Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
All hail this wonderful new booksigning happenstance. Please join me in a melifluous chorus of “Niiiiccccce!” in response to this new fabulous Best Fan Behavior:
“Sign my Nook, please.”
Fans didn’t just buy books to support literacy programs, I saw a quite a few people handing over their Nooks for authors to sign. The backs are [...]
Best Accomplishment: Upon winning her third RITA for What Happens in London, Julia Quinn was inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame! She’s only the 12th writer to snag that honor. JQ at first announced that she was the 13th author to be so honored, then corrected it to 11th, but we have finally ascertained [...]
The benefits of booksigings are a lot like those of meet-and-greets when running for office. All other things equal, a handshake and exchanged word is sometimes the weight that will decide between you and another author for that reader’s time.
A couple weeks ago I went to a booksigning at a A Great Good Place For [...]
Earlier this month, Misono and I attended WordCampSF 2010 at the Mission Bay Conference Center on May 1st. It was incredibly informative, with lots of information for upcoming features for WordPress 3.0! (Very exciting for us WP nerds.
First, What the Heck is WordCamp?
It’s an annual conference organized by our techie community in SF (though [...]
We are pre-empting our customary month-end Wrap-Up to bring you a fabulous online design feature.
Eloisa James’s Paper Doll extravaganza.
It would be special enough just to have access to these gorgeous paper dolls. But Eloisa turned it into a DESIGN CONTEST. Eloisa and her daughter made the gorgeous doll seen right here. But when you DOWNLOAD [...]
