Thought you might be interested in this- Marketing Summer Camp is a free, two-day online conference designed to help authors learn the basics of marketing and promotion, and to fine tune skills already obtained. It will include guest speakers, pitch opportunities, prizes, top giveaways, and plenty of learning and fun. It will be held on…
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In The Hot Seat with Sue Moorcroft
We kick off a new week with Sue Moorcroft in the Hot Seat… Currently Reading…. Unstoppable by Suzanne Brockmann. This is one of her early books but, owing to the power of Kindle, it’s now easy to get in the UK. Currently Watching…. Um, I don’t watch much TV, to be honest. What I…
In The Hot Seat With Melissa Lynne Blue
Currently Reading…. Julia Quinn’s A NIGHT LIKE THIS Currently Watching…. True Blood Season 5 Guilty Pleasure… Rewatching True Blood Season 1 Best Advice You Ever Got… If you make a mistake, own it. A Country or Town You’d Like to Visit… I would love to visit Scotland! Highly Recommend You Read This Title… Tessa…
In The Hot Seat with Cara Cooper
CURRENTLY READING… ‘The Killings At Badger’s Drift’ by Caroline Graham. I occasionally dip into the Midsomer Murders series on television and always enjoy them but I’d never tried reading Caroline Graham’s books. This one is the first and is listed by the Crime Writers Association as one of the top one hundred of all…
In The Hot Seat with Julie Painter
Currently Reading….James Patterson’s Cross Fire Currently watching….Rizzoli and Isles Guilty Pleasure…Chocolate Best Advice You Ever Got…From Tim O’Brien, author of the Vietnam, award-winning book, The Things They Carried: who said: “When you come to the end (of your story) stop.” A Country or Town You’d Like to Visit…Only one left as we have hit most…
In The Hot Seat with Jim Woods
Currently Reading….Fearful Hard Times, The Seige and Relief of Eshowe, 1879, by Ian Castle and Ian Knight, a book I purchased at the Zululand Historical Museum, Eshowe, South Africa, 1995 and haven’t found time for until now. Currently Watching….Longmire, only because it’s summer reruns and I can’t watch NCIS Guilty Pleasure…The only other good summer…
Friday Ramblings from An Author-Summer Reading
Summer’s officially here which means loads of sites and publications are issuing their summer reading lists. I’ve always been an avid reader but five years ago got into the habit of reading three books at one time. Why the sudden need to read more? My uncle was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died six…
In The Hot Seat with Sheila Norton
Currently Reading…. ‘The Etymologicon’ by Mark Forsyth. I love words, and I’m fascinated by how English phrases originated, and so is this author! It’s very informative, but light and humorous. Currently Watching…. A DVD set of ‘The Bridge’, a series we missed earlier this year. Very complex plot, very intriguing!Guilty Pleasure… Pints of bitter! Best…
Champagne Book Group Contest
Champagne Book Group is seeking talented authors and their stories for Carnal Passions, our erotic imprint. Carnal Passions accepts erotic romance in all its variations (BDSM, Alternate Lifestyle, Gay/Lesbian and any and all combinations thereof). To find this new talent and terrific stories, Champagne Book Group is having a submissions contest for both published and…
In The Hot Seat with Jane Lovering
In the hot seat today is author Jane Lovering… Currently Reading….On my Kindle, Lesley Cookman’s ‘Murder by Magic’, which was a free download, but I’m loving it so much I’m going to buy the full set of her Libby Sarjeant books. In real life I’m reading Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England. Wonderful…