Morley Indie Book Fair 2019

Rose English UK Author & Maria Gibbs Author next FREE Book Event is

Morley Indie Book Fair

There is just under one month to go to our next FREE Book Event and we are returning to Morely near Leeds (UK). This year funds are being raised for SWAN ~ Syndrome without a name.

This event is family friendly with writers from across many different genres, and the day will include workshops and reading by some of the attending Indie Authors.

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Venue

📖 📚 🌹Saturday 5th October 2019 🌹 📚 📖

Church of the Nazarene

Morley LS27 9BX

10:00 ~ 16:00 hrs

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Attending Writers

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Thank you for visiting

 

 

UK Indie Lit Fest FREE Book Event 2019

The Fourth Annual UK Indie Lit Fest is happening this summer!

Bringing together over 30 Indie authors & poets from across the United Kingdom, the UK Indie Lit Fest 2019 is a FREE family day out with so much to offer. With attending authors selling signed copies of their books – Live Readings, Workshops, Q+A panels and Publishing houses in attendance, Plus Much More…

So bring the family and come along to this fantastic day out in the city of Bradford. You can find us at the Kala Sangam arts centre.

FREE tickets can be registered here: https://goo.gl/to642T

Keep up to date with all our announcements at http://www.ukindielitfest.com
facebook.com/ukindielitfest
twitter.com/ukindielitfest1
instagram.com/ukindielitfest1

Sponsors:
Follow This Publishing
IngramSpark / Nick Singh
Jumping Jack Graphics

Day 08 Roses & Dreams #WorldBookovision

#WorldBookovision Day 08 and Week 02 Begins

Where is the time going, the days are whizzing by. The first week of December has flown. We have seen seven wonderful #Books and featured some amazing #IndieAuthors You can still click on the Advent Calendar below and look at those that have passed

#AdventCalendar

Click the image of the calendar to open the link, then you can open the window and check out the book behind it. (Links in the window will take you to the party page).

The weeks featured #IndieAuthors were :-

Day 01 Sherri A. Wingler

Day 02 Rose English

Day 03 Joshua Sutton

Day 04 Deb McEwan

Day 05 Chris Turnbull

Day 06 J.S. Burke

Day 07 Romella Jones

Week 01 #WorldBookovision Featured Books

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Happy Reading

Don’t forget to #Share with your Book Lover Friends

Thank You

 

 

Day 02 Roses & Dreams #WorldBookovision

#WorldBookovision Day 02

Day 01 was very exciting and a great start to the event, with #IndieAuthor Sherri A. Wingler our friend and mentor from the US. Click HERE to re-visit Day 01.

#AdventCalendar

Day 02 click the image of the calendar to open the link, then you can open the window and check out the book behind it. (Links in the window will take you to the party page).

Today’s featured #IndieAuthor is Rose English

Sorry but I don’t want to give anything away, let people have chance to open the window and visit the party page. I will add info on the featured author and book tomorrow.

Young Ebenezer ~ A New Christmas Carol by Rose English

In the meantime let me remind you that ‘Young Ebenezer ~ A New Christmas Carol’ by Rose English is on a special #AmazonCountdown and on Day 02 it is ONLY 99p/99c to download. Take a peek inside by watching the slideshow below.

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Happy Reading, Enjoy the events

Over for another year, the UK Indie Lit Fest

UK Indie Lit Fest 2018

What an amazing day, the rain did not keep the sunshine from entering Kala Sangam  in Bradford where the 3rd annual UK Indie Lit Fest was hosted last weekend. There were so many talented writers chatting with a great number of Book Lovers and readers of all ages. There are tons of photographs to check out on all the social media pages but visit the lit fest website for some of the best ones. Click the logo to visit.

Book Lover, Superfan, WINNER.

Although the UK Indie Lit Fest is a FREE Book Event all those attending were asked to download a FREE ticket. This not only helped us with finding out the numbers who might have been attending, but the ticket also acted as a raffle ticket with the opportunity for one lucky attending book lover to win a signed book.

No one was more suprised than our superfan and blogger Rainne Atkins who was the winner of the draw. She was telling me last year she spent around £200 on books, so she has been saving for a whole year. The way she was buying books I bet she exceeded last years spend? Rainne is a wonderul person and always happy to help Indie Authors, Writers & Poets. Congratulations to her the prize could not go to a better person (Actually I think she used the prize to treat her granddaughter Shanice to a book by our Indie Author friend K.S. Marsden.

Click HERE to visit Rainne’s wonderful blog and see the phenomenal amout of books she reads and reviews.

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Lit Fest Image with Winner Rainne

From left to right Pete Singh leader of the #IndieArmy volunteers, Directors Chris Turnbull, Me in the glasses Rose English, Director Joe Kipling. At the back Nick Singh representing our sponsors IngramSpark then Shanice with her grandma Winner/Superfan Rainne Atkins and the main Director and the brains behind the event Dawn Singh.

Thanks for visiting don’t forget to check out the photo’s

Happy Reading

The #IndieRoarChallenge 2015

The Indie Roar Challenge 1^st June – 10^th June 2015

#IndieRoar Challenge  #IndieBooksBeSeen

30+ authors & around 60 books on offer

#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 1  

Easy Peasy. Tell us what #Indie book you’re #Currentlyreading right now 2015. #IndieRoar

Oh, and don’t forget to include the #IndieRoar hashtag so we can see your entry!

And yes, this challenge is easy!  But know that it’s the easiest one you’re going to get! We’re going to start hitting higher octane levels from here on out. 🙂

I was reading ‘The Shadow Rises’ Book 1 in the Witch-Hunter Series by K.S. Marsden

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 2

Tweet a pic of the actor/actress you would like to portray your fave Indie book character! #IndieRoar

First, figure out your favorite Indie book character (for a stand-alone, or a series).  Second, choose which real-world actress, or actor should portray your favorite character if the book was turned into a movie.   Hmmm…right?! So many choices!  So, many folks to choose from!  And, which pic of them to tweet out?  You never know, maybe you want the actor the way they looked say, 10, 20 – ahem – 30 years ago? J
Only YOU can decide!

Sparkle, tweet and ROAR!

Rupert Friend to play the dashing English Gent, Hunter from ‘Shadow Rises by KS Marsden

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 3!

Tweet a memorable line for an Indie book you’ve read. #IndieRoar

Wowsers! What a tweet-erific day yesterday! You guys are super creative! Hollywood could use some of you fab casting directors! You guys tweeted pics of Selena Gomez, Micheal Ealy, Matthew McConaughey, Chris & Liam Hemsworth, Rihanna, Helen Mirren, Glenn Close, Kate Beckinsale and many many more!

Today’s challenge is to dig a bit deeper and tweet the sentence you absolutely LOVE from an Indie book you’ve read. It can be a sentence you love, or hate. A sentence that moved you, or made you mad.  In essence, it has to be a sentence that polarized you one way or another!

“I did not lay a hand on her, and yet her soul floated free above her body. It hung there, a beautiful shade of shimmering rose gold; an old soul in a young body”

From ‘Wings of Darkness’ by Sherri A. Wingler

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 #IndieRoar Challenge – Day 4!

This Challenge I believe was to share a picture of yourself with an Indie Author

Obviously I did not know anyone at the time so I created my own LOL

Kelly S Marsden & I

I hope Kelly didn’t mind we have actually become friends I discovered she lives in my old town. Small world.

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 5!

Predict the title of your favorite Indie author’s next book! (Funny, or serious — you choose!) #IndieRoar

Today’s challenge is more intellectual.  We want to know just how well you know — or, think you know! — your favorite Indie author and his/her work.  Tell us what you think they will name their next work.  You can’t tell us a book name that the author has already shared via cover reveal, or an interview!:-)

As always…keep it Indie trendy!

 

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 6!

Go out into the world and proclaim your love of Indie books and authors! Publicly tweet your passion in action! #IndieRoar

What do we mean? Go out into the world and take your Indie love, passion & gumption and share with us! Take your favorite book to the park and have lunch with it! Snap a shot and let us see!  Heck, if you wanna say, “I Love Indie!” do it in a BIG way! (Just don’t get arrested…)

Feel like High Tea with you favorite author? Make it happen however you can!   Craving a day out and about? At the races? At the dog park? Maybe at the zoo? Show us how you INDIE!  ‘Cause indie is a way of life in addition to HOW we come to market.
Bring your creativity to the fore and show us your #IndiePride!

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 7!

Create and tweet a Wordle you created for/about your favorite Indie book/series/author! #IndieRoar

What’s a Wordle?  It’s a great pictogram that contains words of your choosing that relate to your favorite book, series, or author — Indie, of course!

You can find the Wordle page here — http://www.wordle.net/

‘Wings of Darkness’ Wordle

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 8!

Today is the #Selfie #IndieRoar Day! Show us your coolest, most chic, selfie!

 

What’s not to love? It’s a selfie! Get wild and crazy and do YOU in front of your camera!

 

 

 

 

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#IndieRoar Challenge – Day 9!

You scream. I scream. We all scream for…your 5 all-time favorite Indie books! #IndieRoar

It’s all about the read. We do all that we do as writers so that someone else out there can kick back on the beach, in the park, or snuggled in their bed with (hopefully!) our books.

So, which Indie authors, or Indie books inspire you? Pick 5 and tell us why. Post on your blog, or website and tweet out the link so we know which reads get your heart pumping!

1. ‘Wings of Darkness’ Immortal Sorrows Series by Sherri A Wingler

Young Adult Paranormal, the angel of death

2.  ‘The Vintage Coat’ Chris Turnbull

By putting on an old military coat a young man slips back in time to World War II a story of  love and some of the hardships faced during the war.

3.‘Riduna (The Riduna Series Book 1) by Diana Jackson

Historical fiction, a story of love & destiny on the Channel Islands late 19^th century

4. Jason the Penguin: (He’s Different) – Deb McEwan

Children’s book about a very different little penguin called Jason

5. Rising Tide: Dark Innocence (The Maura DeLuca Trilogy Book 1) – Claudette Melanson

Young Adult Paranormal Fiction, a young girl is changing but her mother does not want her to grow up

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  #IndieRoar Challenge – Day 10! (Final Day)

 Pen your own perfect first sentence to your “Great American Novel” and tweet it! #IndieRoar

Today is the final day of our challenge.  Are you sad?  Are you glad?  Either way, we have to go out with a BANG.  What kind of Indies would we be if we didn’t write something special for our readers?!

In honor of our collective readers, write the first line of your next novel, the novel you’d always dreamed you would write the novel your mother/brother/teacher/mentor/friend/husband told you to write — write the first sentence of that book. (Click image to enlarge)

Did you spot anything here? The line is from ‘Seal Mother’ which I am only just now on the verge of completing. It just goes to show how long it can take to create a book.

The end is nigh.  The fat…ahem…the lady has sung the final aria and the curtain is about to fall.  How will we remember you?  Haunt us. Pleasure us. Entertain us.  We’ll love you for it!

This was such great fun and like I mentioned in a previous post

I was Joint 1st Prize Winner

Thank You #IndieRoar & #IndieBooksBeSeen

 

#IndiePrideDay 2018

Celebrating #IndieBooksBeSeen

Today Sunday 1st July 2018 we are helping to spread the word and encourage readers to try more books, by Indie Authors and poets. The event was set up in recent years by author of ‘Keeper of the Wind’ Mark Shaw whose aim is to help Indie Authors like himself get noticed. (Click image to enlarge. )

You can find out more about the book by clicking HERE to be taken to Mark’s Facebook page and see some great pics about the story (which I loved by the way. Three friends find some ancient artifacts that have magic powers. They put them up on eBay and some dude wants to offer them enormous amounts of money for them. Obviously they become suspicious and hold back selling them. Turns out this dude is pure evil so they have to watch their backs sorry can’t tell you any more or I will give the whole story away.)

The Indie Roar Challenge

I think I first started to take notice of #IndieBooksBeSeen when I took part in the #IndieRoarChallenge in June 2015, just prior to Indie Pride Day on 1st July. It was great fun, a 10 Day challenge from 1st to 10th June 2015 and guess what I was a joint First Prize Winner look at all the lovely books I bagged (I will do another post later dedicated just to the Indie Roar Challenge I completed). Again click the image to enlarge.

Indie Pride Day & UK Indie Lit Fest

I am so proud to be part of the #IndieArmy and the UK Indie Lit Fest Therefore, throughout the day I am helping to promote the participating authors and poets attending the event. Watch this space, and check out Social Media particularly Twitter we are hoping to have #IndieBooksBeSeen trending at some point through the day. Join us and #SpreadTheWord.

#SpreadTheWord

Writers Attending

Books on the International Table (Author NOT attending)

 

Indie Authors ~ why they need our help.

Indie Authors need our help because they do everything for themselves. They generally pay all the bills, for not only are they the creators of the story but they are the compilers, promotors and marketing managers too.

They put many hours into writing a book, then need to pay out for it to be edited (maybe several times). They need to pay to have the book formatted (or spend hours once again doing it themselves, like me.)

Book covers and graphics all need to be paid for, designed and tweeked etc, and they don’t come cheap. All that is even before they start to promote the book. It’s a hard business to be in. So at least we can offer our support even if it is just for one day. #IndiePrideDay.

Thank you for visiting, and thanks for your support

Happy Reading

 

#IndieAuthorWeekUK 9th to 16th June 2018

Oh I am just loving celebrating the books of Indie Authors around the UK I have already added so many fabulous books to my reading list. How about you? You can find out what others have been doing on the Indie Author Week UK page over on Facebook click the image below

I’ve been helping to #SpreadTheWord and I am going to do that here also, with the images borrowed from UK Indie Lit Fest.

I myself will be taking part in the Indie Lit Fest event with my lovely author friend Maria Gibbs we share a table at Book Events as Roses & Dreams click HERE to read more about the pair of us working together.

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You can visit the UK Indie Lit Fest website for more info on the FREE Book Event taking place at Kala Sangam in Bradford Yorkshire on Saturday 28/07/2018 Click the logo to find out more

Don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled all week, you may find yourself a couple of new favourite authors to follow. I have already and we are just over halfway through the week.

Happy Reading one and all

 

UK Indie Lit Fest first authors announced

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