Sunday, July 31, 2022
Mystery Fanfare: McDonald & Dodds Season 3
Beneath the Stains of Time: Cat of Two Tales: Case Closed, vol. 82 by Gosho Aoyama
Would You Like To Be A Guest?
With over two million page views and climbing by thousands
more each week, my award-winning blog is popular. These days, a slow month in
page views is just about 10K. Most months have more than 12k. A month where I
have a lot of new content--- guest posts of all types and reviews by me--- will
come in above 15K in page views. I have been doing the review thing over two decades
now so I am a known commodity.
I get a lot of emails about being a guest on the blog.
Guests are more than welcome. Unlike some folks and their places, I don’t have
a lot of forms to fill out or hoops to jump through so I have made the process
as easy as possible. Most questions you may have are already answered below so
read the post before reaching out.
The open days are currently Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Sundays. I usually run excerpts from published or about to be published works
on Sundays as they seem to work best on those days.
Topic--pretty much anything goes. While my blog is mainly
aimed towards items of interest for readers and writers of mystery and crime
fiction, I am open to pretty much anything. I do ask that folks avoid the
topics of religion and politics unless either or both directly relate to the
work being discussed or promoted. I also am not going to run anything that advocates
big pharma is hiding the cure for cancer. Folks that come up with that stuff
deserve a special place in hell.
Before contacting me, please have an actual idea in mind. I
absolutely do not assign topics. That means I am NOT going to tell you what to
write about. This is your opportunity to write what you want to write about.
You know your books, your expertise in topics, etc. I do not. Your idea does
not have to be set in stone. It does need to have some detail. Have at least a
couple of things that you know you want to have in your piece and tell me that
in your pitch.
Word Count: Totally up to you. I do not set a maximum or a
minimum word count.
When your piece is ready, you send it to me by email and
include a 100 word or fewer bio. Also send any pics that you think should be
included in the piece. While some guest posts are super heavy in pictures, I
think it works best to have two or so. While I can and do lift author photos
and book covers from Amazon and author websites, it is easier if you just send
it from the start as well as any other pics you believe should be included.
This is, as always, a nonpaying opportunity. Yes, I
absolutely value your work. I also have no income other than SSD (and that is
just a few hundred each month) and am supporting myself, my adult son, and this
old house on what little I inherited when my Mom passed. The bank account is
steadily shrinking and I am doing the best I can to hang in here as inflation
and other issues are making it even harder.
While I have no funds to pay you, I can promise to promote
the heck out of your appearance. You will be seen. I can’t promise a certain
number of sales, but most guests do see a spike in their sales. Guests who are
on the blog on a semi regular basis do far better than one off appearances, but
everyone does see an impact.
Questions/ pitches should be sent to me at Kevinrtipple AT Verizon.net
I hope you choose to be a part of things here. Looking
forward to hearing from you.
Saturday, July 30, 2022
KRL: KRL this Week Update for 7/30/2022
Up on KRL this week reviews and giveaways of 4 more mysteries for your summer reading-"The Proof is in the Poison": A Southern Homebrew Mystery by Diane Kelly, "The Shadow of Memory": A Kate Hamilton Mystery by Connie Berry, "Murder She Wrote, Killer on the Court" by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran, and Murder with Darjeeling Tea: A Daisy’s Tea Garden Mystery by Karen Rose Smith https://kingsriverlife.com/07/30/end-of-july-mystery-catch-up-3/
And a review and giveaway of "No Refuge From the Grave" by Nancy Herriman along with an interesting interview with Nancy https://kingsriverlife.com/07/30/no-refuge-from-the-grave-by-nancy-herriman/
We also have the latest mystery Coming Attractions from Sunny Frazier. You can also enter to win an ebook copy of mystery author Elaine Faber's latest book https://kingsriverlife.com/07/30/coming-attractions-feeling-the-heat-edition/
Up on KRL News and Reviews this week we have a review and giveaway of a signed copy of "The Navigator's Daughter" by Nancy Cole Silverman https://www.krlnews.com/2022/07/the-navigators-daughter-by-nancy-cole.html
And a review and giveaway of "The Lost" by Jeffrey B. Burton https://www.krlnews.com/2022/07/the-lost-by-jeffrey-b-burton.html
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