Yesterday Steph and I enjoyed another lovely book blogger / author meet up.

For those who attended, we can’t thank you enough for joining us and making it such a lovely day 🙂

Follow, like and share the book love with these lovely people…..

Margaret Moxam

https://maggiemoxom.artweb.com/maggiemoxomaol.com

Zoe Sharp

Rachel Gilbey

Misha Herwin

Jan Edwards

@Jancoledwards

Award winning writer of  #crime, #folkhorror and #supernatural#fiction Reiki Master and cat herder janedwardsblog.wordpress.com//

Jill Doyle

Happy Friday, SE readers! PH here and looking forward to the weekend as I’m sure you are. My last post addressed your biggest resource for marketing and what you need to do to make it work for you – audience. There’s a great place to find audience, even interact with them.

Marketing books involves rubbing elbows with readers – it’s required whether we authors like it or not. I’m not sure why any author wouldn’t like it though I understand that many of us don’t want to be forward with people. The sentiment is well taken but I think too many of us believe that means doing very little. Maybe it’s just confusion about what to do about marketing and promoting our books. Here’s a little observation: nobody is going to promote your books unless you do it, including getting to know readers who can recommend your work to other…

Greetings, dear friends! After a few weeks away at work (memoir submission) and play (birthday fun, catch up post next week), today I’m delighted to welcome author, Hugh W Roberts, to the Summerhouse.

Hugh is on book blog tour with his second short story collection, More Glimpses. Thrilled to jump onboard and help spread the word, I knew I was in for a treat when Hugh’s book arrived in the post.

It is no secret to those of us who have read Hugh’s stories on his blog and debut collection Glimpses (published in 2016), that he knows how to keep us riveted with his masterful storytelling.

Whether funny, sad or downright deadly, from drama to comedy, science fiction, murder/mystery, paranormal and horror, Hugh leads us through a gamut of emotions and keeps us guessing to the end with a twist in every tale.

”More Glimpses’ gives the…

I’m a cheapskate.

I’m also technologically impaired.

So when it came to making a book trailer for Sunwielder’s audiobook pre-release hype, I resorted to the old familiar standby from my years of selling office furniture – MS PowerPoint. The program’s been updated over the past 2 decades, but I still figured it out with some trial and error. And error. And a little more error.

The main thing I learned is regarding sequence:

1. Start with your text: Keep it pithy. I used my book blurb and pared it down to its bare essentials. That gave me about fifteen slides to populate with images.

2. Then add images: I took advantage of Pixabay’s royalty-free, attribution-free images for this one, frequently mashing them together to create a scene. Remember to check copyright details for the images you decide to use.

3. Add transitions: Don’t get too zany, but have fun. Timing…