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This has been a fabulous week for me…many of my friends and clients have book launches, book events, writing contest or interviews to share.

#MojoTweet came out this week by author Marshall Goldsmith published by ThinkAha books.
You can read more about this book and his other book notably named MOJO: How to get it, How to keep it, How to get it back, if you lose it.

Also, my friend, Heidi Richards has an ebook coming out tomorrow, called, Quirky Marketing Calendar 2010. And she is giving away over $1600 in FREE bonuses with it. You can read more about it here

And you still have time to enter the TRUE LOVE writing contest being sponsored by Folkheart Press and Key Business Partners. 2 days left and here are the details.

And now for the FAB Five Friday:

1)@Tips4Writers tweeted about a post by Judy Collins titled 7 Top Mistakes Writers Make. Judy discusses how writers procrastinate in writing for different reasons such as thinking they need to be an expert before they can write OR believe they will have to do the process all by themselves. I work with clients who share these similar worries. I ran into the procrastination issue before I started writing my first novel because I thought I had to write it completely write the first time. Silly, I know but I thought I should not need to rewrite it…not realizing it is exactly what writers do when they are writing a book. Revisions galore. It is all part of the process. And the other one, going through it alone. Well, I handled that rather quickly because it was my editor who told me “No just start writing. It doesn’t (and probably won’t) have to be perfect the first time.

2) @lorimcneeartist tweeted about a post on The Red Carpet Broadcast titled 5 Proven Techniques to Establish yourself as a web author and writer. one of the techniques provided was make the web writing scanable meaning make it easy to understand when the reader scans the data on the page.

3)@inkyelbows posted an tweet via @vickydelany discussing Book Trailers, Are they worth it? She states she had one very professional (and in turn expensive) book trailer for one book, however, decided not to have one for her follow up book. Her reason…she stated no return on investment. I have to differ a bit here because I do believe there are ways to effective create and promote a book trailer that helps with increase visibility and not cost tons of money. Share your thoughts.

4)@thecreativepenn via @JFBookman wrote about What every self-publisher should know about editingHe talks about having publishers understand the book editing process.

5) @Writersgroup posted a tweet about what a debut novelist says about how to use and sell on Twitter.She shares her journey with using Twitter to help sell her book. All I will add is there is many channels to marketing and promoting a book.

I hope you all had a wonderful week and keep writing!