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Author: Marcia Meara
#MysteryGoneMad – #Coming Soon – Some News of My Own!
I’m very excited to report that I’ve been invited to be included in a boxed set of six mystery novels. Yep! In the very near future, Swamp Ghosts will be included in Mystery Gone Mad, a cool collection of crazy mysteries: Hard-boiled, soft-boiled, and just plain funny. I hope you’ll all stay tuned as things progress.
As soon as the set is available for pre-order, I’ll post the link. Pre-orders will be $.99. When the set is released, the price will be $2.99. Still a bargain price for over 1,400 pages of murder and mayhem.
The authors include Anna Celeste Burke, Gerald Darnell, Viv Drewa, Judith Lucci, Marcia Meara (that’s moi), and Karen Vaughan. I’m pretty excited about the whole thing, as you might imagine, and I know you guys will help us get the word out.
Check out the cool trailer Gerald Darnell created for us: Mystery Gone Mad
And please stay tuned for more info, as it becomes available.
THANKS!
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Free Tool: Amazon Book Sales Calculator
Speaking of sharing, check out what Nicholas Rossis shared yesterday. This is VERY cool, and can help you plan your marketing strategies. I had trouble at first (a firewall on my PC was blocking me), but it works perfectly on my iPhone. Head on over and give it a whirl.
Did you know you can estimate how many sales any eBook or print book on Amazon is currently selling just by looking at its listing on Amazon? Even better, you can see how many books you have to sell in order to reach a specific rank.
All you have to do is find the Amazon Sales Rank for any eBook or print book on Amazon and type that number into the simple Amazon Book Sales Calculator developed by Skye Chilton.
You can use this handy tool to give you an accurate estimation of how many copies are being sold on Amazon for any eBook or print book, but also to find out how many sales you need in one day or one month to hit a certain bestseller ranking.
If you’re planning a book launch or promotion, this data can help you predict how high your book will…
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#Harbinger FREE Today – LAST CHANCE!
Harbinger Free Today HERE
Last chance to download Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3 for free. Promo ends in just a few hours, so be sure you’ve got your copy. Thanks to those who’ve already grabbed theirs. Hope you’ll enjoy it, and will consider leaving a review!
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A Word (or two) On Sharing
How About We Share?
We’ve grown so fast that many new followers may not be aware of the purpose of this blog, and many older ones might need to be reminded. Think of The Write Stuff as the corner pub or the Algonquin round table, only MUUUUCH bigger. This is where writers touch base with other writers, to share news and resources, ask questions, and offer encouragement. It’s YOUR blog, as much as mine.
To make it easier, here’s a list of some of the things you are encouraged to share here:
- New releases
- Promotions and sales
- Guest posts/interviews on other blogs
- New websites you’ve found that are helpful to writers
- Ideas/tips for self-marketing, especially if you’ve tried & have results to pass along
- Reviews (now and then) that you are really proud of, especially if they are in conjunction with a promo
- Publications/websites you think others will enjoy or learn from
- Events you’ve attended and might recommend to others in the future
- Ideas for building readership, both online and locally
- Pretty much anything you think would be of interest or helpful to other writers
This list might not be all-inclusive, because things might come up that I haven’t even considered before. But it will give you some ideas of the kinds of things you can share here, and that others will be glad to pass along for you. Everyone should remember to share your posts with the Immediate World, in the knowledge that they will receive the same sharing for their own posts.
My only rules for posting are these: no politics, no religion, and nothing overtly erotic. Sexy is fine. You know the difference, I’m sure, and if you don’t, I’ll remind you. Nicely, of course. 🙂
Now. That’s easy enough, right? So we expect to see more of you posting in the days ahead. If you are already an author/contributor, you can post at will. If you aren’t, email me, and I’ll help you. mmeara@cfl.rr.com
Let’s learn from each other, grow together as we master our craft, point each other toward books & sites that will teach us new things, and help each other get the word out!
GO, us!! 😀
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“Hey, you!”
“Yeah, YOU!”
You’ll no doubt notice that I plugged my latest book, Harbinger, a couple of days ago, and again this morning. (Hope you’ll share the post on Twitter, Facebook, and in all your usual haunts!) Meanwhile, I just want to remind you that promoting our work is one of the main functions of this blog. In addition to our general networking, sharing resources, ideas, excerpts, tips, and anything else useful we run across, you guys can always promote your books here, especially if they are on sale, or you have a new release coming out. That’s a huge part of how we support each other, and make sure the world at large learns about our books.
Please make it a point to share posts here at any time, but especially when the post involves promos and other news you’d like to get “out there.” And PLEASE avail yourselves of this platform to help you reach new readers.
If you are already a contributor (author) on this blog, you can post these announcements directly any time you wish. If you aren’t set up to do that, please email me with your request, and I will either post it for you, or show you how to do it, yourself. You can reach me at mmeara@cfl.rr.com
This blog is specifically intended as a place for us to have fun, ask questions, learn and grow as writers, AND to share our news, with the understanding that others here will pass it along as far and wide as possible.
So . . . what have YOU got to share today?
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#FREE Today: #Harbinger – Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3
FREE TODAY AND TOMORROW ONLY!
Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3
Just a quick reminder, the 3rd book in the Wake-Robin Ridge series is FREE today and tomorrow only.
The story of one man slowly being driven mad by guilt, while another grows closer to his very gifted son every day, Harbinger is full of love, laughter, and oh, yeah–shivers galore. Through it all, MacKenzie Cole and that little boy named Rabbit form an unbreakable bond, as they work together to right a terrible wrong.
And remember, in the mountains, you can run, but you can’t hide! Not forever, and certainly not from the Black Dog!
Wake-Robin Ridge Book 1
A Boy Named Rabbit: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 2
Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3
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Sharing Janet Gogerty’s Great 5* Review of Wake-Robin Ridge
One of the best things about The Write Stuff is the way our fellow writers and readers support each other. In addition to all the friendships and helpful advice engendered here, this blog encourages the sharing and promoting of all our talented authors. Janet posted this review in the Comments section of Rosie’s post on August Reviews, and I just wanted to share it with all of you as a reminder of the ways we help each other. (And because it’s a terrific review, too. THANK YOU, Janet!) Enjoy!
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Even the two dogs will steal your heart in this gripping story.
2016-08-05
‘A great story teller’ was my first impression as I quickly got into this story, or rather two interwoven tales. I enjoy novels set in more than one time and in this book the chapter headings helpfully tell us when and where we are. I have never been to the USA and if I ever get there I would rather visit Wake-Robin Ridge than Disneyland! This is a rounded tale, a romance and ghost story, but also a delightful journey to a beautiful part of the USA. Two very different love stories and four very different lives. I was so involved, that half way through the novel I thought I had misread that it was also a ghost story, so when the first paranormal event occurred it came as a complete shock. Without giving anything away, the description of that first night of terror was more vivid than any horror movie. If I did visit the Blue Ridge Mountains, I would certainly not stay by myself! I look forward to reading more by this author.
Now Permanently Priced at $.99
Wake-Robin Ridge Book 1
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Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3!
The third book in my Wake-Robin Ridge series is free Saturday 8/6 and Sunday 8/7. Download your copy of Harbinger, and enjoy a shivery weekend read!
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“. . . he felt the wet slide of the dog’s burning hot tongue on his face, and the scrape of its razor sharp teeth against the top of his head. A white-hot agony of crushing pain followed, as the jaws began to close.”
The wine-red trillium that carpets the forests of the North Carolina Mountains is considered a welcome harbinger of spring—but not all such omens are happy ones. An Appalachian legend claims the Black Dog, or Ol’ Shuck, as he’s often called, is a harbinger of death. If you see him, you or someone you know is going to die.
But what happens when Ol’ Shuck starts coming for you in your dreams? Nightmares of epic proportions haunt the deacon of the Light of Grace Baptist Church, and bring terror into the lives of everyone around him. Even MacKenzie Cole and his adopted son, Rabbit, find themselves pulled into danger.
When Sheriff Raleigh Wardell asks Mac and Rabbit to help him solve a twenty-year-old cold case, Rabbit’s visions of a little girl lost set them on a path that soon collides with that of a desperate man being slowly driven mad by guilt.
As Rabbit’s gift of the Sight grows ever more powerful, his commitment to those who seek justice grows as well, even when their pleas come from beyond the grave.
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Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3
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