Self Promo Stories: Authors’ Boldest, Cleverest & Wackiest Strategies to Sell their Books By Valerie Estelle Frankel

Self Promo Stories: Authors’ Boldest, Cleverest & Wackiest Strategies to Sell their Books

By Valerie Estelle Frankel has jest been released on Smashwords and it is absolutely free to download.  Authors share their experiences with what worked for them when they were vendors pitching their books. Kyle and I have a story in this.  We shared our first experience signing books at Rad Coffee.  You can download the ebook and read my story here.

"Looking for wonderful advice on self-promotion? This book has it all: silly hats, theme candy, sandwich board costumes. There's also plenty of up-to-date social media advice -- Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogging, KDP days, and more." 

Artist for Diary of a Sorceress!

The amazing talent that is Steve G Santiago has agreed to do 10 b&w interior artwork and a colored cover for my forthcoming poetry collection, Diary of a Sorceress!  I am so stoked!!!  What better combination than art and poetry??  He and Derrick Hussey are currently coming to terms and Steve hopes to start at the beginning of 2017 when he finishes up other projects.  I cannot wait to work with him!  If you are unfamiliar with his work, you can check out his gallery here.

Here are some of my favorites.

Yog-Sothoth illustration for The Gods of Lovecraft book. Sept 2015

1 of 3 interior illustrations for "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile" published by Dim Shores

1 of 3 interior illustrations for "The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile" published by Dim Shores.

Revised Nyarlathotep illustration.

Original tribute art of H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

Weridbook #33 by Wildside Press Arrived!

I have just received my contributor copies of Weirdbook #33 by Wildside Press!  My poems, Bathory in Red and Blood Siren's Alcove, can be found within.

Table of contents

Fiction

The River Flows To Nowhere by John R. Fultz

The Amnesiac’s Lament by Scott R Jones

Trance Junkie By Bruno Lombardi

Bad Faith by Will Blinn document page 56

Dwelling of the Wolf by Franklyn Searight

The Ruby Palace by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

The Screams at the Keyhole by Garrett Cook

Diary of an Illness by C. M. Muller

Teatime with Mrs. Monster by James Aquilone

Train to Nowhere by Adrian Cole

Poetry & Prose

A Cure for Unrequited Love by Donald W. Schank

The Owl by S. L. Edwards

Bathory in Red by Ashley Dioses

Blood Siren's Alcove by Ashley Dioses

The Woodland funeral by K.A. Opperman

The Lady in Scarlet by K.A. Opperman

The Ghost Carriage by K. A. Opperman

Hymn to Shub-Niggurath by Darrell Schweitzer

NOCTUARY OF SFATLICLLP by Frederick J. Mayer

SFATLICLLP'S GHOUL by Frederick J. Mayer

NILE LAMIA RECALLS by Frederick J. Mayer

Project (Mini)

I have assembled roughly 55 poems to be in another collection.  This is more of a side project that will contain poems written in my teenage years.  I picked the poems I think are the best of that time period and the ones I think are salvageable and can be edited and polished.  This will be a strictly horror collection.  I created 4 sections: Nature, Supernatural, Psychological, and Physical (Body Horror).  I spent all day yesterday creating the sections and organizing the poems fittingly.  Now to edit them....  

Ravenwood Quarterly

I have just received an epic package containing issues 1 and 2 of Ravenwood Quarterly along with both Ordo Silentiums and an awesome patch.  I am glad I snagged one of the remaining issue 1's for I was unfortunately unaware of this publication when it just started.  My poem, Scarlet Autumn Aurora, appears in issue 2, which is a badass Halloween issue.  My poem is more autumn themed than Halloween themed.

These issues look absolutely amazing and I can't wait to delve through them.