Publishing NewsAuthor Promotion / best of list / Borders / ebook sales / social media / Twitter70 Comments
Susan Mallery is an author whose promotional work intrigues me. My responses to her novels have been all over the place from loathe to love but, for the most part, I find her promotional voice works, in part because I never get the sense that she is selling me anything ... more >
Publishing NewsBacklist / Blio / conferences / digital publishing / Eloisa-James / ereader device / julia-quinn / social media27 Comments
I’m not sure if I blogged about this or not but Best Buy will be ereader central. The Kindle, nook, Sony eink devices will be sold in store as well as iPads. If you have a Best Buy close, this is a great opportunity to take a look at these ... more >
Publishing NewsBarnes & Noble / Books on Board / Borders / criticism / Oprah / RITA / social media22 Comments
The Romance Reviews has a great big giveaway going on until August 31, 2010. Check them out. **** Barnes and Noble is advertising free digital books. Except these are books that are in the public domain so its a pretty lame promotion, if you ask me. I did a post ... more >
B- Reviewsdisguise / friends-to-lovers / social media / Twitter / Young-Adult12 Comments
Dear Ms. Rudnick, Social media is probably one of the funnest tropes that’s present in young-adult fiction. How often do you see a regular adult novel belting out blog posts, emails, and IM’s in a way that tells a full fledged story? Not very often. Books that use social media ... more >
Publishing NewsACE-ROC / Author Reader Relationship / criticism-of-romance / free-book / iPad / Literary Criticism / social media32 Comments
I had a product demonstration of GetGlue today with Ami Grecko. I had learned of GetGlue before but I really didn’t understand how it worked. After all, do I really need another social networking service? At the end of the thirty minutes, I was convinced that this wasn’t just another ... more >
Ebookssocial media / TOC42 Comments
I attended the 2010 Tools of Change conference in New York this past week (which is why some of the posts were late, sorry!). I have three main takeaways and then I’ll try to summarize what else I learned. Facebook is where it is at. Facebook has 400 million users ... more >