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Check out my guest post on ‘New Author Online’.
Many thanks to Charles E. Yallowitz for the below guest post. You can find Charles online at https://legendsofwindemere.com/author/slepsnor/.
Thank you to Kevin for giving me an opportunity to be a guest on his blog. My name is Charles E. Yallowitz and I’m the author behind the Legends of Windemere blog and fantasy adventure series. My latest book is the 7th of the series and is titled Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue. That gets the hype out of the way, so now I can get the fun topic.
I write with an ensemble cast of central heroes and several recurring allies. One such character is Kira Grasdon, who has been around since the first book. She is the fiancée of Luke Callindor, the first hero to be introduced, and they have a whole love triangle going on that is not the point of this post. Let’s just say…
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What Every 6th Grader Needs To Know by Connie Sokol and Rachelle Christensen
Genre: non-fiction
About What Every 6th Grader Needs To Know:
Is your daughter asking questions about friends, peer pressure, school, and even her weight?
As a mom, are you wondering how to answer them?
Welcome to the club.
But you can relax. Because we’ve asked real sixth-grade girls to dish on their top secret questions. And, we’ve provided time-tested real-life answers that work.
Add to that an enjoyable format. The “Just for Girls” section speaks right to your daughter in words and ways she understands. The “Just for Moms” section talks straight to moms, giving you information, resources, and easy-to-share answers. We include tips for how to start, handle, and enjoy the conversations no matter the situation.
Create connected conversations with your daughter as you explore these life questions together. Get plain facts and…
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I am always happy to accept guest posts. If you are interested in doing a guest post please contact me (putting “guest post” in the subject line of your email). Your post can be about any topic (within reason of course)! But subjects might include: a piece about your favourite book, why you write or anything of a literary nature. Please send emails to newauthoronline (at) gmail .com.
Kevin
Deadpool and Domino from Marvel Comics
Contrary to the belief of some people, characters don’t know they’re in a fictional story. I know Deadpool is one of the exceptions, but even then he can’t hear you shouting at the comic book. Screaming for the blonde to turn around in a horror movie is a futile use of your vocal chords. Yet many people, myself included, do this when we really get into a book, show, or movie. It’s only natural . . . to a point.
There’s a strange trend that I’ve seen over the years where people rail against characters doing something stupid. Some of the arguments are warranted, but I think there’s a factor we forget. Characters have no idea they’re in a story. They don’t know everything the reader knows, exist under pressure that the reader doesn’t have, work with time restraints while the reader has plenty of time, and so many other factors. I guess what I’m saying is that putting a real person in many of these situations, there would be a chance of a stupid mistake as well.
Here’s a general example: EVERYONE groans when a person goes off alone in a horror movie and dies. It’s a joke at this point. We all see it coming. Now raise your hand if you’ve ever walked away from a group into a dark area of a house or place you think is safe because there’s NO POSSIBLE WAY you’re in a horror movie. How much you wanna bet those characters are thinking the same thing? If the killing has already started then you have fear overriding common sense. Most people don’t think clearly when their brains are scrambled by adrenaline and terror. It tends to be the ‘fight/flight’ reflex and both options will get you killed in a horror movie. Probably in real life too if you have an armed killer after you. Yet, we always seem to expect these characters to be smarter, wiser, and more composed than a real person.
Let’s be honest here. If every character made every right decision then you’d have no story. Mistakes have to happen to bring tension and some level of reality. After all, a hero who never makes a mistake is hated for being too perfect. It’s unbelievable too. A character that screws up repeatedly is more realistic for some reason. Probably because many of us know a person like that or at least judge someone in that light. This is getting a little off topic, but my point is that you do want realism in your stories. A big part of that is mistakes and not having the characters act like they’re in a story.
I actually enjoy stories more when I remind myself of this. It helps find the flawed logic and realize that I could have done something equally as stupid in the same situation. To be honest, I’m pretty sure I’ve made movie level mistakes in my life. So who am I to judge a fictional being that thinks it’s ridiculous that anybody would find the events of his/her life worth viewing?
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Hey everyone,
Sorry to interrupt your day…well okay, no I’m not because I really need your help with something.
I have a new book launching on April 14, 2015 and I’m trying something new this time called Thunderclap.
First of all, it’s FREE and EASY. You just click on the link and sign up to take part in my book launch. Thunderclap will do the rest.
What will happen is on the date and time I specify, which will be 4/21/15, #Thunderclap will share my post about the book via your Facebook, Tumbler or Twitter pages ALL AT THE EXACT SAME TIME! How cool is that?
My book message will be shared over several social networks and I am hoping for it to be sent out to over 100,000 people all at once!
Here’s the catch, I need at least 100 people to sign up for…
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Jill Bennett is a marketing specialist for LitFire Publishing, a company based in Atlanta, Georgia. For the past six years, she’s been working with several self-publishing authors in terms of book marketing, publicity and distribution.
She contacted me with this idea for a guest post, which I think you’ll enjoy!
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Marketing is something that should be done prior and subsequent to publishing. This article will show you how to market a book effectively in the form of these five commandments.
To be able to know how to market a book, one must know who the readers will be. Different types of readers read different types of books, which is why authors should not assume that everybody would want to read their book. An author must focus on who will want to buy and read…
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About the Book:
A serial killer has the people of Pittsburgh on edge, and Detective Daniel Hayes and his hand-picked Special Assignment Squad are working feverishly to solve the case before more innocent lives are lost. But the killer proves to be a formidable foe, whose viciousness appears to be matched only by his ability to elude capture.
Throughout Small Talk, the reader is given glimpses into the mind of this cunning and sadistic murderer, an individual who seeks a face-to-face confrontation with his pursuers, a confrontation Daniel is only too willing to provide.
Read the first seven chapters of Small Talk
About Robert Germaux:
Robert Germaux and his wife, Cynthia, live outside of Pittsburgh. After three decades as a high school English teacher, and now a good many years into retirement, he is beginning to have serious doubts about his lifelong dream of pitching for the…
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In 1936 a ten year old boy was given a book by his father. This was not just any book, nor just any boy… Rayner Unwin was the son of Sir Stanley Unwin, founder of the publishing firm George Allen…
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