A whole bunch of stuff...

The good news I was talking about last week is this...Twilight Tales, a weekly fiction series, has invited me to come and do a reading at the Red Lion Pub in Chicago. Yea!!! I'm so excited and horribly nervous. Basically, it's just me, my book and the audience for 40 to 60 minutes. Here's the information about the event. If you live in the Chicago area, please try to come. I'd love to see some friendly, non-threatening faces in the crowd.

November 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Twilight Tales

Red Lion Pub

2446 N. Lincoln Avenue

Chicago, IL

$4.00

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Another good review...

Paranormal Romance posted a review of The Silver Spoon. Sophie Murphy says, "If you like sci-fi you'll love this book. For those not into science fiction this book is still a great book to read!! I highly recommend it." Click here to read the entire review.

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Schaumburg Library has my book!

I don't know about you, but I never used to think about HOW libraries got their books. I honestly never thought about it. Turns out libraries buy their books. Which means with the limited funding, as most libraries have, it's a huge deal when they decide to invest some of those funds in a book by a new, unknown author.

So, thank you very much Schaumburg Library *grin* I couldn't be more thrilled to know that my book is in such great company! I'm totally tempted to go and visit it, just so I can see it on the shelves. That's what I used to do when I was struggling with staying motivated to write. I would go into libraries and bookstores and find the spot on the shelves where my book would go. Most of the time, if it was the sci-fi/horror/fantasy section, I ended up between Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Not bad, not bad at all, I say. : )

So, if you live in the northwest suburbs and want to check my book out, visit the Schaumburg Library on Roselle Road. Also, if anyone happens to find my book in another library, please let me know! I'll post it here and give you credit for finding it : )

One last thing...Huge thanks to my mom and sister who were in Barnes and Noble this weekend and decided to see if they could find my book on the shelf. I left one copy with the Peoria store when I signed there a couple of months ago. The copy had sold, which is excellent and when they asked one of the staff members to look it up, they found out that two more copies were on order! Woo-hoo!!! And they also visited with a woman who happened to be in the sci-fi section and told her about my book. My mom gave her a bookmark. Yea, Mom! Thanks!!! Nobody loves you (or your book) like your family : ) Best book promotion team out there.

Talk to you tomorrow!!!