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Dear Alison, It's my birthday AND the book birthday for AND THEN HE, my new adult psychological thriller. To celebrate this momentous occasion, AND THEN HE is only $.99 for the next few days AND THEN it jumps to $1.99 AND THEN returns to its regular $2.99 price (which is still a great deal in my book...) Amazon Buy Link AND do you know what would be an even better present for my birthday, a review of AND THEN HE. Reviews sell books, AND the more reviews a book receives on Amazon the more Amazon will help promote it. (They're fickle that way.) Goodreads is also a FABULOUS place to add your review. Since I'm groveling for reviews you can even go to Kobo and Barnes and Noble . Yes, any place you add your review is a place for more people to see it. I made Goodreads really easy for you: Alison, you left me for a few weeks. You didn't text, you didn't email, and you didn't tweet--I'm proud of you for going off the grid. Sometimes w...

Dear Kim, Welcome to a new month. A new school year. And based on your last letter to me , a new start for you! Even though I have been out of the classroom for over a year, September still feels like the start of the year for me. New goals with a hint of autumn air just make sense to me. There are the writing goals. Organizational goals. And goals for the year's author events. This year I am adding a social media goal. For years, thanks to my good friend, Judy Pryzstup, I've kept a reading journal. I write down all of the books that I read with one quick line next to the title. Way back when Judy made the suggestion I was probably reading twelve titles a year. As my desire to write grew, so did the number of titles I would read each year. (I didn't include the books that I read for school or to my students, just my reading.) Now with my work at the Foundation , along with SCBWI, I want to read all of our faculty's books, and the books of fellow conferee...