Mount Hermon recap, part 3

Captain’s Log, Stardate 04.19.2006

Blog book giveaway:
My Thursday book giveaway is AND BABY MAKES FIVE by Debra Clopton.
My Monday (well, really Tuesday) book giveaway is the Flanagans series (4 books) by Marta Perry.
You can still enter both giveaways. Just post a comment on each of those blog posts.
On Thursday I'll draw the winner for AND BABY MAKES FIVE and post the title for another book I'm giving away. Stay tuned.

Continued from Mount Hermon recap, part 2:
I met Laura Christianson in my Media Mania class. She’s a professional blogger for Adoption.com, doing the Christian Adoption blog. She also has a personal blog called Exploring Adoption, and she just got a contract for a non-fiction book, What’s So Great About Adoption?: A Self-Guided Tour for the Uninitiated. She gave a blogging workshop and afterward, we ended up talking about blogging and marketing for almost two hours.

We both admit that blogging is addictive. She gave me terrific tips. And I was able to brainstorm with her about how blogging can be used for marketing for novelists in particular. It was great!

I met author Tricia Goyer for the first time. We had been emailing lately, and I will be starting a column of sorts on one of her blogs on Health and the Writer. I also have her books to give away on my blog!

Tomorrow: The people who didn’t think I was too weird to hang out with.

Comments

Ruth said…

That is so cool about meeting Tricia Goyer...love her work!!

Wed Apr 19, 05:09:00 AM 2006

Catherine West said…

Stop it! What are you doing??? Blogging is NOT addictive! You just stop that nonsense this minute or I might just have to change time zones and come over there and kick your butt!!
Blasphemous.

PS: Thanks for the hook up with Pammer!
God works in mysterious ways!!

Wed Apr 19, 04:34:00 PM 2006

Anonymous said…

Hey Camy,
Thanks for mentioning little old me in your blog. It was so much fun talking blogging with you for hours on end...and watching you attempt to give Chip MacGregor a bad time.

Laura

Fri Apr 21, 07:23:00 PM 2006

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No Cold Bums toilet seat cover

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