Have you ever had to promote something that no one ever heard of?
We did. Last year. It was the first year of the +C3Conference and we had no idea how to go about letting people know about this conference. You can look at the fun we had by click the link: Creatures, Crimes and Creativity
We immediately took to +Social Media Explorer and started putting it out there for people to find us.
We were shocked by the turnout! We had over 100 registered attendees to a conference that was the brain child of +Austin Camacho .
We gathered authors and fans of Sci-Fi, Horror, Paranormal, Mystery, Thrillers, Suspense and Fantasy in +HuntValleyInn to celebrate these genres.
We had great food, had lots of laughs and even took over the bar. We were so surprised at the reviews afterwards.
John Gilstrap has spoken about how great of a time he had last year and he plans to join us this year. We have some great folks lined up.
+Eric Von Lustbader, +Rebecca York, +CJ Ellison and +Brad Parks will be our headliners this year and we have already signed up over 2 dozen writers.
We have an anthology that will be given away and will never be sold. This is a way to get fans to enjoy new authors and their stories.
Our on site bookstore was always busy and some of the authors actually sold out of their novels.
We had a first time authors panel and a spouses panel where we got to hear all about some of the authors secrets while they were working on their latest novel.
So why not take a chance and go to our website and see what we are going to do this year. We promise you that you will not be disappointed.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
WORKING HARD BUT HAVING FUN
THIS BLOG IS SUBMITTED BY SANDRA BOWMAN (aka Skype Mistress)
On Sunday the #MDC3Conference board met to discuss the upcoming event.
Since we all live a distance away from each other we decided to do SKYPE and boy did we have a ball. First on the 'test' call, everyone could see +B Swangin Webster but she could see nothing but the avatar or a blank screen. Not to worry, she would fix that in the twenty minutes before the call. +Ann Arbaugh couldn't connect to SKYPE so we called her on +Denise Camacho cellphone and had her on speaker. Everything is set, right?
Wrong, Wrong and Wrong.
The call started with everyone announcing themselves and the rule of only one person talking at a time was established. Great...we started off with Larry giving his update and then Juli and then +Austin Camacho and then it happened. It went something like this.
"Hello, Larry, I didn't hear what you said...are you there...Larry...Larry...LARRY...I THINK WE LOST LARRY! LARRY!" (ok, maybe it wasn't that dramatic)
+Dee Lawrence was still on the line and said, "I can still see him connected" and so did I. Even +Juli Monroe could see he was still on the line and after a harrowing five minutes Larry called back!
Excited I tried connecting him but then something happened...Dee and Juli were now on hold! What! Hello! Hello! Hold on Larry, I think I need to reconnect...I 'resume the call' with Dee and Juli but now, Larry is on hold! oh wait! now what the Sam Hell is going on! Hold on Larry"....hey what's that noise....Ann said she needed to go into another room and now, suddenly there is the sound of rushing water! Oh no! Is Ann drowning...'Ann! Ann! are you there! Ann, are you OK?
Good lord, I think she's drowning!" Austin said (I think he was panicked but he won't admit it)
Flustered I said, "Lawd, Ann's drowning, Larry's lost....look, I think I need to redo this...everyone hang up and I'll call back."
Ann said, "ok" We (Austin, Denise and Sandra) yelled "Noooooooooo, not you Ann; just Skype"
I called everyone back, except Ann who by now should have had on a life vest; and the call continued without problem. After the call, Ann posted to Facebook and gasp! clutch the pearls, we forgot to add +CindyLauth to the call! Forgive us for we know not what we do.
See, although we were working hard, we still had fun! Miles away and we still find a way to cut up! Don't worry Larry, you will get used to it; Just ask Austin.
Until next month...I wonder what will happen then?
On Sunday the #MDC3Conference board met to discuss the upcoming event.
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| Sandra, Juli, Denise, Cindy, Dee Austin, Ann (not pictured, Larry) |
Wrong, Wrong and Wrong.
The call started with everyone announcing themselves and the rule of only one person talking at a time was established. Great...we started off with Larry giving his update and then Juli and then +Austin Camacho and then it happened. It went something like this.
"Hello, Larry, I didn't hear what you said...are you there...Larry...Larry...LARRY...I THINK WE LOST LARRY! LARRY!" (ok, maybe it wasn't that dramatic)
+Dee Lawrence was still on the line and said, "I can still see him connected" and so did I. Even +Juli Monroe could see he was still on the line and after a harrowing five minutes Larry called back!
Excited I tried connecting him but then something happened...Dee and Juli were now on hold! What! Hello! Hello! Hold on Larry, I think I need to reconnect...I 'resume the call' with Dee and Juli but now, Larry is on hold! oh wait! now what the Sam Hell is going on! Hold on Larry"....hey what's that noise....Ann said she needed to go into another room and now, suddenly there is the sound of rushing water! Oh no! Is Ann drowning...'Ann! Ann! are you there! Ann, are you OK?
Good lord, I think she's drowning!" Austin said (I think he was panicked but he won't admit it)
Flustered I said, "Lawd, Ann's drowning, Larry's lost....look, I think I need to redo this...everyone hang up and I'll call back."
Ann said, "ok" We (Austin, Denise and Sandra) yelled "Noooooooooo, not you Ann; just Skype"
I called everyone back, except Ann who by now should have had on a life vest; and the call continued without problem. After the call, Ann posted to Facebook and gasp! clutch the pearls, we forgot to add +CindyLauth to the call! Forgive us for we know not what we do.
See, although we were working hard, we still had fun! Miles away and we still find a way to cut up! Don't worry Larry, you will get used to it; Just ask Austin.
Until next month...I wonder what will happen then?
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