What Did You Do This Week, Gail? April 16th Edition

Finally getting back to real life this week.

Goal 2. Generate New Work Through End Of April--Adult Novels. I'm doing the plotting thing with this. Seriously. I came up with something brilliant for one of my characters yesterday. And for another one, too. Finished reading some research. I've got more plotting done for this project than I've ever had for a book I've only written two chapters for.

Goal 4. Make More Than 33 (last year's number) Submissions Of  Completed Work Throughout The Year. I thought I'd come up with a new publication for an old manuscript. But, nope, it folded. Worked a bit on an agent list.

Goal 6.  Support And Promote Diverse Literature, Diverse Culture. Posted about Thunder Boy, Jr.

Material I tweeted or retweeted:

Larger Than Life: The Fierce and Fabulous Lena Horne - http://bit.ly/2nxf4bo  via @alldonemonkey

Okay, she's not a childlit person. But she's Lena Horne. Come on.

Reviews of select titles by Patricia C. McKissack http://www.hbook.com/2017/04/choosing-books/reviews/reviews-of-select-titles-by-patricia-c-mckissack/ …

#picturebook reading on Easter morning Thunder Boy Jr. as good as you've heard. .@Sherman_Alexie #kidlit http://blog.gailgauthier.com/2017/04/easter-reading.html …

 Goal 7. Community Building/General Marketing/Branding. 

Easter book post, promoted to Facebook, Google+ and communities, Twitter, and  Goodreads
Time Management Tuesday post, promoted to Facebook, Google+, and Twitter
Pirate Island cover reveal post, promoted to Google+ and Twitter
Laurie Halse Anderson Connecticut appearance post--Promoted to Facebook, Facebook community, Google+, and Twitter
Promoted Jump Up and Sing! giveaway on Twitter and Facebook. Posted info to Goodreads blog
Put out the call for the  May CCLC