Happy February, writers! Join us for the Insecure Writers Support Group here.
I’m thrilled to co-host this month, along with Louise – Fundy Blue,Mary Aalgaard,Patsy Collins at Womagwriter, and Nancy Gideon!
February 3 question – Blogging is often more than just sharing stories. It’s often the start of special friendships and relationships. Have you made any friends through the blogosphere?
Blogging has been wonderful for building relationships! The best part of IWSG, for me, is the community of writers I’ve come to know. And blogging offers more freedom and ownership than social media.
In 2010, authors from my small publisher started a blog hop– the beginning of my friendship with awesome author Nicki Elson. Since then, Nicki and I began a productive and fun critique partnership! She recently helped me select audiobook narrators.
I’ve also befriended quite a few warriors from the IWSG Ninja Army: Alex Cavanaugh, L. Diane Wolf, Natalie Aguirre, Chris Fey, Ellen Jacobson, Anna Simpson, Roland Yeomans, Pat Garcia, Stephen Tremp, and Feather Stone.
(I apologize in advance for my difficulty commenting on Blogger from my MacBook unless there’s a pop-up comment form. Clearing my cache doesn’t seem to work anymore.)
I appreciate all of your support in writing and publishing! If you’d like to spread the word about my new release, sports romance RIVALS launching 3-19-21, please sign up on this form.
In addition to Nicki Elson critiquing my baby, I’m grateful to Diane Wolf for her book design! You can find Rivals on Goodreads and pre-order on Amazon.
I’ll share my adventure creating my first audiobook for Rivals in a future post. It’s been so cool.
Jennifer Lane Books 
Congrats on the release! Thank you for co-hosting. I am so glad there are communities like this one.
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Steph, I agree–this is a wonderful community! Thank you. ❤
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PS sorry I can’t comment on your post due to my struggles with blogger embedded comments, but that’s great you met your writing coach through IWSG.
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Congratulations on your new book! Very glad you are part of the IWSG.
Thanks for co-hosting today.
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Thank you for all the hard work you do for this community, Alex! I’m so pleased to be part of it.
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Congrats on your new book. I would be glad to shout out about it in my Follower News on March 8th or April 12th. Email me at natalieiaguirre7@gmail.com if you’re interested.
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Thank you, Natalie! That is so kind of you–I’ll take you up on that! Happy writing. 🙂
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Congratulations on your new release! I wish you the very best of luck with your romance audio recording. That sounds interesting. LOL
Lynn La Vita blog: Writers Supporting Writers
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Ha ha, Lynn! Fortunately for my two narrators, salacious sex scenes do not abound in this book.
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A new release! Congratulations, Jennifer. Thanks for co-hosting. Best of success, eh!
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I appreciate it, Joylene! Happy 2021.
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Thanks for being a fellow co-host this month with me, Jennifer. OOooh! I love new releases.
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Hey, co-host buddy! New releases are the culmination of so much work. And very exciting!
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Good luck on your upcoming release. Best of luck.
Anna from elements of emaginette
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Thank you, Anna! I’m trying to market like crazy.
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I recognized almost all of the names on your blogging buddies list. It’s like having a wide circle of friends, innit.
Congrats on your new book!
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It’s a giant party, Jacqui! Glad we know/appreciate the same peeps. Thank you!
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Congratulations on your new release. I wish you all luck and huge sales!
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Hi, Yolanda! Don’t know about huge sales, but I am trying to market the book through multiple channels! Happy 2021.
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Thanks for co-hosting this month. Congrats on your new books. So glad to be part of this community.
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I appreciate it, Toi! We are blessed to be part of this community.
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I just finished my first audio book, and now I’m heading onto 2 more. The first one was tricky because I didn’t know what I was doing. Though, I did have a wonderful narrator. Good Luck!! Thank you for co-hosting.
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That’s great, Cathrina! I’m lucky to get some guidance from my sister, who’s an audiobook narrator. But it has been a steep learning curve.
Your new cover is fantastic and groovy! Congratulations.
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Congratulations on your book release. Blogging has made finding like-minded people so much easier than if we didn’t have internet. And we have easy access to folks from all over the world! It’s pretty amazing to think about.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
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You started the A to Z Challenge, Arlee? That’s so cool. I participated one year and enjoyed it, but my day job keeps me too busy to participate this year. What a great simile for blogging: opening a small business!
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Thanks for co-hosting today, Jennifer. I hope that you are having a fun day! Congratulations on your book release as well. Take care.
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Louise, I loved reading your post–what a wonderful blogging journey. Yes, co-hosting is quite a fun day!
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Congratulations on your new release! How awesome that you’ve found so many good friends, critique partners, and even designers through blogging. Thank you for co-hosting this month!
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It’s been gratifying to find both friends and much-needed writing help here, S.E.!
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One of the thing I love about blogging is “meeting” wonderful writing friends like yourself. 🙂
Congrats on the release! Happy to help out – off to sign up!
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That would be great to meet one day in person, Ellen! How lucky you got to do that with an IWSGer.
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Happy Book Birthday! And thanks for helping host today. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
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Hi, Samantha! Thank you for stopping by. Sorry I can’t comment on your post (Blogger doesn’t get along with my MacBook), but I love the idea of blog comments as a digital calling card. I also like your comment to readers that the IWSG is a peek behind the curtain. 🙂
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Thanks for co-hosting and woot for Rivals! I know I have made online friends. That’s the best part about the internet!
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I agree, Loni! There’s a lot of unpleasant stuff on the internet, but online friends makes it all worth it.
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Congratulations on your new release. Thanks for co-hosting this month.
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Thank you Olga! I’m glad you found a great blogging community as well.
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Reading about other writer’s processes here is inspiring. I ❤ this community. Congrats on the release, and thank you for co-hosting!
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Meant -writers’-.
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It’s cool to hear about so many different approaches to writing, Adrienne! I hope *your* process goes well this month.
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Good luck with your launch! Awesome to have found a critique partner through blogging. (Shannon from thewarriormuse [dot] com–I give up on trying to sign out of my podcast WordPress and back in again after commenting, lol)
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Hi, Shannon! That’s cool you have both blogger and wordpress! I’m having trouble commenting on blogger, so I visited you on Facebook.
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I’m glad you were able to find your CP! Congrats on your book coming out.
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My CP has been a godsend, J!
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I have also found blogging much better forum for connecting with people than social media, though having said that, I have made friends with incredible fellow writers on Twitter.
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That’s great you’ve formed quality friendships on Twitter, Luciana!
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I have, to my surprise, and a few have become beta readers for me as well 😀
Thank you, Jen.
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Oh my gosh! Rivals looks great and I do love the cover! I will check if I can pre-order at Amazon Canada. I’ve made friends blogging too, and glad they are friendships that even if haven’t connected for awhile–when we do again it’s like we ‘saw’ each other just yesterday.
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Hi, Lynn! Thank you for the cover love. Your comment made me curious, and I found that you can pre-order Rivals in Canada. Great to have blogging buddies!
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Yes you can and I did. Thanks!
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Thank YOU! ❤
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I’ll look forward to your audio book post. Interesting! Thanks for co-hosting.
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Since I’m addicted to audiobooks, Melissa, I thought it was time to create my own. It’s been a blast!
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I look forward to your audiobook post — you sound so excited about this release! Good luck 🙂
Ronel visiting for IWSG day The Great Pretender
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To quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” 😀
By the way, I’m working on creating an ARC on StoryOrigin, thanks to your suggestion. I’m having some technological difficulties trying to create an ePub and mobi of a book sample, but I hope to soldier through!
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Nice article, thank you!
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Thank you for stopping by!
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I’m so glad the topic was about blog friendship. It really reminded me how important it is to visit other blogs. And I have to say, even though I am not really a fan of either sports or romance, your cover is fantastic! Drew me in right away, and made me curious.
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My cover designer, Dan Irons, and I are happy to hear that, Raven! Thank you. 🙂
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Thank you for co-hosting! Just getting to February’s IWSG Posts.
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I enjoyed co-hosting, Debra! I’m having trouble commenting on blogger from my MacBook darn it, but that’s great you got some editing done recently!
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