Meet Alissa at the Baltimore Book Festival
Alissa will be at the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. The festival will be held at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and runs from Friday, September 26th through Sunday, September 28th. Alissa will be...
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Alissa will be at the Collingswood Book Festival Tomorrow
Here’s a throwback pic of the Collingswood Book Festival from 2011. That’s Alissa on the far left with Keri Mikulski and Ellen Jensen Abbott. The Twelfth Annual Collingswood Book Festival takes place...
View ArticleAlissa interviewed by Yvonne Ventresca for YA Outside the Lines
Random facts, writing schedules (whatever those are) and of course cat stuff are all included in this month’s special feature on the YA Outside the Lines blog check it out.
View ArticleAlissa is alive and well and giving out prizes
Yes, it’s been months since Alissa sent out her monthly newsletter, but an excuse (ahem, explanation) for the delay plus some other interesting tidbits can be found in the new issue of Writing Life....
View ArticleAlissa featured on Episode #25 of “Do You Know Who I Am???”
James Benner, the Cali Picker interviewed Alissa about her other life, that of an online reseller, though she does briefly plug her books
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Alissa has some thoughts about winter
Alissa’s post on this month’s YA Outside the Lines theme of winter is now up. In it she shares her feelings about a season that seems to annoy a lot of people, except of course for those tank-top...
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Meet Alissa at the Tinicum Arts Festival on July 12
Alissa will be joining a lineup of talented authors who will be signing copies of their books at the 2015 Tinicum Arts Festival. Meet 300+ artists and artisans at the two-day festival held in...
View ArticleAlissa shares advice for teen writers
Alissa and other members of the KidLit Authors club, have some words of wisdom for teen authors (and really authors of all ages) today on Yvonne Ventresca’s Teen Tuesday blog. Check out what they had...
View ArticleAlissa’s talking about amusement parks and cilantro?
That’s right. This month’s theme over at YA Outside the Lines was amusement parks, and since Alissa isn’t such a huge fan of them, she went off on a tangent where she ended up writing about cilantro...
View ArticleWatch the latest from Awkward Author
Have you seen the latest videos on Alissa’s Awkward Author YouTube channel? In her newest video she tackles recent Amazon policy changes and what they mean for authors and also talks about why abuse by...
View ArticleAlissa thinks summers fly by too fast
But as she explains in her post this month at YA Outside the lines, this is not a result of getting older, Summers Have Always Gone Too Fast
View ArticleThis Month on YA Outside the Lines Alissa Shares a Childhood Nightmare
Take a look at The Deer Man a post by Alissa Grosso on a monster that haunted the dreams she had while visiting her grandmother’s vacation home.
View ArticleAmazon’s Recent Policy Changes and What They Mean for Authors
Amazon’s recently made changes to how authors whose books are available to KOLL users are paid and changes to how they determine who can and cannot leave reviews of your books. This video is an...
View ArticleWhy I Won’t Be Reading Go Set A Watchman
Based upon comments I received on Facebook and Youtube when I posted this video, it is clear to me that some people have a problem with listening, so just to clarify, I won’t be reading Go Set A...
View ArticleBook Trailers
Do book trailers actually sell books? Well, if they do, I’m guessing they don’t sell all that many, but here’s a video about book trailers, and the approach I took with each of the trailers I made for...
View ArticleThis Channel is Officially One Year Old
Hey, I’ve been doing this for a year now, and this video is a quick trip down memory lane.
View ArticleAlissa is alive and well
Alissa finally made good on her promise to make another Awkward Author video, and she claims there will be more
View ArticleFerocity Summer Featured in Roundup of NJ YA Books
Want to really get a feel for what life in the Garden State is like? NJ Author, Yvonne Ventresca, has put together a great list of YA books that are set in NJ for the New Jersey Association of School...
View ArticleNew Etsy Sales Video is Up
In this week’s edition of “What I Sold on Etsy” Alissa is happy with this week’s total, and shows off all the cool vintage items she sold
View ArticleAlissa’s complaining about Thanksgiving
Alissa’s got some beefs with Thanksgiving. So, this month on YA Outside the Lines she explains Everything That’s Wrong with Thanksgiving.
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