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Book Release Birthday!

July 10, 2013 by C.D. Hersh

Celebrate! Celebrate! We’re doing the happy dance at our house today!

Today is release day for our paranormal romance debut book The Promised One, book number one of The Turning Stone Chronicles series from Soul Mate Publishing. Right now it’s available as an e-book from Amazon.com, but will be out later as a print book.

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And while we’re on the subject of books, we’d like to announce that we’ve also signed two more contracts for book two and three of this series.

YIKES!

Now we have to get down to business, take our own writing advice, and get to work. Book two is 3/4 of the way finished. We’ve already had a couple of “plotting trips” to Michigan and Virginia to fill in that book’s plotting holes and do some more plotting on book three. And since we came back from our last trip we’ve been concentrating on getting a handle on Twitter and Facebook and Goodreads. We’re not there yet, but we’ll be making that jump any day now. In terms of social media, we are behind.

With that in mind, here’s our tip for today:

Don’t wait until your book is sold to figure out the social media stuff. Get your website up and learn how to manage it. Make your social connections with Goodreads, Facebook, Twitter and whatever else you can. Build your platform and social tribe following before you ever sell the first book. The learning curve on social media can be really steep for the non-technical person (like Catherine). If you’re not prepared it can feel like you are drowning in a sea of emails, tweets, comments, and likes. Swimming in them is much more fun.

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Posted in books, CD Hersh paranormal romance author | Tagged C.D. Hersh, new book release, The Promised One, The Turning Stone Chronicles | 4 Comments

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  1. on July 10, 2013 at 10:51 am Jennette Marie Powell

    Congrats!!! What a great cover too. Going to check it out now!

    You are so right about social media, except I’m a technical person – and it still feels like drowning!

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    • on July 10, 2013 at 11:15 am C.D. Hersh

      Thanks, Jennette. We love the cover, too.

      If you feel like you’re drowning — oh my! Donald is the tech savvy one in our family. He’s managing to dog paddle in the technology pool. Poor Catherine is barely hanging onto a log as he pushes her toward shore. Eventually she’ll get the hang of it, hopefully before she messes up too much social media. 🙂

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  2. on July 10, 2013 at 11:32 am Patricia Gligor

    An excellent reason to do the happy dance! Congratulations!

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    • on July 10, 2013 at 2:06 pm C.D. Hersh

      Thanks, Patricia.

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