Emilie’s Books
Last Day To Use Your Fortunate Harbor Coupon
Just a reminder that today is the last day the $1.50 coupon for Fortunate Harbor will be honored. Just remember to ask your bookseller first so you won’t be disappointed at the register. Individual stores differ on what they will and won’t accept. Once again, here’s the coupon link for printing. Thanks to all of…
Read MoreThe Glamorous Life of the Touring Author
Mix five authors, eight stops and three states, and you get one exhausting, exhilarating book tour.
Read MoreReviewing and Chewing: The Real Joys of Book Clubs
The moment I heard that the Ashford Court Readers Group in Strongsville, Ohio was not only going to discuss Happiness Key, they were going to make food appropriate to my novel to enjoy together, I wanted to jump on a plane and join them. This is my kind of book club. Food and books. Can…
Read MoreCan You Really Judge a Book By Its Cover? Covers, Reissues, and Giveaways
The cover to the left is the newest for my novel Rising Tides, originally released in 1997 and scheduled to be re-released in this lovely edition in November of 2010. Reissues can present both problems and possibilities for authors. On the possibility side, reissues give new readers a chance to enjoy novels we wrote before…
Read MoreBooksignings: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
I’ll begin with the truth. Writers love booksellers the way we love our first born sons. We love booksellers the way we love chocolate, lattes, spring after long winters and beaches at sunset. That said, we don’t always love booksignings. This past weekend I had the opportunity to be on a panel at the Virginia…
Read MoreDon’t Push The River; It Flows By Itself: Creativity and Deadlines
Sometimes, there are no words. It’s that simple. There are entire days, sometimes stretching to weeks, when putting together an intelligent sentence is a remarkable challenge. Most often these days occur when I’m writing a synopsis. A synopsis is a story summary. Picture me sitting down over coffee one morning to give you a blow by…
Read MoreLook At Me, Look At Me–The Dangers of Too Much Promotion
Right now I’m listening to my favorite radio station. Our local public radio station has wonderful classical music, and very little talk. What talk they do have is insightful and interesting. Having said all that, do I help support their programming by becoming a member? Unfortunately, no. Instead I support a neighboring public radio station to…
Read MoreCouldn’t I Have Said That Better? Editing, Galleys and Errors
There are people out there (and you know who you are) who live to catch errors on the printed page. As obsessed as I am with making sure there are none, I still hear from this sacred sisterhood from time to time. “Don’t I know that people “pore” over the printed page, not pour?” Well, yes,…
Read MoreFilm Vs. Novel–Whose Story Is It Anyway?
In my ten days in New Zealand watching Sweet Georgia Gal, one of my first novels, being turned into a movie for German television, I answered a lot of questions. I asked a lot, too, since that’s a hazard of my profession, plus I drew a lot of comparisons between New Zealand, Germany and the United…
Read MoreAnd The Winners Are . . .
Congratulations to Kitty of Plaquemine, Louisiana, who won an autographed copy of The Four Seasons by Mary Alice Monroe in a random drawing from commenters on my January 23rd blog about Mary Alice’s booksigning at the Sanibel Island Bookshop. Congratulations to two winners in the book-to-movie contest on my February 11th Wild Blue Yonder blog. I promised one…
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