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This week has been a pretty good. The virtual blog tour for Rajesh Setty’s book, Upbeat, continued this week.

I have continued my writing on various projects. I am excited to be working on a young adult series with my daughter Amanda. I am also working on doing a few ebooklets for my husband’s cleaning business. And my own novel. Writing, writing and more writing.

Since I have started the Fab Five Fridays (formerly the Weekly Roundup), each week there are such wonderful places on the internet I am happy to share with you.

Here are my finds for this week:

1) Book Tour.com – I found this site by reading a tweet regarding the discussion
blog post with Seth Godin about Chris Anderson’s new book, Free and how free is a part of our society. Book Tour.com allows authors to list their book tour events. You can also search to see the authors “touring” in your area.

2) Author Central on Amazon -If you are an author and sell your book on Amazon be sure to have your profile up on Author Central. I believe you can have your Book Tour.com event information linked to this author page.

3) The next resource for Fab Five Friday is an author whose book, Get Known Before the Book Deal, Christina Katz. I also found out this week (since I now follow her @thewritermama) she hosts a chat on Twitter called #platformchat. When you go to her site, you will find more neat things and resources…including her email classes and workshops.

4) Interesting article (tweet from @RebeccaWoodhead) from The Boston Globedescribes how The Northshire Bookstore in Vermont has decided to add a Espresso Book Machine (or as they call it “The Lurch” to their decor to allow customers to receive print on demand books in the store. Could this be the future of publishing?

5) I found an agent. Well, at least on twitter I did anyway. @RachelleGardner answered questions in her blog post, If you have written more than one book, who do you query first? She replied with an interesting question, why are you writing more than one book at the same time? Well, I have to say, I am guilty of this same thing at the moment. I am in the middle of writing a few things, however, they are in different genres. So I don’t believe I would be seeking out one agent for all of them anyway. However, I do see how if you are writing more than one romance novel, you may wish to pitch them to a agent in the genre.
(Also, please read the submission guidelines are Rachelle’s site before you just submit to her- thank you.)

I do hope you enjoy this Fab Five Friday. Have a wonderful memorable and celebratory weekend~Happy 4th of July!