She Moved Her Dragon Blog

(I'm listening to American Science by Duran Duran.)

My Fantasy Author Sandy Lender is on my "naughty" list these days for the same reason she's getting "anger mail" from fans who demand Book III in the Choices series. She's stalled too long. Rest assured, I'm flogging her daily and will soon withhold chocolate until the book's rewrite is complete.

In the meantime, you can see her new-and-improved dragon blog on the Wordpress server. I hate to encourage such time-wasters, but she asked me so nicely...

Please visit http://TodayTheDragonWins.wordpress.com when you get a chance and click on the "Gimme Free Content!" button to get automatic updates when she's playing on the blog instead of finishing my bride's book.

All my best,
Nigel Taimain

Tags: dragon, Choices, Sandy Lender, fantasy

She's a Faculty Member at ConQuesT39 Next Weekend

ConQuesT39 "Fanimal House" announces its Memorial Day Weekend lineup and encourages fans of sci-fi/fantasy to enroll now. The faculty list (that would be the panel participants) includes my fantasy author, Sandy Lender. She'll read from her first novel Choices Meant for Gods Sunday at 11:30 and will have an autograph session Saturday at 4:30. The panels she participates in include "Blog 101: Oops, I Blogged Again" and "Out 101: Out of the Space Closet, Homosexuality in SF/F/H."

If you've ever been to a ConQuesT convention before, you know there's loads of fun fan activities from art viewing to seminars on your favorite sci-fi shows to opps to meet the guests to a masquerade (on Saturday night) to improv story-telling to sessions on creative writing. The special media guests this year are Jeff East from Young Clark Kent and Ellen Muth from Dead Like Me. Check out the ConQuest site or visit Sandy's blog to get more information. But do it fast! Memorial Day weekend is right around the corner.

If you need a copy of CMFG to take to the signing, Amazon still offers free two-day shipping. Click here. I don't think you can get it that fast from the publisher's site. Sandy will have some copies on hand that you can purchase directly from her and have autographed on-site, but don't count on there being copies in the dealer room. Dealers don't always play nicely with the Ingrams or Baker & Taylor distributors...

Tags: ConQuesT39, blogging, Choices Meant for Gods, fantasy novel, fantasy author, Sandy Lender, Jeff East, Ellen Muth, Dead Like Me, Today the Dragon Wins

She's Playing Favorites

When marketing with the Internet, one aspect of generating an audience is increasing the number of visitors to your blog site. An avenue of increasing traffic that my fantasy author, Sandy Lender, has not pursued yet is exchanging the "favorite" status at Technorati with other bloggers.

The site at http://www.technorati.com/ is a free network where bloggers register their blogs and receive information, HTML code, ideas, etc., to use with their blogging technique. Sandy visits it from time to time (as time allows, she says), but would like to make use of the "favorite" tool.

If your blog is registered with Technorati, as Nigel Presents Sandy Lender and Today the Dragon Wins are, please let us know that you'd like to exchange favorite status with us and we'll do so to increase our marketing and promotion power. You can click on the link I've provided at the bottom of this blog page to get you there easily. Sandy provided one at the bottom of http://www.todaythedragonwins.blogspot.com/ as well.

Best of luck to you in your marketing efforts!
Tags: fantasy author, Sandy Lender, blogging, technorati, favorite, today the dragon wins