Recently, I've been visiting Saundra Mitchell's blog for her posts on marketing and self-promotion. She offers up specific and digestible chunks of advice and backs it all up with why and how it works. Every time I go to her blog for information, I feel better as I speed toward the debut of GILT. Marketing is scary for introverted writers, and Saundra just makes it seem a little more doable.I also love Saundra for her continuing and enthusiastic support of all things authorly and debut authors in particular. She knows how hard it is and she extends a helping hand, a kind word and promotion with her 9 Spot Interviews.
Basically, I want to be Saundra Mitchell when I grow up. And I hope I can be as inspiring as she is.
Find Saundra at her website.
On her blog.
On Twitter.
And in bookstores! Her novel THE VESPERTINE is in stores now and THE SPRINGSWEET will be available April 17. I was lucky enough to pick up an ARC at the NCIBA trade show and am only willing to part with it because I can buy a copy in April.
Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leavesBaltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowedaunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishingability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a“springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden ofholding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land.Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water.Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply survivingand start living. (from Goodreads)
All you have to do is tweet this:
Want a chance to win an ARC of THE SPRINGSWEET by @SaundraMitchell? Find out why @KALongshore is following her: http://katherinelongshore.blogspot.com
And/or leave a comment below.
This contest is open internationally and ends at 12 pm EST on Monday, February 20. I will announce the winner Monday afternoon.
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ohhhhhh this sounds like so much FUN! I will be tweeting too ;)
ReplyDeleteI loved The Vespertine & can't wait to read The Springsweet. Thanks for the chance to win!
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Ditto on all that good stuff. Saundra is awesomesauce-filled.
ReplyDeleteI read The Springsweet and really enjoyed it - it was another stay-up-late-to-finish book! Count me out of the contest so someone else can experience the magic.
ReplyDeleteSaundra is fabulous!!
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she sounds like a pretty awesome person and her new book sounds really good too! i can't wait to read it!!
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Thank you for the awesome chance to win! This book sounds great :) edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom
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