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Bring wine, not a bullhorn
Stacy | January 10, 2009
I’ve found all sorts of new people on Twitter to learn from. One is Chris Webb, Associate Publisher of Technology at John Wiley and Sons. I found his blog through his twitter. This post especially will be of interest to authors and anyone else seeking to reach readers through social media, a topic which of [...]
Yes, Dad, I *am* a journalist. So I have to go pawn this to pay my rent!
Stacy | December 23, 2008
I absolutely HATE those stupid jewelry commercials. Because YES, honey, what I want for you to express your love for me is a big, shiny rock that was acquired through child slavery and whole-village slaughter. And via Alpha Consumer, I have finally found a way to express it (though they don’t get into the blood [...]
Fortunately, we can help. Little brothers are standing by.
Stacy | December 19, 2008
I heart BBBS. What a clever way to get guys thinking about volunteering!
Oh, here’s the national one I just saw on the Colbert Report:
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Further back in the not-so-way-back machine…
Stacy | December 19, 2008
This link is over a month old, and but Booksquare’s Kassia Krozser speaks directly to what we were discussing a couple weeks ago about reaching our readers through online efforts.
Specifically, Kassia is talking about social networking vs. viral marketing. Our teen readers and their little siblings are as much naturals at the social networking thing as [...]
More on marketing
Stacy | December 14, 2008
I’m afraid that even before I left Mirrorstone, I wasn’t reading my friends page daily, because there are just so many things to keep track of, and if even half of my 73 friends were to post daily, that’d be a lot of reading. But I really want to know what everyone is up to, [...]
Let’s talk about marketing your book online
Stacy | December 5, 2008
I was at an SCBWI conference a couple weeks ago at which they had a panel of newly published authors do a panel chat about how they got published, and the subject came up of websites and blogs. This is something that I’ve heard a lot of people talk about in the children’s book blogosphere, [...]
I want a baby just so I can get a minivan
Stacy | October 20, 2008
It’s completely absurd, but every time I see those Brooke Shields VW ads, the ones where she accuses people of having babies just for German engineering… I just can’t help but giggle. Mostly because the couples answer back: "That’s not why we’re having a baby!" "Lady, we’re standing right here!"
The one I just saw [...]
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