Yesterday, I went to my local post office and rented out a P.O. box for the first time. Since I’m doing a lot of writing “business,” i.e. promotion, I thought it would be a good idea to separate it off from my home. With my first book, 12 years ago, I considered doing the P.O. [...]
Author Olivia Boler
writing is funArchive for May, 2012
Mark your calendars all you readers, bloggers, and the like, because I’m taking The Flower Bowl Spell on our first virtual blog tour. After much research, I engaged the amazing Colette, who has run her A Buckeye Girl Reads blog for three years and recently launched a book blog touring company. She’s been fantastic, absolutely [...]
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! Yes, this is how I spend my morning—posting on my blog. I also folded laundry and painted my kid’s nails, but I did get breakfast in bed. That doesn’t happen every day. Anyway, it’s been an exciting time around Casa Writerville. Paperback book sales of The Flower Bowl Spell are on. [...]
Finally, after months of anticipation (at least on my part) The Flower Bowl Spell is available as a paperback. I thought it might not happen after everything it took—hours of formatting, proofreading, editing, sending back the cover design, waiting for changes, finding more errors, and starting over—but it’s as good as it’s going to be [...]
Even though I didn’t go with bookbaby for publishing The Flower Bowl Spell, I get emails from them every so often with promotions and tips. This last one had an article, “Pinterest for Authors” by Chris Robley that I found worth a read. I’m a member of Pinterest, having dutifully requested an invitation to join [...]
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