Creepy cool cover. Love it and the title. Best wishes for your success!!

Welcome, Marta! This is a much more active site than Book Place. You'll need time. Enjoy.

Lesa!! I didn't know about Crime Space until I read your blog on Book Place. Lucky me! This is what I've been looking for. Thanks so much.
Marta

Thanks for the invite to visit your website and view your book trailer. Excellent! You've got a lot to be proud of. Best wishes to you.

Kalamazoo is only 36 miles from the Indiana line.

My dad went to Manchester College in Manchester, IN. You anywhere near there?

Muncie. Probably another hour or so south! :) See, almost neighbors.

Glad you found your way here, Marta. For those of us who like crime novels or nonfiction, this is the place to be.

You're welcome, Marta. Enjoy that first signing! Here's to hoping you're better with names than I am!!!

Oh, and Thanks for the invite!

(me too) - glad to find some people to chat with and this looks like an interesting group.
Best,
Jackie

Thank you for your kind words. If you think I can provide any information or guidance, do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes.

Thanks for introducing yourself, especially since you like Duffer too :-)

Hi Marta, nice to cyber meet you. Any indication if your book will be released in the U.K. - which normally means we'll get it down here.

Absolutely!! My publisher is British. It's there now. Look on my website under, what else, "Buy it NOW" There are several locations listed including the book depository in London. It's also available through all the Amazons including the UK. So by all means, Buy! Buy! Buy! :)

Hello, Martha. To fix your background colour, you'll have to edit the HTML (the top right button on the blog editor), where you'll need to get rid of the reference to 'background-white'. My guess is that you copy&pasted the text from Word, so another way to avoid this is to first copy&paste into Notepad (which clears the formatting), then copy&paste into your blog. Phew. Does that help? :)

Thanks Marta. I'm glad to see you here. A lot of nice people and great writers on on this site.

Hi Marta - thanks for the invite! Congratulations on the publication of your first book.

Hey Marta,
Thanks so much re THE FOLLOWER......and if Donna's here, this must be a cool place to hang out :)
Cheers, Jason

Good luck with Silenced Cry and thanks for the invite. Since you did so well at your first Barnes and Noble event, here's a question for you: what's your favorite opening line to cold walk-ins? I enjoy meeting readers too (and I have a B & N event this weekend and one next week too) but I never quite know about a good opening hook. Sometimes I've said, "do you enjoy mysteries and thrillers?" If they say yes, I can usually reel them in. If they say no, I say, "care to start?"

"Hi" Always works for me LOL.

Seriously, I took the same approach you have. "Do you like mysteries?" My table was right in front of the door so the first thing I did was make eye contact and smile. I don't know, maybe it made them feel guilty if they didn't stop to talk, the point is, several did. They seemed to be drawn by the cover. Keep in mind that my signing was at a college B&N during student orientation so I asked thing like where are your from? What's Johnny or Mary going to study? How do you like the campus? The minute I started showing an interest in them, they picked up a book and started to thumb through it. Probably that guilt thing again. LOL The neat thing for me was when customers asked questions either about the book (my favorite subject) or about me (how long have you been writing, etc.,). Others stood around and listened in. Several picked up the book as a result of what they heard in our discussion. The best example of this was one of the sales clerks, a student who had been very helpful from the minute I walked through the door. We chatted a while before hand about the book but then people started coming in and we both got busy. When it was nearly time for me to go, he came and stood by my table again and waited for me to finish talking with a couple of women. I thought he needed to tell me something bookstore related. Instead, he pick up a book and said, "You know, I like to read but I’ve never read a mystery. I think I'm going to buy one of these though. Who knows I might like the genre." Ah! I love an open mind! :)

Mark (love the last name, by the way) I think the important thing is to be yourself. If you believe in your book, you'll be a natural salesman! Best of luck and let me know how it goes!

Ah, yes...the "D" and "E". Major hurdles for me as well, lol! Nowadays, they provide great fodder for me in my stories, lol.

LOL There's a story happening every minute!

Actually, my stories are set in Durham, North Carolina, the self-proclaimed "Diet Captital of the World."

Hi Marta - Thanks for the welcome, it's really appreciated. Hope Silenced Cry is a huge success for you, and ditto the series. Once I get orientated here on Crime Space, I'll be back ... Cheers, Dec

Thanks...though i always say i would, deep down i know i couldn't ever put flame to that paper...we all know any manuscript good or bad is like a child we've birthed. I am, however, transplanting its organs into a brand new story! Wish me luck!

Marta: Read your info on the Virtual Tour concept and I really like the idea. Maybe we should talk the owner of this site to set up a weekly podcast conducting interviews of members who wish to sign up. Then, I'm presuming--and with permission--the podcast could be offered to other groups/sites as part of a virtual tour. Just a thought.

Martha,
Great website.
Joe

Hey Marta,
Thanks for your comment. You have a cool website, and I love the cover of your book. If you send a jpeg of the cover, along with your ad info, I'll post it on the "Announcements" page of Mouth Full of Bullets.
All the best to you and yours. :-)
bjb

When you get a chance, check out my Crimespace Blog re the info and pics from my recent book signing event.

Smiles,
Douglas Quinn
www.douglasquinn.com

Seems we are both in midst a crime trilogy. You are bang on when you write that it's all about entertaining the reader. There is no higher cause. If a reader obtains anything else from a novel then it is a bonus.
Have a great 2008!

Douglas Quinn
Author, Editor, Book Reviewer
rivercitypress@hotmail.com
www.douglasquinn.com

12 January 2008

Dear Family/Fans/Friends/Readers

Please join me in the first week of my Virtual Book Tour. Beginning tomorrow, Sunday, January 13th, writer Brenda Kay Wynn will publish an interview with Douglas Quinn on her webblog site at (click on the following or cut and paste into your browser) www.chronclesofelydir.spaces.live.com.

You are invited to go to Brenda’s site, read the interview and comment and/or ask questions. I am looking forward to responding to your comments and queries.

The interview will be posted throughout the four week tour. Weeks two, three and four will have different articles hosted by and posted at other webblog sites. Would love to interact with you along the way.

In addition, each time during the four week tour you leave a comment and/or ask a question your name will be placed into a drawing for a Free Signed Copy of Blue Heron Marsh.. Hope to see you all there.

Smiles,
Douglas Quinn

P.S. Please feel free to forward this invitation to your own email address list. The more people who participate, the happier I will be.

Marta, your video is awesome. Even though I've already read the book ,Silenced Cry, the video gave me chills. Congratulations!

Hey Susan!! Thanks so much! :)

Marta, Luck has taken off in a hurry. I'm tickled so far although it has only been a couple of weeks. We'll see how it does over the long haul. Best to you!

Thanks for the invite, Marta. Great video. I would never have thought of doing a video for a book site, but it looks like a good idea now. I'll look out for the book. Is it for sale in England, and if so, how is it doing?