Oh, how I love waking up to a great review, and Cathy’s review of The Emissary on Between the Lines is definitely starting my day off with a big smile! Hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out, and share it with the Immediate World! THANKS to you guys, and to Cathy! 😀
Miscellaneous News
Cyber Monday ~ Gift Ideas for the Writer in Your Life
Some great gift ideas for the writers in your life in today’s Story Empire blog post from Joan Hall. Check it out! 🙂
Hi, SE readers. Joan here today on this Monday after Thanksgiving, AKA Cyber Monday. Hope all of you in the US had a wonderful holiday and for those of you brave enough to fight the Black Friday crowds, I hope you survived relatively unscathed.
I’m not a shopper. I don’t like crowds and I’m not one to window shop. I go only if I need something, get what I want, and leave the stores as soon as possible. (My husband loves that.) However, online shopping is another matter.
Speaking of which, Christmas is just around the corner and I thought it would be fun to quiz my fellow SE authors on what they thought are the best gifts for authors. Needless to say, we came up with a few ideas. (Of note, whenever I post a link, I don’t have any affiliation with the site and receive no monetary compensation…
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On the Edge of a Raindrop ~ Published #NewRelease
If you enjoy flash fiction, you should check out Sarah’s latest book of short, short stories. It’s amazing what Sarah can do with just two or three sentences. Trust me. You’ll like it. AND IT’S FREE today through the 28th. Full information, blurb, and link in this post. Download your your copy today.
My lovely, little flash collection is here!
On the Edge of a Raindrop is now available in eBook.
As I mentioned in my post, Hinting at Happiness: “Good flash fiction packs a punch. It heightens emotional responses, engages readers, makes them think…and keeps them thinking.”
I hope to engage readers this way with a glimpse of lives on the edge.
Thanks to all my amazing tweeps, lovely blogging friends, and fellow writers who supported and encouraged me. You are, all of you, awesome. ❤
Blurb for On the Edge of a Raindrop:
WHEN YOU’RE ON THE EDGE, IT’S EASY TO FALL
These are stories of lives on the edge.
A girl tortured by the world within her. A boy powerless to escape his home. A mother doomed to live with her greatest mistake. A man lost in a maze of grief.
Each raindrop provides a microscopic mirror of ourselves and…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Sally’s Book Reviews – Owen: Book One in the Tudor Trilogy by Tony Riches
Just grabbed my download of Owen (by Tony Riches), based on Sally’s great review. I’ve been indulging in a lot of epic fantasy in recent years, and it could be time for a change of pace with some drama that actually happened. Check it out. I bet you’ll be intrigued, too. 🙂
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#BlackFriday Mega Sale – Last Day!
Last day of my $.99 #BlackFriday Mega Sale! This is the final sale of the year for either series, so don’t miss out! Happy shopping!
Wake-Robin Ridge: http://amzn.to/2x7li87
A Boy Named Rabbit: http://amzn.to/2gJpOCs
Harbinger: http://amzn.to/2w30QQx
Swamp Ghosts: http://amzn.to/2x6ICm8
Finding Hunter: http://amzn.to/2xLLuls
That Darkest Place: http://amzn.to/2w2IS0M
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EDITING 101: A series of 64 FREE Editing Tips – INDEX – For your future reference…
If you’re like me, you want to send your editor the cleanest manuscript possible, and this post will help you do just that. LOOK at all the info included. Bookmark and share far and wide. I’m saving this as a quick, well-organized resource, and passing the word along where I can.
Presented, courtesy of my good friend and Professional Book Editor, Susan Uttendorfsky, the owner of Adirondack Editing.
Services available:
Editing – Non-Editing – Book Formatting
Other Contact Locations:
Website – Facebook – LinkedIn – Google+
PLEASE
Bookmark, reblog and share this post
so you and your fellow writers can refer
to the whole series at any time:
EDITING 101: 01 – Introduction and ‘Redundancies’
EDITING 101: 02 – Description Depression
EDITING 101: 03 – THAT’s the Problem in Revising
EDITING 101: 04 – Character Name Consistency
EDITING 101: 05 – General Plurals
EDITING 101: 06 – He Said / She Said: Dialogue Tags
EDITING 101: 07 – Consecutive Versus Concurrent Action
EDITING 101: 08 – Using Song Lyrics in your Manuscript
EDITING 101: 09 – Cutting “ly” Adverbs and Enhancing Scenes
EDITING 101: 10 – What Happens When You Die? – NOT in a Metaphysical…
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Smorgasbord Book Promotion – Air Your Reviews – Deanie Humphrys-Dunne, M.J.Mallon and Marcia Meara
It was terrific to have my latest book, The Emissary, featured on a Smorgasbord “Air Your Reviews” this morning, along with Deanie Humphrys-Dunne and M. J. Mallon. Sally is such a wonderful supporter of her fellow writers. Hope you’ll stop by and check out the reviews she shared today, and maybe pass the word along, as well. Thank you, Sally! 🙂
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Amazon Kindle Is 10-Years-Old Today
Happy Birthday, Kindle! A very interesting post from Nicholas Rossis. Check it out. 🙂
Image: Amazon
Ten years ago, on November 19th, 2007, Amazon introduced Kindle to the world, for US$399. It sold out in five and a half hours, even though there were just 88,000 books available for download. The device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008. Today, the store has over 7 million e-books available in the United States.
However, that’s hardly Kindle’s greatest success: that honor goes to the fact it released the creativity of millions of writers, allowing them to publish their manuscripts directly on Amazon’s store without having to wait for a publisher’s approval.
Standing On The Shoulders Of Sony
The Kindle’s development started in 2004 when Jeff Bezos tasked his employees to build the world’s best e-reader before Amazon’s competitors could. He had good reason to be wary, as Sony had already released Librie and the long-forgotten Rocket eBook was starting to gain…
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Sharing D. G. Kaye’s Great Interview With Sarah Brentyn
For whatever reason, I can never reblog anything from Deb’s blog, but by golly, I’m a determined kinda gal, and I want to share her interview with Sarah Brentyn. So, doing this the old-fashioned way, via copy and paste. 🙂
Sarah is a quaintly quirky and positively pithy sort of writer, and this is a great interview. Check it out, and then check out Sarah’s books! (Also, sharing is good, via whatever method will work for you.) Enjoy!
https://dgkayewriter.com/guest-author-feature-sarah-brentyn-hinting-shadows/#comment-33076
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A Perfect 10 with Deborah Jay
Check out Don Massenzio’s fun interview with Deborah Jay! (I want to go along when she has dinner with each of her choices!) 😀
Today, I have the distinct pleasure of featuring author Deboray Jay on this edition of A Perfect 10. Deborah is a respected blogger and author and I’m glad she stopped by to tell us more about herself.
Please enjoy this special installment of A Perfect 10
If you want to check out past interviews, you can find them in the following links:
A.C. Flory, Steve Boseley, Kayla Matt, Mae Clair, Jill Sammut, Deanna Kahler, Dawn Reno Langley, John Howell, Elaine Cougler, Jan Sikes, Nancy Bell, Nick Davis, Kathleen Lopez, Susan Thatcher, Charles Yallowitz, Armand Rosamilia, Tracey Pagana, Anna Dobritt, Karen Oberlaender, Deby Fredericks, Teri Polen, Darlene Foster, Robert Rayner, C.C. Naughton, Sherry Rentshler, Linda Bradley, Luna St. Clair, Joan Hall, Staci Troilo
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The Write Stuff 