Author: Linda Nelson

The Toadstool Bookshop Book Signing in Peterborough, NH

by Linda Nelson, posted in books
That is me standing on the left and my friend Linda T. Kepner sitting on the other side of the table. We made a great team together.

Today was my very first book signing. It went well. I was promoting my newest book Witch Book at the Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, NH.

I wasn’t sure how this was going to go. It was my very first time speaking in public. I was told that I did better than I thought I was going to do. But I did have help.

My good friend, Linda Kepner was there with me. She was promoting her newest release Second Chance. We were Linda’s in stereo.

Linda prompted me along, teaching me to walk the walk and talk the talk. She is so good at this book signing thing, she doesn’t even need notes to look at anymore.

Now we are trying to plan our next event.

I guess LK and her husband Terry are looking at setting us up for an event at BooksaMillion in Concord, NH. I’m not sure how long this will take. Terry says that there is a lot of red tape to go through, but I guess he is working on it.

We had a pretty good turnout considering there were a lot of different events going on in the area.

There was a quilt show in Peterborough, a Scarecrow festival in Jaffrey, and an Art Tour in the Monadnock region. Oh and there was a pumpkin festival happening in Milford as well.

I had a wonderful surprise too. Two of my former high school classmates made the trip to Peterborough to hear me speak and each walked away with a signed book. Then there was a co-worker of mine, she too show up to give me support.

My son was there as well. He had brought an old friend with him, one who had gotten into some mishap with him when his life was taking its down turn. It was neat to see how he loved seeing the dedication in my first book Friends of Choice was said to be to him and his sister. He made a point to point this out to his friend and the Acknowledgement part about the Phoenix House Rehab.

This goes to show how much his life has change in the past couple of years.

I found some more inspiration to get Road Salt done today. Several people in our audience mentioned how they will be looking forward to reading Road Salt when it comes out and voice how they liked the topic of Bath Salts. So I had better get that butt in the chair and get writing again. – It’s 30% done at this time.

Friday List #Top10FavoriteArtist

by Linda Nelson, posted in book reviews

It’s TGIF and the beginning of another weekend. For some it will be a long weekend with Columbus Day on Monday.

I have a big day planned for tomorrow. <- see previous post on my book signing event for New Hampshire.

Oh, that’s right; you’re not here to hear about my event for tomorrow. No, you’re here for the Friday Night Favorite Artist and I am ready to let you all know which book is next on my List of my Favorite Top Ten Artists…

  • “For the past year I have been reading a lot of new authors on my Kindle, so instead of picking my favorite of my favorite, I wanted to pick from the books I have read during this past year. This I had to give some thought to, since I have read a lot of really great books on my kindle. So here is my list of favorites.”

Here is the recap:

Seven weeks ago at #10 was Winning Mr. Wrong by Marie Higgins

Six weeks ago at #9 slot was A Modern Witch by Debora Geary

Five weeks ago the #8 slot was Deadly Intentions by Candice Poarche

Four weeks ago at the #7 slot was The Book of Deacon by Joseph R. Lallo

Three weeks ago at the #6 slot was Sleep Tight by Anne Frasier.

Two weeks at the #5 slot was Hostile Witness by Rebecca Forster

Last week at the #4 slot was Bewitching by Alex Flinn

So which book is up next?

…. (Linda opens up her word pad folder one more time and peeks inside)

#3

Hollowland

(The Hollows #1)

byAmanda Hocking

“This is the way the world ends – not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.”

Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way – not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.

“I loved this book. Amanda Hocking has a wonderful imagination. This fast paced story about zombies, lions, and tigers kept me reading almost non-stop. I don’t think there was a moment in the book where I ever found I had lost interest in the story.

The fact that this is the first zombie book I have ever read and I just could not stop reading.

I will be definitely investigating the rest of her books in the near future.”

And if you haven’t read any of these books I have listed over the past few weeks, you really do need to check them out, they were all great books.