Storiad’s ePressKit for Tracks

The folks at Storiad have worked diligently at putting together and distributing an electronic press kit for Tracks: A Novel in Stories. You can see it now at http://storiad.com/community/epresskit/tracks-a-novel-in-stories/.

Storiad is a company that offers networking, marketing and publicity for writers, increasing access to potential readers. Their ePressKit is like a traditional press kit only smart, modern and viral.

The ePressKit for Tracks includes information about the book, my author’s page, links to my website and blog, and lots of things like NPR radio readings, reviews and comments on the book and even videos links.

The kit also offers free excerpts from the ebook, access to press kits and media coverage, and the opportunity for reviewers or interviewers to request a free copy.

 Check out the Storiad ePressKit for Tracks!

http://storiad.com/community/epresskit/tracks-a-novel-in-stories/

Way of the DoDo

The Tracks Blog is about to go the way of the dodo. Who says you have to be 62 or older to retire? The book blog is going to retire this year.


The Tracks Blog, at www.Train-Tracks.blogspot.com, began in August 2006, five years before the novel in stories was actually published. The original draft had been written and excerpts from Tracks had been featured on the radio, at book festivals, and had been published. Although the book hadn’t been published—didn’t even have an agent yet—there was already plenty to promote.

Ever since 2006, the Tracks Blog featured news and information about Tracks: A Novel in Stories. From getting an agent to getting published, scoring readings and scoring awards, the blog covered the evolution of the book.

Tracks is still moving full-steam ahead, selling copies, getting covered, being shared in public places. But it is time to put the book blog to rest.

If you’d like to continue learning about Tracks and my writing, there are better places to go. Such as:

“Like” my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/EricDGoodman

Writeful, a weblog for readers and writers: www.Writeful.blogspot.com

“Like” the Tracks online lounge car: www.facebook.com/pages/Tracks-the-lounge-car

Follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/edgewrite

Farewell Tracks Blog; long may you ride.

www.Train-Tracks.blogspot.com

Join me on Facebook

For a few years now, I’ve enjoyed sharing things with my friends on Facebook. Tips from writers, news bits about writers, discussions about literature, information about local literary events, and the latest on my own writing—and the writing of writers I know and love. It’s all things books and literature.


Last month, I hit a milestone: I reached 5,000 friends on Facebook. My prize was not a gold watch or medal. I am no longer allowed to “friend” people on Facebook because I’ve reached the allowance for individuals.

So I did what any author would do: I created an author’s page! You can find it at www.Facebook.com/EricDGoodman.

If you like writing or reading, please “like” my Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/EricDGoodman!  

British Aristocracy, California Royalty, and Me

Richard Mineards has a distinguished career as a journalist. He covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Star Magazine. He’s a regular on CBS, ABC, and CNN. After moving to Montecito (just outside Santa Barbara) about five years ago, he began covering the local celebrity scene.


When Thomas and Gail Steinbeck hosted me for a book event at Tecolote Books in Monteceto this past summer, Richard Mineards covered it in his weekly column for Montecito Journal.

Unfortunately, his column is print only, so I’m not able to share a copy here. In his weekly “Montecito Miscellany” column, Mineards wrote about Chris O’Donnell, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Paul Simon, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglass, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Drew Barrymore … and me!

“Author Eric Goodman is clearly on the right lines … his tome chronicles a single train journey from Baltimore to Chicago and the people on board, with each chapter about different characters, including a hitman, a Holocaust survivor, a former mobster, and a poet.

“Goodman is now finishing off his second work, Womb, he told me at a bijou launch bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the Upper Village, hosted by his friends Thom and Gail Steinbeck.”

It was a brief five-paragraph bit in a celebrity column spanning several pages, but I was honored to be covered (in context with the Steinbecks) by someone used to covering Kings and Queens and Hollywood royalty.

Learn more about Richard Mineards at Montecito Journal.

www.montecitojournal.net/writers

Learn more about Thomas Steinbeck and his great work at his website.

www.ThomasSteinbeck.com