Many years ago Valerie Comer asked the authors in our blogging group to provide a link to our author newsletter for the Inspy Romance website. She later asked us to provide information on our free reader magnet stories that are available for our newsletter subscribers. I had great intentions of creating a reader magnet for […]
Let’s Talk Newsletters! (and a Giveaway for you)
Being an avid reader means that most likely you have subscribed to more than your fair share of author newsletters. Am I right? If you had to guess, how many authors send their monthly (or weekly, or bi-weekly) epistles to your email Inbox? Myself, I’d guess about a dozen. Using that dozen authors as a […]
Already Married + Free Book by Melanie D. Snitker
Hello, everyone! I’m so excited to return to Inspy Romance, and I’m looking forward to blogging monthly again. I’ve missed being able to chat with you all! To those of you who don’t know me, my name is Melanie D. Snitker. My husband and I live in the beautiful Texas Hill Country with our two […]
Your Opinion: What Makes a Good Newsletter
Hi Everyone! Maybe it’s my upcoming move to Missouri, a subconscious effort to focus on something other than packing, or the fact that I’ve just finished a very rough draft of the last book in my Abundance series, but I’ve thinking about what I should keep the same in my life and what I should […]
Putting Happiness on the Page
A few years ago, when I wrote my holiday novella, Christmas in Abundance, I had two goals—to write a story that reminded people of the real meaning of Christmas and to put happiness on the page. For several years, when my kids were little, the holidays were a bit of struggle for me. […]
Riding off into the Sunset
“Parting is such sweet sorrow,” they say. “All good things must come to an end.” Are they right? Well, yes, but what kind of parting are we talking about here? When I envisioned the Saddle Springs Romance series two years ago, I knew the series would be complete in six books. I worked hard to […]
Let’s Talk About Newsletters Plus #Giveaway
If you thought “Ah, this is going to be another post where Alexa is going to ask for our input,” you’re right. As an author, I value my newsletter subscribers so much. The space in your inbox is valuable and you probably receive many emails every day, including newsletters from different authors. So I’d love […]
Love for the Ages – Novella Giveaway!
As I was trying to figure out what to post about this week, I was skimming my last couple of posts and realized that a couple months ago I mentioned a super secret project then NEVER TOLD YOU WHAT IT WAS ABOUT!!! Oops! ;) So here we go! I wrote the novella Love for the […]
Love Free Stories?
Who doesn’t, right? Authors love to give books away, and we wish we could give them ALL away, every day — but life’s not like that. Even authors have mortgages to pay, kids to feed, cars that need repairing. Our to-pay lists are just as long as yours, so we need to SELL books to […]
Home Again, Home Again
One of the best books I read to help my writing was From the Inside Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you by Rachel Hauck and Susan May Warren. One of the many topics they cover are the different categories of romance plots that are out there. “Home Again, Home Again” is a […]