Congratulations Terry Boehm you won a $25 Amazon gift card!
Thank you all for participating in the Help Me Name a Character giveaway.
Here is the winning entry:
Thank You!
I’m overwhelmed by the amazing response from all of you. So many great names are being submitted, it will be difficult choosing just one.
This suggestion from a reader tickled my funny bone because…well, I’ll let my reply speak for itself! Jeanette, you and I are on the same page 🙂 I’d love to hear other names from you. Bonus points if you manage to name any of my other characters 😉
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Thank you all for participating and sharing with me your name recommendations for my kickass female character. I’ll be announcing the winner in my next newsletter.
Help Me Name a Character
I need your help choosing a name for one of my female characters. This person has a pivotal role in my series. Without spoiling it, all I can say is that she’s a kickass woman.
Leave a comment below with the name of your choice.
That’s all you have to do and you’ll be entered in a draw to win a $25 Amazon gift card. The winner will be announced in the next email from me. Not a member of my group? Sign up by clicking HERE.
Thank you for participating and good luck!
I is for InstaFreebie #AtoZChallenge
I first put Blaze on InstaFreebie on 1st April. So far I have had 137 subscribers sign up to my mailing list. That’s a great number, even when you take into account my nondescript cover.
Hopefully by the time I launch my debut book I will have amassed a greater number of subscribers and built a decent-sized mailing list. I’m already thinking of a second work that I can publish on InstaFreebie to capture more readers.
InstaFreebie is a good way to find new readers. Once they sign up for my mailing list I can try to convert them into readers of my paid work.
My advice to writers is to do the following:
- Write a short work.
- Put it on InstaFreebie
- Make sure readers have to opt-in to your mailing list to get your free book.
- Join Instafreebie promotions.
InstaFreebie will even help you reach an audience if you put together a promotion of 10+ books by posting it on their page and promoting it through their emails.
G is for goodreads #AtoZChallenge
I love reading. I love books. I love finding out what people are reading and what they’ve enjoyed. Strangely enough, I’ve never been part of a book club.
If you’re a fan of books you have to be on Goodreads!
This year I’ve been binge-reading. I read a lot of books at once and then slowly read parts of some until the urge to binge struck again.
For the 2017 Reading Challenge I chose 100 books. As of today, my Goodreads Reading Challenge is 54% complete. I think I’ll read more during the summer.
As part of self-publishing, it’s been interesting to see how people use Goodreads. I leave short reviews that serve as reminders to myself. I tend to forget if I’ve read books or not. Goodreads basically acts as my journal. If I read something and forget about whether I liked it or not, it won’t be unusual for me to leave zero stars. That’s not a reflection on the book but rather that my bad memory was back and I couldn’t remember what I had thought of the book.
I enjoy being part of the community at Goodreads and it’s important as a reader and writer to see what books people are enjoying and recommending.
Do you have a Goodreads profile? Follow me or add me as a friend HERE.
F is for Facebook #AtoZChallenge
Discoverability is essential for a new author. In an attempt to gain exposure to new readers I’ve started using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. Of all of them, I’ve found Twitter to be the easiest to use, but Facebook has been the most beneficial.
I’ve learned so much from the myriad of groups I’ve joined on Facebook. It’s been amazing watching people share their successes, help others try to meet their goals, and dispense valuable advice. The indie writer community is wonderfully generous and I am so proud to be a part of it.
One Facebook groups I highly recommend is 20BooksTo50K. It’s a great resource for new and established writers. It’s based on the thread/book of the same name.
If you’re a starting (or even established) author, I would recommend you join Facebook and learn how to use it. I’m still not the best at it but I learn something new every day. I even have a Facebook Page, but I have to confess I haven’t made the best use of it so far. I need to determine what content I want to share on my page.