Writing Tip Wednesday: Report on my First Experience Using NetGalley
In 2019, I used NetGalley for the first time. NetGalley is a paid site used by independent authors and publishers to obtain more book reviews. Here, I’m reporting on my first use of NetGalley and the results. First, what is NetGalley? Authors and publishers can pay to list their books on the site. NetGalley […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: Finding Time to Write
Writing Tip Wednesday is back! If you participated in November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), you’re likely burned out. Indeed, the holiday season is a good time to rest the creative muse and take a break from feverishly writing, so that you can start again in January with renewed vigor. If you’re like me, you’re […]
LAUNCH DAY: Midnight Lasagna and Other Stories, a collection of family-centered, holiday-themed short stories
Today is RELEASE DAY for my latest book, Midnight Lasagna and Other Stories, a collection of Christmas-themed, family-friendly short stories. *What does lasagna taste like after midnight? *What happens when a mime attacks? *What does it feel like to not keep up with the Joneses? *Can a brother and sister find common ground through video […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: NaNoWriMo is here!
For those who don’t know, November is National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo), when authors the world over hunker down and churn out a draft of an approximately 50,000-word manuscript. For this reason, for the rest of this month I’ll be suspending my Writing Tip Wednesday segment so that I can focus exclusively on #writing! This […]
Romance Readers: Love Kissed Book Bargains Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!
Over the next week I’m participating in Love Kissed Book Bargains’ Grow Team Giveaway. Love reading & reviewing? Like finding new authors? Want to join a review team/street team? We have romance authors of varying genres who would love to find new readers! Why join a team? (Or lots of teams?) There are so many […]
Sci-fi novel The Gaia Solution now available on preorder
Check out my friend Claire Buss’ latest, sci-fi novel The Gaia Solution, book 3 of The Gaia Collection, AVAILABLE ON KINDLE PREORDER >> mybook.to/gaiasolution Read my review of Book 1, The Gaia Effect, here. The Gaia Solution is live on November 8 in paperback and eBook! The Gaia Solution Blurb: Kira, Jed and their friends […]
Book Review: Angie Kim’s successful debut novel Miracle Creek is an emotional look at parenting and coming-of-age wrapped up in a whodunit
This book review first appeared on www.bookclubbabble.com. Angie Kim’s debut novel Miracle Creek stays with the reader long after you’ve finished. At times touching and uplifting, and at times sad, Miracle Creek is always emotionally moving. Miracle Creek has been a wildly successful debut novel. Time has called it a “gripping… page-turner.” The Washington Post has called it “a stunning debut about parents, children and […]
Friday Flash Fiction: Damned Red Dress
Photo by Alex Voulgaris on Unsplash She was exactly the sort of woman he went for. Her red dress hugged her enticing body. He smirked, licking his lips in anticipation. He stalked toward her, his eyes never leaving the curve of her neck. The low light from the bar made her cream skin shine like alabaster. He had […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: The Best Way to get Book Reviews
It’s the bane of our existence, at least, for us authors. We need book reviews. After all, sites such as Bookbub won’t even consider our books for promotion unless we have a good number of reviews (at least ten to twenty). But how to get those reviews? First, definitely ask your friends to leave honest […]
Writing Tip Wednesday: A curated short list of FREE book promotion sites
Photo by Gregory Culmer on Unsplash Today I’m going to share with you a curated list of sites where you can promote your book for FREE. With the advent of self-publishing, a TON of service providers have popped up seeking to sell you all kinds of promotion services for your fiction and nonfiction books. These services include book […]