Thursday, April 2, 2015

Peggy Chambers

Blog Title: “Views from the Hammock”

Main Points about Peggy Chambers:

·      Author of The Apocalypse Sucks and Secrets of Sandhill Island. She also has a middle-grade fantasy novel coming out mid-April called Glome’s Valley and she currently has five unfinished manuscripts.

·      She is 62 years old and has two children, five grandchildren and lives with her husband and dog. 

·      “She adores travel, Yoga and curling up with a good book in front of a roaring fire.  She loves the great outdoors, even if it is just taking the dog for a walk and once ate wart hog pizza for lunch when she followed her husband across deepest, darkest Africa. She even climbed the pyramids at Chichen Itza.

·      She attended Phillips University, the University of Central Oklahoma and is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma.  

·      She is a member of the Enid Writers’ Club, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc., Oklahoma Women Bloggers and Ozark Writers’ League.

·      She won blogger of the month for March 2015 at Oklahoma Women Bloggers http://www.oklahomawomenbloggers.com/why-i-blog-4/

·      She just retired this week from Atwoods to spend more time on her writing. She worked there as part of the E-Commerce department working on the new website and as part of the customer service department.

Main Points about her Blog:

·      She has been blogging for 2 years and blogs close to once a week.

·      Purpose of her blog: “I love to meet people across the country, but I originally began blogging to promote by books.”

·      She blogs from her home in Enid, Oklahoma.

·      Her blog has 88 followers. The blog is linked to her Twitter account where she has 1207 followers and to her Facebook page where she has 254 followers. The blog also links to her author page on Amazon.

·      Her blog does not make money, but it does promote her books, which ends up making her money.
·      Chambers says, “Blogging helps me introduce myself and allows me to vent about things I want to discuss.”

·      Why her blog is unique: “I’m not just trying to sell my books, but networking with people with similar interests.”

·      Her advice for fellow bloggers is to learn to build your own website and to change it as your attitudes change. She also suggests joining a blogging group.


·      You can find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BraWars, or connect with her on Twitter at @ChambersPeggy.



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