Episode #59 – A Million Hits for Verla Kay

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In this episode of Brain Burps About Books you’ll hear …

• a review from Travis Jonker of 100 Scope Notes: Small Saul by Ashley Spires
• a Take5 Marketing Tip from Dianne de Las Casas: Activity Pages
• a great app review site called Apps for Children with Special Needs
• about a new children’s bookstore in Katonah, NY!
• me asking you to take this survey about what you’d want to learn in a how-to-create-booktrailers webinar

… and in the interview with Verla, you’ll hear about how she gets upwards of a million hits per month and

 

• how she created her enormously popular chatboard
• the site that supplies the code for her chatboard (which she referred to as simplemachines.com but it’s .org and you can find it here)
• how Verla keeps her board up-to-date
• how she administers the board
• why she created it
• flamers and other meanies
• why she doesn’t allow politics and religion
• her secret sections (shhh)
• her charm bracelet with charms symbolizing her books
• why I think Verla should monetize her site
• she should use Hotchalk.com
• yet another reference to Cliff Ravenscraft because a fan sent him a check for $12,000 as a tip
• how Verla keeps it safe for kids
• how creatives feel like outsiders as kids (repeating what E.B. Lewis said in last week’s episode!)