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Category Archives: book promotion
Freebies and Kindles and Bookbub, oh, my!
If you’re looking for a fun way to help a bunch of authors, and get a chance to win oodles of mystery and thriller novels, including mine, then here’s the post for you! Generally, I do one of these every … Continue reading
The Query Quandary: Pitching Your Novel
The novel pitching advice and experience continues today, with the all-important query. For more advice, check out Joshua Palmatier’s hub of all things pitching! Okay, so you’ve got a killer pitch line, and a finished manuscript, and you’re ready for … Continue reading
Crafting Your Pitch, Elevator Style
This week for all the aspiring novelists out there, Joshua Palmatier invited a bunch of us to share our stories and advice about three stages of pitching a book. Find more entries here–and happy pitching! I love me a good … Continue reading
Book Launch day, Elisha Rex!
Today is the big day, the launch of book 3 in my Dark Apostle series of fantasy novels about medieval surgery. Please help me celebrate and spread the word! Once again, artist Cliff Nielsen has captured the spirit of the … Continue reading
Book Promotion: Nobody Cares about your Crazy Names (sorry!)
Once again, I have had the opportunity to read someone’s blurb for their fantasy novel. You see these things all over the place–on advertising materials at conventions, on the back covers of books, on blogs or in emails asking you … Continue reading
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Tagged blurb writing, book promotion, cover copy, marketing fantasy novel, writing advice
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Drowning in the Seas of Knowledge: Social Media World-building
This has been my week to make a stab at getting my act together on-line. The end of the year is approaching fast, I’d hate to miss out on my resolutions. So now my blog has widgets, my Facebook page … Continue reading
Posted in book promotion, essays, medieval, personal, social media
Tagged medieval, self promotion, social media, world-building, writing, writing process
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T minus 365 Days and Counting!
Today, Elisha Barber is negative one year old. Woo-hoo! And yikes! I have a lot of work to do. One year from now, I’ll be enthusiastically trumpeting my book release from every place I can think of. Hopefully, before that, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, fantasy, fiction, promotion
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Dear Author: Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter! (and Rightly so)
I was thrilled last week to get an email from my editor opening the conversation about the actual publication of Elisha Barber, the first book in “The Dark Apostle” series. It was the moment I’ve been waiting for for years–finally … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, author, book cover, books, cover art, editing, editor, fiction
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