My Orangeberry blog tour continues. This weekend is a quickie author interview, my second one, and a #TwitterView, round 2. But just because the events are the same genre, doesn’t mean the questions and answers are the same! Blog-A-Licious Authors asks such questions as, “What genre are you most comfortable writing?” Regular readers of my…
Category: News
Anything new in my life and work or occasionally in the news that’s related to me, my books, or the people I wrote about in “Lifeliner” a biography.
Virtual Book Tour: Author Interview
My Orangeberry virtual book tour for my first novel She is in full swing. Next stop: author interview on Mommy Adventures. Read my answers to such questions as what’s my fave food and how has my upbringing influenced my writing. “Writing was just unadulterated fun.“ One of the nice things about a virtual tour is…
#TwitterView with @ShireenJ on Writing and She
After Orangeberry’s Twitter Blast comes the #TwitterView, short for a Twitter interview. I’ve never done one before. But it’s not so hard — well, except for fitting in a complete reply between Twitter handles and hashtags. Hashtags are those snippets of text denoting an event or topic that start with the pound key symbol #.…
Virtual Book Tour of She Begins!
In the old days, authors had to tour bookstores to meet readers. Today, in our connected globe, we tour blogs to meet readers, and we can all say hello from the comfort of our living room couches. I’ve participated in a couple. And on this day, I begin my first virtual book tour, set up…
A Medical Vacation, A Writing Avocation
Vacation time! Well, okay, not a vacation where you go off and lie on a beach somewhere, more a vacation from something: medical appointments!!! My final two brain biofeedback appointments went well. People in real life saw a sudden change in my sense of humour and were amazed by it. I saw a small change…
Aban’s Accension on Wattpad
Accension, not ascension. Yes, I know how to spell! Accension: The action of kindling or the state of being kindled. (From The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary) It is related to the verb “accend.” This is an old word, but it completely describes what is happening in this the second novel I wrote…
I’ve Joined Wattpad!
So I joined Wattpad. Um, what is Wattpad, you may ask. You mean aside from that thing Margaret Atwood was tweeting about last year that made no sense to me? Good question! It's where readers get free stories to read yes, free! and writers get to post their new, unpublished or published stuff for feedback,…
One More Chance to Win Concussion Is Brain Injury
My first Goodreads Giveaway for my newest book Concussion Is Brain Injury was such a hit, I decided to hold another one! But enter it now — only a day and a half left for your chance to win a paperback copy!! Goodreads Book Giveaway Concussion Is Brain Injury by Shireen Jeejeebhoy Giveaway ends February…
An Interview and Giveaways
As I wrote earlier, I was interviewed by K8 on her blog. For two weeks in late January, K8 aka Froze8 of froze8.blogspot.com published daily interviews with authors. Genres covered include horror, young adult, super spuds (heh), steampunk — a variety to satisfy everyone. And there’s even at least one other Canadian interviewed! If you…