The Necromancer’s Daughter: A Book Tour
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by Sheron
1y ago
A Book Tour. What a fun idea. Sounds like a way to meet new authors and promote your own book a bit. A tour guide introduces various writers on his or her blog within a given period of time, and each promoted writer, in turn, promotes a particular work of the host’s on their blog. So let’s see how this goes. First, I want to give you a little background on the author and host of this particular tour. Meet D. Wallace Peach Diana is a friend and writer whom I have known for several years. When we were budding authors, we used to meet once a month in a writing group here in the Northwest to rea ..read more
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Using Ads in Book Marketing
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by Sheron
1y ago
An Ad book marketing experiment. Where do I come up with these ideas? Actually, in the past, listing my books on various advertising venues was key to my overall book promotion. However, I would randomly select a site based on current data and post on what I guessed would be best. So, to evaluate the more effective venue of two I liked, I decided on a little experiment. I selected Freebooksy and Book Barbarian, and varied the price, the book, and the date of each. Due to the varying rules of each site, I choose certain books. Book Barbarian only takes the first book in a series, so Caught in ..read more
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Book Marketing Experiment
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by Sheron
1y ago
Writing is easy … Marketing is hard. Once you finish writing a book, that’s pretty much it, except for occasional updates and revisions. Marketing is FOREVER. Recently, I decided to update my second book, A Dangerous Talent for Time and add the eleven books I have written since in the series. I increased the front matter to include the additional books, and then in the back matter, I listed the following books by title, a brief synopsis, and included a link to Amazon. This way when your readers are still in the story, after it ends, and they love it, they see the next book right in front of ..read more
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Clones in Science Fiction
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by Sheron
1y ago
So, here it is. Here’s what I have been doing over the last few months. Painting. This painting shows Ottercrest, Oregon, where a good friend has a condo and invites us out from time to time. I painted from a photograph we took, and my talented husband jumped in and crafted the frame. It was our thanks for her generosity, which provided wonderful memories. This happened because after I finished writing the Terran Trilogy, my muse packed her bags and waved a cheery goodbye as I stared at a blank white page that morphed into a canvas. So I picked up a paintbrush instead of my iPad. But I didn ..read more
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How to Market your Book Better
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by Sheron
2y ago
If you are an Indie author, as I am, then you’re always looking for what is the best way to market your book. I admit that I’m not a blogger. I write, I paint, I read … Notice how these activities are usually a one-gal show? And not particularly interactive. So taking the initiative and blogging is daunting, even though I like to write novels. (14 to date) I use Freebooksy as my ad platform because it works best for me. I ran an ad in May and garnered about a thousand downloads. This wasn’t too bad in that the book had been marketed previously last year through Freebooksy, and this was a seco ..read more
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Diving In
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by Sheron
3y ago
Going with the momentum of my recent blog, I’m diving in. After more than a year, I’m giving ad marketing another try. You, the reader, will be the beneficiary as Caught in Time, my first book in a series, will be offered for free through Freebooksy and Amazon tomorrow, May 26 through May 28. Yes, Free. Free. Free. The Alysia Series has eight books, but each one is a stand-alone with a different theme. Caught in Time is a time travel romance, A Dangerous Talent for Time follows a riddle quest, Cosmic Entanglement tells a starship academy story, Past the Event Horizon contains a spaceship adv ..read more
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A Return
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by Sheron
3y ago
A year seems like such a long time… And then it’s not. I finished my trilogy, thrilled with how it turned out, but done, done, done. I needed a break. So, I took one. Which has lasted longer than I planned. (Thanks coronavirus.) Stuck at home, restless, I needed exercise. So, I began to walk around a picturesque local duckpond. Then, I redirected my creative energy to painting it. (pictures at the bottom.) Recently I was musing over offering the first book in the Terran Trilogy on Freebooksy again and remembered a photo prompt that I did for Diana Peach on her Myths of the Mirrors Website. Thi ..read more
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Books Translating into Media Forms
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by Sheron
4y ago
Have you noticed recently a lot of familiar book titles showing up on various streaming services? Movies? Television series? Then I read the last few blogs of Kris Rusch talking about licensing your work. Story content is at a premium in the war for streaming memberships, and she urges authors to look into the lucrative world of licensing. Think about it. Star Wars has made a fortune on licensing games, dolls, cups, sweatshirts. Oh, you’ve seen all the stuff. Their products are everywhere, and it’s all from a story. But, you say… I’m not famous. Well, according to Kris, you don’t have to be. C ..read more
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Upgrading Your Novels and Mark Lawrence
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by Sheron
4y ago
I’ve been writing for a while (years) and have reached the point where I want to pause and evaluate what I have done. The advantage of self publishing is that you can do this. Amazon permits you to revise and then re-publish at no cost. For a Tweeker like me, this is a boon. So, if you have written several books, especially those in a series, you might want to think about how you can refresh your work. A new cover might be in order. You can retitle too. A few years ago, another author added her book to Amazon under the title Caught in Time. I was furious. That was my title, but titles are not ..read more
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A Second Chance for a Hugo Winner
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by Sheron
4y ago
Hey there: Sometimes you have to give someone a second chance. In this case, I tried to read N. K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and not only was I confused, but bored. Gods meddling with humans is not my thing. So, I shunned her novels for years until the acclaim became so great I felt I should try again. After all, winning the Hugo three years in a row is quite a feat. Lois McMasters Bujold, my favorite author, has won four times and only Asimov, Willis, and Vinge have won three times, and not sequentially. All other authors have won two or less… or not at all. So I started with Th ..read more
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