How-To: Market Your Book

When it comes to book marketing, let's face it: most of it's expensive and rarely results in real sales. There are so many facets to marketing your story, it can be confusing and overwhelming. That's why, as an Indie Author in the never-ending struggle to get your book noticed, it's important to talk to other …

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OnlineBookClub.org reviews Between Octobers

The following is a book review written by Ashley Claire (from onlinebookclub.org) on my first book, Between Octobers. It's a great and thoughtful review, and I'm posting this to sort of lead-in to future posts. Official Review: Between Octobers by A. R. Rivera 4 out of 4 stars Post by ashley_claire » 21 Apr 2015, 13:05 [Following is the …

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Review: INERTIA: Threestone Trilogy Book 1

The following is a review of my book, INERTIA: Book 1 of the Threestone Trilogy, written by a reviewer over at Onlinebookclub.org. (Remember that name because I'll be blogging about my most recent advertising experiences with them in the near future!) ____________________________________________ Inertia is the first book in A. R. Rivera's sci-fi trilogy, [Threestone]. It …

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Book Review: Between Octobers

This is a GREAT review of my first book! Enjoy! Blog On Writing: Review "Between Octobers" by A. R. Rivera Between Octobers by A. R. Rivera Between Octobers by A. R. Rivera is a modern romance thriller packed with everything you expect to see from both genres, and a little more you might not. It tells …

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Summer Giveaway! Free Audio Books!

  So you've heard me go on and on about the SYNC Audiobooks Summer Reading Program, right?  If you remember, every week in the summer, they give away a pair of audiobooks. Usually fiction and non. Mostly YA, but it's really great YA. All you need is a working pair of ears (or just one) and …

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Back in The Saddle

Well, technically, the saddle is a chair.   At my desk inside the master bedroom. That's where I keep my laptop. The Fall Semester has ended and the Holidays have passed, (Thank God! They were exhausting, weren't they?) While I am awaiting the start of Spring classes at my local Community College, I've been trying …

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#FlashFiction Even though it’s not Friday

Hello, fellow bloggers and faithful readers! I've had my head buried in school books and am putting the final touches on my latest book (which I am SO ridiculously behind on) that I literally have zero time to blog. But I don't want to leave anybody hanging, or make you all think that I forgot …

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Book Release Bonanza with Donuts and Rachel Barnard

I don't know if any of you follow Rachel Barnard's blog, but I do. She's an author like me. She writes and reads many different types of books, like me, too. Unlike me, though, her obsession with donuts is public. Her latest book, Donuts In An Empty Field was just released June 3rd and she's …

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Teaser Tuesday

What I'm Reading Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with her life, changed forever. A …

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(Audio) Book Review: RUINS, Book 3 of the Partials Sequence, By Dan Wells

RUINS by Dan Wells is the third and final book in The Partial Sequence.  I wrote reviews on the first two books here and here (ICYI) and loved them both. So it's only right that I write this final review on the final book ... Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war …

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