• Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: Cartoon from Toonpool.com The following is an extract from a talk delivered at the Calgary Public Library in Feb. 2011. Part 2 The best time to begin building your readership is while you’re still writing the manuscript. The very first thing you need to do is…

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  • Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: Cartoon from Toonpool.com The following is an extract from a talk delivered at the Calgary Public Library in Feb. 2011. Part 1 Before I begin, please watch this video:  . I’ve named these two characters Wannabe Author (WA) and Real Author(RA). How many of you have…

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  •   Chris The Story Reading Ape…Whaaaat? When I first encountered Chris Graham, the man behind “The Story Reading Ape” I inquired as to what in the world was a story reading ape and how did he come up with that name?  He politely referred me to his about tsra page to explain the circumstances of…

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  • Excellent suggestions for the highly effective blogger from A Holistic Journey Blog by Holistic Wayfarer. Very interesting “About Me” page as well! A Holistic Journey 1.Think big. If I lived the way I’ve come to blog, I’d see some real progress in my life. On unsure terrain those early days, I started with posts that…

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  • My View of The Creek

    My View of The Creek

    We have a room  on the south side of the house we call, “The Sun Room”. During the day, there is plenty of sunlight filtering through the four picture windows,  I do most of my writing in this place. The thing I most like about writing here is that during those short periods that I…

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  • Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: INTRODUCING my NAUGHTY CHIMPS warming up to visit those authors who have not yet sent me their Guest Author or other articles for my blog  My thanks to author Ali Isaac for pointing me to their activities 🙂

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  • Originally posted on chrismcmullen: Background image from ShutterStock. ADVERTISE ON AMAZON There is a new opportunity available to advertise your book on Amazon. https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A2DJUTY13KIH2C How would you like to advertise your book directly on Amazon.com? That would be cool, huh? What if you could do this on a modest budget? Even better! Well, now you…

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  • Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog: Author Interview: The Wolf’s Moon by Patrick Jones, The Linden Chronicles: Book 1 I had a couple of hours in between the next hurried crowd of people that wanted a signed copy of “The Wolf’s Moon.” All I wanted was to rest my hand and have…

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  • . . Google+ is the only Social Media site where your posts, comments and likes are directly transferred to their search engines. That’s not the only via Great News from Google+ | Savvy Book Writers.

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  • A Day at The Library

                Years ago when my son was moving from kindergarten to the first grade there was a Summer Reading Program. The program covered all students in St. Louis, Missouri. If a student read five books over the summer, the reader received a certificate for an ice cream cone from the…

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