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Marketing 101 – notes from the scary anthology, part 6: “Sharing Is Caring”

I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. This is the next installment. Part of networking and helping others in a quick and easy way that ALSO helps you, is to Like and share their posts […]

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FREE BOOK TODAY ONLY

NEW for HALLOWEEN and FREE today on Freebooksie! A scary anthology from me and my bestseller author friends plus stories from rising stars! FREE TODAY ONLY! https://www.freebooksy.com/ When I looked we were the 3rd one on the front page! GET YOUR COPY NOW! Please Like and Share and reblog and Tweet and all the things!!

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Kidney Collection: I’d rather be the worst of the best than silent.

Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, T.A. Henry. I started writing back in elementary school and entered my first contest at eight. I went down to the local library where all the entries were displayed and mine was the only one without a ribbon of some sort. I cried. And quit […]

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Fun feedback

A few comments from readers about specific stories in The Box Under The Bed.     Remember: when you are too scared to publish, you protect yourself against criticism but you deprive yourself of this type of praise, too!   

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“Writers not helping each other? Rubbish.”

Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, Frank Parker I recall a conversation not so long ago about the difficulty of getting your work, as an aspiring writer, noticed. One despairing guy said, “You’ll not get much help from established  writers.”   There is, of course, lots of evidence to the contrary. […]

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Marketing 101 – notes from the scary anthology, part 4: “Sex Sells, But Excitement Sells, Too!”

I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. This is the next installment. In a FB author’s marketing group a few of us are in, people will get all excited about stuff I don’t. Today I […]

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What a difference a year makes…

Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, Juliet Nubel At exactly this time last year my daughter had just set up my very own WordPress blog: omgimfifty.com. After months of jotting in a bedside journal and being unable to decipher the majority of my messy scribblings, I had begged her to help me […]

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Marketing 101 – notes from the scary anthology, part 3: “Balloons”

I said I’d share a few marketing secrets with you as we created and released and sold and marketed – continue to market – our scary anthology. This is the next installment. A lot of people think launching a book is like launching a rocket. If you think you light the fuse and it takes […]

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Time for BRAG OF THE WEEK. What have you accomplished this week?

Writing or otherwise, let’s get to know each other better.   Pat yourself on the back in the comments section below.  

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Being Published in “The Box Under The Bed”

Guest blog post by a co-author of The Box Under The Bed, Adele Marie Park   I first came to know Dan Alatorre through his blog. I adore his novel An Angel On Her Shoulder. He writes from the heart and his passion for the craft is wonderful. I was lucky to come fourth in one of […]