A Special Event on Facebook

Did you hear I'm hosting a Facebook Event for the spookiest day of the year?

Check out the Halloween HauntEvent -

taking place on October 30th, 2015!

 

 

Author Takeovers by:

Rebekah Raymond, Shana Gorian, Suki Sather, Aimee Shaye, Kindra Sowder, Amanda Leigh Morey, Dawn Stanton, Allison Whitmore & Stephanie Pratt!

 

And we've got a bunch of goodies to give away during the week leading up to the event too!!

 

Come and hang out with us on October 30th - we're going to have a howling good time at the Halloween Haunt!!!

 

Share & Invite, Invite, Invite!

 

For all the event details and takeover schedule, go to the event page and explore!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1651083775169612/

 

Get Back In To Reading & Check Out These AMAZING NEW AUTHORS

As you may have noticed if you checked in on my blog or if you follow me on Facebook, I took a break over the summer from promoting books and authors, and all that fun stuff.  For about 7 weeks I read for pleasure, focused on and spent time with my kids and extended family, and generally just enjoyed my summer.  

If I saw something interesting on Facebook, I shared it on my page.  If there was a particular book that I wanted people to know about, I shared it on Facebook.  But the blog was left to quietly and patiently await the end of summer holidays (for my kids) and my return to active blogging duty.  And, as evidenced by the cover reveals and blitz tours that I’ve done over the past week or so, now I’m back.

In mid/late-August I started a “pimp an author” event that ran for 17 days. Each day a new author and their page was promoted; 17 authors were featured as the Author of the Day. 17 pages were shared, promoted and pimped. And over the course of those weeks, I made a number of great new contacts and friends.

Now it’s time to get back to work – to reading, reviewing, promoting, sharing and generally just pimping everything I can about books, authors and more.  But before I do that, I’m going to do one final pimping of those 17 wonderful authors – only I’m doing it here on the blog!

Are you ready?

...Cause here they come!!!

Selena Rivera

https://www.facebook.com/selenarebeccaauthor

http://www.authorselenarivera.com

https://instagram.com/selenarivera00

selena@authorselenarivera.com

T.M. Sullivan

https://www.facebook.com/T.M.Sullivanwrites

http://tmsullivanwrites.weebly.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/TMSullivan

http://www.pinterest.com/?TMSwrites

t.m.sullivanwrites@gmail.com

Nicky D. White

https://www.facebook.com/ndwhiteauthor

http://nickydwhite.com/

Linda Oaks

https://www.facebook.com/Linda-Oaks-1027845900562470/

http://www.amazon.com/Linda-Oaks/e/B00ZPYDTAE?ref_=pe_1724030_132998060

authorlindaoaks@gmail.com

Sarah Hitchcock

https://www.facebook.com/daydreamer1977

http://sjhitchcock.weebly.com/

Ginger Sutter

https://www.facebook.com/GingerSutterAuthor/

gingersnaps032687@gmail.com

Bibi Rizer

https://www.facebook.com/Bibi-Rizer-845707895448516/

http://bibirizer.com/

http://www.pinterest.com/bibirizer/

Megan Bailey

https://www.facebook.com/meganbaileybooks

http://www.meganbaileybooks.com/

https://twitter.com/MBaileyBooks

Megan@MeganBaileyBooks.com

Debra Presley

https://www.facebook.com/AuthorDebraPresley

http://authordebrapresley.com/

https://twitter.com/DebraPresleyAut

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7778350.Debra_Presley

https://www.tsu.co/TheBookEnthusiast

Google+ http://bit.ly/1zn45wQ%20

YouTube http://bit.ly/1xVkzAF

Pinterest http://on.fb.me/ZjeuPH

https://instagram.com/thebookenthusiast/

Daisy Prescott

https://www.facebook.com/daisyprescottauthorpage

http://www.daisyprescott.com/

https://twitter.com/Daisy_Prescott

https://instagram.com/daisyprescott/

daisyauthor@gmail.com

Rebekah Raymond

https://www.facebook.com/authorRebekahRaymond

http://www.rebekahraymond.com/

https://www.pinterest.com/rraymondbooks/

https://twitter.com/RRaymondAuthor

r.raymond.books@outlook.com

L.E. Maguire

https://www.facebook.com/lemaguireauthor

http://lemaguireauthor.blogspot.ca/

lemaguireauthor@gmail.com

Aubrey Bondurant

https://www.facebook.com/aubreybondurantauthor

http://aubreybondurant.com/ 

aubreybondurant@gmail.com

Lady J

https://www.facebook.com/authorLadyJ

Colbie Kay

https://www.facebook.com/Author-Colbie-Kay-843144162390313

Chrissy Peebles

https://www.facebook.com/Chrissy-Peebles-Fantasy-Author-351121651567296

http://chrissypeebles.blogspot.ca/

And that’s all of them. Whew.

Search them out. Explore their sites, their pages, and their work.

And happy reading to you all!!

Pimp Your Page? And More!

As summer is wrapping up for all us here in my house, I'm beginning to gear up for back to school (for the kids) which means that I can get back to doing more of what I love doing - writing, reading, reviewing and promoting.  As a kick off to this I am inviting authors to contact me with your FB page links and starting tomorrow (August 19) and running until the end of the month, each day I will feature one author on my Facebook page as the "Featured Author of the Day!" 

 

 

On top of this, all the authors who's pages are featured this month will be included in a "Getting Back to Reading" blog post in early September which will get you even more notice and attention throughout social media!

Sounds like a good deal, yeah??

So put the call out.  If you don't contact me, I'll be cruising through Facebook searching out whomever I may find to promote... But really, wouldn't you like a little free promotion??

Want to be included??

 

Comment or Email with your name and the full link to your Facebook Page!!

New Years Resolutions as Reading Challenges

The New Year is always ripe with personal resolutions - to eat healthier, exercise more, budget better... More and more in recent years I've seen the growth (in popularity) of reading resolutions.  You've seen them; Book and/or Reading Challenges that push you to your reading limits or to extend your literal horizons.

One example is to set a reading goal for the number of books you wish to read throughout the year.  The Goodreads community has a good, simple one each year (click here to see more) and I think one of the great benefits of this challenge is that the site will offer book recommendations if you're stumped for your next read, while the community board allows you to interact with others participating in the event, garnering (or offering) encouragement when needed.

Another challenge that I stumbled on while scrolling through my Facebook feed over the holidays, this one coming from POPSUGAR, has a list of 52 challenges which push you to try new things, widen the variety of genre or subject matter that you read, and more.  I actually like this kind of challenge a bit better then the Goodreads challenge because of that push for expanding your horizons in what you read versus merely expanding the quantity of books that end up on your read list.

For myself, I'm notoriously bad at holding to any resolution I make - and am actually of the opinion that if you're only making a resolution in the first place because it's the New Year and you "have to", that chances are you won't succeed anyways.  I'm moderately better when the resolution involve my kids, reading or writing, but even then find that sometimes all you do is the best with what you've got and go from there. Circumstances and situations change too much and too frequently in my busy life for anything to be certain, and while I may have the time in January to work on resolutions, especially if they require a departure from the norm, I may not have the same availability come February.

When it comes to resolutions that show themselves in the reading (or writing) sphere of my life, I'll give myself monthly challenges or themes in my reading rather then annual goals.  One month I may resolve to read only books about vampires, while another month I choose to find and read only stories set in Scotland.  I've had myself read only novels and books by a specific author for a month, and once I challenged myself to read only books whose title included the word "Midnight."

There are literally (and yes, the pun is intended) an endless number of ways you can challenge yourself to read this year... So what will it be?

Did You Know?

Did you know that you can also find me on Facebook - where I share book and movie updates, recommendations and what I'm up to... Not everything ends up here or there so be sure to follow both!! 

https://m.facebook.com/LDFerris