By Lisa A Alford HEY ALL MY JAMES ROLLINS FANS! I bring you the next James Rollins review, Devils Colony. OK, before I even get into the review I need to let you guys know that I recently received ALL of the SIGMA books! Well, except for the new one… Bangin’ Mother’s …

Social Networking is Building Relationships By building a network you create something bigger than yourself. ~Tasha Turner (tweet this) Benefits It is a wonderful feeling to put two friends in touch and see something wonderful happen. Be it a guest spot on a blog, a book cover, a beta reader, a new supporter, new friendships, I …

Her Unlikely Bodyguard by Lorraine Nelson Review by Tasha Turner Blurb from Amazon.com: A stalker who wants revenge…a past flame rekindled…Jemma Leigh’s summer just got interesting. *** Jemma Leigh Harding has drawn the attention of an unknown stalker and returns to her hometown of Somerville, a safe haven—or so she thinks—on the east coast of Canada. …

Becoming a Better Writer By Tasha Turner Love this graphic from Copyblogger and it is a great lead in for today’s post. Thanks to Tara Chevrestt I have begun writing for 30-60 minutes every day. My short Jewish vamp story is coming along. It is changing a lot from what it was when I wrote it …

 Book Pitches Today I worked with my publisher Tri Destiny Publishing, co-author Beth-Ann Mason, Author, and my clients on writing pitches for our books. Assignment The assignment was: write in 5 sentences or less: what’s key to your story, who your readers are, why it’s unique (aka: why will it sell). My Pitch for The Satmar Vampire (WIP) …

What should you do when you find out people online are talking badly about you? Oh no someone on the internet is saying something bad about me I must respond NOW. Before responding you may want to read my rules for appearing intelligent on the internet. Below are some of the ways to respond… or …

Welcome to Tasha Turner Coaching. This is the Tasha Turner Blog .  Here we will be blogging about a number of different topics. Author Self Promotion/Branding and Social Networking Why you now have so much control over how well your book sells Tools needed Blogging Twitter Facebook Other social media Taking advantage of sales tool at …

Blog Schedule by Tasha Turner Ask anyone in the business and they will tell you if you are going to blog keep to a blog schedule.  A specific day a week or a month, something your readers can count on. But what happens if say something out of your control happens like, well you get …

Social Networking Works By Tasha Turner I’ve been reading a lot lately on why social networking is a waste of time for authors. But all the articles focus on short term sales of books. Social networking is about building relationships it takes time. (tweet this) Target Market Relationship Building If you are an author your goal …

Guest blog Written by Whitestone Partners This article originally written and put up on their website on Tuesday, 08 May 2012 Thank you very much Doug and Polly for letting us use your material. This is a great article. It’s become very cool to launch a social media marketing campaign. The internet is changing the way …