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Book Marketing and Publicity Tool Kit – 2015
The great folks at BookMarketingBuzzBlog have been kind enough to round up their top blogs from this year for helping with Marketing and Publicity in the Book World. Here’s a sample of what they offer: The Best Seller Book Marketing… Read More ›
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Editing Tip # 116 – Question Everything
Whether you’re a planner or a pantser, it’s important to both ask and answer those hard questions about your newly completed novel (or even that one you’re dusting off). Does it make sense? Where might a reader get lost? Why?… Read More ›
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Fiction Friday #35 – Before the New Moon Rises / YA Fantasy
Excerpt From BEFORE THE NEW MOON RISES By Cathy Hird Prologue The knife sparked as Aphoron slid it along the granite top of the palace guard wall, honing the bronze blade to a killing edge. The rasping sound matched the… Read More ›
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New Book Promotion Features for 2016 – New Books in a Series
Publicity Tip #112 ~ Here’s a great option for any of you who are currently writing a series 🙂 Stop on by Smorgasbord – Variety is the Spice of Life and check it out. If you’re willing to “pay if… Read More ›
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A Fart in Winter and Other Poems by Emmanuel Akaolisa
~ A Fart in Winter It was freezing. We could have bargained for oil, Or even dug for coal; Conflicts could have gingered us. We may burn from attacks But as we live, in silence, The air’s colourless fire… Read More ›
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Editing Tip #115 – Tidying This and “That” for the Big Day
No, I’m not talking about doing your dusting before friends and family come over for the holidays; I’m talking about this one particular little word “that” 95% of the time can be eliminated from your sentences. It’s true. We just… Read More ›
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Editing Tip #114 – Avoid This Redundancy “In Order To” Keep Your Prose Healthy
There are a plethora of ways we authors add extra words, phrases, and sentences that aren’t necessary to the context of our writing. Take my title for today – the first three words after the numbered editing tip say enough…. Read More ›
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Fiction Friday #34 – Imprisoning A Duel Discord / Fantasy
Excerpt From IMPRISONING A DUEL DISCORD By Louise Findlay Psycha What had Caleb gotten himself into this time? We were discords for music’s sake. We couldn’t strike back against Harmony if we ran, and be damned if he got caught…. Read More ›

