The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme
LOOKING FORWARD TO AUGUST
Clicking off my to do list this week. I posted some flash fiction to youtube and started plotting my novels in progress. I got inspired after listening to how Tesla's, Elon Musk works an average 80 hours a week and has his office purposefully near the work floor so everyone can see him. Readers what inspired you to work harder? Or what goals have you made recently?
Readers, please comment at the bottom of this post.
CURRENTLY
Reading:Intermission by Elyssa Friedland, I have lost my Way, by Gayle Forman, Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward, Dear Mr. Knightley By Katherine Reay, See What I have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Listening: "I'll be Gone in the Dark" (Podcast) The story behind the publication of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, by Michelle McNamara, a masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme
LOOKING FORWARD TO AUGUST
Not a whole lot happened this week. I went to Taylor Falls and went to Wild Mountain.
Readers, if you want to comment on where you discover books please do so at the bottom of this post.
CURRENTLY
Reading: The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowry, After by Anna Todd, The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson, I love Dick by Chris Kraus, If on a winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, Atheists Who Kneel and Pray by Tarryn Fisher, The Bedlam Stacks (Magical Realism) by Natasha Fisher, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street , also by Natasha Fisher.
Listening:The One and Only by Emily Giffin , Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Watching: Marchella (Uk thriller on Netflix) The Wave (a Norwegian movie)
ON THE BLOG
What Happened:
Not a whole lot
Up Coming:
Saturday:Weekend Warriors
Sunday:Sunday Post
Readers if you want to comment, please do so below.
Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, the weekly hop for everyone who loves to write! Sign up on the website:Wewriwa.com and share an 8 to 10 sentence snippet of your writing on Sunday.
No one likes it when their family life changes. This is particularly hard for the Radtke's. A troublesome girl named Tracey enters their lives and the children are an endless journey to make sure this girl doesn't get into any further trouble or cause their parents to lose their fostering license. These are snippets from my second novella in the series, "Oh Tracey."
This week
You’d think by the fourth hello that she’d get the fact that the caller hung up.
I gathered that Tracey came from a complicated family after reading a file that my mother, Roseann, mistakenly left on the counter. Her grandmother raised her after her mother was sought as an unfit parent. Her mother was still in and out of her life. Surely, Tracey’s grandmother must have came from a generation that didn’t use phones as a weapon to verbally abuse people. I take that back, her grandmother probably didn’t even have a phone when she was Tracey’s age.
Tracey got up and climbed up the stairs to the attic. She came back down and walked over to where her charger was plugged into the wall, unplugged it, she tossed it into her huge burlap sack with a few other cords, hanging over the side like hanging vines from a potted plant. I nodded at her from my place at the couch.
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. See rules here: Sunday Post Meme
LOOKING FORWARD TO August
So I came across this booktuber who was talking about Book Discovery so I decided to talk about where I find the books I read. I discover books on Goodreads, on the NY Times bestseller list. I read books that my friends are reading. I have a friend in Ohio and we often Buddy Read. You'll be surprised how many people do not read and if they do, they only read things like the newspaper or some blurb on facebook. I wanted to also mention that a lot of the books I discover are on Youtube. These are some of my favorite booktubers
Bookables
BooksandLala
All d books (reviews a lot of literary works, like books on the Booker Prize list)
PolyReader( reviews a lot of Australian books)
Eric Carl Anderson (literary works and more)
Rincey Reads (reviews a lot of Diverse Works)
Tech Wiser ( Gives a lot of tips about how to read ebooks and where to find them)
Kendra Winchester (gave me the inspiration to write this post on Book Discovery)
Literary Prints (Recommends a lot of Japanese novels)
Heffa (Very Down to Earth when she reviews books)
Alex’s Fiction Addiction (Gives a lot of British and European thriller recommendations
Books and Pieces (Gives a lot of British thriller Recs)
Read by Jess (One of the funniest Book reviewers)
Wilde Reads (If you're in the mood for serious book reviews)
Ariel Bissett (Young Leader in booktube, reviews books across every genre)
So this is my list if you’re interested, check these Reviewers out, you won’t be disappointed.
Readers, if you want to comment on where you discover books please do so at the bottom of this post.
CURRENTLY
Reading: Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall, Final Girls by Riley Sager, Emma in the Night by Wendy Park, Creative Quest (nonfiction), Try Not to Breathe, by Holly Seddon,
Listening: Hagseed by Margaret Atwood (somewhat similar to Shawshank Redemption)
Watching: The Four (Voice competition) so glad that My fav British R&B singer James Graham pulled through.
ON THE BLOG
What Happened:
Not a whole lot
Up Coming:
Saturday:Weekend Warriors
Sunday:Sunday Post
Readers if you want to comment, please do so below.
I'm currently working on a series of short stories which I am self publishing. I would call them humorous, contemporary fiction, but I have some other story ideas which I guess would be speculative fiction and a couple of sci-fi story ideas. I also have an idea for a fantasy novel, so yeah - mixed genres is definitely where I'm at.
What is the hardest thing about writing?
For me, it’s been finding the time. I’ve got young children and a demanding job, and I never seemed to have the time. So I decided I had to make the time. I made a decision last year to get up at 5.00 am every morning before work to write. Now I get up at 4.45 am, seven days a week. Since I’ve managed to establish that routine, the writing hasn’t been particularly difficult. It’s been slow, and that’s something I’ve struggled with, but you just have to keep chipping away, doing a little something every day.
Is there any marketing technique you used that had an immediate impact on your sales figures?
The best thing I have done so far has been making the first book in my short story series, The Golden Cockroach, permafree at all the major ebook stores. I started to get downloads from people finding it through organic search. The next book in the series is available for free if people sign up to my mailing list. So the platform is there, and now the best thing I can do is write more stories. Permafree? That's a new term for me. I found a site that goes in depth with how Amazon does Permafree books vs. Smashwords and other book sellers. http://www.sidehustlenation.com/permafree-on-amazon-how-and-why-to-give-your-book-away-plus-my-results/
I also had a chance to read your short story, Square Pegs.
"Through a crack in the curtains, he could see the front door to the adjoining flat was wide open. He detested the gang of troubled young people who lived there."
Something about this excerpt reminded me of "A Man called Ove." An ill tempered, retiree Ove spends his time reinforcing block association rules.
Do you ever get Writer’s Block, and do you have any tips for getting through it?
I haven’t encountered writer’s block as yet. Here’s hoping I won’t. I think people often get stuck in the mucky middle of things, unsure of where their story is going. Writing a good outline before you start helps with that.
Write an outline, eh? Man, I'm such a pantzer. I'm afraid if I write an outline, I'll be stuck in a little box and I'm claustrophobic!! I'm sure it works for some people though.
Where do you see publishing going in the future?
I see continued growth for indie publishing for a long time yet. I think there’ll always be a place for traditional publishing, but I think the market share is going to shrink. I think there’ll be continued growth on mobile platforms, especially as mobile penetration increases in developing countries. I think there are big opportunities in audio book publishing and foreign language translations, and when we get colour e-ink screens, coupled with long battery life and affordable pricing, I think many more people will be tempted to purchase a dedicated e-reader.
Colour e-ink screens, long battery life... We were lucky if we got to play Mario typing in keyboard class back in the day. My eleven year old niece says everyone in her classroom has access to a chromebook, just think about that! I think the future looks rosy, but it’s always going to be a challenge to stand out from the crowd
What is your favourite quote?
I’m not much of a quote person. The one that always springs to mind when I get asked this question is “Even a stopped clock tells the right time, twice a day”, from the movie Withnail and I, mostly because it was sampled on an album I spent many happy hours listening to in the nineties; Orbital 2 by Orbital. It’s been stuck in my head ever since.
***A clip (above)of Best Moments from Withnail and I
That's all the time we have today folks. I wish we had more time to chat, Reynolds. Me too. Readers, if you have any questions for J.B. Reynolds let him know in the contacts below. His short story Riding Shot Gun is also available free, just visit his blog and tell him where to send it.
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