Posts by Laura Baumbach
  • by Laura Baumbach

    I don’t watch a lot of TV these days. I got out of the habit when I was working full-time evenings and nights in the ED. But I do admit to having been seduced to the dark screen (as opposed to the dark side which I already live in ) by some of the series [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    Why is it I can never remember what day of the week it is anymore? I realize I’m getting older, multi-tasking in this high speed, multi-project world and running a publishing business is a 24/7 job, but really. The day of the week? Is it just me or does everyone else feel like the world [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    One of the very young aspiring authors, who will be submitting a book to the Crayons Line of childrens books (childrens books written by children) at Featherweight Publishing (a tiny but growing childrens and YA imprint of MLR Press—http://www.featherweightpublishing.com) school class is a finalist for the Today’s Show, Harry Potter trip in [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    And inspired to do more at next year’s conference. I really want to host one of the breakfast events or a light luncheon. Spotlight the authors who attend in LA and share the limelight and cost with AMP.
    I think RT is losing a bit of the glamor it had for me the first couple [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    I started ManLoveRomance Press four years ago because i wanted an outlet for my own and my peers M/M erotic romance in print. Other houses were great at selling M/M as ebooks but most weren’t open to putting much M/M into the printed page. I’ve worked steadily to make the press a profitable and [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    I’m back from the weekend trip to Atlanta for a TV interview. And WOW! am I excited! And flattered and Thrilled!
    The shoot was done in a section of a large Borders store. It took 10 am to 2:30 pm. There was a large crew of awesome TV people including make-up, a wardrobe stylist, a [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    I’ve been busier this month than usual. It’s all a good thing, busier means business is growing. Business is prospering, the kids are growing up, and, with my boys anyway, that means extra events, teacher appointments, and roughhousing problems. Even the oldest is doing drama all over me, moving out after a disagreement over a [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    It’s all about me, my press MLR Press, LLC and its imprints Passion In Print Press for mainstream romance and Featherweight for all YA.
    Link: http://www.calameo.com/read/00014901487f202c63a34
    Laura

  • by Laura Baumbach

    As an author and as a publisher, I do a lot of gift baskets at events like RWA and RT, download giveaways, donations of books to charity auctions, promo things to reader sites, etc. But I don’t get any feedback about them. Was the giveaway of value to the winner? Did they like getting just [...]

  • by Laura Baumbach

    Has hit our house. The first to go down was the 11 year old. Four days of headache, grumpy-butt and vomiting. The last day he gave it to my husband. three days of headache, body aches, vomiting and grumpy-butt-ness. The second day into it the oldest’s girlfriend (who lives here or might as well) goes [...]

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