Wow, busy weekend and Monday is picking up steam in an unfriendly way.
No time to chat but there are a couple of things on my radar that I want to note for my own reference later.
1. http://www.bookvideos.tv/
Yet another book trailer video site or something worth paying attention to? Not sure, haven’t checked it out. Have you? Let me know if it’s worthwhile.
2. www.theglobeandmail.com
Lorna Goodison wins B.C. non-fiction award for her memoir From Harvey River: A Memory of My Mother and Her People. Congratulations. I’ll have to read more about this book and watch for it in stores. Has anyone read it or heard anything about this title?
3. Blogging for Dummies book
Yay, congratulations to Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley. Their book Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition, has hit the stores. If you are interested in blogging and haven’t started yet, or if you have a blog and want to make it better, this is the book for you. I read Susie’s Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies and it was a great resources. This book is the same. Great tips, top 10 lists, blogging ideas, blogging resources, blogging tips–whatever you need it’s here.
4. Northern Voice
Feb 23 at UBC is this year’s personal blogging conference, Northern Voice. I am moderating a panel on writers who blog. I have an awesome panel: Robert J Wiersema, Crawford Kilian, Pete McCormack, Meg Tilly and kc dyer. I’ll tell you more about them later because they are a rockstar group of writers (and not just novel writers, we have film stars, film writers and directors, nonfiction writers, fiction writers, YA writers). Really they totally rock. It’s going to be an amazing discussion about how they use their blogs, what interests them in this form of writing and how they use their blogs to connect with their fans.
Happy Monday.