I heard the beating of fingers on the tell tale keys, he's blogging again as easy as he pleases. I crept up close to have just a peek, when he turns to me and begins to speak.
"Watch where you're stepping the boards are quite loose and please tuck your head, so it does not accidentially slip into the noose. I tried to warn the last customer too. But he would listen or take any off my clues. So he crept up and looked over my shoulder. His move was quite rash and couldn't have been bolder. But I stood my ground, for these words I write in jest; for I am such private man I had cleaved open his chest. I buried him there, right under the floor and now I hear hearts beating and the damn bird keeps saying never more! Never more! Think it sounds like old Edgar?
Well it may not be as good as old Edgar wrote, but it's an example of the freedom you have as a writer. You can explore the depths of your soul or just play around the edges. Writing opens up the imagination to a whole host of possibilities and only you limit where it can take you! So I'll say it again, Go write something, it doesn't matter what, even if it's grocery list, but write it with passion and enthusiasm. Chris Keys- "Write what you know, write it with passion-set the world on fire with your dreams!ChrisKeys2010@
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Using your blog to market your book 101 by Chris Keys
USING YOUR BLOG TO MARKET YOUR BOOK 101 by Chris Keys
The author of “Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!” Due out summer of 2010
It’s been a reoccurring theme lately on several sites I belong to; ” Can I use blogging to advertise or market my book?” The answer is easy, it’s yes. In fact, if you don’t, you may as well not bother blogging unless you just want to blog. That’s ok! But if you’ve got a book coming out or already out, you had better be blogging.
The first step in blogging is setting up a blog site. This can be done quite easily. You can go and sign up with Google, Yahoo, Fan Box, Hub Pages and/or dozens of other blog sites. Most are free, some might pay you something, usually not enough to do anything for you except complicate your taxes, but only if you can generate paying fans and some even get you some exposure with the public.
I, myself, am on three blog sites and I have had a total of three visitors, one on each site. MMMM! I know there are things I can do to increase the number of hits I receive, like advertise, and many of the sites will help me, for a fee, but I haven’t the time or the money at this point to it. So, I have thirty two alternative blog sites I use, their called social networking sites.
Yep, almost every social network gives you an opportunity to post comments, stories, poems, or join discussions. Many even have separate blog sections. So I have thirty two of them. I can mention, “Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!” thirty two times. Now I know, you’re wondering how can I handle writing thirty two blogs? Well, the truth is, I don’t. I write one blog and then share it between the sites. Occasionally, I get industrious and I’ll write two but then I just share them on different days.
Either way you chose to go, you need to remember its all about exposure. You want as many people as possible, to have a chance to see your writing. After all, this is your showcase for your writing style and your chance to pitch your book(s) to your readers.
Listen to me, I’m writing like I’m such an old pro at this and I am. I’ve been a blogger for almost three whole months, but I’ve been sales for twenty some years and your blog is a short sales presentation. It used to be called social networking for business. Sales trainers made small fortunes teaching sales people and accounts, how to talk to people and make a positive impressions in short quick conversations. They were quick to point out that you needed to work your product into the conversation without making the other person feel, they’ve been trapped in an infomercial. There is a good chance that if you do it wrong, you’ll never get that person as your customer (book buyer). If you do it right, well the odds go up dramatically but you still have to overcome price in the end. I like to sell value and not price. It’s easier, as long as the product your selling has some value. But I digress. I’m here to help you promote your book. Like I promote my book, Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!
So you now know it’s a very good idea to use a blog to promote your book. Ok how? I’ve put together a few ideas I stole from other blogs, sales trainers, social climbers, politicians-only the good ones though-there’s an oxymoron for you. How about reformed politicians? Well maybe another day, we’re talking about blogging and selling your book.
You want to write your blogs as well as you can and you want the subject to be of interest to people. There are six quasi-official categories of blogging and I’ll throw in my own category at the end, just to mess with you.
These are in no particular order and they don’t get ranked one better than the other, except my choice is far superior to the others and you’ll see why in the end. So, ok you can blog about other authors and their books. This would be “The Review Category”. If you chose to use this category you review things. You could actually interview other authors for the blogs. It is certain to keep the blog fresh and interesting because every one wouldn’t be about your pet or your extended ear hair that needed electrolysis. Next, you have “The Commentary Category”, where you could blog about the latest happenings around the world or in your own back yard. Then there is “The How to Category”. This is where you tell everyone, what you know and how you do it and then how your way is the best way to do it. Then you have “The Guest Blogger Category”. You can invite other authors to post a blog so you can take the afternoon off. It’s a great way to keep your blog fresh and keep the public interested, while you get a break from having to figure what to write about next. I don’t recommend you do two much of the Guest Bloggers cause after a short period of time; your followers know the name of every other book, like “Reprisal! The Eagle Rise!” by Chris Keys, and not yours. Next, you can write “The Short Story Category” blog to fill blog space. Now be careful because you don’t want to give your best stuff away. So make sure it’s good but hold back a little for the paying customers. Be sure to ask your followers to respond to your stories. It creates an interaction that will make you memorable and thus giving you a better chance to sell your book to them. The last of the quasi-official blogs is “The Series Category”. I recommend that you keep the series to two or three Blogs. Too many and the followers may give up on ever getting to the point.
I also don’t recommend that you jump right in and declare to the world that you’ll be writing blogs daily and twice on Sundays. It can be difficult to find something to write about, so let yourself get used to writing blogs before committing to writing them on a deadline or a schedule. So there you have it, the six quasi-official, semi-definitive blog categories. Developed from minutes of painstaking attention to the broad generalizations and completely missing the details.
Oh yeah, I did threaten to share or rather I promised to share,(writing is all in the words people keep telling me), my sixth absolutely incredible blog category. It is “The Musings Category”. Musings are simple attention getting, short conversations, where you are free to range over several subjects or just one. Where you can interject your opinion or allow some other hack would be, authors, you so magnanimously agree to let hang on your coat tails, to promote his sad little book like, Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! Thus making the few followers aware of your book and your blog see how kind and generous you are, so they properly choose where their time and money should be spent. On your book! Musing incorporates all six of the quai’s and allows you leeway in the structure and content and context. So I like, Musing for my blog style.
Just remember don’t over due the plugging of your book. Some blogs you won’t mention it all and others, maybe once or twice, but it has to be context and not some random blurb about your book. Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! Debuting summer 2010! By Chris Keys! See how that sticks out like a sore thumb, and it so tacky, most readers wouldn’t give you as second chance, if you did that too much.
Well, I hope this was almost clear and sort of easy to understand, leaving you as confused as the writer is. I’ll try to help provide clarity on any subject I have to master, as I become a writer or rather an author. (Remember, it’s all in what words you say and how you say them)
Chris Keys-“Write what you know, write it with passion-set the world on fire with your dreams!”ChrisKeys2010@ Don’t forget Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! Debuts this summer!
Too much? You think?
The author of “Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!” Due out summer of 2010
It’s been a reoccurring theme lately on several sites I belong to; ” Can I use blogging to advertise or market my book?” The answer is easy, it’s yes. In fact, if you don’t, you may as well not bother blogging unless you just want to blog. That’s ok! But if you’ve got a book coming out or already out, you had better be blogging.
The first step in blogging is setting up a blog site. This can be done quite easily. You can go and sign up with Google, Yahoo, Fan Box, Hub Pages and/or dozens of other blog sites. Most are free, some might pay you something, usually not enough to do anything for you except complicate your taxes, but only if you can generate paying fans and some even get you some exposure with the public.
I, myself, am on three blog sites and I have had a total of three visitors, one on each site. MMMM! I know there are things I can do to increase the number of hits I receive, like advertise, and many of the sites will help me, for a fee, but I haven’t the time or the money at this point to it. So, I have thirty two alternative blog sites I use, their called social networking sites.
Yep, almost every social network gives you an opportunity to post comments, stories, poems, or join discussions. Many even have separate blog sections. So I have thirty two of them. I can mention, “Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!” thirty two times. Now I know, you’re wondering how can I handle writing thirty two blogs? Well, the truth is, I don’t. I write one blog and then share it between the sites. Occasionally, I get industrious and I’ll write two but then I just share them on different days.
Either way you chose to go, you need to remember its all about exposure. You want as many people as possible, to have a chance to see your writing. After all, this is your showcase for your writing style and your chance to pitch your book(s) to your readers.
Listen to me, I’m writing like I’m such an old pro at this and I am. I’ve been a blogger for almost three whole months, but I’ve been sales for twenty some years and your blog is a short sales presentation. It used to be called social networking for business. Sales trainers made small fortunes teaching sales people and accounts, how to talk to people and make a positive impressions in short quick conversations. They were quick to point out that you needed to work your product into the conversation without making the other person feel, they’ve been trapped in an infomercial. There is a good chance that if you do it wrong, you’ll never get that person as your customer (book buyer). If you do it right, well the odds go up dramatically but you still have to overcome price in the end. I like to sell value and not price. It’s easier, as long as the product your selling has some value. But I digress. I’m here to help you promote your book. Like I promote my book, Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!
So you now know it’s a very good idea to use a blog to promote your book. Ok how? I’ve put together a few ideas I stole from other blogs, sales trainers, social climbers, politicians-only the good ones though-there’s an oxymoron for you. How about reformed politicians? Well maybe another day, we’re talking about blogging and selling your book.
You want to write your blogs as well as you can and you want the subject to be of interest to people. There are six quasi-official categories of blogging and I’ll throw in my own category at the end, just to mess with you.
These are in no particular order and they don’t get ranked one better than the other, except my choice is far superior to the others and you’ll see why in the end. So, ok you can blog about other authors and their books. This would be “The Review Category”. If you chose to use this category you review things. You could actually interview other authors for the blogs. It is certain to keep the blog fresh and interesting because every one wouldn’t be about your pet or your extended ear hair that needed electrolysis. Next, you have “The Commentary Category”, where you could blog about the latest happenings around the world or in your own back yard. Then there is “The How to Category”. This is where you tell everyone, what you know and how you do it and then how your way is the best way to do it. Then you have “The Guest Blogger Category”. You can invite other authors to post a blog so you can take the afternoon off. It’s a great way to keep your blog fresh and keep the public interested, while you get a break from having to figure what to write about next. I don’t recommend you do two much of the Guest Bloggers cause after a short period of time; your followers know the name of every other book, like “Reprisal! The Eagle Rise!” by Chris Keys, and not yours. Next, you can write “The Short Story Category” blog to fill blog space. Now be careful because you don’t want to give your best stuff away. So make sure it’s good but hold back a little for the paying customers. Be sure to ask your followers to respond to your stories. It creates an interaction that will make you memorable and thus giving you a better chance to sell your book to them. The last of the quasi-official blogs is “The Series Category”. I recommend that you keep the series to two or three Blogs. Too many and the followers may give up on ever getting to the point.
I also don’t recommend that you jump right in and declare to the world that you’ll be writing blogs daily and twice on Sundays. It can be difficult to find something to write about, so let yourself get used to writing blogs before committing to writing them on a deadline or a schedule. So there you have it, the six quasi-official, semi-definitive blog categories. Developed from minutes of painstaking attention to the broad generalizations and completely missing the details.
Oh yeah, I did threaten to share or rather I promised to share,(writing is all in the words people keep telling me), my sixth absolutely incredible blog category. It is “The Musings Category”. Musings are simple attention getting, short conversations, where you are free to range over several subjects or just one. Where you can interject your opinion or allow some other hack would be, authors, you so magnanimously agree to let hang on your coat tails, to promote his sad little book like, Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! Thus making the few followers aware of your book and your blog see how kind and generous you are, so they properly choose where their time and money should be spent. On your book! Musing incorporates all six of the quai’s and allows you leeway in the structure and content and context. So I like, Musing for my blog style.
Just remember don’t over due the plugging of your book. Some blogs you won’t mention it all and others, maybe once or twice, but it has to be context and not some random blurb about your book. Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! Debuting summer 2010! By Chris Keys! See how that sticks out like a sore thumb, and it so tacky, most readers wouldn’t give you as second chance, if you did that too much.
Well, I hope this was almost clear and sort of easy to understand, leaving you as confused as the writer is. I’ll try to help provide clarity on any subject I have to master, as I become a writer or rather an author. (Remember, it’s all in what words you say and how you say them)
Chris Keys-“Write what you know, write it with passion-set the world on fire with your dreams!”ChrisKeys2010@ Don’t forget Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! Debuts this summer!
Too much? You think?
Edit Lament!
Edit Lament
I have no job
I have no life
I live for my book
I may lose my wife
I stay up all night thinking of words
I struggle all day
Sleeping with the crowing birds
I write and rewrite
Each time
I’m filled with delight
Each time
I’m filled with dread
I’m beginning to believe
I’ll finish a day after I’m dead.
Chris Keys2010
I have no job
I have no life
I live for my book
I may lose my wife
I stay up all night thinking of words
I struggle all day
Sleeping with the crowing birds
I write and rewrite
Each time
I’m filled with delight
Each time
I’m filled with dread
I’m beginning to believe
I’ll finish a day after I’m dead.
Chris Keys2010
The lawn mower story! by Chris Keys
THE LAWN MOWER! By Chris Keys-a true story
It was June 13th, 1973 at approximately 1:35 in the afternoon, when I became intimate with an industrial lawn mower. My life crashed to halt and my dreams were left smoldering in a burnt ash heap.
At the time of the accident, I was working for a city run country club in southeast Michigan, called Camp Dearborn, run by the City of Dearborn. It was a summer job between high school and college, the money from which I was going to save for college in the fall. It would have worked too, except for one minor mishap.
I was, a would be, college football player, with a very good chance of receiving a full ride scholarship, starting with the second semester of school. That is, if I could raise my grades to all B’s and I continued to perform on the field, at the level I had performed in spring camp. After having been told I could get a full ride scholarship, I was convinced I’d get to play on Sunday afternoons, setting my whole heart and mind on doing just that.
On that June day, shortly after my mowing partner and I had finished lunch, we began mowing the formal camping section of the country club, where there was a row of large boulders. These boulders were placed between the road and ball fields. They were set just far enough a part, so you couldn’t drive your car between them, which I guess had become a problem, judging by the tire ruts in the baseball diamond, just beyond the boulders.
Anyway, my partner and I had the job of cutting the grass around these boulders, which was no big deal. We had already done the job twice, since being hired on for the summer, two weeks before. We started out just fine. We each picked a side to walk down, just as we did before. After each boulder, we’d crisscross between them, repeating the process all the way down the line of fifteen boulders. It was the most efficient way to cut around the large boulders and it should have been easy. But neither of us had factored in an unforeseen distraction that we encountered, just as we reached the end of the boulder row.
As we started to mow around the last two boulders, the distraction occurred. Two young women in bikinis stepped over the crest of the hill straight in front of us, just thirty yards away. The hill was a landscape design feature that separated the camping area from the general recreation area and the beaches. They were obviously returning from the beach and they looked great!
The girls were wearing bikinis in the barest sense of the word. They were small, very small. Now of course, here we are, my partner and I, too healthy eighteen year old, young men, watching this spectacle of womanly flesh saunter over the crest of the hill. We both looked up to watch, our eyes never leaving them, even when they split up to walk around us and our noisy mowers.
I watched the one who went to right of us and my partner watched the one that went to the left. As they walked by, we continued to mow and to watch. My partner and I managed to do the crisscross between the last two boulders, without any difficulty but when we met on the far side of the last boulder, disaster struck.
As we rounded the last boulder, I either quickened my pace or he slowed his. Because when we came around the far side to the center point of the boulder, the point where we had to make the turn into the straight away, he was a step behind.
The step took less than a second to make and if I had been watching him, I could have avoided the accident, but I wasn’t watching him and he wasn’t watching me. We were stupidly watching the girls. They were quite lovely but in hind site not nearly lovely enough to justify the loss of my biggest dreams.
The mower ran over my left foot and nearly cut off the end it. It required a hundred and ten stitches inside and a hundred and ten stitches outside, to reconnect all my toes back together with my foot again. Unknown to me at the time, because it was never mentioned in an oversight by the hospital personnel, I had also broken bones in my foot and my ankle. I had, the doctor’s theorized, yanked my foot away so fast and violently from the whirling blade, that it had made just one pass through my foot, the wounds edges were so smooth. But the speed at which I had moved and the snapping of the leg and foot at the end of the violent yank, had caused bones to snap. They figured it was a small price to pay, for saving the foot from further trauma. Oh, lucky me!
Two weeks later, I was told, I would never walk again the damage had been so great. They simply explained the nerves, well they were severed. Limiting my ability to feel the ground while walking with the foot and the blood vessels, they were heavily damaged and limited in their capacity to carry blood, causing swelling and discomfort should I put weight on it. The after care physician never spoke about the broken bones, because the hospital had failed to include that information when they sent the records on to him.
My life was profoundly changed at that time. My dream of playing football in the pros was gone right along with my dreams of college too. I had no plans beyond making a pro football team. I had no plan B.
Then while camping in Northern Michigan a short time later. After having been on a week long drinking binge, I made a decision. I wasn’t going to let the doctors win. I wasn’t going to be disabled. I was going to win. I convinced myself, I’d play football again.
It took almost a year, but I walked again. Of course, I had a major limp and no one could touch my leg, but I was walking. It was then I learned, from a new doctor, who ordered the hospital the records once again, that I had done more damage to my foot and leg by walking on it before the broken bones had completely healed! What? The lawsuit I experienced is a tale for another time so it will have to suffice to say, there was one. Despite, the not so good news, I still tried out for the football team again, a few months later but since I couldn’t run very well and anytime someone banged my leg, I either howled in pain or started a fight, I didn’t make the team. I was despondent for months and had strong thoughts of suicide, but I never found the courage to see it through.
Once I accepted, that the dream of football was gone, I settled down, married. We had a daughter and I found work driving a truck for a small company after having worked for a bank and discovered they didn’t pay anything.
For years after the accident, I struggled with finding myself and with discovering something, anything that inspired as much passion within me as football once had done. What college I had attended, was the longest two hours of my life, as I just didn’t have a desire to be there. The only class, in which I excelled, was the creative writing class I took. The professor convinced me though, that the only way I’d be able to be a writer, was if I managed to get a four year degree with very high grades.
So when the rejection letters piled up, I took to heart what he had said and I gave up. I then just lived life like the rest of the people, I knew. They got up, went to work, came home, went to bed and did it all over again, tomorrow. Along the way, they had children and bought houses with mortgages to pay, so I did the same. Though, I had little in the way of hopes and dreams.
The accident with the mower almost destroyed my life and yet, it taught me an invaluable lesson in life as well. Nothing is impossible! If you have a will, you will find a way. No matter how long it takes! It took me almost forty years and another one of life’s turning points, before I found the passion to write!
Chris Keys-Spread the Word! Write what you know, write it with passion-set the world on fire with your dreams!ChrisKeys2010@
It was June 13th, 1973 at approximately 1:35 in the afternoon, when I became intimate with an industrial lawn mower. My life crashed to halt and my dreams were left smoldering in a burnt ash heap.
At the time of the accident, I was working for a city run country club in southeast Michigan, called Camp Dearborn, run by the City of Dearborn. It was a summer job between high school and college, the money from which I was going to save for college in the fall. It would have worked too, except for one minor mishap.
I was, a would be, college football player, with a very good chance of receiving a full ride scholarship, starting with the second semester of school. That is, if I could raise my grades to all B’s and I continued to perform on the field, at the level I had performed in spring camp. After having been told I could get a full ride scholarship, I was convinced I’d get to play on Sunday afternoons, setting my whole heart and mind on doing just that.
On that June day, shortly after my mowing partner and I had finished lunch, we began mowing the formal camping section of the country club, where there was a row of large boulders. These boulders were placed between the road and ball fields. They were set just far enough a part, so you couldn’t drive your car between them, which I guess had become a problem, judging by the tire ruts in the baseball diamond, just beyond the boulders.
Anyway, my partner and I had the job of cutting the grass around these boulders, which was no big deal. We had already done the job twice, since being hired on for the summer, two weeks before. We started out just fine. We each picked a side to walk down, just as we did before. After each boulder, we’d crisscross between them, repeating the process all the way down the line of fifteen boulders. It was the most efficient way to cut around the large boulders and it should have been easy. But neither of us had factored in an unforeseen distraction that we encountered, just as we reached the end of the boulder row.
As we started to mow around the last two boulders, the distraction occurred. Two young women in bikinis stepped over the crest of the hill straight in front of us, just thirty yards away. The hill was a landscape design feature that separated the camping area from the general recreation area and the beaches. They were obviously returning from the beach and they looked great!
The girls were wearing bikinis in the barest sense of the word. They were small, very small. Now of course, here we are, my partner and I, too healthy eighteen year old, young men, watching this spectacle of womanly flesh saunter over the crest of the hill. We both looked up to watch, our eyes never leaving them, even when they split up to walk around us and our noisy mowers.
I watched the one who went to right of us and my partner watched the one that went to the left. As they walked by, we continued to mow and to watch. My partner and I managed to do the crisscross between the last two boulders, without any difficulty but when we met on the far side of the last boulder, disaster struck.
As we rounded the last boulder, I either quickened my pace or he slowed his. Because when we came around the far side to the center point of the boulder, the point where we had to make the turn into the straight away, he was a step behind.
The step took less than a second to make and if I had been watching him, I could have avoided the accident, but I wasn’t watching him and he wasn’t watching me. We were stupidly watching the girls. They were quite lovely but in hind site not nearly lovely enough to justify the loss of my biggest dreams.
The mower ran over my left foot and nearly cut off the end it. It required a hundred and ten stitches inside and a hundred and ten stitches outside, to reconnect all my toes back together with my foot again. Unknown to me at the time, because it was never mentioned in an oversight by the hospital personnel, I had also broken bones in my foot and my ankle. I had, the doctor’s theorized, yanked my foot away so fast and violently from the whirling blade, that it had made just one pass through my foot, the wounds edges were so smooth. But the speed at which I had moved and the snapping of the leg and foot at the end of the violent yank, had caused bones to snap. They figured it was a small price to pay, for saving the foot from further trauma. Oh, lucky me!
Two weeks later, I was told, I would never walk again the damage had been so great. They simply explained the nerves, well they were severed. Limiting my ability to feel the ground while walking with the foot and the blood vessels, they were heavily damaged and limited in their capacity to carry blood, causing swelling and discomfort should I put weight on it. The after care physician never spoke about the broken bones, because the hospital had failed to include that information when they sent the records on to him.
My life was profoundly changed at that time. My dream of playing football in the pros was gone right along with my dreams of college too. I had no plans beyond making a pro football team. I had no plan B.
Then while camping in Northern Michigan a short time later. After having been on a week long drinking binge, I made a decision. I wasn’t going to let the doctors win. I wasn’t going to be disabled. I was going to win. I convinced myself, I’d play football again.
It took almost a year, but I walked again. Of course, I had a major limp and no one could touch my leg, but I was walking. It was then I learned, from a new doctor, who ordered the hospital the records once again, that I had done more damage to my foot and leg by walking on it before the broken bones had completely healed! What? The lawsuit I experienced is a tale for another time so it will have to suffice to say, there was one. Despite, the not so good news, I still tried out for the football team again, a few months later but since I couldn’t run very well and anytime someone banged my leg, I either howled in pain or started a fight, I didn’t make the team. I was despondent for months and had strong thoughts of suicide, but I never found the courage to see it through.
Once I accepted, that the dream of football was gone, I settled down, married. We had a daughter and I found work driving a truck for a small company after having worked for a bank and discovered they didn’t pay anything.
For years after the accident, I struggled with finding myself and with discovering something, anything that inspired as much passion within me as football once had done. What college I had attended, was the longest two hours of my life, as I just didn’t have a desire to be there. The only class, in which I excelled, was the creative writing class I took. The professor convinced me though, that the only way I’d be able to be a writer, was if I managed to get a four year degree with very high grades.
So when the rejection letters piled up, I took to heart what he had said and I gave up. I then just lived life like the rest of the people, I knew. They got up, went to work, came home, went to bed and did it all over again, tomorrow. Along the way, they had children and bought houses with mortgages to pay, so I did the same. Though, I had little in the way of hopes and dreams.
The accident with the mower almost destroyed my life and yet, it taught me an invaluable lesson in life as well. Nothing is impossible! If you have a will, you will find a way. No matter how long it takes! It took me almost forty years and another one of life’s turning points, before I found the passion to write!
Chris Keys-Spread the Word! Write what you know, write it with passion-set the world on fire with your dreams!ChrisKeys2010@
Internet confusion
Oh boy! I was on another site just now and the people I was writing with were discussing using their blogs to market their books. Books like mine, Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! due out this summer. Well, someone asked if I blogged and I said oh yeah, I'm on Fan Box and I blog on all thirty two sites social networking sites I'm on as well. Then someone asked are you on Bloggspot and I said I didn't know, I checked my site list, gave it some thought, and then I assured them and me, that I wasn't here. So they convinced me I should join the site and They'd follow me if I followed them. I said sure no problem. Boy, was I surprised, when I discovered I already had a site set up. I'd already posted a blog or five. I don't remember ever having been here, though I posted last, just few days ago. Now tomorrow is my birthday, the big double nickle, I'll be offically a senior as far discounts and travel go, and I'm guessing it not a minute to soon. I've already lost my mind and I'll have to admit to the wife that I can't remember @#$%$, just as she's asserted for the last three years. Any one got the number to senior care,next thing you know,I'll need watching! Chris Keys- Who'd of thought I'd ever come to this!
Monday, January 18, 2010
My first review
Wow! I just read the new book by Chris keys, Reprisal! The Eagle Rises! He’s Tom Clancy all over again. I was treated to thrills and chills, smacked in the face and brought to tears. I just couldn’t put it down. It’s fast paced and a solid story. You need this book on your summer reading list! I can not wait for the second book! ---Doug Bondie
Friday, January 8, 2010
Featured author
Hi there! I'm excited! I am featured Author on Writersface.com I was chosen after they read my profile and synopsis of "Reprisal! The Eagle Rises!" Why not take a minute and go check it out. I hope to be able to share alot more in the near future with you. Things like an excerpt from my up and coming ebook, "The Motor Home" its a true story that happened to me. It about an old motor home and a deal I made with God! I advise you not to make deals with God because he'll hold you to the terms of the deal no matter what!
Thanks for reading Chris Keys
Thanks for reading Chris Keys
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)