Posts Tagged ‘Romance’

Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Google Analytics this fetcher on my computer is a wonder and an enjoyment to me.. When my daughter told me she cold show me who was on my sites I was shocked.. not names of people but what  towns and how they got to my site. There is a wheel that shows if they came direct, like they knew our store address or blog… If they came by way of a search engine.. Like google … Even what countries,states and towns… Like yesterday some one from the southwest looked at a book.  From Powey that is in California I think…

Wish it could tell me what to do to make people look more and then buy.. I love my bookstore and my shot glass store.. It makes me feel bad that I don’t do better at it.. I do better at the flea market… I can’t offer as much there as its to hard to carry everything with me…

We are having a fair in our town in the next few weeks so our flee market is closed down to get ready for it… I think I will go this year to get a better understanding of it… Also there is a book fair at the Library in the next town over this week and I got some really go buys last year so I am going to go get a look at it… I will need to be careful so I think I will take some boxes with me and a dolly… I have a plastic one that I can use put the box on it and go around with it so I don’t have to carry items then I will have boxes in the car that I can switch to it will take longer.  The reason I will have to be careful is I feel yesterday in our grocery store parking lot.. Spent several hours at the hospital getting x rays… I am on some good meds.. as I don’t hurt like I thought I would this morning.. I am going to go off them this morning to see how I feel… So I can get the pain level to tell the doctor when I call for my checkup date…

As you can see I am a rambler.. This is my blog to tell my story… To let my hair down so to speak..So I talk on here as if I were talking to someone here at home… But if you have read my blogs in the past I am the talker of this family..(husband and I)..I love him,our children(his and mine) books and shot glasses… I have two online  stores Readerwave who has moved from 4 years of being on eBay to being on eCRATER.. www.readerwave.com or www.readerwave.ecrater.com  I list most of my books by author… I can place as many books as I want on this site with no charge… for listing or selling.. You say how do they make there money.. from advertising. If I wanted I could place ads and lots of people do.. I don’t… Prices at eBay got to high for the amount that I was selling… I sell a book “Waiting for Agnes”by a local author in our area Joe Bullard..This book has sold real good for me… I have offered it on eBay, Amazon and eCRATER… I have sold over 200 copies and some are more than one to a person.. Make wonderful gifts and its signed.. That is the added feature I can offer that no one else can.. And the fact I am the only one offering NEW signed copies… They make wonderful gifts… If you are a Florida history buff its great… If you want to give a copy to your Library its great… I have sold copies to many countries… I feature some of my favorite authors I am a romance,suspense reader… Some of my favorite authors many of them write stories that are a series about small town USA Debbie Macomber-Cedar Cove (fashioned after her hometown of Port Orchard,Washington..(I have been there its across the bay from Seattle..)great place… This year they held Cedar Cove Days and to hear tell it was great.. I think I can quote someone who went that said there were 40 States and lots of countries represented…   You can read about this author more on her blog  www.debbiemacomber.com  Then there is Robyn Carr and Virgin River fashioned after no particular town but after the northern redwood area of California… you can read about Rybon Carr more at her site www.robyncarr.com  Then there is Diana Palmer and The Long Tall Texans series from Jacobsville, Texas another made up town of small town America. www.dianapalmer.com  Another one which I found by accident two summers ago when I had decided to read books with a series.. and new authors to me… I found JoAnn Mapson who wrote a series about Alaska and a young wheelchair bound girl trying to keep her plant nursery going that was left to her in a will by her aunt… loved it… I have always wanted to visit there and I did thought these stories.. There are so many authors with series that I love. Joan Johnston who writes about early history in America… (settlers) Then there is Jan Karon who writes about Medford  another small town USA… www.jankaron.com   These are just a few… there are so many more.. If you have an author who writes a series you think I should try please let me know.  I have read allot of authors with a series this is just the icing on the cake so to speak… There is Susan Wiggs, Rachel Lee, Janet Evanovich, Sherryl Woods, Luanne Rice, Linda Lael Miller she has a wonderful series that I follow … www.lindalaelmiller.com  also Fern Micheals and the sisterhood , www.fernmicheals.com  then there is Dorothy Garlock who write about the early days in America the 30′s on up…great stories… There are just to many to mention…. www.dorothygarlock.com  

I like going to book signings.. In January I heard about one with 12 local authors being there.. I traveled an hour from my home and it was well worth it.. I met some of the nicest woman and I had not read any of  them … I have read almost all the books I bought and had autographed that day.. I sent several to my daughter as she likes to read of vampires and I don’t find that to be my cup of tea…

Ramblings of a Crazy Woman is what I am changing my blog title to instead of Google Analytics as it is at the moment… I am not Crazy as the saying goes just crazy about Romance Novels… and their authors… Thanks for listening to my rambling… as we all hear a voice in our head as we read, I do…

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Book Update

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Just finished putting the last Romance book into my store just now Christie Ridgway’s Great Christmas story and it like brand new… check it out at www.readerwave.ecrater.com  go to catigories click on her name and you will see two books entered for this author… You will also find over 250 catigories listed also.. Check them out and find what you have been looking for… We are taking a little break away form the store this weekend so well will not be mailing out on Saturday this week..  Will start up again on Monday… We are mailing late today so we can catch an late buyers or mail that maight be coming in…

On Monday we will also start putting in adventure and mystery starting with A… Today we are going to start getting ready by taking pictures, making folders to hold pictures, putting this weeks pictures in there right folders to use again some time.  Putting authors names on these folders and in our stores catigoiries… So if you go and see a name with no book listing know that it will be put in some time next week…

Have a great weekend see you next week… if there is an author you would like to see let us know we will try to enter that one soon…

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You can see more of Christie Ridgway by going to her website at www.christieridgway.com

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Book Catigories in Store “Romance”

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

I have most of my books under authors name.. Sometimes I have some that just don’t have more than one book by this author so I put it in under Romance or what ever it is…This week I have entered a few and have a few more to do..  “My Red Shoes” by Liana Merrill Like Breakfast at Tiffany’s with a West Coast vibe. A wonderful romantic romp through land of big dream..  “Catch a Dream” by Mary Jane Meir”  Under the Stars You Can Sometimes Catch a Dream.”Love in The Fast Lane” by Jenna McKnight Have Ghost Will Travel.. These are just three of the newest entries. I have more to go in and there are at least 30 already there… Come take a look.. Find these books at www.readerwave.ecrater.com   You can reach all these Authors at there personal websites  Jenna McKnight at www.jennamcknight.com Mary Jane Meirs at www.tlt.com/author/maryjanemier.htm Liana Merrill at www.lianamerrill.com

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Books

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Books are my passion, reading, selling, showing. Lately I have been trying to widen my scope on what to read.. I use to read just romance.. I now try to put in some suspense, history,christian. Right now I am reading a Harlequin Christmas story… Seasonal seems to bring my mood up and I read them all year long… When ever I run across one.  I have read some mystery and like them…

I try to have a wide selection of books in my store… Next week I will begin telling you about the different books I have for you to look at…

www.readerwave.ecrater.com

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Reading

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Good Romance story has made the world go round for years… I have been reading romance novels sense Gram gave me @2.00 a week to spend for my allowance and we had a store at school.. I would go spend some of it on a pocket size romance novel. Then it would take me two days to read..Then I was back to the school library.  I was in middle school at that time.. From then on  I aalways had a book in my hand. A girlfriends gram gave her true story a very smutty mag.. we read them from front to back when I was a in 8th  grade.. The point of my blog is to tell you read anything just read… But understand and don’t skip over the hard words or make your own words.. Make sure you are reading what it really says and means… You can do this even with Romance…..When my children were little we had a lady who lived across the street from us who got her Harlequinin the mail every month.. she was nice enough to pass them around to several of us to read. I would read mag from front to back…To this day I read one or two books a week depending on how busy I am. I just bought 4 books from  Wal Mart as we don’t have a book store in our town… But even in our town you can find a book at the nearest Publix Grocery Store, WalMart, then used one you can find at the library sale, yard sales, flee market… There is a always a way.. Just read

I have loved reading so much that in 2004 I started an on line bookstore www.readerwave.ecrater.com  back then it was on eBay but got to expensive now I can offer low affordable prices and still make a profit… come see my store

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Authors, Readers, Sellers, Doctors Lawyers,Teenagers,

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Everyone is on Twitter.. I can ask a busy Author and get a answer.. I can ask an Actor a question get an answer.. Same goes for a weatherman or woman.. A Book seller or buyer,

People get on Twitter to pass the time, information, gossip,religion, hook you up with there business..

Why do you go on Twitter?

I go to talk to my family weather person.. To talk to some of the Authors I find on there..To fellow bookseller who sell on www.ecrater.com   You will find I have two stores on ecrater… www.readerwave.ecrater.com  and www.shotglassheaven.com  

One thing I will be looking for is someone who can advise me on photographs of shot glasses.. They are hard to take especially the clear ones with a little writing.  Some of mine at www.shotglassheaven.com  are really bad…

Now books I can do pretty good… And I have been selling more and more lately.. Thanks to everyone what ever way you find me… Let me know what you are looking for…I list more by author than I do my say romance, mystery, which is a better way if you were buying? 

would love to get some comments… thanks for reading my blogs….

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Book Store

Friday, July 24th, 2009

eCRATER is a little known place, where I can enter all my books for free, pay nothing to them when I sell books, or other items.  Then its also a place where you don’t have to pay allot when you buy…. I only charge 00.45 to 2.00 for used books… depending on shape they are in and size.  I have Harlequin which I can not sell on Ebay or Amazon as I would have to charge over a 1.00  Both these other stores charge huge fee’s which like any other business I would pass on to you so I could make money. I have a book in both these stores and I also have it in eCrater… You can see the difference in pricing… Check out “Waiting for Agnes by Joe Bullard.. its a new personally autographed book about the Coral Castle in Homestead,Fl. Its the only book I have been selling for awhile… People are not checking out my eCRATER store even though its easy to look at and over 1200 items in it. New and Used Books, audio,LARGE PRINT,Cd’s, collectibles, stuffed animals, flip flops (homemade decorated) We also have a big collection of Nora Roberts, and Debbie Macomber, Diana Palmer,James Patterson,and many more. We have over 120 named authors as well as ones in sections of Romance, Mystery,Fantasy,Religion and more.  We offer you two ways to buy… Papal and money order, with paypal its harder to offer you a shipping discount. But if you trust us..we will send you a refund after we process your order.  With money order we will send you the right bill before you send it… What we offer is When you buy more than one book first or most expenxive is shipping  full price and everyone after is 1.00  … Another deal is if you buy 4 or more books you get one free.. You email us with the choice and we take it off line for you… It must be one of the same or lesser value.

I hope we have answered all questions if not make a comment or email us at readerwave@bellsouth.net   our store is at http://tinyurl.com/olyuny  or www.readerwave.ecrater.com   

You can follow us on twitter or here on our blog if you have something you would like to know about let us know.. we are open to new idea’s we try to follow blog hops… or we might lead you back to another blog that we though was great… Become a regular follower… We’d love to have you on board.. It gets lonely here by ourselves…Come back often and we love comments.

autographed by author Joe Bullard

autographed by author Joe Bullard

Next picture try to show our book store

Piles of books are authors that we have 4 or more and eaiser to keep stacked and others on shelves

Piles of books are authors that we have 4 or more and eaiser to keep stacked and others on shelves

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New Enteries

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Yesterday I put several books and authors in my on-line bookstore. http://tinyurl.com/olyuny   “Fly Away Home” by Kimberly Cates  you find this in our Romance section as well as “The Stand In”by Kate Clemens,”Lusty’s Betrayal” by Debby Conrad in or Romantic Suspense. Authors that you can find by there name are Janet Dailey’s “The Only Thing Better Than Chocolate”,Robyn Carr’s “Runaway Mistress” (I read this one some time ago great book), Jasmine Crosswell “Inheritance”.  In our store we have over 1200 items… 1100 are books new and used. Prices start at 00.55 and go up to 19.99 

Many more will be going in today.. Come check us out.  We will be adding daily have over 1000 here to put in along with our shot glasses for our SHOTGLASSHEAVEN  on-line store…

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