Color Nook Arriving November 19

I received an e-mail from Barnes & Noble notifying me that their new color nook is scheduled to arrive in stores on November 19, 2010, just in time for the Christmas season. This is some information I found online. Moreover, content and app providers will not be limited to creating offerings related to e-reading. The [...] Read more »

My Initial Impression of the Nook

When one of my friends called me yesterday afternoon and told me that she would love to have a Kindle, I told her about the Nook. I gave her the pros and cons, based on what I had read in the GeekTonic article. We talked for a little while and made plans to go out [...] Read more »

Barnes & Noble’s Nook on Backorder

Yesterday, I took my boys over to Barnes & Noble with the intention of having a quick look for a hands-on training book for Photoshop CS4. I almost made it to the checkout counter when my oldest piped up about needing a book for a project. That ended my good intention, much to my delight. [...] Read more »

Barnes & Noble Plans to Topple Amazon with Its Multi-Format Ebooks

Back in 2001, Barnes & Noble entered the Ebook market, only to pull out after sales didn’t meet their expectations. The market was too young, and no one could predict how well it would take off. Amazon, as we all know, took a big risk when they launched their Kindle reading device and wound up [...] Read more »

Virtual Book Tour Still Going Strong

I’ve been down with the flu since Friday, so I have some catching up to do. Interview with Beyond the Books: I don’t know about you, but I enjoy listening to or reading about people’s life stories. The questions are mostly writing-related, which were interesting, but I enjoyed reading the authors’ responses to the last [...] Read more »

Virtual Blog Tour – Day 5: Blog Critics Interview

Today, I was interviewed by paranormal romance author and Blog Critics writer, Mayra Calvani. Author Deborah Woehr is the moderator of Paranormal Watch, a popular blog focusing on ghosts and the supernatural. She’s on tour this month of February to promote the release of her ghost novel Prosperity, available from Lulu. Welcome to Blogcritics, Deborah! [...] Read more »

Virtual Blog Tour – Day 3: How to Develop Ghostly Characters

Today’s stop is at horror writer and editor, M.E. Ellis’ Nutter’s Gang. If you grew up reading horror novels and watching horror movies, you may think that writing a spooky scene with a ghost is easy. Just stick your hero and/or heroine inside a haunted house, maybe add a few friends to add a little [...] Read more »

Virtual Blog Tour – Days 1 and 2

Day One begins this tour at Rose Marie Wolf’s author blog, where I’ve written a guest post about how I came up for the idea for Prosperity. Writing Prosperity 1998 The idea for novel came to me as a “mind movie” of a woman who was standing on a small island in the middle of [...] Read more »

Social Networking Sites – Part I

I told myself that I would never sign up for a MySpace account. As you may know from reading my prior posts, I find them clunky and cluttered. So, why did I sign up for a MySpace account? Because my oldest son signed up for one when school started. I didn’t find out about this [...] Read more »

Wrapping Up the Blog Tour Prep

These past couple of weeks have kept me busy writing interviews and articles for my upcoming blog tour next month. I can’t believe that February is around the corner already! Beginning February 1st, expect to find short posts about each tour stop. The tour will wrap up with a free book giveaway. Details are available [...] Read more »

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