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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-49075263684829324392016-12-19T14:09:00.000+11:002016-12-19T14:09:43.663+11:00<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I began blogging almost ten years ago, beginning with <i>Telstra BigBlog</i> in 2007 and moving to <i>Blogger</i> on 11 February 2009. During my time on <i>Blogger </i>have made around 500 posts, mainly about writing and the process of writing, as well as examples of poetry in various forms. I have participated in several blog challenges and posted my progress in NaNoWriMo for the three years 2013 to 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the life of this blog I have written and published nine books and posted the progress of these along the way. I have gained followers and lost others, welcomed positive comments </span><span style="font-size: large;">and those that offered constructive criticism</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and suggestion, while moving abusive spam to the trash bin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year I slowed my blogging activity to focus more on my writing projects, with no posts made at all since October 2015. This lack of activity tells me it is time to retire this blog, leaving it active only to offer information about my current books and new releases. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This does not mean I am retiring from blogging though, as I have exciting plans for a new direction in 2017. Stay tuned for more news on this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blogging, as writing, is mostly a solitary pastime, so I am thankful to all of my followers and those who stopped by to visit and/or comment for their encouragement and company. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have enjoyed the experience immensely.</span></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-78507120054856150232015-10-18T14:27:00.001+11:002016-07-17T12:01:41.367+10:00Day 35 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The Day 35 prompt asks
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Although I wish I could
say that I’ll keep up the momentum, I can’t say I will, as writing daily posts
takes away from the time I need to write and complete other projects. As I
mentioned in an earlier post, there’s not much point building and maintaining a
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Last year I began a
novella, <i>The Caretaker’s Cottage</i>, writing
50.517 words over thirty days. My intention this year was to complete this
work, however, after letting it rest for almost a year, I’m finding much I don’t
like about it – just about everything from the storyline to the characters.
Therein lies the dilemma of whether to scrap it entirely, edit like mad over
the remaining days of this month, or simply begin another project or fast track
one that’s been in the wings.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-82512228545632314452015-10-17T10:18:00.002+11:002015-10-17T10:18:21.446+11:00Day 34 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
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part of participating in the Author Blog Challenge? What are your suggestions
for improving the next Author Blog Challenge?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">From a purely selfish
point of view, the best thing about participating in the challenge has been the
commitment to writing a post in response to the given topic each day as this
takes me from the, at times, rut of solitary writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I also like the traffic
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">It would seem rude to
make any suggestions for change, as the challenge is a voluntary endeavour by
Laura and I appreciate the time and effort that must go into administration,
but one small change I’d like to see is a challenge where all participants
write to the given topic because, to me, this is the real challenge.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-4208747574844094362015-10-16T10:00:00.002+11:002015-10-16T10:00:38.563+11:00Day 33 Author Blog Challenge<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I’ve been researching
my next novel, with a working title of <i>Paranoia
Unleashed</i>, for some time. The formal research only begun in March this year
but the informal, the knowledge that grows from the fallen seed, has been in progress
for the past six years or so. I posted some of my research findings early in
2015 with the intention of posting progress reports along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In <i>Paranoia Unleashed</i>,
the protagonist has a Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD). This is the
anguish-filled normality of his life that impels him to seek retribution for
slights against him, real or imagined, going to inordinate lengths to create
‘evidence’ to substantiate his claims of persecution. This, in turn becomes
part of the ‘grooming kit’ he uses to isolate and control others in order to
validate the beliefs formed by his paranoia. It is his reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">A significant part of
this novel centres on a smear campaign conducted against family members over a
period of years and the ever-widening impact this has resulting in irreparable damage.
The end, when it comes, will be catastrophic for some and liberating for
others, it will indeed be the final chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-49084250082555545202015-10-15T11:26:00.001+11:002015-10-15T11:26:29.248+11:00Day 32 Author Blog Challenge<div class="WordSection1">
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shout-outs. This may mimic your acknowledgement page, but whom would you like
to publicly thank for their help in creating your book or completing it to the
point where it is presently?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">My
husband Michael and I have only been married for twelve years, yet we have
known each other for a lifetime, meeting in the 1950s, before losing each other
to our individual destinies. Our lives apart were fulfilled through marriage to
other partners and the raising of families and the pursuit of personal
endeavours. Coming together after a separation of almost forty years, and at
time when the pace of life had slowed, allowed the space to talk about our
lives. It was as we explored our recent and distant histories that Michael
expressed regret for his lack of knowledge concerning his father’s lineage and
the loss of his family name. He also expressed disappointment that his own
children and grandchildren’s knowledge of his life was limited to their
familial relationship with him and that, with the passing of time, their
paternal heritage it would be lost forever.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">As a writer with an interest in history, particularly the
bare truth in history, I decided to research write the story of his paternal
family, to fill the gaps and clear up misconceptions where possible. The story
grew much larger, taking longer to research and collate the information than
originally planned, yet some people had vanished without a trace. In 2014, with
the availability of online genealogical sites and the digitising of newspapers
and other records, I decided to search again for those who had proven elusive with
the first writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Although this has been a more solitary effort, none of it
would have been possible without the assistance and sharing of information at
the beginning of this project in 2005. Without this foundation of knowledge, I
would have had nothing to build upon and I continue my gratitude to my husband,
Michael, for his persistence in researching and pursuing early documents and
following up family contacts throughout the state, to my sister-in-law, Anne
Macleod, for her assistance and support for the project and my brother in law,
David Pugh, for his understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">the
late <i>Jean Martin</i> and her daughter, <i>Lyn Gleeson</i>, for their generosity in sharing
information and resources<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Murray
Stagg</i>, for his kindness in sharing anecdotal family history, and for the time
he freely gave to take us on a tour to the locations where the colonial Stagg
family resided<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Helen
Britton</i>, <i>Margaret Niaura</i> and <i>Joan Donaghue</i>, for their willingness to share and
their kind hearts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">staff
at <i>Carr Villa Cemetery office</i> who persevered with Michael in his quest to find
his grandmother’s grave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">the
gentleman at <i>C T Finney’s</i>, who searched old records and aided our understanding
of the process of that era<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">staff
from the records department staff of the <i>Launceston General Hospital</i> for their
willingness to assist in the location of patient records from almost a century
ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 16pt;"><i>Tim
Vaatstra</i>, manager, Adoptions & Permanency Service, Department of Health and
Human Services, Tasmania for his assistance in accessing records pertaining to
Mervyn Lindsay Stagg and Reginald Risk<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">What is the single best
piece of advice you’ve ever received about the publishing process and/or what
advice would you offer to a first-time author?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The best advice I’ve
received is never to proofread your own work. This advice is something I haven’t
always followed, always to my regret, finding silly typos or other errors only
after the final printing. Even with short stories, which look perfectly fine
even after the umpteenth reading, only show their flaws after submission, when
they dance and scream and hoot and holler off the page; the haunting of the
self-proof reader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">This is advice I give
in turn, not only to first time authors, but to anyone serous about getting the
best possible version of their work published. This advice goes hand in hand
with never copy edit your own work, unless you have qualifications and
experience in this area, as there are a multitude of pitfalls for the
unsuspecting beyond syntax and grammar. Issues around copyright, plagiarism, libel
and defamation etc. are all lurking between the pages of the unsuspecting. It
may be something as simple as referencing the title of a well-known song
without permission of the copyright holder, or using a quote without permission
or attribution of the source. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">When I suggest having
work proofread, this doesn’t always mean shelling out big dollars. If you
belong to a good writing group whose members have current knowledge of spelling
and punctuation, and who have a good understanding of the difference between
proofreading and copy editing, then recruiting these as final proof readers (as
a reciprocal arrangement) can be a good start. Also use anyone you know who is
a prolific reader as their reader eye will pick up an error in no time. It literally
jumps off the page at them, halting the reading.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Money saved on
proofreading can be spent on a good copy or structural editor who will work
with you to ensure the book is true to your intent and gives you the best
chance of having an agent or publisher read the submission, or if an Indie
publisher, to ensure a quality product. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-75182089388552332972015-10-14T15:41:00.000+11:002015-10-14T15:41:28.792+11:00Day 31 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">With no prompt for day
31 of the challenge it’s a good time for me to reflect on my posts so far,
11,000 plus words, mostly reflective of my own experiences, good, bad and ugly.
I think about what these words may have translated into had I not participated in
the challenge; more chapters to a novel, more time spent in revision or researching
minute details that I’ll probably never use, as I tend to do when engrossed in
the minutiae of the lives of others, or more time wasted on social media. One thing’s
for sure, the time would have been spent in some writing related activity, for
that’s what I do – every day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Without the challenge I
may not have made any blog posts during this period, given my habit of
neglecting it for weeks (or months) on end, while I pursue other interests, so
I’m grateful for the opportunity that pushes me into writing fresh posts. More than
anything I’m grateful to the readers who’ve stopped in had a read and those who’ve
taken this a step further and left an encouraging or humorous comment, although
I’m aware some have been unable to leave a comment, as am I, although I’ve yet
to find out what the glitch is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Visitors to my blog
come from all over the globe and average about 70 per day. Not a lot by some
standards but even one visitor is a privilege and I hope all find something of
interest.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Who stars in the movie
of your book? If a Hollywood agent were to come knocking on your door with an
offer to turn your book into a movie and told you that you could call all the
shots, who would you have direct and star in it? Write the first paragraph of a
glowing Rotten Tomatoes review of your film.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I’m a bit out of touch
with the who’s who of Hollywood or even the Australian film industry and it
goes without saying the actor who stars in my book must be Australian, for authenticity
of the accent if nothing else. We’ve seen it butchered by the best and not so
best in the field, and this detracts from both the story line and the acting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If a movie was to be
made about my novel, <i>Seth</i>, I’d have to suggest <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4154798/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm">Brenton
Thwaites</a> for the title role. He looks the part and I believe he has the
ability to slip into the role that, for the most part, relies on acting without
speech – a big ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Choosing a director
would be more difficult and again, I’d have to go for an Aussie who understood
the uniqueness of this country and its people, and the idiosyncrasies of small
towns that have passed their use by date, maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Noyce">Phillip Noyce</a> or <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/debut-film-director-russell-crowe-keeps-his-cool-over-the-water-diviner-20141215-122ebn.html">Russell
Crowe</a>. Russell’s experience as an Oscar award winning actor and the success
of his directing debut movie, <i>The Water
Diviner</i>, makes him eminently suitable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Brendon Thwaites stars
in this drama that accurately captures the essence of small town Australia, and
his performance as the selective mute, Seth, is nothing short of brilliant. The
opening scenes shed light on the dramatic circumstances of his birth, in a
dusty paddock in the middle of the hay season, and hints at the misfortune that
dogs him throughout his growing years. The backstory of his childhood is shown
in a series of vignettes before his step-father’s death brings a change of
fortune that marks the beginning of a chain of tragic events that enshrouds the
town in grief and suspicion. This is where the action really begins…</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-18921518903378319972015-10-12T13:09:00.000+11:002015-10-12T13:09:30.670+11:00Day 29 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Who would be the
perfect person/company to partner with to sell your book? It might be another
author, a performer, a shop owner, a seminar facilitator, a teacher, etc.
Pretty much, the answer to this question is limited only by your imagination.
How will you reach out to that person/company? What’s the hook for your pitch?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I’m responding to this
question as an indie publisher and keeping this at a realistic rather than an
imaginative level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The perfect person to
partner with to sell my book would be any other author who understands the
passion that drives the writing, who understands the amount of time and effort
that goes into creating every sentence, paragraph, page and chapter, who shares
the drive to market the finished product and appreciates the commitment
required. Even better if this person has an outgoing personality (to make up
for my own deficits in this area). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I once participated in
a ‘meet the author’ event where there were three of us peddling our wares, each
with a different skill set that complimented the other. The most extroverted,
with suitably loud voice and a presence that could fill a room, had he not made
way for us of quieter speech, drew the attention of the crowd in our direction,
then it was up to each to engage with individuals or groups as the situation
presented. We were able to work collaboratively to promote and sell each other’s
books as well as our own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Having a book selling
partner means you can also, well almost, be in two places at the one time, acting
as selling agent and promoter for each other’s work. Whether it’s having a
presence at a book fair or doing media interviews, there’s always an
opportunity to ghost for another writer while still promoting your own work. It’s
all in finding the right person, the one who thinks outside the square of their
own writer existence, the one who knows how to share the joy of someone else’s
success.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">These people can be
found within your own writing network, those who have shared the writing and
publication experience with you in one way or another and in whom there is a mutual
trust and respect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Should I have to pitch
to this person I would begin by pitching the relationship and the benefits of
this in selling books, moving on the how the differences in our work could be
complimentary in a selling and marketing environment using the power of dual
promotion.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-39726935081833095462015-10-11T14:44:00.000+11:002015-10-11T14:44:04.018+11:00Day 28 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">How are you using
social media to promote your book? What aspect of social media would you like
to learn more about? What are your next steps?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Once again I’m slightly
off topic with today’s response, but this is something that's been on my mind
for a while – <i>anti</i>social media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">These days I find I’m
becoming less fond of social media, seeing it more and more as <i>anti</i>social media. It’s fine if you play
it safe, using it to promote books, providing they don’t have controversial
content or studied or well-researched fact. However, dare to have an opinion,
no matter how politely and clearly stated, and the experts of the social media
descend with great speed from a height of lofty judgement telling you not only what
you should think but how to express this to suit their specific agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">On a recent post where
I’d made a considered comment, in the space of a couple of hours I was branded
as <i>wrong, stupid, a wet blanket, having crazy ideas, must be fun at parties</i>
(with heavy sarcasm), <i>dumb, misguided, horribly negative</i> and <i>one-sided</i>. It
seems that in some quarters opinions are the right of a select few unless you
concur with them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Before the emergence of
Facebook and other social networking sites, bloggers were often the recipient
of this abuse, for that is what it is. These days, blogs are pretty much left
alone and why not, when the keyboard warriors can read the first few words of a
Facebook comment, God forbid they should read it properly and in its entirety, and
unleash their expert opinion about you as a person of non-merit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Is it to avoid writing
or stating opinion or avoid social media altogether?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Or is it a case of that
authenticity is too human for the netherworld of social media and must be replaced
with fauxthenticity? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">For me, authenticity is
about transparency, reality, truth and genuineness. In promoting my books and opinion
pieces it's the validity of what I stand for so I suspect that’s where I’ll
stay, copping a verbal gang bashing from time to time, slinking away to lick my
wounds, then following my convictions back to the platform of my belief.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-62978533945206471752015-10-10T11:13:00.004+11:002015-10-10T11:13:56.213+11:00Day 27 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">What are the three most
important things you are doing to grow your platform?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The three most
important things I do to grow and maintain my author platform would be my
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Merlene-Fawdry-258877674131384/timeline/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page, <a href="https://twitter.com/merlenepoet" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and my <a href="http://merlenefawdry.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">blog</a>, with all three linked to each other. I could do much better in all areas, but
there’s a fine line between the amount of time spent on maintaining the
platform and that spent writing new material. There's no point spending time on building a platform if this is static, with no new books or material or items of interest to attract existing and new readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">When first building my
author platform I looked at most social media sites, tried a few,
then cut back to what was manageable (and comprehensible) for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The following list comes courtesy o</span>f <a href="http://www.ebizmba.com/" style="background-color: #1d2946; border: 0px; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: Segoe, 'Segoe UI', 'DejaVu Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; height: 64px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 258px;">eBizMBA.com | The eBusiness Guide</a><br />
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Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites as derived from our <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eBizMBA Rank</em> which is a continually updated average of each website's <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alexa</em> Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Compete</em> and <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quantcast</em>.<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"*#*"</em> Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data.</div>
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" border="0" data-pin-nopin="true" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/facebook.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 | Facebook</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">900,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/facebook.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/facebook.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.twitter.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/twitter.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2 | Twitter</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">310,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/twitter.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="LinkedIn" border="0" data-pin-nopin="true" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/linkedin.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 | LinkedIn</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">255,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/linkedin.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/linkedin.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/linkedin.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Pinterest" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/pinterest.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 | Pinterest</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">250,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/pinterest.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/pinterest.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pinterest.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">26</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://plus.google.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Google+" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/googleplus.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5 | Google Plus+</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">120,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/plus.google.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*32*</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/plus.google.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*28*</a>- Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/plus.google.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NA</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tumblr.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Tumblr" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/tumblr.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 | Tumblr</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">34 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">110,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tumblr.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">55</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/tumblr.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*13*</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tumblr.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">34</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.instagram.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Instagram" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/instagram.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7 | Instagram</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">77 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">100,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/instagram.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">49</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/instagram.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">145</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/instagram.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">36</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vk.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="VKontakte" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/vk.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8 | VK</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">97 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">80,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/vk.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*150*</a> - Compete Rank |<a href="http://quantcast.com/vk.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*120*</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/vk.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Flickr" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/flickr.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9 | Flickr</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">123 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">65,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/flickr.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">138</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/flickr.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">139</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flickr.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">91</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.vine.co/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Vine" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/vine.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10 | Vine</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">581 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">42,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/vine.co" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">237</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/vine.co" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">335</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/vine.co/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1,172</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.meetup.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Meetup" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/meetup.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11 | Meetup</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">596 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">40,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/meetup.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">791</a> - Compete Rank | <a href="http://quantcast.com/meetup.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">701</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meetup.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">296</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tagged.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Tagged" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/tagged.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12 | Tagged</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">702 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">38,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tagged.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1,082</a> - Compete Rank |<a href="http://quantcast.com/tagged.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">615</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tagged.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">408</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ask.fm/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Ask fm" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/askfm.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">13 | Ask.fm</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">779 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">37,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ask.fm" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2,046</a> - Compete Rank |<a href="http://quantcast.com/ask.fm" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">113</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ask.fm" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">179</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.meetme.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Meet Me" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/meetme.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14 | MeetMe</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1,457 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15,500,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/meetme.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1,407</a> - Compete Rank |<a href="http://quantcast.com/meetme.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">635</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/meetme.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2,328</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.classmates.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="Classmates" border="0" height="70" src="http://ebizmba.ebizmbainc.netdna-cdn.com/images/logos/classmates.gif" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="120" /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15 | ClassMates</strong></a><br /><span class="link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1,487 - eBizMBA Rank | <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', 'DejaVu Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15,000,000</strong> - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | <a href="http://siteanalytics.compete.com/classmates.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">153</a> - Compete Rank |<a href="http://quantcast.com/classmates.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*285*</a> - Quantcast Rank | <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/classmates.com" style="border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4,022</a> - Alexa Rank | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Last Updated</em> October 1, 2015.<br />The Most Popular Social Networking Sites | eBizMBA</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I still maintain <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/merlene-fawdry/9/308/177" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3064667.Merlene_Fawdry" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/merlenefawdry/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/101577678747209684085/posts" target="_blank">Google+</a> accounts although I'm less active on these with my highest rate of activity taking place in the lead up to publishing a new book and the initial promotion stage.</span></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-24259796261930255112015-10-09T12:35:00.003+11:002015-10-09T12:35:32.379+11:00Day 26 Author Blog Challenge<div style="direction: ltr; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;">
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would be the ideal NON-bookstore venue for selling your book? Why? What is your
plan to reach out to such a venue to ask about having them carry your
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The ideal non-bookstore
venue for selling my books would vary from book to book. Family history books I've written would do well at Visitor Information Centres and local Historical Societies because of the local history content on people and place they contain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Great-Western-Tiers-Visitor-Centre-621381897978976/timeline/?ref=hl%2F" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><img height="203" src="http://greatwesterntiers.net.au/sites/default/files/IMG_20150818_105558_0.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The best way to reach
such markets would be through a letter of introduction with a book promotion flyer
or one sheet included. If a larger market was anticipated it could be
beneficial to send a free copy of the book for display and ordering purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Book fairs are also
another useful outlet, sort of like a pop up café for books, where you pay for
the site and sell your books direct to attendees – many of whom are local writers
and poets who don’t always have a lot of money to spend on other people’s
books. I know when I attend any book fair I decide ahead of time how many books
I’ll purchase and how much I’ll spend on these. Otherwise I fall into the ‘buying
from the heart’ trap, where I buy a book from someone who hasn’t made many, or
any, sales just to encourage them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whatever the venue or
genre of book, designing a flier is always part of my marketing plan <o:p></o:p><span style="line-height: 115%;">and
I send these out with a cover letter to any person or organisation I think it
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-14972633960805862662015-10-08T14:17:00.001+11:002015-10-08T14:17:35.093+11:00Day 25 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If your goal is to sell
books, you must view your book as a business. In what ways do you treat your
book as a business? Where could you improve? What resources could you leverage
to improve your book business?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">It may seem odd that,
while books are my business and treated as such, my primary goal is always to
write books, or whatever I’m working on at the moment, selling them is a
secondary goal. The reason for this is I sometimes write for a very limited
audience, as in writing a family history, where the market may come down to a
few hundred at the most. This is my choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">To generate a paying market,
while staying within my preferred nonfiction area, I’ve written to a specific
market with a ‘how to’ book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Plastic-Ribbon-Lampshades/dp/1506113680/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">How
to Make Plastic Ribbon Lampshades</a></i>, which I sell through Amazon, Kindle and
occasionally on eBay. I don’t do anything to market this book as the subject matter
draws potential buyers as this is the only publication of its kind. I sell this
book at the $19.99 RRP while many sellers offer it from between $30 - $50. This
saves me from having to do any sales work with this book as buyers most often
seek out the cheapest on offer – and that’s me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">With <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Poetry-Terminology/dp/1514269856/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">The
Little Book of Poetry Terminology</a></i> $15.95 RRP, and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Book-Writerly-Words/dp/1511904801/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">The
Little Book of Writerly Words</a></i>, $19.95 RRP, the story is pretty much the
same, where those looking for books of this nature will find them without too
much trouble and a quick comparison of process will bring them my way. Both of
these books sell for double that through other outlets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><o:p> </o:p><img alt="The Little Book of Poetry Terminology" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51pWXCuo4ML._UY250_.jpg" /><img alt="The Little Book of Writerly Words" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51-M-BITedL._UY250_.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">All my books are advertised
through my blog, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/merlenefawdry/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/merlene.fawdry" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and other opportunities as they arise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">There’s much I could do
to improve my business, but I’m content to coast along, writing to my own
deadlines and receiving cheques from Amazon as they come in. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-5285765059580565512015-10-07T16:13:00.002+11:002015-10-07T16:13:19.623+11:00Day 24 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Describe
your first book signing – real or imagined.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">My first book signing
was an event I looked forward to and dreaded at the same time. I was eager to
speak to people about my book, to invite them to spend a moment or two with me between
the pages. I looked forward to the questions they’d ask, knowing these
questions might show me what if anything hadn’t been fully explained and if I’d
achieved what I’d set out to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">My apprehension came
from my innate shyness plus the fact this book had been an autobiography, raw
in its honesty about my early life, and I thought some readers might judge the
person ahead of the work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I needn’t have worried.
It was a pleasant event, beginning with an introduction by poet/writer Jacqueline
Lonsdale Cuerton that segued into me reading selected passages from my book
before opening the room to questions. I enjoyed this part of the event the
most, always comfortable when I am confident of the subject matter. Book sales
were another enjoyment, with people lining up to purchase a signed copy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">And then it happened, when a woman of similar age and of vague familiarity reached the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">‘You don’t remember me
do you?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I had to admit to not
recalling her name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">‘Carol,’ she said with
pride, ‘We were in the same class at high school.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">A few more prompts and I
was right back in the discomfort of those years. I smiled and made a polite response,
smiling and hoping for some nice recollection from her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">‘I wasn’t allowed to
play with you at school.’ She boasted, as if this was some sort of achievement,
her voice loud enough to still the chatter in the room and turn attention to
her. ‘My mother said you were a widgie. She said I wasn’t to mix with you or
your sister.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">For the non-Aussies
reading this post, a widgie was the female counterpart of a bodgie, a word used
in the 1950s to describe a young Australian male, distinguished by his conformity
to certain fashion of dress and loutish or rowdy behaviour. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> ‘Well, you would have been in good company,
then.’ I smile at her crassness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">She continued as if I
hadn’t spoken, ‘But you’ve both done well for yourselves, considering.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">And also considering,
or perhaps, in spite of her inappropriate comments, I did enjoy the afternoon. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-80961520675508601332015-10-06T16:38:00.000+11:002015-10-06T16:38:16.156+11:00Day 23 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If you could meet one of your
main characters or ideal reader anywhere in the world for coffee, drinks,
dinner, or a caramel (tipping my hat to Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting), who
would it be, where would you meet them, and why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">This is the first day of the
challenge when I’m responding off-topic to some degree. I’m not short of imagination, not usually,
but I can’t quite get my head around what or whom to choose, a character or a
reader. And if a reader, then who this might be?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">It could be I’m a bit weary.
Challenges can be like that, when trying to write to the prompt in a timely
fashion. Sometimes I find it works to break the task into sections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">A character or an ideal reader? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Or perhaps just a reader, or a
reader who likes to write reviews?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The kind of reader who reads the
Kindle preview of your book and based on that small sampling writes a
scathing review of the whole of the work and posts this on Goodreads and other
sites because they can’t post on Amazon when they haven’t actually purchased
the item. The kind of reader who has yet to write a book or short story or
perhaps write anything at all beyond attacking those who have put the long
hours, days, weeks, months and years to learn the craft and write their way
up the ladder to publication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Yes, this is the reader I’d like
to meet, but not for drinks or dinner or even a coffee, for these are things I
do with those who understand what it is I do and the effort involved, and this
includes people who give honest, but sometimes less than complimentary reviews.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I’d like to meet this person and
introduce myself and gift them with a signed copy of the book they’ve never
read yet denigrated so publicly and give them a bag of sweets to eat during the reading, to sweeten the
experience and to counteract some of the burden of bitterness they obviously carry.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-25219093771020454032015-10-05T13:32:00.001+11:002015-10-05T13:33:20.739+11:00Day 22 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If you could ask anyone in the
world to write a blurb for your book, who would it be? Why that person/people?
How did/will you go about reaching them? Yes – really!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">For this post I’ll reference my
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">If I
could ask anyone to write a blurb for this book and attach their name to this
it would be Tim Winton, Australian writer of novels, nonfiction, short stories
and books for children that include:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>An Open Swimmer</i> (1982)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Shallows</i> (1984)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>That Eye, The Sky</i> (1986)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>In the Winter Dark</i> (1988)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Cloudstreet</i> (1991)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>The Riders</i> (1994)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Blueback</i> (1998)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Dirt Music</i> (2001)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Breath</i> (2008)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Lockie Leonard</i> (1990-1997)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>Eyrie</i> (2013)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1981 Australian Vogel National
Literary Award <i>An Open Swimmer</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1984 Miles Franklin Award, <i>Shallows</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1985 Western Australian Council
Literary Award, <i>Scission</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1990 Western Australian Premier's
Book Award for Children's Fiction, <i>Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1991 Miles Franklin Award,
<i>Cloudstreet</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1991 NBC Banjo Award for Fiction,
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1991 West Australian Fiction
Award, <i>Cloudstreet</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1992 Deo Gloria Award,
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1993 American Library Association
Best Book for Young Adults Award, <i>Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1993 Wilderness Society
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1995 Booker Prize for Fiction
(shortlist) <i>The Riders</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize
(South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book), <i>The Riders</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1998 Bolinda Audio Book Awards,<i>
Blueback</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1998 Family Award for Children's
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1998 Wilderness Society
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">1999 WAYRBA Hoffman Award for
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Association Book of the Year Award, <i>Dirt Music</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2002 Miles Franklin Award, <i>Dirt
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2002 New South Wales Premier's
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2002 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2004 Colin Roderick Award, 2004 –
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2005 Inaugural Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Award – shortlisted, <i>The Turning</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize,
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">These are the reasons why I’d ask
him to write the blurb from a commercial and marketing point of view and, from
a personal perspective because I admire Tim Winton as a writer, drawing inspiration
from landscape and place the people who inhabit those places, and because I
respect him as the individual I perceive him to be through his involvement in
the Australian environmental movement. He’s a patron of the Australian Marine
Conservation Society and involved in many of their campaigns in raising
awareness about sustainable seafood consumption. He’s a patron of the Stop the
Toad Foundation and a prominent advocate of the Save Moreton Bay organisation,
the Environment Defender’s Office, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and the
Marine Conservation Society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">How would I go about reaching
him? That’s a tough one. I could try to contact him through his agent or by
posting a comment on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/timwintonauthor">Facebook</a>
page, although this one appears to have been set up by Penguin books to
publicise his work and activities. I could just turn up at one of his events
and wait for an opportunity, but probably not as I’d be too shy to push myself
forward. If all else failed I could send him a letter addressed to Tim Winton,
Western Australia. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-66746716062356490582015-10-04T10:18:00.000+11:002015-10-04T10:18:38.601+11:00Day 21 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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– to the tiniest detail (e.g., childless divorced women past age 50 who want to
remarry). Why that demographic? Describe their psychographics. How do you
connect with them to market to them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I wrote <i>The Scent of my Mother’s
Kiss</i> to raise awareness of post adoption issues and child welfare practice of
the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century, and to counterbalance the academic and
professional sanitised versions of welfare and adoption practice from a participant
point of view to ensure an accurate record of events remains, as a reference
for future social planners, reformers and legislators as they re-invent the
wheel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Similar books in print at
the time of publication were, <i>A child
called it</i> by Dave Pelzer, Orion Books, and others in this series, and <i>Kathy’s Story – inside the hell of Ireland’s
notorious Magdalen Sister’s laundries</i> by Kathy O’Beirne, Harper Collins.
Related Australian publications would be <i>The
Long Way Home - story of a homes kid</i> by Kate Shayler, Random House, and <i>In Moral Danger</i> by Barbara Biggs, Sly
Ink Productions, <i>A Child Called It</i> has
sold in excess of 1.6 million copies, worldwide, <i>In Moral Danger</i> has sold 150,000 copies in Australia and, while I
do not have the figures for <i>Kathy’s Story,</i>
I’m aware that the high demand for this publication resulted in it being sold
out very quickly in most retail outlets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><i>The Scent of my Mother’s Kiss</i> (first published as <i>The Little Mongrel - free to a <strike>good</strike> home</i>) focuses on the transformation of the
main character throughout her different residential and institutional
placements, and the strategies she employs to survive in an increasingly
hostile world. It is not a story of a victim, nor is it presented in victim
mode, it is a factual recounting of events that provide insight into the, until
recently, hidden aspects of the history of children’s welfare in Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">This book has broad general
readership appeal and is of particular interest to social historians, and is an
ideal text for any person involved with the care and welfare of children and
young people, social work practitioners, policy makers, program developers,
researchers and teachers. These interest groups broaden the potential markets
for this book to include educational booksellers, university bookstores, and
welfare agency retail outlets. </span><span style="font-size: large;">In this respect I wrote to politicians past and present, heads of departments and policy makers, social work departments and welfare agencies, sending a synopsis of the book </span><span style="font-size: large;">as well as marketing via internet booksellers
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: cyan;">I also connect with readers by speaking
to groups, courses for writers and a range of services, including ‘<i>Write to Heal’</i> workshops, introducing
life writing as a tool for self-expression leading to healing, and ‘<i>Urban Writing – Write About the Place’</i>,
where the focus is on streets, suburbs or towns, and the place of the
individual within these, with encouragement to look beyond the square to take
pride in their environment and achievements as an inspiration for others. I also
speak with groups about the unique issues affecting children and young people
in out-of-home care, aimed at increasing understanding from those employed in
this area in both a professional and voluntary capacity. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-5550675146128249272015-10-03T17:52:00.002+10:002015-10-03T17:52:40.064+10:00Day 20 Author Blog Post<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Did you publish your book as a
traditionally printed book, an eBook, an audiobook, or all three? How did you
come to your decision? Which company(ies) did you use for printing, formatting,
recording, editing, and distribution? How did you select them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I published my first book as a soft
cover print copy and released it in eBook form a couple of years later. The
first edition was published by Fixwrite and printed by Bookpal, in the start-up
days of the company, when they were eager enough for business to offer
affordable priced. Almost ten years
later the company has grown exponentially, as have their prices and the
services they offer, and I wouldn’t consider using them again for this reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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electronically to enable broader and affordable access to the information contained
in the contents, particularly the history of 20<sup>th</sup> century welfare in
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Because I'm a day behind with the challenge, today's post comes direct from <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker" target="_blank">Grammarly</a> celebrating World Teacher's Day, because for most of us, that's where the reading first began.</span></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-74860990471831991642015-10-01T09:09:00.000+10:002015-10-01T09:09:26.269+10:00Day 18 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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captured the meaning, spirit, message, energy, and or substance of your book,
what would it be? How can you use that song or piece of music to market your
book or enhance your readers’ experience with your book?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">This writing prompt doesn’t take
a lot of thinking about, which is probably just as well in the middle of school
holidays with two small visitors spending a few days with us. In 2008 I was
invited to take part in a writer's event, reading from my book, The Little Mongrel
– free to a good home. A local duo, The Songbirds, were part of the presentation
and they asked me to nominate a song that best defined the story, which they’d
use to introduce my appearance. I thought about this and kept coming back to a
song that had been significant to me during my time in an institution. It was
an austere place, where music from the radio was played through speakers in the
ceiling at the discretion of staff. A place stripped of all comfort, including
seats, and I spent my days sitting on the floor, back against the wall, willing
my childhood to pass quickly so I could begin the process of living. It was
against this backdrop I first heard Frankie Valli and The Four Season singing, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzpXuRCBgsM">Big girls Don't Cry</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #fff2cc;">Relax the body and soul at an afternoon of literature, wine and music at
Sharman's Winery. Buy a glass of Sharman's award-winning wine to sip as you
listen to local authors Dr Frank Madill, Loretta McCarthy and Merlene
Fawdry read from their latest books. The music will be provided by Songbirds
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procrastination, the biggest surprise for me in writing any book is in actually
finishing each project, the moment it’s in formatted book form, really
finished, the moment I’m not grabbing it back for just one more edit, one more
inclusion, the moment I know I can tick it off the list and get on with the
next project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opening the carton and releasing the heady aroma of printed copies, like
holding a well-earned diploma after years of study and dancing to the applause
in my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">DAY 16 PROMPT: What has been the
most challenging part of your book process: writing, building the book,
printing, distributing, marketing, etc.? What do you wish you’d known before
you began?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In my experience, the most
challenging part of writing a book is in staying with the project when life
matters intervene. Once I have an idea, the writing is easy, but it's even easier to become distracted by new ideas and opportunities, by the hyperactive muse
that whispers and tempts away from the page of intention.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">As far as the physicalities of book
production, I like to think I learnt my lessons early. Having set myself up for
retirement to offer home publishing for other writers with small run
publications, I thought I had it all worked out, paying top dollar (and why
not, I was still in paid employment at that time) for the equipment I needed. The
intention had been to produce chapbooks and spiral bound publications in a
range of sizes to enable aspiring writers and poets to get their work into
print. Easy, or so I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an anthology for a writing group, a poetry collection or two, a couple of short
story collections, even a substantial family history. My publisher copies still
sit neatly on my bookshelf, but they have a naïve appearance next to their perfect
bound companions. Still, they reflect that part of the journey and have earnt
their place. Fortunately, poetry chapbooks still have a certain appeal and may
be seen as almost a rite of passage for a poet to have produced at least one
chapbook in their poetry lifetime, so this part of the home publishing business
prevails. Spiral binding is best left for business reports or education papers,
as if does not showcase literary work to its best advantage, leaving it with the
amateurish appearance of trying too hard too soon. These days, my very expensive
binding machine sits idle most of the time, cranking up only to bind assembled
reports or assignments for students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">With my first book, I developed a
marketing and distribution plan that took almost as many hours as the writing
of the book itself. While I can be the strongest advocate for other people, self-promotion
doesn’t come easily to me but writing about myself in the third person helped,
almost as if I was an observer looking on. <a href="http://merlenefawdry.blogspot.com.au/p/the-little-mongrel-free-to-good-home_10.html" target="_blank">TheLittle Mongrel – free to a good home</a> (now republished as <a href="http://merlenefawdry.blogspot.com.au/p/the-scent-of-my-mothers-kiss.html" target="_blank">The Scent of my Mother’s Kiss</a>) was one of
the first books written about the people who became known as the <a href="http://forgottenaustralianshistory.gov.au/" target="_blank">Forgotten Australians</a>,
so my mailing list was lengthy and included politicians of every persuasion,
heads of government departments and welfare agencies, university libraries and
so on. My biggest regret was that I didn’t take up an offer from the then
Premier of Tasmania, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bartlett">David
Bartlett</a> to launch the book, however, as my departure from the state
coincided with the release of the book, I didn’t follow up on this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wish I’d known when starting out, because I think personal experience is the
best teacher and the knowledge gained in this way is likely to last longer. It’s also a
living learning, in keeping with the rapid change in technology and the
publishing industry in general, where every day brings change.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Merlene Fawdryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318707687125028987noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-559638382023188504.post-56497344043106848532015-09-28T11:35:00.003+10:002015-09-28T11:35:52.975+10:00Day 15 Author Blog Challenge<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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choosing and designing your book cover. Who created your cover? How did you
find him/her? What do you love about your cover? What might you do differently
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title. If a synopsis is the summation of your book, then the title should be
the precis of this summation. I aim for a title that will get the attention of
the reader and be easy to remember, one that conveys your message and fits the
design. I prefer to use a sub title in nonfiction books, a descriptive line
that compliments title. I wouldn’t use a subtitle in a novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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author bio, which can change from publication to publication, depending on the
content of the book, keeping this to around three sentences. In <i>The Scent of my Mother's Kiss</i>, I omitted this entirely in favour of adding a brief opinion piece. If the book is nonfiction
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more personality based for a work of fiction. I reversed this arrangement for <i>The Hidden Risks </i>(see below) although I'm not sure why I did this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">With my nonfiction books I use my
own images and design and I’m mostly pleased with the result. My husband, Michael Pugh, is an artist
and I have used his paintings on the froint covers of </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Risks-story-concealment-family/dp/150246201X/ref=sr_1_10_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443402053&sr=1-10&keywords=merlene+fawdry" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><i>The Hidden Risks</i></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Villains-Valour-history-Holmyard-Tasmania/dp/1501063804/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443402053&sr=1-1&keywords=merlene+fawdry" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><i>Villains and Valour</i></a><span style="font-size: large;">,
something I'd do again if the opportunity arose as I admire his art and like the unique touch this gives to the work.</span></span></div>
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Who edited/will edit your book? What was your relationship with your editor
like? What could each of you have done to improve the process? What might you
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Although I’m not averse to
seeking opinion on areas I carry doubts about, this is usually done while the
work is in progress and I don’t use an editor as I trust my skills in this
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I have diplomas in Professional Writing and Editing and Editing and Proofreading. As an editor, my work is mainly in the area of structural and copy editing and I encourage and retain
an open line of communication with the writer using a collaborative approach,
offering alternatives with explanation, where necessary and/or appropriate,
rather than standing firm on a point of opinion. I also see my role as having a
mentor/encouragement/support component that comes from a base of respect for
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">As a proofreader of my own work I pretty much stink at it. What I most need is another proof
reader to pick up those annoying typos or punctuation errors that seem to glide
past my eye when proofing my own work. Unfortunately I don’t spot these until
the work is in print and then they jump straight off the page at me and I
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you participated in a critique group? If so, how did it work out for you? If
not, why have you avoided joining one to this point? Is your critique group
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your participation? How do you think a critique group could help you improve
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of a writing community where interests are shared, skills developed and
creativity nurtured, finding this beneficial to my growth as a writer. Writers’ groups also provide a support network to develop and advance
writing, and can be a vital resource when people begin to submit their work to
competitions and publishers. The fellowship of like-minded people, who freely
share their skills, knowledge and experience, through genuine critique, can strengthen self-confidence
as a writer, depending on their expectation of the group and their understanding of
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Writers’ critique groups are not
for everyone. There are those who feel they have reached their capacity for
learning, who may not trust the opinions or motives of others, or who do not
understand the objective nature of the critiquing process. Preciousness exists
within us all and the writers’ ego can be the greatest obstacle we face in our
quest for positive recognition in our chosen field. This may manifest as an
emotional attachment to a particular piece of writing, resulting in the
inability to give or receive objective reflection or feedback, or from an
unwillingness to accept that a piece of writing may be less than perfect from
the point of view of others in the group. Others perceive themselves to be
victims, validating this with inappropriate remarks and pained expressions when
their work is being critiqued, although they have no qualms about giving candid
comment on the work of others in the group. We all experience brief episodes of
preciousness at one time or another; it is only when this becomes chronic that it
has the capacity to infect the group with different strains of the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Giving and receiving feedback is
a skill developed over time, through active participation and practice. In
addition to constructive critique and positive comments, it is useful to offer
comments about general reactions, first impressions, opinion about changes to
drafts, agreement and disagreement with feedback from others and your reasons
for this. This kind of feedback is useful because it gives the writer a sense
of how the text has been received.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">Additional to helping the writer
identify weaker areas in a piece of writing, positive comment is equally
important as it offers encouragement and builds confidence by showing the writer what worked and does not need
revision, while helping others to identify and model good examples. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In my experience most (but not all) critique groups have a limited life, lasting longer where a stable membership has allowed relationships and trust to be formed and maintained over a period of time. Often it's the change to group dynamics that throws it out of kilter, when the established rules of critique have been misunderstood or misinterpreted by new members. When I find a group loses its purpose, I leave, not in high (or even low) dudgeon, but in the understanding I have nothing further to offer the group. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">The most useful thing I get out of critiquing the work of others is how it opens my eyes to the flows in my own work, I become more self-analytical. In receiving critique, I like the process of viewing my work through other eyes and the suggestions (never directions) for potential change.</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the moment I'm involved with a closed online poetry critiquing group of small membership. I like this. I also have a poetry writing partner where we </span><span style="font-size: large;">write to a prompt and m</span><span style="font-size: large;">eet to workshop our work. I find this process stimulating and a tool to maintaining consistency in creativity.</span></span></div>
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