Ruby's Birthday Book Giveaway - Let's try this again

Confession time: I feel like an idiot. I'm new to this whole author thing, and even newer to the various methods of promotion. I signed up back in March to be a part of the Ruby's Reads Giveaway Hop for her birthday this month. I was excited to be doing my first giveaway hop, and it was even better because it happened during the Titanic anniversary! Here's where I'm the idiot: having never done one of these before, I misunderstood how they worked. I thought that my giveaway would be hosted on Ruby's blog at some point during the hop, and was waiting...

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Ruby's Birthday Book Giveaway Hop

4/16:Bumping this up now that the Centenary post-a-palooza is over. :) This blog is part of the Ruby's Reads Birthday Giveaway Hop! It runs April 12 - 24, and I believe there will be a giveaway copy of DESTINED in there at some point. For now, you can enter her April Releases contest below. As I get more info about my part of the hop, I will edit this post and bump it up. Enter the contest Here's the list of blogs in the hop: document.write(''...

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Titanic Centenary, Day 6: April 15, 1912

April 15, 1912 Another busy day, so let's get right to it, shall we? Apologies in advance for the length. Twenty minutes after striking an iceberg, Captain Smith had been made aware of the ship's fate, and it wasn't a good one: Thomas Andrews estimated she had only an hour and a half or so left to live. Smith headed for the wireless room and told...

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Titanic Centenary: April 14, 1912. Iceberg, right ahead!

April 14, 1912 Well, here it is, the big day. This post will be longer than the others, for obvious reasons It was a busy day! Sunday morning was clear but cool. After breakfast, church services were held in each class, with the first class service presided over in their dining saloon (photo, left) by Captain Smith. Some books claim that this was...

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Titanic Centenary: April 13, 1912

April 13, 1912 April 13 started out with the wireless operators hard at work to fix the broken telegraph system. Because it was down, they missed some early ice warnings, and got even more backed up with passenger messages. At one point in the morning, Major Archibald Butt, a first class passenger and military aide to President Taft, stopped by...

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Titanic Centenary: April 12, 1912

April 12, 1912 The next two days on Titanic were relatively uneventful. The ship was at open sea, with nothing but water for miles in all directions. Passengers would spend their days wandering the decks when the weather was warm enough, chatting or reading in the lounges or libraries, playing cards, and for the first class, checking out the amenities...

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Titanic Centenary: April 11, 1912

April 11, 1912 The morning of April 11 was clear but cool, keeping most passengers indoors as the Titanic neared her final stop in Queenstown, Ireland (known today as Cobh). She docked around 11:30am, dropping anchor just outside of Roche's Point, too big to berth at the dock itself. Passengers and mail had to be ferried back and forth on smaller...

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Titanic Centenary: April 10

April 10, 1912 April 10 was a busy day for Titanic. It was sailing day, the first day of her maiden voyage. She would set off from her first port in Southampton, England, at noon, heading across the English Channel for Cherbourg, France. Titanic's crew arrived first, around sunrise, filling the port and filing on board to get ready to receive her...

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Titanic centenary news stories

This week, I plan on doing a day-to-day posting of the Titanic’s maiden voyage, although I haven’t yet figured out what I will write on April 12-13, since those two days were relatively boring on board the ship. Since the ship’s maiden voyage didn’t begin until April 10, here’s a post you can refer back to as the week goes on for news stories around...

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