Creating a social media strategy for your author business doesn’t have to be hard or take up a lot of time. There are several things you can do to keep it simple, effective, and genuine to reach more readers. 1. Find Your Platforms When deciding on which social media platforms you should build your following, …
When choosing which social media platform to build your author business, you want to consider two things. Where are you the most comfortable? And where do your readers spend their time? By knowing this, you can leverage social media for your business by making it work for you. Where are you the most comfortable? Choose …
We are all busy, and we all have several things on our plate at any given moment. Day after day goes by and we do our best to keep up. The media tells us we have to do it all, all the time. Everything you read is about trying to find a balance between working, …
Are you ready to start building your author platform? Maybe you’ve been meaning to start building your author platform, but you keep getting distracted or life gets in the way Maybe you hate selling, so you don’t even want to touch the marketing stuff Or maybe you haven’t finished writing your book yet and are …
This year is a weird one for the graduates. Many have missed out on all of the end-of-the-year events: prom, grad night, senior banquets, walking the stage. But that just means that we have to get creative on how we celebrate our graduates. This list of the ten best books to give to the graduate are …
20 Stories of Springtime Stories of Springtime, the end of cold winter, hopes for the new year, starting over, flowers, grassy meadows, birds, bees, and baby animals, the start of baseball, gardening, and the coming end of the school year. With so many changes coming in the world around us, you may want to pick up …
Finding Love in Unexpected Places In the spirit of February and Valentine’s Day, we thought we would compile a list of books with a romantic subplot. There are romance novels, and then there are non-romance novels. Some people enjoy both and some enjoy one or the other. Personally, I prefer books that have just a …
A few months ago, I agreed to become an ARC reader for Freida Kilmari’s book, Man vs. Happiness, not really knowing what to expect. I had beta read many times, but never been an ARC Reader. Please bare with me in my first book review of a wonderful story about life! …
A Few of My Favorite Late-Fall Stories As the wheel of the year turns yet again and we see the face of Winter on the horizon, I begin to gather, mentally if not literally, the books I love to read at this time of year. Now that summer is long gone, stories of sunshine-filled days …
Shatter Me By Tahereh Mafi YA Dystopian Fantasy ISBN 9780062085504 A fellow writer recommended Shatter Me, not one, I should mention, who reads fantasy very often. On her word, I picked up the book that very week at my local bookstore. I bought it without a second thought. And why not? It had been …
