Being a writer can be hard sometimes. All alone in your garret, scribbling away. Not to mention the often depressing news about how hard it is to make a living in this business.
That’s why I’m having a party. I can’t take credit for this idea. Over the years, I’ve so enjoyed the drop-and-hop events hosted on Susie Lindau’s Wild Ride blog that I decided to steal her idea. (Thank you, Susie!)
Your invitation
Here’s how it works:
- If you’re a published author, comment below with a link to your book’s marketing page, whether on your web site or an online retailer. Try to be succinct. Hook us with a few sentences.
- If you’re an aspiring author with a blog, comment with a link to a post that makes you proud. Brevity will serve you well, too.
- If you’re a humble reader (we love you!), comment with a link to your favorite summer reading material so far—book, article, someone else’s blog, etc.
Note that all the bullet points above mention ONE LINK. I’ll steal another idea from Susie: one link only please, or you’re disqualified!
I hope we’ll end up with a rollicking party and lots of new ideas for reading material. Invite your friends!
Resources on mental health
At the back of What Remains Unsaid I included a short discussion on mental illness/mental health issues with statistics and resources. If you’ve read the book, you know that mental illness plays a role in the lives of many of the characters. I’ve now added a resources page to my web site so readers can easily navigate to some of the many sources of support and information available online. You can find them here.
The summer of free books continues
Don’t forget to enter my Goodreads giveaway for one of five signed copies of What Remains Unsaid. (U.S. only, through August 8.)
In person
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay area, I hope you can come to the reading by local authors at The Main Gallery in Redwood City on July 26. I’ll be there reading from What Remains Unsaid.
AUDREY KALMAN 
Hello Audrey! How did the reading go?
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It was lots of fun, thanks! We were an eclectic bunch–several novelists, a writer of superhero stories, and a poet.
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What a cool idea, Audrey! The Girl Who Saved Ghosts is a fast-paced YA time-travel murder mystery that combines paranormal and gothic elements to create a story full of ancestral legacies, powerful spells, unexpected connections, and inherited destinies. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34619522-the-girl-who-saved-ghosts
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Thanks for stopping by. Hope you’ll find some new readers here!
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Thanks so much! This was a really cool idea. 🙂
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Great idea and thank you for the party invite! My book is called Ocean Echoes – it’s about a marine biologist who gives up on love to study jellyfish. Here’s the link: http://amzn.to/2txwEAR Now it’s about time for some margaritas – Happy Friday!
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Thanks for the reminder that your book is on my to-read list :-). Enjoy your margaritas.
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Hope you’ll enjoy your wine too!
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Jellyfish, eh? That’s different. Sounds intriguing!
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I would never comment on my book, The Berkeley Girl in Paris, 1968, not right now, not while I’m on vacation! Nor on my upcoming sequel, The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London, and other stories of the 60s, to be published by Sand Hill Review Press in the fall 2017! No! Not now, while I am in Napa, winetasting in sitting by the pool! So you’ll just have to look at my website if you are interested: elisefrancessmiller.com/
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Ha! You certainly should not comment while on vacation–I didn’t mean to add to your workload. Enjoy yourself and let your link speak for itself!
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I just did and it sounds exiting!
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I feel like I should be passing around the wine and hors d’oeuvres!
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What a charming idea! I just reread one of my favourite poems, “This is just to say” by William Carlos Williams, so I will provide the link here: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/just-say
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A poem–hooray! Thank you for this one. It’s so startlingly simple, yet powerful–and apropos of summer!
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That was fun an also something more than fun that I can’t quite describe. A lot packed into so few words. Poets always leave me in awe.
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I know, this poem is so simple yet so intimate. Your book looks interesting. What a lovely idea Audrey had to start this little “party” 🙂
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Thanks! Pass it along and maybe we’ll get more partiers over the next week.
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That’s a perfect summer poem – just thinking about it cools me off a bit – thank you!
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This is cool. What a really great idea! And I’m so glad to be invited.
So I guess I put it here? My book, Gift of Chance came out last November. It’s world-building fantasy but without a lot of magic. A story about people whose problems are somewhat unique to the world I’ve invented, but also very human. A story about a thinking man in a world of swords and sailing ships where honor and altruism still have some use. And it turns out I have no idea how to make this a functioning link: http://carollouisewilde.com
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Thanks so much for sharing. I love the “thinking man in a world of swords and sailing ships.” Sounds like someone I’d like to get to know, at least on the page 🙂
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I love that description too and will have to check it out – thank you!
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