Great news! The end of February my book, Observations at the Bird Feeder was published by Year of the Book Press on Amazon.com and IngramSpark.com. As March began, I started a whirlwind of research on ways to market my book. I have joined a lot of writing groups on Facebook, posted reels, stories, pictures and more on my three Facebook pages, Instagram and Threads. I have updated this website’s bookstore, created author pages on Goodreads, Book Bub, Amazon and IngramSpark. It has taken me hours to figure out how to do many things I’m sure younger and knowledgeable writers can figure out faster. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. I am navigating the perils of print on demand with shops and local businesses, hoping a few brave souls will sign up to sell my books in their stores. I have been blessed with loyal family and a cadre of friends willing to support me by buying the book as well. I’m finding one must be thick skinned and believe in your work enough to speak up and promote it to strangers. It isn’t always easy. Does anyone have any ideas on how to push past, or deal with the no’s one gets along the way?
This week I was invited to be a guest on friend and fellow writer Alana Loren’s blog. You can check it out here. https://alana-lorens.com/2025/03/24/touching-the-hand-of-god-through-watching-birds/
What an honor to be invited to share my backstory. Please visit her site. She interviews many writers of different genres. I hope to include these in my blog in the future. But for now… marketing. You would be surprised how much writing is involved in marketing. Wirting bios, promotional blurbs, queries, sell sheets and more. I am hoping to be able to talk to church groups as well as people at the events I have scheduled this summer. It will keep me busy, that’s for sure. Here is my schedule of events, incase you’d like to catch me at one of them.
In Mid-May I am hoping to participate in a BookCrawl in Pittsburgh. Details still need to be worked out. May 16-18 I will be promoting my books and giving a presentation on Word Choices, at the Pennwriter’s Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
June 17-22 I will be at the St. Davids Christian Writers’ Conference in Meadville PA to speak about Writing my Story and God’s Glory (about my writing journey) as well as reading from my Devotional book Observations at the Bird Feeder at the Literary Coffee House. I’ll also have books on hand for interested people.
August 16th I will take my books to a Heritage Festival in Westerville, Ohio. . The weekend after that I will be doing a talk about my writing and having a book signing at the Carpenter Log house in Plum Borough, PA.
The first weekend in October I will be presenting two talks at the Pennwriter’s Area 1 RoadTrip in Erie, PA. My books will be available there as well.
I hope I will see you at one of the events. Feel free to check out my book, there is a link in my bookstore. The Amazon link is: https://a.co/d/0uVwo08
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I’m proud of you, Dr. Fabulous Author Jan!!! Rejoice in each step forward! Fred can with you! Cindy
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Thanks Cindy. By the way, Fred has to have left hip replacement surgery June 2. So, if you can, prayers are appreciated for a quick and healthy healing for him. I’m scheduled to go to a Christian Writers conference 2 weeks later, so I hope all goes well and I can go. I have books to sell and I have to give a small talk on my writing journey as well as coordinate a Writers Night where the new authors for the year present a small reading of their books. Oh boy! Lots going on.
If you’re ever coming back this way let me know. We have a room for you to stay in. Lots of love and hugs.
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Oh, boy. Fred has to take a break from tennis for a while. Yes, I will pray for him regarding his upcoming hip surgery. I know several people who have recovered very well from that. They also did intense therapy after it to strengthen. It’s amazing that your book promotion involves numerous events! You had a clue about that with your sister’s books. Charge on joyfully, Jan!
Thank you for your extreme hospitality in offering me lodging at your home if I visit PA! I’ll keep that in mind. I will visit PA from June 3 to 10 in Christiana for my grandson Aidan’s high school graduation! He is the oldest of four sons of Doug and Karen Smith, my daughter. WHEW…I miss my honey Dave, who would be so proud of Aidan.
Rejoice in God’s favor over your lives, Fred and Jan! Love, Cindy
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Wow! You sound like a good marketing person. Your book looks lovely. I read samples of it on Amazon. I like the format. I bought a copy. I’m going to enjoy it. I love birds and your thoughts about the birds. By the way, I too, get very excited when a nuthatch visits my feeder.
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Thanks for your lovely comments. Please, if you like the book, feel free to write a review for me on Amazon or Goodreads or Book bub.
Oh, and talking about nuthatches, my cousin who lives about 3 miles from me is reading my book and told me she was surprised that I have white-breasted nuthatches because hers are brown nuthatches. I never have them at my feeders, so it’s kind of eye-opening to hear hers are so different when she lives only a small distance from my house.
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