Wow! This has been challenging but a great exercise. I’ve been scheduled on a blog tour for my upcoming release, and I’ve spent the past week and a half writing multiple guest posts, the monthly post to a group blog, and my regular blog posts.
This tested my abilities and stretched me as a writer. I’m not using any of the posts more than once throughout this tour. It was important to me that they all be different. A few of them I’ll repost to my blog 6-12 months down the road but not all of them.
One of the hardest parts of blogging for me is the images. I know there are sites with royalty-free images, but I like to limit my use of those. I feel as though I’m taking advantage of those photographers. I have used my own pictures, but I don’t always (most often not) have pictures that will work for many of the blog topics I wish to explore, so it limits the topics I can use. I have an author friend (Waving at you, Suzanne.) who draws pictures for her blog. That opens up her options tremendously.
I wish I could draw, but I can’t. When my middle child was about four, he asked me to draw him a picture of horse for him to color in. I drew him a horse, to which he remarked that it didn’t look like a horse, and he never asked me to draw him anything else ever again. Smart boy.
So if I want to limit my use of free images, have limited photos I’ve taken, and I can’t draw, what is a girl to do?
Simple, I need to take more pictures. But not just any pictures. Pictures with purpose. So, I’m working on that and looking at things around me differently.
Hmm . . . Can I create a post out of a weed growing up out a sidewalk crack? I’ll have to think about that.
For now, here’s where you can find me in the coming weeks.
June 15th on Debbie Lynne Costello's Blog: “Where in the World is Kamola?”
June 25th on Christian Shelf Esteem: “Designed For Story”
June 26th & 29th on Shannon Vannatter’s Inkslinger Blog: “The Week That Almost Kept Me From Getting Married” & “THE WIDOW’S PLIGHT Character Interview & Excerpt”. I don’t know which one will be on which day.
July 2nd on Seriously Write: “Foundation of a Novel Series”
July 6th on Petticoats and Pistols: “Quilting Myths”
July 16th on Kimberly Rose Johnson's Blog: Author Spotlight
July 30th on Trish Perry’s Blog: Topic TBA
I’m a regular blogger the 23rd of each month on Heroes, Heroines, & History. June 23rd: “The War That Wasn’t—a.k.a. The Pig War”; July 23rd: “TBA”
And obviously, here on my blog for Tuesday Tidbits, Wordy Wednesday, and once a month ThrowBACKLIST Thursday.
See you in cyber space!
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THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available for pre-order at only $2.99--the low price for pre-orders...later it will go up. A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.
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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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