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Romance Industry News
Did you see my Darkside Spotlight on Saturday? You missed it! Horrors, well, if you click over and scroll to the bottom, you’ll see my advice for not-quite-published-yet authors. Only my opinion, but I do think social media mastery has become a required authorial skill. Don’t shoot the messenger! Remember my link last week (or…
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Romance Industry News
Malle Vallick from Harlequin has a post up on the Carina Press blog. She is totally in favour of developing side characters. Even in categories, she argues the hero and heroine don’t live in a bubble. Want to “bother an author” (the great phrase is from Jane at dearauthor.com). She’s referring to Amazon’s new offer…
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Romance Industry News
Seth Godin on selling your book to friends — no, not the friends you have now, the friends you have to earn. [Actually, I’m not sure “earn” is the right word, but it does get across the fact that there’s a ton of effort involved in attracting and maintaining an online community] Starting mid-September and…
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Romance Industry News
Rachelle Gardner (whose name I consistently mispell–apologies) has a useful post on Writing Rules are Just Tools. Head over to Nicole Murphy’s blog if you want to discuss Aussie spec fiction. She has an overwhelming number of links to thoughtful posts and podcasts on the topic. How do you get a forum party started? I’ve…