Author Guest Blog & SIGNED “Tangled Threads” Giveaway w/ Jennifer Estep!

 

Hey Guys! Let’s Welcome The Awesome Jennifer Estep, author of the Elemental Assassin Series, to The Blog today!

I posted my ARC review of Tangled Threads last week and the book finally comes out tomorrow! {Tuesday}

Don’t Forget to Check Out The Awesome Giveaway at the End of The Post!

Greetings and salutations! First of all, I want to say thanks to Larissa for having me on the blog today. Thanks so much, Larissa! ;)

So Larissa asked me to talk a little today about social media and how I use it as an author. I’ll admit that I was a little late getting on the social media bandwagon. I put up a website and started blogging when I sold my first book back in 2006, as well as doing a monthly e-newsletter, but I didn’t start using Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads until early 2010.

But now, those things have become my crack. Seriously, I’m completely addicted. I check Facebook and Twitter daily to see what’s going on with my friends, other authors, and more. I use Goodreads more to keep track of what I read, but I interact with folks over there too.

It always surprises me the things that get a lot of comments and the things that don’t. If I spend an hour or two on a blog post, something I think is cool and somewhat interesting, I won’t get a single comment on it. Not one. But the random things that I post just because they amuse me, well those are the things that get multiple comments. It never fails. LOL.

For example, a few weeks ago, I tweeted a photo that I saw on Entertainment Weekly of Wonder Woman in her costume from the new TV show that’s being considered for the fall season. I didn’t think much of it, but I went back on Twitter on hour later and had gotten something like thirty comments on it. That’s huge for me! In fact, I think it was the most tweets I’d gotten about
anything before. LOL.

I think that goes to show that you can’t talk about yourself all the time on social media sites and expect to be successful. Sure, I keep folks updated on my latest news, like new covers, excerpts,
and things like that. But I also post book reviews, links to movie trailers, contests that other authors are running, just anything that I think is cool or interesting. I don’t have a huge number
of followers on Facebook, Twitter, or Goodreads, but I seem to get a few more folks every week.

So I hope that folks find my posts somewhat interesting and entertaining, whether I’m talking about my books, Wonder Woman, or something else entirely. LOL.

What about you guys? Which social media sites do you love or loathe? Share in the comments.

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Jennifer writes the Elemental Assassin urban fantasy series for Pocket Books. The books focus on Gin Blanco, an assassin codenamed the Spider who can control the elements of Ice and Stone. When she’s not busy killing people and righting wrongs, Gin runs a barbecue restaurant called the Pork Pit in the fictional Southern metropolis of Ashland. The city is also home to giants,
dwarves, vampires, and elementals – Air, Fire, Ice, and Stone.

Books in the series are Spider’s Bite, Web of Lies, and Venom. Tangled Threads, the fourth book, will be published on April 26, while Spider’s Revenge, the fifth book, will be released in October.

Jennifer also writes the Mythos Academy young adult urban fantasy series for Kensington. The books focus on Gwen Frost, a 17-year-old Gypsy girl who has the gift of psychometry, or the ability to know an object’s history just by touching it. After a serious freak-out with her magic,

Gwen is shipped off to Mythos Academy, a school for the descendants of ancient warriors like Spartans, Valkyries, Amazons, and more.

The first book, Touch of Frost, will be out in August, while the second book, Kiss of Frost, will hit shelves in December. First Frost, a prequel e-short story to the series, will be out in July.
Visit www.jenniferestep.com for excerpts and more.

 

 

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