Today Evelyn and Leah, who, here at MEIER, hold the lion’s share of online outreach for our books in their strong and capable hands, reminded me that we need to be in touch with the Bloggers who so generously held their reviews of The Season of Second Chances until Launch Date. It’s almost upon us. The outreach has been kind of incredible. Evelyn spearheaded it – finding folks who love books, or appreciate the work and regeneration of renovating a home, or who just delight in home design – with a handful of folks who were simply basking in a kind of luxurious, hands-on-generally-chic-style. She read them and got to know them and let them know that she appreciated their work and their point of view. When you begin to talk about Internet, Social Media, Outreach and Bloggers – it all seems kind of theoretical at best, and shallow, technological and cold, at worst. But this has been an awakening for me... (To continue reading: http://dianemeier.com/index.php/style/eight_days_and_counting/)