Independent Author Month: Critical Dates for Submitting Your Book Links for Promotion

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Independent Author Month: Critical Dates for Submitting Your Book Links for Promotion

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CommuniCATE is hosting numerous genre categorised lists where Independent Authors can share their work, plus a series of resource and inspirational posts specifically for Indies. It kicks off on September 2nd, Australian Eastern Standard time (my Monday morning is roughly your Sunday night if you are in the United States.)

The month will be packed solid with posts six days a week, so below is the list of when your genre will come online on this blog. These are not links to the lists! When the Lists come out, they can also be used as blog hops, so please share your genre list on your blog. (Doing so may improve your traffic.)

2nd Sept: Romance Authors
7th Sept: Christian works: all devotions, novels, reference books, children’s etc. as long as they are Catholic or Protestant Christianity in some form. This does not include Seventh Day Adventist, Mormon or Christian Science. Sorry, I have had to draw lines to cram everything in!
9th Sept: Paranormal / Horror – the really scary stuff!
12th Sept: Crime and Suspense
16th Sept: anything in the Young Adult genre (no mature aged content / erotica. I haven’t seen YA erotica, but I’d bet my last chocolate biscuit, someone writes it.)
18th Sept: Memoir / Autobiography / Life Story (Biography is 26th.)
23rd Sept: Science Fiction / Fantasy and mixed genres along those lines.
26th Sept: Non-Fiction including sports, travel guides, cookbooks, text books, biography, crafts, manuals, technical writing etc.
1st October: Poetry, as October is poetry challenge month, I left this genre as a launch.

linkywyls All Linky Lists will be open until December 31st, 2013 and these posts and lists won’t ever be removed off this blog. You can enter your website, author pages, blog: whatever you wish. See the actual post for details. I will manually remove multiple entries, spam and erotica from the list over time.

Plus please note, this is only for Indie authors: any work you have published through a publishing company which sells through book shops, chains or other traditional routes will not be eligible. Authors who have published multiple works through both traditional and Indie sources can list only their Indie works.

When you enter your work into these lists, please also take the time to go visit others in your genre and pass on the love.

goneviking As setting up Independent Author Month and the Write Your Life Story blog and Challenge has taken up so much time, for the next two weeks I am stepping away from social media, etc. as much as I can.

Next week, CommuniCATE will feature a series of awesome writing videos. All comments are turned off. I am ** “going Viking” (gone exploring, trading and raiding) to finish projects.

Best wishes everyone.

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** The “Vikings” are not a people group: the Norse people were labelled Vikings, as first contact, (which was often not terribly pleasant,) was with raiders, traders, settlers and the Norse who were out and about “going Viking.” It is a verb.