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February 18, 2020
Classified Street Team Membership
Hello all! If you follow me on social media or are on the email subscription list, you may have already seen this, but we now have a legit street team called Classified supporting the Pistils series! In the past seven days alone, members have already seen a sneak peek from the upcoming book and voted on a new cover for Pistils. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, head right over here and check it out!
Membership does close tomorrow (Wednesday, February 19th), but we do have...
January 17, 2020
Tips for a Better Book Signing, Part Two
Hello and Happy New Year to all! Now that we’re through the holidays, I’ve got PART TWO of the Tips for a Better Book Signing for you! THANK YOU to all of you who reached out and indicated that the initial tips were helpful, don’t hesitate to share any of your own in the comments, or on social media…tag me @twintypebooks so I can see too!
Obviously less wordiness was not a New Year’s Resolution for me! But I’ll shut up and jump right back into the good stuff, starting with…
6. Stand up and...November 23, 2019
Tips for a Better Book Signing, Part One
Okay, I originally was going to have this be Five Easy Tips for a Better Book Signing…until I realized that there was no way I’d be able to pick only five. I ended up with more. A lot more. In the interest of keeping these tips as useful as possible, I’m going to break them down into different posts. Consider each post to be a manageable to-do list…after all, who doesn’t like checking things off a list?
I love book signings. No, I LOVE LOVE LOVE book signings. They are one of my absolute...
November 16, 2019
Author Love: Hosting Book Tours
Author Love is a new series here on the Twintype Books blog exploring all the way you can share the love in the writer/reader community!
This week’s suggestion for how you can show your Author Love is by hosting a book tour!
Great for: Readers who are going to write a review anyway People who like getting free books (which is…everyone, right?) Authors/bloggers/anyone who would like a bit of free publicity and traffic to their own platform, whether it be a blog, website, or social media If you like the freedom to put a bit more...October 23, 2019
Book Review and Giveaway: Article 15
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Genre: Mystery
Blurb:“She was one in a million…and the day I met her I should have bought a lottery ticket instead.”
Griffith Crowe, the “fixer” for a Chicago law firm, falls for his current assignment, Helena Nicholson, the beautiful heir of a Tech Sector venture capitalist who perished in a helicopter crash leaving her half a billion dollars, a Learjet 31, and unsavory suspicions about her father’s death. As he investigates, the ex-Navy SEAL crosses swords with Helena’s step-brother, the Pentagon’s...
August 11, 2019
Book Review and Giveaway: The Persistence of Memory
The Persistence of Memory Book 1: Déjà vu by Karen Janowsky
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance Blurb:When superheroes fall in love, anything can happen.
Daniel Hecht doesn’t belong in this century. Catapulted into the present from 1943, he’s out of place and out of touch. Still, he was the American war hero called “Lionheart” and his heroism has followed him into the modern world. He now leads an underground group of superpowered misfits, but the misfit he keeps turning to is Nina Asher....
May 24, 2019
Indie Reads TV Interview!
If you follow me on Instagram, you already know that earlier this month I sat down for a taping of Indie Reads TV, with Diana Kathryn Plopa. Yes…a tv show about INDIE AUTHORS!!! So if you’re interested in a half-hour interview with yours truly where we talk about everything from how the CIA probably has a file on me, to fanfiction, to the origin of the name “Twintype Books,” make sure you’re checking it out! How/when/where to watch? Here you go!
The show will stream at CMNtv.org on the d...May 14, 2019
Book Review: Transplants by J.G. Shull
We often laugh and say “it’s a small world!” when we cross paths with people we were tied to before we knew them, but in J.G. Shull’s Transplants, those ties and roots are so firmly embedded, it’s more like fate than coincidence.
High school acquaintances Theo and Charlotte are both dissatisfied with life in hot, dusty, small-town Georgia, so they both (separately) decide to chuck it all and head overseas, desperate for some kind of adventure. Charlotte heads to Italy and Theo finds himself i...
April 5, 2019
Favorite Site of the Week: Creative Market
Did you know that I have an author Pinterest account? All of the boards are writing-related, it’s super-handy to help keep track of nifty tips and tricks for the business and art of being an author. You can check it out here (and if you have a writing related board or ten, let me know in the comments so I can grab some more pins!).
One of my favorite “huh, that would be useful for authors!” websites is Creative Market, and they show up repeatedly on my Pinterest boards. As the website say...
March 8, 2019
Celebrating Authors on International Women’s Day 2019
This week I’ve been learning an unbelievable amount of information through the online Women in Publishing Summit. I had Staples print out the workbook, and after work I’ve been settling down with a pen, a highlighter, and an open mind, ready and willing to learn! The theme for this year’s summit is “How to Change the World with Your Words,” and it has definitely inspired me to do just that. Go over and check it out, as I’m writing this you can still register and access the info-packed semi...
