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Today I’m over at Bitten by Books, chatting with readers and giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card! You can also watch some silly videos from a few years back, much to my embarrassment, and read an excerpt from Power of the Zephyr. Come join us! You can still read the Top Ten Gift
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Today over at Savvy Verse & Wit get great gift ideas for the reader in your family from my Top Ten Best Gifts for Book Lovers along with Chapter 1 of Witch on the Water via podcast and an excerpt from Fire of the Fey. Here is a sneak peak… #4 Nap Massaging Bed Rest
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Today over at Straight From Hel, the fabulous Helen Ginger posted my Top Ten Gifts for Writers along with Chapter 1 of Rowan of the Wood via podcast and an excerpt from Witch on the Water. Here is a sneak peak… #8 Keep Calm and Write On T-Shirt I love this. Perhaps the only think
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Please join me as my alter ego, O. M. Grey, embarks on a blog tour next week for her (our/my :-D) YA paranormal romance novel The Zombies of Mesmer! There will be guest posts and poetry and giveaways, like books, gift cards, amigurumi, and A KINDLE! Stay tuned…and look for a blog tour of my
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In the coming weeks, I’m going to be revising my popular Publishing and Marketing Realities for the Emerging Author for a second edition release. There have been many, many changes over the past 18 months, and I’d like to incorporate at least some of those changes in publishing as well as marketing in my book.
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From their Kickstarter: Writer’s Bloq is taking on an enormous problem. Only .03% of manuscripts submitted to publishers are published, and the average self-published book sells under 20 copies. At the end of the day, it’s the same story; it is extremely difficult for writers to get discovered and publish successfully without the substantial backing
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Forgive my absence, friends. Starting in September, the Rowan of the Wood Podcasted fiction will return, and hopefully, so will the publishing & marketing podcast. Also, the 4th book in the Rowan of the Wood series, Power of the Zephyr is at the printers! We’re getting our final proof right after labor day, which means
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The new cover is HERE! And isn’t it gorgeous? Thanks to the amazing talents of J. R. Fleming, who created the illustration, we have a beautiful new cover for the long-awaited 4th book in our Rowan of the Wood fantasy series. Our first print run will be very small, so pre-order your author-signed copy now
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There is a difference! I’ve been calling it automated tweets all this time, but what I really mean to say is scheduled tweets. Even if it’s recurring scheduled tweets. Read this article on WeblogBetter: Scheduled Tweets vs. Automated Tweets – There is a Difference. Excerpt: Automated tweets are just automation in the absence of human
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The following is a guest post by Vanessa Lang. Disclaimer, I’m not a fan of Lulu.com for reasons I’ll outline in a future blog. One of the main ones is that CreateSpace does the same thing, does it better, and offers more for the emerging author. —- The growing popularity if self-publishing has people wondering
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