Category Archives: promotion

There must be a bee in my bonnet…

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Cause I’m hearing all this buzz

Please excuse the poor joke. Tee hee.

One of the things I said in my workshop with Stephanie Dray on “How to Promote Like a Big Name Author” is that you know there’s buzz when people start picking up your banner and they start coming to you. So I’m jumping up and down this morning because Romance Trading Cards received a huge shout out in the L.A. Times article on the Romantic Times Book Convention: first in the picture and then with a great quote from Joanna Bourne.

Bodice-Rippers Unite

And I’ll miss all the fun at the Saturday booksigning *sniff* because I’ve whisked myself back to St. Louis for another conference and booksigning. *brightens up* I’ll be speaking today (Saturday) on Selling the Hard Sell and then I’ll be signing Butterfly Swords from 4:30-6:00pm. Tomorrow I’ve got a Master’s Class on Keeping them Hooked.

Missouri Writers Guild conference at the Sheraton Westport Plaza Hotel in St. Louis.

I think I have a few of those famous Romance Trading Cards left to hand out too…What? Did you think I was above gloating?

Buzz…buzz…

Romance Trading Cards-Here’s Mine

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If you haven’t heard, Romancelandia is abuzz making romance trading cards in preparation for the the RT Booklovers Convention in Los Angeles.

Here’s my editions which I’ll be toting to the convention. I have a collectible set of four from Butterfly Swords and The Taming of Mei Lin. For Mei Lin & Shen Leung, I reveal a bit of secret history not available in the Undone short story. Enjoy!

The samples below show the front with the cover and the two versions of the back for each story. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to stay for the booksigning so I’ll be giving these away during my two CLUB RT spots.

BUTTERFLY SWORDS

THE TAMING OF MEI LIN

If you’re headed to either RT or RWA or any conferences in between, look for this symbol to find participating authors.

The full list of participants and more sample cards can be found at http://www.romancetradingcards.com. I can’t wait for the fun to begin!

Of course, newsletter subscribers will always get first dibs. I’ll be giving details about how to get these cards in the March edition of the newsletter which is out Tuesday. Sign up here.