Beth Williamson’s Blog

Diane Craver, an incredibly sweet and talented Samhain writer, is hosting an Author Week with a cool contest next week on her blog. Here be the details directly from Diane:

Contest for Small Press Month

I’m excited that 6 talented authors will visit my blog next week for “Author Week” and to celebrate Small Press Month! They are: Denise Patrick, Marianne Arkins, Lula Thomas, Allie Boniface, Diana Castilleja, and Ceri Hebert! I’m giving a Samhain Publishing $10 Gift Certificate or a The Wild Rose Press $10 Gift Certificate or $5 for SP and $5 for TWRP to the winner of my contest. All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog (http://www.dianecraver.com/blog) during “Author Week” and you will be entered. Contest starts March 24th and ends March 30th! The winner will be drawn on March 30th. Hope you join us for some fun interviews! Diane

If you can swing by, check it out next week!

Happy Friday and HAPPY SPRING!!! Woo!

My website and blog are getting an overhaul in the next couple weeks. New look, new sexy, snazzy stuff - it’s going to be gorgeous! Of course, because the amazingly brilliant Frauke of Croco Designs is doing it.

This weekend she’s going to be performing maintenance on the code, so you might see a “maintenance” screen when you access my website or blog. No worries - it’s just Frauke working her magic.

Stay tuned for the big launch!

Oh, and on Monday I’m going to be over at The Romance Studio blog with the other CAPA winners celebrating. Hope you can come by!

Hey y’all, Samhain and its authors are celebrating “Read an E-book Week” along with reader appreciation! I hope many of you have made the leap to buying your first electronic book. There are so many ways you can buy and read them.

For those with some extra cash, you can buy an e-book reader. You can read them on your computer, your smartphone or PDA. There are a limited number of trees in the world, and we need to help do our part to prolong the forests.

I found these statistics online:

“It takes 24 trees to produce a ton of printing paper, the type normally used for books, 12 trees are harvested for a ton of newsprint. Up to 35% of books printed for consumers (down from nearly 60% several years ago) are never read. They are used for window dressing in book stores, and eventually returned to the publisher for disposal in landfills. Given that a mature tree can produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year, a serious alternative to paper books, magazines and newspapers needs to be considered. That alternative is e-books.”

So, what can you do? Try an e-book if you haven’t. Help us celebrate over on the Samhain loop with our authors as we have fun, frolic and prizes and raise a toast to YOU. Here’s the schedule - which is in Central time so adjust accordingly.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/samhaincafe/cal

Hope to see y’all around - I’ll be there Friday afternoon for two hours and I’ll be giving away a free download and a gift certificate to spend at MBAM.

READ AN E-BOOK!!

I’m over at Passionate Prose with a problem. Go over and see if you can help!

I’m over guest-blogging at the Cata Romance blog - swing on by and say howdy! I’m talking about the must-needed strong, smart heroines in romance novels.