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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Book Review by Lorilyn Roberts - Meow Mistletoe by Lisa Liskel




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Meow Mistletoe by Lisa Lickel is a delightful, light-hearted yarn that entertains to the very last page. Filled with Christmas mirth and stoked with charming wit, the reader with be swooped off into the eccentric world of cat lovers, romantic comedy, and small-town sleuths hunting down small-town crooks. Being a cat lady myself, I found myself wanting to attend that Christmas party with all my cats in tow—I’d fit right in and so would my four-legged friends!

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If you enjoy wholesome, good-old fashion entertainment with a few laughs, a few surprises, and a few twists and turns, stoked by cats that are just being cats, read this creative charm. I have to admit, I’d never read a cat book before, but with Meow Mistletoe, I’ve discovered a new genre. Whoever knew that romantic cat sleuth stories could be so entertaining?

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I highly recommend getting away from stress and enjoying a little light-hearted humor and mystery. Allow yourself to unwind. Grab a cup of coffee, sit by a warm fire, and read Meow Mistletoe. If you’re like me, you may even want to read it more than once. I loved it that much!

Only 99c for a limited time.



To learn more about Lisa Lickel visit her website at https://www.lisalickel.com/

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Is It Worth Hosting a Book Launch?

"Taste and See" available for free at http://amzn.to/1RB4jtk
Article by Lorilyn Roberts



NOTE: This article was posted last year, but it's still relevant today. Hopefully I can help authors to make wise and informed decisions when it comes to book marketing.

Is It Worth Hosting a Book Launch?

Is it worth the financial cost, emotional energy, physical labor, and mental stress to host a cyber-book launch in today’s ever-changing, highly competitive book market world? If anyone were in a position to answer this question, I suppose it would be me. I lead a Christian book marketing network, the John 3:16 Marketing Network, and have been involved in many book launches over the past three years. In 2013, not counting the book launches I coordinated for other authors in the network, I hosted three book launches of my own:  One in March, one in August, and one in December. For the most part, I conducted the launches using the same methodology with each, with one significant difference for the December launch which I will explain later. Some of this will be technical because I want to give hard facts and real data. If you want to be encouraged, inspired, or challenged, read another one of my blog posts. If you want the raw facts, read on.

First, what did I do that was the same for each launch?  For all three launches, I had at least twenty reviews of my book. I advertised on similar sites, and I list some of those sites and point out the ones that were the most helpful below. I was featured as a guest blogger on eight to twelve blogs for each launch. I had a book trailer for each book. I posted on Facebook and used Twitter extensively. My followers were roughly the same on both accounts for all three launches. I have over 27,000 twitter followers on @LorilynRoberts and 19,999 followers on @John316Network. I’m not sure how many fans I have on Facebook—more accurate would be the number of people who saw my posts, and that was proportional to the Facebook advertising I bought. I advertised at http://bit.ly/Lorilyn_Fan_Page  and http://bit.ly/John316FanPage. To be honest, the $800 I spent on Facebook advertising I could never correlate to a spike in sales on Amazon. (Please note the figures I am giving are for sales from Amazon U.S. Kindle).

I also used Rafflecopter to promote all three book launches.

The launches were all sponsored by the John 3:16 Marketing Network. Authors in the network sent out Facebook and twitter posts promoting the books. In each case, other books by authors were being launched at the same time as mine. The launches ran from the 1st of the month through the 16th. I am including figures for the whole month on each launch because some of the promotions I ran did not occur until after the 16th.. With the August launch, I will include the September figures because they were significant.

There are a lot of variables in terms of which books are more successful than others, not even based on content or quality. I am assuming the books are good or else we wouldn’t be launching them. The books must meet certain criteria to be considered for a launch. Despite my experience and involvement in many launches, I realize now, painfully, that I can’t cookie cut a launch and tell an author, if you do A, B, and C, your launch will be successful. What works for one person may not work for someone else. In my case, all three launches yielded vastly different results. Let me give the figures, and then I will see if I can address some of the variables.

How many books did I sell with each book launch? I checked my KDP report from Amazon for the following figures.

In March, I launched a YA fantasy novel, Seventh Dimension – TheDoor.  

Free on Amazon Kindle


I sold 393 books for 99 cents in March. In April, one month after the launch, I sold 154 books. In May, I sold 104 books. In February, before my launch, I only sold 31 books. I did do some pre-launch promotions using KDP Select where I gave away several hundred Kindle copies of Seventh Dimension – The Door for free. Basically, as a result of my book launch, for 90 days following the launch I sold 651 books. Some of those books were priced at $2.99. I tend to raise the price after the launch to see if I can carry over the sales at a higher price point. Clearly, as a result of my book launch, I was able to sell more copies of Seventh Dimension – The Door than I had previously.  Before February, my sales had been dismal, so I won’t go back and give you those paltry figures.

My sales of Seventh Dimension – The Door, continued to be around a hundred each month, until December. For December, I have only sold 34 copies. Actually, sales of all my books are down for December.

Let me go to the second book I launched, Children of Dreams, AnAdoption Memoir


I had given away about 20,000 copies of this book on a couple of previous “free” promotions through KDP Select. But I had sold very few copies at $2.99. I had never listed it at 99 cents. So for the August launch, I reduced the price to 99 cents. In August, using the same promotions I had used before on Seventh Dimension – The Door, I sold 2,462 copies. In September I sold 1,694 copies, and in October I sold 856 copies.

There was one thing different about this launch, however. I was able to feature Children of Dreams on BookBub, but it wasn’t until after the official launch, so that meant the high number of copies I sold spilled over into October. The September 20th advertisement forced me to keep the book at 99 cents through September. To increase my chances of BookBub featuring my book, I reduced the price of Children of Dreams on Smashwords to 99 cents, and their distribution system reduced it to that same price on other sites as well. 

After BookBub featured Children of Dreams, however, when I raised the price back to $2.99 on Smashwords, the websites they distributed to wouldn’t, despite Smashwords and I both contacting the noncompliant sites. I ended up having to unpublish Children of Dreams from Smashwords to get the price back to $2.99 on all sites. Amazon wouldn’t increase the price, insisting they wanted to price match it to everyone else’s. 

The bottom line is I lost control of the price of my own book. I doubt that I will ever reduce the price of Children of Dreams to 99 cents again on Smashwords.  But I did sell about 1500 books through Smashwords as a result of the BookBub promotion. 

On Amazon, during that three-month period, I sold 3,012 books (again, I’m not including Amazon sales through Canada, England, et cetera).

For December, however, I haven’t even sold a hundred copies of Children of Dreams, so whatever spike I had in August from the book launch and BookBub promotion has run its course.

Now, this brings me to my third book launch for 2013. I launched a children’s picture book, The Donkey and the King. 

Free on Amazon Kindle

The launch ran from December 1 through December 16. A couple of my promotions ran after Thanksgiving, so I am including those numbers in the total. I am currently running a free promotion on this book that started the day after Christmas, so my official book launch numbers on this launch run from about November 26 through December 25. I sold 74 books at 99 cents.

I also spent more money on the December launch. With it being a children’s book at Christmastime, I thought I would probably sell more books and recoup my costs.  In reality, my December launch was a big disappointment compared to my previous two launches.

Where have I advertised on my book launches?  I will give all the places I advertised for The Donkey and the King because I paid for more advertising with this book than with the previous two books:

 http://tracker.kindlenationdaily.com/tracked-books (promotions at bookgorilla.com)

The Donkey and the King was featured on all the above sites. I submitted it to BookBub and ereadernewstoday.com and they declined to feature it. 

Now, a few comments are in order.  BookBub declined to feature my Seventh Dimension – The Door book also. They did feature Children of Dreams and that significantly impacted my total book sales.

If you can feature your book on BookBub I would recommend it.  While the fee was around $300, I made close to $2,000 in sales, so I covered my cost in advertising. The problem is BookBub is very selective about which books they will choose. If they accept your book, you are almost guaranteed to sell a lot of books. You aren’t just buying exposure, which is what I tell myself when I spend money for advertising that produces no measurable sales.

Ereadernewstoday.com declined to feature The Donkey and the King, though they did advertise Children of Dreams and Seventh Dimension – The Door. They take 25 percent of the profits, so I am sure they keep track of those books which sell well and those that don’t. They aren’t going to feature your book if they don’t think they can make money off your book. In each case, I did sell some copies as a result of advertising with them, but I don’t know what those numbers were. I only know I sold copies because they sent me a bill for their 25 percent fee afterwards.

Which sites out of the ones I listed above do I recommend besides BookBub?  The site I recommend as the best is http://www.fkbooksandtips.com/for-authors/. I have advertised on this site with six different books in six different genres at different times of the year and have always seen a significant spike in sales that I can directly correlate to their advertisement. Which other sites would I recommend?  Based on my most recent experience, none.

The fact is, since I lead a network of authors that promote book launches, right now I am reluctant to direct any launches for others or host my own launch. If I can’t come close to guaranteeing that an author will hit best-seller status in his main subcategory, then I can’t in all fairness recommend a book launch, must less charge for it.  And while the charge is not high, any amount seems unethical.

Now, that brings up one more variable. We have used the Rafflecopter for all the launches since April. Everyone would have a free opportunity to win the grand prize (by law this is required), and all a participant had to do was give me his email. That way, I could contact the person who won. I also used the Rafflecopter to build my opt-in list. For full disclosure (also legally required), I used the business model of Rafflecopter so that people knew they were opting in for my very infrequent e-zine. For each launch until December, I picked up about a hundred new subscribers. I also included a few options, like follow me on Facebook and Twitter, and garnered a few more fans.  But if you bought the books being launched, you would get ten chances to win whatever prize we were offering, which varied. One month it was a Kindle Fire. Another month it was a $100 Amazon gift certificate. 

For December, however, the Rafflecopter was handled differently. We had seven books launched and offered a $200 Amazon gift e-card. We used a mommy blogger service that featured our Rafflecopter prize on 25 mommy bloggers, all of whom had to have at least 2,000 followers. We did not feature buying the books on the Rafflecotper as an option. The options were for people to follower the mommy bloggers’ on Facebook, twitter, and their blogs, and in return, the mommy bloggers featured our books on their blog.

I know we had thousands of readers who saw our books on the mommy blogs. I had a few options I included for the network but I did not include any option as mandatory; e.g., that you had to sign up for my opt-in list.  My options were basically to follow the John 3:16 blog and my personal blog. And the coordinator for the mommy bloggers set up a link on Facebook so that prospective readers could follow us on Facebook.

The numbers were mindboggling on the social networking sites. Basically, we doubled our numbers on both blogs. I wished I had written down the exact figures before and after, but I didn’t think the result would be so dramatic. The followers on my blog at http://LorilynRoberts.blogspot.com were about 180 before the launch and they are now at 399.  On the John 3:16 blog at http://John316mn.blogspot.com, we have 500 followers. We had about 250 before the launch, and we picked up about 500 fans on Facebook. We also had more than 21,000 entries on the Rafflecopter, five times higher than the next highest number of entries on a previous launch.

I paid $100 for the coordinator’s fee. Based on the fans and followers we picked up, the cost was well worth it.  But how many books did we sell with all that exposure?  Well, I don’t know.  But my sales were dismal and only one author out of seven reached best-seller status. Her book was for young adults, and I can’t make the correlation that her success was tied to the mommy bloggers. I have a feeling her boost came from the promotion I sent out to my opt-in list on the last day when she reached best-seller status. My readership includes a lot of YA readers since I write in that genre also, but it’s hard to say. I am thankful that for all the work put into the launch by myself, Joseph Young—who handles the landing page—and the many authors in the network who contributed their time and effort into hosting and tweeting the December multi-author book launch, that one author reached her goal.

Who is the coordinator for the mommy bloggers that can work magic with social networking, even if all that tweeting and Facebooking doesn’t translate into book sales?  She is Bobby Anne. You can find her at www.BlogWithMom.com
and www.AdvertiseWithBloggers.com

I have asked myself many times, what can we do to make the launches more successful?  How can we guarantee success?  After all, that’s what the John 3:16 Marketing Network does, is we launch Christian books.

We already have a lot in place, with three years’ experience hosting book launches. An author has to have ten good reviews for starters. He has to have a good book cover and a well-edited book. I also make sure an author is ready to launch—does he have his book categorized properly on Amazon? Did she include relevant search words when she uploaded her Kindle book on Amazon? Is the Author Central page filled out with a bio, twitter feed, blog feed, and book trailer? Does the author even have a book trailer?  Hosting a launch is intense and requires a lot of preparation.

After my experience with the December book launch, I can’t guarantee even with a great book, advertising on professional websites, being hosted on many blogs by John 3:16 members, lowering the book price to 99 cents, having fifteen or more rave reviews, being featured on multiple blogs with large followers, and tweeting to thousands of twitter and Facebook users, that an author can sell enough books to cover his cost. And no businessman worth his reputation would recommend someone spend money on something with doubtful profits. Is it worth it?  The way the book market is now, I don’t think so. I know others will disagree with me, but I don’t come to this conclusion in a mindless vacuum. I have data to support it.

Today I can’t tell you how to have a successful book launch at a price most of us can afford. So I am not coordinating any launches until I do know. That means members in the John 3:16 Marketing Network can host their own launch if they are risk takers, try different approaches, and see what works for them.  I do recommend this:  You must individualize your launch.  I don’t think you can use a “one size fits all” style launch anymore.  I get emails in my inbox all the time, listen to how this author sold thousands of books and if you do what he did, you can, too, and you pay some exorbitant price to see how X author sold 10,000 copies of some obscure book of which I’ve never heard.

To be honest, sometimes I am tempted. Maybe they know something I don’t know. Hopefully I have become wiser—wise enough to know that whatever they did most likely won’t work for me, and there are no shortcuts or magic formulas to make my book fly off the shelf. If they sold so many books and made so much money, why do they want to charge for the information anyway? The reality is, I think the best way to sell a lot of books is to write a lot of books. And when I say a lot, I mean like twenty or more. And that means I need to write more and market less, and quit worrying about launching books. If I couldn’t achieve best-seller status on one of my books, how can I help anyone else anyway?

In the meantime, book marketing is changing every week. What works today may not work tomorrow. Advertising sites come and go. They are a dime a dozen now, it seems, and even if they aren’t expensive individually, you can spend a lot of nickels. I never set out to spend $800 on Facebook advertising. You get caught up in the moment, hoping that this time something magical will happen and those dollars will produce sales. While I can say I have never gone into debt advertising or selling books, I do regret some of my foolish choices and hope by being transparent and open, I can save you a few bucks by not repeating some of my mistakes.

My intent has never been to make money off marketing. I am not a marketing guru, but I do care about Christian authors. My goal with the John 3:16 Marketing Network has always been to provide an environment for authors to help each other—by being informed and sharing what works and what doesn’t. My advice right now is to save your marketing dollars and focus on writing.

I also don’t think it’s sufficient to be featured on a blog to promote your book. You need to be featured on a blog with followers interested in your type of book. And that takes research—a lot of research. If the blogger writes books, you might need to read one of his books before approaching him to host you on his blog. It has gotten that competitive.

If I sound too negative, I don’t mean to be. I am excited about the future as I have several books rattling around in my head that I can’t wait to write.  And once I am ready to market them, there will be new ideas to embrace and fresh paths to discover. And that makes marketing exciting and new all over again. As a person who gets easily bored with the status quo, I wouldn’t want it any other way.




My newest book Seventh Dimension - The City, A Young Adult Fantasy, Book 4 is currently featured on Amazon Scout - something knew I am trying for marketing. If you want to help me, you can click on "nominate" at bit.ly/LR_KindleScout. If Kindle Scout offers me a contract, you will receive a free Kindle book when "The City" is published. Also, you can read the first 5,000 words and tell me what you think - leave a comment here and even if I don't win a contract, I'll send you a free ebook when it's published.




To learn more about Lorilyn Roberts and her books, please visit her website at http://LorilynRoberts.com


Be sure to sign up for her email list for new book notifications and free and discounted offers. You can also receive a free ebook of her memoir Children of Dreams by joining her email list. Go to http://LorilynRoberts.com and click on the "sign-up now" button at the top of the screen.

Monday, August 4, 2014

Get On Board and Stay On Board, by Pearl Nsiah-Kumi




God loves us so much He has made a way for us to escape the consequences of sin, by believing in the name of His Son, Jesus.

Get on board for a spiritual walk to your salvation. 

My friend Pearl Nsiah-Kumi, a multi-published Christian author and retired nurse, and a member of the John 3:16 Marketing Network, has put together a compelling book for us, Get On Board and Stay On Board. 

It is a collection of poems, short articles and Bible studies based on Scripture, to encourage non-Christians to place their faith in Jesus, and also to support Christians to have a closer relationship with God.

Click Here Today to Get Your Copy for Only $0.99: http://www.pearlkumi.net

Right now, Pearl and friends (Lorilyn Roberts included), are offering FREE Bonus Gifts to strengthen your faith in God. You can receive all this additional support we’ve provided with your order of Pearl’s book.


Say YES to a relationship with Jesus, and allow Him to transform your life!

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Pearl Nsiah-Kumi is a retired Registered Nurse; she grew up in Ghana, West Africa. She has lived in the USA for forty years and has three adult children, one son-in-law and four beautiful grandchildren. Pearl has authored two books in the past two years and loves to express her understanding of the Bible through writing articles and poems. Her goal is two-fold: To reach people with the truth of God's word in inviting them to experience faith in Jesus Christ, and also to encourage Christians to mature in walking faithfully with their God through obedience to Him. In addition to writing, Pearl is also a Volunteer Counselor at a local Crisis Pregnancy Clinic.

Monday, October 28, 2013

All the Ways to Share in a Book Launch - Book Launch List by Janalyn Voigt




In 2013, one of our members, Janalyn Voigt, launched her fantasy book DawnSinger and compiled the following list of ways to share as part of her book launch. If you are an author or writer hoping to launch a book, you will find this compilation helpful. Janalyn gave me permission to share her list. Be sure to check out DawnSinger on Amazon. 

If you are not really online you can... 

Print some of the attached documents and share them with family and friends.
Print the poster to use as flyers and share them with a book club.
Print a poster and hang it up at work, or share flyers with co-workers.

If you want to share by E-mail you can...
Forward THIS e-mail to anyone you think might want to help promote this wonderful book. (Family and friends that know Janalyn would be great).
Forward one of the photos in the promo kit to people in your contact list who may be interested in this book. Tell them what you know of the book/author.
Forward a link to the book teaser: http://youtu.be/RVg0NYqOhkE
Forward a link to her NEW book trailer: http://youtu.be/ZsVFrhb5vCo
Foward a link to the book on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/DawnSinger
Forward a link to her website http://JanalynVoigt.com 
There will be giveaways on her site for the book launch. A chance to win a $20 starbucks card, a print copy of Dawnsinger, e-book copies and chances to win other fun things! (And sign up for them yourself too if you would like).

If you are on Facebook you can...
Like her author page at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJanalyn
Post one (or more) of the flyers attached in this email to facebook.
Share a link to the book teaser: http://youtu.be/RVg0NYqOhkE
Post a link to her **NEW** book trailer: http://youtu.be/ZsVFrhb5vCo
Post a link to her website http://JanalynVoigt.com And let everyone know there will be giveaways on her site for the book launch. (Chance to win a $20 starbucks card, a print copy of Dawnsinger, e-book copies and chances to win other fun things).
Go to goodreads.com, log in with your facebook account and add her books to 'books you want to read'

While at goodreads.com you can….
Become a fan of Janalyn on her Goodreads Author page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3439922.Janalyn_Voigt
Like DawnSinger's book video on Janalyn's Author Page.
Like DawnSinger's Listopia listing.
Recommend DawnSinger to your friends: 
  1. Click on the 'Recommend it' link in the upper right hand side column of the books description page.
  2. Select friends you would like to share the book with.

If you are on Pinterest...
Follow Janalyn Voigt: http://pinterest.com/janalynvoigt/
Pin her books: http://pinterest.com/janalynvoigt/books-by-janalyn-voigt/
Pin her youtube book teaser: http://youtu.be/RVg0NYqOhkE
Pin her new book trailer: http://youtu.be/ZsVFrhb5vCo
Comment on her book, teaser, and trailer pins (this creates more of a 'buzz' and makes easier to find in pinterest)

If you are on Amazon.com… 
(you will have to log in to do the following)
Go to Dawnsinger's description page: http://www.amazon.com/DawnSinger and on that page:
 - 'Like' the book 
 - Go down to the heading: Tags Customers Associate with This Product and then click the little boxes next to each tag and click 'agree with these tags'. (this is important for the book to be found correctly in Amazon's search).
 -Also from the books description page you can go to her author page on amazon.com. Make sure you're logged in, and then on the Author page at the top of the the right hand sidebar click the like button there. Also if you are inclined, you can start a discussion or ask the author a question on that page.
You can share her author page on Amazon by email-facebook-or twitter also.
If you intend to purchase DawnSinger from Amazon, please wait to do so until July 3rd. Purchasing on this day will help to gain visibility in Amazon's search rankings.

Comment on fantasy forum posts you find on DawnSinger's Amazon page. If appropriate and natural, feel free to mention DawnSinger. But do not openly promote.

Add DawnSinger to Listmania lists. Listmania is important because it adds DawnSinger to your amazon profile and to other lists on Amazon's site. If you are not familiar with listmania but would like to try this: click on 'your account' under your name in the upper right hand corner. A drop down menu will appear, click 'you account' again from that menu. Then scroll down to the 'Personalization' box at the bottom. Click 'Your Public Profile'. Once at your profile click 'more actions' next to 'edit your profile' in the upper right. From the drop down menu click add/remove favorite items. Then create a list mania list from there, including DawnSinger as the product.
Log into Shelfari.com with your amazon account and comment on Janalyn's profile page and add Dawnsinger to your to-read shelf.

If you are on Google+...
Post one of the flyers attached in this email.
Share a link to the book teaser: http://youtu.be/RVg0NYqOhkE
Post a link to her **NEW** book trailer: http://youtu.be/ZsVFrhb5vCo
Post a link to her website http://JanalynVoigt.com and let everyone know that there are giveaways there too: a chance to win a $20 starbucks card, a copy of Dawnsinger, e-book copies and other fun things are going to be given away. (And sign up for them yourself if you would like).  

If you are on Twitter...
Follow @janalynvoigt
Tweet about DawnSinger with hastag #dawnsinger
Share a link to the book teaser: http://youtu.be/RVg0NYqOhkE
Post a link to her **NEW** book trailer: http://youtu.be/ZsVFrhb5vCo
Join a twitter party for DawnSinger's launch on July 3@3pm central time (2pm Eastern, 4pm Mountain, 5pm Pacific) @HolidayHaven@JanalynVoigt@MelissaKNorris@KathrynCLang @KimVandel are joining the party. #DawnSinger is the hashtag.
Attached to this email is a list of suggested tweets for July 3rd only, to promote the twitter party.

If you have a blog or website...
Post a photo of the book, the you-tube trailers, and/or a link to http://JanalynVoigt.com on the sidebar of your blog.
Create a post or add to sidebar about the twitter party. Here is the code for a twitter party button: 

<br /><a border="0" href="http://www.janalynvoigt.com" target="_blank"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5dapDNVvWu6o0Fz3UIpU9RDhbC8DFlMlPmEkVikyicIG40WZC7_GS6cZo2q5DkKKZ1XCMynQ_yVqQmYuwJzWSjVvvfa_s3DdV2j6oQiyuxML1_K4e4o_Ev43VVKFpxQs17CZuvQbjg2zO/s1600/twitter+button+2.jpg" /></a><br />

Create a post about the book, interview Janalyn, post one of the interviews attached to this email. 

Share the Launch Celebration page with giveaways on your social sites on July 3rd. A html post for the Launch celebration titled 'For July 3rd, Dawnsinger Promotional Blog Post' has been attached to this e-mail and can be copied an pasted to create an easy post.

Blog about the giveaways and the novel on your own sites and provide a link to http://janalynvoigt.com

If you are on YouTube...
Watch and like her book teaser: http://youtu.be/RVg0NYqOhkE 
Watch and like her (New) book trailer:  http://youtu.be/ZsVFrhb5vCo
Comment on the teaser and trailer. Like similar comments. 
If you create youtube videos; share about her book in one of your videos.

If you go to http://janalynvoigt.com you can…
Sign up for giveaway drawings on landing page.
Follow on Networked Blogs, if you would like to follow her blog.

Once you read the book...

Go to goodreads.com, sign in with your facebook account and rate the book. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7913779-dawnsinger

Go to Amazon.com and leave reviews. And like similar reviews. http://www.amazon.com/DawnSinger-Janalyn-Voigt/dp/1611162009/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

Go to Shelfari.com, log in with your amazon account and rate Dawnsingerhttp://www.shelfari.com/books/29544802/DawnSinger
Go to Pelican books and vote for her book and post a review (you will need to make an account for this one). http://www.pelicanbookgroup.com/ec/dawnsinger

(You can copy and paste your review on each of these sites, no need to rewrite for each.)

Thanks again! Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
Janalyn Voigt


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In Janalyn's Own Words

It happened over time. My father instilled a love of literature in me at an early age when he read chapters from "The Wizard of Oz," "Robinson Crusoe" and other classics. When I grew older, and he stopped reading bedtime stories, I put myself to sleep with tales I "wrote" in my head. As a precocious reader, I soon graduated to the novels in my parent's bookcase. I'm sure those books contributed to my growth as a writer. My sixth-grade teacher noticed my storytelling ability. As a result of his encouragement, I identified my desire to write novels.

DawnSinger is my debut novel and the first offering in Tales of Faeraven. WayFarer (Tales of Faeraven 2) is in production and I'm working on book three in the series. Read an excerpt at http://buff.ly/XxNyUx Learn more about my books and about me at my website: http://janalynvoigt.com

I also write western romance novels, and will publish in that genre under Janalyn Irene Voigt. I am represented by Wordserve Literary. I serve as a judge for several national literary contests and am an Amazon top book reviewer. My memberships include ACFW and NCWA.

I live in a beautiful corner of the Pacific Northwest. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, gardening, and finding adventures in the great outdoors. I dream of owning a horse, exploring all the national parks, and visiting European castles.