Author: Jasveena R Prabhagaran

August 13, 2014

MARSocial Special Interview: Author #2 Viv Drewa

Viv Drewa celebrates the mature woman in her novels.

She is a Michigan native who has enjoyed reading and writing since 1963. Though she studied medicinal chemistry at the University of Michigan her passion has always been writing.
She had been awarded third place for her nonfiction short story about her grandfather’s escape from Poland. Later, she rewrote this story and was published in the “Polish American Journal” as “”From the Pages of Grandfather’s Life” and has republished it on Amazon.com as a short story.
Viv took creative and journalism courses to help in her transition to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer. She worked as an intern for Port Huron’s ‘The Times Herald”, and also wrote, edited and did the layout or the Blue Water Multiple Sclerosis newsletter “Thumb Prints.”

She also teaches sewing to physically and mentally challenged adults. A cause close to her heart. Viv, her husband Bob and their cat Princess, live in Fort Gratiot, Michigan. Viv also writes for several blogs.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Aviv+drewa&keywords=viv+drewa&ie=UTF8

August 13, 2014

MARSocial Special Interview: Author #1 Coleman Weeks

The MARSocial authors have been a wonderful support to all indie authors and IBP has decided to host a special author group interview for them. We have 11 authors joining us in this exciting interview session and we will be revealing the answers for all 11 questions as soon as we receive the answers from everyone. 

Here is something about author #1: Coleman Weeks

Coleman Weeks is an ardent Indie Author, featuring several genre including Fiction Inspirational, Mystery and soon to be published Fictional children’s “Garden Games” and two fictional Histories, an American History “Crackertails” and an under construction effort in an International history “Jungle Heat”. Coleman also dabbles in Non-Fiction Inspirational in the published novel and guide “How do We Feed the World’s Starving?”.

If being in love means never having to say your sorry, surely Coleman believes being an Indie Author means having no boundaries.
Coleman participated in the Internationally acclaimed MARSocial Author of the Year Competition where he placed as a Runner-up in February/2014. Coleman Currently blogs at Final Lessons on Bloggr and How do we feed the Worlds Starving.com website, curates and moderates several Facebook Author groups and features several of his titles on Facebook author pages as well.
Coleman is a veteran married man, father, and Grandfather who enjoys life to the fullest.

 https://www.amazon.com/author/colemanweeks

August 11, 2014

Create Content Without Actually Creating It

How To Create Content Without Actually Creating It

Managing your blog and creating contents on a regular basis can be difficult, especially when you are too busy handling other work online. What happens when you don’t engage with you followers by creating quality contents regularly? The traffic to your website drops over the time and people lose the interest to engage with your posts. 

Use some of the ideas above to add interesting articles or contents on your blog. It saves your time and your audience get beneficial information from your blog. 

August 9, 2014

What Happens In a Google Minute?

What happens in a google minute?

Increase your web presence via effective social media marketing and video marketing to promote your books.

August 9, 2014

What Readers Look for when Buying a Book

What Readers Look for when Buying a Book.

via What Readers Look for when Buying a Book.

August 8, 2014

The Facebook Posting Rule

Facebook Posting Rule

What you thought you know about Facebook posting?

1) Adding links to your post is effective for marketing — Not anymore! Facebook is a business and if you are posting something on your fanpage to gain profit, you should be paying for the paid advertisement. That’s what they want. Refrain from posting links directly. Type what you want your followers to know in a sentence, post the link in the comment instead. 

2) #Hashtags #works #the #way #you #want — Hell no! Use hashtags only when you know that those keywords will help people to discover your posts better. Do not tag keywords like #sex #porn #sexy when your post is all about “Finding the Right Career” just because you think these tags work better. 

3) Picture are useless — Sometimes, images can help you in sending the message out to followers better.

4) One size fit all — What works for your friend in marketing may not work for you on Facebook. Trial and errors will tell you what works for you.

Best regards,

Jas

Founder of IBP 

August 8, 2014

Stranded In Time Video Review

Ayah Assem received a copy of Kelli Sue Landon’s new release, Stranded in Time during the book trailer release event on Facebook and she has reviewed the book in this video. Have fun watching. Be sure to check out the book on Amazon

August 7, 2014

Author Live Chat Show With Kelli Sue Landon and Ayah Assem

 

August 6th, Wednesday at 05:00 (GMT -5.00) – Watch the Author Live Chat show with Kelli Sue Landon and guest Ayah Assem, hosted by Jas from IBP. Kelli is a mystery novelist and she shares some of her experiences about writing and publishing books as well as audio books. Ayah Assem has read two of her books, Stranded In Time and Nightmare at Camp Forrestwood, so she speaks about that in this video. 

August 6, 2014

The 36 Rules of Social Media

Do you just have a website, a blog or social media accounts just for the ‘sake’ of having it? Like it or not, the web-based businesses reach their customers via various social media platforms. Check out the rules above and ask yourself if you are doing it right?

If it is too hard for you, use our social media marketing for only $30 a month and get your books exposed to possible readers out there!

July 31, 2014

Writing Tips by J.K. Rowling

Writing Tips by J.K. Rowling

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I think that most writers admire J.K. Rowling.  We’ve heard how she spent hours writing her books in an Edinburgh café (I vote for Nicholson’s, but Edinburgh café owners seem entangled in a heated debate regarding which one she actually preferred, and I have heard a number of possible options, never quite sure as to which one is the true one. Could it be she frequented more than one??). We know how her manuscripts were declined by an astounding number of publishers (something that most writers experience), how she was broke but still wrote and how eventually she managed to turn things around for herself.  The rest is history, and I guess that most authors, whether self-published or trad-pub, pray night and day that they will have her good fortune (I know I do).

Therefore, it comes as no surprise that anything…

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