Mortaine’s Blog

Hey, if you haven’t joined LinkedIn and you need an invitation, just let me know in comments (leave your email address, comments are screened).

If you’ve joined and want to link with me, same thing, or you can use my @livejournal address to contact me. even poked me to add my LiveJournal Support time as a past job experience, just so she could endorse me (isn’t she sweet?)

LinkedIn is like a social networking tool in many respects, except it’s very much geared towards professional relationships and networks. One reason I encourage people to join is that I want my various circles and networks to overlap. After all, if my tech writing friends only talk to other tech writers, then they’ll never get jobs. Similarly, some of my programmer friends go through their whole careers without ever meeting a tech writer who actually knows what they’re doing.

I have no financial stake in LinkedIn. Just been a satisfied member ever since and got me hooked into it.

OK, here it is! If you want a signed copy of my book, and you don’t want to wait till you see me in person, you can order one from me directly!

The books are $24.99, plus $5 shipping and handling (I ship Priority Mail), for shipping within the US. Overseas, I’ll have to charge extra to ship, I’m pretty sure.

If you want to pay by check, leave a comment so we can set that up.

I’ll be mailing books out every week that I have orders, and if you don’t tell me who to address the signature page to, I’ll use my discretion and either sign it to the name on the PayPal receipt, or with no name at all, so be sure to use the “extra comments” field to introduce yourself!

If you don’t already know, I was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois, and still have family and friends in Missouri, Illinois, and Michigan. Se even though I live in California, I frequently return to the Midwest to visit.

Naturally, this means that my first book tour is not a big coast tour of the East and West coasts. Nope– I’m aiming for the heart of my readers, by going straight to the Heartland!

Yes, that’s right! I’m going to Missouri, Illinois, and Michigan in a week, and you’re invited to come out, meet and greet, and talk about videoblogging and books!

Tour Dates and Events:
August 12: Vloggercue in St. Louis.
August 13: Brunch in St. Louis. A friend of mine is helping me figure out where to have this.

August 14: Dinner in Evanston, IL, most likely at Carmen’s pizzeria.

August 16: 2 free videoblogging workshops at TechSmith, makers of Camtasia Studio (excellent screencasting software for Windows), in Okemos, Michigan (near Lansing).

At all events, I’ll be giving away a copy or two of the book, and I’ll have copies for sale, if you want one. Plus, I’m always willing to sign your copy, of course!

The informal dinner/brunch meet and greets are, sadly, not being sponsored by anyone, so we’ll have to go dutch, I’m afraid. But the TechSmith events are sponsored by TechSmith, which means even more goodies, and free food!

Additional events will be announced in this blog, so subscribe to its RSS feed to keep current!