This series is an opportunity to showcase posts from around our community and the brilliant bloggers who share with us. It would be amazing if you would follow the links to the post I have highlighted and whilst visiting follow and support the blogger.
The first post is from author James J. Cudney with a new series on Tips and Advice. If you are confused by the new look Twitter then James will help you make the most of the Bookmark facility and the Lists.. also a reminder to have a Pinned Tweet.
Twitter is a powerful and useful social media tool for a variety of reasons. Today, I am focusing on how I use it for promoting my books, website, and blog. There are three (3) features I want to highlight because I often see they are being under-utilized, especially by authors or those looking to grow a larger following.
(a) Pinned Tweet
Every Twitter user has the ability to pin a primary tweet to his or her profile. While your profile shows every tweet or retweet you’ve shared, your content is lost in a sea of history once you begin tweeting regularly. If you want someone to see a specific tweet every time they view your profile, pin that tweet to your profile. This is useful for a few reasons. Tweeters often follow or retweet someone to get noticed. When they want to share your profile, they retweet the first tweet they see in your profile. If you don’t have a pinned tweet, this is usually the latest tweet you’ve tweeted–which might be about someone else and not you.
Read the rest of this helpful post and find out more about bookmarking and the lists: https://thisismytruthnow.com/2019/11/08/tips-advice-11-8-twitter
The next post is from Anne Copeland and is a poignant and inspiring piece on her own childhood and motherhood, which tragically saw her being parted from her children, until a reunion with her daughter after 28 years. But, despite this Anne has given so much back to those who cannot read or who are challenged in other ways, including editing and publishing a book highlighting the work of disable fibre artist. More about that after this excerpt from the post.
For the Children
I absolutely love working with children and teaching them new things. Many years ago, likely in my 30’s, I served as a volunteer to teach illiterate adults how to read. It never had occurred to me that when people grow up not knowing how to read, many of them have also missed most of childhood’s best parts. They have missed not only the wonderful children’s books, generally because they had no one to read to them, but they have also missed out on a lot of wonderful childhood experiences, like being able to go trick or treating or making a costume for Halloween, or having someone help them to learn how to carve a pumpkin.
I know many of you wonder how this could happen. Think about the migrant workers, the homeless people (and yes they often have children living with them), and even my own parents never finished high school. So I went to school, but because I could not depend on my parents to be able to help me with my homework, I honestly struggled with understanding how to do my homework, and when a child cannot do well in school, they often also struggle to fit in socially.
Please head over to read more about this inspiring writer’s life and work: For the Children
Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/Artful-Alchemy-Physically-Challenged-Creating-ebook-dp-B074YFM51K/dp/B074YFM51K – Blog: https://allinadaysbreath.wordpress.com/2019/11/10/for-the-children – Twitter: https://twitter.com/anneappraiser1
And the final post today is D.G. Kaye’s Sunday Book Review for Damyanti Biswas for her book
Sunday Book Review – You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas
Welcome to the Sunday Book Review. I recently interviewed Damyanti Biswas in my Q and A Author Interview Series and today I’m delighted to share my review of this intense crime thriller inspired by the criminal atrocities and corruption happening to women in New Delhi. You Beneath Your Skin is a powerful and emotionally gripping read.
About the Author
Damyanti Biswas lives in Singapore, and works with Delhi’s underprivileged children as part of Project Why, a charity that promotes education and social enhancement in underprivileged communities. Her short stories have been published in magazines in the US, UK, and Asia, and she helps edit the Forge Literary Magazine.
Head over and read Debby’s review of You Beneath Your Skin: https://dgkayewriter.com/sunday-book-review-you-beneath-your-skin-by-damyanti-biswas/
D. G. Kaye – Buy: Amazon US
Blog: D.G. Writer – Goodreads: D.G. Kaye on Goodreads
Catch up with Debby’s Travel Column here every month: https://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/the-travel-column-with-d-g-kaye/
Thanks for dropping in today and I hope you will head over to enjoy these posts in full.. thanks Sally
I have already read two of these blogs so it is interesting to discus them. – I was so stunned by Anne’s – the sudden revelation that she had lost her children, I couldn’t think what to comment. But to turn these traumas to so many positives is amazing. After reading Debbie’s review I immediately downloaded the book… comments I put on blogs usually include the words ‘I haven’t actually been there…’ I have never been to India, but have heard so much about it and a novel set in such a city of contrasts sounds very intriguing.
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I was very touched by Anne’s post and her story, which she told in such an unassuming way that made if all the more poignant. And I look forward to your views on Damyanti’s book when you have read it.. hugs
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I’m happy to hear my review intrigued you Janet. I’ll look forward to reading your review. 🙂
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Sal, once again thank you for including my review here along with James’ and Anne’s posts. Funny, I’d already read James’ post and included for my Friday writer tips post (great minds?) and Anne’s story was both so very sad, yet inspiring how she soldiered on in life. ❤
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Pleasure Debby and great that you are boosting James and his post and will look out for it… and yes Anne’s story was astonishing. ♥
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Terrific picks as always! ❤
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Powerful posts, Sally. Thanks.
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Thank you John..You are kicking off the Christmas Book Fair on Friday as the first author in the post.. always lead with a headliner….hugsx
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OMG. Thank you, Sally Hugs
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A wonderful selection of posts. I’d already read James Cudney’s (yay for someone to teach me more about how Twitter works) but Debby and Anne’s posts were amazing. Anne’s left me speechless.
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Thanks Mary.. and yes on all counts…♥
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Wow! What a great collection today. Thanks for sharing mine, but fantastic to the others.
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My pleasure James and you are all set for Saturday for my review for Mistaken Identity..will go on Goodreads and Bookbub and fingers crossed Amazon UK.
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I can’t wait to see it! Thank you so much.
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Pleasure..
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Sally’s, great shares! Twitter still feels like a foreign place to me and one I’m trying to understand better! It took me a year to figure out a pinned tweet! James’s book is definitely one to look into. At the moment I spend a lot of time blocking strange people from following me … time-consuming and frustrating! Wow! I’m beyond words reading Anne’s post … a long time since I read anything so emotionally charged on WP. Debby writes the most wonderful reviews and always shares so much of the author and books … a gem here on the blogosphere!
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Thank you Annika.. and glad you found interesting and I agree about Anne’s post emotionally charged and inspiring.. and Debby is a terrific advocate for all of us… enjoy the rest of the week..hugs xx
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These are all great shares, Sally.
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these were all worth checking out; thank you!
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Thanks Jim..
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