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Book Marketing 101
Posted on January 24, 2014 1 Comment
Below is the article I wrote for Cape Women Online. It appears in their Winter 2014 issue. On January 23, 2014 UNDERTOW hit #2 on the Teens Bestseller list for Myths and Legends on AMAZON! Book Marketing 101 by K.R. Conway You’ve finally finished your novel. A beast that has been edited no less than […]
#PitMad and Twitter Fun
Posted on January 9, 2014 2 Comments
Well – I competed in #pitmad on Twitter today. Yup – did get a request. Many thanks to Trisha Leaver for breaking out her pompoms to cheer me on! And a big thanks to all the retweets from fellow authors and some agents! #Pitmad is basically 140 characters of hell in which you pitch your […]
The 4-1-1 on Indie Distribution
Posted on November 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
I have had a lot of questions about marketing (basically how I did it with UNDERTOW). I will answer those at a later date (not because I am trying to be sneaky – I am just literally crushed for time). Instead, I wanted to convey how I released the title, because when it comes to […]
For the Love of the Local Bookshop
Posted on October 28, 2013 Leave a Comment
Admit it – sometimes you go right by those little bookstores that line the road and never look back. You think, “I have no time to stop and heck – I can just order it online.” Sometimes the knee-jerk reaction is that the book will cost more at that quaint little Shop Around the Corner […]
Author Event and Book Signing! HELP!
Posted on October 18, 2013 4 Comments
You know why I write? Because it allows me to be invisible . . . somewhat. I can tell these elaborate whoppers in literary form and hide behind the pages. And people like to be told tall tales – who’d thunk it? Of course, once the story is out (and you inadvertently gain some hard-core […]
Meet the UNDERTOW cast – Ana Lane
Posted on October 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
Every character in UNDERTOW has their own back story – not just little details, but HUGE stories. I wrote it that way so that readers would connect with multiple characters and not just Eila and Raef. As book review blog Twin Spin writes, “Although there was one main character in Eila, there was a great and […]
Meet the UNDERTOW cast – Christian Raines
Posted on October 3, 2013 Leave a Comment
In searching for faces to represent UNDERTOW, there were a couple of characters that I didn’t really think I would even try to find. For one, I knew no one who could fit the bill for either Christian Raines or Rilin West. Secondly, they were “big reveal” characters, therefore I was unsure if I could […]
Meet the Undertow Cast – MJ Williams
Posted on September 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
Finding MJ was up there with finding Kian – basically I was screwed. I had resorted to digging through RF sights and praying I could drop a nameless model into what I needed. But after weeks of searching, I came up with a big, fat NOTHING. When I relayed the fact that I needed a […]
Meet the Undertow Cast – Nikki Shea
Posted on September 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
When I wrote the character known as Nikki Shea, I never wanted her to be the typical mean girl. Most people who read the novel though, automatically assumed she was a stick-thin blonde. But in my head? In my head she was Jessica Rabbit crossed with Scarlett O’Hara. She was this curvaceous brunette who knew […]
Meet the Undertow Cast – Kian O’Reilly
Posted on September 29, 2013 Leave a Comment
I honestly didn’t think I was going to find someone to represent Kian O’Reilly. In fact, I had started searching through RF photos (random model shots) in an attempt to find the character. I always used young Friday Night Lights actor, Taylor Kitsch, as my baseline when writing for Kian. And I was sure there […]
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