Brain ramblings again...

A pageview from Iran! Wow! I knew about the one from Singapore and all the other ones are from the United States. Guess I am starting to get around. How is it that there are pageviews from Iran and Singapore? Accidentally came across the blog? What lead them here?

I put out a request on Facebook (yeeees...I visited Facebook) to get 100 more pageviews by the end of March. I think I will send out an email too. I did that yesterday and have gone from 117 to 134. Cool.

So I call this rep today to get some info from her and when she called me back she wants to know "what's this I hear about you publishing a book?" I asked her how she heard about it and she tells me that another rep told her about it. How awesome is that?! He apparently is spreading the word. She asked me to send her the link and then she emailed to say that she can't wait to check it out. Love it! Maybe the word will spread. Now hopefully she will enjoy it and want to pass it on.

Question for you, without consulting a dictionary, do you know the definition of "loquacious?" Let me know your answer. Just curious.

Smoking in the boys' room...

I feel a story coming on...
I love that scene in THREE CROSSES when Simon realizes that his mother put an ice cream sandwich in his lunch bag. Poor crazy Caroline. You know when Simon first materialized in my head, I saw him sitting under the pecan tree smoking a doob. No wonder, what with his history!

I hate that moment when I realize it is a great night for a fire in the fireplace and then seconds later I realize it's getting too late to bother.

Woof! Woof!

I keep my Fafafeelings to myself on Facebook and this here blog cuz if you take the leash off my neck, my bark will turn to a bite, vicious canine-tearing bites. And then I will have to be put down and that would suck.

This has noooothing in the world to do with my writing or THREE CROSSES but I feeeeel as if I should be putting more personal info on these sites and I don't because sharing my personal "stuff" for all eyes who puruse these sites just seems so terrifying to me. Paranoid?

more brain ramblings...

I really need to get with the times here. I just uploaded a picture to my Facebook account and accepted friend requests from multiple people. And I have had my Facebook account for a long, long time. Pretty sad. But I have to admit, I am completely inspired by a 26 year old named Amanda Hocking. She is a self-published author on epublications and has authored at least 17 books. How awesome is she?
I promise I will continue to play around with my pictures and my blog site so I can get some pix uploaded and create my profile (and get a better looking site).
I am getting more thumbs up on Facebook for THREE CROSSES! It's so much fun to see that. Another awesome review on BN.com. Makes my heart pound when I read them. And a few more people are reading the book and I am getting the same reaction across the board - "I can't put it down."
Guess it's time to stop pretending (hoping) that I am an author and accept the fact that I can actually do what I love to do. Yeah, I know - I sound just a wee bit insecure. Duh! When it comes to writing, I'm not. When it comes to publishing, hell yes! I know, I know Pamela, you have been telling me for years (and years) that I am the real thing. Thank you by the way (again)   :)
Ok, once again, time to get into the job mode. I need to establish some goals here though: 1. work on blog site, 2.  revisit a novel that will become the second of my on-line publications, and 3. get proactive about some marketing for THREE CROSSES. I will let you know how it goes. Good luck to me. If I could just manufacture time, I would be golden (and rich if I could bottle that manufactured time!) Ciao for now.

Brain ramblings...

I wish I had more time to orchestrate some snazzy marketing. Yes, I said snazzy. Facebook is a great option for spreading the word that I am published. But I have so few friends on Facebook, because I hardly use it. It's even hard to post on this blog. I feel weird publishing personal stuff for anyone to view. But I don't mind discussing my writing. My head spins so often. There are so many stories I want to revise, so many new ones that I want to write. Characters want me to breathe life into them. I have short stories that need my attention. I know...everyone has a shortage of time.
As I am listening to the morning news about Charlie Sheen, I am hit with the idea that I should start a scandel. I bet that would boost sales and give THREE CROSSES some attenetion! Haha! I could create a story to sell a story. Hmmm...what kind of trouble could I invent? I am not famous (yet) so just having an extended tantrum like Sheen would do nothing or next to nothing.
Or maybe I could figure out a way to get my book into Stephen King's hand. I should say Oprah but that chick is busy and overloaded (not that Stephen isn't but no one is as busy with projects as O). Besides I still really like Stephen from what I know of him from afar.
Well, it is time to start my routine - sounds blah, huh?
I will post the links to THREE CROSSES on Amazon and BN later.
If you are checking this blog out - and I know you are because I have a fair amount of hits that are not me, feel free to comment. Lets get some traffic and conversation going.
Actually before I go, I had a thought the other day. I would like to invite book groups to read THREE CROSSES and then I would love to do a guest Q & A with the club. Anyone interested, let me know.

THREE CROSSES now available on the Kindle!!

Wahoo!!!

AHA!

Sooo...the reason THREE CROSSES hasn't uploaded to the Kindle yet is because I did not follow through with all the steps. It is finally out of draft form and should be available at some point tomorrow. I have received a couple of comments and ratings on BN.com now and I love it! I love that there are people out there in the world reading my novel. Good Lord, I hope I don't embarass myself with bad writing! LOL! It's all fun anyway. I need to come up with some cool ideas/strategies for marketing THREE CROSSES. DF had some good points, so I have started to utilize Facebook but honestly, I seldom visit the site. But other people are posting comments and giving the ol' thumbs up.
Here's to getting my name out there as an author!! Hip hip horay (did I spell that write? Some righter I am! - yeah I did that on purpose:)
CLL