Moving Right Along!

On today's stop of my book blog tour, I'm hanging out over at Nicola Burggraf's blog. Check out her post on Between Two Fires! She's given me plenty of encouraging advice along the way, which I super appreciate.

I'm also knee-deep into my summer rereading program. Actually , it's nothing official, I just like to make sure to reread some of my favorite books ever summer so that I can enjoy them again and again, and plumb the depths of their awesomeness! Right now I'm midway through my favorite series by Lawrence Durrell, the Alexandrian Quartet. Hope your summer reading is going well!

Two Weeks and Counting...

With my debut novel's release less than two weeks away now, I'm ramping up my book blog tour with another stop. Today I'm at Shannon Lawrence's superb The Warrior Muse blog! See the cool blurb here!

On a similar note, I'm getting more folks who have read my book to leave reviews on Goodreads. The more the merrier, even if it's a low star review, I'm just happy to get folks reading my book. Fortunately, there have been plenty of 5 star reviews from people who have gotten early copies of Between Two Fires. Here's to the momentum keeping up:)

Tour De Mark

Day three of my book blog tour marches on with an appearance at Stina Lindenblatt's blog today! Check out her awesome Romance blog and her shout out for my book. Only a short two weeks until my debut novel hits bookshelves worldwide!

On another thrilling note, I hit my 100 person goal for my Thunderclap campaign! A big thanks to all my pals who helped out! And there's always room for a few more to sign up, because even though we've met our goal, Thunderclap will still allow people to join the movement. Looking forward to when it comes out on August 23rd!

The Tour Continues!

Hey everyone! My book blog tour for Between Two Fires continues today with a stop over at Carrie Butler's awesome blog. Check it out:)

With my book release only a few weeks out, I've noticed a substantial uptick in web traffic to my site and blog. I'm getting close to 2,000 hits a day, with more than 40,000 unique views a month, and it's still rising. I guess somebody likes what they're reading:) 

Blog Tour Kickoff!

Today marks the start of my month-long blog tour! And helping me kickoff the beginning of this online tour today is Elizabeth Seckman! I'll be hanging out at her blog today, so please give it a browse:)

Between Two Fires officially comes out in only a few short weeks! My publisher is also gearing up for some nice giveaways and goodies for later this month as well, so I'll keep you posted. Thanks everyone!

Thunderclap Update & Shout Out!

The outpouring of support for my Thunderclap campaign so far has been awesome to say the least! Thanks to everyone who has signed up so far! We're already over 75% of the way toward reaching our goal!

But I still need your help to make it the rest of the way before this month's deadline of August 23rd. If you haven't signed up yet or you'd like to share the link with friends, please join my Thunderclap campaign here.

Today, I'd also like to give a shout out to C. Lee McKenzie for mentioning me and Between Two Fires on her blog today! She'll have a full post on my book in a couple weeks as well. Thanks for getting the word out, Lee:)

Thunderclap Campaign:
http://thndr.me/qZGhjG

Guest Post from C. Lee McKenzie - Sign of the Dragon

Take it away, Lee...

I love to write for young readers, and I write both young adult and middle grade fiction. I fall into the hybrid author category with four traditionally published young adult novels: Sliding on the Edge, The Princess of Las Pulgas, Double Negative, and Sudden Secrets, ­­and three self­-published middle grade adventure/fantasies. Sign of the Green Dragon is my third Indie out August 3. Alligators Overhead and the sequel, The Great Time Lock Disaster were my first two. It’s fun to know both sides of this writing business. Italia Gandolfo represents me, and I’m about to send her my latest young adult story. Fingers crossed.

I’m very fortunate to have some great five star reviews from readers and reviewers. And I’m really pleased that I’m learning this business. Promotion has been my biggest challenge. I’ve had to learn how to schedule, so I can still write and do the promo I need to do for my other books. It’s a full­time job. When I’m not writing I’m practicing yoga, doing sun salutations in my garden (AKA weeding) or scratching my head over how all of this writing stuff started. I'm still not sure, but the ride has been exhilarating and so much different than I'd expected.

Thanks so much for hosting me today, Mark. I really appreciate your help. I couldn’t do this without the support of writers like you.

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