July 9, 2024
Though I normally write at the beginning of each quarter of the year, because I wrote last month about the release of my new book,
That Day and What Came After: Finding and Losing the Love of My Life in Six Short Years
, this will be a very short newsletter, mostly let you know that, now that the editing and design phase is complete and the book is finally out, the promotion and publicity phase of being an author is starting to pick up steam.
This month, I will get a review in the largest local paper (The Greenfield Recorder) at my end of the Pioneer Valley and will participate in a local/regional author book fair in one of our beautiful local parks [Peskeompskut Park in Turners Falls on Sunday, July 14
th—book fair starts at 1 p.m., with a concert by Do It Now in the band shell at 2 p.m.]. Keep your fingers crossed we don’t get rained out!
Then, in August I’ll be featured on the Sunbury Press BlogTalk Radio program in an interview with the founder of the company and will have my first in-person event as the author of the month for the Northampton Senior Center. I’m hoping for a local library talk or two and perhaps another senior center talk in the early fall as well. Unfortunately, most of the independent bookstores in my local area are too small for holding author events.
In the early fall, I’ll be taking another virtual book tour around the US and parts of Canada (hoping for about 20 “stops” with a curated group of book bloggers). My next newsletter will share some of the highlights from that tour with you.
This image is from our trip to Ireland a couple of years before Skip’s death.
If you have read That Day, online reviews are an important part of the marketing program, so I’d really appreciate it if you would consider putting a review on Amazon or Sunbury Press (wherever you bought your copy), or perhaps on Goodreads, if you bought the print version from your local bookstore. Thanks, Nyla, for the lovely 5-star review at Sunbury!
And if you haven’t bought your copy yet, Sunbury is running a summer special to celebrate 20 years in business. Just use the code 20/20 when checking out for 20% off all the books in your cart.
I’ll report back again in the fall, and I’ll also have an update on the audiobook version, which is still in process as I write this. In the meantime, stay cool as much as possible. As for me, I’m hiding out indoors near my new mini-split, which is making a lovely difference in this, our second heat wave of the summer so far.
Rebecca Daniels 