Celebrating Independent Authors
Indies Unlimited has run several posts on marketing strategies for authors on Goodreads, such as this one for beginners, but the more recently-added “Ask the Author” feature presents even more opportunities for authors.
To find it, visit your Goodreads Author Dashboard. Scroll down past your books to the Ask the Author section. Continue reading “Using the “Ask the Author” Feature on Goodreads”
Shadow Days
by Melinda Clayton
Genre: Southern Fiction, General Fiction
210 pages
On the anniversary of her husband’s death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.
Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who’d been lost to mental illness, she vows to drive to the end of the road, which, she’s surprised to find, is just outside the tiny mining town of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia.
As Emily struggles to redefine and rediscover herself, the good folks of Cedar Hollow are more than happy to help.
Shadow Days, the Southern fiction book by Melinda Clayton, is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.
Exclusive excerpt from Shadow Days by Melinda Clayton
Mr. Pish loves print books: fiction, non-fiction, bird books, plant books, big books, little books, red books, blue books, even Mr. Pish books – you name it. So let’s celebrate his love for paperback books with some great reads at bargain prices. Mr. Pish would want it that way. That’s right, it’s time for the Indies Unlimited Print Book Party.
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The cops knew Fat Louie was fencing diamonds, but they could never figure out how he was moving the merchandise.
One day, this dame walks into the joint. She’s dressed to the nines and has this little pooch with her. She definitely looked out of place in a dive like this.
I noticed little poochie was particularly interested in one of the sandwiches.
I know it sounds crazy, but with the way this dame dressed, I figured maybe this little mutt knew what diamonds smell like…
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