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May 3, 2018
Blog Tour: Road Of A Warrior by R. K. Lander
Hello Readers!
Today I have a book tour post for ya!
But first watch the trailer!
Road of a Warrior (The Silvan Book II)
by R.K. Lander
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy
Release Date: April 28th 2018
Summary:
A light in the forest, a king returned, a past to claim …
Fel’annár is an immortal half-blood warrior from the Deep Forest, an orphan whose questions
were never answered. With a dream of becoming a Silvan captain in an army ruled by the Alpine
elves, he is sent to protect a prince of the realm on a journey to Tar’eastór, land of the mighty
Alpine elves and of Fel’annár’s own father – whoever he was.
His nascent power will continue to evolve as his shrouded past finally surfaces. The truth he
never thought to hear will thrust him onto a path strewn with political intrigue, discrimination,
danger and self-discovery.
Meanwhile, a failing…
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May 2, 2018
Promo Post Of Road Of A Warrior By R.K.Lander
Road of a Warrior (The Silvan Book 2)
by R.K. Lander
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy
Release Date: April 28th 2018
Summary:A light in the forest, a king returned, a past to claim …Fel’annár is an immortal half-blood warrior from the Deep Forest, an orphan whose questions were never answered. With a dream of becoming a Silvan captain in an army ruled by the Alpine elves, he is sent to protect a prince of the realm on a journey to Tar’eastór, land of the mighty Alpine elves and of Fel’annár’s own father – whoever he was.His nascent power will continue to evolve as his shrouded past finally surfaces. The truth he never thought to hear will thrust him onto a path strewn with political intrigue, discrimination, danger and self-discovery.Meanwhile, a failing king will rise from the ashes of grief and reclaim his place as leader of the Great Forest. Warriors will battle…
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April 30, 2018
Road of a Warrior is on the road.
[image error]So Road of a Warrior is on the road. Initial results after Saturday’s launch are promising and I can’t wait for the feedback to roll in. That’s where you come in. I would love you to follow, like and share so hop on board.
The tour kicks off with a mini review from Adventures Thru Wonderland, although you will also find guest posts from me about how the book was written, and a little background information on some of the main characters and some excerpts from the book.
Blog Tour Schedule –
April 30th
Accidental Writer: http://klyoung.net/blog
Books are Love: http://hello-booklover.tumblr.com
Adventures Thru Wonderland: http://adventuresthruwonderlandreviews.wordpress.com
Mythical Books: http://mythicalbooks.blogspot.com/
May 1st
Smada’s Book Smack: Http://smadasbooksmack.blogspot.com
Andi’s Young Adult Books: http://andisyoungadult.blogspot.com
More Books Than Livros: http://www.morebooksthanlivros.com
The Cover Contessa: http://www.thecovercontessa.com
Bookparadise572000 https://bookparadise421607024.wordpress.com
May 2nd
RhythmicBooktrovert http://Rhythmicbooknerd.wordpress.com
Dark Treasury https://audenstreasury.blogspot.com/
Literary Musings http://literarymusing.weebly.com
Shannon Muir – Infinite House of Books http://www.house-of-books.com
May 3rd
This and That Book Blog http://thisandthatbookblog.blogspot.com
Bookworm for Kids http://www.bookwormforkids.blogspot.com
Mikayla’s Bookshelf www.mikaylasbookshelf.blogspot.com
May 4th
Character Madness and Musings https://jenabaxterbooks.blogspot.com/
Wishful Endings http://www.wishfulendings.com/
jrsbookreviews http://www.jrsbookreviews.wordpress.com
Don’t Judge, Read http://dontjudgeread.blogspot.ca
April 29, 2018
Blog Tour: Road of a Warrior
Road of a Warrior is on the road.
Road of a Warrior (The Silvan Book II
by R.K. Lander
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy
Release Date: April 28th 2018
Summary:
A light in the forest, a king returned, a past to claim …
Fel’annár is an immortal half-blood warrior from the Deep Forest, an orphan whose questions were never answered. With a dream of becoming a Silvan captain in an army ruled by the Alpine elves, he is sent to protect a prince of the realm on a journey to Tar’eastór, land of the mighty Alpine elves and of Fel’annár’s own father – whoever he was.
His nascent power will continue to evolve as his shrouded past finally surfaces. The truth he never thought to hear will thrust him onto a path strewn with political intrigue, discrimination, danger and self-discovery.
Meanwhile, a failing king will rise from the ashes of grief and reclaim his place as leader of the…
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April 20, 2018
What Good Music Can Teach Us About Writing
by Andrea Lundgren
I was thinking about this the other day while on hold. I was waiting for a break in the music that signaled that someone was going to rescue me from the unending monotony, so when the music would change from stringed instruments music to a pause, I’d get excited…only to have the music start another movement.
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April 19, 2018
T Minus Nine Days to Launch
[image error]Only nine days to go before the launch of Road of a Warrior, The Silvan Book II.
It’s just such an exciting moment, and the nine days left before the launch party are packed with frenetic activity. There is a Facebook party to throw, and a real party at the same time. That might have been a very bad idea, conceptually, but it promises to be fun, I’ll tell you. Just don’t miss the photos next day!
The worst part of the run up is the eternal wait for my advance readers to get back to me with their feedback, and of course the long-awaited editorial review. In fact it’s torture, because all those pesky insecure writer quirks resurface and the metaphysical questions arise. I won’t bore you with that, though. Luckily, my beta reader M.Y. Leigh and my editor, Andrea Lundgren, have written really positive things about this second instalment so that makes me hopeful it will be at least as good as the first – hopefully better.
You can see Andrea’s review here.
If you would like a review copy, please let me know. The more feedback I get at the outset, the better, so please drop me a line if you’re up for it.
So how about you join the fun and sign up for the Facebook launch? You can do that here, I will be joined by E. Paige Burks, Carolee Croft and Doug Goodman who are also launching books, so don’t miss the opportunity to meet them and participate in all the giveaways we’re throwing around. And if you are an author with a new book, let me know if you would like to participate.
And of course there is always my Giveaway … don’t forget to sign up for that!
20 $ Amazon gift card
4 x 5 $ Amazon gift cards
5 Kindle editions of Path of a Novice
5 Kindle editions of Road of a Warrior
I ‘m really excited about meeting you, or hearing from you, but above all, I hope, will all my heart, that you will enjoy the book.
April 16, 2018
First Review, From the Editor.
And so it begins. Here is the first and most informed review of Road of a Warrior, The Silvan Book II.
Why I Can Review a Book I Coached (or Edited)
Every so often, I will review a book I coached or edited (particularly if the author asks it of me). This may sound tremendously biased—who can evaluate a book they were involved with—but hear me out.
First, I don’t publish my reviews on Amazon. Their policy would see me as biased, to where I would want to write a good review for writers because I work for them, and they have a right to police their review policy however they want.
But here, on my website, I get to police my own reviews, and the thing is, my ability to find errors and generate ideas on how to fix them is why authors hire me, not so I say nice things. So it actually is in my favor to write an honest review, to where authors know “these problems, though we worked around them, are still the main flaws I…
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April 9, 2018
Tolkien Quotations
Some wonderful, intelligent quotes from the father of fantasy. Reblogged from Deborah Jay’s Blog
March 31, 2018
Book 2 Marketing Strategy
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Your second book in a series is almost there and a writer turns marketing expert. Books are sold and the miracle happens. Erh … no, no that’s not right. In fact, reality is far, far sadder. If you struggle with promoting your book, you probably spend hours upon hours researching the net, with searches like ‘how to sell second book,’ or ‘second book promo,’. Sound familiar?
There’s just so much out there, so many ideas, some of which sound like simple common sense while others sound a little risky. I had no pre-conceived ideas and so I put together a strategy that started five days ago, and will continue beyond the launch day, 28th April, 2017.
Stage One: Kindle Select, FREE promo days and PRE-release on Amazon.
Place book one in Kindle Select and select a FREE promo. I chose the full five days as I was due to come off in a few days. Ideally, I think three days is good.
Place book two on PRE-release on Amazon for 0.99 cents.
Add the book two cover and link at the end of book one
Book one was due to come off Select so I took advantage of the five days I still had and did a FREE promotion. I have done this before, but the results this time round were far, far better. Three times better, in fact. But first off, why did I do a FREE promo of book 1?
Answer: Because I want readers to enjoy it so much that they will pre-order book 2. It worked.
There are loads of places that will do promo for free but to be honest, I have found it is barely worth the effort it takes to go around filling out forms and submitting book covers, and sorting through the various marketing strategies that sign you up for newsletters you don’t need, or send you to Paypal when you thought it was free… There are some great sites out there that are cheap and effective. Which one worked best for me? There is absolutely no doubt in my mind: Ereader News Today, AKA ENT. Take a look at the stats below to get a better idea of why I’m saying this.
With my FREE days set up, I started an excel sheet to keep track of what was going on and where. Here are the results.
DAY ONE
Ebook Deal of the Day
Top 100 Best Free Kindle
Read Cheaply
#Ranking: 225,000 – 377
#Fantasy>Epic: 4,000 – 11
#Fantasy>Metaphysical: 700 – 4
#Fantasy>Military: 160 – 1
#Downloads: 0 – 514
#Pre-orders: 35 – 52
So not bad results, comparable at least to the free days I used last year. It has to be said that since then, the cover has improved dramatically and the blurb was re-done by the fabulous Andrea Lundgren
You can see the massive changes in ranking just with 514 downloads, even in the Epic category, which is very competetive.
DAY TWO
FKBT
Ereader News of the Day
Ebook Deal of the Day
#Ranking: 377 – 79
#Fantasy>Epic: 11 – 2
#Fantasy>Metaphysical: 4 – 1
#Fantasy>Military: 1 – 1
#Downloads: 514 – 2,230
#Pre-orders: 52 – 93
This was a great result. Ereader News of the Day really came through. Book early as they do have an editorial process. You have to get approved first.
So by day two I was in the top 100 on the Kindle Free Store, rating either 1 or 2 in all three categories. Also, look at the Pre-orders for book 2. Not a bad jump of 41 books sold. That was a happy day!
DAY THREE
Bargain Ebook Hunter
Facebook boosted post with link to Amazon
#Ranking: 79 – 143
#Fantasy>Epic: 2 – 5
#Fantasy>Metaphysical: 1 – 2
#Fantasy>Military: 1 – 1
#Downloads: 2,230 – 2,656
#Pre-orders: 93 – 110
This was just over 400 downloads. Not bad, and another 17 pre-orders was very nice too. I was pleasantly surprised with what that cover and link were doing at the end of Book One.
Days four and five were a downward spiral, with nothing going on in the way of promotion. Having said that, there were still a few hundred downloads, and pre-orders were still coming through, taking me up to a total of 177. That’s +142. My moment of glory is passing. I was queen for a day and even reached #59 in the Free Kindle Store. I also got quite a few books added by readers on Goodreads – around 50, three new reviews both on Amazon and Goodreads, and a few Facebook likes for my author page. It will be interesting to see how many more reviews come through over the next few weeks.
So stage one of my Book 2 promotion strategy worked. I have a good number of pre-release orders ready to hit Amazon on launch day, which should help to get my ranking up and get me noticed. The next challenge, of course, is how to stay there past the first two or three days after launch.
Stage two will revolve around launch day. I have a Virtual Blog Tour booked with YA Bound Book Tours and have already booked a few promo sights. I am also in the process of setting up a Facebook Launch Party with fellow authors Greg Goodman, E. Paige Burks and Carolee Croft
Meanwhile, it’s back to research. I wonder if you have any insight to share. What are you doing to promote your book 2? Would you like to team up?
Love to hear your thoughts.
