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Featured Fiction Friday with Sandra D. Bricker

By on April 13, 2012 in Featured Book, Featured Fiction, Featured Fiction Fridays, How do I enter a Contest?

The Frasier Entries are in! Now all we can do is sit down, cuddle up with our bags of popcorn, and wait for the results. In the meantime though, My Book Therapy will spend Fridays introducing you to the work of our all-powerful judges. This week we are pleased to introduce you to Sandra D. Bricker and her new book: Always the Designer, Never the Bride (Book 3 of 4) – Abingdon Press. Q: Tell us about your Book. A: Always the Designer Never the Bride is Book #3 of 4 in the popular series that started with Always the Baker, Never the Bride: No matter how busy she is, dress designer Audrey Regan can’t say no to her friend Carly when she asks her to be maid of honor—and create the perfect […]

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One Thing Marketing … How NOT to promote yourself on Facebook

By on April 13, 2012 in Learn the art of Social Networking, Social Media Primer

Audra from Litfuse here. This week’s One Thing Marketing will focus on what NOT to do on your social media sites – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and blogs. All are great places that you should take advantage of when promoting your book. However, each has its own purpose and should be used in a way to maximize its benefits. There’s a right way and a wrong way to use each. The most popular of these tools is Facebook. Sometimes the best way to explain what you should do is to give examples of what you should not do. So, I’ll share a few tips for what not to do in promoting your book on Facebook.  All of these are real examples that I have sadly seen done (the names have […]

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Fast Notes On Why Characters Matter

By on April 12, 2012 in b. Building a Scene, Brainstorming Strategies and Tips, Protagonists: The Basics, Rachel Hauck

Hey all, I’m on a deadline but didn’t want to ask our handy-dandy David, assistant extraordinaire, to repurpose another old blog for me so, I found some notes I’d taken during a Donald Maass seminar and thought I’d pass them onto you. Nothing earth shattering here. Nothing we’ve not talked about already here in MBT Land but it’s good to be reminded. I sometimes like bullet points, don’t you? Or maybe an esoteric, eclectic gathering of ideas and thoughts that might jog a creative, off-the-beaten-path part of my brain. If we’re too linear, too sequential, we run the same worn path of our creative brain and forget their might be other less traveled paths to take and just might lead us to something extraordinary. So here’s my non-sequential, out-of-context, come […]

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Reach Back and Reach Forward

By on April 11, 2012 in Tiffany Colter, What is the Dark Moment/Secret and how do I use it?, Writing

I can remember in my early days of writing, not the early ones when I was 12 years old and wrote stories on a typewriter I bought at a garage sale. I mean when I made a full-time go of it in my mid-20s. I felt so alone, so isolated…so weird. With the internet it is much easier for newer writers to find help. We realize that there are others out there who hear voices in their head and have reasonable conversations about murdering characters and destroying relationships. [All in the name of craft] We have an incredible opportunity now to learn from other writers—are you taking advantage of that? “Well, Tiff, I’m reading this blog post, aren’t I?” Yes, you are. But what are you doing with it? What did […]

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