OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!! BUY YOUR RAFFLE TICKETS TODAY!!! Welcome to the most FUN part of the RRBC WRITERS’ CONFERENCE & BOOK EXPO, 2016!!!  We appreciate the support of all of you s…

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Doors will be opening up at 3 p.m. Central Time, which is 9 p.m. over on the other side of The Pond!

Click HERE, or on the banner above to go to the Welcome Page

I’ll post the proper links for the Author and Vendor Booths and the Sessions I’m presenting once the whole site opens up to the registered participants and the public later on today! ❤

The sessions I’m presenting are

ANATOMY OF A COVER DESIGN
(with A. M. Manay)

&

A SHORT 577 YEAR HISTORY OF SELF-PUBLISHING

Beginning today (at 7:00 am Central Time) through Saturday Rave Reviews Book Club is hosting it’s annual Writer’s Conference and Book Expo. Please use this link to check it out. There are events for the public as well as members of the club. This link will take you to the Welcome Page where you can get an overview of what is included.

See this star?

That means that I will be there hosting an Author booth with my books and also along with John Fioravantiand Gwen Planohave a session you might like titled “Writing in the Senior Season.

So don’t delay. Go see what’s going on.

I am surprised to find myself as a nominee at the Rave Awards, held by the Rave Reviews Book Club. This is the club where authors share the burden of promotion by helping each other. I’m going to include a voting link, and while you’re there take a minute to surf around. They have helped me tremendously, and they can help you too. So the point is that I’m shamelessly asking for your votes.

First up, and possibly my best opportunity is this very blog. Entertaining Stories was nominated as Best Blog Site. I put most of my effort into this site, and it looks like the hard work is starting to get noticed. I’m up against some tough competition, including a couple of regulars here.

Secondly, and possibly the biggest surprise to me, The Playground was nominated as Book of the Year. Someone out there enjoyed it. What the…

I think this is my favourite out of my attempts to honour Tolkien by taking literally this statement from from Letters #133; ‘I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend … which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. … I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. … leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.” ‘ I hope he would not mind some prose as well.

The Last Ringbearer

“Come away, Dad, do. There’s nothing more we can do here.” Robin Gamgee tugged anxiously at his father’s arm, but Sam remained still, silent, gazing down at the mound of fresh-heaped earth at his feet.
Robin looked up at his brothers and sisters standing round. Most were weeping, but Elanor stood dry-eyed, looking…

My name is Edgar Rice Burro. I’m the publicist for Prairie Moon Press. I got the job because I have the loudest voice, and I’m not afraid to use it. Also, I’m not afraid to tell humans what to do. I’m helpful that way. 

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I am the human and I used to think I had a thin veneer of control on this farm. I might have been exaggerating.

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My human finally took my advice and put my handsome face on a book cover. She’s slow on the uptake, but she gives a good ear rub, so I’m patient with her. This book will sell like cold carrots on a hot day.

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I do the hard jobs for Prairie Moon Press. I wrote the book, for instance. I paid for everything. He just came in at the end and brayed about it. Like it was all his idea. Okay…

Source: Self-published Authors Learn to Market to Libraries

by Teagan Berry

I don’t know why, but for some reason when writing a trilogy I find the second book the hardest.

Book One is simple. Introduce the characters, establish their working relationships with one another, and tease the big, BIG conflict which will happen two books from now.