Cover to Cover books and Vintage Books

Both Cover to Cover books and Vintage Books in Vancouver, WA are now carrying copies of The Gift Giver for the holiday season. Would love to see them bought out! :)

Cover to Cover Books

6300 NE St. James Rd., Suite 104B

Vancouver, WA 98663

(360) 993-7777

mail@covertocoverbooks.net

www.CovertoCoverBooks.net

Vintage Books

6613 E. Mill Plain Blvd.
Vancouver, WA 98661

books@Vintage-Books.com

www.Vintage-Books.com

Fright Flight by Lisa Ard

Lisa was very enthusiastic about her book at the WW Author's fair. Unfortunately I didn't get any shot of the inside of her book because there are apparently illustrations. But you can get a glimpse of the illustrations on Amazon.com, I'm sure.

Blurb from Amazon:

Fright Flight is the first installment in the Dream Seeker Adventures series. Being twelve years old can be challenging, but add to that the unusual ability to experience dreams as reality and you begin to understand Patrick's need for a little self-control. A "sweet" dream devouring the world's largest ice cream sundae can end with an enormous stomachache. A fall from a bike means Patrick wakes with a broken arm. Try explaining that to the emergency room doctor! Oh wait - that would be Patrick's mom. She's a dream seeker too, as are Patrick's sister and brother. If Patrick follows the family's dream-seeking rules he can have cool nighttime adventures. But if he forgets...

www.dreamseekeradventures.com

Zeke Proper by Brad Cameron

I got some great interviews with authors at the fair last week but had problems getting them off my phone. I finally extracted them and I'm going to start putting them up here for you guys. This first is by Brad Cameron who wrote Zeke Proper. Brad used to be a high school teacher and has read his book to his students who thought it was great.

This is the copy from his website:

Something is amiss in Alder Cove. Some say that it has all happened before and that it was bound to happen again. But these are only rumors. Some say that wandering by yourself at night, especially in the surrounding hills that border the town, is suicide: there are things out there that will eat you. But, again, these are only rumors. They say the river is haunted and that swimming there, in that deep, dark, cold water is treacherous. The current is strong, true, but worse, something lives there, and she, yes, she, will grab you and pull you under, swallowing you in one, painful gulp. 

www.zekeproper.com

Market Your Fiction: Countdown to Selling a Christmas Story

Market Your Fiction: Countdown to Selling a Christmas Story: Guest blog by Paul Navarro, author of The Gift Giver Time, time, time. My biggest sin is time—I have treated it with callous disregard....

Wheels Are Up on The Gift Giver

Tuesday night's fair was a blast. I met a lot of great authors of YA and middle-grade books and I did short video interviews with the authors. I will be posting all of those interviews over the next few days.

The response to The Gift Giver was fantastic! It's already begun to sell on Amazon and Nook despite the fact that the print version wasn't available Tuesday night. And speaking of the print version, it's now up on Amazon. Get it here. I've already had people lay claim to all my proof copies and I'm getting requests for signed copies. Things are going well.

Read my guest post on Cheri Lasota's blog about my adventures in publishing HERE.

Appearance Tonight!

I'm sprucin' up, got my shirt pressed, got my shoes polished, because tonight I'll be at the Willamette Writer's Author's Fair. I'll be at The Old Church on SW 11th and Clay in downtown Portland along with various other Northwest writers. There will be refreshments and lots of interesting folks, but most of all there will be me with a great big bouquet of fake poinsettias sitting on my table. My wife put it together so my display has a nice Christmasy feel. Event starts at 7pm.

Hope you guys can come!

Finally! The Gift Giver on Lulu

The Gift Giver is up and running on Lulu. It's on Amazon Kindle right now but I forgot to reprice it. Should be .99 cents for the text only version. Doing that now. Cover looks great!

http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/the-gift-giver/18723876?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

Really?!

Okay, I realize that being a grown man I am not exactly the target audience for the Twilight series. But neither was I the target for Harry Potter, City of Ember, or How to Train Your Dragon, and I love those movies. I finally went to see the latest Twilight installment, Breaking Dawn, and I have to admit to shuffling around in my seat quite a bit. I thought it just might be me, but when the middle-grade girl next to me threw up her hands in frustration I knew it wasn't.

Did they really have to cut this book into two movies? It doesn't seem that there was enough plot to sustain two hours. How many angles can I look at Kristen Stewart on a beach before I start to yawn? I feel like I've been cheated--taken advantage of by a movie company that is trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of their franchise by putting out a poor product.

I can't be the only one. Do you think Breaking Dawn should have been two movies?

Bad Boy!

I admit, I've been a bad boy. I feel like I've been neglecting you guys. I've been working day and night getting The Gift Giver ready for publication. I began this endeavor to see what it's like to self-publish and let me tell you: IT'S HARD! Especially when you're dealing with what is basically a picture book. Let me tell you, Word and Adobe don't always play nicely together. But, I'm happy to say, after all the struggle, I've finally got the print version uploaded to Amazon successfully. I'm just waiting for the proof to come back. Now I'm struggling with the digital edition which I'm learning has it's own really big learning curve.

All that said and done, tell me what you think of the website. www.thegiftgiverstory.com.