What a journey my friend! 10 days with "The Other Mother" blog tour has opened doorways, shed light on relationships and revealed the souls of the people and places we hold dear.
Much thanks to the other bloggers and contributors who stepped in on their own accord (Jennifer Brewer over at Olives & Alzheimers and Beth Lathrop at Muse & Profit ). Each of you made the conversation rich with anecdotes from your own lives and your thoughts on the book's characters added to the dialog. Needless to say we believe the journey continues beyond the confines of our ten days together. It's time to pass the baton on to the eyes of readers, the ears of book clubs, and the keyboards of press beyond our east coast borders. I go back to crafting inspirationals, teaching others to tell their story and a life still unfolding.So what's next for "The Other Mother: a rememoir"...a sell out of your first run of books, screen play, film....
From your lips to Ang Lee's ears! Unfortunately, most memoirs ~ even best-sellers like "Eat Pray Love" turn into dreadful flops at the box office. So I'm not counting on a movie just yet ~ though if anyone's interested I write screenplays too!
Joggling Board Press is a tiny, dedicated, independent publisher without a big marketing budget, so we cherish the power of social media and word of mouth. If more and more book clubs follow the lead of the Oyster Cay's Collection "Owls" we'll be thrilled. We even came up with a list of book club questions in the back of the hard cover to facilitate conversations.
What's great about "The Other Mother" is that once people read it they want to get together and talk about it and they want to celebrate the other mothers in their lives. Three dear friends: Barbara Kelly in Beaufort, Andrea Schenck in Charleston and Audrey Chang in Washington DC have thrown "Other Mother Soirees" to do just that. Each soiree is entirely different ~ like the women who host them ~ but I read little bit, answer questions and then we all dish about the other mothers we need and cherish. It's a blast and I'd love to do more. I'm also hoping to get on speaker's bureau's ~ turns out my TEDx talk made me realize I like live audiences.
Lets see...what else? Regular followers of my blog know I've been recording the audio version of the book. My vocal chords are thrilled that we've finished that portion of it, although the producer has just taken a job in Baltimore and it may take a while before he can get all 417 pages of it edited and available online. But I'll keep you posted on www.teresabrucebooks.wordpress.com.
And early in the new year, Joggling Board Press plans on releasing the Kindle version. So all of your kind reviews on Amazon and Good Reads will help launch the e:book as well. It's all about the conversation as Ann-Marie coaches us social-media newbies ~ and this blog tour was an amazing start!
It's your turn readers to plan your own "Other Mother Soiree!"
Thank you for supporting a local author from Beaufort, SC!
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This blog tour was such a good idea. I've already ordered copies of the book for Other Mothers in my life and CANNOT wait to read it myself. More than anything I felt so connected to smart happening women. I have been "virtually" empowered. Let's do this again soon.
ReplyDeleteWe thought so too! And you have a book coming your way as does Beth for jumping in! I'm doing this every month in 2014 so stay tuned to who is up next! Happy New Year!
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