Linda K Sienkiewicz

Writing life, line by line

To our favorite UPS guy

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It’s in the giving We give a Christmas gift card to our regular mailman, and this year decided to give one to our regular UPS delivery guy. He delivered boxes of my first book in 2015. When I told him what the boxes held, he seemed so genuinely excited that I gave him a copy. He smiled as if I’d handed him a hundred bucks and asked if I was going to be famous writer (I told him “We can … [Read more...]

Our Annual Christmas Letter

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Happy Christmas, all! We got a handful of Christmas letters with our cards this year. I feel a pang of guilt that I didn't write a Christmas letter. I usually do. So here's mine, in which I try to balance the humor with the boastful (we get one of those from a special friend every year, and it makes me giggle as much as the funny letters): Bring it on! We are still here, thanks to masks … [Read more...]

The Finnish Sauna

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What it's not I laughed when I saw this photo in a catalog. How is that even comfortable? Where is she, in her living room? And what happens if she drops the book she's supposedly reading? It couldn't have been easy to hold the book and zip this contraption up. It's so far from the esthetic of an actual Finnish sauna I just can't deal with it. My sauna experience I grew up hearing about … [Read more...]

Unexpected Joy in a Sleepy Comedy

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Joe Pera Talks With You I just started watching a comedy on the Adult Swim Channel called "Joe Pera Talks With You." To be honest, I never heard of the show, or even this channel, before reading an article in the Detroit Free Press, but it sounded engaging. Especially since the series is set in the UP, and centers around the life of a choir teacher in Marquette. Not much goes on in … [Read more...]

Social Media and Selling Books

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It's about building relationships! If you are a published writer, you undoubtedly have Twitter, Instagram, a Facebook page and/or other social media accounts. If you have books on consignment in bookstores, or have sold books wholesale to bookstores, do you use your social media accounts to help promote those bookstores? You definitely should. Using social media effectively doesn't mean … [Read more...]