book promotion Archives - Tracey Gemmell

Reader Power: The Importance of Book Reviews

by Tracey | Sep 26, 2024 | book promotion

READER POWER: IT’S A THING I have published two trip fiction novels: Dunster’s Calling and More Or Less Annie. However, I’m not talking about my books today. The titles are mentioned because apparently you have to do that if you want friendly algorithms to recognize...

Writers, Readers, and Reviewers: My Inspirational Trinity

by Tracey | Jul 31, 2024 | book promotion, writer

We’re a funny lot, we writers. A big part of the job is the ability to sit in complete isolation, struggling alone to find order in the chaos that is our current work-in-progress. The job requires tuning out people, pets, plants, political debates – and that...

Lights, Camera, Relax!

by Exmoor1 | Jul 31, 2023 | book promotion, British humour, Humour, writer, writing

Lights, Camera, Relax! Ah, the glamorous life of an author. It mostly involves years sitting alone in a room with a judgmental empty page, a head full of ideas, and a cosmic void separating the two. Occasionally it involves a photoshoot. And that, for me, is where...

Travel Inspiration: Fiction or Otherwise

by Exmoor1 | Apr 30, 2023 | book promotion, Travel fiction

A few weeks ago, dreamy photos of Bora Bora floated across my social media platforms, reminding me it’s been six years since I was in that amazing part of the world. It got me thinking: how did I choose that particular speck on the globe of all the specks on the globe...

Finding Myself Online. Or Not.

by Exmoor1 | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog Post, book promotion, British humor, British humour, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, hiraeth, Hireth, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, search for home, Travel, writer, writing

Mission: Identify twelve search keywords that would lead others to find you online. Go. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Am waiting… Okay, two keywords. Can you come up with two? I know, right? It’s really hard. But that’s what I have to do as part of a website redesign project...

Wrong Time Zone. Right Book Zone.

by Exmoor1 | Jan 23, 2020 | Anglophiles, Blog Post, book promotion, British humor, British humour, British in the USA, citizenship, Exmoor, Expatriots, expats, Homesickness, Humor, Humour, immigrants, Living abroad, relocation, search for home, Transatlantic, writer, writing

The last decade ended with great excitement. I thought I’d purchased my first house in England, ready to move home after thirty years in the US. This new decade began with great disappointment. The purchase fell through. Hand wringing, lamenting, and yelling ‘A pox on...