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I am over here today : Market My Novel and ready to chat all about marketing. If you have a book out there and you are into learning and/or discussing ways to market, come on over.If you don't have a book out there but have a curiosity as to what goes into this business, well, you're welcome too!If you are one of my regular followers, you need to come over just because I love you and your

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Come join me! Blogging Authors

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Today I am talking about the making of the book, the inspiration for it etc. Come on by and check out my post and say hello! Book Connection

Kim Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933746166088034102pubd2b@yahoo.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840585.post-60261875313007723672010-01-05T18:10:00.002-06:002010-01-05T18:11:18.562-06:00

For this month, I may not be posting much -- and that includes our Kindness Tuesday. I am pre-empted by all the blogs I am visiting while on book tour.I hope you will just follow me around and we will get back to normal in February!

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We are having a ton o'fun here A Book Blogger's Diary talking about our New Year's resolutions. You may win a free book, so come on by and share yours!

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Where are you? I am missing you! yes, YOU.Go here: PUMP UP YOUR BOOK and check out the interview and leave me a comment. You could win a prize!! I am waiting on YOU!

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Okay you guys. What is the title of this blog? What should this blog be about? Thaaaat's right. So I promise to keep more of a focus on the writing aspect this year. I will have a lot to say so don't fear a thing.I am starting to post a bit more over at Shannon's blog because she is having a new book coming out this month. You can keep up with her and her meandering thoughts over at the

Kim Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933746166088034102pubd2b@yahoo.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840585.post-55246050735724735202010-01-02T11:57:00.004-06:002010-01-02T12:18:33.354-06:00

It's that time of year again. The annual Preditors and Editors Reader's Poll has opened.While I did okay last year, it wasn't anything like I would have liked to have done with Avenging Angel. I figured it was because it came out in December and the P and E poll kicked in in January. Probably bad timing, right? Well, it is too late to cry over that spilled milk, because the P and E poll is just

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Do you remember the olden days when news traveled by a town crier who went around saying Hear ye! hear ye! and would spout off the news whatever it was? I have always marveled that we have grown from that to the world of instant news. If something happens in a far away place, we get that news in a matter of moments. Isn't our world amazing??And like a good blogger town crier, I am gearing up to

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Okay you guys, I am not much of a partier anymore but I will be going out to dinner. If you are planning on going out on the town, and you need a RIDE (because you just do NOT want to drive drunk!!!) call Triple A. They offer a ride home and a tow for your car if you have driven yourself somewhere and can't get home. It's a part of Triple A's "Tow To Go" programThe number is : 800-AAA-HELP and I

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Don't forget that my show Introducing WRITERS! radio show on Blog Talk Radio is available as a podcast on ITUNES! All you have to do is go to ITUNES and click on Podcasts. Then when the ITUNES podcast page comes up, go to the little search box in the upper right hand corner and type in Introducing WRITERS Blog Talk radio and it will go out and find me!Then once you have subscribed to the feed,

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M'kay... I am sorta a slow learner. I haven't been on the front lines of green anything until recently.My daughter is a great teacher and she has 1. gone vegetarian 2. begun to recycle 3. is into sustainable green living And she has been sharing this with me.Why on earth haven't I been doing this? I don't know. But I am going to begin right away. So, join me! Let's make 2010 the year we are

Kim Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933746166088034102pubd2b@yahoo.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840585.post-58846615811839806672009-12-28T15:28:00.001-06:002009-12-28T15:30:14.077-06:00

Avenging Angel is available for download at Barnes and Noble dot com. HERE I hope you will go out and get your copy today!

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My next book is coming out in January and I am gearing up for the book tour. Here is the link to my TOUR PAGE I hope you will make plans to follow me around as I tour the Internet with Buried Angel. I will have give-aways, freebies, and more fun than a barrel full of monkeys.JOIN ME!

Kim Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933746166088034102pubd2b@yahoo.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5840585.post-75817528364894996942009-12-23T19:00:00.004-06:002009-12-23T19:26:16.304-06:00

Do you know anyone blowing out candles today, or this week? I do! My dear mother, now deceased, was born this date in 1919 in the era of flapper dresses and Prohibition, and my sister, still living, is celebrating her birthday today as well. It was always fun to celebrate Christmas when my sister came home for the holidays because the celebration began on the 22nd and didn't end until Christmas

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I was speaking with a friend of mine at work the other day and she told me that her social group (local motorcyclists) had a windfall and had shared $75.00 with each one of its members as a bonus. She kept that money in her pocket and thought about it for a time before putting it away in a safe place in her car.That night when she got a chance to speak to another member of her group who had

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This is Christmas week! It's Christmas Monday and I am going to try to keep the spirit going this week by sharing some memories of Christmas past in my life.My earliest memory of Christmas was the year I got a Crissy doll. Okay, so I am dating myself here, but if you are my age, you will remember those beautiful LONG haired dolls. That year Santa brought me my darling doll, and an electric

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Have you ever met anyone who was a natural born storyteller? I have many times. Sometimes they do not even realize they are one. Take Thomas for example. Thomas works in my office. He is a very cool dude, and he is a natural born storyteller.He is standing by my desk. We are discussing how terrible things can happen when you least expect it. This is his take:T: A person could be driving to

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Back a few years ago, I subbed some stuff to an ezine called Mouthfull of Bullets. I just recently discovered that it is gone now, and it makes me a little sad. The owner and head guy, BJ Bourg an accomplished writer himself, has moved on to bigger and better things. I wish him well.I am going to have to do something with those stories he published though. I have thought about re-publishing them

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Recently, I found out that my blog is only a 3 out of a 10 in the rankings of blogs. That sort of makes me sad. I have studied up on things to make your blog better and so here I am, blogging about it. The number one thing in the list of things was to make lists.Make lists? Make lists!That should not be very hard. I am a natural born list-maker. I have to have lists to understand my lists.So here

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Don’t you hate it when you find yourself focusing on things you can’t do anything about and those things are negative in nature? How many times have you missed a laugh, a smile, or some other form of joy in your life because you were too wrapped up in not having enough money, or not having enough time or not having something else?Sometimes it is important to have that as your main thought,

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MAN! This has been a very busy weekend, and it has flown right by. I sort of hate it when that happens because I will be back at the old workplace before I know it and wonder what happened to my weekend.Oh well.So... great things are afoot! My friend Ron got a publisher! Yay Ron!!My new contact in the publicity world has sent me two fabulous authors for my radio show.My good friend, Wendy L has

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I feel pretty gabby today. It's Friday, my favorite day of the week. If you want to follow me, or my friends on twitter you can HERE Also, I am thinking books today. I have a ton I am reading, and a ton more TO READ. Electronically and in paper. It's crazy. My world would be a sad place without books. I am very fortunate to have them, and to be able to read.Do you know anything about literacy?

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! How do you like the holiday colors here at Writing Space? Pretty nifty, huh? Yeah, I did likewise over at my website and have been sprinkling holiday joy everywhere.How is your December shaping up? What do you have planned for 2010?Don't forget my CONTEST! it is going on now on my website... and it is in coordination with Red Rose Publishing... so

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Oops. I missed Kindness Tuesday. I guess we are having Kindness Weds this week!Sometimes we think kindness is something that we have to do. It is also something we have to accept. Sometimes accepting kindness from another is hard to do. It feels like "charity" or a "loan" of something that we really need to take because we deserve it. I know I have felt this feeling in my lifetime. When someone

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