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3 Fun Links and 3 Writing Tips Plus a Free . . .

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3 Fun Links and 3 Writing Tips Plus a Free . . .

A free what? That’s what you want to know. If you can’t wait, scroll down to the bottom. But then you’ll miss the 3 Fun Links and the 3 Writing Tips.

3 Fun Links

Fun first! Here’s the first fun one!

Note: Spoilers for the film classic ‘Casablanca’, a 76-year-old film.

Then we have the second bit of fun:

How’s your Klingon? If anyone can post the lyrics to Happy Birthday in Klingon, I’ll send you a free ebook of your choice!

Finally, the third fun link, from your favorite comic paranormal animal author, your’s truly!

We Interrupt Your 3 Fun Links for a Freebie Notice

Psst! If you’re not yet a subscriber to our newsletter, here’s your chance! Click here before the link goes down. (Such as in a nuclear attack.)  We now return you to 3 Writing Tips and a free . . .

3 Writing Tips and a free . . .

Your first writing tip is right here:

Your second writing tip follows, surprisingly, the first one!

Then, next, we have your third writing tip:

For good measure, I’ll throw in a tip on marketing and getting reviews.

At Last!  Your free . . .

You knew I’d drag this out. But it’s worth the wait. It’s a free . . .

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2017: The year of My Undead Mother-in-law by Andy Zach

2017: The year of My Undead Mother-in-law

I thought I’d review 2017: The year of My Undead Mother-in-law. I know, everyone else does this at the end of 2017. Don’t expect normal behavior from a comic paranormal animal author!

(Hint to impatient people: the good stuff is at the end!)

2017 My Undead Mother-in-law
Get your copy of My Undead Mother-in-law by clicking here!

January 2017: First Author Appearance and . . .

I was on my last chapter of my first draft of My Undead Mother-in-law and I appeared at the bookstore I Know You Like A Book.

Read all about it here.

Up next is . . .

February 2017: Filing Author Taxes plus My Undead Mother-in-law Closing

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3 More Media Kit Tips for Authors – Get Yours Now!

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3 More Media Kit Tips for Authors

Hi! Those who remember my last blog post, 3 Media Kit Tips for the New Year, will be delighted to know I’ve got three more hot tips for you!

How hot?

Or maybe,

More Media Kit Tips
More Media Kit Tips!

Without wasting more of your time, let’s begin!

Media Kit Tip: The First – Product Info –

First, we must acknowledge our source: Platform by Michael Hyatt

Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by [Hyatt, Michael]

So what do I mean by product info?

1-1 Photos

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3 More Media Kit Tips
Free Zombie Turkeys book – subscribe to get

1-2 Physical Characteristics

This is from Amazon’s page for Zombie TurkeysTrust Amazon to get all this information!

https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Turkeys-Blogger-Fought-Unkillable/dp/B0771SPL5R/

Product details

  • Series: Life After Life
  • Paperback: 186 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (October 17, 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1539466752
  • ISBN-13: 978-1539466758
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars   12 customer reviews

 

1-2 Product Formats

 

 

 

 

 

Media Kit Tip the Second – Have Trailers

That would be Trailers, short and long form

Long form trailers would be up to five hundred words. Here’s mine:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em – they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed from bitchy into an irascible pinchpenny.

Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story. Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators, to machine-gunning turkey farmers, to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report. Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee-deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world.

With paranoid militias clashing with the federal government and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive. Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not listen to Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens.

Short form trailers would be up to one hundred words. Here’s mine:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em—they come back stronger.
If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not read Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to.

This is from my Createspace book preview.

Media Kit Tip the Third – Author Headshots

When I had my professional author headshots, my photographer took over sixty photos.  Here are some of them.

Paranormal Privateers Novel Progress
Andy Zach Author photo
Weekend Zombie News
Andy Cogitating
Christmas potpourri
Andy Zach dreaming of a white Christmas.

Watch This Space!

I have still more tips to publish in future blog posts!

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Bye for now!

next novel, Paranormal Privateers
Andy Zach smiling about his next novel, Paranormal Privateers