The Masquerade Crew

Cover links to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com

This syndicated post is sponsored by the following book. The original post can be found here . Cover links to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com

  The art of gossiping, gabbing and chatting with awesome book bloggers!

Cover links to Amazon.com

Buffer   Conversations with authors and writers from the self-publishing world.

What's the first line of your current WIP? — Mark Lee (@MasqCrew) January 30, 2014

Cover links to Amazon.com

This syndicated post is sponsored by the following book. The original post by  @kiazishiru   can be found here . Cover links to Amazon.com

Tuesday, January 28 Book-Marks The Spot   (Review) Boom Baby Reviews   (Interview) Wednesday, January 29 Dani J Caile   (Review) Let's Talk About Books   (Review) Laurie's Paranormal Thoughts & Reviews   (Top Ten List)

The following is syndicated from  trollriverpub.com  and is posted here with permission. I read a post from Roxane Gay and thought...I want to answer these questions for my own sake. So here are questions in black (from Roxane) and answers in green (from me~Stephanie McKibben, Head Troll of Troll River Publications): 1.  “ Are you a good literary citizen?” According to Roxane, literary citizenship is “the importance of remembering that no one is alone in the writing world. Conduct yourself as such.”

The following is syndicated from  molly-greene.com  and is posted here with permission. I recently launched my second mystery-thriller-romantic suspense novel, Rapunzel . A lot of time passed between book #1 and book #2, and although I sweated the gap that produced no significant fiction writing, in hindsight I’m glad it worked out the way it did. It’s been quite a ride. I’ve learned an enormous amount during the past three years. I started this self-publishing journey by joining Twitter early in 2011, then started my blog, then published my debut novel,  Mark of the Loon , in June, 2012. I could write volumes about what I learned between book launches, but I’ve honed it down to these six points. Here’s what changed for me:

The following is syndicated from  Larry Crane  and is posted here with permission. underword: flash fiction (Photo credit: piglicker)

The following is syndicated from  toscasac.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission. Writers write. We write because we like it. We write because we have something to say. We write to express beauty, pain, fear, anxiety, frustration, confusion, emotion. 

The following is syndicated from  Larry Crane  and is posted here with permission. David Carr and AO Scott used to do a series of trenchant videos at the NY Times.  They called the series The Sweet Spot. Back on July 19, 2013 the subject was jargon. In the video Scott reads from a Carr tech article:  “You can’t scale your way out of a paradym shift.”  Come again?

Don't forget to enter the giveaway at the bottom of this post. Monday, January 27 Tome Tender  (Review) Booksane  (Review/Interview) A Writer's Life  (Promo)

Cover links to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com The following is syndicated from  venturegalleries.com  and is posted here with permission. The other day at a meeting a lady approached me to discuss my latest book,  The Compost Pile. I knew she had read all my books. You gotta love someone like that. But because I knew she had read my books, I also knew that she was about to tell me how she felt about the last one. “It’s your best book,” she said. “I read it one sitting.  I couldn’t put it down.” Think about the unspoken subtext.

Check out the following six reviews at our sister site, Masquerade Romance .

Cover links to Amazon.com

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by  Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer .  It's a chance to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and  share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. 

The following is syndicated from  stacyclaflin.com  and is posted here with permission.

Cover links to Amazon.com

This promotion offer is no longer used. Use the "Advertise Your Book" link on the menu to access the most recent info.

The following is syndicated from  aliciareneekline.com  and is posted here with permission.

If you tweet one of the following,  I'll tweet about your book on Amazon one time.

THIS POST IS OUT OF DATE! Up to this point there's only been one kind of short term promo option: advertising your Kindle Free Days. And advertising your Kindle Free days has been the only advertised option that allows an author to specify which day the promo runs. Of course, if someone wanted a specific day, I would try to work with them so that they got what they wanted. But for the most part, for most promo posts, I've picked the dates.

  The art of gossiping, gabbing and chatting with awesome book bloggers!

The following is syndicated from  tinagayle.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission. 

Cover links to Amazon.com

Buffer    

The following is syndicated from  amongus.ca  and is posted here with permission.

The following is syndicated from  simplystick.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission.

I s your book free right now? Do you have a book that is always free? If you answered yes to either or both questions, you are in the right place. The purpose of this post is to list free books. Leave a comment if you'd like to share your free book with our visitors. Include the following: Link to your book (obvious) Synopsis (short is better) Dates that it will be free

The following is syndicated from kathrynknightbooks.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission. I love ghost stories, which is probably abundantly clear from my two novels.  My favorites have a mix similar to  Silver Lake  and  Gull Harbor --a tension-filled romance combined with a spooky and suspenseful haunting.  That said, I enjoy ghost stories that veer closer to the horror genre as well (and often therefore lack a Happily Ever After).  Of course my books have a special place in my heart, but in order to avoid bias, I won't be including them in this list.  Here are my favorites:

M arch is Sci-Fi month on this site. That means most (if not all) book reviews will have a sci-fi theme to them. The same goes for the interviews. I'm hoping to put together a sci-fi themed promotion, though I haven't worked out all of the details. Another thing I'd like to try is a community writing prompt. The purpose of this post is to brainstorm ideas for that prompt. Another post will officially announce the prompt and include details for entering your short story. The stories will be around a thousand words (a little more or a little less is fine), so a prompt can't be overly complicated . It has to be simple enough to work into a scene or two. But at the same time I don't want a prompt that is too broad. Since short stories often don't answer every question, the prompt doesn't have to lead to a certain resolution. Perhaps a Sci-Fi What-If scenario that could work in a dozen or more different ways. Got any ideas? Include your ideas in the co...

Cover links to Amazon.com

Buffer   Conversations with authors and writers from the self-publishing world.

The following is syndicated from  michelle4laughs.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission. Editing has two phases: the writing itself covering beats, showing/telling and awkward wording etc, and the ‘big picture’ items like character arc and pacing. The web abounds with tips to help correct writing problems, such as filtering, but it's a little tougher to find information on the big picture problems.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by  Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer .  It's a chance to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and  share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog. 

The following is syndicated from titanianchronicles.blogspot.ca and is posted here with permission. It's one thing to write yourself the ultimate novel... you know, that story that has lingered in your head for years, being seen and available only to the minds eye. It's a whole other thing to then go and share your treasured masterpiece with the world... a world that we know can be downright harsh and critical at times...

The following is syndicated from  michelle4laughs.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission. There are words out there I call crutch words because they pop up repeatedly in stories, as if the writer is leaning on them. I also call them clutch words because they are words a writer clings to, even when keeping them makes no sense.

Cover links to Amazon.com

  The art of gossiping, gabbing and chatting with awesome book bloggers!

Cover links to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com The following is syndicated from  nicholegiles.blogspot.com  and is posted here with permission. In the last month or so, I’ve had lots of people ask how they can help spread the word about the release of my upcoming book, so I thought it might be a good idea to do a post about the helpful things you can do to support all your favorite authors—whoever they are.

Cover links to Amazon.com

Doma Publishing presents to you the following Classics Collections, which have been designed and formatted specifically for your Amazon Kindle . Unlike other e-book editions, the text and chapters are perfectly set up to match the layout and feel of a physical copy, rather than being haphazardly thrown together for a quick release. These editions also come with a linked Table of Contents for both the list of included books and their respective chapters. Navigation couldn't be easier. All covers link to Amazon.com

Cover links to Amazon.com