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Dec 10, 2011 
Local Author Faire
 Cover-to-Cover Books
11 AM-3 PM
 

Come support a great independent bookstore,  meet Northwest writers, and spend your holiday shopping dollars locally
Dec 6, 2011 
Willamette Writers Author Faire
7 PM

I'll be  signing my novel alongside other local authors at the Willamette Writers Winter Faire at
the Old Church (1422 SW 11th) in Portland, OR 
Nov 5, 2011 
Vancouver Writers Mixer
   
 Cover-to-Cover Books
       5-6:30 PM
 
Facebook, Twitter and Blogs, oh my!
Come meet and greet other Northwest writers, network, and have a good time!  Join us the first Saturday in April when I share tips on Social Media Marketing for Authors.
 
  Now featured with Past Times Books

 PTB has selected some of the best historical fiction eBooks in the genre and brought them together in one place with Author interviews, blogs, newsletters, and reviews.  

 
Oct 1-2, 2011

I'm teaching a seminar on creating and marketing e-Books at "Write on the Sound" in Edmonds, WA.

Come and heckle me !
Sat, Oct 1 from 10:30-11:45
 
 
Aug 5-7, 2011
e-Book and Social Media panelist at the Willamette Writers Conference 

This is one of the best writer conferences in the USA and not just because I'm getting 15 minutes of fame on a Friday morning!

Hope to see you in Portland, OR.

 

April, 2011
Amazon 2011 Breakthrough Novel Contest:

"No Roads" advances to the Semi-finals


One of 50 final entries from an initial field of 2500!

OK, I didn't win, but not bad to be in the final one percent!
 March 4, 2011




5-8:30 PM


  "First Friday - Arts & Letters"

Arts: Student artists will have works on display throughout town.

Letters: Local authors (like me!) will be signing and reading from their books at various shops in historic downtown Camas, WA. 

For details:
First Friday
Dec 7, 2010 I'll be  signing my novel alongside other local authors at the Willamette Writers Winter Faire at
the Old Church (1422 SW 11th) in Portland , starting at 7:00 p.m.

Oct 9, 2010

I'll be  signing my novel alongside other local authors at the Willamette Writers table from 2-4 PM. Wordstock, Portland.

Here's the youtube video from this event.


  
 August 6th & 7th, 2010

Join me at Art in the Heart in downtown Vancouver, WA!

I'll be reading from and selling my novel alongside other authors.

 May 25, 2010 
 Good Review!

 "Laugh Till You Cry" - read this review in The Vancouver Voice

 

Free e-Books for men and women in uniform!

If you're currently serving, send me an
e-mail for the discount code.

For more info on Operation E-Book,click here!




OED Logo from the Imagination and Graphic Artistry of K.A. M'Lady & P.M. Dittman

       
April 3, 2010 
Vancouver Writers Mixer
  
 
 Cover-to-Cover Books
       5-6:30 PM

 
   Come meet and greet other Northwest writers, network, and have a good time!  Join us the first Saturday in April when Camas author Ron Gompertz shares practical advice and reveal some of the pitfalls for authors considering self publication.

        
Mar 5, 2010 
"Art & Letters"
  
First Friday in Camas 

5-8:30 PM


Arts:
Student artists will have works on display throughout town.

Letters: Local authors will be signing and reading from their books at various shops in historic downtown Camas. 

For details: First Friday

You missed it? Here's a great review!

             
New Publication!

The Expat's Pajamas: Barcelona


The Expat's Pajamas: Barcelona now available on Kindle.

This is the first of 3 planned volumes ... a "Collected Quirks" of vignettes about expat living originally published as articles while living in Barcelona, traveling around Europe, and avoiding work on my novel.

Now available in Italy where all roads lead to "No Roads!" Normalmente disponibile per la spedizione entro 5 giorni lavorativi 
Prego!
Jan 8, 2010
First Friday in Camas.
 
Signing books at "The Uncommon Gift" at First Friday (well, 2nd really) in downtown Camas.
 Dec 29-Jan 5 Nice "No Roads" article/interview in the "Hometown" section of the Camas Post Record. Print edition only.
Hooray for local journalism!
Dec 17 - 25  Io Saturnalia!
Dec 16, 2009
Nice shout-out!

Portland's "reading local"
 webzine
Dec 15, 2009
Author bio live on Amazon
People who bought my book also bought Jane Austen?
WTF? I don't even write about zombies! 
Dec 13, 2009
Online at Powells
Print edition joins e-books online in Stumptown. Worth a couple bucks extra to support the city of books.
Dec 12, 2009
Exclusive! Books on the Shelf
 
The Uncommon Gift
407 NE 4th Ave
Camas, WA
 
Dec 8, 2009
Books by the Pound
Print & Kindle Version available in UK - Amazon-UK
Dec 8, 2009
Books on the Continent
Amazon-France has that certain je ne sais quoi
Amazon-Germany calls me "R. S. Gompertz von Imprint Unknown" and charges extra for it!
Dec 7, 2009
Online w/Barnes and Noble

Barnes and Noble
 - member price $10.80 ... such a deal!
   

Dec 2, 2009

Pints and Pages - Beer and Books

Mc Menamins East Vancouver
1900 N.E. 162nd
Vancouver WA

Dec 1, 2009
7-8pm

Book Faire: Reading and Book Signing

Old Church, 
SW 11th & Clay
Portland, OR

Sponsored by Willamette Writers

The WW Writers Faire features published members of Willamette Writers offering and speaking about their books. Here's the article

 

 

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