Guess what! It’s time to buy your bloggers bash tickets. I’ve got mine!
#ABRSC Christmas/NewYear Blog Hop Party
Welcome to the Authors/Bloggers Rainbow Support Club Christmas/New Year Blog Hop Party. I am about to reveal the book I am reading for the Blog Hop Party – it is….
Drum roll please…
Ninja School Mum by Lizzie Chantree… I am one of her blog tour hosts (I will be welcoming her to my blog on 3rd February,) for her launch tour with Crooked Cat Books.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ninja-School-Mum-Lizzie-Chantree/dp/1979613524/
Anyone can join in today’s party but there are a few guidelines if you want to take part in the read and review….
1. Buy a fellow member’s book. Read and review between 1st of December and 6th January and share on Amazon, Goodreads, and your blog if you have one. Link your review to your blog post party when you have completed it.
2. Share your blog post and reviews on Twitter using the hashtag #ABRSC
3. Try if possible to review someone’s book you haven’t read before or in a different genre from one you would normally read.
4. Link back to the last person who joins the party. So we have a chain effect of party goers! Don’t forget to bring music, cake and lots of cheer! Remember to include any Christmas news you wish to share.
5. You can buy and read more than one book if you want.
6. Write reviews that are fair but honest. Apply a star rating, and write as long or short a review as you wish.
7. Choose a date between 2nd December and 6th January to write your blog/review post and add it to the comments below. Select a person to review and the name of their book, add these to the comments below so we don’t get duplicate people being reviewed more than twice. One member per review. Please review #ABRSC members or honorary members (e.g. super supportive bloggers like Hugh https://hughsviewsandnews.com/.) If in doubt get in touch with me, Debby or Colleen – click on their photos below to see their blog links.
8. You may reblog other members posts on your blog if you wish, this may encourage new people to join the club which would be great!
Also I have some fantastic news to share about Debby Gies – https://dgkayewriter.com/ book P.S. I Forgive You via twitter:
I’m so excited because my book P.S. I Forgive You was nominated for 2017 Readers Choice Awards! Please vote at https://t.co/SDQ4EhNABT ….
Category #Memoir (page 6)You can vote every day til Dec. 10th so if you see this please click on and vote and then RT. Much appreciated 😊
— D.G.Kaye (@pokercubster) 18 November 2017
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And… Today is Debby’s launch day for her new book Twenty Years After I Do: https://dgkayewriter.com/introducing-booklaunch-twenty-years-i-do-published/
So popover to her blog and vote on Readers Choice Awards to give this lovely lady some support.
Please stay a while, enjoy the Christmas ambiance… Let’s light some candles, read some books, eat some sweet treats and have mugs of hot chocolate with marshmallows!
And for music let me point you in this musical direction… a gem of a find via #SundayBlogShare on Big Up Your Blog: https://justanotherblogfromawoman.blog/2017/11/24/top-ten-tunes-1977/
Please feel free to leave your links below and don’t forget to say if you intend joining in the book review blog hop. Some dates to read and review are filling up so please comment with a few possible dates below.
Love ya! Many thanks, happy first day of Advent.
Bye for now,
My social media links:
Authors/Bloggers Rainbow Support Club
Fellow Administrators of our Authors Bloggers Rainbow Support Club #ABRSC on Facebook, myself, my good friends Colleen Chesebro and Debby Gies. Click on Colleen’s and Debby’s photos to be directed to their awesome blogs. These ladies rock!
Twitter: @Marjorie_Mallon and @curseof_time
Instagram
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Happy Birthday His Geoffleship! And Happy Release Day! #LifeInAFlash @geofflepard
Happy Birthday Geoff Le Pard via Ritu at But I Smile Anyway. Guess what it’s Geoff’s release day. No he’s not been released from behind bars it’s his new book of short stories called Life In A Flash.
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Be Inspired by Women Writers and Illustrators
Wonderfully inspiring authors and illustrators via Christy Birmingham at When Women Inspire.
Today I proudly welcome educator and writer Norah Colvin here to guest post. I was delighted when she accepted my offer to visit and chat about some of the women she has highlighted on her website so far in their roles as writers and illustrators for children’s books. I hope you enjoy this post as much as I did upon receiving it. Norah, the floor is yours.
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#ABRSC Christmas/New Year Blog Hop Party December 1st!!!
I will be hosting a Christmas/New Year Blog Hop Party December 1st where I will be revealing the book I have chosen to buy, read and review as my Christmas present to a fellow author and club member of the #ABRSC.
Please consider joining the #ABRSC group, it has grown and is a wonderfully supportive club full of resources for authors/bloggers and reviewers. I am so proud of the group and the wonderful members. We currently have 164 members!
Here are the party guidelines:
1. Buy a fellow member’s book. Read and review between 1st of December and 6th January and share on Amazon, Goodreads, and your blog if you have one. Link your review to your blog post party when you have completed it.
2. Share your blog post and reviews on Twitter using the hashtag #ABRSC
3. Try if possible to review someone’s book you haven’t read before or in a different genre from one you would normally read.
4. Link back to the last person who joins the party. So we have a chain effect of party goers! Don’t forget to bring music, cake and lots of cheer! Remember to include any Christmas news you wish to share.
5. You can buy and read more than one book if you want.
6. Write reviews that are fair but honest. Apply a star rating, and write as long or short a review as you wish.
7. Choose a date between 2nd December and 6th January to write your blog post and add it to the comments below. Select a person to review and the name of their book, add these to the comments below so we don’t get duplicate people being reviewed more than twice. One member per review. Only review #ABRSC members. If in doubt get in touch with me, Debby or Colleen.
8. You may reblog other members posts on your blog if you wish, this may encourage new people to join the club which would be great!
Hope you will consider joining in the blog hop party, I think it will be a fun way to start of Christmas advent.
Bye for now,
My social media links:
Authors/Bloggers Rainbow Support Club
Fellow Administrators of our Authors Bloggers Rainbow Support Club #ABRSC on Facebook, myself, my good friends Colleen Chesebro and Debby Gies. Click on Colleen’s and Debby’s photos to be directed to their awesome blogs. These ladies rock!
Twitter: @Marjorie_Mallon and @curseof_time
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Self-publishing Tips For New Authors
Recently, I was asked by fellow blogger and friend Annika Perry how to fill in tax details for publishing on Kindle KDP. I messaged Annika the link below via twitter and this encouraged me to write this post to help others with some of the painstaking detail of self-publishing.
Here is the link :
KDP Tax interview:
https://catherineryanhoward.com/taxinterview
I have been collecting many other links which might be useful to people considering self-publishing. Most of these are related to publishing on Amazon Kindle:
Size of artwork for books: http://www.wordhook.com/publishing/correct-ebook-cover-dimensions/
http://www.writersworkshop.co.uk/blog/how-to-format-your-ebook/
https://chrismcmullen.wordpress.com/2015/01/19/kindle-ebook-formatting-example/
If you need to sign word documents this is useful:
http://www.writersworkshop.co.uk/blog/self-publish-book-amazon-kindle-kdp/#format
To make a table of contents use bookmark, typing the titles of each chapter heading briefly without any spaces.
Further self publishing links:
https://janefriedman.com/self-publish-your-book/
Ways to earn money by publishing online serially:
Tapas – A Serial Publishing Platform That Earns Money for Indie Creators via Jane Friedman
http://kindleformatting.com/faq.php
How to embed fonts – this is only for paperback: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2984714/software-productivity/how-to-embed-fonts-in-word-documents-so-they-stay-even-if-you-send-the-file.html
How to schedule a free kindle kdp promotion: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/A34IQ0W14ZKXM9
How to add kdp select:
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/A6KILDRNSCOBA?ref_=_faq
How to do a kindle countdown deal:
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/A3288N75MH14B8
How to add your details to Amazon Author Central. I made a bit of a mess of this to begin with, so this one is an important one to get right!
https://authorcentral.amazon.co.uk/gp/home
And the Creative Penn is an invaluable resource as are all the following links:
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/how-to-self-publish-an-ebook/
https://nicholasrossis.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/introducing-readerlinks-and-author-helper/
http://www.thesitsgirls.com/make-money/how-to-make-a-media-kit/
https://richardankers.com/writers-resources/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/285059/how-to-create-a-table-of-contents-by-marking-text-in-word
http://www.aliventures.com/formatting-microsoft-word-for-kindle/
Huffington Post Legal Issues in Self Publishing What Authors Need To Know
Oh, and ideas for marketing!!!
https://watchingthedaisies.com/2017/11/22/free-marketing-resources-for-new-authors/
Please feel free to add further links and tips to the comment box below, many thanks.
Bye for now, hope I got my facts right!
My social media links:
Authors/Bloggers Rainbow Support Club
Fellow Administrators of our Authors Bloggers Rainbow Support Club #ABRSC on Facebook, myself, my good friends Colleen Chesebro and Debby Gies. Click on Colleen’s and Debby’s photos to be directed to their awesome blogs. These ladies rock!
Twitter: @Marjorie_Mallon and @curseof_time
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Newsworthy Notes from DG Kaye Writer
As I am ultra busy trying to tend to life and preparing to publish my own newest upcoming book by next week’s end, I came across some fabulous finds while doing my blog travels this week. So I thought I’d note a few blogs and books I came across to share with you all…
via What’s the Scoop? New Books and Hot Deals – Hurry! — D.G. Kaye Writer
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The Enigmatic Blurb
Fantastic tips from Annika Perry about the enigmatic blurb.
Why is it that even the mention of writing a blurb strikes abject terror into the normally calm and sane writer?
The task of describing and summarising a whole book, months or years of work, into a few short paragraphs seems nigh impossible. In the process the blurb has to be unique, capture the reader’s attention, excite them and tempt them to read on, ultimately to buy the book. The blurb and obviously the cover are often the first and only sales pitches for the book. The undertaking ahead feels hopeless.
Fear and dread of the blurb were my immediate reactions once I’d committed to publishing my anthology…I knew I needed one, yet every time the thought surfaced I erased it from my mind and dove even further into editing! As ever I needed a deadline and one evening I cleared my schedule for the following day, ensured I would…
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My #Book Review of I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Goodreads Synopsis:
The next blockbuster thriller for those who loved The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl…. a novel with “an astonishing intensity that drags you in and never – ever – lets you go.” (Daily Mail, UK)
On a rainy afternoon, a mother’s life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street …
I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.
At the same time, the novel tracks the pair of Bristol police investigators trying to get to the bottom of this hit-and-run. As they chase down one hopeless lead after another, they find themselves as drawn to each other as they are to the frustrating, twist-filled case before them.
My review:
This psychological thriller surprised me, again and again but I am ashamed to say it has been sitting on my shelf for some time. And guess what – it belongs to my mum! She loves well written murder mysteries and thrillers (the more gruesome the better) but can’t watch anything remotely scary on TV. This cracks me up! So mum, you’d be proud of me, I loved this, even though some passages made me draw a shocked breath in, thankful that I wasn’t the main protagonist in the story.
Here are the blurb sentences on the back of the book and my commentary!
In a split-second, Jenna Gray’s world descends into a nightmare. (No kidding!)
Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows, to start afresh. (But how can she?)
Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a remote cottage on the Welsh coast, but she is haunted by her fears, her grief and her memories of a cruel November night that changed her life for ever. (And isn’t that an understatement.)
Slowly, Jenna begins to glimpse the potential for happiness in her future. (Curiouser and curiouser!)
But her past is about to catch up with her and the consequences will be devastating…. (Never a truer word said!)
My recommendation:
Read I let You Go if you enjoy tense, fast-paced (particularly in the second half of the novel,) thrillers with a twist that surprises and shocks. There is plenty to get your teeth into: emotion, grief, trust, blind love, overcoming fear, a mother’s love, guilt, domestic violence …
My rating:
Overall 5 stars. The first half of the novel is perhaps a little slow (a four star,) but well worth hanging in there to reach those middle to end chapters that sky rockets this novel up to five stars.
Amazon UK Kindle Buying Link: http://amzn.to/2A5Hb6b
Amazon UK Hardcover Buying Link: http://amzn.to/2A4U0gU
Amazon UK Paperback Buying Link: http://amzn.to/2B2OgUk
DISCLAIMER: “As of 13th September 2017 we are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.”
My opinions are my own and any reviews on this site have not been swayed or altered in any way by monetary compensation, or by the offer of a free book in exchange for a review.
Have you read I Let You Go? I’d love to hear your views if you have.
Bye for now.
My social media links:
Authors/Bloggers Rainbow Support Club #ABRSC on Facebook
Twitter: @Marjorie_Mallon and @curseof_time
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Curse-Time-Book-Bloodstone-ebook/dp/B074CDJPY9/
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Which Kind(s) of Editing Does Your Novel Need?
Ryan Lanz with an informative blog post on the different kinds of editing.
