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Goodreads Giveaway: ONE NIGHT GONE

Enter to win one of ten advanced reader copies of Tara Laskowki's debut suspense novel, ONE NIGHT GONE, through June 14! The link to enter is https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/293326-one-night-gone. The giveaway is open to US and Canadian residents. It publishes...

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Enter to Win THE INGREDIENTS OF US by Jennifer Gold

Jennifer Gold's debut women's fiction, The Ingredients of Us, publishes July 1 and we can't wait!  If you're in the UK or Australia, and have Amazon Prime, you can get it for free now (or at a discount if you don't have Prime.) But for residents of the United States,...

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Happy Book Birthday to Too Rich to Die by Ransom Stephens

The latest book in the Time Weavers series is a Dickens of a Silicon Valley cautionary thriller. When San Francisco techie Eben Scratch becomes the world’s first trillionaire on his 30th birthday, his greed and self-destruction just might ruin the world...if the Time...

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Purgatory on Wheels by the immortal monster Simon Alkenmayer

A short story in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Gold Spike on May 9, 1869. Simon's also included a recipe for Irish Bison Stew. In honor of the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, on which I worked, I would...

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Agent Spotlight: Veronica Park

Tell us a little bit about yourself.   On top of what’s included in my bio, I’m pretty much an open webpage. I’ve been writing for hire, blogging for free, and generally just being social media promiscuous for decades. Anything you want to know, you can probably...

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The 10 Best Ways to Market Your Books

By Laurie McLean 1. Set Goals 2. Create Your Author Brand 3. Perform a Social Media Audit 4. Start Tweeting 5. Form a Fan Base on Facebook 6. Blog! 7. Grow Your Community 8. Join Organizations 9. Network at Events 10. Build an Amazon Author Profile Create Once, Then...

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Tara Laskowski Wins Agatha Award

Huge congratulations to Tara Laskowski for her first Agatha Award! Tara tied for the win for Best Short Story for "The Case of the Vanishing Professor", published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2018 . It was awarded May 4. You can read Tara's...

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Ransom Stephens on Writing

Ransom, can you please describe your writing style. Who are you as an author? When my first agent, Sarah Jane Freymann, read the manuscript of the first book I ever let anyone else read, she said, "I want more of your best and your best is the clear thought processes,...

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Daka Hermon Inks Deal with Scholastic!

Matt Ringler at Scholastic has bought author Daka Hermon's debut middle-grade HIDE AND SEEKER, a horror novel about a group of neighborhood kids hunted by the mysterious "Seeker"—a creature who uses the game of Hide and Seek for evil purposes. Publication is scheduled...

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