The Trains
by Adele Kenny

We felt them first. Fingers pressed to the rails,
a dull rumble filled our hands and hummed into
our arms before the cone of light, the great clatter

of metal against metal. Trestled high, above the
bridge on Grand Avenue, we knew those tracks
went on forever, between trees that lined the ties

like stations of the cross. The hill was forbidden but
holy, thick with clover, ripe with berries in spring.
The year I was nine, an April blizzard swept the

sky and we went to the trains in the dark. The wires
strummed into sparks, the rails were a dazzle of
shadows. Our faces – ghosts of our selves – reflected

in every train car window, lines of breath etched in
passing glass. Above us, chimney smoke hung like
smears of candle grease among the clouds.

We were grubby and poor, but we…

It’s all about the numbers game. As an author we want to reach as wide a market as possible to sell more books to more people – those of us who’ve chosen to attempt to get paid for our writing that is.

So we scrimp and save to hire the right cover designer, the best editor (we can afford), buy a table-sized poster and a book trailer to help sell that hundred print copies we ordered of our book… and then the cash – our budget – runs out.

In a perfect world (or quasi-perfect for an Indie Author anyway) we’d still have a couple hundred left over for publicity – that might entail hiring a company to do a blog tour and enough money to allow us to mail out those giveaway copies of our books done via Goodreads and rafflecopter.

But when it comes to hiring a publicist…

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Publicity Tip #84~

The great thing about video book trailers is that you can use them on a laptop or tablet at local author events, place them on your author website, your Goodreads profile page, Amazon’s Author Central and, of course, YouTube.

Becoming more and more prevalent are book recommendation/Indie author publicity sites helping spread the word about your amazing book trailers.

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One such Indie Author Blog that aims to help authors, from one book to many, is Kev’s Great Indie Authors. Indie Author Kevin Cooper offers a number of free services to help out other Indie Authors like himself, including Indie Book Trailer listing.

Why place your book trailer on Kev’s page?

Because the more places where you can be found online, the better the chances of new readers finding you 😉

Kev has a dedicated following of more than 6,000 readers on his…

Author Hank Garner interviews me on his podcast and we had a blast. Literally. There was an explosion during the interview and many died. But otherwise it was really fun.

http://hankgarner.com/episode-thirty-eight-with-armand-rosamilia/

[I received a copy of this book from its Canadian publisher Random House Canada/Tundra Books. This does not affect my opinion on the book.]

Susin Nielsen was one of my favourite discoveries of 2014, hands down. You may remember the weekend where I binge-read her entire backlist or this post where I got excited about the launch of We Are All Made of Molecules all over again. Or this post, where I proudly called Nielsen’s characters my old friends that could help get me out of a winter funk. I’m honestly sorry (not sorry) if you’re tired of hearing me swoon about this amazing Vancouver-based author. (Semi-unrelated fun fact: Nielsen wrote 16 episodes for Degrassi Junior High – amazing!)

Anyway, what you can expect to take out of this review is that I absolutely loved We Are All Made of Molecules. Here’s why:

It’s hilarious.

We Were All…