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January 14, 2017
Audiobook—Naked Alliances is Live! #RRBC
I don’t set the price for the audiobook, but it’s $17.46 if you have an audible account. That’s not a bad price. The paperback is $14.50 and the digital book goes on sale tomorrow for 99 cents.
If you’ve never listened to an audiobook, I encourage you to give them a try. Here’s the sweet part:
Try Audible Free
Includes two free audiobooks
Choose from 180,000+ titles
After 30 days, Audible is $14.95/mo.
Cancel anytime
Plus, if someone signs onto Audible as a new member and buys their third book, I get a fifty dollar bonus. You can buy me dinner! Sweet!
AND, you can CANCEL any time, so you’re not stuck in some year–long contract.
I also woke up to a very nice review that I would like to share with you from Top 1000 Reviewer, Ionia Froment:
There are 19 Five-Star reviews now. I’m thrilled!
Thank you all for your support.
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January 12, 2017
In a Small Compass, on Lisa Burton Radio
One of our favorite book reviewers has a new book of her own. “In a Small Compass”, and she’s on the Lisa Burton Radio Show to ell us about it today.
Welcome to another edition of Lisa Burton Radio. I’m your host, Lisa the robot girl, and with me today is author, James Ferris Wheeler. “Welcome to the show, James.”
“Thank you, Lisa. I feel very honoured to be invited by a charming celebrity like you.”
“Why, thank you. I understand that you just ordered a new suit. Can you tell our listeners why?”
“It is still hard to believe, Lisa. You must know, my previous books, well – they are good, and they sell. And I always craved for a little fame. What the readers say: ‘Great books. Who wrote them? Sorry, that name slipped from my mind.’ After years of writing one book after the other – my latest novel, “Dagger in the Rock” was nominated for the MFBS Award! The Most Fascinating Books Society is very fastidious and secretive about their nominations.”
“How exciting. This award sounds like…
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More Best Bloggers Blogging to check out …
Trying to connect with some great bloggers? Here’s a cool place to connect. Susan Toy put together a fine list and I’m honored to be on it.
Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing
While it was impossible for me to have followed, listed, and awarded in my earlier post every blog I know of that is good, I didn’t want anyone to think they’d been forgotten. So here’s an additional list of blogs, many written by published authors, that are always interesting and informative, and will provide you with great reading! (Some of these bloggers review books, interview authors, run guest posts, reblog regularly from other blogs, and promote new publications, as well as offering solid information on writing and getting published and the book business in general, so if you are an author you would be wise to check out all the blogs on this list.)
And some have reviewed and interviewed me, as well as hosted my guest posts!
Links are included as well for those authors who have been promoted on my blog, Reading Recommendations.
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January 10, 2017
Supporting your fellow authors – Guest Post by Craig Boyack…
Looking for unique ways to market your book? C.S. Boyack and his spokesperson, Lisa Burton, are waiting to assist you. They need guests from your books to their radio show and questions for a new feature blog, “Dear Lisa”. Have a look and drop Craig a line.
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
I’m so honored to be invited back for another lap at The Storyreading Ape’s blog. Chris is a huge supporter of independent authors, and that’s kind of the topic of this post.
When we start off, we tend to write in solitude. The dream is to quietly slip a book onto Amazon or iBooks and wake up to an exploding email box. Reality doesn’t work that way. There’s so much competition out there it’s hard to get noticed even with a quality product.
We soon find out that we need friends if we’re going to make a run at success. This blog is one that all authors should get familiar with. There are others out there, and you’re going to need several avenues.
It doesn’t take long to figure out that self publishing isn’t the new gold rush. Oh sure, the stories are out there, but their best purpose is…
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Naked Alliances: A Richard Noggin Novel (The Naked Eye Private Investigator Novel Series, #1) by S.K. Nicholls
Karen Obelaender (I love how her name rolls off my tongue like I’m speaking a foreign language) has a wonderful five star review on Naked Alliances. Drop by and see what she has to say.
The author sent me an ARC of this book (mobi format) in exchange for an honest review.
My rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Plot
(by Goodreads)
A riveting romp through Central Florida, Naked Alliances air-drops you into the seedier side of Orlando that the amusement park industry tries to keep under wraps.
When a young immigrant woman and an exotic dancer are fleeing men with guns and have no place to hide, Richard Noggin, P.I., can’t turn his back on them, even if helping them makes him a target.
Richard plans to impress an aspiring politician by taking on a big white-collar case with the potential of getting him off the streets and into air-conditioned offices. Instead, he’s handed a cold case and quickly finds himself sucked into a shadowy world of sex, secrets and…murder.
Marked for a bullet and stretched thin by his investigations, he reluctantly teams…
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Difficult tasks made easy
Today people! 99 cents today! And five jokes per page.
It’s got to be a metaphor …
Anyway, enjoy the trance, and don’t forget: Fascination is on Ereader News Today today for 99 cents. You can buy through their link, or go straight to Amazon.
Tell all your friends, friends, because I have feeling this is the only promo I’ll be able to run for good ol’ Fascination. It’s gettin’ tough out there.
Five jokes per page!
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Tuesday Anything Possible – $0.99 Sale on Our Justice from Jan 12 to Jan 19th #RRBC
I read book one and it was a winner. Haven’t read book two yet, but ready to pick up book three and make this trilogy complete.
Advance notice:
I will be running a Kindle $0.99 US and a £0.99 UK sale on Our Justice from January 12th (Thursday) until January 19th (Thursday). I will also be featured on EReader News Today on Friday the 13th. (Hmmm)
This will be the first sale of Our Justice, and I have extended it to accommodate a promotion on BookGoodies as well. So here is hoping all who want to get the book will do so in this period.
I will run another announcement on Thursday.
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January 9, 2017
Update on Naked Alliances by S.K. Nicholls
Rant: Don’t expect me to follow you back if you don’t have a “Follow me by Email” option on your blog. I read my email several times a day. I never go into my Reader. I love engaging with my audience. Make it easy for me. Rant Over. (Notice the new message in the side bar.)
Okay, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way…I have news:
Naked Alliances is going on sale for $0.99 on January 15th. This is coinciding with an ENT promo which will start the same day.
I’ve never promoted a book in this genre. The historic fiction did well with ENT. I understand that FaceBook, where ENT gets most of its traffic from, has a high population of females 35-55 years of age. I’m curious to see how Naked Alliances does there.
Don’t despair if you miss that sale. I tried to get the Fussy Librarian to run their promo at the same time to no avail. The dates were already taken. So there will be another sale February 12th.
I’ve never run two promos so close together, and yet so far apart. Good to see ROI this way, I suppose. Though many people subscribe to both, I may be able to reach a broader audience in this way.
However, if you want a real treat and have the money to buy the audiobook, I implore you to get your copy of that when it goes on sale this week. I won’t be able to set or alter the price of the audiobook for promos. That’s set by the retailers, but it will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Audible.
If you really want to support an author…go out there online and purchase your copy at the whopping price of $2.99 for the digital copy or $14.50 for the paperback.
As his pulse-quickening quest for answers leads from the dark corners of Orlando’s Little Saigon to the sunny exposure of the Leisure Lagoon, Richard Noggin, P.I. will be put to the test. Just how much will this Naked Eye have to bear…or bare?
That will also improve our rankings so the people coming along for the sales will see what a great seller it is and perhaps be influenced to buy.
Stay warm. Peace.
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January 8, 2017
Welcome Author, Marlena Smith #RRBC
RRBC Spotlight Author, Marlena Smith
One of the benefits of membership in the Rave Reviews Book Club is the ability to host other authors. Today it’s my turn to bring you Marlena Smith, one of the hardest working members in the club. Please give her a warm welcome in the comments and with the sharing buttons.
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Hi, there!
Welcome to Day 1 of my RRBC “SPOTLIGHT” Author Blog Tour! I am so excited to have you join me! A huge THANKS to RRBC and to my awesome host!!
To kick this tour off, I thought some Q&A would be fun, your chance to get to know the author!
1. You have been writing for a long time now, since you were a child. What were some of your first story ideas?
Yes, my earliest memory of writing comes from 2nd grade. I wrote a story about my mother and received the honor of…
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January 4, 2017
Character Interview with Brandi from #NakedAlliances #RRBC
Brandi had a little visit with Mae Clair over at Mae Clair’s Mystery and suspense. Pay her a visit and see what Brandi had to say.
Please join me for a character Interview with Brandi, from S.K. Nicholls’ crime romp, Naked Alliances. Susan is a new member of RRBC, and I’m happy to showcase her latest work on my blog. Susan sent Brandi over for a chat…
Name of Character: Brandi
Book Title: Naked Alliances
Age: 29
Profession: Exotic dancer at the Parliament House, a gay club.
City and State: Orlando, Florida
I’m thrilled to have here today Brandi from S.K. Nicholls’ new crime romp, Naked Alliances, the first volume in the Naked Eye Series. Brandi is a twenty-nine year old exotic dancer living in Orlando, Florida. She serves as a private investigator’s sidekick in the novel.
It is a pleasure to have her with us today!
Thank you so for this interview, Brandi. Now that the book has been written, do you feel you were fairly portrayed or would you like to set anything…
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