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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Radio or Podcast Interviews.. Gold dust for an author – Get prepared.
Great tips for giving an interview. Thank you, Sally!
Radio or Podcast Interviews.. Gold dust for an author – Get prepared..
Texting and Driving: Redux
I totally agree! In our state it’s against the law to text and drive, but at least half of the drivers I see are texting…My husband works for a funeral company and just last week an escort driver for the procession was stopped and getting out and a person who was texting didn’t see him and came mere inches from causing another funeral!
People. We have got to put away our phones when we drive. The messages will still be there when we park the car.
I originally posted this a year ago, but it recently came up again in my classroom and thought it might be timely to post again. I asked my students how many of them have been in a moving car while someone was texting? 39/52 said they were. Wow! How incredible it is that parents value their children so little. You think that comment is too harsh, well it isn’t. Texting and driving is 17 times more dangerous than driving drunk at the legal limit. 17 times!!!! That’s crazy. The post below will give you the particulars. I told my students that they should grab the phone and throw it out the window. After all, a broken phone is much better than a dead child. Here we go:
This feels like a public service announcement. Here goes …
I had a long interesting discussion with some of my students today. First…
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Family Support is the #1 Factor in a Child’s School Success
Tips For Hosting A Facebook Launch Party
I feel like I may have reblogged this before, but just in case…I want this list of ideas!
Exhausted, that’s how I felt when my Facebook launch party ended. Three hours of chatting online, asking trivia questions, keeping track of winners, and answering questions.
This is the story of how I created and hosted my first launch party.
Preparation for the event.
- Create a banner to announce your event. I used Canva.com. It’s free.
- Set up event on Facebook. Remember to make the event public or only your friends can see it.
- Put the back description of your novel at the top of the page with a link to where your book is sold. You can use booklinker.net to create a link that will take the person to the amazon site of their home country.
- Invite all your friends and ask them to share your post.
- Send a reminder the day before and the morning of the event.
- Have something to give away. I had 14 books donated by other…
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Tips For Hosting A Facebook Launch Party
I want to keep this post for when I have a Facebook Launch Party! Thanks for the great tips.
10 Reasons you stop writing your book and why to ignore them
Just keep writing, just keep writing . . . I think I recognize most of those thoughts.
There isn’t a writer alive that hasn’t stopped writing, whether as a planned break or simply because they got out of the habit. It’s happened to me in the past and I’m sure it will happen again in the future. When it does, we often come up with excuses as to justify why we’ve stopped writing, but the majority of the time that’s all they are, excuses. The trick is recognising them for the lies they are and dealing with them. Here are the ten most common reasons people stop writing and why you should ignore them.
1 Your writing isn’t very good
You’ve just read back what you’ve been slaving over for the past few weeks/months and are horrified at how poor it is, so much so you’re questioning whether you’re a writer at all. I’ll let you into a little secret, every writer does this. OK, there may be a couple…
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Thoughts on Publishing – Author Photos
I really need to focus on getting a more professional looking headshot! Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I love photos 4 and 1.
As I get closer to releasing Magic’s Stealing, I’ve been thinking about the little details that still need to be decided before publishing. What do I want to put on the copyright page? Where should I put the acknowledgements? Do I want the blurb after the title page inside the ebook edition? Should I have an author photo?
Let’s focus on the author photo, because that’s the one that’s been puzzling me.
Really Old Artsy Author Photo
My first author photo (artist photo, really, since I started by using it on DeviantArt) is quirky. I’m in costume and I’m holding a shiny, reflective ball that I bought at a renaissance faire. This particular photo is really small, I’m not sure where the original picture is, and it was probably taken during my early college years or during my late high school years.
Then there is my current author photo, which I use on Twitter and…
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How to Reach Readers on Goodreads
Excellent ideas. Thanks!
3 Steps to Connecting with Potential Readers
by Carmen Amato, via Book Marketing Tools
Serious readers live on Goodreads.com, the giant social reading site, and so should serious authors. Goodreads, which was acquired by Amazon in 2013, likely will integrate more with the big retailer this year. That means a new opportunity for authors.
The key to Goodreads for authors, which has had some unfortunate incidents of fake review bots and author bullying, is to establish and maintain a professional and polished author presence. Goodreads gives authors numerous opportunities to build that presence but the site is neither intuitive nor full of handy guides or tutorials. In addition, building your Goodreads author presence is best done on a computer. The site has a suite of apps for tablets and mobile devices but these don’t have the same range of options.
Here are my latest hot tips for finding your…
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The 7 essentials on #Twitter you may not know
This list of Twitter tips may actually help me to organize my Twitter! Thanks, Serins.
Love, Laughter, and Life 