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Publishing a Book Series Week 18: Launch Week
Well, after weeks of preparation launch week is finally here. Technically the book comes out tomorrow, but the first of two book blog tours kicked off today, and so things already feel pretty busy around here. Over on Twitter I've been busy retweeting and on Facebok...
Publishing a Book Series Week 17: The Final Countdown
Happy New Year! It's just over a week now until the first book in my series comes out. I feel oddly prepared for this, which probably means that there's a million and one things I've forgotten to do and will find myself scrambling next week, but hopefully not....
Publishing a Book Series Week 16: Launch Party Plans, Sending Emails and Working on Ads
So, with it being Christmas this past week, I didn't get too much done for the big book launch, but in between the gifts and festivities and other holiday fun there was some time to do a few book related things. I'm Having a Virtual Launch Party I made the...
Publishing a Book Series Week 14 & 15: Finishing Up Covers, Starting Work on Ads, Blog Tour Prep
So, I need to start this week's post off with an apology. I completely forget to post last week. I'm sorry. I actually remembered about halfway through the week, but at that point I figured I might as well wait and do a double post this week since I was busy digging...
Publishing a Book Series Week 13: Another Proof Copy and Ingram Spark
This week I was mainly wearing my design hat and working on some cover design stuff for my books, with the initial work on the cover of the fourth book still in process and some tweaks being made to the covers for the other books in the series. Proof Copies for...
Saying Goodbye to BEA
This week the news came out that Book Expo America or BEA for short is no more. For those not familiar with it BEA was the large publishing conference held annually in NY. Primarily it was a trade event where booksellers, librarians and more recently book reviewers...
Publishing a Book Series Week 12: Good Reviews, Another Cover, Adding Pull Quotes, Setting Up A Goodreads Giveaway
Despite there being a big holiday in the middle of it this was a pretty big week for me in terms of publishing this book series. I received the completed second of my paid book reviews, finalized the interior pages for the fourth and final work and started work on the...
Publishing a Book Series Week 11: Feeling Grateful
Well, it's been one of those weeks where it seemed that every task I set out to do took way longer than it should have due to forces beyond my control, and so I'm behind in this week's tasks and haven't made a whole lot of forward momentum. I received the final round...
Publishing a Book Series Week 10: Netgalley, More Edits and Google Alerts
It was another pretty eventful week, as I get a tiny bit closer to the first publication date for my series. I spent a fair amount of time this week going through edits, but there was also some good book news arriving in my inbox. Up the Creek is on Netgalley I...
Publishing a Book Series Week 9: The Reviews and Proofs are Coming In
As I creep a little bit closer to the launch date for book one in the series, it's starting to feel more and more like a real book. This week, I received notification that the first of the paid reviews I had ordered was available for viewing. I had ordered a review...