I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.
Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.
Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.
For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.
Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on
Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
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Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
Gosh, I never cringe at anyone who takes time away from their computer. Good for you...:). I have to learn how you do that...lol.
I've had some interesting days. Listened to a few audio podcasts from John Kremer. VERY interesting...(okay - he's a tad long winded...lol). Love being able to take away information that I can apply. I feed off stuff like that.
Take your time getting that list to me. I understand.
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Quite an impressive marketing strategy you have in place. I've just started my campaign as my book wont be out for another 6-12 months. I wrote a suspense/romance and am searching for sites to target my potential readers.
I've checked out your links you've stated below for Brian, but I'm a tad confused at the sites you belong to. Could you help me?
Have a wonderful day.
Jo-Anne
If you check my other sites, you can see where I am placing my books. The biggest reader numbers are female, but that's understandable as the books are geared toward females.
Amazon have an Authors page now which allows you to blog there, which I think is an important site to have. Also if you haven't already done so, get Amazon to install 'Look Inside' whereby readers can get an example text. Amazon UK will do it also for UK and Europe, but you have to approach them separately. Promoting in UK is not as easy as in US.
Check out my sites and you can get an idea of places to promote.
Yahoo books groups is an important one. search them out .
Hope this has been of some help. Cheers,
Brian.
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Welcome, and yes, its great to see you here too. Your friends weren't so much hiding, as 'lurking'...lol
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Brian