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Day: August 2, 2017
#ExcerptWeek – Amanda in New Mexico-Ghosts in the Wind by Darlene Foster
#ExcerptWeek continues! Ghosts are roaming around The Write Stuff… or are they? 😉😄
Free Children’s Books: August 2nd Only!
“Hope For Garbage” by Alex Tully
#FREE for a #LimitedTime!
“Hope For Garbage“
Genre: Social & Family Issues/Coming of Age
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Welcome to the cruel world of Trevor McNulty. No matter how hard he tries, this seventeen-year-old just can’t get a break. Through no fault of his own, he finds himself living with his alcoholic uncle on the outskirts of Cleveland. His days are filled with garbage-picking and hanging out with his seventy-year-old neighbor, who also happens to be his best friend.
One early morning while scanning the streets in a wealthy suburb, he meets Bea, a rebellious rich girl with problems of her own. She’s smart, cute, and a glimmer of light in his dark world.
But in the midst of their budding romance, Bea’s beautiful mother enters the picture with an agenda of her own. She sets off a chain of events so shocking and destructive, Trevor’s crazy life soon becomes more than he can handle. While he is desperate to save his relationship with Bea, he learns that nothing in his world can be saved unless he first saves himself.
Hope for Garbage is a story about resilience—about overcoming adversity under the most extraordinary circumstances—about never, ever, giving up hope.
Because sooner or later, everybody gets a break.
Alex Tully lives outside Cleveland with her husband, two teenagers, and a dog named Trooper. Fifteen years ago her life took a dramatic turn with a diagnosis of MS. She decided to quit her career as a finance professional and try something she truly loved – writing.
Her debut novel, Hope for Garbage, a coming-of-age story, was released in 2014 and her latest novel, Beautiful Chaos was released in summer 2016. Both are filled with ordinary characters overcoming extraordinary circumstances, both are filled with the message of hope.
Her hope is that readers will smile after turning the last page.
She is hard at work on her third novel.
alextullywriter.com
#ExcerptWeek – Chicken Shift by D. Avery
Another excerpt on The Write Stuff – this time…a poem! 😉 #ExcerptWeek
Drip Campaigns
This is pretty for a drip campaign app – add in the ability to schedule posts for up to a YEAR…whoa! Why are we not all using this? 😉
Ciao, SEers. If you follow us on any social media channel (other than this blog itself), you’ve likely seen posts with light blue graphic text bubbles offering quotes from our posts. These social media posts are what are known as drip campaigns.
Drip campaigns are so named because they “drip” content into your platform over the course of a finite amount of time. In our case, our drip campaigns are scheduled to be thirteen posts over the course of one year.
Marketers use drip campaigns because, and I’m sure you already know this, repetition is a key component to catching a person’s attention. That’s how we teach children their ABCs or multiplication tables. We repeat the same information over and over until our audience retains it.
The same technique works on adults. Unless someone is blessed with an eidetic memory, it’s unlikely he or she will remember something the first…
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Where Are All the E-book Formatting Gurus??? #SOS
Last fall when I published my debut novel, In the Best Interest of the Child, I had tons of folks checking in with suggestions and helpful advice about everything… except e-book formatting.
To make a LONG story short, I did it wrong—block style with spaces between the paragraphs. 
Stop judging me.
For months, no one said, “Why did you do that?”
But after reading countless blogs, websites and print books, I started thinking, “Maybe this isn’t right.”
So went out, got some help, reformatted and re-edited and uploaded a clean copy.
All’s right with the world!
Except it isn’t.
I deleted the book from my Kindle and downloaded another copy.
No new format.
I went to the Amazon page and used the ‘Look Inside’ feature.
No new format.
But wait!
The screen blinked at me… and this situation just went paranormal because some of the new formatting was there.
I know something changed because the page count went from 310 to 239.
But wait—I’m not done. It gets better.
I did the same thing with Free, a Novella, only the page count went from 153 to 324. Um… it’s 36K in length.
Then I made the biggest mistake to date—I called Amazon.
Burt sounded like Jake from State Farm… and like he wished he was at State Farm. And was no help.
What am I doing wrong?
I can’t ignore my books and I can’t concentrate on anything else until I get this corrected.
Any and all suggestions are MUCH appreciated and I’d probably lose this facial twitch… and get up off the floor… and out of the fetal position.
Thank you!
#ExcerptWeek – Free, a Novella by Felicia Denise
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