Author Interview: Marcia Meara

February 26, 2015 / Marcia Meara / Leave a comment

Check out the fun interview I did with Caitlin Stern today!

My Writer Lady friend, Marcia Meara, is here to talk about her most recent book, A Boy Named Rabbit (make sure you read book 1 first), a story about love, family, and redemption, set in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. And she’s having a giveaway this weekend. Let’s hear it for free books!

Marcia Meara is the author of three novels:

Wake-Robin Ridge Series:

Wake-Robin Ridge; A Boy Named Rabbit

Riverbend Series:

Swamp Ghosts; Hunter (due out in early fall 2015)

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“The extraordinary little boy called Rabbit has the power to change the world for everyone he meets, and the resourcefulness to save himself from the one person his grandparents had hoped would never find him. His dangerous and bittersweet journey will touch you in unexpected ways, and once you’ve let…

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Ghostwriting, Anyone?

February 22, 2015 / Marcia Meara / 9 Comments

Hope all you wonderful folk have been having great weekends. Here in central Florida, our two-day brush with winter is over, and temps have risen. It was a really beautiful day today. As was yesterday. Weather was just perfect for my Meet the Author presentation at DeBary Hall Historic Site, and I had a great time. The audience seemed to enjoy themselves, I sold books, signed my hand into a cramp, and met a lot of nice people.

One of the people I met is looking for a ghostwriter for a project that sounds really interesting. It involves a family history, and entails a murder-for-hire plot, with a lot of rather lurid tidbits that would make a great book. She brought along old newspapers filled with headlines, and frankly, done right, it could be an opportunity worth looking into. If any of you are interested, email me offlist, and I’ll put you in touch with this lady. (My contact information is under the About link at the top of the page.)

Now I’m off to finish getting ready for my daughter & grandson to visit this week. I might be scarce for a few days, but I’ll check in during the evenings. Have a great week!

Win a Free Signed Copy of Swamp Ghosts…

February 19, 2015February 22, 2015 / Marcia Meara / 8 Comments

Big Blue

…just for being among the first twenty people to sign up for my Mail List. Yep. Sign up for my monthly mail list HERE, and you’ll not only be the first to know about promotions, contests, and news from Wake-Robin Ridge, North Carolina, and Riverbend, Florida, but you’ll win a signed copy of Swamp Ghosts, which is Book 1 of the Riverbend series. Don’t miss out. Click on the link at the top right of this page, and sign up today. (The winners might even find one or two little surprises tucked in with their copies of Swamp Ghosts.) Do it today! You KNOW you wanna! 🙂

Swamp Ghosts Excerpt

A man was walking down the floating pier, reading the name of each boat he approached. A really big man. Big enough that his weight caused the pier to bob up and down, which seemed to worry him, if his frown was anything to go by. Continue reading →

The poet speaks

February 17, 2015 / Marcia Meara / Leave a comment

A lovely interview of Callum McLaughlin. I enjoyed it, Callum, and wish you great success with Seeking Solace!

Suddenly they all died. The end.

callum With me today is Callum McLaughlin, author of The Vessel, False Awakening, and Seeking Solace. He’s graciously agreed to talk poetry with me, and I hope you’ll have as much fun reading about his work as I did. 🙂

KK: So, how long have you been writing poetry?

CM: I’ve been writing in virtually every capacity since childhood. My earliest memory specifically associated with poetry is when I won a school competition aged 10 and I’ve been interested in the art form ever since. The poems included in Seeking Solace were written throughout the last couple of years, which is when I’d say I started really taking it seriously and falling more and more in love with it.

KK: We have something in common there – I wrote my first poem at age ten for a summer homework assignment. 🙂 What got you interested in poetry?

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Robins, Goldfinches, and Earl Grey Tea

February 16, 2015February 22, 2015 / Marcia Meara / 8 Comments

What a wonderful couple of days in my yard. Robins crowding my birdbaths, grooming themselves for the rest of their long journey north, and today, goldfinches at my feeders. They’ll hang out for several weeks, unlike the robins, and by the time they head north to nest, the males will be almost completely molted into their bright yellow and black plumage. They are happy, chirpy little guys, and so much fun to watch. I had to grab a cup of Adagio’s Earl Grey Bravo, my favorite Earl Grey tea, and sit on the porch for a while, just to enjoy their antics. Which made me remember that I had planned to post about the custom tea blends (with labels) you can put together on Adagio’s website.

Jenny Melzer introduced me to this website in an earlier post here, and I’ve been totally hooked. Not only do they have some delicious teas of their own, but you can blend custom mixes yourself, which is just so much fun! I’ve created blends for five of my characters, so far, and they have been a big hit at signings and Meet the Author events. You can buy your blends in various sized packaging, but for give-aways and the like, I recommend the sample tins. I order them 20 at a time, which drops the price from $4 a tin to $2. It might be even less for larger orders. Continue reading →

Deborah Jay’s Interview with BookGoodies

February 16, 2015 / Marcia Meara / Leave a comment

So glad Deborah reminded us of her interview with BookGoodies, too. If you haven’t seen it already, check it out! Deborah Jay’s Interview with BookGoodies These are always so much fun.

Jen Rasmussen’s Interview with BookGoodies

February 16, 2015 / Marcia Meara / 4 Comments

Jen mentioned her interview in a response to my earlier post today, but I want to be sure everyone sees the link. This is a funny, informative interview you should all check out when you get a chance. Great job, Jen! Jen Rasmussen’s Interview With BookGoodies

Interview with Jen Rasmussen

February 16, 2015 / Marcia Meara / 4 Comments

Jen Rasmussen, one of our wonderful members here at The Write Stuff, has posted an interview with me this morning. Hope some of you will check it out, and perhaps consider doing one with Jen, yourself. It was great fun! My Interview with Jen Rasmussen And if you have an interview you’ve done and would like to share, please feel free to do so. (Contact me directly, if you need to.)

A Question for You Series Writers

February 9, 2015 / Marcia Meara / 14 Comments

While browsing through the links we’ve collected for sites to promote your books, I came across an article by Michael Gallagher of Free Kindle Books & Tips, explaining why he does not promote any books in a series, other than Book 1. He had some very good points, if you’d like to read them here. Further, he doesn’t recommend running them for free anywhere else, either.

Now I am rethinking my “official” launch of A Boy Named Rabbit, which is Book 2 of my Wake-Robin Ridge series.

How do you folks who have series out there handle this? Do you promote each book in the series the same way as you did the first one, freebies and all, or do you come up with alternate ideas? Or do you just start putting together Boxed sets, and promoting them that way? I’ve got a boxed set already up. Maybe my best bet is to run promos on that, and let A Boy Named Rabbit sales grow organically, via Mail Lists, special offers on my personal website, etc. Somehow, though, I can’t imagine that being nearly as successful as that first free run, but I don’t want to alienate readers, either, by the fact that Rabbit is not really as effective as a stand alone book. I do make that pretty clear in my book descriptions, but we all know how often people buy without reading those carefully.

Thoughts?