Showing posts with label young adult. Show all posts
Showing posts with label young adult. Show all posts

Friday, May 26, 2017

10 Ways to Help Your Writer Friends

Hi Friends! If you don’t already know, I have written a book—The Aquaria Chronicles! This book is about 200 pages long. Within it are three smaller books and one short story. It’s for young adults or adult readers who enjoy the fantasy/paranormal/pre-apocalyptic genres. Hopefully you’ll have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. But I do need more people to read it, and that’s where I need help from my friends.

Here are 10 things you can do to help me out. You can also use them to assist your other writer friends in getting their books read. Every little thing adds up, and we certainly appreciate the efforts you have made. Each thing you do adds up over time, and creates a domino effect.

1. Buy the digital e-Book on Amazon.
2. Buy a printed copy when you have the chance. From conventions, bookstores, or directly from your writer friends.
3. Join our street teams, and then post an honest Amazon review.
4. Mark the book as to-read on Goodreads, then complete your review after you’re done.
5. Enter any giveaways offered and promote them to your friends.
6. Share your writer friend’s posts about their books. 
7. Participate in any online release party activities.
8. Add book links to your own blog or website. Let us know, so we can promote your site in return. 
9. Ask your local library if they’ll carry the book, The Aquaria Chronicles by Melanie Dixon.
10. Request the book from your local bookstore. 

Thank you so much for your work. Thank you to CL Flors (Progeny) for the idea for this post. 

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Aqua Marine—Adventures Underground—Novel Excerpt 3

“There’s a hammer behind your back,” the guard said. He walked up closer. I shuddered to see his eyes glow a luminescent blue colour. Could the bleed be affecting him? 

He grabbed my arm and squeezed. I think he must have bruised some muscles and tendons as I let out a gasp. I wasn’t injured enough to not think of swinging my hammer arm around though.

If you’d like to read more, please visit Aqua Marine at Pronoun Publishing to order. 

Sign up now and be entered to win one of ten prizes! Chances are good you’ll win something! Contest ends on November 1, 2016 at 12 am. Please share with your friends!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Aqua Marine—Adventures Underground—Novel Excerpt 2


A huge pounding hit the door. I looked back. A huge concave dent appeared in the door. Someone on the other side had rammed something into it.
“Hurry,” Mark said. “Have you found anything?” He was rounding up the cat and our equipment.

“I’m trying!” I said as my voice broke. I leaned against a narrow pipe to take a break. I was truly exhausted. Would the nightmare never end? 

If you’d like to read more, please visit Aqua Marine at Pronoun Publishing to order. 

Sign up now and be entered to win one of ten prizes! Chances are good you’ll win something! Contest ends on November 1, 2016 at 12 am. Please share with your friends!

Monday, October 17, 2016

Aqua Marine—Adventures Underground—Novel Excerpt 1

Joyce raced past us with a rifle slung over her shoulders. “Take cover folks, this is not a drill.”
“What’s happening?” asked Mark.
“Take a look,” yelled Joyce, nodding in the direction of a tunnel that led to the back of the aquarium. 
In the distance I could make the figure of what appeared to be a zombie. A light lit him up from behind, making him appear a lot like a silhouette.

If you’d like to read more, please visit Aqua Marine at Pronoun Publishing to order. 

Sign up now and be entered to win one of ten prizes! Chances are good you’ll win something! Contest ends on November 1, 2016 at 12 am. Please share with your friends!

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Vancouver Aquarium Slideshow

Alien Worlds Right on Earth


Copyright Mel Dawn

Please check out my other blog at Wordpress to see a slide show of photographs from the Vancouver Aquarium. This is a collection of images I have taken from the past five years or so. 

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