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New Website!

It took all day, but I have finally updated my site and now pandorarichardson.com is the home for all my news and updates. My other website: ameliajones.net will remain active, but will transition it’s focus toward updates that solely concern that series. Thank you all for your patience. - Pandora

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When it comes to writing how important is ethnic diversity for your characters?

I recently read a post on goodreads.com about the casting for the upcoming movie adaptation of Stephenie Myer’s novel The Host and I couldn’t help but notice that every major cast member is Caucasian. I raised an eyebrow, because if memory serves me correct (I don’t trust it) I could have sworn there were at [...]

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Freaky Friday New Guy Promotion

Another reason to TGIF! My new short story “The New Guy” will be having a special Freaky Friday promotion for all my ladies and curious gents in honor of it’s release and entry into my “Pandora’s Intimate Encounters” series. For 24hrs readers will be able to download a copy for their Kindles for free. So [...]

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New Release: The New Guy

I wanted to let everyone know that my first published short, “The New Guy” has been published and is available on Amazon today. This story is the first in a series of steamy tales that span many different tastes, genres, and sexuality. I hope to publish a new story each month with a planned total [...]

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“Interesting” Stories on the way and Amelia Book 2

I am so pleased with the overall response so far to my literary efforts. Being able to share my ideas with the masses has filled me with a joy unrivaled and without comparison to any other I have felt. Lost is doing well as a first project and its successes have fueled me with the [...]

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Book Review by Robin Clark for Readers Favorite

by Robin Clark for Readers Favorite Amelia Jones is a private detective with a little something extra in the asset column. Not only does she have the normal PI skills, she also has a heightened sense of smell and hearing. You see, not only is Amelia a great PI, she is also a werewolf. In [...]

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No one ever told me writing a synopsis would be so hard!

Writing my novel was the easy part! Telling people why they might want to read it....not so much. What do you say or write in a few lines about a story that is as complex as the writer who penned it? I can't even narrow down a genre which is probabaly the biggest roadblock to solving my issue. Sometimes I want to call my novel a mystery since Amelia is a detective solving a case, other times I want to call it urban fantasy or a parormal/contemporary fiction, and sometimes I want to call it a romance. Then there's the marketing thing. Do I bother to mention that the main character and author are African American? Does that even matter? Do I focus on the fact that Amelia's adoptive parents are gay? I never know what to do and am convincd that a clear focus is what harms me. I feel that if I promote that Amelia's a werewolf, black, or has gay parents, I miss out on letting the reader find out for themself and it kind of cheapens me as an individual because what I wrote was not to help highlight these facts, but to show how unimportant they can be to the overall storyn

Storytelling

I never aspired to be a writer and it probably shows, but I did grow up wanting to paint the world in my image. I did this literally for many years as a fine artist. Although my paint brushes are long put to the side, I have realized that my desire to paint the world [...]

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Book Selling Business

No one ever said this would be easy, but somehow I convinced myself that it wouldn’t be that difficult. Ha! Talk about being naive! I actually thought that writing the book was the hardest part of this process. I’m now realizing that selling your book, is not only difficult, it’s painful. Self-publishing has to rank [...]

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Mother's Day Promotion Results

So I didn't follow any of the rules out there. Apparently, I was supposed to plan ahead for my promotion, advertise it to death on social media and anywhere I could, but instead at the last minute I decided to do this and I posted it in maybe 3 places. However, I'm pleased to say that 992 people acted on the offer and I ended up ranking 252 overall for Kindle Books and 6 in my genre! Now if I can get the same excitement going now that the promotion is over, I think I will just die. I'm not sure when I'm going to do a free promotion again, but if I got this response breaking all the rules, I have to admit that I'm extremely curious as to the response I would get if I did. A special thank you for all those who grabbed a copy of the book, please don't forget to give a review here on goodreads.com as well as Amazon!

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