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[Carole]

Great news, Alex!

[Nely]

My good news is that my translator is almost done with the Spanish translation of the first book in my series. I've wanted to translate these books forever!

Congratulations on the Forbes article, Carole! Congrats, Alex and everyone with good news!

[Erica]

Nely wrote: "My good news is that my translator is almost done with the Spanish translation of the first book in my series. I've wanted to translate these books forever!

Congratulations on the Forbes article, ..."

That is very exciting Newly! Congrats!

[Amy]

Well done Alex. I've never had sales on consecutive days!

[Amy]

And well done Nely. And everyone else. Amazing stuff.

[Carole]

Nely wrote: "My good news is that my translator is almost done with the Spanish translation of the first book in my series. I've wanted to translate these books forever!

Congratulations on the Forbes article, ..."

Thanks Nely. Hummm. Spanish what a good idea!!

[Carole]

It must be all this promotion we are doing collectively. Do you think we are all on to something here??? Don't you just love it when it sort of starts to come together?

[Groovy]

Congratulations, Alex, Amy, Nely.

Amy, I hope you can dance and dance from now on; and Alex, 5 straight days, good for you. I agree, if I get one sale I'm smiling all day!

[Carole]

Everything is baby steps Alex. I have been doing stuff like this for a long time an nothing has happened overnight. It takes a lot of constant work. It's like a garden. you have to prune, weed and water all the time- but the end result is glorious. I love my job! All of them.

[Amy]

My author facebook page just reached 50 likes. No clue if that's even relevant (never meant a thing in my other business)

[Jennifer]

I'm honored and still surprised to see The Lover's Portrait was just named one of The Displaced Nation's 36 Top Expat Fiction Picks of 2016!

https://thedisplacednation.com/2017/0...

[Alexis]

Jennifer wrote: "I'm honored and still surprised to see The Lover's Portrait was just named one of The Displaced Nation's 36 Top Expat Fiction Picks of 2016!

https://thedisplacednation.com/2017/0......"

Wow, that's great! Congrats!!

[Amy]

Awesome

[Carole]

Great news Jennifer!!

[Erica]

Very cool Jennifer! Congratulations!

[Lucia]

This is all so encouraging. Congrats everyone! I am still working on the followers and likes and sales as well, so it is good to hear that people are having succes!

[Erica]

Just ordered my first print proof of book 4! I typically need to do 3 proofs before release, but the first one is always exciting!

[Julie]

Ben wrote: "One of my best author friends, someone that has gone above and beyond with help & advice, kindly went out of her way (once again) to point me back in the right direction. She knows who she is (batm..."
Ben, you are awesome and I am glad we connected. I hope this pushes some business your way. Ben and his wife have a great company and do a wonderful job formatting books!!! http://www.indiepublishinggroup.com

[Julie]

I am so happy this thread is still going strong, with authors sharing positive news. Keep the good news coming! It is very inspiring!

[Ember-Raine]

I have a freebie today and it is currently sitting at #18 in political fiction! Super excited!

[Julie]

Ember wrote: "I have a freebie today and it is currently sitting at #18 in political fiction! Super excited!"

Yay! Congratulations. Hope it hits number 1 tonight! Did you share your link?

[Carole]

That's great news!

[Alexis]

I rediscovered Rise Up by Andra Day and wrote a couple of paragraphs. :)

[Ember-Raine]

Thanks Carole and Julie! I posted the link in the share your giveaways thread!

[R.L.]

Oh yay Ember!!! Good job

[Ember-Raine]

Thanks RL!!

[Alexis]

Alex wrote: "Alexis wrote: "I rediscovered Rise Up by Andra Day and wrote a couple of paragraphs. :)"

Yay, Alexis, pleased to hear you've been writing."

Thanks, Alex. I'm happy. I had a productive day,
How's the editing going?

[Rohvannyn]

The really cool thing that happened today is, I found this thread!

Another thing that happened is my spouse unexpectedly told me she's reading something I just wrote, and even though it's in a genre she can't stand, she says it's actually good enough that she's enjoying it!

Yay, and congrats to everybody else who had something cool happen!

[Carole]

Glad you found it. It's nice when you can share your writing with people you care about. We have a lot of great opportunities on the thread, Rohvannyn.
Make sure you stop off by RL Blog Go Round- we've been doing a round robing of blogs and it build up traffic to all our our sites and I think may have sold some books.
We have a Navigating Indieworld website, Alexis created. It's a non-profit site promoting all our our books. Feel free to share you books there.

[Rohvannyn]

Carole wrote: "Glad you found it. It's nice when you can share your writing with people you care about. We have a lot of great opportunities on the thread, Rohvannyn.
Make sure you stop off by RL Blog Go Round- ..."

Awesome! Thanks for letting me know, Carole! I was absolutely going to fill out the Blog Go Round form as soon as I wasn't behind a heavy firewall, and offer my blog up as part of it. In the meantime, I'll look for places I can share a little cheer! I like this place already, and I'm glad it's here.

[Carole]

Hi Guys, My book- One to Ten -Squirrel's Bad was nominated as Book of the Month on The Long and Short Review- Which is a great site you should all be sending your books for reviews there. - BTW- Can you swing by and vote for my book?

http://www.longandshortreviewsya.com/...

[Groovy]

Done! Second place, Carole, not bad!

[Carole]

Working...my...way...up...Thanks!!...

[R.L.]

Voted!

[Ember-Raine]

Me too!

[Carole]

I just slid into first place!!! Votes go on until midnight.

[Ember-Raine]

Yay! Congrats Carole!

[Groovy]

Thanks for that website link to Long and Short reviews, Carole. I just entered my book. Hope it's accepted. Do you have a thread listing other sites authors can try?

[Carole]

There are a ton of them in the back of Navigating.( the book) You just have to go through and look at their genre. We had a mixed bag because of the variety of books we push- so there are some mommy blogs that are more educational. These are some of my favorites that will read anything-Dad of Divas,
Reader Views, Book by Book Publicity
admin@readerviews.com
What's Good To Do, UK david@whatsgoodtodo.com , Story reading ape,
Book Reader's Heaven
GABixlerReviews@aol.com , Bunny cates, Look up Michael's books under Kindle- Each one has lists of bloggers you can write and they don't charge for reviewing. https://www.amazon.com/Stillwell-Haun...

Read the editorial section- the blog names are in bold letters- Look them up and pitch your books.

Look for things like this ""The After House" is an unexpected book. This is a case where you shouldn't "judge a book by it's cover". I was expecting a story of gore and horror, instead I got a book of the paranormal, sprinkled with a little romance and a whole lot of enjoyment." - Penny Minding Mom

This is good because it names a blog and you can find her. It also means she likes to review. Which she does and is a wonderful supporter when she likes your book.

Don't contact the ones that say Goodread's reviewer (unless there is a blog name)- those reviewers are only reachable is by writing them here- and the Goodreads police don't like that.

Anything with Foreword or Kirkus review are paid reviews. I send most of our books for those.

[Amy]

Also voted.

[Carole]

It's a great site. They have reviewed every one of all of our books. They have a quick turnaround and if you look, I'm advertising on there too.

Open book society is a good one too.

Thank you all for voting!

As I think of them I'll list 'em.

[Erica]

Voted

[Groovy]

Thanks for that, Carole. I'll get to work researching.

[Carole]

I found them by doing that. I looked for books in the same genre and looked through the reviewers. Some had email address on their profiles, others had blogs. Once I looked up a blog, I'd look to see who they were affiliated with and then I'd write them as well. My list was over seven hundred- I actually had to pare it down. That didn't mean everybody responded, though when I sent a book. Most of the sites take e books too.

[Rohvannyn]

Carole wrote: "Hi Guys, My book- One to Ten -Squirrel's Bad was nominated as Book of the Month on The Long and Short Review- Which is a great site you should all be sending your books for reviews there. - BTW- Ca..."

Voted for you, and thanks everyone for the review info!

On topic, today my spouse was able to fix her 8-core gaming PC. That means she can go back to doing awesome 3-D renders. I'm especially excited because she's working on one of my projects and I'm happy to see it get going again. (We had to replace the motherboard and the power supply, and it's like bringing a member of the family back from the dead.)

[Rohvannyn]

Alex wrote: "Rohvannyn wrote: "Carole wrote: "Hi Guys, My book- One to Ten -Squirrel's Bad was nominated as Book of the Month on The Long and Short Review- Which is a great site you should all be sending your b..."

Yeah, neither am I - 2-D graphics are more my thing. Spouse uses it for Sketch-Up, makes starships and whatnot. Really nice ones, too. She also plays TOR. We just discovered that we can build another computer like she has, which we paid $1200 for a few years ago, for about $500 parts cost. I say woohoo!

[Shannon]

Carole - vote cast!

Rohvannyn - nothing warmed my heart more than when my husband came to tell me how good my book was...and he absolutely detests all things supernatural. It felt like the biggest win of all!

[Rohvannyn]

Alex wrote: "Wish I lived over there Rohvannyn, it'll cost me about $2500 to get a decent spec system I can do anything with, gaming wise (it'd probably be about the same spec you'd need for good graphics work)..."

Darn! We buy the parts on NewEgg and Tiger Direct. I'm not sure where they ship to, though.

[Rohvannyn]

Shannon wrote: "Rohvannyn - nothing warmed my heart more than when my husband came to tell me how good my book was...and he absolutely detests all things supernatural. It felt like the biggest..."

When I came home, she kept saying nice things about it. Made me really happy. So I'm happy it happened to you too.

[Carole]

Glad that's behind you. I know you were worried about it.