Cheryl Kaye Tardif's Blog – October 2007 Archive (5)

I recently had a conversation with a friend about being book addicts (or as she calls it 'book dorks') and our crazy habits. I said, "You know you're a Book Dork when...you arrange your books alphabetically and by genre."

Her reply: "Ohhhh! I can't believe it! All the books in my house (and there are thousands) are sorted by genre and title. EEK!"

My response: "I think there's a 12-Step program for that! ;)



Step 1: Take all the books off one shelf, shuffle them and put…

Cheryl recently attended a writer's conference and had the pleasure of meeting renowned book marketing expert and author Jerry D. Simmons.

In his TIPS for WRITERS newsletter, Jerry had this to say:

"Recently I was fortunate to meet author Cheryl Kaye Tardif and she graciously agreed to submit some of her fabulous articles to my newsletter. To read this week’s edition, click…

The following appeared (although now slightly modified) on My Book, The Movie in August 2007. I was quite excited when I realized that I would have a chance to dream a bit and discuss a possible movie version of my novel Whale Song, a novel…