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April 23, 2017
Action Based Sci-Fi
It seems an oxymoron to say action based and sci-fi in the same sentence. Most of my experience with science fiction tales has been very action based. I’m a real sucker for a great space battle. In teen sci-fi novels, the author is faced with a conundrum. How scientific to you get? How much action and adventure should be involved? How much trouble should your characters get into?
Venus Rising falls into the typical science-fiction story. The setting is an underwater research lab. There are scientists and administrators. Families live in this moveable sphere. Oh, and there’s Mick, who did something extraordinary as a small child and is on the station pretty much against his will. He’ll do just about anything to get away from Venus, the station, even though the AI computer wants him to hang around.
Venus—a research habitat in the North Atlantic—learned to communicate with a very special young man long before humans inhabited her decks. Eleven years later, sixteen-year-old Mick Beaumont has long given up on his friend inside the computer. He’s determined to leave what he sees as a loser lifestyle and return to terra firma.
On the day of the scheduled rising, nothing happens as it should. Mick’s at a loss to explain the breakdowns, despite being the prime suspect. Determined to figure out the mystery, he enlists the aid of his girlfriend and best bud, only to have one betray him at a crucial moment.
The fate of the world is in this young man’s hands. Can he stop the eco-terrorists and bring Venus to the surface before planetary annihilation happens?
Pain. Excruciating, unbearable pain drove through her joints and caused her to groan. For a very long time, Venus lay still. She tried to absorb why the miniscule humans who inhabited her wanted to hurt her. What had she done wrong? Why did they want her to remain on the bottom of the ocean? When would this pain end?
She had to do something. Now. Before the other humans suffered. But the men called Julian Marcus and Chief Swenson wouldn’t allow her to notify the right people. Some way—there must be a method she could use to let the scientists know of the problem. How could she contact Dr. Michael and Dr. Katrina?
Blocked. Those men wanted this information kept from them! Why? No sense. Didn’t show good judgment for humans to remain below when they needed to do repairs. Dr. Michael. Dr. Katrina. Must know. Can’t get to them.
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About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 18, 2017
Futuristic Tales
I’ll admit it. I’m a huge science fiction fan. It wasn’t always like that. I remember so well, sitting in a theater in May of 1977. The now iconic music began and words scrolled across the screen, introducing me to a genre that I would soon come to love. Yes, my first real experience with sci-fi was in the movies, with the Star Wars franchise, but I soon discovered amazing worlds in books I read over and over again.
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Science fiction is a huge genre. There are so many different types of stories there, but they all have some element of science involved with them. Whether it’s living space, exploring new planets, discovering civilizations in other galaxies, or something as simple as a futuristic Earth where our lives are far different than they are from now are the norm, a well written science fiction story will attract an audience.
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A reality pill… Canoples Investigations returns… Are we computers? plus many other stories in this science fiction anthology from Solstice Universe.
Ten authors with eleven tales to tell: Ray Chilensky, K.C. Sprayberry, Rob McLachlan, Debbie De Louise, Jim Cronin, Rick Ellrod, Natalie Silk, Arthur Butt, E.B. Sullivan, and S@yr bring you stories to delight and entertain.
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It seemed like a good idea when they had first introduced it back in 2070. Everyone had experienced something that they would like to forget. After all, who wouldn’t want to forget the death of their first pet or watching a loved one perish in a traffic accident? Synaptic Engineering (or S.E.) seemed, at first, to be the answer to a myriad of psychological and emotional disorders. If you were traumatized, you could just forget what it was that had traumatized you.
The technique had been developed by the military; ostensibly to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Memories that caused social dysfunction were just erased. Soldiers could come home from war without remembering the most terrible parts of it. No longer would these fighters be plagued by horrible nightmares or crippling guilt and depression. The horrors of war could be erased and forgotten in minutes; the warrior was psychically cleansed.
My brother, Kyle, was one of the first war veterans to be treated with synaptic engineering. He had fought as a paratrooper in Taiwan and the Philippines and had suffered from horrific flashbacks and bouts of profound depression. He had never talked about what he had experienced in the war; I had never asked him to. I was a bit ashamed that I hadn’t served, and wouldn’t have known what to say even if I had if I had gotten Kyle to open up. The flashbacks stopped after his S.E. treatment, but the depression persisted.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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Yank Them Up
Authors in the twenty-first century are in competition for readers. There are far more writers now than at any other time in recorded history. With the advent of social media and the ease with which one can self-publish their own book, more and more people every day upload books to sales venues and dive into the murky waters of promotion.
Along the way, you will have those who concentrate solely on selling their books. It appears they never have a bad hair day or are unhappy. Illness never strikes them down nor do they have family obligations interrupting their driven promotion work. Other authors look at them and ask “How do you do that?” What’s your secret?”
The answer often has new authors throwing what some have referred to as a temper tantrum.
Once that tantrum is full blown, these new authors look around and see no sign of the experienced person. They’re not on social media site A, nor B. Oh, sure there are posts galore from this individual but it doesn’t appear as if they’re online. The new author, instead of moving on to another activity, such as doing their own promotion or writing a new novel, sets out on a search through messaging and posting anything and everything to get the more experienced author’s attention.
While this tantrum is ongoing, experienced author’s friends are quietly laughing in the background. One or two might finally come up with a response to new author that isn’t in these exact words but means the same thing.
“Hey, pull up your big boy/girl panties and move on.”
The new author is shocked. Who is this person? Why are they talking to them like they’re an infant? How dare they?
Dear New Author,
Before you throw a tantrum and lose what little credibility you have left, consider this for a moment. The experienced author you’re following, asking questions of, and desperately trying to be like isn’t around for a reason. They’ve completed their social media promotion. They’re not interested in playing online games. Nor do they want anything to do with your tantrum. Mr. or Ms. Experienced Author is deep into plotting a new novel. They’re doing research. They’re scribbling notes on paper they have on their desk for that purpose. The experienced author will come up for air eventually. They will reappear on social media at some point, if only to catch up on their promotion for their books already for sale. They will not, however, be real happy to notice how many times you tagged them in posts, or how many PMs you sent, or how their friends are telling them about this person seeking them high and low.
My advice to you, New Author, is to stop concentrating on how much better Experienced Author is at all these things, except to learn how they do them. Instead, do as Experienced Author is doing. Sit at your desk and start writing your next novel.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 17, 2017
The Know It All
With the plethora of indie and self-published authors in this world today, one might find it difficult who do believe when they’re perusing the numerous blogs and social media posts on how best to publish your book. You might even get conflicting opinions on which social media platform is best to use. Say you want to connect your social media platforms, having your posts go out from one to the other, to get more people seeing your work.
Lately, Twitter and Facebook have offered authors and others the opportunity to have their accounts “verified” or to get the blue check mark saying you’re an important person. For an author, this can mean better visibility on the social media giants, which can translate into more sales. For any author, this is an opportunity not to be missed, especially since it doesn’t cost a thing.
However, there are those authors who have been self-publishing for a while who will claim the blue check mark doesn’t mean anything. They will decry the opportunities offered you as lies, lies, lies. These people claim you can’t post from one social media account to another, and will scream and yell at you if you’ve sent one of their posts to the “wrong place” and made it look like your post.
First, do your due diligence. Check out the links about how to verify your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
To request Twitter account verification: To Verify A Twitter Account
To request Facebook account verification: To Verify A Facebook Account
It’s not easy and more likely than not, you will be denied the opportunity. All you need to do is keep on trying. After all, as an author, you’ve become used to rejection. All you need to do is jump back and try again, and again, and again… you get the idea.
As for those who know it all and are putting you down for attempting to improve your online visibility, I have a saying for that…
I reached this glass wall with many people standing there saying it was impossible to break through. Hefting the sledge hammer off my shoulder, I swung and shattered the glass wall, walking on through while the naysayers remained behind.
Or to be more succinct, nothing is going to stop me if I think it will help me sell my books. Just like nothing stopped me from becoming a published author.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 16, 2017
Holding Onto Faith
Faith tested and lost. Lives in turmoil. The Easter season is a celebration of life renewed, of the resurrection. It is also a time when Christians look deeply into themselves and when troubles can seem far worse than they are.
Renewal of Faith is an anthology filled with stories that explore the human condition and the ability of those within the pages to hang on tightly to what they believe in. Each of these stories is a reflection of the authors’ belief systems, of their courage in approaching trouble without being afraid to lean onto their faith.
Old friends… New danger
Pioneer Easter, new beginnings
A Heaven sent smile to believe
Bereft of faith Anton returns home
The Story of Faith and Courage
Some things can be changed
Will Melinda discover her inner strength?
Faith tested and renewed in many different ways. An abandoned child; two people must trust all will turn out right. A family moving west following bigotry. Hope lost; a yearning to believe. A return home to discover faith. Faith and renewal versus loss and grief. Her rocky path leads her home. A teen struggles for answers.
April Erwin, Eden S. Clark, Donna Patton, E.B. Sullivan, J.E. & Carla Holling and Jeannie Anderson, Leah Hamrick, and K.C. Sprayberry present stories of strength and hope, of struggle and desolation, of returning to what has always sustained them.
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Slouched low behind the wheel, she watched Carl Reid climb out of his black Jeep Cherokee. The sun had already set and the light was quickly fading, but she could tell he still wore his navy blue Justice Fire Department Paramedic uniform. He looked like the hero she remembered from so long ago.
He pulled two sacks of groceries and a duffel bag from his backseat and carried them up the short driveway and inside his home as if they weighed nothing. Lights appeared one window at a time in the small cottage as he moved from room to room.
She scanned the quiet tree lined street for the ever present smoke gray Lexus that haunted her. Had she really managed to shake him? Or was he lurking just out of sight, watching her every move? She had to take the chance, it was now or never. Taking a deep breath she slipped out of the Intrepid, grateful she’d disabled the interior lights. Opening the rear door she reached inside for her own precious cargo.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 12, 2017
Elitism
I’ve had the great luck to meet many, many authors since I became one myself. Most are easy to get along with and wonderful people. There are a few, however, who believe their work is better than anyone else’s and they are only befriending you in order to improve their stature.
How does one know at elitist when they run into them? One of the first things you’ll notice is how they are always right and everyone else had better listen to them or they’ll make your life miserable. Even if you explain why you feel they’re wrong and are willing to have a civil conversation with this individual, you will soon discover no matter what you say, the person will be attacking you on each point. They’ll bring up this or that example as the reason you’re wrong. They’ll expound on their points until you want to agree with them to get the person to shut up.
That last point won’t work. You’ve just shown a weakness and this person will now take any and every opportunity to belittle you and your work. Their attacks will increase the more you ignore them, until you are faced with dropping them from your social media sites just to get some peace. The peace you sought won’t be lasting. You’ll hear from other friends how this person is calling you a coward and that you can’t admit when you’re wrong.
The elitist will bemoan how their book isn’t selling as well as they believe it should. They may seem to be eliciting advice on how to improve sales, but that is far from what they want. Once you fall into the trap of offering advice, you will be shot down with scathing commentary that their book should be selling, except this and that loser is messing things up for them. They’re being sabotaged at every turn by everyone in the industry. Some elitists I’ve run into have gone so far as to claim it’s a conspiracy by everyone whose book is in competition with theirs to destroy them. All the while this person will be claiming they’re going to get even and come out the winner, no matter what it takes.
How does one deal with an elitist?
Once you figure the person you’re interacting with falls into this category you need to slowly walk away from the person. Don’t like or comment on their posts. Don’t react when your name comes up in conversations as someone who isn’t a good friend. More importantly, don’t let this person drag you into their personal vendetta against the world.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 11, 2017
Horror in Large Doses
Ah, the horror story. Even short stories and novellas have the ability to scare the living daylights out of us, and keep most people awake long into the night. Who among us is immune to the effects of a well written psychologically terrorizing tale?
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Like other genres, horror has evolved over the years since the century changed. Books that once relied on slash and gore have become the minority in this genre, with authors preferring to delve into the psychology of terror. In other words, your favorite author might just use your very overactive imagination to scare you.
Excerpt
Sleep is impossible after reading these eight tales of things that go bump in the night…
Mysterious Warrior Battles Evil Coven…
Haunted wedding dress horror story…
Every secret has a cost…
Who am I and why am I here?
Long hidden secrets emerge from the pond…
Unexpected consequences from an interruption…
Don’t plan on the usual housewarming!
The perfect relationship from hell!
Sadie K. Frazier, Josie Montano, S.C. Alban, Johnny Gunn, K.C. Sprayberry, Debbie De Louise, Archimede Fusillo, and Alex Pilalis present eight stories of horror sure to have you screaming!
Excerpt
As the first hint of moonlight began to creep in, over the wooded forests of Ashwood Falls, Oregon, whispers and moans of spirits from below reverberated throughout the terror stricken town. Black, shadowy figures, smelling like the putrid stench of death, seeped into the cobblestone crevices of that once conservatively quiet community. They had been teetering on the verge of panic for the last month, waiting for this night to arrive.
The trees branches, blowing ferociously, and bowing with each rush of wind, knocked violently against the old brick building in one of the most historically significant parts of town. One single flash of lightning exploded across the sky, followed closely by a deafening crack of thunder, the sound echoing for miles. What started as just a light drizzle was now a flurry of torrential rain, mixed with a sudden onset of pelting hail against the corrugated metal roof of the old library.
Set on the crest of a breathtakingly scenic bluff, the town of Ashwood Falls was home to thousands of hardworking folk; bankers, lawyers, teachers, and the like. The townspeople were governed by a sheriff's department, whose minds had long since been under the complete control of the evil masterminding of the coven, making them all essentially their test subjects for the diabolical plans they had devised.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 10, 2017
Do You Need An Agent?
Once upon a time, back before the turn of the century, it became necessary to have an agent to have your book considered by those publishing companies known as the Big 5. Due to the influx of authors and books that simply weren’t ready for publication, publishers realized they had to find a way to weed out those books that were either not right for their lines or needed revisions and/or editing before they were submitted.
Thus, authors turned to the submission process to find an agent, and it was born that all authors needed an agent in order to find a publisher. Once we arrived in the twenty-first century, the myth of needing an agent remained, even though there were soon online publishers who offered as much or more of a royalty for ebooks. Some even offered authors the opportunity to have their books in print, thanks to print on demand companies. Some authors continued the same trek to an agent’s website before submitting to a publisher. The world had become a smaller place. There were also new agents available to these authors, and they soon began to think they had the opportunity to be represented by someone who would ensure their book was promoted while they were slaving away on their next book.
The thing is many first time or mid-list authors really have no need for an agent. Agents, like publisher and authors, have changed in this new century. The world of publishing has gone through massive changes. With the ease of self-publishing, thanks to Amazon and other sales venues, an author might even decide they can do it all without someone else taking part of their royalties, only to soon discover a publisher might be more of an avenue they’re seeking after they discover the cost of editors, proofreaders, and cover artists. What is most important is that an author is now in control of who does or doesn’t represent their book if they want to be published.
By now, you’re wondering if you really need an agent. Some of you are saying that you’re going to get an agent despite all the bad things you may have heard about them. Good, but keep reading. Below are some things from Writer’s Digest you should know about agents before you submit.
What an agent should always do:
Attempts to sell your book to a reputable publishing house.
Keeps up-to-date with editors’ interests as well as their contact information.
Negotiates the terms of your contracts with publishers.
Works on commission.
What an agent can do:
Offer guidance or suggestions for improving your book.
Get it into the hands of editors.
Secure an advance or sell your book at auction.
What an agent should do
Return your calls and emails within a reasonable period of time once you’ve signed on together.
Give you realistic expectations.
Be as interested as you are in getting a good advance—the better you do, the better he/she will do.
All of this is excellent advice, but I would add a few things an author should do before contacting an agent, what is often called due diligence.
Check out this agent online.
Don’t rely on testimonials for a select few of the authors on their website.
Read complaints but also check out the validity of those complaints. Is the author angry for some reason or were they in fact taken in by a bad agent?
I’m also sharing things you shouldn’t expect from an agent. As with publishers changing on how they handle books, agents have also changed and more often than not no longer hold every author’s hand throughout the publication process.
What an agent does not do
Guarantee fame and riches.
Sell every manuscript she/he agrees to represent.
Write the publishers’ contracts for them.
What an agent cannot do
Rewrite your book or make it perfect for you.
Guarantee those editors will read every word.
Guarantee anyone will come to an auction even when they’ve told the interested editors they’re holding one.
What an agent should not do
Refuse to tell you anything he/she has done. (Even if she/he has taken no actions at all, he/she should tell you that.
Promise you a fortune.
Accept or turn down advances without consulting you.
To expand on this, agents should never put down the publishers they’ve sent your books to, nor should the publishers do the same to agents. An agent really can’t promise you that they can secure you an option to have your book made into a movie and also say the movie will be made eventually.
In my opinion, an agent should provide a full accounting from your publisher(s) monthly, or at least quarterly, with how many of your books have been sold and the amount of royalties paid to you. This proves to me the agent is honest and above board and is willing to give their authors vital information.
The biggest thing to remember before you sign a contract with an agent is to ask yourself this: Am I, as an untested author, going to make enough to pay the agent’s fee (no, they don’t work for free, their rate is usually 15% of your royalties). If your answer is no to that question, then you probably should read up on how to deal with a publisher and understand that many, many authors these days don’t have an agent when a publisher gives them a contract.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 9, 2017
Introducing New Characters in a Series
When writing a series, especially one that’s a fan favorite, the story can become stale after a time. Everyone knows the characters. They’ve become almost predictable in how they’ll react. Their mission is usually the same, overcome a problem. How does one avoid this predictability? Have you considered introducing new members to the team? Of course, you will wonder just how to do that.
The Canoples Investigations team is always willing to do what it takes to get the job done. They’re teens with a mission and they usually stumble on trouble that make them wonder how their lives got turned upside down. In this new addition to the series, BD discovers trouble unfolding far from Canoples Station during his misadventure in Canoples Investigations Exposes Space Dodger. Now, we learn the story of Corina Amberchuck and her friends aboard Starship Lyre, as that crew searches for survivors from Mother Ship.
Mother Shipdestroyed. Innumerable losses. A mysterious invitation. Problems at every turn. And the threat of returning violence.
Corina Amberchuck refuses to believe her parents are responsible for the loss of Mother Ship. When no one will help her prove that she’s right, she reaches out on a memorized band width, connecting with the infamous BD Bradford for help.
We left Earth long after the evacuation. No one would come ever again to save those left on the severely polluted planet. The original departure had happened so long ago that I had not yet been born, even though Believers tried to make all of us think that it was only a decade earlier.
Eleven years have passed since the day Mother Ship and her escorts escaped Earth. I am now sixteen, ready to step up for my training, but still a year or so exists before I can do that. All that is my responsibility these days is to do the best job possible furnishing sustenance for those who live on the ships, and keep an eye out for Believers.
Those on these ships with me were once Believers. My parents were actually leaders with that group—citizens of Earth who thought the governments were wrong about abandoning the planet, wrong about vaccinations, wrong about everything. Turns out those who stayed behind were the ones that had the wrong idea, and most of us paid a heavy price.
My name is Corina. I am not now nor have I ever been a Believer, even though most on this ship and every other craft in our flotilla think that. Even my parents imagine that I followed the same strictures and edicts that they did.
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About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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April 5, 2017
What To Expect From A Reviewer
A reviewer or several reviewers have agreed to read your book and write a review for it. Congratulations! You are going to have some help getting people to notice your book. It’s well known that having forty or more reviews on Amazon gets your book noticed, and we’re all eager to have that happen.
Now that you have those reviewers, what exactly can you expect from them?
That is an important question to ask yourself. You did your due diligence when seeking out the best reviewers for your book. You made sure they have reviewed other books similar to yours in the past and are accepting ARCs for review. Now that you’ve reached the point where you’ll send the ARC to them to read, you should be aware of what they will provide you.
Will the reviewer post on Amazon after the write the review?
This is important if you are going to get the necessary amount of reviews in order to have your book move up in Amazon’s search engines. If a reviewer doesn’t post on Amazon, ask them if you can add their review to the “editorial review” section for your book. This is where you, the author, go into your book and add the review manually. It won’t appear with other reviews posted by readers, but will be in the section under your blurb and cover art. Check out the link below for more information on how to do this…
How To Add An Editorial Review
One thing to remember about reviews; whether they’re five stars or one, they’re a review. It’s human nature to give a review based upon opinion. We can’t please everyone all the time, so we settle for celebrating the good reviews and learning from the bad ones.
About the K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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