bestselling Author, she is very down to earth and a caring person. What a great support to a newer, "nobody" author like me. It was an honor to meet her and sign my novels for her. When I'm on the USA Today Bestseller list, I hope to be just as supportive to struggling authors that I do not know. Pam, she's an inspiration!

Here's a picture:




Also, my friend Miranda. She's a hoot (the picture says it all), and you'll be seeing her novels on the shelves soon. Love ya, Miranda!

My Signing!

It's late, but I finally downloaded the picture of my signing at Borders from September 8. This is the Texas ARF (Authors of Romance Fiction). Looking at the picture, I'm the one on the far right hand side.

It's a little blurry. Lots of red and the picture didn't turn out well. But here it is!

O'Reilly (Markus! Malkin! Hitchens!)

I have no idea what my subject means, really. I'd love for someone to enlighten me. But I was looking through Elle magazine for the first time in years, or maybe even the first time ever, and only because I'm doing research for my upcoming romantic suspense WIP and thought Elle would be a good place to glean information. I'm using it as research (hey, is that a tax write-off?). I don't read Elle and I'm probably totally the opposite of what Elle is all about. (I.E. Trendy, couth and classy). I enjoyed reading it, though. It was actually quite enlightening and entertaining, and I don't have much time anymore to seek amusement. And that's not a good way to live. I've been "away" from the world for awhile, too busy to even watch the news. I hope to change that.

Okay, to make a long story short (and to stop rambling), I was reading through Elle (or should I say thumbing through it, as it was mostly advertisements) and I came across this Advice "Ask E. Jean" column. She's hilarious! There was a "question" by a writer (name unknown, but it wasn't me, I should have thought of doing this, though) who asked how she could gain publicity for her blog. (I.E. What's the secret?) The reply? Start each blog with what I started with above, only it had another section I wasn't going to add because I'm not brave enough to be totally rude about someone/something I don't even know. She also said to post 5 times a day!

What? Five times a day? I'm lucky if I can post 5 times a month. The other option? Blog in your underwear, blog about things no one else blogs about, or write wikipedia entries because it's less time consuming. ROFL.

That's the truth. Blogging is time consuming. You'd think that as I writer, I'd have all kinds of subject matter to discuss. Not so. Sometimes I have a negative feeling about the whole blog thing. It's like anyone can get online and talk about whatever now. It's almost like free publishing. Sometimes I ask myself if it's causing book sales to slump. After all, why pay $15 for a novel when you can get real stories for free? Why download a $5 ebook when there are thousands about thousands of blogs to read. Yep, that's my pessimistic attitude talking. And I don't mean to be down on blogs. Really, I think they're cool.

Blogging shows me how popular writing is, and how most people love to write, no matter the subject. Whether it's to get their feelings on paper or share a fiction story that's been bobbing around their head forever, I think writing must be one of the most popular, universal hobbies of all time. Blogging, forums, chats. We're writing and talking without ever really having to be right there in front of someone. We're telling stories. And, if people actually visit your blog, we're getting attention.

One Year Anniversary

The month of September, I am celebrating one whole year of being in print! What's a girl to do to celebrate?!? Honestly, I haven't even thought about it. What would you do?