To make my titles a little shorter, I have decided that it’s time to refer to my Where in the World is Misfit McCabe? campaign as WITW is MMC? Anyway, I was quite surprised to receive an email yesterday telling me that Book 2 (the Yellow line) had already arrived in Snohomish, WA. Just to give everyone a visual of … Read More
Press Release
Where in the World is Misfit McCabe? For Immediate Release: submitted to Free Press Release – an online press release organization for promoting your work. Garden Grove, CA (Press Release) November 1, 2008: Young adult author, LK Griffie has created 8 special edition copies of her juvenile fiction novel, Misfit McCabe for the purpose of traveling the world. These eight … Read More
Where in the World is Misfit McCabe? GG, CA
The answer to the “Where in the World?” question can now be answered, with Garden Grove, CA. The first copy of Misfit McCabe which will be traveling has finally arrived. I have never been a patient person, and I thought I was going to wear a path between my desk and the mail room over the past couple days as … Read More
Forum and Blog resurrected
Working through the weekend, I was able to resurrect this blog and the Griffie World Talk forum. It was not as straightforward as I would have liked, but they are now established, and I can move on to tweaking templates and creating the look that I want. That may take a little time because I’m still in the process of … Read More
Upgrade to Griffie World
Me and my bright ideas. I keep coming up with ideas that seem to entail a whole lot of work on my part. I am going to have to talk myself into some ideas that require less work on my part one of these days. Anyway, the latest, greatest idea is requiring a complete upgrade of the Griffie World website, … Read More
Forum woes resolved
I was able to figure out the problems with Guest access to the poll and at the same time resolved the issue I had with the first poll going inactive. All in all a good days work, I would say. So, the polls are now open for everyone. Go to Griffie World and view the book trailers, and then to … Read More
Finally on track . . .or not
Well, it has been a little bit of a technical curve, but I think we are finally on track. The first poll that I posted unfortunately lost the ability to accept votes. I hate when that happens, so I have reposted the poll and things are working much better now. Ok – Murphy has been hanging around waaaayy too much … Read More
Aimless Weekend
Well, I tried to buckle down today, but for some reason could not focus on any one thing. I dabbled in several things, but didn’t complete any one thing. Oh well, such is the lot of the writer’s life. Some days just don’t work out the way we’d like them to. I had my press release all figured out, but … Read More
A Labor Day Break
With today being part of a holiday weekend, I really didn’t get to accomplish much today in the way of writing, marketing, etc. I’ve mulled over some ideas, but that has been about the extent of things.
Book Trailer or bust
Today has been about the book trailer. I have been searching for what I want to use and developing the concept. I have found the pictures that I want to use and have a part of the concept developed. I am now trying out various software to assist me in putting the trailer together. I ran into a little bit … Read More
Joining Facebook
I joined my first social networking site today – FaceBook. So far, I am finding it a little frustrating, because they categorize groups and finding friends in a different manner than I would and the search functionality to me is a little cumbersome. Other than that, we will see. My reason for joining was that Flamingnet.com, the young adult review … Read More
Developing a Book Trailer for Misfit McCabe
I have been doing my homework today and looking up book trailers on YouTube as I try to develop a book trailer for Misfit McCabe. A book trailer is a very good tool for marketing and in today’s publishing environment, pretty much a requirement. I haven’t started the process for obtaining all of the pictures that I want to use, … Read More