Authors: Make Money on the Intarwebs!

Like any author worth her salt on the intarwebs nowadays, I try to make a little bit of money everywhere. Stress on the word LITTLE…but I keep telling myself that eventually, this will all pick up and will be a nice steady little Starbucks budget to support this crazy writing habit I have. Things I have monetized: 1.) Short…

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All Things “If”

A while back, I was contacted by Susan Bertram from www.allthingsif.org because I had mentioned in a blog post that Rudyard Kipling’s “If” was one of my favorite poems of all time. The poem was quoted in “See How They Run,” a British farce we performed at Spring Valley High School. My French Grandmother had a set of Rudyard…

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Treasures Abound!

I’m over at Treasured Tales for Young Adults again today–wait, did I ever leave? Maybe I’ve been lurking in the corners all this time! You never know! We magical princesses are like that. Today is special, however, because Alishia is posting another EXCLUSIVE DELETED SCENE from Enchanted, read by yours truly, all dressed up, on YouTube. What are you…

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The Wonderland Alphabet (flip preview)

The sneakiest preview of The Wonderland Alphabet you’ll ever get! How cute is this book?!? Still working on getting a definite date when this will be out — I know Amazon has had a different release date every other day (now it says June 19th), but who trusts Amazon anymore? They don’t even have the proper cover image. I…

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Princess Mysteries

Are you ready, world? Today, Eleusinian Mysteries is unveiling another EXCLUSIVE YOUTUBE VIDEO of Princess Alethea, all dressed up and reading an excerpt from Enchanted. This one is a brief, sweet, painfully touching scene that takes place after Sunday thinks she’s lost the best friend she ever had, and the closest thing she’s ever felt to true love. But…

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A Very Special Video

When you’re done watching this exclusive excerpt of Enchanted on YouTube today, click over to the TotallyBooksessed (and totally cute) Gabrielle as she reads “The Twelve Apostles” by the Brothers Grimm for Fairy Tale Fortnight. It’s a short tale that I haven’t done yet for Princess Alethea’s Fairy Tale Theatre, but Gabrielle does a lovely job here. She also…

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Presenting Princess Alethea!

Tonight I have my Lady Jane’s Salon reading and the Enchanted Launch Party, but today I am visiting the lovely Lenore Appelhans at her blog “Presenting Lenore.” Lenore’s own debut YA novel LEVEL TWO will be published by Simon & Schuster BFYR in Fall 2012, and her debut picture book CHICK-O-SAURUS REX (w/ Daniel Jennewein) will follow from S&S…

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Exclusive ENCHANTED Excerpt at Live to Read

I’m trying something new for this book tour — utilizing the power of YouTube to bring you exclusive excerpts and deleted scenes from Enchanted! Today, the excerpt I have performed for you is “Monday and Tuesday” — the bit from Sunday’s journal where she tells the tale of her eldest (twin) sisters. This clip is being brought to you…

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Thieftess Triumphant

Mom reminded me that I need to give you guys the direct link to my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Thieftess This summer I will be performing excerpts and deleted scenes from ENCHANTED–they will debut on various sites throughout the blog tour, but if you are subscribed to my channel, you should get them emailed directly to you as they are updated….

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Princess Alethea’s Traveling Sideshow Video!

Many many MANY thanks to Jean-Marie Ward (jmward14 on YouTube), who filmed and edited this video of Princess Alethea’s Traveling Sideshow at Dragon*Con this year! There was unfortunately no video of my reading, but you get to see my intro, Leanna Renee Hieber’s FANTASTIC reading, Gray Rinehart’s HILARIOUS song, and Danielle Friedman’s MESMERIZING dance performance. (You guys get enough…

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