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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Questions on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles and the Ibook- paperbacks or ebooks

I've been a published author now for over a few years, and I wondered if all authors get more traffic and sales through Amazon? I know as an author there are so many of us as indie authors we have to work harder to get noticed. It seems to me, that most people not only shop for items through Amazon, they buy there books as well. Amazon is where my sales come through almost 100%.

Do you do better with ebooks or paperbacks? How many people use only the KDP part? Some people like it and others don't. I don't because I do have them in Barnes and Nobles and Ibook, and other places like Smashwords.

Now I will say that when I first published, my sales were higher through Barnes and Nobles, but this last couple of years it has declined. Is it because more people use the kindle, the iphones? What are your thoughts as authors, and I would also like to hear from our readers.

I do have the iphone myself and I love it, but my ibooks sales are very low. How are your sales from people with ipads, iphones, or the mac computers? I thought personally that the iphone would bring in the big bucks because everyone loves the iphone, but I was mistaken.

I do self promote and push myself. I even changed my covers. I know part of my problem is how often I publish and this year my goal is to do at least three. I just thought I would throw this out there into the void and see what others have to say. Thanks for listening to my rant on sales, promoting. LOL. An author's frustrations.

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Spreading some love to my readers and fans

I just wanted to reach out and tell everyone how much you mean to me. For years I was the one who was the fan, reading other author's work, but now I'm both. There are certain author's whom I admire intensely and would bend over backwards to please them.

Now, I'm in awe, humbled to the roots of my soul because I have fans who tell me how much they love me, and how much they love my books. When it happens it makes me catch my breath because I KNOW that feeling!!! I have those same emotions for my mentor, my authors whom I adore.

I wanted to send out my heart to you and want you all to know, I love you all. I cherish our friendships and love hearing from you. You make me want to write more

and put out more books to keep you happy.

So this is a huge thank you for all your support and love. Keep in touch. When I have another book signing please come out and visit. It'll be great to meet you all in person. My next event in March 4th in Houma, LA

Love to you all.
Author Paula V. Hardin

PS,
I have a different genre coming out
I'm working on the cover as we speak, it'll be called, "A Daughter's Justice" It's a contemporary Suspense Romance with steampunk elements.
I'm now working another vampire romance for all my fang peeps.

Sunday, January 29, 2017

ARC NOLA 2017 A GREAT SUCCESS

ARC Nola 2017 was a great success, I met alot of great authors this weekend and met alot of new readers. Check out my blog and see who was there.

Saturday was a great day, it began at eight a.m. with all the authors having breakfast and setting up their tables.

Author Danielle Dauphinet with her dark paranormal "Strife"

Author Evelyn Ledermann writes Paranormal Fantasy. When I met her Saturday she was really a very sweet lady.

Now these two are amazing fun, happy ladies. Author Heather Warren Shephard has "Gun Powder and Lead" and on the right is Author Guenevere Williams and she has her first book out called "Wild Obsession"

Author V.A. Dold has too many books to tell you her list, but she is one amazing author. She's also the woman who put this together for us authors to come together for this event. I applaud you and loved hanging out with you.

Now this lady is a hoot. She writes children's books and other kind of books that aren't meant for children, let me tell you. You all need to check out Cooper McKenzie Here she's holding her children's book "A Bear's Tale."

Here is Author Diana Marie DuBois doing a selfie with me. She's amazing and I call her my friend. She also has a number of books out now.

At nine a.m. Speed dating. Not actual dating, but readers went from table to table and chatted with an author for four minutes then moved on to another author's table. I thought that was a marvelous idea so that all of the author's got a chance to pitch their books.

The picture on the left, Author Paula V. Hardin, and her editor Becky Highnote.

Author Rhea L. Wiggs was also there. She's such a sweet heart. Check out her books. She's really a nice lady. We sat across from each other and we're friends on Facebook.

You can find all of these authors on Facebook. Check them out. You won't be disappointed.

Friday, November 4, 2016

Paranormal Author TK lawyer is in the house

Today we're chatting with TK Lawyer about her books, so sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy

1. How did you know you wanted to be a writer?

Well, it all started with me screaming in the kitchen one day that there had to be something else in life for me. No, seriously, this is what actually happened. I am a very passionate person and my full-time job at the time was boring, mundane, and routine. I felt myself withering away, literally, at my job and I was desperate, craving adventure, anything to revive the passion buried deep down inside of me that was untapped with my full-time job. Shortly after my episode in the kitchen, ideas started coming to me and I wrote them down. I can tell you that I never pictured myself as a writer and had no inclination to be one but now that I am, I have no compunction to stop.

2. Tell me about your journey as an author… where did it start?

It started with my fascination with the idea of Angels engaging in normal human activities with human beings. The idea of an Angel falling in love with a human and dating them right here, on Earth, interested me. How would they react to certain situations, what would they do? That’s how Jasper, the first book in the Guardian League Series, was created.

3. Are you a “plotter” or do you fly by the seat of your pants?

Well~ I am a very spontaneous person so most of the time, I ‘fly by the seat of my pants.’ I am not the type of Author that even writes an outline. Scenes from a book will come to me and I’ll place them where I think would be best and after a while you have so many scenes, that you now have a book. It sort of all comes together.

4. Where do you get your inspiration from?

I’ve been asked this a couple of times and I really don’t have an answer for it. I guess what keeps me writing is that I truly enjoy writing, I love hearing from readers what they thought about my book, and I have to keep writing because if I didn’t, life would be so incomplete without it.

5. What’s been the greatest challenge in being a writer and becoming published? What lessons would you share with new writers?

I would say the greatest challenge is having the time to write, promote, market, blog and run a Street Team when you also working a Monday – Friday, full time job. And throw in taking care of a family. It gets really hairy at times to keep everything together and organized.

Small things like your Publisher changing their publishing requirements and dropping all your books so you have to find a Publisher in the middle of your normal, regular chaos you deal with on a daily basis can be startling and devastating. I recently underwent this horrific situation that totally threw me and my schedule for a loop.

The advice that I would share is to always expect the unexpected because nothing is ever defined and set in stone. The plans that you have can erupt at any moment (like me having to look for a new publisher for my book when I had a contract ready and set to go), so just take one day at a time and make the best of it and be flexible enough to recover from setbacks in your writing career when they happen.

6. What are you working on at the moment?

Currently, I am working on a short story for an upcoming Valentine’s Day anthology for 2017. I am excited to be part of a chosen group of Authors for this project.

I am also working on finishing up the Guardian League series and am writing Aeron’s book (the 4^th Guardian Angel in the series).

7. What should readers expect from your books?

I am chuckling at this question because the range of emotions my readers feel when they read my books is astounding. It warms my heart the reactions I get from readers who tell me they cried, laughed and even got upset with some of my characters but despite all this they continue reading because the books just somehow grab them. The majority of my reviews are 4 or 5 stars. I will say that my Angel books are not your traditional Guardian Angels. They are fun, protective, and loving just like your traditional Angels but when they love, they fall hard and love even harder. If you have an aversion to reading Angels that share everything, even intimacy with their chosen ones, then you will want to steer clear of my books because for these Angels, it’s all about true love and sharing their love with their intended.

8. What’s on your bookshelf? Do you have favourite authors?

Currently, I read a lot of paranormal romance and some erotica but I’ve also read mysteries, romance and even horror (one Author). My favourite authors range from Dean Koontz, Linda Barnes, Lawrence Block to Eve Langlais, Felicity Heaton and Jordan Summers. I have just started delving into Elyssa Ebbott’s books and am in love with her Shifters of the Primus series.

9. And of your own books, which is your favourite?

Hmmm… Wow, that’s a hard question because each book has unique personalities and the themes they tackle and experience are different but I would have to say one of my favourites is the second book in the Guardian League Series, Centurion, expected to re-release in November 2016. Centurion is cocky, incorrigible and a lot of fun. He doesn’t want to be in a relationship with a human but he is smitten with April and doesn’t know it. What he experiences and goes through was a lot of fun writing and plus, he loves the human beverage, coffee- I mean, what is there not to love about this guy?

10. If you could write in any other genre than your own, what would it be?

Contemporary Romance. I wrote a short story in this genre for my self-published book, Angels and Diamonds called “New Home” and I loved writing the story.

Author Name: TK Lawyer

Website: www.tklawyerauthor.wordpress.com

Social Media Links:

https://twitter.com/tklawyerauthor

https://www.facebook.com/tklawyerauthor

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109094672467230073885

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12764640.T_K_Lawyer

http://www.amazon.com/author/tklawyer

https://promotingauthors.wordpress.com/tk-lawyer/

http://www.theromancereviews.com/tklawyer

http://www.quotesrain.com/page/tklawyer/

http://authorsdb.com/authors-directory/21372-tk-lawyer

https://itunes.apple.com/us/author/t.k.-lawyer/id934611669?mt=11

Book Titles: Jasper, The Guardian League, Book One

“Buy Links”

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M7T1LPB/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jasper-Book-One-Guardian-League-ebook/dp/B01M7T1LPB/

https://www.amazon.ca/Jasper-Book-One-Guardian-League-ebook/dp/B01M7T1LPB/

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01M7T1LPB/

Paperback= https://www.amazon.com/dp/1539674630/

Paperback/Hardcover: http://foundationsbooks.com/library

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Please Welcome Contemporary Author Jolyse Barnett

Today I'll be interviewing with Author Jolyse Barnett about her writing, books and what's new. She's amazing and she lives in New York, by the vineyards and the beaches. I'm so jealous. I would love to see a vineyard, and New York.

1. How did you know you wanted to be a writer?

I’ve always expressed myself more eloquently in the written word than the spoken.

2. Tell me about your journey as an author… where did it start?

It started in the fifth grade when my teacher needed to keep me occupied while she worked with reading groups. I would read poetry magazines, copy and memorize the poems, then write my own inspired by those I’d memorized. I began keeping a diary after that, which I kept up for years…until I married and life became too busy. Years later, I decided to pursue romance writing seriously upon my daughter’s insistence that I follow my lifelong dream of becoming a published author. Six years ago I joined a local chapter of Romance Writers of America here on Long Island, wrote five pages of my first book over and over until my critique group wanted more, then finished the book within a year. That book’s first chapter won an award, but I’ve yet to pursue publication with it. (Maybe I will one day. LOL.) I wrote three-quarters of the second book in that series, but didn’t finish it, frustrated in general with my lack of originality. I spent the next year focused on building my imagination and learning the craft and industry. Toward the end of that year I came up with the premise for my Mystic Escapes Series.

Since then, I’ve written six more romances, four of which have been published. My debut was a contemporary romance novella, Christmas Light. The second was His Kiss (retitled as The Rebel’s Redemption). Text Me, Maybe released on August 8^th, and I’m excited that One More Sunset—first published last autumn by a now-defunct publisher—has found its home with Foundations LLC and will release on October 3^rd.

3. Are you a “plotter” or do you fly by the seat of your pants?

I’m what you might call a hybrid. When I first began writing seriously six years ago, I created a personal writing template, which includes the story’s working title, the setting, character details, a logline, tagline, and brief synopsis. Once that handy form is all filled out, I sit down and let my imagination take care of the details as I alternate between brainstorming and drafting. However, on my most recent two WIPs, I’ve begun to be far more detailed, and am making sure I’ve nailed down all the major beats and have woven in the subplots and romance arc BEFORE drafting. So far, this is making the drafting part go much more quickly.

4. Where do you get your inspiration from?

Everywhere! J

5. What has been the greatest challenge in being a writer and becoming published? What lessons would you share with new writers?

The greatest challenge has been deciding which genre fits me best. I love so many types of books that I’ve struggled with settling into just one genre. Also, I’ve learned I’ve had to say no to projects that I knew didn’t fit me so that I could focus on projects that I feel strongly about. As far as advice, I’ll suggest that aspiring writers relax and be true to themselves, writing and reading a lot, and focus on their own creative journeys rather than comparing themselves to other authors.

6. What you working on at the moment?

I tend to be a multi-tasker when it comes to writing. Currently, I’m drafting a small town contemporary romance, a flirty urban-set romance, and am in the edits process for the next book in the Mystic Escapes series called One More Touch. I’m also percolating ideas for One More Chance, the third story in the series which will be set between Long Island and Bermuda.

7. What should readers expect from your books?

Generally speaking, I write complex, emotional storylines but with a dose of humor and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

8. What’s on your bookshelf? Do you have favorite authors?

Pretty much all subgenres of romance. I don’t generally read horror or psychological thrillers (real life is scary enough for me), although my curiosity has been piqued by the movie trailers for The Girl on a Train. I might just have to get up the nerve and read that book and see the film. (I’m a sucker for fast-paced mysteries.)

9. And of your own books, which is your favorite?

I love them all in different ways, but the one I’ve reread most just so happens to be One More Sunset. Perhaps that’s because I adore Key West so much and all those details allow me to relive wonderful couple getaway memories via Abby’s adventure.

10. If you could write in any other genre than your own, what would it be?

I’d write middle grade fantasy or mysteries.

Thank you for a great interview and answering all the questions. Here is how you can reach Jolyse Barnett.