Waiting For Spring readers ROCK!

Behold the new “Waiting For Spring” book trailer! If you want to share it with family and friends – or post it on your blog – I would be VERY appreciative!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  Do you have boobs?

Then go schedule a mammogram.

Do it today.

Time is running out…

…to enter the Backword Books contest. You could win SEVEN signed paperback books. Here’s how ya do it:

The rules: We want to hear your thoughts about self-publishing in a blog post. What is your general opinion of it? How likely are you to do it?  Do you think it will change the face of publishing in the future? That sort of thing.  The drawbacks of self-publishing are welcome as well – if you don’t like it, you don’t like it. But include your reasoning, while keeping in mind that a scathing attack on self-publishing probably isn’t going to do it for us.  You know…just keep it polite.

The main requirements for the contest are:

1. The post links back to www.backwordbooks.com, as well as the URL for this contest. If you don’t have a blog, you can post it as a note on your facebook page. Or MySpace, if you’re on MySpace.

2.  We’d also like to hear which book you’d most like to receive from our list – perhaps where you heard about the book first and why it interests you. This will help us choose where to send books for second prize winners.

Please let us know of your entry because we want to compile them all in one place. We’ll judge entries based on…well, purely subjectively: what we think is a good, well-reasoned post.  We hope it’s a good way to get a discussion about self-publishing spreading throughout the blogosphere. Please send links to your post via the form on this page.

Deadline for the contest is September 30. That’s THIS WEDNESDAY!

Here’s me. Begging.

Another Friday, another Bookchatter!

It’s Friday…you know what that means! BookChatter tonight at 9PM EASTERN TIME ZONE. This week I’m moderating the chatboard, so PLEASE feel free to pop in and chat while you watch the show! Tonight’s guests: Holly Christine, Red Adept, Eric Mueller, Eddie Wright, Kevin Gerard, Dave Erickson, and Moriah Jovan.

Win seven – yes, SEVEN – paperback books!

 Backword Books is running a contest!!

Grand Prize: A package of seven books by Backword authors: Homefront by Kristen Tsetsi, Spam & Eggs by Andrew Kent, The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks, Threshold by Bonnie Kozek, Broken Bulbs by Eddie Wright, Waiting for Spring by RJ Keller, and North of Sunset by Henry Baum.

Second Prize: 1 of each goes to 7 different entrants.

The rules: We want to hear your thoughts about self-publishing – a blog post about the merits of self-publishing and how it might change the face of publishing in the future.   What will self-publishing look 25 years from now, 50 years from now?  How has self-publishing made strides in recent years?  That sort of thing.  The drawbacks of self-publishing are welcome as well, but a scathing attack on self-publishing probably isn’t going to do it for us.  Basically, we want to know: What’s your opinion about self-publishing?

The main requirements for the contest are:

1. The post links back to www.backwordbooks.com, as well as the URL for this contest.

2.  We’d also like to hear which book you’d most like to receive from our list – perhaps where you heard about the book first and why it interests you. This will help us choose where to send books for second prize winners.

Please let us know of your entry because we want to compile them all in one place.  We’ll judge entries based on…well, purely subjectively: what we think is a good, well-reasoned post.  We hope it’s a good way to get a discussion about self-publishing spreading throughout the blogosphere.

Deadline for the contest is September 30.  Click here for more details.

Thanks, good luck and have fun!

Operation eBook Drop

A group of self-published/indie authors have banded together to make their books available for free in ebook format to deployed soldiers. Detailed information is available at Mark Coker’s Smashwords blog.

If you know a soldier who has an ebook reader, or who is able to read novels on their computer (for example, I have a Mobi Reader on my PC, and I read novels in PDF directly from my computer) and might be interested in this program, please, please, PLEASE click on the above link. Or you can contact me directly either here in the comments section or via email at rjkeller.wfs@gmail.com and I will get you in touch with author Ed Patterson, who is heading up the program.

As of Sunday 800 ebooks have been ‘dropped.’ I am so excited and so proud to be a small part of this program.

Participating authors (if you know of one who is not listed, please let me know and I will gladly add him or her to the list):

Maria E Schneider
Kristen Tsetsi
L.K. Campbell
Elmore Haimes
E.J. Ruek
Leslie Nicholl
Jim Chambers
Kelly Abbell
Chuck Austen (Illustrator)
Willam Woodell
Lloyd Lofthouse
L C. Evans
R. J. Keller
Laura Eno
Moriah Jovan
Andrew Kent
Marva Dasef
Al Past
E. Patrick Dorris
Trish Lamoree
Stanley Morriss
K. Raven Rozier
Sharon Cathcart
Alan Baxter (Australia)
Susan Helene Gottfried
Brandan Carroll
Lisa Pietsch
Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy
Eugene Docema
S.A. Rule (UK)
Holly Christine
Joe Cottonwood
Sarah Barnard (UK)
Jacamo Petersen
Mike Monahan
Randy Lalonde (Canada)
Joan Szechtman
Wally Rabini
Belinda D’Allessandro (Australia)
Olin Thompson
Jeff Hepple
Tim Chambers
&
Edward C. Patterson

Bookchatter from Friday

In case you missed it, here’s Friday’s BookChatter.
A fun, and informative, time was had by all!

BookChatter reminder

I said it yesterday, but I’m gonna say it again today:

Several Backword Books members (including yours truly) will be guests on Stacey Cochran’s BookChatter http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bookchatter THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 at 9 PM, EDT. That’s right…well before bedtime!

Join us! Call in! (914) 803-4571

When I say “Join in” I really do mean it. Whether you’re a writer or a reader, this show is for you! If you can’t afford to call, or if you’re just plain shy about having your voice heard ’round the net, you can take advantage of the chat feature at Ustream and ask a question/make a comment that way. You can ask about one of the author’s books (there’s nothing a writer loves more than talking about his or her book), about publishing, self-publishing, or whatever comes to mind at the time.

The more people who participate, the more interesting and fun the show will be. So PLEASE participate!

Backword Chatter

Several Backword Books members (including yours truly) will be guests on Stacey Cochran’s BookChatter http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bookchatter THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 at 9 PM, EDT. That’s right…well before bedtime!

Join us! Call in! (914) 803-4571

In the meantime, check out our wicked cool new video. Yes, I said “wicked.” And so should you.