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Hats Off Corner Welcomes Melissa Maygrove

September 7, 2015 By C. Lee McKenzie

Hats Off Corner Welcomes Melissa Maygrove

AVAILABLE AT AMAZON

Precious Atonement, a companion novel to the highly rated western historical romance Come Back is now available!

Ruined women don’t hope, killers don’t dream, and the dead don’t feel pain.

Ruined by a brutal attack, Rachel Emerson is resigned to live as a spinster. Grieving widower Jacob Evans convinces Rachel to marry him, but giving his precious new wife the life she deserves might cost him the very thing he values most—her.

AVAILABLE NOW ON Kindle and Nook

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I screwed up this month on my calendar, and posted another author in Melissa’s place last Monday. I’ve apologized, but I still feel like a goose. I hate messing up, and it happens when I’ve got my plate overloaded. I’m scaling back a bit more and hoping I can keep things straight.
Quote for the Week: 

So there you have it. Melissa’s new book. My screw up and a quote that fit me perfectly. Ever had life pile up around your head? Every screw up? 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: hat's of corner, Melissa Maygrove, New Books

Celebrating the Release of COME BACK by Melissa Maygrove

May 16, 2014 By C. Lee McKenzie

MELISSA MAYGROVE
Available May 12, 2014 from Truelove Press
Cover design by Carrie Butler,
Forward Authority Design Services

Sometimes a single choice alters the course of a person’s life forever.



Left behind by everyone she loves…
Rebecca Garvey had the promise of a California future dreams are made of, until the wagon train her family was traveling with left her behind. Now she’s slowly dying in the wilderness, abandoned and stripped of her self-worth. Once the shock of her desertion turns to embittered despair, she doesn’t want to be found. Then a handsome stranger challenges her convictions and changes her mind. 
Does COME BACK sound just a little delicious? 
I see you nodding, so you’re only a click away from starting to read it.
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Thanks VIKLIT

Now to help with this Friday’s Celebration, here’s something more from Melissa. She’s very generously shared her plan for marketing her book. Take it away, Melissa!

“C. Lee asked me to tell you how I organized my book’s cover reveal and release tours and delivered the info to my blogging friends. Below is my list of tips…

First, you have to have blogging friends. You get them by building a writer’s blog and visiting other writers’ blogs on a regular basis. It seems simple, but you’d be surprised how many writers don’t bother building a social media platform or don’t know how.

By the time I published my debut, I had been blogging for over 2 years and had nearly 2000 followers on Twitter.

Next, a few months before release day, you have to come up with a plan. 

Here are some things to keep in mind:

  • Timing matters. Ex: Your book cover has to be finished before you can reveal it. Plan your tours (your whole publishing schedule, for that matter) accordingly.  I made a document with weekly tasks for myself and struck them through when they were done.
  • Writers have different blogging schedules. If you give them a choice of dates, they’ll be more likely to help you. You also need to take the state of the blogosphere into consideration. (I had to do my cover reveal early to miss AtoZ.)
  • Same thing goes for content. I do my promo ‘buffet style.’ I send lots of options (short post, long post, big cover image, small 3D render, sample tweets, sample Facebook posts, etc.) and let my helpers choose what they want.
  • Sending out one mass email with images and details is easier than sending 30, 40, 50 individual ones. Create some kind of sign-up form and kill a flock of birds with one stone. 
  • BUT get permission from bloggers before contacting them with promo. If you don’t, it’s spam. (All I did to get folks to sign up was post a link to a Google form along with a humble request. Then I BCCd their addresses in the emails to protect their privacy.)
  • Create a press page on your blog or website (if you’re to the publishing stage, you should really have a website) so promoters can find all your author stuff in one place. For official bio, links, and head shot, you can simply send them there.
  • Prepare guest posts and excerpts ahead of time so, when people request them, you can quickly pull them from a file and attach. Be sure to make note of word count (I include that in the document’s title). Doing both will save you a TON of time.
  • Compile a list of bloggers who are posting for you (by date) and mention / link them on your blog. Show your gratitude! Posting promo for them in return is fair play, too. 

If you’re organized and if you make it easy for your writer buddies, they’ll be much more likely to help. :)”

Thanks so much, Melissa. Did her step by step plan help you? Do you have other suggestions to add? Hope you’ll support her release.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cover, Melissa Maygrove, New Books

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