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11 Social Media Tips Authors Can't Live Without

��� Which social media is best to promote your book?
��� Cheatsheet for social media photo sizes  
��� Follow social media etiquette during promos
��� Add hashtags to your social media posts 
��� Use link shorteners for tidier promotions
��� Promote books to young adults using their social media
��� Use Reddit to promote young adult male books
��� Place social media addresses in your book
��� How to leverage Google+ for increased book sales
��� Best time to promote your book on Google+
��� When to promote your book using Tumblr
��� BONUS: Five magic words that sell more books  

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"If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book." - Shereen El Feki

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Getting deep inside: Embed vs. Imbed

Sometimes different spellings of a single word arise. Such is the case with embed and imbed.

The verb embed means to root, plant or place something deeply within another thing. For example, The United States media often embeds reporters within military units during war.

Imbed means exactly the same thing and is merely a variant spelling.

One spelling is no more correct than the other. But usage trends show that since the early 1960s, embed increasingly has been used with more frequently than imbed. Because of this, going with embed is your best bet.

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"As a writer, one spends a lifetime trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and thought." - Arundhati Roy

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8 Tips to Make Your Writing More Vivid

��� Don't leave reader in fog with vague descriptions
��� Use concrete details
��� Examples of "concrete details"
��� Use sensory details rather than internalized ones
��� Appeal to sense of sound
��� Appeal to sense of touch
��� Appeal to sense of taste
��� Writing prompt: Sensuous dissection
��� BONUS: "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." ��� Jack Kerouac

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5 Great Quotations about Poetry

���Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.��� - Theodore Roethke

���Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.��� - Carl Sandburg

���With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.��� - Edgar Allan Poe

���One merit of poetry few persons will deny ��� it says more and in fewer words than prose.��� - Voltaire

���The poet doesn���t invent. He listens.��� - Jean Cocteau

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"For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind." - Geraldine Brooks

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Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of...

Every success story begins with a dream. If you dream of being a professional, published author, that success story requires believing in yourself and in knowing that your efforts will lead to triumph. Read the motivational blog entry this quotation came from by clicking on the quote card.

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5 Tips for Getting Awesome Reviews of Your Book

��� Why you want reviews written about your book
��� Where to find reviewers for your book
��� Some guidelines for reviewing a book
��� Include note asking readers to post a review 
��� Hold contest to get more reviews of your book
��� BONUS: "Better (to) put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers." - Jack McClelland 

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Client���s book explores Mexican-American heritage

A recent editing client of mine has published his first book, a history of Mexican-American heritage as seen through his family tree.

Nikolas Gonzales' "Moraga Deconstructed: Illuminations in Mexican-American Heritage," examines the trajectories of Latin-American history across the world and in the United States through contemporary lenses and uses familial connections as a vehicle with which to intimately approach these histories. Among Gonzales' ancestors is Jose Joaquin Moraga, one of the founding commanders of the San Francisco Presidio in 1776.

The book can be purchased online in paperback or ebook.

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