As a writer, I value all reviews and appreciate the time that a reader has taken, first to read my book and then to spend time writing, then posting a review on Amazon, Goodreads, Bookbub or anywhere else.  So, what do you do with a great review?  Here are a few thoughts.

1.   Say thank you.
2.  Mention it and copy and paste it to your social media, with a link to... 
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Do you have a website?  How often are you asked this?  Do you ever ask it of others?  A contact in America recently asked if she could stock my books in, supposedly 4 shops.  I sent her all of my info and asked her for her website, she didn’t have one and said she has physical shops.  Really.

Many people now regard having a website as...
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We are all different and cope with disappointment in different ways and if we are honest, we all face disappointment at times in our lives, such as:

• The ‘A’ grade student who gains a ‘B’ in their exam may feel that they could have done better and they start to chastise themselves. 
• The author who slaves away over a manuscript, only to face rejection after rejection from publishers. 
• The couple who are desperate to have a baby, IVF has failed several times and they have been told that there is no hope.  READ MORE.

​Kanye West (https://www.kanyewest.com/), says, “We came into a broken world and we are the clean-up crew.

We all go through some form of brokenness at some point in our lives and we will all respond differently.  Death is the obvious brokenness and we will all face it, ultimately our own, but prior to that, the death of those that we know.  Some struggle to recover from grief, but as Christians, as the clean-up crew, we can do whatever we can do to support.  READ MORE