| My week started out promising to be rather boring and ending being anything but boring. Because of all the unexpected excitement, I now have all of these thoughts and ideas rolling around in my mind. I am going to turn them into Friday Fragments.I just love the friends I have made participating in Friday Fragments. Stop over, meet the lovely host, Mrs. 4444 and join us…http://www.halfpastkissintime.comI entered a contest last week. The Victorious Woman Contest. I had to write an essay about my victories. You would think it would be easy to write about myself after all I wrote a memoir. Nope, it was not so easy. Anyway, May 18this the last day to vote for my essay and I would just SO appreciate you if you would have a read and vote. It is rather short and that was the challenging part. The word limit was 800. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think. xxxooohttp://apps.facebook.com/contestshq/contests/213986/voteableentries.I have been so excited that I have been invited back to the Barnes & Noble in Oxford Valley, Pa. This is the Barnes & Noble in the neighborhood where I grew up and where I raised my kids. I will be there on Saturday,June 16th which is the same day my vacation week at the beach starts. So, yesterday I found out that on June 15th Teresa Giudice will be at the very same Barnes & Noble signing her book. I was excited to be following her. Imagine my surprise to see her following me:
@Teresa_Giudice is now following@doreenb [NY Times Bestselling author of FABULICIOUS: FAST & FIT! (Out 5/15!) Star of RHONJ & CELEBRITY APPRENTICE, wife of Juicy Joe & mom of 4 fabulicious daughters!] Twitter is starting to be so much fun. My week did start out with the promise of being boring so I spent some time on Pinterest. Oh yeah, I am sucked right into it. It is FUN! Of course, it has an awful learning curve but once you figure it out… I was feeling a bit sad that I was not receiving any new book reviews and just like that I received (3) yesterday and they were so good. I had no idea how important reviews were to an author, until I became an author. Just a simple ‘I read your book and loved it’ can bump up your ratings on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. I have been going back and doing this on all of the books I can remember reading. You can read the reviews by clicking on that folder up there…marked reviews. Speaking of reviews…if you would like to do one for me along with a giveaway on your blog please let me know…doreenb8@verizon.net My second book is starting to come together and I am starting to get excited about sharing it with you. Have you read about my other projects? They are up there in the folder that says booksJ I have been missing my grandkids so much over the last few months. I was able to see (2) of my grandsons play ball this week and I also enjoyed some time with a few of the girls. I am SO looking forward to our annual New Jersey shore invasion. All the kids, spouses and grandkids for a week. My husband’s siblings will be there as well with their kids, spouses and grandkids. My favorite quote of the week: You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~~Winston Churchill I will leave you with a few of my favorite beach photos from last year… Have a Fabulous Weekend, Doreen
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