Downward facing dog

Okay, so as I was at yoga/Pilate's fusion today doing the downward facing dog for the millionth time, I began to wonder is this some how representative of what sometimes goes on in peoples lives. Assume the position and then you get a good but kicking. Not that anything has happened lately to make me so cynical, it was just a random thought. But then I thought, maybe I need to make a vision board to make sure that things begin to get done in my life. After all now that I am in my forties I ought to have a handle on what I want right? The key is to prioritize. I need to decide which things are most important and put those things at the top of my vision board. So next week before Easter I am going to come up with a list of things that will appear on my board, I think some business related, some book related, some kid related and some just fun related.

So stayed tuned to the next posting to see what will appear on my board.

Till next time
Katie

the niecest people

I found the nicest guy on Goodreads.com this week. He is also an author Emmett Spain and the name of his book is Old Haunts: A London City Novel. I have not yet gotten his book in order to read it but I am very excited to read it.

On a funny note. For the two followers I have, if you don't know that I have a 5 month old great dane puppy, well I do. He got out the other day and as I was chasing him across the neighborhood I found myself thinking what the ******** was I thinking when I said I wanted a great dane puppy. Don't get me wrong he is really funny but gosh what a lot of work. I must be insane.

Kristi, Tammy. I hope all is well with you my only followers. I hope we get to see each other soon.

Katie

#17

I was googiling myself again tonight and I found that on www.tower.com I am ranked #17 on thier new sales for childrens books.

I want to list all the websites I find myself on but as of today, there are just so many. So if you are interested to look, just google my book title "Bia Gets a New Baby Brother" and they will all come right up.

I am still awaiting the first quarter report to find out how many have sold so far but it gives me hope that they will be good when I find new web sites all the time with me listed. Who would have thought!

Thanks to everyone who continues to purchase. I do so appreciate your support.

Till next time.

Katie

I'm back

It has been a while since I last posted but it is not because things have not been going on. I have been posting, posting, posting all over the internet. Which my marketing manager has told me is important. I am anxiously awaiting the schedule for my virtual book tour and am hopeful that will produce some good sales. I posted on high school face book page and actually got some response from that posting, so things are moving along, but as the publication took a long time, so does the process of getting the marketing working for me. As I have no expericence with it, it does not come as a suprise but I intend on working it as hard as I can and keep my chin up.

Please keep in mind that if you request it through a book store or at the library they are likely to then order it to keep in stock and I would be MOST grateful for that.

With spring coming I am hoping to be able to do some foot work around town to the book stores and market on a face to face level, rather than the mailings I have been doing through the winter.

Enjoy the warmer weather everyone.

Til Next

What made you want to do that

When ever someone finds out that I wrote a book, I always get, "What made you want to do that?" I can't say that it was a conscious decision. I always enjoyed writing. I was fairly good in English while in high school. I enjoyed it certainly but never really considered it a career choice. After high school I went to a non-traditional college and still did very well in English.

Years later after having a child and getting married I started to think about writing again. However, at that time the Internet was not what it is today. You still had to do it by snail mail, send in your SASE and wait. So I did. What I wrote made no great impression and if I did get a response it was never positive. So life happened and the writing was put on the back burner.

Many years later now I found myself unexpectedly pregnant with our third child. So I started writing again in hopes that I could stay home with this one, ha ha. That story is still waiting to be published. (I hope it will be the next one.) Then 11 months later I was unexpectedly pregnant again with our fourth child. (I know what you are thinking, doesn't she know how to prevent that. I really did think I had it under control.) So I started writing again. This story would become Bia Gets a New Baby Brother after many re-writes.

So the writing just sat there because I still didn't know what to do until one day I was on Google and I typed in literary agencies. I happen to find one that was geared toward children writings. So I signed with them and they put it in their data base. In the mean time I could not shop it to anyone else. So for two years it continued to sit and I re-wrote the entire thing.

In passing I was talking to my mother who told me that if I wanted to do it I should pursue it, as "Time is going to pass anyway, you might as well do what you want". So I did. I pursued it. Eventually Strategic Publishing Group contacted me and I worked with them for over a year in order to get it to print.

I really just wanted to do something that I love, that I can leave behind for my children, their children, etc. I like to think that somewhere there are children reading my book and smiling and laughing, that they are enjoying reading it as much as I had hoped.

So, I want to say Thanks Mom. Without her simple insight, that book would probably still be sitting on a disc somewhere just waiting to be read.

Till next time.
Katie

New websites

I am continually searching the internet for new websites and am always amazed at the places my book shows up. For instance today I found these:

www.junkudo.co.jp/y_detail.jsp?ID=8160860546

and

www.ibs.it/book/9781608605460/buerger-smith-katherine-p/bia-gets-new.html


Both in languages I do not know. If any one knows the languages please let me know.

Till next time.
Katie

Marketing Marketing Marketing

I don't find marketing the fun part of this but I am giving it my best. This weekend I have sent out my press release and letters to several local book stores in hopes of getting them to at least carry my book. With a little luck I may be able to pull a book signing out of the contacts.

Thanks to all of you who have ordered my book. I really hope that you like it and in some cases find it useful.

Enjoy the snow Cincinnati!

Till next time.
Katie