I’ve Been Smashing Words

September 20th, 2009

Drum Roll Please…

I took the leap and dove head first into Smashwords.com, which now makes book 1 in The Mark of a Druid Trilogy available in all electronic print formats. A coupon that makes an E-book download only $3.99 until October 20, 2009!

This is a very exciting time to be an author as well as a reader. You can now consume books in anyway you want. Smashwords handles the E-book formats, Amazon and other online booksellers the paper and hardback versions and Podiobooks.com the serialized podcast and very soon the audio book version. So how do you want it? We got it!

Thank you for your comments and reviews and ratings!

Snag Some Cool Schwag

September 16th, 2009

J.D. Sawyer is Turning the Tables on the Gals of Podioracket.com

Heather Roulo and Rhonda Carpenter are going to let you snag some cool schwag!

J.D. Sawyer Author of Antithesis and Down From Ten will host a special Podioracket.com Blog Talk Radio Extension where he leads the Interview, handles the questions and callers with guests Rhonda R. Carpenter and Heather E. Roulo. Have questions for the ladies about Podioracket.com, BTR, WWW, or either of their books The Mark of a Druid and Fractured Horizon then be there LIVE at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern on Thursday, September 17th. Set a reminder! That is tomorrow!

 

How do you win?

Show up and enter the chat room or call 347-996-3319 and ask a question or comment to the authors and you could just Snag the Schwag. There will be more than three winners! Book excerpts and what ever else J.D. comes up with. Here is a hint to a secret schwag award, Ding Ding Ding, But you will have to come to the show to find out what that means! See you there Blog Talk Radio Podioracket 6:00 pm PST. Don’t be late!

First Book Signing was Incredible

August 30th, 2009

Totally a Success!

 

Yesterday was my first book signing and it was so much fun. When I got home after celebrating with Sushi and a fellow author, Arlene Radasky and the cover artist Amie Perry-Reavis and My husband, I got a message from Emerain Rich and she ask if she could interview me about the book signing. So instead of writing a blog about it I thought I would share a snippet from the interview that will air in full at a later date on Horror Addicts.

It was so cool to have the staff put the sticker on my book as the Staff Pick! They also talked about doing another signing and a book club event. Very exciting to be able to be involved at a community books store. Many thanks to McCabes & Company Booksellers of Crestline, CA.

 

 

Thank you to everyone to turned out and purchased the book, came to meet me and support me. You are the reason this author will do another event like this.My self, the cover artist and the banner out side of McCabes and Co Booksellers in Crestline in Southern California.



 

Amie Perry-Reavis is a dear friend and an wonderful artist. You can see more of her work and buy product with her signature artistic style on her website www.goddessprints.com. She has a fabulous series of greeting cards, reproductions and original works for sale and many forms.

 




Arlene Radasky the author of The Fox and my partner in BTR-Authors Read came out to show her support and I was so grateful to have her there, but what was really cool was the bookstore picked up some of her books and she sold one and I got to see her sign it.

 

 




I Can’t thank everyone enough especially McCabes for supporting this local author and asking for me to come back and do it again! Must of done something right.

 
Keep writing I know I will.

Meet the Author this Saturday.

August 23rd, 2009

Book Signing August 29th 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

I am so excited to be doing my first book signing right here on the mountain.

Mc Cabe & CO Booksellers

23898 Lake Dr, Crestline, CA 92325 Get directions

Mc Cabes and Co are some of the nicest people. They truly support local authors and in this case a local artist as well, Amie Perry-Reavis. There will be a book reading and paper backs for sale. If you already have a copy bring it I will be happy to sign it. The Original art will also be there for those of you who want a closer look at the 2009 contest series grand prize.

This week I made a even bigger attempt at spreading the word in a grass roots effort to tell my local communities about the coming event. Our local paper The Alpenhorn News is going to run the announcement and they will also be reviewing the book in the next couple of weeks. There have been announcement fliers spread from Running Springs to Crestline. I also sent the press release to another local paper The Mountain News we will see if they run the story.

If you live in Southern California then you can enjoy a day in the mountains beating the heat. We are always 20 degrees cooler up here. Our community is nestled in the San Bernardino National Forest. After the book signing spend an hour at Lake Greggory about a quarter mile from the book store or take a short drive to Lake Arrowhead Village and make a day of it. Bring your hiking boots or off road vehicle and hit the trails it is free! Silverwood lake is less than 30 minutes from the book store.

So how did this happen?

Simple, I have a friend who went to the book store and said, “Do you carry The Mark of a Druid?” They said, “It is not in stock but, we can order it for you.” She then said, “She is a local author will she be having a signing here?” She kept asking when I was going to set it up. There is nothing like your friends and fans pushing for you. I was busy when we first released with my online efforts and didn’t want to invite people up when it was snowing. Hence, the end of the summer Book Signing. Escape the So Cal heat at 5000 ft while you support a local author. It is actually pretty funny how nervous I was when I went in to set it up. I took some bookmarks in to the store and asked to talk with the owner. I didn’t realize until after I walked out, with the booking in my PDA, that I couldn’t find my keys. I thought, oh great, I’m so nervous I left them inside. Then I realized I didn’t need to go back in because my car was running windows down, car unlock, in the parking lot. I must have been so nervous when I parked I didn’t even turn off my car. I remember telling myself just do it all they can say is no and I jumped out of the car.

I hope to see friends, colleagues, neighbors, mountain folks and of course all of the great people from down the hill, as we say up here above the clouds.

Email me if you want directions or suggestions of how to spend the day in paradise. Rhonda Carpenter P.S. Contest 10 is now open come on over and join in!

This Week in Blog Talk Radio

August 16th, 2009

The Last month Blog Talk Radio Podioracket has been jumping off the hook and this week is no exception. If you haven’t listened to a show then what are you waiting for. We are having a blast and you don’t have to miss a thing. Listen live or in archive. Pick the authors you want  to hear about and by all means, join in the contests. You could win some pretty cool schwag.

Monday night 6:00 Pm PST Mike Luoma:

Mike Luoma will be joining Rhonda for a Live Podioracket Blog Talk Radio Extension on Monday, August 17th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern. In addition to a great interview, you’ll also get to hear clips of his music, discuss the re-mastered version of Vatican Assassin and talk about about his other words such as Synthetic Marmalade.

Here is a tease about the new release:

“BERNARD CAMPION’S friends call him “BC”. Not that he has a lot of friends. You don’t make a lot of friends when you’re an assassin. His mission: eliminate the governor of Luna Prime, Meredith McEntyre. His bosses, The Office of Papal Operations: The OPO, tell him she’s been sympathizing with the enemy, the Universal Islamic Nation (UIN). His boss? BC works for the Pope. It’s 2109, a time of war. BC is ‘officially’ assigned as PR man to the Vatican Mission on Luna Prime, the major city on The Moon, as his cover. Just a mild mannered, young, twenty-something priest working for the New catholic Church on public relations. But he’s really a weapon pointed at the UIN by the NcC and their Earth based allies, the Universal Trade Zone, the UTZ.”

Listen to Mike ‘Raise a Racket’! Set a reminder.

And stay tuned for this week’s other BTR show with J.D. Sawyer and his new contest announcement! Thursday, August 20th at 6pm Pacific/9pm Easter. Set a reminder.

Thursday 6:00 pn PST J. Daniel Sawyer

Meet J. Daniel Sawyer one of my favorite podcaster, writers, just plan great folks and author of Sculpting God and Predestination and Other Games of Chance. Won’t you join us live to talk with us and learn about his new release Down From Ten.
J. Daniel Sawyer is a science fiction author seeking to further destabilize the universe by building a cult in his own honor.
Although not as crazy as Philip K. Dick or as bloody-minded as Robert A. Heinlein, he does share certain delusional qualities with both, including a prominent middle initial and the fantasy that the universe would be a better place if reality conformed to the strange visions protected by his fragile skull.
Lest the fragility of his skull give you any ideas, be advised that he has a killer fedora hat and isn’t afraid to use it. He also saw one too many bond movies as a child. Sawyer, J.Daniel Sawyer.

Set your reminder now!

Authors-Read

If you haven’t heard yet. Arlene Radasky are giving our books away on Blog Talk Radio Authors read. Fridays 11:00 am PST. You can hear the ongoing episodic release of first The Mark of a Druid then The Fox. We give you all the up-to-date info on contest and events as well as a short Q&A section after the episode. We invite you to join us on Authors Read.

Announcements:

Contest 10 is now live on the book site. Review it up and win. Contest 10.

Arlene Radasky has a new contest too. Check it out! 

Until next week! Keep writing I know I will!

Rhonda R Carpenter

Book Signing August 29th

August 9th, 2009

 

Book Signing August 29th 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm

I am so excited to be doing my first book signing right here on the mountain.

Mc Cabe & CO Booksellers

23898 Lake Dr, Crestline, CA 92325 Get directions

Mc Cabes and Co are some of the nicest people. They truly support local authors and in this case a local artist as well, Amie Perry-Reavis. There will be a book reading and paper backs for sale. If you already have a copy bring it I will be happy to sing it. If you live in Southern California then you can enjoy a day in the mountains beating the heat. We are always 20 degrees cooler up here. 

Our community is nestled in the San Bernardino National Forest. After the book signing spend an hour at Lake Greggory about a quarter mile from the book store or take a short drive to Lake Arrowhead Village and make a day of it. Bring your hiking boots or off road vehicle and hit the trails it is free! Silverwood lake is less than 30 minutes from the book store.

So how did this happen? Simple, I have a friend who went to the book store and said, “Do you carry The Mark of a Druid?”

They said, “It is not in stock but, we can order it for you.”

She then said, “She is a local author will she be having a signing here?”

She kept asking when I was going to set it up. There is nothing like your friends and fans pushing for you. I was busy when we first released with my online efforts and didn’t want to invite people up when it was snowing. Hence, the end of the summer Book Signing. Escape the So Cal heat at 5000 ft while you support a local author.

It is actually pretty funny how nervous I was when I went in to set it up. I took some bookmarks in to the store and asked to talk with the owner. I didn’t realize until after I walked out, with the booking in my PDA, that I couldn’t find my keys. I thought, oh great, I’m so nervous I left them inside. Then realized I didn’t need to go back in because my car was running windows down, car unlock, in the parking lot. I must have been so nervous when I parked I didn’t even turn off my car. I remember telling myself just do it all they can say is no and I jumped out of the car.

I hope to see friends, colleagues, neighbors, mountain folks and of course all of the great people from down the hill, as we say up here above the clouds.

Email me if you want directions or suggestions of how to spend the day in paradise. Rhonda Carpenter

P.S. Contest 10 is now open come on over and join in!

Chris Moody’s Discovery Sneak Preview

July 28th, 2009


Chris Moody joined me for two BTR-PR shows today and I have to say he had a first. You can listen in the player above and hear a sneak preview of Qattusverse-Discovery before it goes live on  http://www.fiction.chrismoody.net On August 1st 2009!

I hope you enjoy the show.

Conversations Live Interview!

July 23rd, 2009

If you missed the interview with Cyrus A. Webb on his Conversations Live Radio Show there is a player below. This a fast paced quick listen. Do you want to know more about me, Rhonda R. Carpenter and The Mark of a Druid? Here is what Cyrus Webb, creator of The Write Stuff Reality TV Show and Conversations Live Book Club, said after reading The Mark of a Druid.

 

Click here to here the show

Rhonda Carpenter & Brian Rathbone You Can Hear from Them Both!

July 21st, 2009

Thrusday kicks off with a live interview about The Mark of a Druid on Conversations live.

If you want to see the tables turned, tune in to Conversations Live, where  Rhonda R Carpenter will be interviewed by Cyrus Webb in a 30-minute LIVE show on Thursday, July 23rd at 5pm PST/8pm EST. Rhonda does a fantastic job on the regular Podioracket feed and the Podioracket Blog Talk Extension.  Let’s support Rhonda and help her shine as she talks about The Mark of a Druid! Bring your questions.

Brain Rathbone Goes 4 for 4!

Want to go 4 for 4? This is a awesome contest. Podioracket and Brian Rathbone join forces in this 4 Book Giveaway. It’s too easy to pass up.

Join Brian LIVE on Blog Talk Radio Podioracket Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 6:00 pm PST/9:00 pm EST. Set your reminder now: BlogTalkRadio.com/Podioracket.

There will be a reading from the author and Q&A about the fascinating World of Godsland and the exciting release of The Dawning of Power trilogy. While in chat, ask a question or, better yet, call in (347) 996-3319. That’s it! It’s so easy to help spread the word, have some fun, and join in the celebration. Do it now because the interview is the end of the contest!

While the paperback and ebook editions of The Dawning of Power trilogy are already available for sale on Amazon, this contest celebrates the Podiobooks.com release of Dragon Ore, which will complete the audio trilogy. There is still a little time and four ways to win one of four autographed copies of The Dawning of Power See the Rules at The Dawning of Power

The contest ends July 23 on Podioracket’s Blog Talk show. 
Good luck!

Seth Harwood live on BTR-PR

July 19th, 2009

Seth Harwood LIVE on BRT-PR

Jack Wakes Up

I am so excited to be interviewing Seth Harwood! If you don’t know who he is then this is your chance to talk to him one-on-one live on air. Tuesday July 21, 2009 at 6 pm PST and 9 pm EST.
Seth has graciously agreed to award a signed copy of Jack Wakes Up on our BTR-PR show. What do you need to do to win that book? Be at the show as a call in guest 347-996-3319 or in the live chat and get to ask Seth a question in order to qualify for the drawing. You could win! Set a reminder.
There will be a reading of Jack Wakes up and here is a little taste of this pod-cast giant turned Published Author by Three Rivers Press/Random House. Lets see if he can convert you into a Palm’s Mama or Daddy. Listen to his new promo!

Hugely busy week coming our way. So this week there will be several blogs about what’s happenin’ in the Vortex of my world and check it, new photos showing of the Podioracket gear coming your way later this week too. So hang with me and see if you can keep up. Can’t wait to have you join us at The Seth Harwood interview.