Book Promo 101: Lessons Learned

At last night’s Novel Writing class’ field trip to Willamette Writers monthly meeting, I approached the owner of one of the last indie bookstores in Eugene, Tsunami Books. After following the guy around while he set up the sound system for the evening’s speaker, he (Scott) looked over my book. I said my spiel, and […]

The Media Is the Message

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to hand the ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of my novel, The Fence My Father Built, to a professor at our local University of Oregon. Thanks to Facebook and a friend of a friend, I learned that this prof has an interesting tie to my novel’s subject of Northwest […]

Corban Kids Rock!

The other night, I was a guest lecturer at a small private college outside Salem, Oregon. Corban used to be Western Baptist College and I’ve presented there many times at writing conferences. This time, however, I was talking with a group of fiction writers who were taking a credit course from my pal and fellow […]