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nicki elson s not so deep thoughts skip to main content search this blog nicki elson s not so deep thoughts a blog by suburban chicago romance writer nicki elson she shares her perspective on novel writing marketing and other random bits of a writer s life every post ends with a happily ever after pages home the it series three daves divine temptation short stories nicki s news more posts rivals release party get link facebook x pinterest email other apps march 19 2021 big congrats to my crit partner jennifer lane on the release of her fabulous new sports romance rivals i lucked out major with scoring jen as a crit partner because her stories are so so fun to read and obviously others agree with me look at all the great reviews pouring in i m so excited that rivals is now available for everyone to read ️ title rivals author jennifer lane genre sports romance release date march 19 2021 cover design dan irons designs by irons i embrace my rival but only to strangle him jean racine after landing her dream job as head volleyball coach at ohio state university lauren chase s career has become a nightmare her only hope of saving her job is to recruit a star player to her team too bad the player s twin has signed a football scholarship for osu s chief rival michigan and too bad michigan coach jeremy trent sends sparks through lauren every time they cross paths but no way will she pursue an attraction t 2 comments read more getting book reviews iwsg january 2021 get link facebook x pinterest email other apps january 06 2021 hi guys happy 2021 we made it right after going mia in december i m back to take part in the january iwsg this month i ll share my strategy for garnering the all important book reviews this one got kind of long so i tried to lay it out for for easy skimming as i said in my last post i m not an expert on book marketing so this isn t exactly advice i m simply sharing what i ve learned in case you might find a tidbit that helps in your publishing journey it also serves as a note to self for the next time i publish something release week review strategy 1 submit arc advanced reader copy to review sites the goal i did this in hopes of receiving early reviews from established review sites so i could pull blurbs from the reviews for release day promo on social networks etc submitted to two review sites that had each favorably reviewed some of my previous books fresh fiction and the romance reviews i submitted to each more 7 comments read more no stress book launch iwsg get link facebook x pinterest email other apps november 04 2020 okay so last month i said i d get into more detail on marketing successes and failures with my latest release i feel kind of strange doing this because i am no marketing expert as my current amazon ranking can attest so please understand that i m simply sharing my experience in case there s some tidbit you can pick up that helps you this is not hard and fast advice release week strategy in this month s post i share the strategy that worked well for me for my book s release week bear in mind that my goals are far from lofty but my strategy was simple and fairly stress free 1 set release week pricing at 99cents advertise the purpose of 99cent pricing was so that i could advertise the book through cheap reads e newsletters here are links to the six sites i advertised with from august 4 6 one day per each newsletter spread across the three days through past trial and error i found these six to have good cost benefit ratios for my genre chick l 5 comments read more insecure writers support group october 2020 edition successes failures get link facebook x pinterest email other apps october 07 2020 hello fellow iwsgers i hope october finds you doing well er at least as well as one can expect to be in the year 2020 aren t we all so lucky to have our writing to distract us after writing this post on sunday i m heading out for summa dis on this fine autumn day in the midwest october optional question when you think of the term working writer what does that look like to you what do you think it is supposed to look like do you see yourself as a working writer or aspiring or hobbyist and if latter two what does that look like to me a working writer is someone who consistently earns a decent chunk of change through writing they don t necessarily have to make a living at it but it should at least be a substantial supplement to their regular income i guess technically i could be considered a working writer since my day job involves a lot of writing though it s mostly in blurb form for social media marketing emails catalogs etc i occa 9 comments read more stories unplanned iwsg get link facebook x pinterest email other apps august 05 2020 hola insecure writers i m skating in here at the last minute so let s get right to that optional question have you ever written a piece that became a form or even a genre you hadn t planned on writing in up until now no not really i did have a short story idea grow into a novella and an idea for one book grew into a series of three but i m not sure if those really count i m letting both the form and genre find me on my current story idea though right now i m thinking it ll be outside my typical chick litty romance genre but somehow you know elements of my comfort zone are going to find ways to work themselves in it could be a whole novel or just a novella maybe even a short story or a series of short stories in other writerly news my latest chick litty novel molly unplanned released yesterday i ve found that a strategy of pricing at 99 cents for release and then advertising in a bunch of discount book e newsletters is a 11 comments read more estoy triste iwsg get link facebook x pinterest email other apps june 03 2020 i knew that if i was here for the june insecure writer s support group i d be sad don t take it personally if i have to be sitting here i m glad it s with you but i wish i wasn t sitting here you see i was supposed to be jetting to peru today and by jetting i mean crammed into the cheapest economy seat a few months ago when we were daydreaming i posted a picture of some ruins in the andes mountains surrounding ollantaytambo i was going to climb to those ruins and spend a day with local women learning how to weave and do a hundred other super cool things but it s not just the heartbreak of a cancelled trip that has me so down i m concerned for all the wonderful people i d hoped to meet and spend my soles with the independent hostel owners and staff the restaurateurs the street vendors the craftswomen the waiters the cab drivers the colectivo drivers the boot polishers the tour guides in an attempt to control the spre 10 comments read more get in the zone iwsg get link facebook x pinterest email other apps may 06 2020 hi guys i hope may is finding you all a bit more combobulated than we were at the beginning of april 2020 not that the future s looking any more certain or anything but at least we ve all had another month to adjust to er the weirdness of it all right during april i received edits back from my amazing expat editor who s quarantining across the pond in london working my day job for only limited hours these days allowed me time to make the recommended changes and format the manuscript for ebooks soooo i m targeting a release date or august 4 2020 for molly unplanned now to get my butt in gear for promo step one get the arc into reviewers hands if you re interested in reading a free ebook copy of this chick lit romance about 90k words heat level hot in exchange for posting a review at goodreads and or amazon please send an email to author nickielson com and let me know if you d prefer epub mobi or pdf you can read this post 8 comments read more more posts powered by blogger theme images by badins nicki elson i write spicy fiction with a sweet and dreamy center visit profile retro postings 2021 2 march 1 rivals release party january 1 2020 8 november 1 october 1 august 1 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