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#3dChicksAndSomeBooks Angelique Clemens Author of “Can I Borrow Your Skin?” In-depth Book Interview #bookpromo #michlit #michiganwriters #blackgirlmagic #motownwriters
About book:
The much anticipated debut novel of Angelique Clemens combines the storyteller of fictional novel with the step-by-step benefit of self-help books. The gripping story of a young professional woman moving through the obstacles of losing a sibling, establishing a career, and trying to find romance all while struggling with self-identification. Can I Borrow Your Skin outlines self-affirmation techniques and demonstrates their benefit for self-esteem building and self-conceptualization. The author, Angelique Clemens, walks the reader through the struggle of self experienced by the protagonist and helps them emphasize with her plight.
The novel is a unique combination of three genres and is written in the tradition of The Self-Love Workbook by Shainna Ali, 50 Shades of Grey by E. L. James, and The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow. The author paints such a vivid story that the reader will feel immersed in the sights, sounds, and feelings as if they were walking alongside the protagonist or perhaps under her thumb.
Book Website www.CanIBorrowYourSkin.com
Amazon Book Page: https://amzn.to/31riHCA
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Angelique%20Clemens%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall
From the author:
I wrote a guide book to help persons who read Can I Borrow Your Skin. The guide has three parts, the pre-read which explains some of the alternative relationships that are noted in the novel. The post-read which helps walk the reader through the mirror technique used by the protagonist in the novel. The book club aid which has some discussion topics for book clubs who read the novel. For the guide:
Barnes & Nobel paperback https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-guide-to-the-mirror-angelique-clemens/1136501059?ean=9781078781749
Nook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-guide-to-the-mirror-angelique-clemens/1136501059?ean=2940162771906
on Amazon: paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085DRTD8C or Kindle https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085C428WW
Book Interview:
· What inspired you to write this book?
I was moved by significant events in my life and the life of those around me. Writing about those experiences and working through different outcomes is what inspires my writings. The protagonist experiences a serious loss and struggles with self identification and starts to define herself by the relationships that she maintains. As a woman who has struggled with self-concept herself, I wanted to write something that spoke to others in this situation. I used the protagonist to first show how easily self-doubt and lack of self-knowledge can manifest.
· Can you tell us about the book?
Can I Borrow Your Skin is a romance novel about a woman’s unrequited love with the reflection she saw in the mirror. The protagonist, Nicolette Guyere, experiences loss and as she mourns she spirals down a rabbit-hole of self-doubt. While working through the loss, Nicolette notes that her lack of self-knowledge was being populated based on the relationships she maintained. The resulting self was not Nicolette; in fact, she learned through working on herself using the mirror technique and self-affirmations that she was not able to be her true self with over 90% of the people in her life.
· What did you learn about yourself when writing the book?
I learned more about myself. I was already enamored with myself, but this book gave me a much deeper appreciation for who I truly am. I can honestly say that I love the woman I have become and grow deeper in love with her every day.
· What will readers walk with after reading this book?
How to love themselves. There are so many techniques on how to start the process of loving one’s self and one great example. Persons reading my book will hopefully walk away from the book thinking to themselves that it is ok to not be perfect and that trying to be what everyone expects of you will have you in a situation where you are never who you know yourself to be.
· What advice about writing, publishing and marketing would you give to other writers and authors.
1) Enjoy the process. It is long, sometimes very difficult but it is like planning a wedding or for the arrival of a child. Cherish the ups and downs. It will be over before you know it.
2) Have a plan. Outline. Set deadlines. Be organized and stick to your deadlines.
3) Your book begins and ends with your editor. Make sure you pick one that understand you, your vision, and will make the experience easier
3dChicks “Book Break #AuthorInterview with Angelique Clemens ” #authorinterview #podcast #bookpromo #CanIborrowYourSkin #blackgirlmagic #selfcare
Taking a Book break on The literary World of Sylvia Hubbard and interviewing Angelique Clemens, author of Can I Borrow Your Skin. She’s featured at Motownwriters.com/feature this month and also at our motownbookclub.com
Click here to listen to the episode
About Author:
Angelique Clemens is a writer, scientist, and speaker. She started writing as an adolescent when she co-wrote a short mystery story about an inept murder with her mother that was published. Later, in high school, poetry that Angelique had written in French was published. Now, she writes biographical fiction around the subjects of loss, #blackgirlmagic, #alternativelifestyles, and learning to develop one’s self in a less than supportive world. Her books, generally, address these topics through the lens of the black experience. Angelique enjoys sports, scotch, and true crime novels. When Angelique is not writing, she is playing board games, coloring, or doing puzzles. She resides in Detroit with her husband.
Author Website www.AngeliqueClemens.com
Amazon Author Page https://amzn.to/31riHCA
Facebook Page www.Facebook.com/NicoletteGuyere
Instagram Page www.Instagram.com/CIBYSnovel
About book:
Nicolette is a young black lawyer who struggles with the self as she wants to be seen. Her parents only see her as the child they raised, not the thirty year old woman she has grown into. Her friends see her based on their experiences with her: her sorority sisters as the girl that they pledged and crossed with; her law school friends as the smart girl that always near the top of the class; her high school friends as the shy, naive girl that they always tried to corrupt; her lifestyle friends as the strong, independent, dominant woman with undeniable skills; her sister-cousins as the little sister they never had that they have to protect and mentor; and her church friends as the pious Catholic girl. The men she dated mostly reduced her to their favorite body parts. Nicolette struggled with not living her life by others’ standards and expectations of her. She wrestles with the face that she can not be herself, her true self, around 90% of the people she know.
Can Nicolette work through her problems and learn to be the fierce person that she sees in the mirror?
Amazon Author Page https://amzn.to/31riHCA
Author Website www.AngeliqueClemens.com
#selfcare #blackgirlmagic #alternativelifestyle #takecareofyou
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#3chicksAndSomeBooks Interview with @RandyDPearson, Author of Trac Brothers and many more! #michiganwriters #michlit
I also have been scheduled for two separate events at the Charlotte Community Library (Charlotte, MI)
Jam and Jax Trachsel receive an unexpected inheritance from their recently departed uncle Mac– a fully-functioning Kalamazoo brand handcar from the 19th century. When they become stranded over 150 miles from home,do they set it on the train tracks and pump it all the way back? Or, when they find a hand-drawn map their uncle created, do they follow it even further north to the long lost town of Walton Junction?
Author’s Website | More Books By This Author
Ray Walsh (Lansing State Journal), in his review of Trac Brothers, called Pearson an, “experienced, clever storyteller” – and called Tell Me a Story, “a highly entertaining collection of wonderfully quirky short stories.”
- Amazon https://amzn.to/2RaNLCH
- Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/randy+d+pearson?_requestid=5923476
- Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=randy%20d%20pearson&fcsearchfield=Author
- Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6533281.Randy_D_Pearson
#3chicksandsomebooks Author Feature for @RandyDPearson #bookpromo #michiganwriters #michlit
Jam and Jax Trachsel receive an unexpected inheritance from their recently departed uncle Mac– a fully-functioning Kalamazoo brand handcar from the 19th century. When they become stranded over 150 miles from home,do they set it on the train tracks and pump it all the way back? Or, when they find a hand-drawn map their uncle created, do they follow it even further north to the long lost town of Walton Junction?
Ray Walsh (Lansing State Journal), in his review of Trac Brothers, called Pearson an, “experienced, clever storyteller” – and called Tell Me a Story, “a highly entertaining collection of wonderfully quirky short stories.”
- Amazon https://amzn.to/2RaNLCH
- Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/randy+d+pearson?_requestid=5923476
- Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=randy%20d%20pearson&fcsearchfield=Author
- Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6533281.Randy_D_Pearson
Join I @Love_Diverse Romance on June 14th for a Ladies Night Author Takeover Event. #Love_Diverse #IRromance #AAromance
Party starts at 7pm EST in the I Love Diverse Romance group on FB. This is a BYOB event. You bring something to sip on and we’ll bring the alphas!
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/ILoveDiverseRomance/)
Running a #BookReview Blog, by Andrea Johnson #bookpromo #bookblogger
I’m still offline, but wanted to share a guest post from my friend Andrea Johnson, aka the Little Red Reviewer…
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Hi! My name is Andrea Johnson, and I’ve run the book review blog Little Red Reviewer since 2010. I review primarily science fiction and fantasy, I interview authors, attend local conventions, buy books like its going out of style, and generally talk to everyone all the time about some book I really liked. I’ve done radio segments, been on live TV, and now I’m kickstarting The Best of Little Red Reviewer, a print book of my best reviews! Because why dig through the archives of my blog to find the good stuff, when I can package it in a beautiful little paperback just for you? Can blog posts and book reviews exist outside of a computer screen? Let’s find out! Click hereto learn more about the Kickstarter and what The Best of Little Red Reviewer is all about.
In the meantime, here are some Useful and Interesting things to know about running a Book Review Blog.
#3chicksandsomebooks: Tropes Readers Adore Across 15 Fiction Genres
Whether you’re looking to write to market or are scouring manuscript submissions for your next acquisition, knowing what tropes appeal to readers can help inform your decision. We see different trends in different categories. And studying these trends, especially those that have been selling well recently, will help you learn what content can best engage your audience.
To help you get a sense of what’s currently engaging BookBub members, we’re showcasing two trending tropes across each of 15 different categories, along with examples of books that performed well for each trope. These trends and examples are based on our internal engagement data from the past few months as well as our editors’ research. Note that our readers’ tastes change over time, and these are the tropes that are currently trending!
7 Surprising Perks of Recommending Books on BookBub
Recommending books is a fantastic way to engage with your followers on BookBub. Every time you recommend a book, your post will appear in your followers’ feeds on our website and could be included in their weekly email roundup of recommendations. Readers can like or comment on your recommendation, purchase the book, or save it to their wishlists.
What you may not know is that recommendations can also help you get exposure to readers outside of your existing audience and find new fans. Check out these seven ways you can get increased visibility for your author brand on BookBub.com by recommending books!
read more https://insights.bookbub.com/perks-recommending-books-bookbub/
Writing Characters That Mirror Real Life
So I contacted Kristen awhile back and asked her if I could hijack her blog and she graciously said Yes. Because of this lapse in judgment outpouring of generosity, I’m going to try and forget that sarcasm is my love language and, instead, be professional. I’ve just launched a book and am feeling absolutely giddy with freedom, so this is easier said than done. But we’ll give it a go.
I’ve been thinking lately about something that Angela and I touch on in all of our books: The Mirror of Real Life. It’s this idea that something in our stories is like a mirror for readers that reflects back to them something of themselves. When we portray the character as this mirror, it draws readers in and encourages empathy because they recognize a commonality with the character.
read more: http://authorkristenlamb.com/2017/11/writing-characters-mirror-real-life/
3 Chicks and Some Books 