by M.Q. Barber | Nov 6, 2014 | Neighborly Affection series
I’ve been flailing like a madwoman all week with nervous energy for the trade paperback print release of Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) in Books-A-Million stores. My mother-in-law (unlike the stereotype, we get along fantastically) sent me the first...
by M.Q. Barber | Oct 2, 2014 | Marketing, Neighborly Affection series
Magnets, that’s how. I’m going on my first real outing as an author Sunday, a decision that launched the full-blown panic of oh my God, I have nothing to hand out! (The dog loves it when I panic — she thinks the jumpy turning-in-circles dance is a...
by M.Q. Barber | Sep 23, 2014 | Neighborly Affection series
I love getting real mail delivered. Not junk mail; that’s boring. But a letter or a package with my name on it? Thrill. Today I got a huge (and heavy!) thrill — my author copies of Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) in print arrived. Completely...
by M.Q. Barber | Aug 20, 2014 | Neighborly Affection series, Where Am I
The Neighborly Affection series is going to be in bookstores! The Neighborly Affection series is going to be in bookstores! Yes, I’m so excited that I said it twice. It’s a sentence I never thought I’d be saying. You know when you walk into a...
by M.Q. Barber | May 30, 2014 | Chatter, Neighborly Affection series
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — The White Queen, Through the Looking Glass When I started writing Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) on April 1, 2012, I thought the date was a pretty good...