June 2023 Newsletter
The Year We Stopped: Poems by Chenelle Bremont – Book Released!
The new book cover is out for The Year We Stopped: Poems! Posting a review is the number one way you can help us this week!!!!!! Let me add one more exclamation point to that. Because it’s true. If you have a friend who is an author, or a publisher (ahem, me), then posting a review is the primary way you can help out. Or even just a star rating. Even if you don’t like the book and you post a bad rating. Okay–but don’t do that. Lol.
Chenelle was a pleasure to work with as we went through this long but rewarding book rebranding process. The book changed its title from Hope and Languish to The Year We Stopped, and has an updated cover design. Chenelle has already been promoting the book on her social media and we are off and running! She is also writing two more books so this will end up being the first in a collection of three books.
Egret Lake Books Celebrates Women’s Fiction Day
Last week I celebrated Women’s Fiction Day by sharing on Instagram to support over fifty authors who were doing giveaways and other events. Here are a few of the graphics I created for the event. I used a design app called Canva which makes creating these types of images for Instagram a breeze.
Author Meetings Are the Best
Whether online or in person, I’m loving all the author meetings I’ve been having! There are four books I’m currently working on (two women’s fiction novels by Amy Dressler and Shayla Dugan, and two new poetry books). All four are nearing the end of editing and beginning cover design.
Author Celaine Charles and Publisher Tess Jones
I even went out to dinner in real life with ELB author Celaine Charles. We talked about books, poetry, kids, food, and oh yeah, I wore something other than sweatpants for once. We looked at some book cover designs, possible book titles, and now she is working on adding a few more poems to her upcoming book.
I also went to lunch on the lake with local author Heather LeRoss. Her novel is currently under consideration from several major publishers through her agent and I’m so excited for her! I’m all about creating community and supporting each other as writers, publishers, agents. We are all a family!
How You Can Help
- I’m currently encouraging people to post reviews for The Year We Stopped: Poems. Even just a star rating helps!
- Please feel free to forward this email to one or two friends who like books and ask them to join the newsletter (the signup link is on my website).
- Please reshare things I post on Instagram so I can gain more followers who like books.
That’s all for now.
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