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How to Optimise your Guest Post on a Host's Blog

This post was reblogged with permission from Chris Graham @ The Story Reading Ape 

While I cannot speak for other bloggers on this topic, I suspect that similar advantages may be gained by using the following tips and suggestions when invited to appear as a guest on any blog:

1.  Always read any conditions and/or requirements pertaining to the host blog, follow them and check everything before you send your submission. Especially any hyperlinks you provide.  This will minimise an...

Romance in September: The Scent of a Soul by Jennifer Thompson

Fleeing her recent past, Lilliah Woods finds refuge in the anonymity of the present day inner-city slums. As she settles into the seedy apartment she must now call home, she meets mysterious Marek Jamison when he materializes in her doorway demanding to know who she is. From that moment, he becomes a guardian and guide as she gradually discovers his hidden world. As their relationship develops, Lilliah learns of Marek's dark past and of a brothers' quarrel he has been embroiled in for years....

Infographic Thursday: How to Focus

A few tips on how to deal with all those things that we have to do, want to do and simply need to manage in our daily lives.
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Romance in September: Larkin's Letters by Jax Jillian

As Ryan Boone struggles to come to grips with not being able to keep a promise he made to his dying wife, LARKIN’S LETTERS propels readers into the mind of Ryan as he struggles with frequent visits from her ghost and a series of letters she behind.  Ryan worked hard to become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors, but no matter how busy or famous he became, he always remained loyal to his childhood best friend, Larkin James.  When Larkin is diagnosed with leukemia, Ryan s...

Series Review: A Books by the Bay Mystery series by Ellery Adams

May it not be said that having money solves all your problems. Meet Olivia Limoges. Millionaire. Aspiring author. Orphan. Business owner. And amateur sleuth.
Accompanied by her canine companion Captain Haviland and her ever helpful Oyster Bay writers group, murder crosses her path more often than she would like.
Of course it helps that one of the writers and a close friend is the local police chief Rawlings.

After years of being away Olivia returns to her home town to finally settle down and get...

Infographic Thursday: Punctuation...a reminder

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Romance in September: Love: Lost and Found by Pamela Beckford

Love: Lost and Found is Pamela's latest collection of poetry depicting the ups and downs of love. Poems filled with the ecstasy and joy of an abiding love, as well as the heartache of love lost.  Her book trailer can be found here - http://voice.adobe.com/v/USjFF45ByPZ

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Author Bio:Pamela Beckford started writing poetry in 2013 and quickly began centering all her efforts on poems dealing with the angst of heartache and the exhilaration and joy of love.  She incorpo...

Series Review: Hamish MacBeth Mystery series by MC Beaton

A few years ago I found out that I have Scottish ancestors. Scotland is also one of the places that I want to visit before I die.
So reading this mystery series falls right into my "bucket list" if you want to call  it that.

While the sleuth is not an amateur, he is a police officer, the location and isolation of the village requires his investigative skills to rely on more than forensics and science.
Hamish MacBeth is not you average police officer. People call him lazy and the lord of the...

Infographic Thursday: Managing the distractions and disruptions in my life

This is one busy picture, but if you take the time you will see that it explains the reasons why we are running around doing lots of things and accomplishing...nothing.Focus is essential in this digital era we live in. Email and social media and all kinds of other real life stuff, like dirty dishes, keep our minds spinning in all directions and yet at the end of the day (or week) we are exhausted and still feel as if nothing got done.Does it happen to you?Source visual.lyIt happened to me and...

Romance in September: The Troublesome Apprentice by Liza O'Connor

While investigating the death of a friend and client, Maddy Hamilton, Xavier Thorn (reputed to be the greatest sleuth in England) is greatly impressed with Maddy’s nephew, Victor, and offers him a job as his secretary. Aware of Xavier’s history of firing secretaries, Victor garners a promise that for three months he cannot be fired. Vic then proceeds, in Xavier’s view, to be cheeky and impertinent at every turn.
Xavier endures the impudent pup because Victor is most skilled in extracting the t...