Carole’s Comments (group member since Oct 19, 2016)

Carole’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Thanks, guys!!

Yes please share!!

Thanks, Valerie. Hoping that when everybody helps one another instead of an angel getting their wings, I'm hoping a sale is wrung up on Amazon. lol

This came into my email- The Holocaust is important to me- Both my dad and my inlaws were survivors. Anybody interested in sending- please let them know you were referred from me.


jackie@hamec.org via hamec.onmicrosoft.com


Hi, my name is Jacqueline Cherepinsky and I am affiliated with the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center. I was wondering if you would be interested in donating a signed book(s) that could be bid on during our annual silent auction and dinner, taking place November 6, 2021. The annual auction and dinner is our biggest fundraiser of the year and 100% of the proceeds of items bid on, goes entirely towards Holocaust education and our mission.

The mission of HAMEC is to educate Delaware Valley students and adults, personalizing the Holocaust so that they learn the consequences of racism, ethnic cleansing, and intolerance. The Holocaust was a watershed event, not only in the 20th century, but in the entire history of humanity. The study of the Holocaust provides us with one of the most effective ways to work with students to examine basic moral issues and value systems.

In the past academic year, HAMEC reached over 23,000 students and adults at 175 schools (public, private, and parochial), organizations and events. Because of the pandemic, we have not been offering in person events, but our programs have been offered through Skype. Because of our ability to have the survivors, liberators and resistors share their testimonies virtually, we have been working with schools and organizations world-wide. Not only have we had requests from schools nationwide, but we have had requests from various institutions from countries in South America, Europe, and even Asia.

We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) and our tax ID is: 23-1969470. I have attached a copy of our solicitation letter, and if needed, I can provide a copy of our W-9.

If you are interested in donating, please note that we have moved our location. Our new address is:

Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center
Attn: Jacqueline Cherepinsky
8339 Old York Road
Suite 203/205
Elkins Park, PA 19027

The previous year was a difficult year for many, so we understand if people are unable to contribute, but are extremely thankful for any donation. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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You are a published author- on Medium. Writing is writing, Sam.

lol.

Congrats!

Yup! Couldn't agree with you more, Anna.

I totally agree. If everyone got in the habit of doing one social media push per day and then include one retweet or on post about another indie think of how widespread the reach could be. I try to do something for someone else every day of my life. It makes the time sweeter and takes my mind off my own struggles

That's sweet and supportive, Anna!!

That sounds productive!

Don’t over do Anna. Most of my books are much tinier than yours. Lol. I spent a lot of time watching Netflix too! I saw more tv shows in one year than I did in the last twenty years.

Wishing you all a happy and healthy holiday- whatever you celebrate!

The grandkids went back to school last Monday which gave my kids a bit more mobility. We are all masked up and still haven't eaten a meal together, but we manage to see each other on the weekends.

Business is still struggling. While the PPP money has helped, restaurants and airlines have better lobbyists and have gotten substantially more than car service- so we are still struggling.
Until business travel starts again we are slogging along.

I will go back to my office on Monday along with the rest of my vaccinated staff. New York has been terrific and most everybody I know has been vaxxed.

Working with Michael on editing his latest book.

I wrote a total of five books this year, but I have an agent now and we'll see if he can publish them traditionally.

I edited an additional four books.

I learned how to tap dance again. I lost forty, gained twenty, and now am trying to lose them again.

I have zoomed until my tuchas is numb and am weary of speaking to a screen.

We will start traveling by May and I am anxious about that.

Today, we went to the cemetery for an unveiling of my sister-in-law's father who died of COVID last March. It was a stark reminder of what we have gone through this year and the people lost.

I have studied and learned how to be a medium. (For the unschooled- that is speaking with the other side). I am a guest on my sons' podcast the first week of the month and it has brought me a number of clients. The information I receive staggers and surprises me.

Calista has asked me to write another book for them- but since they haven't paid any royalties on the last book- my reply is a solid no.

I learned how to use my social media to the best advantage without help from an assistant.

What did you get done this year and how did COVID affect you?

FROM THE TIMES TODAY1 I don't know what you guys are waiting for.



Welcome to BookTok
TikTok’s influence is selling thousands of books. Some enthusiastic readers — mostly women in their teens and 20s — are posting videos of themselves reading or recommending novels. Occasionally, they sob into the camera after a particularly devastating ending.

“It becomes this very emotional 45-second video that people immediately connect with,” the director of books at Barnes & Noble told The Times. “We haven’t seen these types of crazy sales — I mean tens of thousands of copies a month — with other social media formats.”

One example: “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller. Sales spiked after a popular TikTok video last year, and the book is now selling roughly nine times as many copies a week as it was in 2012, when it won a prestigious fiction award. The book is currently third on the New York Times best-seller list for paperback fiction.

Seeing the potential, some publishers have begun paying — or sending free books to — users with large followings. The fees range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per post. For now, though, the majority of these videos remain unsponsored, happening organically.

It's very hard to make money doing this. You have to use every bit of free publicity that you can. It's also not the one thing you do, it's everything you do.

Yeah! The reading had gotten harder during the quarantine. I thought I would have read so much more.

Reader's Favorite offers two choices. You can put your book up for a free review. Someone may pick it and you'll get a review or you can purchase five reviews. You'll get five seasoned reviewers (they are usually authors) who sometimes will include your book in their blog. and post to Goodreads.

You can then use the review as an editorial review on your Amazon page. I also enter my books in their contests.

(https://www.amazon.com/Bulwark-Brit-L...) check out the editorial section for a few examples of readers Favorite reviews or look them up directly on their site.

LinkedIn exposed my books to different markets- people I am professionally linked to who may not know that I am an author. I have sold a fair amount of books after posting there. Who knows- may it was just curiousity?

I wouldn't flood that medium- but I do put things up on there. My kids have also posted my books there announcing when I've gotten recognition or an award.

One thing you do, won't make a difference- it's the combination of many things. Today is a slow day for me- I sell books every day. Not a lot, in my opinion, but every day someone somewhere buys one. It can only be from me constantly prompting them from FB, Tiktoc, and the other sites I use. None of these types of promotions cost anything but time.

With today's phones, you can do so much!