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Perfect pairings: Book + souvenir gift ideas

If reading a book is like taking a vacation, why not include a souvenir? The Musubi Murder + The Maritime Club A mystery and a matching mug! The Maritime Club isn’t terribly fancy, but nothing in Mahina is fancy. The weather-beaten little clubhouse is perpetually in need of a new paint job. The bill of fare … Continue reading Perfect pairings: Book + souvenir gift ideas
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Are any of the characters based on people you know?

Who would you cast as the main character if this were made into a movie?

If you could create the perfectly specific genre title for this book/series, what would it be?

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Clean Indie Reads connects authors and readers of “flinch-free” fiction. Action, mystery, and thrills, but nothing too explicit, please.


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Bad book reviews = great sales?

Maybe the one-star review, that bane of every author’s ego, isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Stanford Daily reports that the only thing worse than bad publicity is no publicity.

By measuring the size of sale spikes in the week following the release of each book review, the study showed two main points: positive publicity benefited all titles and the bad publicity only helped lesser-known and obscure authors.

Just one more reason to stop fretting about reviews, and sit down and write another, better, book.

The original study is here.


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