Have you enjoyed the 2017 Indiependence Celebration?

I’ve had SUCH a great time chatting with all of you about everything from genres and tropes to the nitty gritty of blogging! And I’m so tired, I may just fall right out of my chair as soon as this post is up. Whew! Hope you all had as much fun as I did these past four weeks celebrating Indiependence in romance.

Authors and bloggers: Interested in participating as a speaker or sponsor of next year’s event? Sign up below and I’ll drop you a line when I start planning! <3 

Giveaway winners will be randomly chosen before the end of July and will be notified individually by email. Be sure you have davincikittie (at) gravetells (dot) com and sue (at) davincikittie (dot) com added to your contacts list or address book so you don’t miss a potential prize email!

Sign up to participate in 2018

Want to be part of next year’s event? Great! I’m looking for bloggers, authors (indie and traditionally pubbed), publishers, and other publishing professionals who want to reach out to readers in new and unique ways and partner on guest posts and fun events (like podcasts and wine-drinking video chats *grin*). I’m also looking for sponsors, so if you want to host a giveaway, you can sign up for that here too! Sign up below and I’ll email you once I start planning my 2018 event. <3

SIGN UP HERE

Articles, interviews, & posts

Discovery week

• Tamara Ford of ShelfAddiction shares her favorite blogs & podcasts for finding new romance reads
• A look inside GraveTells new book-boyfriend finder
• Tips from Instafreebie on finding books you’ll love

Story week

• Genres & romance trends
• Tropes & kinks
• POVs & age brackets

Blogger week

• How to decide if blogging is right for you and what you should know
• Set up your basics: platform, social media, mailing list signup
• How to get review copies & stand out as a blogger

Tech week

• Four essential tools for bloggers
• Reading tech & the rise of the ebook

Resources

• WordPress themes, plugins & lessons:
  • Nosegraze themes
  • Themeforest
  • Nosegraze educational courses
  • Ultimate Book Blogger plugin
• Graphics tools
  • Wordswag
  • Canva
  • Pixlr Editor
  • GIMP
  • Photoshop
• Social Media Planners
  • Sprout Social
  • PostPlanner
  • HootSuite
  • CoSchedule
  • AgoraPulse
• Blogging platforms
  • Blogger by Google
  • Squarespace, Wix, Weebly
  • Medium
  • Tumblr
• ARC and review copy suggestions
  • Instafreebie, Bookbub, FreeBooksy
  • Freebies on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited
  • Netgalley and Edelweiss
• Publicity tour companies
  • Barclay Publicity
  • InkslingerPR
  • Enchantress
  • TRSoR
  • Once Upon an Alpha
• Mailing list tools
  • MailChimp
  • MailerLite
  • Aweber
  • Constant Contact
• Other apps & websites
  • GraveTells podcasts
  • GraveTells Hello, World! example
  • Alternative to hello-world: “About me” page + an inspirational “you can do it!” type post
  • GraveTells example review policy and submission form
  • WordPress setup tutorials
  • Evernote

A HUGE shout-out to our #IndieMonth2017 Sponsors!

Thank you so much to the following authors, who each sponsored a giveaway for a lucky reader! Winners will be contacted before the end of July 2017.

Visit our 2017 sponsors below!

Lexi Post

Nicola Cameron

Carysa Locke

BA Tortuga

Chudney Thomas

AJ Anders

J.K. Harper

Dena Garson

Claire C. Riley & Cee Cee Riley

Shelique Lize

Jessica E. Subject

Christa Maurice

Rachel Leigh Smith

Marie Booth

Heatherly Bell

S. Usher Evans

See the Author Track wrap post & resource list

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