Sue's Friend Comments

I'm surprised that less than 400 have signed up to win a free copy of One Shoe Off. Last year, more than a thousand registered for Great News Town. But there are lots of books available for giveaway, including "Kinsey and Me" by one of my favorite authors, Sue Grafton. How's that for competition?

My new book, One Shoe Off, is featured in the Next Big Thing Blog Chain. Check it out on my blog, http://laughingforaliving.blogspot.com The chain will give you links to other author blogs so you can see what they are up to as well.

Friends, the giveaway for One Shoe Off is now open. Just go to giveaways and click enter to win. I'll be sending out five copies. Why shouldn't you receive one?

Just wanted to let everyone know that the first chapter of Great News Town is now posted on the serial site. I'm taking a tip from the time-honored serialized books of Dickens and others.
http://greatnewsserial.blogspot.com

Great News Town
Great News Town will be available as an online serial starting tomorrow.
http://www.greatnewstown.blogspot.com

I've decided to release my book, Great News Town, as an online serial. I call it a Serial Killer Serial.

The first installment will be posted June 26 on a dedicated website
http://www.greatnewsserial.blogspot.com
You can go to the site now and sign up to receive your installments by email or check the site out after June 26. Enjoy!

Take a leap of faith, today, friends and download Great News Town, absolutely free at the Kindle Store. Today only, February 29. An opportunity like this only comes once every four years!

Thought my book reading friends might enjoy today's poem from Writers' Almanac

Used Book
by Julie Kane

What luck—an open bookstore up ahead
as rain lashed awnings over Royal Street,
and then to find the books were secondhand,
with one whole wall assigned to poetry;
and then, as if that wasn't luck enough,
to find, between Jarrell and Weldon Kees,
the blue-on-cream, familiar backbone of
my chapbook, out of print since '83—
its cover very slightly coffee-stained,
but aging (all in all) no worse than flesh
though all those cycles of the seasons since
its publication by a London press.
Then, out of luck, I read the name inside:
The man I thought would love me till I died.


"Used Book" by Julie Kane, from Jazz Funeral. © Story Line Press, 2009. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)