Tag Archive | Susan M. Toy
5 Easy Steps to Successfully Write, Publish and Promote Your Book!
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OR … How I Nearly Became an Overnight Success After My Forty Year-Apprenticeship in the Book Business! If you read my bio you’ll realize I have worked with books and authors in one way or another for most of my life. I have experience as a bookseller, a…
Social Media – Giving as well as Taking
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Here’s the way blogging and Social Media work… We post our opinions and observations to our blogs; we create status updates for our friends to read; we tweet about where we are, what we’re doing and what is of interest to us so that our followers may know…
Why I ♥ My Editor!
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Rachel Small is the best editor a writer – THIS writer! – could ask for! During an email correspondence yesterday she said something that I thought was quote-worthy, so I asked Chris Graham (aka The Story Reading Ape) to create one of those handy-dandy quote boxes so I…
HOW to get promotion for yourself and your book …
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Two days ago I wrote a blog post that proved to be the most popular, in terms of reach and reaction, of any I’ve ever written! Thanks to everyone who read, liked, shared, reblogged, followed my blog, and commented on it. I guess I hit a nerve with…
How NOT to get promotion for yourself and your book …
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So, you’ve written and published a book. Congratulations! Good for you! And welcome to the club … I have some sobering news, though. You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to write and publish a book – TODAY! So far this year, 2,396,061 books…
Bequia This Week advertising for the tourist season!
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Once again this year, I’m happy to advertise my novel, Island in the Clouds, locally every week in the informational flyer, Bequia This Week, created these past 15 years by Nicola and Wilfred! Here’s a link to the large ad I’ll be running 4 times throughout the next…
27 Author Recommendations for Holiday Gift-Giving …
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No, wait! I didn’t mean you should wrap up an Author and give THEM to your friends, although I’m sure any of us mentioned below are flattered for having been considered gift-worthy … Let’s start over. What could be better than giving or receiving A BOOK (or several)…
Good reads Giveaways … some interesting stats
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My regular blog readers know I have been very happy with the 5 Goodreads Giveaways I’ve offered to site members from various countries. I wrote a blog post about my experience of promoting books on the site. To recap, the first giveaway was held in Sept., 2013 for…
Would you like to give someone an “Island” this Christmas?
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Well, not a real island – a piece of sub-continental land surrounded by water – of course. But a print copy of my novel, Island in the Clouds! ♫ Deck the halls with bits of Bequia, Fa-la-la-la-la, La-la-la-la ♫ For any readers wishing to give family or friends…
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