What a wonderful surprise to see this latest review about my book, 21 Simple Things You Can Do to Help Someone With Diabetes. When I wrote this book, it was meant to be a short, simple guide just to inform people who knew diabetics. It isn’t a medical guide, and it isn’t meant to be an earth-shattering, 300-page manifesto. Just a short simple guide to give people a little bit more info about the personal side of diabetes.

So that’s why it’s fabulous when someone gets what I’m trying to do and likes it! So yay! for my latest review. Here’s a snippet:

The author simplifies the subject matter and has created a powerful checklist for the uninformed. It is an easy to read, easy to understand guide hitting on emotional, sensitive and practical situations that we probably experienced ourselves, or overheard in conversation at some point in our lives.

Have you had awkward moments with a friend or family member that is diabetic?
Could you have handled it better? This guide gets you there.

Read the rest at Amazon!

Recently Crystal from Therapeutic Conversations for Singles reviewed my book, Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza. There are a couple things about this review that made me insanely happy.

First, Crystal is one incredibly busy person. I sent her the book months ago and she promised to review it. Every once in a while I get a blogger who wants to read my book and review it, but life happens and they never seem to get around to it. I usually just shake it off because it happens very rarely. Bloggers are one cool group of people, you know?

Anyway, Crystal is going to school and doing so much stuff right now, but still managed to find time to read and review my book. I loved that she did that with everything else she has going on. I was very grateful for that.

Second, she did something no one else has done. She took the advice in my book and used it to craft a short paragraph about herself! I loved this. How very clever and smart. So Crystal managed to make my day in a very big way, and I hope you will click over to her blog and read all the great things she has to say. In fact, add her to your regular blog list!

Thanks so much to Wendy’s Minding Spot for reviewing my book, Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza. Wendy said, “It works! There is that perfect someone out there for you and Cherie Burbach helps you utilize the online tools available to you to help you with your success.” Be sure to read the whole review and show Wendy some love on her awesome blog.

I’m at the Crazy for Books blog this week talking about the Top 10 Internet Dating Myths. Think you know what they are?

If you come on over and take a look, you can also register to win a copy of my book Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza. I’m giving two copies away, so you’ve got a pretty good chance to win!

Thanks to Angie Rayfield for reviewing my book, Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza. Be sure to check out her review!

Just got my first review for my latest book, 21 Simple Things You Can Do to Help Someone With Diabetes. It’s from writer Subha Ekambaram, who comes from a family of diabetics.

Here’s her review:

I can see that your 21 suggestions are authentic and heart felt, because you deal with diabetes everyday and your book is borne from what people around, do or don’t do. It could help others in similar predicament. I like the disclaimer that the book is not for meant to be a medical reference for learning to fight diabetes, so it prepares me for what lies ahead.

Friends and relatives, even if they are well-meaning, may not always know what to do, what to say or how to act to help a diabetic. Its important to know its about ‘regulating’ the blood sugar and not always ‘lowering’ it, which this book could hopefully educate non-diabetics about. Since most people blurt out things out of ignorance that end up being counter-productive, this is a good book that could educate the layperson about some common-sense etiquette, dealing with someone thats suffering from diabetes.

Thank you again to Subha! I encourage everyone diabetic to read this book and pass it along to a friend or family member!

The virtual blog tour to promote my book Internet Dating is Not Like Ordering a Pizza is over. This was the first time I had focused on a “tour” with a concentrated number of stops. Normally, when I promote a book, I contact people here and there and appear at blogs throughout the run of the book. I do that because I work full-time and it’s hard to schedule things in one block.

This time around, however, I wanted to try at least one “tour” to see if it made a difference in my book sales or media pickups. And boy, did it ever. It was worth all the work involved, to be sure. And it was a lot of work, especially the upfront posting and answering interview questions. (Fun work – I’m not complaining!) I started working on the tour when the book came out in November and had it finally in April. Here are a few emotions and thoughts I’ve had along the way:

• Amazed at the creative writers we have scribbling away at blogs today.
• Happy that the book received great reviews.
• Delighted to have worked with some of the best writers and Internet marketers we have today.
• Disappointed that some of the authors I’ve helped in the past didn’t return the favor.
• Surprised to see a few folks offer up blog space for the very reason that I have helped authors in the past. (In fact, I got on several high profile blogs this way.)
• Confused at people who love a book but start off giving it a bad review before they tell you they loved it.
• Thrilled to have the support of my favorite group of writers at Suite101.
• Sad that the tour has ended!

Would I do it again? You betcha. I’m debating it for the book I have coming out in a few weeks.

In a related note, I decided to start a blog which helps promote up and coming writers. The blog, Working Writers, has job leads and other news, but also includes interviews with writers. I received such blessings from this blog tour when it came to people helping me out, that I had to find to way to help promote other folks as well. I wanted one area that just had tons of great information for writers, either in the area of jobs, trends, or getting to know their cohorts. Thank you to everyone who helped me during this tour, you are welcome on my blogs anytime!

Until then, I’m back doing my full-time writing gig and thinking of future books!

Chances are, unless you’ve done Internet dating yourself, you believe in a few myths. You probably believe that everyone on the system is lying, or that it’s all about sex, or that there just aren’t enough people to meet the right one.

I’ve got a guest post at Love Is an Exploding Cigar that talks about the Top Ten Myths with Internet dating. See if one or two of them are beliefs that you’ve held on to!

I’ve got a new interview with Zensanity today as part of my virtual book tour. I have to say, I really enjoyed it! They made me think a lot about the things I appreciate and what keeps me strong.

Searching for a date online may seem like a simple thing, but ask anyone that has tried online dating and they will tell you that it’s a little intimidating. Like anything else with online dating, there is a right and wrong way to do it. I talk about that more at my stop today at the Long Relationships blog.