Social media is a wonderful thing. I find it very useful being a work-at-home/homeschooling mom because it keeps me in contact with the outside world. I also find it a great tool to use if you want to get the word out about something. As an author, I’ve used social media to market my book, as well as communicate with others who also have written books to gain important information in the publishing world. I’ll say it again, social media is a wonderful thing!

Do I dare say there are faults with it? I think I’m going to go there. Below you’ll find five things that are wrong with social media. Let’s get started: Continue reading “What’s Wrong With Social Media?”

ReadFREE.ly is currently running their annual search for The 50 Self-Published Books Worth Reading! And I would appreciate your vote!

In order to qualify, the book that is nominated has to:

  1.  Be published by an indie author or author with a small publishing firm. Check!
  2.  Be published in 2016. Check!

That’s it! My novel, Next Door Neighbors, fits that mold PERFECTLY!! Continue reading “Help! I Need Your Vote!”

It’s here! It’s here!

This is a huge sale – over 100 books included. Many, many authors have discounted their books (or made them free!!). You’ll see all genres represented. Prices range from FREE to $2.99. **This is for eBooks only** The best part about this sale is that Continue reading “May the Flinch-Free Fiction Be With You Sale”

To celebrate the release of book 2 in The Secret Keeper series, In the Dying Light, by Angela Carling, we are going to have some fun! In fact, at every stop in her blog tour, you’ll have a chance to enter to win her first two books and she’ll be talking about different people in history that really could have used a secret keeper.

Who comes to your mind first? Don’t tell me yet. First, Angela is going to give you the skinny on Secret Keepers:

Continue reading “Secret Keepers”

Starting Wednesday, May 4, I am participating in a HUGE sale with other clean indie authors. It is going to be called May the Flinch-Free Fiction Be With You Sale. That’s quite a name, I know, but ties in with the whole May the 4th Be With You, something Star Wars fans appreciate.

This sale will run May 4 through May 6, and will include Continue reading “Upcoming Seasonal Sale”

I did not plan on writing about Target and the uproar they’re causing across the nation because, while I follow the news, I’m not really one to discuss a lot of it. I have my opinions, but I keep them to myself for the most part. But as I thought about what I wanted to write about today, it almost seemed like the obvious choice. Perhaps it’s because Continue reading “Target”

Annie Douglass Lima has this to share:

I’m excited to announce that my young adult action and adventure novel, The Gladiator and the Guard, is now available for purchase! This is the second book in the Krillonian Chronicles, sequel to The Collar and the Cavvarach



First Things First: a Little Information about Book 1: 

Continue reading “A Note From Annie Douglass Lima”

Okay. So I’ve actually been back from my trip to Louisiana since Monday night BUT it took me this long to finally get back to some personal hobbies of mine (blogging being one of them). I can’t say enough about my vacation! I’m glad I got the chance to go because it was my first long-distance road trip in over 5 years, I learned and saw Continue reading “I’m Back!!”