Catherine Ryan Hyde Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of more than 25 published and forthcoming books, including the bestselling When I found You, Pay It Forward, Don't Let Me Go, and Take Me With You.
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For anyone who reads my blog regularly, you’ll know that Anne and I are buds, and have been for quite some time.
For those of you who begin to read this interview of her blogging skills and think, “No fair. She’s every bit as much an author as a blogger,” have I got a post for you! Anne is the only “double dip” between my Author Friday and Blogger Wednesday series. For just that reason. She’s the only person I know who seems to be equal parts blogger and author. And she is enjoying a great measure of success in both fields. If you didn’t read Anne’s Author Friday interview, it’s right HERE.
This year's conference is actually called How to be a Writer in the E-Age and Keep Your E-Sanity, in honor of Anne's and my new book for authors. The conference will be the official launch of our book. But, just to clarify...the conference is about e-publishing. The book is about all forms of publishing as they rapidly change with technology.
If you're an author who's interested in learning more about the e-book revolution, please join us on the 14th. The price is reasonable. (And includes lunch!) And all the information you need is at THIS LINK.
Next Friday, June 29th, I'm going to be presenting Don't Let Me Go to my US readers. It's available for purchase now, either in ebook or paperback format. But the actual launch is Friday the 29th.
I'm marking this event in a couple of ways. They dovetail nicely, I think.
First, I'm having a special live event, a sort of get-together in cyberspace, for my readers. It's hosted by Shindig, and open to all. You can turn on your webcam and really be right there in the virtual library with us. Or just your voice can show up. Or you can hover unseen, and ask a question by the old-fashioned typing method if you prefer. The good news is, wherever you are, so long as you can get online, that's where the event is being held.
It's absolutely free. And here's the second way I'm marking this event: The ebook of Don't Let Me Go will be on free promotion that day, and the following day. So rather than a free event where I try to get you to show up and buy my book, the event is free, and so is the book we'll be talking about.
It starts at 3:00 p.m. Pacific time, 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Here's all you need to do. Click this link to go to my Catherine Ryan Hyde Presents: Don't Let Me Go page. Pick up your free cyberticket. The reason you're signing up in advance is so you'll get a reminder email with instructions for joining the chat event.
It's that simple! Hope to see you there. Literally!
It's here, US readers, and I'm really excited. This is the novel that's been out in the UK since last Fall. It's here in a US edition, with a great new cover (in my humble opinion) and it's available in Kindle ebook and paperback format. The paperback link goes direct to CreateSpace, because, even though the paperback is also in the Amazon store, the author gets much higher royalties when you buy direct from CreateSpace.
This is a novel that's close to my heart, as Billy Shine and Grace were amazing characters to have living in my head. You can read more about it, and even listen to a video excerpt, on the Don't Let Me Go page.
June is the month that my third new adult title, DON'T LET ME GO, comes out in a US edition. All of these adult titles have first been released from Transworld UK, and have been well-received. Last year we brought out WHEN I FOUND YOU and SECOND HAND HEART in both ebook and paperback US editions.
Now for DON'T LET ME GO. It's coming amazingly soon. And today I saw the final cover. And I'm so excited, I have to share it. I hope you love it even half as much as I do.
I hope you'll leave a comment and let me know what you think.
If you want to know more about the book, there's a synopsis, review quotes--even a video excerpt--on my Don't Let Me Go page.
Two incredible bloggers (and by that I mean they have great blogs and are great people, both), Adam of Roof Beam Reader and Lauren of Shooting Stars Mag, are holding a giveaway and a blog hop for bloggers.
My horse, Union RagsAnybody remember The Bet from last year? It started with my Twitter bud Brian Farrey musing on the Stephen King article in the Atlantic, in which King reveals that the short story "Herman Wouk is Still Alive" was written to satisfy a bet.
Apparently that's all you have to tell four crazy writers. Brian (With or Without You), Kimberly Pauley (Sucks to be Me), Andrew Smith (Stick, The Marbury Lens) and I went crazy and created The Bet, which shall heretofore (how's that for a fun word) be known as The Bet #1. We each chose a horse in the Kentucky Derby. For the purposes of The Bet, our horses were only running against each other, not the field as a whole. In other words, it didn't matter if my horse won. He won if he came in ahead of their horses.
Here we go again. I'm guessing this will not be getting tedious for my readers, as, if I'm going to keep repeating myself, the repetition should be something along the lines of, "I've got more free stuff for you."
The US ebook of my novel SECOND HAND HEART just went on a 5-day free promotion. (Sorry UK readers, UK editions belong to Transworld/Random House Group--love them, but can't give their stuff away.)
If you're in the US, just go get one. Easy. And everyone who wants one can have one.
But while we're at it, I want to do another $25 Amazon gift card giveaway for reviewers. This is fairly simple as well. Grab a free copy of the
When I last blogged about the ebook edition of my novel WHEN I FOUND YOU, it was just about to go on a 5-day free promotion on Amazon.
I'm pleased to say that promotion went well. Amazingly well. I mean...you could have knocked me over with a feather. That well.
It hit #1 in Kindle Free, with over 81,000 copies downloaded. When the promotion ended, it climbed up to #12 in Kindle Paid. The combination of the free downloads and actual sales numbers created a “popularity” rating of #3 in the Kindle store as a whole, #5 on all of Amazon books. I was hovering between two Hunger Games books on the Kindle main page. It was a heady experience.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 people have downloaded the WHEN I FOUND YOU ebook.
An announcement. And a giveaway I already like a lot. (And it hasn't even started yet.)
Just after midnight tonight (this was written Wednesday the 7th--it's free now) the U.S. ebook edition (*UK readers, please see update below) of my novel When I Found You is going to enjoy five free promotional days. Thursday March 8th through Monday March 12th, you can get a Kindle copy absolutely free. Not a contest, a free ebook for everybody who wants one.
This is one of my personal favorites of all my books, and of course I want as many people as possible to discover it. If you want to read more about it, you can jump to its book page on this site, or if you just want to snag your free copy, go ahead and jump right to its Amazon page. (Assuming, of course, that's it's Thursday the 8th, Monday the 12th, or something in between.)
Here's where the contest comes in: I'm giving away a $25 Amazon gift card to someone who posts an Amazon review for this book between today and the middle of April.
Two important things I want you to know about the giveaway: One, there is no purchase necessary, because I purposely tied the timing to the ebook's free days. So you can pick up a copy for free, and if you post a review, you can get in the running. Two, and this feels even more important: I will be choosing a winner at random. This means I'm not giving a prize to the person who raves the most. All honest reviews will have exactly the same chance. I would never try to give you an incentive to say anything other than what you really thought. I just think a lot of you will like it. Anyway, that's what I'm banking on. And a range of reviews are a good way to help readers decide, anyway.
So grab a free copy (and, by the way, if you don't have a Kindle, you can download free Kindle software for your computer), and if you post an Amazon review, please come back to this blog and leave a comment telling me so, with your email entered into the comment form. (Don't put it in the body of your comment unless you want the whole world to have it.) Otherwise I'll be able to read the review on Amazon but not contact you if you win.
And that's it! I'll announce a winner on April 15th. Good luck!
Update on 2012-03-08 15:40 by Catherine
*To my wonderful readers in the UK, I'm sorry to say I only have these marketing controls (such as a brief promotional giveaway) on the US edition. If you read the comments below, you'll see that one of my lovely UK readers decided to buy and review the book anyway, even though she felt she could not qualify for the gift card, either. If you're in the UK, you might want to read my response to her. If you're willing to purchase and review the book, you should be able to get in on the gift card giveaway. So I'll just wait to buy the card until I know whether the winner is US or UK. Sound fair to all?
Update on 2012-03-09 21:01 by Catherine
I am absolutely delighted to announce that the (briefly) free ebook edition of When I Found You is #1 in the Amazon Kindle store. It's #1 in free, #1 in Literary fiction and #1 in Contemporary fiction. No idea how long it will hold, but I'm barely breathing. Thanks to all of you who downloaded it (so far) for making this promo such a smashing success. And to those who haven't yet, there's plenty of time, and the link is above!
Update on 2012-04-16 15:46 by Catherine
AND THE WINNER IS...Lisa C! Thanks so much to those who took the time to get involced. And Lisa...you've got mail.
Recently I've had two long trips plowing through my older blog posts. One was in search of travel posts to pin on Pinterest. (Yes! I'm on Pinterest now! And if I may be allowed to say so, I think my boards are starting to look somewhat cool.) The other was to add share buttons on the posts that still feel relevant.
Here's what I discovered: there are quite a number of posts that have fallen back into the archives, where they are unlikely to be found by any but the most diligent and non-busy surfer. And they might be relevant, and might interest more recent readers/followers of this blog.
And so I thought, There must be a way to organize these older blog posts to make them easier to find.
Then, for the eleventy-millionth time, I discovered I can make this website do lots of things I never knew it could do.
Too late for long story short, but I've added both a blog index widget on the right sidebar of my blog, and an actual Blog Index page. The widget allows you to access older blog
It's officially here, folks. If you sent me a photo of yourself for my third reader slideshow, check yourself out. Music is courtesy of my good friend Jude Johnstone...and it's a song about a writer. What could be better than that?
I have an announcement about reader slideshow #4: it's going to be all Pay It Forward. This doesn't mean I don't want photos of you with my other books. It just means that I'm going to put together one whole slideshow devoted to Pay It Forward, and then go on to another mixed slideshow. I'll also reuse several good Pay It Forward photos that were sent to me for previous shows.
I'm not a hundred percent sure what got into me. Except that for many years now, I've had the feeling that I should be doing more with my photos. A couple of days ago the idea to create this video came out of nowhere, and I didn't ask any questions.
All of the photos are mine. And the Vivaldi music is legally and respectfully reused (the attribution is in the video information on YouTube).
Some of the photos are from far-flung countries like Tunisia, India, France, Italy, Greece
For anyone who still doesn't know, Anne Allen and I go way back. We live within about a half-hour's drive of each other, and I figured out a week or so ago that we have been friend for 14 years.
Charley sends out this message the night before the big event:
Hey Everybody,
Here is the link to watch the TEDx event LIVE that I will be speaking at tomorrow, Saturday, January 7th. The event starts around 10:15am PST/1:15pm EST!
My friend Misty Miller came to me recently with an idea for a possible anthology, and asked if I'd be willing to work with her to make it happen. I say "possible" because what is really guaranteed in this business? Still, if we get great stories/essays, I'm thinking there will be some way of getting them out to be read.
Here's what we're thinking. Misty, if I don't get this right, let me know, and I'll post any further thoughts you might have as a follow-up to this announcement.
We're looking for true stories from people who feel they've tasted the sting of prejudice. Anyone who feels they have not been accepted for who and what they are. Stories of racial and LGBT discrimination are of course welcome. But we are looking for a full spectrum. For example, if we use a story about an LGBT community member who feels the Christian community hates him (or her), I'd also like a story from a Christian who feels they are vilified for their religious beliefs, which may include an aversion to the LGBT community.
Not sure how many of you know this, but the fabulous author J.H. Trumble has, by pure coincidence, also written a novel called Don't Let Me Go. It's very different from my Don't Let Me Go. But it's a great LGBT-based story for teens [I stand corrected--Janet tells me it's being released as an adult book, undoubtedly with YA crossover potential] so it's not so different from the things I write. Just different from my novel of the same name.
I'm posting a photo of Janet reading my Don't Let Me Go, and me reading her Don't Let
Think of this blog post, please, as an open letter to my adult readers here in the US.
I'll start with the short version: I'm back.
Now to go into a little more detail.
You have been amazingly patient. The last expressly adult (this does not mean pornographic--I hope you know that) title I released here in the U.S. was Chasing Windmills in the Spring of 2008. Three and a half years ago. Furthermore, Love in the Present Tense and Chasing Windmills followed another long dry spell in which I didn't put out a new book from 2002 to 2006. And then when I did, it was Young Adult.
Things are moving fast now. My novel Don't Let Me Go was released in the UK on the 29th of September, and the next one, When You Were Older, will be out in the spring. And I just handed in another for 2013, but that's another subject for another blog post.
Now, I have to stop here and inject a message to my US readers. Yes, I understand there was a time when all these UK releases may have felt a little frustrating. But now these titles are coming out fast in the US. Second Hand Heart is already out and When I Found You will be out this month. So we're catching up fast.
Today I have the pleasure of doing a cover reveal for next spring's When You Were Older release. It's the first of my UK novels
For anyone who reads my blog regularly, you’ll know that Anne and I are buds, and have been for quite some time.
