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Book Blurbs And How To Get Them
You know when you pick up a book and you immediately flip to the back cover to read the short blurb to help you decide whether or not to choose it? Often, there will also be short comments from other authors from the same genre, praising the book and perhaps offering a sentence of insight…
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Exciting Times in my Journey to Publication
It’s funny to think that the last time I had a book published was in 2014. That’s over a decade ago. But I remember it like it was yesterday. The anticipation of waiting for the box of paperbacks to arrive. The excitement of seeing e-book sales the day it came out. The fulfillment of having…
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How I Chose An Excerpt To Read At My Book Signing
Finding just the right piece of prose to read at my book signing was more of a challenge than I thought it would be. I needed to pick something full of tension and suspense, but without giving away a key part of the plot. It had to be something that would pique my readers’ interest,…
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How I Did My First Book Signing
In 2014, my first novel, a domestic suspense titled WHEN LOVE WON’T DIE, was published in paperback and e-book formats. As a debut author traditionally published by a very small press. and not well known, I needed to create my own events and do my own promotion. Being on a very limited budget, I knew…
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10 Things I Look for in a Thriller
As an avid reader of suspense, thrillers, mysteries/cozy mysteries, and horror, I’ve come to know the things that grab me when I open a new book. SUSPENSE I especially enjoy domestic suspense and the inner workings of people and their relationships. THRILLERS Fast-paced, page turners that give me an adrenaline rush are my favorite quick…
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My Top 5 Reasons To Belong To A Critique Group
*image by rawpixel.com on freepik* Although it might seem to non-writers that writing is a solitary task, and the process of actually putting words down on the page is most often done alone, most writers thrive when they are part of a writing community. Whether it’s a group that meets regularly to write together (in…