Hi Mindy, I'm not a fan of cold calling but I've not found a better way yet to point folks towards my book :)
I've had conflicting views on need a prologue/don't need a prologue. Just wondered what you thought.

Could I interest you in taking a look at my novel, Charlie Parker's Corner Of The Prairie? It's a slice of life view of Kansas at the turn of the century complete with tornadoes, horse races and frontier romance. Life and death was cheap, and prejudices could ruin families struggling to eke out a living on an unforgiving prairie.

Any reads will be returned.

Meg Wearing

Mindy,

Hidden in the Pages is the sequel to The Wishing Place right? I wanted to blog that if it is correct.

added :)

http://authonomy.com/forums/threads/111732/not-young-adult-reading-group/

Mindy, there's alot of things I must do on the computer that I don't know much about. I ask you if they can't help me.

George

Mindy, they're jumping all over me; they must really like my style. Author bio; book cover; synopsis; contracts; how to's; obligations; etc. When I'm finally set up, I'll see what I can do for you.

xo George

Mindy,
You might want to click on www.scribd.com/dloganw whereby David Welch interviews me regarding the North Korean situation in "Nuts in the North." This could be a good venue for your book to get Twitter exposure.

Kenneth

Hi Mindy,
I've always loved your writing, and look forward to reading your next work!
Cheers,
Patty

Mindy,

I nearly lost your message in my feed. It's crazy keeping up with everyone.

Sounds like you've been ridiculously busy. That's a lot of swimming, and painting and writing. Sad that you're grandmother passed away. I'm very sorry to hear that.

You have a sweet sixteener already? Oh, my. I'm not ready for that. My boy is 14. I fear the day he starts driving.

Tell me more about your new book sometime!
-Chris

woohoo it came through!

lol he suggested a change - basically I did two pics with slight differences. I put one up on authonomy and sent the other to Boom... he preferred the one I sent him and told me I should change it on autho - so that's what i'm doing...

but it's frustrating - it takes so long for approval for covers - I got lucky the first time and it changed within a few hours - but now? now I bet it takes until at least Monday and that's sad - I hate anonymous cover :(

Mindy, did you get the new email?

oh yay! thank you xxx

I had a fabulous idea for a story, but I seriously need to finish and polish off all the other books I started first... but what do you think of this pitch/opening line

"True love sucks... Soul mates are lethal"

hey Mindy - did you see my new cover? lol I thought you might like it ;-)

perhaps worthy of the shelf? I dunno... but i'm quite proud of it, did it myself :)

Thanks, Mindy! Good to hear from you, stranger. I hope all is well.

-Chris

Mindy,

I saw on Claire C Riley's Twitter acct that you may not have recieved my last email. I wanted to let you know that I've sent another as well. We would love to have you onboard for the Anthology! Hopefully it will serve as great promotion for our books and for us as authors!

Have a wonderful day! Let me know if for reason the emails do not come through.

- Scott

Using hashtags means that your book gets seen by people on Twitter who are not following you.

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Use hashtags when you Tweet about your book; for example:
if you were writing a historical novel you would tweet something like:

"Cromwell's Lover" - tag line
#historical #romance #england

Use Twitter to promote your book ...