Pretty New Site

Here it is, at long last: a brand new site.

Poke around the site, let us know what you like, and certainly feel free to suggest anything you’d like to see on here.  We’re still adding things here and there, and we always like suggestions and ideas.

Speaking of suggestions and ideas, you all have been absolutely wonderful with your comments, tweets, Facebook messages, etc. about Bittersweet.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  Lots of you have asked how you can help with the release--here are a few things:

The number one thing you can do is recommend Bittersweet to your friends—whether that’s a phone call, a group email, Facebook, Twitter, whatever.  The books I buy are the ones my friends recommend, so if you’re excited about it, the best thing you can do is share it with people, and if I can help with that, let me know.

One woman ordered 30 copies of Cold Tangerines for her own 30th birthday, and she gave them out to the 30 women who had most influenced her life.  So cool!  Another woman gave hot-off-the-press copies of Bittersweet to friends who helped host a benefit for her daughter—it’s an amazing story of friendship, how we carry each other, how we surround each other when everything falls apart.  I cried when I got her email. 

If you’d like some books that are signed and personalized, send us an email—we’re always happy to make that happen, especially when there’s a great story.  We sent out a couple personalized, signed galleys because the stories were just so sweet—a birthday gift for a friend, a graduation present for a girlfriend from her sweetest ever boyfriend.  We love stuff like that, and we’re happy to be a part of it. 

And when I say we, I’m talking about Brannon, one of my oldest friends.  My publisher hired her for a few months to mastermind all the details of the release and the fall events.  She said to me the other night, “I don’t know how you did this without me the last time around.” And I agreed wholeheartedly.  I don’t know either.  So super thankful to work with her this time around. 

The number two most important way you can support Bittersweet: post a review on Amazon —they really, really do matter.  Reviews on Facebook, Shelfari, Goodreads, etc. matter, too, but Amazon is the big one.  

And number three: review Bittersweet on your blog.

Throughout the fall, friends and bloggers are going to be reviewing Bittersweet. If you’ve got a blog, and you’d like to review Bittersweet, send an email to Brannon.  Pick a Wednesday, and Brannon will send a signed book for you. If you’d like to do a giveaway along with your review, email Brannon with the name of the winner. I’ll personalize a book and she’ll send it to the winner. 

I ran across this review last week—lovely! Sweet! Many thanks to Tara—maybe we’ll meet when I come to Nashville in November…

Comments

[jackie]

loved bittersweet so much. your words are weaving their way through my mind and falling out in many a conversation. i can't wait to share this book with my friends and to see how your stories affect our lives. going to make a great christmas gift for sure.

the new site is lovely. very fresh, clean and peaceful.

[Sabrina]

Love the new blog!

[Cindy Bultema]

I love, love, love your pretty new site. It is beautiful ~ you are beautiful! Enjoy this special, sacred time, Shauna. Love to you~ Cindy :)

['becca]

it's fantastic and simple and lovely and as jackie said, fresh. i bet if a website could run, this one, it could run a half marathon and then a couple of months later a full marathon. XO

[bex]

Oh my word. This is amazing. I love it! Like others have said, it's simply, fresh, and clean. I've LOVED Bittersweet. I'll post a review on my blog this week and on Amazon, too! Hope, hope, hope to see you in Salem in September!

[Catherine]

What?....no pic with your blogs? I enjoyed the pics you used to post as much as the blogs! The pics were essential to the blogs. Rethink that one, sister!

[Jenny Potter]

S - The new site looks amazing! I have been trying to pace myself with Bittersweet, so it lasts longer. No such luck - I have been devouring it! Hope you are well!

[Noreen]

Shauna, I LOVED Cold Tangerines and waited on bated breath for Bittersweet. It is so wonderful! Thanks for speaking your heart and being real & authentic.

[Jessica]

I wonder if I'm the birthday gift receiver mentioned...Either way, still one of my favorite gifts of all time. Means so so much. And I've been spreading the word of you and 'Bittersweet' all over Dallas. Random people now send me Facebook messages that they're reading your books...LOVE. IT.

[Tara]

Thanks for the shout-out Shauna! I will absolutely be at the event in November. Looking forward to having you back again. People are still talking about your last visit. :)

[Jamie]

I miss the pictures!

[http://erin-oncall.blogspot.com]

Love the blog! Miss the pictures. bittersweet is wonderful!! And my first gifting of it has already read it and raved. Thank you.

[Jodi at Small Town Small Times]

I love the website, and that you it's now bigger than any one book.
And that it's clean and pretty, and most critically -- you look really skinny.
I am having trouble scrolling down on the site to get to the book icons on the bottom. And - I agree with the others on your photos. They set such a mood for each post.
I am lovig the new book, btw -- so raw and honest and intimate. Thank you.