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FEED MY READS BLOG HITS 65,000 VIEWS! First off hello and welcome to your Feed My Reads blog.  We are always delighted when we see that people are checking out our blog posts and apparently loving what we are doing. Since we launched the Feed My Reads community in October of 2021 we have achieved over 65,000 views and here are just some of the reasons we have managed to achieve this. 1 - Our amazing community is full of people who are true book lovers and are excited to discover their next read.  We are always excited to see new people joining our community and hope that you love being part of the community too. 2 - We work hard to bring the content to you straight from the authors of what might be your next read.  Thanks to the work we continue to put in we have already hosted 729 author interviews in less than a year. 3 - We are continually looking to bring out new and exciting content and thanks to this approach we have such varied features as My Dinner Party, My After...

Author:  J.R. Bloodsteel Title:  Our Saving Grace Genre/Genres: Fiction, Romance Synopsis: Through trials and tribulations, life does not stop moving.  Lieutenant Savannah Warner has learned this the hard way. Finding herself getting lost in her daily life, she knows it is time for a change.  After making the choice to move out of the city, the chain of events that follow can only be considered as fate intervening.  When she signs the contract on her new home, she is unaware of the fact she is signing up for an entirely new life.  While still trying to deal with the past, the future is coming at her full force and showing no mercy.  With her German Shepherd, Ace, by her side, Savannah’s brooding Landlord, Brady Beauregard, gives her a run for her money.  She finds herself constantly stepping out of her comfort zone to accommodate for this new chapter in her life.  How will fate play a role in all of this?  Savannah and Brady will quickly...

Having put your book out there do you set a sales goal? I have a sales goal, but I’m sure it’s one that’s a bit farfetched.  I know this is going to sound so stupid, but I wanted to be married by my next birthday (which is less than a year away) and that just isn’t going to happen… so I’m shooting to become a bestselling author instead!  Right now, I’m taking the numbers one digit at a time. How much does the question of sales play in your mind when pricing your book? Quite a bit, actually.  The price of the book has so much to do with the sales, but I took into consideration the hours of work that were put into the book and how much I would be making in royalties when I priced the book.  I priced it as low as I could go without taking a loss. What do you do to drive sales? Word of mouth, mostly.  I try to make sure I keep a presence on social media, and I talk about the book whenever the opportunity arises!  I truly wish I could do more, but I’m just not f...

Name -  J.R. Bloodsteel Links: https://www.facebook.com/JRBloodsteel https://www.instagram.com/J_R_Bloodsteel/ https://twitter.com/J_R_Bloodsteel https://bloodsteelbooks.com/ Bio: Hailing from the lightning capital of the nation, J. R. Bloodsteel is a self-published author, lover of all artistic expression, and a renaissance woman.  One of her greatest loves, besides the people she holds closet to her heart, is creating worlds for others to escape to.  She started writing at a young age when her parents challenged her creativity.  What began with creating short stories soon turned into writing multiple fan fictions;  many at the request of her various followers on Social Media.  The feedback she received from her publications helped her realize that a change could be made in someone’s life simply by what she wrote. Since having found escapism in her stories, she has wanted to help others break free from their reality and immerse themselves in another world....

I’m related to the Royal Family and a handful of well-known authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Jane Austen! I absolutely love Halloween and Christmas!  I go all out for both holidays. My favorite color is red, but I really like all colors. My first job was private childcare. Fall and winter are my favorite seasons! You can connect with J.R. Bloodsteel at -  Twitter: @J_R_Bloodsteel Instagram: @J_R_Bloodsteel Facebook: J. R. Bloodsteel My website: BloodsteelBooks.com My email:   BloodsteelBooks@gmail.com I’m on various social media outlets, but I check Twitter and Instagram daily, as well as my email.  There is a spot on my website where you can sign up for my readers list, too.  Everyone who subscribes will always get updates before anyone else! 

Please tell us a little about the book Let me share with you the summary printed on the back cover of the book.  Hopefully, this will provide some insight into the story: “Through trials and tribulations, life does not stop moving.    Lieutenant Savannah Warner has learned this the hard way.   Finding herself getting lost in her daily life, she knows it is time for a change.  After making the choice to move out of the city, the chain of events that follow can only be considered as fate intervening.  When she signs the contract on her new home, she is unaware of the fact she is singing up for an entirely new life.  While still trying to deal with the past, the future is coming at her full force and showing no mercy.  With her German Shepheard, Ace, by her side, Savannah’s brooding Landlord, Brady Beauregard, gives her a run for her money.  She finds herself constantly stepping out of her comfort zone to accommodate for this new chapter in her ...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW A little introduction: I Am TaSh Shabazz! I was born and raised in Sarasota, FL. My earliest memory of being aware that I had a love and gift for writing was when I was about 10 years old. I've fallen in love with poetry and words in general. I love the versatility that comes with the utilization of words. With words, you can LITERALLY create a whole new world! When did your love of books begin? My love for books started when I was in 9th grade. Me and my 2 friends Meredyth and Althia would trade urban novels and read them after school. Back then my face was ALWAYS in a book. When did you start to have the wish to become an author? There was a memory that came up on my Facebook from 3 years ago that read "I will be a published author in 5 years"... I did it in 3!!!!!!! How have you found the process for becoming an author? It has been the most rewarding thing I've done. Looking at physical copies of my book brings me so much joy. But I constantly remi...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW A little introduction: Janice Airhart, whose stack of books to be read is always greater than time available to read them, has been a medical technologist, biomedical research tech, freelance writer and editor, science teacher, adjunct English professor, and avid community volunteer. She’s currently working on a second memoir about her mid-life career as a high school teacher for pregnant and parenting girls. Her essays and articles have appeared in the  Concho River Review, The Sun, The Science Teacher, Lutheran Woman Today , Story Circle Network’s  Real Women Write  2019 and 2021 anthologies, and  One Woman’s Day  blog. Airhart lives with her husband, Tim, just north of Austin, Texas. When did your love of books begin? From before I could read! I had an older sister and brother, and I was jealous of their ability to pull stories from books. My father also read to us daily from classic literature and poetry when we were children. Books were lik...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW A little introduction: Like Torn, the main character in Bottled Lightning , I was born in Alaska and for many years have practiced law in Tokyo, representing technology companies in connection with their fundraising, intellectual property matters, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and related disputes. For more than 10 years, I was the managing partner of the Tokyo office of the global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. I speak, read, and write fluent Japanese, was an International Rotary Club scholar to Japan during high school, and graduated from International Christian University, a Japanese liberal arts college. I attended Fordham University School of Law in New York City, where I practiced law for almost sixteen years before relocating to Orrick’s Tokyo office in 2004. During my formative years in Japan, I earned a black belt in Aikido. Also, like Torn, I love motorcycles and my adult son is biracial and bilingual and lives in Tokyo. In addi...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW When did your love of books begin? I’ve always liked reading. Most people stop reading fiction as adults, sadly, but I still read as much as I can. When did you start to have the wish to become an author? I’ve pursued writing and music since childhood, and learned filmmaking and screenwriting in college, along with physics and ecology. Trapped at home during the "Snowmageddon" of 2010, I transformed those interests into novel writing, and have been doing that ever since. How have you found the process for becoming an author? The hardest part of writing is sitting down every morning (in my case) and getting into the flow of writing. Perhaps it’s the hardest part of any journey: to begin. Persistence is a huge challenge. It takes a year or two to write and edit a novel, and even a novella takes time. Then there’s publishing—it’s a challenge finding a publisher, especially without an agent. It’s helpful to interact with other writers, to identify manuscript ...