For Authors…

Author Services

Katrina Gillian and I opened, Judge Your Book By Its Cover. Choose your next book cover with us. We have reasonable prices, and we’ll work with you to make the perfect cover for your next best seller! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, too!

Author Academy: https://www.theauthoracademy.com/author-academy/

All About Book Videos: Where I find my stock photos and where I make my videos.

Kizoa – easy to make a video at this site

Big Stock Photos
Period Images

Pond5 – Stock videos

Deposit Photos

Jimmy Thomas Website: Book Covers (also great for your book videos, too.)

Free Stock Music

Advice on writing at The Wild Rose Press on the blog: “Behind the Garden Gate”

Author Academy– mock-up photos of your book cover. Lifetime fee to mock-up all covers.

Edit services: http://bevkatzrosenbaum.com/editingservice.html

Book tours:
Sensuous Promo

The Book Pub– Offers services for authors to boost their books

BLOGS THAT HOST SPOTS for Authors

Kate Hill

Promote Your Audio Books

AudioBook Promotions: https://book-promos.com/audiobook-promotion/

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/karen-michelle-nutt

Audio Gals: https://www.audiogals.net/

Request reviews from audiobook reviewers
Promote with sites that focus on audiobooks like:

Promote Your Books:

Book Vixens

Build Your Brand- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1026454057457135/-

Love Books Love Authors website: http://lovebooksloveautho.wixsite.com/promo/authors

Love Books Love Authors Facebook- Promotions- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1858546407759219/
This group is for Authors and their PA’s to see what promotions Love Books Love Authors are running or openings for current promotions.

http://romancepromocentral.com/submit-rpc/: Promotional site, add books under $2.99 for free, Advertise, List KDP Free days, etc…

QR Codes:http://www.free-qr-code.net/#qr-code

Free QR codes: http://www.pageqrcode.com/about-this-site.html
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The Killion Group Book Covers, Print formatting, Audibles

MARKETING- http://www.newshelves.com/ -FREE AND PAID INFO ABOUT MARKETING

The Long and Short of It Featured Header Ad ♥ Book cover ad ♥ Banner ad ♥ Author Spotlight
Newsletter Ad ♥ Featured Book Video ♥ Guest Blogging ♥ List Your Contest
The following promotional opportunities for FREE:
*Author interview with photo – permanently archived
*Book/Story reviews with book cover and buy links – permanently archived
*Guest blogging with photo and/or book covers – permanently archived

For a fee you can advertise with My Romance ReadsMy Romance Reads
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Add Free Live Chat Room to Any Web Page!
Chatango

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They love to promote books and interact with the authors. They host giveaways, too.
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Share your work with:

Participating Authors are listed at these sites: Hashtags: #8sunday #snippetsunday

Weekend Writing Warriors for Eight Sentence Sunday

Snippet Sunday Facebook Group

It’s free to participate and it will give you another opportunity to let the readers know about your work.

Write a novel in a Month

National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a fun approach to creative writing. You work toward the goal of writing a 50,000-word draft during the month of November.

Camp NaNoWriMo– Camp NaNoWriMo is a more open-ended version of the original November event. They have Camp sessions in both April and July. Your goal is to write anything from 10,000 and 1,000,000 words. In addition, writers may attempt non-novel projects. Camp is a creative retreat for anything you’re working on.
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Hot Damn Designs Everything you need to promote your book. Book covers, website designs, headers, postcards, book markers, and trading cards.
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Audible Promotions:

Audio Book Boom. (They are the Netgalley of audiobook reviewers. Their service helps you distribute your codes to interested audio reviewers.)

https://audiobookboom.com/authors – $10.00 to find reviewers for your 25 download codes

Facebook groups:

Audiobook Lovers – https://www.facebook.com/groups/audiobooklovers/about/

Aural Fixation – https://www.facebook.com/groups/auralfixationaudio/

Audiobooks – Erotic & Romance Only https://www.facebook.com/groups/audiobookseroticromance/about/

Review Sites and Award Sites

Ink and Insights

Ink & Insights is a writing contest geared toward strengthening the skills of independent writers by focusing on critique and feedback from industry professionals. Each entry is assigned four judges who specialize in the genre of the manuscript. They read, score, and comment on specific aspects of the manuscript. (Characters, dialogue, style, pace, tension, etc. for novels.)

Once all four judges have finished, the four scoresheets with feedback are returned to the writer with a numerical score.

In August, or when all submissions have been read, we will announce the contest placements, and the top three manuscripts in the Master and Nonfiction categories will move on to the Agent Round.

Peacemaker Awards

Still Moments Magazine

Ebook Discovery: https://ebookdiscovery.leadpages.co/get-more-reviews/ – Cost is $48

Chill with a Book AWARD– £16.00

Writer Globe: advertise for $10

A chance to publishing with Kindle Scout at Amazon

Eric Hoffer Award
SMALL PRESSES * ACADEMIC PRESSES * MICRO PRESSES * SELF-PUBLISHERS — $1,500 GRAND PRIZE — LOW ENTRANCE FEE ($45) (Jan 21st of each years it the deadline to enter)

IDA Contest (May-June entries $20 novel $15 short story (2015 fees))

Fallen Angels Reviews

Grave Tells Reviews