5 Ways to Effectively Market your Book

For the past several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to learn more about book marketing from many different authors. Dvorah Lansky put together The Book Marketing Challenge with a diverse cast of authors who took turns sharing marketing ideas that have worked for them. Some of the strategies I knew about, but having access to…

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Blog Tour for the Kathi Macias 12 Days of Christmas

In preparation for the official launch of the Kathi Macias 12 Days of Christmas paperback on Thursday, May 29th, many of the 12 authors are participating in a blog tour. I invite you to come along as we get to know other authors who participated in the collection. Here is the blog tour schedule, along…

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Advice to Beginning Writers

Dear Beginning Writer, It wasn’t too long ago that I stood in your shoes. Although I’ve been an avid reader who enjoyed writing for most of my life, I never considered myself a writer until after I attended my first writers’ conference. The best way for me to share advice with you is to tell…

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Book Review: Fatherless – Ruth L. Snyder

Title: Fatherless Authors: Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner Pages: 431 Publisher: FaithWords (a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.) Date of Publication: January 2013 What will our world be like in 2042 if we follow the current moral trajectory? Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner team up to “vividly imagine a future in which…

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A Novel Challenge – Ruth L. Snyder

I took the plunge! I have signed up for a course with the Long Ridge Writers Group with the goal of writing a novel. The course assignments are: Novel ideas: identifying genre, main characters, and general plot Create your main characters Plan your plot Write your first chapter Create chapter two Write chapter three Revise…

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