BEA Alert
Three and a half more weeks till Book Expo America. That means it's time to get the draft of your proposal finished and looked over by your favorite editors. More importantly it's time to shine up your…
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1321 postsPW Review Is In
Sand In My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write From the Road "Travel writer Leo has collected 28 short and snappy travel stories bursting with exuberant candor and crackling humor sure to leave…
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I was thumbing through the Borders May catalog and was delighted to find a book by Joseph O'Connor. I read Sweet Liberty: Travels In Irish America back in the mid 90s, and laughed so hard. It's been years…
Read more →New Release of the Week
I got a newsletter from California Authors this morning and as I was reading it, I thought, what a great community for writers. My second thought was that I needed to tell them about Sand In My Bra. As I…
Read more →Want to Learn How to Publicize a Book?
TT is looking for a publicity intern to help promote Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road. Get on the bandwagon and ride it as long as you like. This unpaid position…
Read more →Researching Travel Publishers
Whether you've got your manuscript written, or you're still mulling over the story line for your first, second, or third travel book, it's never too early to start researching publishers. Which houses are…
Read more →People are Dreamin'
A previous post, Ideas Happen, is generating great ideas in the comments area. I hope that all posters are also submitting their ideas to the Ideas Happen web site with Visa and MSN. That's where you have…
Read more →Double Cover
Apparently there was a very nice cover shot of Sand in My Bra in the April 14th issue of Publishers Weekly on pg. 55....but there was no accompanying review. Krista talked to them and they were very…
Read more →Available in the UK
Sand In My Bra and Other Misadventures is now available in the UK on Amazon. co.uk. If you want to support your local bookstore you can get title and ISBN info here. It is also available on Amazon in the…
Read more →101 Best Web sites for Writers
Writer's Digest just came out with their 101 Best Web sites for Writers. It's in their May issue. The list was compiled by Jane Friedman and was culled from more than 270 web sites that were nominated by…
Read more →Ask Me Anything
I'm putting together a self interview for SandinMyBra.com and want it to be entertaining first, informative second. Off the wall questions that will lead to offbeat yet curiously stimulating answers. What…
Read more →I Stand Corrected
Hey Everybody, I'm glad that you got something out of the recent post, "Last Call for Hyenas." Larry corrected me this weekend and said I was jumping the gun. They had told me the last time I was down…
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