August 2007 Blog Posts (247)

Today is the first sunny day we've had here in Coal Cracker Country. The temperature is a little cooler and so is the humidity.

The barometric pressure must have been sky high. It pressed against the skin and made me feel like a glass of water oversaturated with sugar. The afternoons were so hot even the air molecules weren't moving.

I am fond of gray days though. They remind me of Ireland where the sun rarely shines in the morning. Such a strange and magical place. It is no…

Even changing them to a different ID and increasing the security level of my passwords didn't prevent the blogs from being hacked and porn dumped on. YIKES.

So - I put my primary blog on wordpress at http://janverhoeffonline.wordpress.com and I'll be posting there - as soon as fair is over and I'm around the computer again.

I shall overcome!!!!

Thanks John for the advice, I accidently deleted your post while trying to read all of it, if you can I saw up to the part on being sure to read chapter's 9 and 12.

By the way I also purchased Bookmarketing 102 and 103, these were excellent.

Thanks

As part of my 'Touring the World' virtual book tour I wanted to make sure that you had some fun along the way. I wanted to give you interesting articles and interviews, plus samples of my work, and today's sampling is a creepy short story (unpublished) that I hope you'll enjoy.

And for…

We are always looking for new way

s to promote our books and activities. I am trying an experiment. I have created the following Ning.com site http://philipharrisliteraryworks.ning.com/ It is still a work in progress but I am using it as a basic web site for my books and activities. Ning has some good features that lends it it to an author site. This is not…

I joined this network and accepted a fair number of new friends and have essentially been silent since. The reason is I am buried.

My job is figuring out how to "stand-up" a publishing company. So I have been up to my eyeballs in studying the industry. Thanks to John Kremer's 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, (10 pages of notes in the first 80 pages of the book) I have learned an incredible amount.

I now know enough to be dangerous...

My initial thoughts,…

My readers often ask, "Are you Gus LeGarde?"

I laugh and tell them, "Hardly. Gus is a much better man than me."

I genuinely mean it when I say it. But is it really true?

When I started writing the LeGarde Mystery series, I planned to base Gus on my father - a wonderful Renaissance man and a talented pianist/music professor. At the time, he'd just passed away from cancer, and I was overwhelmed with grief. The idea of starting the series as a testimony to him was…

Day 8 finds me with two exciting stops. First, please visit Muze's Musings where I am interviewed by author Nikki Leigh. Today we talk about everything Whale Song, from setting to native legends to research.

O.k., I'll admit it. I didn't set out to write a book. It just kind of, well, fell into my laptop, so to speak. During the summer of 2005, in my quest for

some good natured laughs in the name of tomfoolery I sent off some

inane questions to my brother-in-law about his dust-collecting items he

was auctioning off on eBay. He got a big kick out of reading them and

e-mailed me back to say I should find other eBay auctions and do the

same, to see what…

Day 7: Cheryl's 'Touring the World' virtual book tour - here's Chapter 2 of Whale Song, a haunting and compelling novel by Cheryl Kaye Tardif.

If you want to read the Prologue and Chapter 1 first, please go HERE.

Whale…

TWO NEW REVIEWS FOR TWO WRONGS

I'm asked all the time by authors, "Fine, my ranking is good.

But how many books have I sold on Amazon?"

Unfortunately that's hard to determine. But the article below

explains it better than I can. (copy and paste this link into your browser)…