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Tried and Tested Book Marketing Strategies

If you’re an author, the last thing you want is to keep trying ways to market your books. You want to know what works. Here are 9 ideas that have worked for me. Through them all, make sure to talk up the value you book provides to readers. Here are the ten book marketing strategies. 1. Create a video promotion…

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How Do I Get My Children’s Book Published?

Do you dream of getting your children’s book published? Don’t know where to start, what to do? Here is a list of things you can keep in mind that go into publishing your very own children’s book. Feel free to email me at contact@raisingworldchildren.com or follow me on -> Instagram here for daily tips and inspiration through this lonesome but…

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Small or Tall, WE Sparkle After ALl

Writing a BIPOC Children’s Book

Writing a children’s book is more about thinking about what children today need than what you want to write. Even if you have a brilliant idea, you want to be addressing issues in your story and style of writing that display the diverseness of the world and your personal cultural experiences. REPRESENTING CHARACTERS Don’t just have your characters be people…

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Survey Beta version.

Remember when we had these tagging posts where we each had a bunch of questions to answer and then named a few others to pass on the baton to? I found this survey on Pinterest and found it a good perspective check. You ask your child these questions. I was honestly scared to ask but then the answers left me…

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Stuffed Boat Recipe

Stuffed peppers are a staple in our household. There is so much you can do with them. Make a meal of them or a side dish with a main course. I personally love these potato/cheese filled ones as they can be had as appetizer, main dish or as a side with a main course and they go with practically everything.…

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Brand New Day

So, yesterday sucked big time. But today is a new day. All my chores are done, the house is clean and baby and me are fresh as daisies. It’s amazing how when you feel sick, everything around you seems to be going to the dogs. Things just seem to be falling to pieces all around you. But when you have…

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Etiquette Shmetiquette

So IIT Delhi is going to giving out a course on etiquette. High time I say. Not just in India but all over the world, pleases and thankyous and all that’s in between seems to be fazing out like the cat in Alice in Wonderland. I’m all for informality but it’s these little things that make any relationship, even with…

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Absolute Power

Okay, so I’m way behind on my reviews but I Am making a note of all the books I’m still reading so some day soon, I’ll catch up. Here’s a short one on the above. Read this one last week.  David Baldacci doesn’t fail to impress but it takes patience upto the 250th or so page to finally realize that…

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A Reliable Wife

I picked this up just because it’s on the N.Y Best Seller list. And I still do not have much of an opinion on it. The story of a man who orders a mail order bride and a bride who had other plans is not out of the ordinary. The whole story was pretty much predictable as each person’s charachter…

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The Last Noel

I finished this in 4 hours flat. Made for a light read. Nothing spectaculor but nothing boring either. Just a book, that’s easy on the eyes and mind and yet, keeps you entertained in it’s own way. The story is pretty predictable like a Mills and Boons, yet it has some wonderful points thrown in about relations and how people…

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