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New Apple Literary Awards

Author Brian O’Hare came across the New Apple Literary Awards by accident a couple of years ago. They have fairly large annual and summer award thing for all categories of books. His novel ‘Fallen Men,’ won top medallist honours one year, so did ‘The Miracle Ship.’ ‘The Doom Murders’ came second last year … This…
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Starting Year Three with a NEW Anthology

Wow how the time has flown. I can’t quite believe I have hit year three already.  Lots of exciting things happening here too.  So let me tell you my news. First of all I now have package deals for authors who need different types of work with their manuscript.  I will still have my one-off…
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Gwendolyn Kiste – URL Links

I see many authors and PAs get tossed into what has now been called Facebook Jail, where they get banned for a certain length of time for posting to fast, to frequently or in to many groups at once – or so it seems. On Amazon authors are losing reviews due to  “You know the…
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Thank you Stephanie.

I have had a dip in my life – there again don’t we all – and the following day I recieved a thank you card from the USA.  Totally shocked and happy.  It sure made my day and restores my faith in the kindness of people who uplift others – just when they need- smileing…
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Indie Publishing News – Update

Hello everyone Issue 4 of the Indie Publishing News is due out on 10th of August.  It will be a tad different.  This time along with the usual I will be highlighting andhelping to teach you all about Service Animals, in particular Service Dogs.  If anyone has any other Service Animals with stories I would…
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What type of Reader are you?

We all read books, be them eBooks or printed.  As the Indie Author community continues to grow, the reviews for what Readers read are even more necessary.  So what sort of reader are you? What do you look for? What annoys you? What makes a story awesome? I love to read for the story.  There…
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Thank You

Thank You  A big thank you to Michelle Diana Lowe for nominating me for The Liebster Award. Here are my answers to her 11 questions: 1) How long ago did you start blogging? I first started blogging on Blogger probably around 2010 as a Family History Researcher.  I moved over to WordPress as an author and…
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Author Events and what they do or don’t do

Author Events on Facebook…Are they worth it? Is it good marketing? What type of Author Events work the best? I don’t actually know the real answer, though I can tell you what I have seen and how things seem to me. First – The easy part is making an event, putting up a description and…
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