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Upcoming features at this blog!

Coming on 3 May 2016

I am launching the new pages featuring the following information in them on 3 May 2016:

  • Author Interview with… Myself!1
    • Get an insight in what I do as an author, and how I go about writing work, and what I use as reference material.
      • NOTE: I am going to start doing invitations to other authors to have an Author interview in this blog. I will be asking the first few authors if they are interested to participate over the next week or so. The questions I used in my own interview are those which I plan to use for authors who say “Yes” to my invitation to participate. The first interview will be posted in the middle of May.
    • There’s even a bonus page with even more questions posted!
  • Get an insight into the world in which Marrida and Alagur live, and the way I did the world building for it.
  • Find out more about what the “Stone of Truth” really is on yet another page.
  • I came up with an interesting but probably non-existing word to describe this posting of more information about Keldarra – pottermoresque – I guess J.K. Rowling will like it that someone based their own world building efforts on something she did with Pottermore. The pages which follow up from my Author Interview page and the page which will give you an insight to Marrida’s world will just grow, both here with extra blog posts, as well as pages on my website with links to extra materials such as a few novellas I have planned as companion stories to go with The Wolf Riders of Keldarra. The first of these novellas will be released in the Autumn.

Are you a Blogger?

It means you might be interested in reading the following blog post. All you need to do is COMMENT below the post that’s linked below (on that page NOT this one) with your Blog Site information, and send me by email your name, blog link and tell me in 100 words why you should be the one to do a review of my book. You can email me this information at hello@nathaliemlromer.com and mark your email with the subject line: “Book Blogger” and I’ll review your site. See the

Invitation to the Book Review Bloggers!

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Monday Musings: “Your Books Are So Good, I Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Them.” | M.A. Kropp

via Monday Musings: “Your Books Are So Good, I Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Them.” | M.A. Kropp

I agree with what it says at the end of the article.

“We’re working here, just like everybody else. And, just like everybody else, we deserve to be paid for that work.”

I’d say to that deluded reader who was so abusive this – walk a mile in our shoes, and see how much work goes into the creation of single book. It is not simply a case of write down a story, push a button and be done with it, and it’s a book all the sudden. It takes week, or months, of work for an author, a book designer, a proofreader, an editor, a layout designer, and many more that I can’t even list here.

When J.K. Rowling had her first novel accepted, a gap of several years existed between when she got her signature on the dotted line, and when that book got into print.

We are independent authors, and therefore WE do everything that the traditional publishing houses have teams for. WE need to do all the work, from writing, to organising the editing, to getting it ready for printing, to marketing and SELLING the book…

WE do all this work, and it can take months for this process to complete, in which we got bills to pay just like that solitary reader who had the cheek to call out “Your books are so good, I shouldn’t have to pay for them”. Well, I got news for you, reader (whomever you were that said this cheeky thing). If you don’t buy any of OUR books, we don’t have the finance  to invest into the next book that we’re writing which needs an author, a book designer, a proofreader, an editor, a layout designer, and anything else that’s needed to get book two out of the door.

I applaud M.A. Kropp for taking this stance, and I will stand shoulder to shoulder with her, and I am sure that every person who reposts his article can show their support too, and all those who re-tweet my blog posts can do the same…

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Author Interviews at nathaliemlromer.wordpress.com

TODAY my site officially opens its doors for interested Authors to submit for an Author Interview. The information is listed on this page:

Guest Writers & Author Interviews

On the page you will find a link to a Google Form where you can submit your answers. The interviews go LIVE on 16 May 2016, but you can start to submit NOW! All genres except erotica are catered for, and there are two interviews posted on each of these days – Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Interviews are posted in the order in which they are received, and the author is notified by my with a confirmation that their interview is scheduled. The email will come from hello@nathaliemlromer.com.

All posts are re-tweeted, and I get an average of 8,000 impressions a day currently. (1)

Re-tweet, re-post, and Press This article for extra exposure.

(1) Correct at the time of posting.

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New Book in Series – Marked by Honor – The Knights of Valor Series by Lauren Linwood

The featured book today – Word of Honor – is the first book in The Knights of Valor series by Lauren Linwood. Brief overview of the series to date: The Knights of Valor is the first his…

Source: New Book in Series – Marked by Honor – The Knights of Valor Series by Lauren Linwood

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Jenny Diski: 1947-2016 — Discover

Jenny Diski died on April 28, 2016, at the age of 68. Diski was an author of novels and nonfiction, a contributor to the London Review of Books, and blogger on WordPress.com at This and That Continued. At Longreads, Haley Mlotek compiles a reading list of nine stories celebrating the writer and her work.

via Jenny Diski: 1947-2016 — Discover