The Tricked Out Toolbox
Whether you’re just sticking your toe into the murky waters of the publishing industry, traversing the white waters of your already established career, or somewhere in between, The Tricked Out Toolbox is for you.
In The Tricked Out Toolbox, you’ll identify your personality type: introvert or extrovert. Read anecdotes from authors about what’s worked for them and what hasn’t. Get ideas, craft a budget, build a marketing plan, and learn how to execute it.
With checklists and worksheets galore, real-life advice, and an easy to read format, this user-friendly, practical guide allows you to pick and chose what promotion and marketing tools will work for you. If you buy one business book this year, make it The Tricked Out Toolbox.
“In today’s tough market, savvy promotion is often a key ingredient to an author’s success, but few authors are familiar with all the tools available to them. They spend a fortune on the things that don’t work and overlook opportunities that might create more impact. That’s why I’m thrilled Melissa Bourbon and Tonya Kappes have taken on this aspect of the writer’s life and demystified the process. In Tricked Out Toolbox, the new author has all she needs to successfully promote her latest book. If you buy one business book this year, make it this one!” ~ Brenda Novak
International Bestselling author Tonya Kappes believes that targeted and smart promotion and marketing can take a book from lackluster sales to the world of bestseller. She pooled her resources and knowledge to write The Tricked Out Toolbox: Promotion and Marketing Tools Every Writer Needs. When not touting marketing and promotion through her workshops, she write cozy mysteries, romantic suspense, and women’s fiction. I’m addicted to coffee, McDonald’s Diet Coke, and Red Hots Candy!
The Rodeo Man’s Daughter
THE RODEO MAN’S DAUGHTER
by Barbara White Daille
His Rodeo Career Is Over…
When Caleb Cantrell left home as a dirt-poor teenager, he never thought he’d return as a wealthy rodeo star. As a matter of fact, he didn’t think he’d return at all. The accident changed all that. It ended his career, nearly ended his life and rekindled a bitterness he thought he’d left in the dust long ago.
But A New Life Begins
To rebuild, Caleb has to go back to where it all began—back to Flagman’s Folly, New Mexico, and back to his high-school sweetheart, Tess LaSalle. But a ten-year-old secret stands between them, one that could hurt everyone Tess loves, especially her daughter…their daughter…the one Caleb never knew existed. No rodeo ever required the courage Caleb needs now—to forgive, to forget and to start over again…if it’s not already too late.
THE RODEO MAN’S DAUGHTER, a February 2012 release, is available for order in print and e-book from: Harlequin, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Best,
Barbara
Family traditions and the holiday season!
I’m excited to have the cover and buy link for A Superstitious Christmas!!
Only things don’t go as planned once Maggie announces to the Greenlee clan that she’s engaged to Grady Cohen, one of the wealthiest bachelors in New York City.
There are two problems. One, Hazel Greenlee, Maggie’s granny and Grandberry Falls’ local matchmaker, has already determined that Maggie is going to marry Mayor Mitch Dozier. And two, Grady thinks the superstitious beliefs that have ruled Maggie’s life, are child like.
With Grady deliberately breaking every superstitious tradition, and Granny Hazel pushing Maggie in the arms of Mitch Dozier, Maggie isn’t sure she’s going to survive Christmas in Grandberry Falls.
A SUPERSTITIOUS CHRISTMAS
A SUPERSTITIOUS CHRISTMAS
I’m so excited to announce that the cover for my Christmas short story, A SUPERSTITIOUS CHRISTMAS (Madness Under The Mistletoe Anthology) is here!!
Grandberry Falls is beautiful during Christmas. And Maggie Greenlee can’t wait for theGreenlee traditions to start, especially the annual ornament exchange.
Only things don’t go as planned once Maggie announces to the Greenlee clan that she’s engaged to Grady Cohen, one of the wealthiest bachelors in New York City.
There are two problems. One, Hazel Greenlee, Maggie’s granny and Grandberry Falls’ local matchmaker, has already determined that Maggie is going to marry Mayor Mitch Dozier. And two, Grady thinks the superstitious beliefs that have ruled Maggie’s life, are child like.
With Grady deliberately breaking every superstitious tradition, and Granny Hazel pushing Maggie in the arms of Mitch Dozier, Maggie isn’t sure she’s going to survive Christmas inGrandberry Falls.
A SUPERSTITIOUS CHRISTMAS BOOK TRAILER
BEACH RENTAL by Grace Greene
On the Crystal Coast of North Carolina, in the small town of Emerald Isle…Juli Cooke, hard-working and getting nowhere fast, marries a dying man, Ben Bradshaw, for a financial settlement, not expecting he will set her on a journey of hope and love. The journey brings her to Luke Winters, a local art dealer, but Luke resents the woman who married his sick friend and warns her not to hurt Ben—and he’s watching to make sure she doesn’t. Until Ben dies and the stakes change. Framed by the timelessness of the Atlantic Ocean and the brilliant blue of the beach sky, Juli struggles against her past, the opposition of Ben’s and Luke’s families, and even the living reminder of her marriage—to build a future with hope and perhaps to find the love of her life—if she can survive the danger from her past.
Available in print and eformats at Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all of the usual places. Contact Grace at grgreene.fictionATcomcast.net or www.GraceGreeneAuthor.com
Magical Stories
Fantasy and fable. A new e-book by Annemarie Nikolaus.
A water ghost, a young magician, a magic-talented hare and a good witch: Magic and intelligence, reality and legend connect in these stories.
Two stories, which tell about the force of nature and the thoughtlessness of men.
One story, in which counts to consider well what to wish.
And a very particular Christmas story.
Some years ago, “The Brook“ and “Cork“ have been published in German, the Christmas story in Italian.
Short stories with humor and wisdom; and not only for children to enjoy.
This now is the English edition of my first e-book “Magische Geschichten”, published in January. I thank two GIAM-members for their help correcting my English.
Like the other books its available at the Amazon kindle stores and in all formats at Smashwords.
Ambersley by Amy Atwell
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Traumatized by a blaze that killed her parents, young Johanna Vaughan remembers nothing of her privileged past. She remains ignorant of the complexities and dangers that surround her and gladly accepts a new identity when her guardians, an aging tenant couple, deem it necessary to disguise her as their adopted son. Raised among the servants, she develops a sense of purpose that helps her survive the betrayal that unmasks her true identity. Forced to take her proper place in Regency society as the highly-sought heiress to the Ambersley fortune, she must defy the relatives who would make her a pawn in their struggle for power.
When her distant cousin Derek Vaughan inherits the dukedom, his dubious parentage makes it sacrilege to accept. But touched by the ravaged estate and its destitute servants, he confronts a society that shunned him while he rebuilds Ambersley and protects it from his stepmother’s bankrupting clutches. He intends to grant the title to his half-brother when the boy comes of age, but Derek’s plans go awry from the moment the gardener’s apprentice—once his trusted young friend—is revealed to be not only an heiress of beauty and spirit, but the one woman who may finally capture his heart.
Ambersley is now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Ustica
Annemarie published a short crime story as an e-book at Smashwords.
This short story plays with facts and speculations around two historical events, taking place in the 80th of last century in Germany and Italy. The dramatic end of a flight show, destroying a small town’s quarter … A journalist has many questions; and then her children are kidnapped …
Language: German
Available now at Smashwords and the Amazon kindle store
Do you like series?
I have to tell you that I love a good series set in a cozy town.
I grew up in one of those towns and it has haunted me for years. I really wanted to make a town of my own, with special people, and places. After I wrote a few novels, I decided it was time to write that series set in my fictitious town of Grandberry Falls.
The Ladybug Jinx is the first in the series, and is available now!! YIPEE!!! I can’t wait for everyone to take a stroll down the cobblestone streets of Grandberry Falls, and stop in The Fatted Pig for a great lunch. After lunch you can walk into The Figure 8 Boutique for the perfect outfit, or The Purple Cow Bookstore to roam the aisle for the perfect book that you and read at one of Trembling Cup Cafe’s outside table near the waterfall that the town is centered around.
Be sure to say hello to Mayor Mitch Dozier, who frequents the waterfall, talking about the looming eminent domain case against long time resident Hazel Greenlee. But if you see Hazel, don’t tell her you’re single or she’ll fix you up!
Come on over and pick up your copy of The Ladybug Jinx.
Blurb:
Celia Briggs has always lived her life for everyone but herself. With the death of Celia’s mom, Celia realizes life is too short not to follow her dreams. In her small town of Grandberry Falls, Kentucky-Celia decides to open up, The Ladybug Florist, which is only fitting due to her love of flowers and ladybugs.
How can she not love ladybugs? Her deceased grandfather always said ladybugs bring luck and love.
Marty Briggs, Celia’s father, never dreamed his life as Grandberry Falls, Kentucky’s only flower delivery boy is harder than the job he’s retired from.
Sam Barber jumps in his car leaving his Hollywood life behind. He didn’t know stopping in the cozy town of Grandberry Falls, was about to change his life forever. Especially after answering the help wanted ad at The Ladybug Florist and giving a fake name so no one would recognize him.
Celia knows something is up Sam’s sleeve. Why would a thirty-year old man want to deliver flowers? Marty doesn’t care, he’s just happy to be retired-again.
Will Celia ever figure out Sam’s true identity? Does Sam reveal the big family secret Celia’s parents have kept from her all her life?
Celia’s about to find out if ladybugs are lucky or a jinx?
Buy links for The Ladybug Jinx
- Amazon page with all my books: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_12?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=tonya+kappes&sprefix=tonya+kappes
- Barnes and Noble page with all my books: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/tonya-kappes
- Smashwords page with all my books: http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=tonya+kappes
In honor of The Ladybug Jinx, I have lowered the price of Carpe Bead ‘em for the month of June! Be sure to get your copy for .99!!
RUN AMONG THORNS & DANGEROUS LIES by Anna Louise Lucia
AVAILABLE NOW IN EBOOK AND MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
RUN AMONG THORNS
In a crisis moment of her life, Jenny Waring did something exceptional.
Now the authorities want to know how and why she killed three armed men.
Romantic Times 4.5 stars
“Excellent… an all-round compelling escape.”
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DANGEROUS LIES
Marianne Forster was only spending time with a gorgeous man in the hot sun of Morocco.
It wasn’t anything more than that – until she was kidnapped on the way home.
All About Romance ‘A’ and Desert Isle Keeper
“Because this was, hands down, the best romantic suspense I’ve read since Angels Fall. And since Angels Fall is my #1 Romantic Suspense of all time, that makes this book pretty damn good.”
Jean Wan, AAR
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Lift your beverage of choice and let’s celebrate!!
We are celebrating at my fun and quirky grog, The Naked Hero!! Come on over!!!!
Renntag in Kruschar
Annemarie Nikolaus just published as an e-book another of her out-of-print-books.
It’s a fantasy antholgy, she wrote with two other authers. The stories focus at a race between dragons and horses.
See at smashwords
The basics of this world – dragon’s island – has been developped in a German fantasy loop.
Annemarie and one of her co-authors are working on with this world and plan a series of novels taking place there.
Language: German
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