Book News
by hannah
November 25th, 2011
My sweet, shy, timid little sister has decided to try her hand at selling Avon. Even though these three characteristics and “sales” is quite the dichotomy, I support it. I support anytime someone wants to stretch their wings, try something new, and step into an uncomfortable situation, because I believe this is how we grow.
Yesterday she asked me what my best advice was to her in how to make sales. My response: Believe in what you’re selling. If you love your product(s), your efforts will be coming from a genuine place, and even if you don’t get the exact results you want, you will get better results. I also told her that she should make a list of reasons why people should buy her product(s). And then I thought, I really should do that too, especially in this season when most of us are thinking about buying more than usual.
So, here goes, my reasons for why you should buy a Sex, Life, & Hannah Book Club Membership:
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by hannah
November 10th, 2011
Sometimes when you need to write, nothing comes to you, and other times your writing fills up six pages of your journal before you know it.
The last couple of nights I’ve started the process of working on an official second draft of the Sex, Life, & Hannah Summer Season, the third book in my series about romance gone to hell. Do you like that? The romance going to hell part? It’s a new slogan I’m trying out…please let me know, coming up with a slogan, a tag line if you wish, is something I’ve struggled with since 2007. But I digress.
I can’t say my re-writing started off with a bang. In fact it was the complete opposite. I toiled over two paragraphs, ended up deleting more than actually writing, and actually created more work for myself. Of course this is going to make the book better, but still, it’s frustrating that this book is taking so long to be birthed. The first two came so quickly (relatively), and this one, it’s been over a year, and I’m just getting started on the official round two. It makes me wonder if I’ve lost the touch, the voice, style, or whatever it is that I had in the first two books.
The doubts are luckily fleeting, I know if I could run away to Palm Springs, alone, without my phone, and lock myself in a hotel room with no internet service, the official round two would get done in a week. It’s hard not to be distracted and just focus on my book right now.
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by hannah
November 6th, 2011
I have had a love/hate relationship with e-newsletters. Back in the day when every marketing expert was telling you that your list was your lifeline, everybody jumped in hoping to monetize, and what happened? Our inboxes became filled to the brim with emails from our favorite shoe store to some obscure lingerie designer, and then there was Daily Candy… There was no way in hell we could reasonably keep up, so one by one we started unsubscribing, and that’s when I stopped sending out regular e-newsletters from Sex, Life, & Hannah. I felt conflicted and torn regarding “purpose”, and rather than being one foot in, I stepped completely out (I hate half-assing).
In walks Sasha Jones, my new PR & Marketing Manager, last Wednesday, at our first official meeting, “What’s going on with your newsletter?”
I told her I had no idea, until we opened up Constant Contact and found I hadn’t sent out anything since April. The mulling of ideas began until we came up with something that we both thought had “purpose”: The Sex, Life, & Hannah Sound Bite. The quote, thought, tip, or whatever thing…of the week. Just one thing, and hopefully something that will put a smile on your face.
So we’re going to give this little experiment a whirl, and comments are of course welcome.
p.s. I even put a link back up on SLH where you can sign up, if you’re not already. Look right below the SLH Book Club Membership Login.
