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The View From the Ball Turret

Emily Enger
August 26, 2021

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🤓 Creator of #YouShouldveBeenAnEnglishMajor
🪑 Co-owner of woodworking biz @enger_grove
📣 Book marketing/publicity coach for poets & fiction authors👇🏻

Something a little more modern this week! Madelei

Something a little more modern this week!

Madeleine L'Engle is best known for the YA classic, “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962). She was a prolific author, writing across genres--adult and YA fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

She is known for writing during the demanding years of early motherhood and talking about the importance of creative moms to continue to pursue their writing.

"Penguins and Golden Calves" is a reflection of spirituality and nature during a rafting trip L’Engle made to Antarctica, despite protest from family and friends. Why did her family disapprove of her adventurous travel? She was in her late 70s at the time! #badass

Today’s quote is not only timely in regards to the book banning we are seeing today, it is also a good summary of her experience as a writer. L’Engle certainly knew about censorship—something she got from multiple directions. Her books were often banned for their spiritual themes. L’Engle was a devout Episcopal who practiced a form of Christian Universalism. Many secular audiences found her writing too spiritual. However, most censorship of L’Engle’s work came from her fellow-Christians who balked at her open theology and the inclusion of witches, magic and other “non-Christian” elements in her fantasy stories.
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#youshouldvebeenanenglishmajor #madeleinelengle #awrinkleintimebook #penguinsandgoldencalves

Having fresh greens even in wintertime is 🔥🔥

Having fresh greens even in wintertime is 🔥🔥. I love my @lettucegrow !
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#hydroponics #indoorgardening #indoorgardeningtherapy

Social media (all the platforms) are a mess. They

Social media (all the platforms) are a mess. They are unreliable and frustrating. And they generate “likes” but not sales.

You would get more success for your effort by:

👉🏻 Focusing on getting reader reviews on your sales platforms (Amazon, Goodreads, your website and anywhere your book is for sale)

👉🏻 Getting your book listed in book promotion email lists that go to readers of your genre

👉🏻 Building relationships with booksellers (YES, people are shopping at independent bookstores again!)

👉🏻 Focusing on publicity (getting interviewed by podcasts and other media.)

Of course, all of these things come with their own effort and limitations, too. Which is why I will be unpacking them in my next newsletter (going out April 1). Make sure to sign up for my newsletter at goodenoughbookmarketing.com (link in bio.)
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#bookstagram #bookmarketing #bookmarketingexperts #bookmarketingtips #marketingfiction #marketingpoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #fiction #fictionwriter #fictionbooks

Who doesn’t love a free book?! I (Emily) am cu

Who doesn’t love a free book?!

I (Emily) am currently lining up a Bookstagram Tour for my husband John’s debut novel, Radium.

If you run a book account—reviews, author interviews, podcasts, etc—and would be interested in a complimentary copy of Radium to review, please DM me! Know someone else who is a book influencer? Please share this post with them!

Radium was met with some amazing early praise (swipe to see!! 🤩) It was also chosen last December as the featured read for One Book, One North Dakota.

Short Description:

Big brothers are invincible, aren’t they?

The Quinn brothers grew up in a desperate town in the flat farmland of western Minnesota. Jim, the narrator, is fifteen and damaged, the result of a car accident years before that left him with a head injury and a tweaked view of the world. He sees his big brother, Billy, in near mythic terms. They live together in a trailer house on the ditch-side of a beet field until Billy gets into bad trouble, and they go on the run.

Laws are broken, but with an older brother his only true friend on earth, Jim justifies their deeds, willing to do . . . anything . . . to keep Billy free.

Learn more at johnenger.info or follow the author at @enger_grove . Book was published by @ndsupress
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