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V.B. Rosendahl's new novel 'Bitter Tastes', Tween Mystery (ages about 8-14), available on amazon.com.

As I wrote in my summary, this book I picked up because I'd read such a fine piece of fiction from this new press. I bought it for my neices, twins and thought I'd read it first. I wasn't intending to review it but I was really excited by finding such a fine piece of fiction and that in a nutshell explains how this book ended up being reviewed by me. If I find a good book, I want to tell people… Continue

Kate Rizor's Contemporary Romance by Veronica Grant House, republished with permission

To this day, I still do not know who gave me this book. It has a big blue cover with a gorgeous front design on it.

Then, I opened it. I read and read and read and read this book. I think supper burned but oh well because I wasn't going to put this book down.

I brought this book to my book club meeting and of course, we assigned it a date. It was totally amazing because most of the same people said the same… Continue

Here is an update:

amazon.com but you must have recently purchased the book from them online.

bandn.com if your book is carried by them or one of their used book sellers

bookcrossing.com--a site about setting your books free but also anybody can put a journal book review together and these come up when you search for books. We found this one recently when one of our authors was reviewed on the site.

any free press release site--you can submit book reviews by ot

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When trying to get word out on the street about a book signing or event, consider sending out online press releases. You'd think that people would read them and they do of course but ultimately, it makes you a searchable subject. Many allow you to put in keywords. It's a way for more links to come up with you in a typical search engine search.

But if you really want to get something out of your press releases, find the media around the book signing area or even in the State or a tie-in

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If you're looking for a cheap way to get a website up, go to zoomshare.com . They give you several backgrounds. A promotional stratergy I use with websites in general is having one main website but individual websites that give some information and link back to the main one.

The interesting thing about zoomshare is that you can click in one of their sections to put yourself on google. Within a few days of doing so, your site does show up. In the photo section, you can put up book c

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