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  • GOOD NEWS ~ DIANA JACKSON’S WEEKEND BLOG TOUR

    I am pleased to announce this weekend’s blog tour from: Friday 15th February to Monday 18th March FRIDAY ~Launching this tour on Friday 15th February I will be a guest blogger on Debra Brown’s historical blog which is well worth a follow. You will gain an insight into some of the interesting and intriguing research…

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  • Happy New Year and Blog Resolutions for 2013

    Hi Folks and a Happy New Year to you! A past reflection  Oddly enough it still appears that it is my spontaneous, one off posts which attract the most attention. In 2011 it was ‘Can you Snuggle in Bed with a Kindle?’ and I thought this year it was going to be technologically related too, and…

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  • Love Comes Later by Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

    Love Comes Later ~ Guest Author Interview Please enjoy this interview with Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, author of the heart-breaking multicultural romance, Love Comes Later. Then read on to learn how you can win huge prizes as part of this blog tour, including a Kindle Fire, $550 in Amazon gift cards, 5 autographed copies of Love Comes Later, and 5…

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  • A salutary lesson…..Never rush a blog post or a comment!

    I was checking the statistics of my blog posts just now and was surprised to see that the post: ‘Legends and Folktales ~The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter’ came near the top, alongside ‘Can you Snuggle in Bed with a Kindle’ and ‘I feel somebody has pressed the pause button on my life.’ Strange I thought. Are…

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  • Talking to your Readers

    Today I am going to share with you my experiences and tips for making contact with potential readers but especially ideas for giving talks about your writing: On Line Contact Since the launch of Riduna, like all authors on Social Media today, I have been reaching out to potential readers, and that moment of contact,…

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  • A Reflective Moment

    This afternoon I have been catching up on emails and Facebook. I have yet to click on Twitter and was in two minds as to whether to write a blog post today. You see, for nearly a month now I’ve had a bit of a break due to pressures of my other work. I was wondering how I…

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  • Inspiration for my novel writing ~ The five elements influencing my blog

    There are now five major influences on my creative writing although these are ever evolving: My Family History ~ My quest to find out that my great-grandmother who was born on the island of Alderney and, not out of choice, relocated to Woolston Southampton. The island of Alderney itself. It is wild, beautiful and like no…

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  • Are you Receiving Me? – Do you need to worry about generating comments?

    Of course I enjoy people taking the trouble to comment on my blog but, just because there are none left on the actual blog post each time, I am still cheered by the way people respond in other ways and other factors: Statistics – Now that I am using Hootsuite to schedule tweets, (thanks to a…

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