Huge ya/na blogfest august and september!

Posted on 07/29/2015 by douglasesper

As i meet knew folks in the writersphere I keep finding new and awesome stuff to get involved with and starting in august, another one of those cool things is starting.

For the second year in a row, Apryl Baker is throwing her MY CRAZY CORNER BLOGFEST from august 1st until september 30th. Each day another author will post a guest blog/article/interview and offer prizes like, in my case, signed copies of books, or tshirts, Skype sessions, gift cards etc.

My blog post will be published sept 19th along with another great author d. NICHOLE KING!

for more info: check the Facebook page for the event!

if you were to write a blogpost today, what would you write about? Today i feel like this photo sums up where my head is at:

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Winner, winner kindle dinner!

Posted on 06/09/2015 by douglasesper

Huge thanks to everyone who got involved in the contest. It was fun to see a steady stream of people mentioning A Life of Inches on Twitter.

Prize: Kindle Fire HD + 20 e-books from Limitless Publishing

Winner: Amanda Sakovitz!

Prize(s): (3) Paperback Copies of A Life of Inches

Winner 1: Brandi- DeFries-Swendt

Winner 2: Victoria Alexander

Winner 3: Elizabeth Stacy

Congrats. I will be emailing you shortly to arrange delivery.

For anyone else, I am cooking up 2 more contests for the summer, so check back here and follow me on Twitter @douglasesper and my author page on facebook.

A Life of Inches is available now in print or kindle on Amazon or directly through the store section on this page.

 

 

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reviews/excerpts/spotlights/playlists for a life of inches

Posted on 06/08/2015 by douglasesper

wow,

with just 2 weeks under our belts, the feedback on A LIFE OF INCHES has been incredible. here are some of the sites that have taken time to read/review/spotlight/feature A LIFE OF INCHES. And yes, i am adding in sites that didn’t love the book. I know it is not for everyone and it is my debut so i have a lot to learn. Have you seen anymore reviews? let me know, so i can add them to this growing list:

Undercover Book reviews spotlight

j and j’s southern spice blog playlist

sweet and sassy bookaholics excerpt

Amy Reece review/spotlight

ramblings from this chick review

bibliophilic madness spotlight

warrior women windmill excerpt

Grammy’s bookshelf excerpt

FMR book grind review

Labelle books excerpt/spotlight

a beautiful book blog excerpt

romance junkies review

Books laid bare review

Battery operated book blog review/spotlight/excerpt

Love us some books review

Wicked reads review

The phantom paragrapher review

Hooked on books forever review

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playlist experiment

Posted on 06/04/2015 by douglasesper

As part of my blog tour, i was asked to compile a 13-14 song playlist to highlight the music i jammed while writing A Life of Inches. Now, i started that book in 2007 and finished editing in may of 2015, so there was a lot of music…a lot. I paired it down and while I know i forgot some key songs, i think this list is a good indicator of the stuff i had blasting. i added links to the songs on youtube so you can hear them for yourself. as a rule, i would say that any album these songs were from also got played so if you like the single song, i’d suggest giving the album a listen as well. some of you may look at this list and be dismayed by how little local/indie bands there are. part of that is many bands i wanted to include did not have their music on youtube, which was part of my assignment for the blog tour. As always, i’ll tell you to support local bands and tell you cleveland has wonderful music from trepanning trio, furnace street, alexis antes, robin stone, and tons more. i’d love to hear what you listen to while painting, writing, dancing, eating…sitting, so comment below or find me on twitter @douglasesper

Mogwai: friend of the night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZKVNJqpBPQ

Explosions In the Sky: welcome ghosts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTw-CwypKdk

Cloudkicker: sky guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3cClHcRVgU

Indoria: what I feel (feat chuck mosley) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ImRdu6Nsg

Russian Circles: Geneva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDdTpVrcNvQ

Crosses: The Epilogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ptWIZ36F4

If These Trees Could Talk: they speak with knives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr3XminTBM

Tim Barry: Church of Level Track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgWopOsZCN0

Boards of Canada: dayvan cowboy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4

Portishead: The Rip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBOaLjtR4mw

Emeralds: double helix https://youtu.be/tIShafLwA4M?list=PL99D4959CB04E34B0

Infinite Number of Sounds: Artificial Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvVghVI60Ts

Baroness: Twinkler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91CwYMuo1A&list=PL5NA83ugQhCkjGcX1GgfVnaxTcfpXRe7D&index=5

The swell season: falling slowly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSZ6M88MTP4

hope you enjoy!

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Cover reveal day!!!!!!!!!

Posted on 04/30/2015 by douglasesper

so,

i am beyond excited to be releasing the cover image to my novel A Life of Inches, which comes out May 26th through Limitless Publishing. I have teamed up with indiesage for this cover reveal and tour contest. Please check out the link below to see the cover, read a few excerpts, and enter for a chance to win copies of the book or a kindle fireHD!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

 

the book was recently added to goodreads and they opened up my author question booth, so head there as well to ask about a life of inches, my other writing, or chicken wings and I’ll be happy to answer. 

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