The Dragon of Trelian tour takes flight on Monday! The Amazon link we will use is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763634557 You are welcome to use your own Amazon link as well, but please do use this specific link at least once in every post. This is how we get Technorati ratings. The book cover is here: http://paraklesis.com/reviews/trelian.jpg Michelle [...]

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Shelli, at Market My Words, interviewed Alan Gratz today. You all remember Alan because he’s the creator of that smart, cute, teen amateur detective, Horatio Wilkes. Well, Horatio has nothing on Alan in the smarts department. So if you are an author looking for ways to market, it wouldn’t hurt you to read what Alan [...]

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Do you want better blog traffic? We blog because we want to share our lives with others. We have a desire to communicate. We have a message of some sort that we want to share. Maybe it’s not a heavy message. Maybe it’s just about connecting with other people who share our passion. It’s not really important [...]

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And the winner of the last children’s book blog tour, blogger of the tour award is…Aaaaannnnnnnnnnie. Go over to Reading is My Superpower and check her out. Congratulations, Annie!

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Yesterday, the Book Chook said in the comments, that she always welcomes comments that add value to her blog. That’s the thing about blogs. They are interactive, they encourage community, and they get added value when readers pipe in with added thought. I often read newspaper articles online but spend more time in the comments [...]

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Michelle Knudsen, who happens to be our next tour author with her middle grade fantasy, The Dragon of Trelian, recently put up a blog post that got me thinking. In it she says: I’m not usually comfortable responding directly to reviewers; the etiquette rules are fuzzy on this, I think. As far as I know, [...]

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Two bits of exciting news involving past authors: Mary Ann Rodman, author of Jimmy’s Stars, is now blogging at TeachingAuthors.com. Teaching Authors has six authors, who also teach writing. What a wealth of information they have. Check them out. And I also noticed last week that Kathryn Fitzmaurice, author of  The Year the Swallows Came Early,  [...]

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We had several three-day bloggers. I’d like to give you all a big round of applause. Great job. Becky has owned the last two Blogger of the Tour awards so, as already stated, she’ll be sitting this one out. I’ve listed her posts and mine at the end of the list but we aren’t on [...]

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Crocodaddy, crocodaddy, we hate to say farewell. We’re glad we met you, ’cause we think you’re swell. OK now we can all see why I’m not the published picture book writer in the room. But the sentiments are real. I do think Crocodaddy is a swell book. Here’s the wrap-up on the Crocodaddy tour. Technorati, [...]

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Well, Technorati has been frozen this whole time. They have this message at the top of their pages, “Notice: Maintenance colo move update. We are fixing some internal network configuration. Almost there with today’s move.” Whatever that means. Bummer. Oh, well, the tour is still going great. Several reviewers have said their kids have latched onto [...]

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