Dennis’s Comments (group member since Feb 06, 2017)

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

Hashtags on twitter are important, use them. I frequently go to hashtags to see what people are posting, this way I know which hashtags to use. I promote anything that is science, astronomy, engineering, physics, medicine and many more disciplines; along with promoting writers of almost any genre of fiction. But like writing, I find my audience. Hashtags lead you to your audience.

Please don't give up and keep on promoting The Spring Book Event! Remember that you have to use hashtags, you can tweet as many times as you want when you use different hashtags, that way you will reach more people.

I get so many tweets every day that I have not yet seen one from someone else. And I am on twitter all day. I use those wonderful GIF banners, a different one each time I tweet. So if you change banners and change hashtags you will be seen by many more people.

Is your publisher a "pay-to-play" con artist? SusanSpann tells how to spot them. http://bit.ly/2nFO4qE

I am getting so many Retweet and Like emails from having posted The Spring Book Event that I can not find my other email messages!!!!
This is our second event, the first was wildly successful and although it ended weeks ago I am still getting wonderful feedback.

Thanks to everyone who created this fabulous event. I additionally want to thank you for making all those fabulous posters/banners, and making them available to us. I have saved them to my desktop so I can use a different one each time I tweet the event. We want to reach as big an audience as we possibly can.

Looking forward to the summer event.

I know we should all be marketing The Spring Book Festival, hear that everyone, we need to be marketing THE SPRING BOOK FESTIVAL.

On another note: I found this terrific article on how one blogger chooses which books to list on his site. I think you will enjoy the read: http://fkbt.com/2016/05/15/choose-boo...

Here is the link to the information for #PitMad http://www.brenda-drake.com/pitmad/

Why writers should be on twitter: https://www.bustle.com/articles/12775...

Found this wonderful blog post, hope you will enjoy it as much as I did. https://www.betawitches.com/blog/2017...

Just when you thought it was safe to jump back in .....New changes at Chicago Manual regarding words: internet, email. & no ibid. http://bit.ly/2niaxtl

From - BEING AUTHOR

Am I doing this right? “I have to do everything right if I want to be a famous writer!”

Self-publishing is the new wild west. The only hard and fast rule I have come across is, “There are no hard and fast rules.”
http://bit.ly/2jKxdkW

You can never be too careful, have too many beta readers, or read and edit your manuscript yourself too many times.

The ten million dollar Oxford comma.

http://nyti.ms/2mUalPb

Alexis wrote: "Hi Dennis! That's incredibly generous of you. Tell me what you had in mind via a DM. ( There's always the Summer event :) )"

OK, I will promise to do it promptly for the Summer Event.

Alexis,

Is there still time to donate something to this event as a giveaway, and do you have some suggestions as to what that could be? I am so sorry I am late with this offer.

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Solomon is an extraordinary chimpanzee, taught by primatologist Abigail Philips to understand and use language. But her research center is under a financial death sentence from her university. Desperate to save Solomon from what, for him, would be a dismal life in a retirement facility, Philips agrees to give legal control of Solomon to billionaire Walter Drake. He has agreed to house Solomon in comfort and enable her pioneering communication research to continue.

But the ailing billionaire has really bought himself a heart! He betrays Philips, planning to "harvest" Solomon's heart to biologically engineer it to replace his own failing heart. The procedure will not only doom Solomon. Its success will also sentence a thousand chimpanzees in sanctuaries to death on the operating table, and lead to industrial breeding of chimpanzees for organ harvesting.

Solomon's only hope is flamboyant LA trial lawyer R. William “Bobby” Colter, defender of whoever pays his considerable fee. Hired by eccentric dowager Sarah Huntington, he sets out to win the most difficult case of his career: obtaining legal protection for Solomon.

Can Colter succeed against all legal precedent and free Solomon, or will the chimpanzee die at the hands of surgeons, a harbinger for the end of a thousand of his brethren?

Author Dennis Meredith has crafted a gripping, thought-provoking story that resonates with emotion. It also sheds dramatic light on the profound ethical issues of legal rights for our closest living primate relatives.

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Something is devouring Earth. . .

A suburban house in Oklahoma vanishes into a roaring abyss. A supertanker at sea suffers a fiery destruction. A blast in China drills a gigantic cavern into a mountainside. A severed arm plummets from the sky in Missouri.

Could these catastrophes possibly be related? Intrepid geologist Dacey Livingstone is nearly killed by her first attempt to plumb the mystery —a perilous descent into a house-swallowing sinkhole. Still determined, she joins with eccentric physicist Gerald Meier in a quest that takes them from the ocean’s depths to interstellar space.
What are these exotic "wormholes" that threaten Earth? Can their secrets be discovered, their power even harnessed? Or will they spawn a cosmic monster that will annihilate the planet?

Brilliantly original, Wormholes reflects Albert Einstein's famous assertion that "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."

How to shoot a 360 video. Excellent
Paul Sarconi WIRED guide!
http://bit.ly/2l7vCT0

Best response I got to this post:

"Honestly, I basically, like, literally never use these words. You'd obviously know this if you actually met me."

Useful tips from RJI research project survey on effective social media. http://bit.ly/2lHHZWZ

Do you ruin your sentences with these 6 "crutch" words? http://bit.ly/2miv0xP

Author Name: Dennis Meredith
Title Book 1: The Rainbow Virus Second edition
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Title Book 2: The Cerulean's Secret
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