“Now that I’m Published…” Coping with Authorship Part 3: Social Media as Promotion

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

My first caveat for this post is Don’t do as I do, do as I say!

Because I do not have either a Facebook account or a Twitter account.  I don’t have an author page at either Amazon or Goodreads.  Am I the best person to write this blog? 

Perhaps I am.  Because I will tell you that I have resisted using social media for promotional purposes for my two short stories and therefore may very well have not tapped into an easy and affordable (can you say FREE) way to promote my work.

I have nothing against any of these forms of social media.  My reluctance has rested in the fear that these promotional tools would take even more valuable time away from my writing.  As fears go, it is not groundless.  I’ve seen how much time other people spend on Facebook; I know how often my students tweet.  Do I have that kind of time to log in on these sites?  No.  Neither do I want to create sites and not use them.  What is the purpose in that?  However, a happy medium needs to be explored, not just by me but by any author who wants to keep up with the quickly changing times.  If authors are going to be responsible for a substantial amount of their own publicity and promotions, we need to use all tools available to us.  Which includes the social media referred to above.

The first hurdle for me is to simply find the time to create author pages for Amazon and Goodreads and to figure out how to set up Facebook and Twitter accounts.  Everyone has told me these are easy to do–they obviously do not understand the depths of my technological ineptness!  But I will take them at their word and report back to the blog citing how easy or difficult the experience was once all these tasks are complete.

The Goodreads Author Program is one of the most wonderful tools for authors. “The Goodreads Author Program is a completely free feature designed to help authors reach their target audience — passionate readers. This is the perfect place for new and established authors to promote their books.”  The site, which is linked above, offers the opportunity for authors to create a profile and promote their books–all free of charge.

Amazon’s Author Central is a similar venue for authors, but includes additional services, such as tracking your sales on Amazon and a help desk for questions the newly published might have.  Again, all it costs you is the time it takes to sign up.  Definitely worth it, in my opinion.  (Yes, as soon as I publish this post I will sign up.)

Facebook, THE social networking service, has been in existence since 2004 and has a current membership of roughly 750 million users.  All potential readers for your work!  You just need to “friend” them, and let nature take its course.  Apparently, you have the option of setting up a regular FB page or an author page.  Chris Robley explains how to do this and the advantages of it in his article Facebook for Authors.  He makes this process sound easy and very advantageous.  Be sure to check out Part II as well.  (And yes, I will be clicking his link and setting up my page.)

And finally, Twitter, the social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends, or “followers.” Because my students are constantly tweeting on their cell phones, I thought it could only be used on phones.  Live and learn.  E-How has an excellent article that tells you “How to Get Started With a Twitter Account.”  And The Savvy Book Marketer article explains just how to use Twitter as a book promotion tool.

So I am going to take the plunge–get into the social networking arena and see if my sales rise accordingly.  Even if they don’t for these particular books, I’ll at least have all this apparatus in place for the next one that comes out!

Please let me know your experiences with using social media for promoting your books.  Are there dos and don’ts you’ve found?  Great tips you’ve run across?  Please share!

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Reviewed by Jenna: Goldie’s Excellent Bedroom Adventure–“Goldie and the Three Doms”

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Goldie’s Excellent Bedroom Adventure

I just finished reading Goldie and the Three Doms by Patricia Green and I’m still grinning. This Fractured Fairy Tale, a very modern and somewhat naughty retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, is an erotic romp that will keep you smiling at Goldie’s attempts to find a dominant man to respect and have fun with.

Tired of the wimpy men in Femville, Goldie sets off to find adventure in the bedroom with a man who knows treating a woman right means more than polishing her toenails.  She finds three men on Bear Island (where all the best Doms live), all very different in their masterful inclinations.  And it’s up to Goldie to determine who’s too soft, who’s too hard, and who’s just right for her.

Patricia Green has crafted this tale as a farce, skillfully blending the fairy tale genre with the BDSM theme.  Some scenes run to the silly (one Dom uses feathers as his discipline method of choice), but it’s all in the spirit of fun that pervades the short story.  The erotic scenes are hot and satisfying, however, for both the characters and the reader.  And Ms. Green’s wonderful use of alliteration, sprinkled throughout the piece, only adds to the overall charm of the tale.

I have read almost all of Ms. Green’s works, several of which are much more serious portrayals of erotic worlds.  But if you’ve ever been curious about the BDSM genre, but not sure how extreme you want your first encounter to be, Goldie and the Three Doms may be the perfect introduction to a more “adventuresome” time in the bedroom.  Experience that adventure with Goldie, and I believe you’ll find a Happily Ever After right along with her.

Goldie and the Three Doms can be purchased at New Dawning International Bookfair, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.  If you would like to see more works by the talented Patricia Green, please visit her website, Patricia Green Books.

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Six Sentence Sunday–As Long As You’re Mine

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Welcome back to Six Sentence Sunday.  My thanks again to those who visit me every week.  I do appreciate your comments so please, let me know what you think of my six.  This week we find out more about the note Raif left for Samantha.  Enjoy!

“Sometime after eleven, Lady Armstrong approached me and told me my things had been moved to another room because their nephew had arrived unexpectedly and that room is always reserved for him; but I put all that in the note I left you.”

            “I was in my room until after two o’clock, Raif, and I saw no note.”

            “I left it on your pillow, where you couldn’t miss it.”

            Samantha stared at him, and in a tightly reined voice asked,  “You thought I wouldn’t miss it on the pillow I had no intentions of sleeping on?”

            His eyes widened as his mouth formed the word, “Oh.”

            At that moment Samantha was almost glad she was not going to be trapped forever with this idiot.

Hope you enjoyed these six from As Long As You’re Mine. For more great snippets please go to Six Sentence Sunday.  Or join in the fun next week with six of your own.  

If you’d like to see more of my work, check out my previous post, “Christmas in July” and enjoy a free read.

And remember  Heart of Deception, is now available for purchase from Books To Go Now!, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble and Hog Wild from New Dawning International Bookfair.

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Six Sentence Sunday–As Long As You’re Mine

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Happy Fourth of July and welcome back to Six Sentence Sunday.  I really appreciate you visiting every week, especially your comments so please, let me know how I’m doing with my six!  There was so much interest in last week’s six, I’ve decided to give you six more from As Long As You’re Mine.  Perhaps shed a little light on who the stranger in the bed actually was? 

Samantha  has cornered Raiford Tolbert, demanding to know why she ended up in the wrong bed the night before.  Unexpectedly, he voices concerns of his own:

“And his name is Raiford too I assume?”  Now there was a hint of sarcasm in his voice and Samantha realized it had taken a disaster of monumental proportions, but Raiford had finally begun to grow a backbone.

“His name is Rafael Beauregard, Lord Armstrong’s nephew, who apparently also goes by the name ‘Rafe.’” Samantha shook her head at the idea of so much turning on a stupid nickname.  “That still doesn’t explain why you were not in the room you directed me to yesterday.”

“Didn’t you get my note?”

Hope you enjoyed this six from As Long As You’re Mine.  Shall we find out next week what was in the note?  Please leave a comment and let me know what you thought! 

For more great snippets please go to Six Sentence Sunday.  Or join in the fun next week with six of your own.  

And remember Heart of Deception is now available for purchase from Books To Go Now!, and Hog Wild from New Dawning International Bookfair.  Both are available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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Come to Your Senses: The Art of Using the Sense of Smell in Romantic Writing

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Romance writers should always use all five senses into their writing.  This strategy will put our readers into the virtual bodies of our heroes and heroines by showing how those characters are feeling.  Most romance readers want to vicariously experience the joys and thrills of love in this way.  In order to do this, the author needs to describe in detail, everything the characters experience—what they hear, touch, taste, and smell, and see.

In post number two of this series, I will explore the often neglected sense of smell.  Remember that the senses are channels of communication.  What does this sense communicate to you and to your characters?  How important is the sense of smell and how can we insure that we give it the prominence it is due in romance writing?

The sense of smell has been called our least important sense; is there any wonder, then, that it is often the one least used in writing, according to Chip Scanlan in his article “Writing With Your Nose.” “Our antiseptic age seems designed to rob us of smells or confuse our nose with synthetic concoctions that mask noxious chemicals with the aromas of the orchard.” Helen Keller called smell “the fallen angel.”

Least important perhaps, but still powerful, for nothing is so memorable as a smell.  I have only to inhale the pungent aroma of a fresh-lit cigar and I am transported back to my aunt’s car early in the morning, a six-year-old again, taking my uncle to work.  He smoked cigars.  Odors have the power to fix time and place in our minds like a snapshot.  Use that power in your writing to help your characters create a past.

Smell is also evocative of emotion.  “The information of incoming odors is first processed by the emotions and subsequently identified. This places our sense of smell at the root of our emotional being,” states Laura Walters in “The Sweet Smell of Romance.” 

Many writers will use the sense of smell when their hero and heroine meet for the first time.  Their own unique scents create a powerful attractive force, which is a documented phenomenon.  “Scents act as powerful triggers to our primal instincts when seeking out and evaluating a mate,” according to Dr. Alan R. Hirsch.

And finally, make your writing richer by adding odors the POV character would naturally smell within the scene to create a true sense of place.  These smells need not always be pleasant; in real life we smell both the roses and the manure in which they grow.  But creating an environment that evokes the world around your character will enhance your readers’ experience of that world.

The following excerpts from Only Scandal Will Do, my Georgian historical romance, shows how effective the sense of smell can be used to put the reader intimately into the scene.

“Lean your head just there, sweet.” His hand pressed her firmly against him so she could hear the strong beat of his heart, smell the clean, comforting citrus of his cologne.  She liked that fresh smell.

But later

She was rewarded, finally, for flung into the corner, hidden by the chair, lay the man’s big, black cloak.  Gleefully, she grabbed the expensive garment and pulled the warm folds around her.  It smelled like him, the clean, citrus rising from the collar.  That scent might haunt her for the rest of her life, but could be endured for now.

And in a final example, a noisome smell can sometimes evoke an even stronger sense of character.

By the time the world stopped spinning, she was being borne down the corridor in Nigel’s arms.  The rank smell of his sweaty, unwashed body permeated the mask and Kat fought back a wave of nausea.   

Tell me how you put your reader into your scenes using the sense of smell?   Do you find it more difficult to include smell than the other four senses?  Is there a particular smell you find yourself using specifically for heroes or heroines?  Thanks for sharing!

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Reviewed by Jenna: “Here’s Looking at You” with “A Look of Love”

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Have you ever seen in another’s eyes the look that says, without words, you are the center of someone’s universe?

That is the look Noelle expects to find, in Darlene Panzera’s sweet romantic short story A Look of Love. When her boyfriend, Jack, proposes, Noelle realizes she needs time to decide.  Jack is handsome, rich, an up-and-coming businessman.  But is that look really there?  Noelle’s not sure, but Jack expects an answer. 

Matters become even more complicated when a kind, handsome stranger comes to her rescue after her car hits an icy patch on the way to her brother’s wedding reception.  She begins to wonder could there be someone other than Jack in her life?  Or is he truly the man of her dreams?

Set against the wintry backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, A Look of Love poignantly reminds us of our need to be someone’s “one and only.”  As Noelle struggles to know her own heart, circumstances conspire to sweep her into a lasting commitment—but with whom?

I am not usually a reader of sweet romance, but this story touched a chord in me.  If it has been a while since you saw that look of love in someone’s eyes, Ms. Panzera’s tale will make you yearn to see it again.  A Look of Love is truly for the romantic in all of us.

Look for A Look of Love at Books to Go Now!,  Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and as an Android App.  To find out more about this talented author of sweet romance, check out her website at www.darlenepanzera.com.

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Six Sentence Sunday–As Long As You’re Mine

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Hello and welcome back to Six Sentence Sunday.  Thank you so much for visiting every week.  I do appreciate your comments so please, let me know what you think of my six!  This week I finished a Work in Progress that I have been working on for over a year.  I kept having to stop and start it because of other projects, but we (the characters and I)persevered and now it is ready to begin the critiquing process.  So what better way to start than with a snippet for Six Sentence Sunday.

In order to force her father to allow her marriage to Raiford Tolbert, Lady Samantha Easterling devised the scandalous plan of being found in bed with Raif.  After a wildly passionate night, she has called her father and Lord Armstrong as witnesses to her ruin:

The dark brown head emerged from beneath the covers and she saw a hand pass over his face, wiping sleep away.  She turned triumphant eyes to her father, savoring the look of shock and dismay on his face and that of Lord Armstrong.  She could hear the wedding march playing in her head already.  Joyously, she turned back toward her lover calling, “Raif, dear. . . .”

The next moment Samantha was clutching the bedclothes to her chest, all but falling out of the bed in her effort to get away from the man beside her. 

A naked stranger stared up at her with curious brown eyes and asked almost crossly,  “Who the hell are you, sweetheart?”

Hope you enjoyed my six from As Long As You’re Mine.  Please leave a comment and let me know what you thought!

And remember my newly released  Heart of Deception, is now available for purchase from Books To Go Now!, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble and Hog Wild from New Dawning International Bookfair.

For more great snippets please go to Six Sentence Sunday.  Or join in the fun next week with six of your own.

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“Now that I’m Published…” Coping with Authorship Part 2: How to Handle Obligation

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

It’s been official for almost a month. Thanks to New Dawning International Bookfair and Books to Go Now! and their fantastic staffs, I am a published author.  For years I worked for the day I could say I was an author.  But as I hinted earlier this month, (well, it was more than a hint) publication is only the beginning.  Because publication brings with it responsibilities:  to your publisher, to your readership, to your book, and to yourself.  Having written on one of the pitfalls of new authorship–the bad review–I thought I’d address another major problem of the newly published:  obligations.

Some new authors do not realize just how much your life is not your own once you sign on the dotted line.  Your publisher now has a vested interest in how well your work does in the marketplace.  They have invested time and money into publishing and promoting your work.  They expect, and you are obligated usually contractually but certainly morally and ethically, to assist the publisher in the promotion of your works.  This partnership is part of the obligation of being published.

Okay, so how bad could that be, really?  You maybe write a couple of reviews, you write a blog or two a week, you participate in an online chat, you set up accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon, and a website and maintain them all.  You perhaps do blog tours, you get interviewed, you interview and review other authors, you comment on others’ blogs, you join Yahoo Groups and/or Goodreads groups.  All with the intent of getting your name and your book titles out there to the paying public.

The problem, you ask?  Time.  There must be more time somewhere in the universe, if only I could tap it!  Because all this promotion takes time.  Time you could spend writing more wonderful books for your publisher to sell.

Thus begins the juggling act.  How do you keep all these promotional balls in the air and still add one for every project you are currently writing, one for critting, one for your family, one for your job, and one for God knows what else may crop up (always expect the unexpected!).  Octopus arms seem a good idea about now.

This obligation can overwhelm new authors, who may have just gotten the hang of writing and critting.  How on earth do you fit everything else in?

The truth is, you don’t.  You can’t.  Unless you’re Superman, or have a time bank from which you can withdraw a couple of spare hours each day, you will not be able to do everything.  This is where time management and the art of prioritizing, walk hand in hand up to the newly published and say “Tell ya what we’re gonna do…”  You are going to make a plan.

Because there are different schools of thought regarding the best way to promote your work, you need to make a series of decisions:

1) Decide which ways you plan to promote your work.  Your publisher may suggest several things to you.  Working with them (and you want to work with your publisher, not just make arbitrary decisions), decide on several (not more than 4 to begin with) ways you will be able to promote your books.

2) Make a list of these promotional events and the days/times you will devote to them.

3) Set aside time EVERY DAY just to write.  If you don’t produce new works you will be the literary equivalent of a “one hit wonder” in the music business.

4) Set aside time each week to critique your crit partners works (if you don’t do them, you won’t receive them).

Currently, I am able to devote my weekends to writing and writing related events.  I schedule everything from Friday morning thru Sun. night.  It takes a bit of discipline, a bit of ingenuity, and a lot of determination.  But the rewards, I am finding, can be very fulfilling (you get to write more books!) and very sweet (people actually buy your books!).

BTW–My publisher, New Dawning International Bookfair, in conjunction with their grand opening during the month of June, will be hosting a chat online at Publishing Trove beginning at 10 am Saturday, June 25, so come chat with me or any of the other New Dawning authors.  Maybe you will become a New Dawning author yourself!  Hope to see you online Saturday.

How do you cope with juggling your writing time and all the promotional/publishing obligations attendant on authorship?  Please share!

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Almost Heaven: Writer’s Retreat

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

As I’ve mentioned recently, I attended a writer’s retreat two weekends ago hosted by my local RWA chapter.  This is my first year with the chapter and my first retreat with them, my first writer’s retreat ever, in fact.  So I didn’t know what to expect.

What I got was a little piece of heaven on earth:  three almost uninterrupted days of non-stop writing. 

 I was skeptical at first that ten or so women could simply sit and write without stopping to chat or read bits aloud or otherwise procrastinate about their writing.  Wrong.  We stopped every once in a while, if someone had a problem or needed advice.  We stopped when there were workshops scheduled, but you didn’t have to go if you didn’t want to.  (I passed on the one titled “When the Words Won’t Come” because mine were flowing like the River Jordan at that point.)  In fact, at least one workwhop was cancelled because no one wanted to stop writing and attend it.

We stopped for meals, albeit grudgingly, even though the food was gourmet and absolutely delicious.  But meals served also as a time to “come up for air,”  as a point for everyone to touch base, talk about how we were doing, talk shop, talk about plans to attend the national RWA convention at the end of the month. 

Then right back to writing!  It was, hands down, the best writing experience of my life.  Because I had nothing to do but write.  I accomplished more from Thursday evening through Sunday morning than I have done in two weeks of writing haphazardly at home, constantly interrupted by family, pets, telephone and other assorted drama. 

During the weekend, I wrote an article and posted to my blog (despite a capricious internet), completed a detailed outline for a Regency novel titled The Widow’s Club, completed two and a half chapters of my Victorian romance novel As Long As You’re Mine (which I finished this past weekend), and completed an 18 page short story, Speed Date.  All told I was just shy of 50 pages in three days of writing.  One writer wrote 100 pages and finished a novel (but I don’t think she slept at all!).  Several other writers finished the novels they had been working on as well and our collective total output was over 1000 pages.

My advice to all of you, therefore, is this:  if a writer’s retreat comes your way, beg, borrow or steal the money to attend.  Unless you have the luxury of unlimited, uninterrupted time dedicated solely to writing, it is worth every penny spent for the time to write and the encouragement of your fellow writers gained through the experience.

Those of you who follow Six Sentence Sunday have already read six sentences from my new short story Speed Date.  It’s currently my new fave WIP and I’m really loathe to let the characters go after just 18 pages.  I know their story is not finished, so I believe I am going to continue it into either novella or novel length.  But I thought I would give you another, larger taste of it–an excerpt from the beginning of the story, before Roberta meets Gabriel. (For that snippet please see my previous post and keep in mind, this is only a first draft, lightly polished.)  Hope you enjoy this little Speed Date.

Excerpt from Speed Date:

What the hell am I doing here?

I looked around the large, crowded room and my grip on the Gucci shoulder bag slipped.  Sweat was probably not good for the leather.

This was what you got for drinking too much.  I had to have been drunk—three sheets to the wind drunk—to have taken this dare.  That’s what I had been.  Two margaritas more than I should have at Rachel’s last Saturday night.  Just enough to take the damned dare when Sydney made it.

I glanced around the room again, clutching the Gucci like a shield.

 I am so swearing off alcohol.

The official, a balding little man with clipboard in hand, motioned me to a nearby table.  I sat, pried the bag off my shoulder and leaned it against my leg for moral support.

Oh, God, I am so not ready for this.

Bong!

The sound of the gong deafened me as a pleasant-faced young man sat down in front of me.

“Hi.  My name is George.”

“Hi.  I’m Roberta.”

I was speed dating.

George, a sandy blonde with greenish eyes, kept clicking a ballpoint pen as he spoke.  “So, have you done this before?”

“Never.”  I tried to smile as if that didn’t make me sound like I was finally desperate enough to try anything.  “Are you from the area?”

“No, I transferred six months ago from Ft.Belvoir.  But I’m originally from Oklahoma.  You?”

“Yep.  Born and raised in Tidewater.  I live on theEastern Shore.”  I was supposed to tell these men the truth, right?  Concern flared.  What if he was a serial killer?  At least he didn’t know where on theEastern Shore.

“What’s your MOS?”  I saw a flicker of surprise?  respect? appear in his eyes.  I knew his jargon.  I might actually be salvageable.

“Counter-terrorism.”  Oh, Jesus.  TMD—Total Military Drama.  “What do you do?”

“I’m manager for an apartment complex.”  I’m as boring as they come.  Please go away.

“Do you like to party?  Know all the great hot spots around here?”

Translation:  do you know where the party is or are you a total nerd?

“I’ve heard Contraband is the bomb inNorfolk.” Crap!  Bomb is not the word you want to use with someone in CT.  But he didn’t go into ninja mode, so I ventured a question.  “What type of music do you like?  Something like fusion jazz?” 

Bong!

I made my face slacken a trifle.  “Aww.  Five minutes goes by too fast, doesn’t it?

He stood.  “Yes, well, um…nice to meet you…uh…Roberta.”

At least he did remember it.  Finally.  “You too, George.”

As he moved on to his next table, I made a sharp flick though the number one on what I termed my dance card.  One down, nineteen to go.  Twenty dates in two hours.

Considering my current track record was three dates in two years—dates, mind you, not relationships—I was in for an extraordinarily long dry spell starting tomorrow.  Cramming twenty dates into one evening was just tempting Fate to decree no more until mid-June 2028.  At least that meant I could get a date for my 50th birthday party.  Yippee!

Meanwhile, date number two sat down in front of me.  Tall, thin, curly dark hair, prominent Adam’s apple.

“Hi, my name is Stephen.”

“Hi, I’m Roberta.”

I will never drink again, so help me God.

What has been your experience with writer’s retreats?  Have you ever just staged your own and refused to open your door?  How do you cope with creating a worry-free space in which to write?  Love to hear from you!

And don’t forget my June releases, Heart of Deception and Hog Wild are availble now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  Or click on the covers to go the the publishers’ websites for purchase.

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Six Sentence Sunday–Speed Date

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Jenna Jaxon

Hello and welcome back to Six Sentence Sunday.  Thank you so much for visiting every week.  Last week, as I mentioned, I went to a writer’s retreat and accomplished quite a lot in four days.

One of the fruits of that labor of love was my current WIP, a contemporary romance called Speed Date.  On a dare, 32-year -old Roberta has agreed to do an evening of speed dating.  Date No. 8 is Gabriel, who turns out not to be the typical speed dater.  As promised, here are six from this brand new work.

“You want to get out of here when the gong sounds again and go grab some dinner, maybe?”

Talk about a speed date.  But I was hooked. “You don’t think they’ll mind if we leave?”

“We paid them.”  He smiled and his gaze took me in, head to toe as he said,  “I think I’ve gotten my money’s worth.”

Hope you enjoyed my new six.  Please leave a comment and let me know what you thought of Speed Date.

And remember my newly released  Heart of Deception, is now available for purchase from Books To Go Now!, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble and Hog Wild from New Dawning International Bookfair.

For more great snippets please go to Six Sentence Sunday.  Or join in the fun next week with six of your own.

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