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March 12, 2020
Kindle discount, TweetYourBooks
Beginning today, The Healer’s Daughters ebook is on sale. This is in conjunction with a campaign courtesy of TweetYourBooks. I’m on Twitter @Jay_Amberg.
March 11, 2020
Let’s Just Write! Private consultations
As part of the Let’s Just Write! conference, I will be available for three private consultations. Writers can sign up for a half-hour period to discuss their project and get feedback. Maybe you are the next Amika Press author.
Follow the link here, click “Tickets”, then scroll down the list. I enjoy talking with writers about their manuscripts and aspirations. It will be great to meet you.
March 9, 2020
Let’s Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference
In two weeks, I’ll be attending the Chicago Writers Association’s annual conference, Let’s Just Write!. This is my first year attending and I look forward to connecting with fellow authors. The Healer’s Daughters will be available for purchase. Click for more information. I’ll also be posting details about the conference here and on Facebook. Hope you can join us.
March 2, 2020
Thank you, Goodreads!
Thanks to everyone that participated in the Goodreads giveaway for The Healer’s Daughters. There were 469 entrants, wow!
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Here is a dog I met in İzmir, Turkey. A friend named her Sunshine. How nice that the sun is coming out again in Chicago.
February 28, 2020
Wrapping up the Kindle Giveaway, The Healer’s Daughters
The Kindle giveaway is wrapping up. You can enter to win one of 100 free copies of The Healer’s Daughters until March 1st. Click the banner below, and good luck!
February 26, 2020
Research from Pergamon: reconstruction of the Sanctuary of Kybele
Inspiration for The Healer’s Daughters, Goodreads giveaway running now until March 1st.
“Mamurt Kale, reconstruction of the Sanctuary of Kybele after Paul Schazmann.” Images from Pergamon: A Hellenistic Capital in Anatolia by Felix Pirson and Andreas Scholl.
Finalist, Red City Review Book Awards
I’ve been named a finalist in the 2019 Red City Review Book Awards, Best Social Media category. What a gift!
February 24, 2020
Research from Pergamon: view from the Sanctuary of Kybele
Inspiration for The Healer’s Daughters, Goodreads giveaway running now until March 1st.
“View from the Sanctuary of Kybele on Kapıkaya towards the Pergamon acropolis, 5 km away.” Images from Pergamon: A Hellenistic Capital in Anatolia by Felix Pirson and Andreas Scholl.
February 21, 2020
Research from Pergamon: the Red Hall landscape
Inspiration for The Healer’s Daughters, Goodreads giveaway running now until March 1st.
“The Red Hall. Archives of the Pergamon Excavation, DAI.” Images from Pergamon: A Hellenistic Capital in Anatolia by Felix Pirson and Andreas Scholl.
February 18, 2020
Research from Pergamon: the Red Hall
Inspiration for The Healer’s Daughters, Goodreads giveaway running now until March 1st.
“The main building of the Red Hall with two flanking rotundas, viewed from the west; the restored, south rotunda is on the right.” Images from Pergamon: A Hellenistic Capital in Anatolia by Felix Pirson and Andreas Scholl.


