Stalking Kelly Ripa

Although many authors believe selling a book to a New York publisher means they have finally “won” the battle, the reality is far different from the expectation. Selling the book is just the first part. Then you have to find some way to make it stand out from the thousands of other books published. If you are a new author, that pretty much means you are on your own, because New York publishers do not shell out big bucks to promote books from new authors.

Short of stripping naked, rolling in an industrial-sized vat of glitter, and dancing on the Avenue of the Americas, so people can see how brilliant you are, what is a new author to do?

Well, you can always stalk Kelly Ripa, and beg her to start up her Reading with Ripa bookclub again. Of course, neither Jennifer Apodaca (www.jenniferapodaca.com) or I, Natalie R. Collins (www.nataliercollins.com), look good in orange jumpsuits, so we aren’t literally stalking Kelly, but we did start a blog, consisting of letters to Kelly Ripa that tell her why she should start picking books again—preferably ours.

Once other authors heard about it, they jumped on the bandwagon, too, and some posted their own letters to Kelly on the comments section. Joshilyn Jackson, author of gods in Alabama, offered to be a guest stalker and things took off from there.

Now we have a whole lineup of guest stalkers just waiting to stalk Kelly Ripa. We hope she won’t call the FBI. If she does, it was all Jennifer’s idea, and she bulled me into it….

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