SOMEONE LIKE THEM on Whizbuzz

 I tried something new on the P.R. front with my latest novel, Someone Like Them.  I advertised my book on a platform called Whizzbuzz Books.  I heard about it from a fellow writer giving a talk at a seminar.  I looked it up, I liked what I saw and purchased an ad. It wasn't expensive, and my book cover  and the Amazon link to the book will stay on Whizbuzz for a year.  Not a bad deal, particularly since the Someone Like Them  cover and the purchase link will be posted on the following Whizzbuzz platforms:

           Facebook

            Pinterest

            Linked In

            Flipboard

            Tumblr

            Wordpress

            Goodreads

            and the Whizzbuzz BUZZ page

In addition tweets about Someone Like Them will appear on seven different Twitter accounts, according to Whizbuzz the ad should reach more than 600,000 pairs of  eyes.  That remains to be seen, but I do know that marketing is everything when you have a product, no matter how good it is, and I think Someone Like Them is good.  A couple of reviewers on Amazon agree with me, giving the book five star ratings.  I'm glad that they enjoyed the read, and it's my hope that anyone who reads this blog will purchase the book and enjoy it too.   

SOMEONE LIKE THEM IS HERE!

Finally! Someone Like Them has been released.  I've been talking about it for so long it's hard for me to believe, but the novel is out.  Right now it can be purchaed at Amazon.com, in paperback and Ebook formats.  However, many of my other novels can be purchased at HALF PRICE during SMASHWORD'S annual SUMMER SALE.  The sale will end the last day of July.   

Someone Like You is the last book in the Stillwaters series.  I had fun writing about the different roads that each of the Carson sisters took on the road to happiness.  I have two more romantic suspense novels that I hope to release. Hopefully, that should happen in the coming year.  In addition, I've taken a stab at writing a historical fiction novel which I've been working on this year.  We'll see where that goes, but historical fiction is an area of writing in which I've grown increasingly interested.  I have ideas for at least two more novels in that genre. Meanwhile, Someone Like Them is ready and waiting to be read.  Just CLICK  ON THE BOOK COVER and you can read an excerpt and then purchase a copy.

THERE'S A NEW BOOK COMING in 2018!

Well, all of my good intentions to blog every month in 2017 went down the drain after July 2017.  I really meant to keep my resolution regarding that one, but life got in the way and plenty of writing.  I wrote a new play early in 2017,  titled The Diary of Annie Mae Franklin, and submitted it to be read at  the National Black Theatre Festival held in August 2017.  Approximately 175 scripts were submitted but only forty were chosen to be read.  The Diary of Annie Mae Franklin was among those chosen.  I was both pleased and proud, and the play reading was a resounding success.

Meanwhile, the latest cozy mystery co-written with my writing partner, L. Barnett Evans, was released earlier this year.  The book is titled Whose Knife is it Anyway?  and it's funny,  even if I have to say so myself!  In Whose Knife is it Anyway?  the ladies of Grandmothers, Incorporated are trapped in the woods with a group of feuding church ladies.  When a stumble on a body in the woods, they wonder is a killer lurking in their midst.  Whose Knife is it Anyway? is available on Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.  Believe me, you're in for a round of belly laughs when you read it.

The next installment of the Stillwaters series, Someone Like You, is coming along nicely.  I should be finished with the first draft by the end of this year.  Some Like You follows Melanie Carson, the youngest of the trio of Carson sisters in Someone Like Me, the first book in the Stillwaters trilogy.  Melanie is small, tough and mouthy, just the right combination for trouble when it comes to dealing with Solo Reedus,  a member of the indomitable Stillwater clan, and a man who dislikes her at first sight.  Writing about these two fire brands has been quite a roller coaster ride.

I'm working on the first non-fiction story I've ever written as well. It's about a solider during the Korean War.  I'm learning a lot about that period in history and the strength and courage of the young men who served their nation.  Also, L. Barnett Evans and I are working on a trilogy of mysteries that should be completed some time next year.  Whew!

As you can see there hasn't been much time to keep this blog up, but I hope to do better in 2018.  Wish me luck!!!