#1 Marketing Strategy: Cultivate Community

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Marketing Ideas From Cheri Cowell I’m often asked to name the number one marketing strategy for authors. With that question most are asking whether it is Facebook, a blog, writing articles, or one of the numerous other choices for marketing. But I choose to answer that question another way. I believe the number one marketing strategy is to cultivate community, and thus to identify what that means for you. Here are some questions to help you.

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The Mountain Midwife by Laurie Alice Eakes

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  For nearly two hundred years, women in Ashley Tolliver’s family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she wants to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the mountains she loves, and the awakening of her heart.

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Editing Tips #47

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Hi! I’m Kathy Ide. In addition to being a published author, I’m a full-time professional freelance editor. For CAN, I’m blogging about tips for writers based on the most common mistakes I see in the manuscripts I edit.

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Tips From the Pros: Billie Montgomery Cook

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Kevin: Welcome fellow CAN author, Billie Montgomery Cook! Billie, it’s great to have you on our “show.” Tell our readers how you got involved in writing? Billie: I’ve always been interested in writing, at least the concept of it, because I’ve always been interested in reading.  My 12th grade English teacher was the first to see something of a writer in me and seriously talk to me about it.  I was a History major in college which demanded a lot of writing, and there was the time a History professor of mine used a great deal of a term paper that I had written…

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