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August 2022 Book Blogger Round Up


Book Blogger Posts Round Up

A collection of blog posts by book bloggers


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Looking for new bookish content to read? Want to discover some new book bloggers to follow?  Look no further!

I introduced this new feature here on the blog in May 2021 to showcase blog posts by other book bloggers. I'll be linking up a variety of blog posts so hopefully there will be something to suit all tastes.

The following posts were submitted for inclusion in this round up via my Twitter, where I asked for posts. I'll be continuing to do this every month.

Why?

Because I like reading blog posts by other book bloggers and thought you might too. Finding the time to scan through various social media feeds to find suitable content can take up valuable time though and so I figured I'd make it easier and put together a collection here on the blog.

My plan is to include a wide variety of content so there's something for everyone. You'll find book reviews, interviews, discussion pieces and more...

Want to be included in future round ups? Follow my Twitter profile and keep an eye out for the submission tweet.


August 2022 Book Blogger Round Up


@TanazMasaba shared Top 10 Books Set In Places I’d Love to Visit and now I have wanderlust.


@BooksCozy reviewed The Noise by James Patterson & J.D. Barker.  "Fantastic read, I’d say, it might even be one that I may pick up once more and reread in the future, and that’s from someone who generally doesn’t reread books." Read the full review here. 


@Mehsi_Hime did The Summer Bucket List Book Tag. This fun tag had her picking books set by the water, books that left her starstruck, books that she couldn’t put down, and more...


@nsfordwriter asked the question Should fictional characters be ‘likeable’? and brought up some interesting points. 


@kalventure delved into the topic of How to Manage ARC Stress & live your best bookish life offering some great tips for reducing ARC-related stress.


@Greenreadsbook1 reviewed Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce. "This is a very slim book at 128 pages, but it packs a punch and fills the gaps and more." Read the full review here.


@TheBurgeBkshelf reviewed Lily Harford's Last Request by Joanna Buckley. "Lily Harford's Last Request is an emotional read. The highly emotive topic of euthanasia will open up some heated discussions." Read the full review here.


@BookMeSomeTime joined the blog tour for You Again by Dianna Roman and did a review. "I definitely recommend this book if you enjoy m/m, funny romance, strangers to friends to lovers, and if you’re looking for a fast paced romance." Read the full review here.


@alitescape reviewed Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang. "Although the events in this novel are far from beautiful, the story flows across the pages with tragic grace. It feels odd to say I enjoyed this book given its somber content. But I enjoyed it in the sense that I am in awe of Zhang’s lyrical arrangement of language to tell Daiyu’s story." Read the full review here. 


@WordsofMystery was fell ill in July which changed her plans for the summer but she still managed to read some good books and shared about them in her post what I read this summer. 


@paperbackpixie reviewed The Cruel Prince by Holly Black. "Fantasy novels and I barely get along because I feel like the market is very oversaturated with fantasy. After a while, I start to hate the repetition of the same plot recycled again and again. I didn’t experience this frustration with The Cruel Prince and it is the first fantasy book in a while that I have actually enjoyed – which I assure is no small feat." Read the full review here. 


@historyneverwas reviewed Daughter of Maat by Sandy Esene. "The use of Egyptian mythology and gods in this book is top notch, going far beyond the basic information most folks know about the Egyptian pantheon." Read the full review here. 


What bookish blog posts did you enjoy reading in August? Have a favourite book you read in August that you want to share?


In case you missed it, don't forget to check out the July Round Up for even more great bookish posts by different book bloggers. 


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Advice About Self Publishing



Self Publishing

Tips and Advice from Self Published Authors


Have you ever considered self publishing a book? 

When it comes to publishing a book there are several options available to authors but many prefer to go the self publishing route. 

Whilst self publishing does give the author a lot of freedom it's definitely not the easy route, especially if they want to be successful. 

Despite getting from offers from several smaller publishing houses I decided to self publish my own books (check out my books here). The same publishing houses were contacting me for advice about publishing and book marketing so it seemed silly to hand over such a large chunk of royalties to them when I knew what to do and how to do it myself. Why take 10% (one of the better offers) when I could get 70% doing it myself? 

Anyway I ended up with several international best sellers and even picked up some awards. It was a huge amount of work though. 

I still have several copies of first drafts of various novels saved away and a giant folder of ideas for more children's books and non fiction. Maybe one day I'll get round to working on them again and sending them out into the world...

My own choice to self publish was a fairly easy one as I was well prepared for the numerous stages involved. Be aware though that this route isn't for everyone.


Jo Linsdell quote about publishing



I decided to reach out to some fellow self published authors to get them to share some tips from their own experience.

Advice on Self Publishing by Self Published Authors



My name is Marsha Casper Cook and I’m an author, a Podcast Host at Blog Talk Radio for over twelve years, and a contributor to eYs International Magazine. I also was a WGA Agent for many years and my goal was and still is to keep a writer writing and for authors not to give up.

I’ve been an advocate for independently published authors for years. However, only if you take the time to do it right.

First and most importantly the story has to be good. Take time to write the story you want to tell and don’t cut corners to save time. Take as much time as you need and promise yourself you will not rush through your writing. Some authors are faster than others in getting out their stories but this is your story no one else’s.

Find a good editor and make sure your editor understands the project you’re working on.

Pick out a great cover and it can even be a beautiful photo if you’re on a budget. Graphics do matter so make sure you have some help. There are many companies out there to help but make sure you know someone that has either used them or it’s a recommendation from someone you trust.

When the project is finished it should be your project, not the editors.

Find some help with marketing because if you don’t get your book out to the public no one will you’re your book. If you’re on a budget there are many companies that are affordable.

Always check out your sources before you do anything. Don’t go into debt because you think you’ll make a lot of money once the book is finished because that might not happen.

At the end of the day be happy with your work and then start on your next project. Dreams can become realities.


Find out more about Marsha Casper Cook here:

Romance Author, Childrens' Author and Podcast Host | Marsha Casper Cook
Marsha's Kids Books (marshaskidsbooks.com)
@Marshacaspercook.com | Linktree
eYs Magazine Summer 2021 by eYs Magazine - Issuu
Michigan Avenue Media Podcast on Apple Podcasts


Jo Linsdell quote about publishing and book marketing


It started with a map. My first book, that is. Or rather it started with a board game which required a map. More than thirty years ago I designed a strategy board game set in an imaginary world and pitched it to Games Workshop. They didn’t buy the game but they liked the map I made for it and commissioned work from me on the strength of it. The original painted and illustrated map hung on my wall for three decades and during that time the continent and the four nations it contained gradually swam into shape within my mind. Each had a different history and culture, each had myths and legends, a whole world of stories that gradually evolved as the years passed. At last, one of these stories demanded to be written. This became ‘That Which The Deep Heart Knows’. Is this gradual growth what it’s like for you? I can’t imagine that anyone sits down with a blank document and sets out to write a story from scratch. There was an urgency about the situation. The story developed quite quickly in my mind, and because I am not a great one for writing extensive notes, I felt the need to write it out before the details of it faded. If you’re like me, your mind is at its most creative on the verges of sleep, either upon retiring at night or in that lovely period when we wander gently from the halls of morpheus.

The name I write under is a nom-de-plume. My present book falls within the ‘fantasy’ category, but I also write in another genre and prefer to keep my two writing identities separate. The only difficulty here is that authors are generally advised to share aspects of their lives with their readership, in order to encourage engagement, whether through social media or through a website. If you are writing under your own name, I certainly advise you to adopt this policy, as creating a relationship with your readers should be considered an important aim.

Unfortunately, as we know to our cost, writing the book is only the beginning of a long and tedious process by which the work is cast into a form suitable for presentation to the reading public. This is a process traditionally published authors are necessarily obliged to go through but which many self-published authors are prone to neglecting. Accordingly, the qualitative range of self-published work ranges from superb to deplorable, depending on the proof-reading talents and editing skills of the author. Nothing jars more with the reader than typos, spelling errors or basic grammatical errors. For this reason, some readers may be suspicious of self-published authors unless they have a proven track record. Conscious of my own frailties in this respect, I paid to have my book professionally proof read. Even if you engage others to share the burden with you, proof reading your own work, tedious though it is, is an essential part of maintaining professional standards. There are various approaches to this. I find that I have to read the book backwards, one page at a time in order to be able to concentrate on the text and not to lose focus by being carried away by the story.

Once you have a story that you are convinced is free from errors, your next stage is to persuade others of its merits. Cover, blurb and reviews are your means of doing this, unless you have the means to engage a publicist or pay for other forms of advertising. A blurb costs nothing but is of inestimable value. I cannot stress highly enough how important this brief document is in securing the interest of the potential reader. It must contain sufficient detail to engage the reader, whilst not giving away too much of the plot.

Your cover design is the vital shop window for your book, drawing in customers and communicating to them the nature of your wares. It should convey a good sense of the genre and style of your work as well as offering hints as to the content of the story itself. It may be that you need to pay for the services of a designer for this purpose. If you do, you will have spent your money well. A dull cover may easily doom the most brilliant of stories to remain undiscovered. An exciting and dynamic cover allows you to compete with most creative and brilliant writers out there in the vital business of attracting the interest of the potential reader.

I am fortunate in this respect, having spent a career in graphic design. I hope that my book cover serves its purpose well and helps to set out my stall as a writer. Now to get some readers and reviews, the next great challenge!

 

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“Sometimes the only thing you need to change in order to be successful is your attitude.”




Always remember why you are doing it? It can be a lonely journey. I found it useful to write the preface early on to remind yourself of your vision and why you are doing this. As a writer this should come easily to you, but it may guide your marketing later on and give you clarity. For me, I had one of those epiphanies that I wanted to turn my grandfather’s World War II adventure into a graphic novel. I wanted his story re-told and also had a real passion for graphic novels. This vision sustained me.

You need to be an effective manager, not just an author. You are the boss, which can be daunting. There are many key decisions along the journey. The most important are who you hire to help. Given that you will have a limited budget, this requires careful consideration. There will be lots of choices. It requires skills beyond being an author; you need to be an effective manager so that you spend your time and money wisely. I found an illustrator, Brian Bicknell, early on, who was going to help me achieve my vision. We worked together to turn my grandfather’s WW2 memoir into a graphic novel. I was instrumental in doing the research in locating suitable images online to help him illustrate each page. I mocked up each page, and he was clear on what I wanted. This enabled Brian to deliver incredible illustrations. He was able to evoke the atmosphere of 1940s New York and the whole genre.


An editor and a graphic designer is a must. Rachel McDowell, my editor, was able to help me both strategically with the overall story as well as the minutiae of the grammar and choosing a consistent style guide (Chicago). I found a graphic designer, BK Suru, that was able to choose the most suitable font, cover and layout, using his years of experience. Despite all this, you still have to make all the key decisions, so you need to be decisive and pragmatic.


Have pauses in your timeline. The reality with self-publishing one will be over budget and over time. I manage IT projects for a living and always try to avoid late changes and rework. In creating a book, the quality of the end product has to be as good as you can make it and that will always lead to some late but important ideas which impact time and cost. To mitigate this, this builds in natural pauses during the process. Have a break after the 1st and 2nd draft. It gives time to allow your ideas to breathe so it isn’t a rush at the end.


Talk about your book with friends. Your virtual team also needs to include some members of your social circle. They will offer you encouragement along the way which is much needed - as it is lonely. These people will be some of your biggest supporters when it launches. They may also introduce you to people that you would never normally have met. I met a number of self-published and published authors; a number of those had written WWII memoirs for their fathers and grandfathers. These conversations provided me with useful guidance and inspiration.


You are part of the Industry - Now that you are a self-publisher, you are no longer just reading books for pleasure. You are constantly on the lookout for everything that surrounds the book industry, including industry trends, social media, book reviews to front covers, and use of fonts. It can be obsessive. This becomes even more important when you enter the most important marketing phase. After investing all that time, effort and money - you want the readership to be as wide as possible. One needs to be realistic but also ambitious. I am only 4 months in and so will probably write about this at another point.


Enjoy the success - Finally, after investing all this effort. Enjoy the success, each sale and positive review brings an energy back to the project. Remember beyond the closest group of friends, no one buys a book unless they want to buy it. It is such a personal item - a book! So I feel proud. You are now part of an exclusive club. From now on, every time you read or buy a book, or read a review - you will have a different perspective.


Jonathan Sandler, is an IT Project Manager by trade. In 2020, as a graphic novel and World War II enthusiast - he came up with the idea of turning his grandfather's unique World War II Story into a Graphic Novel. In 2022, The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir was published.


Find out more about books by Jonathan Sandler here:


graphicmemoir.co.uk

Amazon US

Amazon UK



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Book Review Millionaire Habits by Ray Cress


My thoughts about Millionaire Habits by Ray Cress


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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09ZKVXQQS 
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 4, 2022 
Print length ‏ : ‎ 58 pages 
Genre: non fiction, financial, Wealth Management, money

The book synopsis for Millionaire Habits by Ray Cress


Book cover Millionaire Habits by Ray Cress

Have you ever heard the adage "You must imagine wealthy to be rich"?

This is another way of expressing that the affluent all think the same way. This is particularly true when it comes to their financial management. Learn to think like the wealthy!

A large proportion of millionaires made their money by working hard for it. Only a small percentage of the wealthy inherited it. What does this demonstrate? It demonstrates that the bulk of the affluent has to figure it out and stick to their goal to achieve them.
You can make your dreams come true! Knowing that billionaires have a mentality suggests that you can live that way and eventually become a millionaire. After all, a billionaire is just a regular person who has followed the rules of financial success. You can make it to the top if you can stay with it.

Here's A Sneak Peek At What You'll Discover...
  • Who Among Us Is a Millionaire?
  • How Does One Develop A Millionaire Mindset?
  • What Are the Habits of a Millionaire?
  • Slowly Getting Rich
  • Always Seek Good Advice. Why Do You Want To Be A Millionaire?
  • Some Words of Wisdom And Essentially Everything You Need To Know To Begin Improving Your Mindset Today

And Much More!...


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Discussing Millionaire Habits by Ray Cress



Quotes from Millionaire Habits by Ray Cress


There comes a point when it doesn't matter what you do as long as you act and start going.

...by removing what you don't want from your life, you make a place for what you do want.

Almost everything you do and achieve is a result of habit.

The problem is that you come into this world with the most powerful mind, surrounded by the endless potential for success, accomplishment, and joy, but no instruction manual.

Having multiple sources of income allows you to weather life's inevitable economic downturns.



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Book Review The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill



My thoughts about The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill


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Disclosure: I got sent a free copy of this book by the publisher via Net Galley.



The book synopsis for The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill book cover

In every person's story, there is something to hide...

The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.

Award-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with The Woman in the Library, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all.
 


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Quotes from The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill



To paraphrase Spider-Man: With a great readership comes great responsibility.

As for your enquiries about how my own book is coming: Well, I spent Friday at the library. I wrote a thousand words and deleted fifteen hundred. Regardless, the Boston Public Library is a nice spot in which to be stood up by the muse.

And so we go to the Map Room to found a friendship, and I have my first coffee with a killer.

It feels a little indecent to write so well in the wake of tragedy. But I do. The story of strangers bonded by a scream.

“But we were going to compare notes on our books today,” Marigold protests. I meet Cain’s eye. Were we? “You and Whit aren’t writing books,” he reminds her. “You’ve inspired us to start,” she says smiling.

“So, this is Isaac’s story?” I ask, tentatively, because I’m not sure he wants to talk about it. I know he’s writing about it, but that’s different. Words are put down in solitude; there is a strange privacy to those disclosures. Time to get used to the revelation before readers are necessarily taken into your confidence.

When I’m an old lady, one shoulder will probably be lower than the other after a lifetime of lugging laptops like they are some portable life-support system—which perhaps they are.

"...Murderer isn’t a job description, Freddie. It tends to be something you do on the side.”

“Have you…Have you always written romance?” “Yes, and what’s more, so have you. The mystery writers, the historical novelists, the political thriller writers, the science fiction writers...everybody but the people who write instruction manuals, is writing romance. We dress our stories up with murders, and discussions about morality and society, but really we just care about relationships.”

“Words have meaning. I suppose who the author is, what he’s done might change that meaning.” “Isn’t meaning more to do with the reader?” “No...a story is about leading a reader to meaning. The revelation is theirs, but we show them the way. I suppose the morality of the writer influences whether you can trust what they are showing you.”

“I was released over seven years ago,” he reminds me. “Jail wasn’t the only influence on my life.” “Even so, it doesn’t seem to have marked you at all. I went to yoga for a few months five years ago and I’m still traumatised...”

I’m sure it must happen. After all, how are you to know you like killing people until you have taken a life and in doing so discovered the incomparable thrill of holding existence in your hands and snuffing it out? I’m projecting, of course.

“Not necessarily. I just mean that you can’t judge guilt or innocence by whether a person is likeable or not. Sociopaths are often charming, they know how to make you love them. But they don’t operate by the same rules—they don’t feel remorse or guilt, they know how to manipulate people and situations.”




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Book Review Double Indemnity by James M Cain


My thoughts about Double Indemnity by James M Cain


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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0043M66ZE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orion; Read a Great Movie edition (September 9, 2010)
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 122 pages

The book synopsis for Double Indemnity by James M Cain


Double Indemnity by James M Cain book cover

A true crime masterpiece, and highly acclaimed 1940s movie

'DOUBLE INDEMNITY is among the finest of all American novels, regardless of genre or style' LA TIMES

'Cain is the master' Tom Wolfe

DOUBLE INDEMNITY is the classic tale of an evil woman motivated by greed who corrupts a weak man motivated by lust.

Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance. It'll be the perfect murder . . .


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Discussing Double Indemnity by James M Cain



Quotes from Double Indemnity by James M Cain


But all of a sudden she looked at me, and I felt a chill creep straight up my back and into the roots of my hair. ‘Do you handle accident insurance?’

She didn’t have on the blue pajamas this time. She had on a white sailor suit, with a blouse that pulled tight over her hips, and white shoes and stockings. I wasn’t the only one that knew about that shape. She knew about it herself, plenty.

I lit a fire and sat there, trying to figure out where I was at. I knew where I was at, of course. I was standing right on the deep end, looking over the edge, and I kept telling myself to get out of there, and get quick, and never come back. But that was what I kept telling myself. What I was doing was peeping over that edge, and all the time I was trying to pull away from it, there was something in me that kept edging a little closer, trying to get a better look.

‘Phyllis, you seem to think that because I can call it on you, you’re not going to do it. You are going to do it, and I’m going to help you.’

But there’s something in me, I don’t know what. Maybe I’m crazy. But there’s something in me that loves Death. I think of myself as Death, sometimes.

Get this, Phyllis. There’s three essential elements to a successful murder.’ ‘The first is, help. One person can’t get away with it, that is unless they’re going to admit it and plead the unwritten law or something. It takes more than one. The second is, the time, the place, the way, all known in advance –to us, but not to him. The third is, audacity. That’s the one that all amateur murderers forget. They know the first two, sometimes. But that third, only a professional knows.

They pay double indemnity for railroad accidents. That’s just where we cash in.

‘Say, this is a beauty, if I do say it myself. I didn’t spend all this time in this business for nothing, did I? Listen, he knows all about this policy, and yet he don’t know a thing about it. He applies for it, in writing, and yet he don’t apply for it. He pays me for it with his own check, and yet he don’t pay me. He has an accident happen to him and yet he don’t have an accident happen to him. He gets on the train, and yet he don’t get on it.’

I know all their tricks, I lie awake nights thinking up tricks, so I’ll be ready for them when they come at me. And then one night I think up a trick, and get to thinking I could crook the wheel myself if I could only put a plant out there to put down my bet. That’s all. When I met Phyllis I met my plant. If that seems funny to you, that I would kill a man just to pick up a stack of chips, it might not seem so funny if you were back of that wheel, instead of out front.

 

That’s all it takes, one drop of fear, to curdle love into hate.

‘I told you, I have nothing to go on. Nothing but those tables and my own hunch, instinct, and experience. It’s a slick job, but it’s no accident, and it’s no suicide.’

He was all wrong on how it was done, but he was so near right it made my lips turn numb just to listen to him.

I hung up. I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake. That night I did something I hadn’t done in years. I prayed.

I don’t know when I decided to kill Phyllis. It seemed to me that ever since that night, somewhere in the back of my head I had known I would have to kill her, for what she knew about me, and because the world isn’t big enough for two people once they’ve got something like that on each other.

Maybe I haven’t explained it right, yet, how I felt about this girl Lola. It wasn’t anything like what I had felt for Phyllis. That was some kind of unhealthy excitement that came over me just at the sight of her. This wasn’t anything like that. It was just a sweet peace that came over me as soon as I was with her.



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