Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Doing The Snoopy Happy Dance of Joy

Yee-ha!  I'm doing the Snoopy Dance of Joy.  Thanks to a watchful reader, I learned that A CRAFTY KILLING, the first book in the Victoria Square Mystery Series is available for pre-order on Amazon, and that it's also up on BarnesandNoble.com, too!

Wow--to see my REAL name up is quite a thrill after all these years of hiding behind initials and/or a pseudonym.  Now the really hard part comes.  Will Lorna's readers find Lorraine's books?  I know you guys will, but there are thousands of readers out there who aren't on social networking sites and don't read blogs, and will never visit my web site(s).

Any idea on how I can get the word out?

In the meantime, should you wish to visit the various pages, you can find it here at Barnes and Noble,
and here on Amazon.  If you go to Amazon, I'd be ever so grateful if you could "tag" the book.  Tagging gets a book noticed and Amazon will sometimes "suggest" the book to people who like similar titles.

Meanwhile, still no cover, but I'll let you know as soon as I get it and will share it as soon as they let me.  (After all, somehow it feels like we're all in this together!)

Thanks!

3 comments:

  1. You know how authors do blog tours, you can do newsletter tour of fellow cozy writers. If they can add a line or two about your new book in their newsletter, this will get the word out.

    Congrats on your book being available at Amazon & BN.

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  2. I just visited B&N to add CRAFTY to my wish list & clicked on "More by this Author" (also on the site). It said -- after SEARCHING -- there weren't any others by you. I assume they mean under the name "Lorraine Bartlett." Any idea who I should write at B&N to suggest they also include your other pseudonyms? (Hey, I'd be VERY happy to point out they could do it for ALL authors & they'd sell lots more books!!)

    Any chance A CRAFTY KILLING will also be released as an e-book? Would LOVE to have it on my nook!!

    Congrats, kiddo!! I'm so thrilled for & proud of you!

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  3. It should be available the same day as the print version. Unless they decide not to release it then -- OR someone on the Marketing Team forgets to release it. (That's happened before, too.)

    My short stories and Jeff books should be appearing on B&N to download to the Nook soon. (It takes 6-8 weeks they say.)

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