So excited to be part of the B2B Cyber Conference this year! I'll be participating in the Goodreads Author Showcase, Blog Hop, Genre Tour, Book Expo on April 7-9 and Author Interview on April 26 at 7 pm. I hope you have a chance to check out all the exciting activities going on at B2BCyCon - there are lots of talented authors and giveaways!

Check out my book, The Caging at Deadwater Manor, in the Thriller, Mystery, and Suspense genre. Also visit my booth at the Goodreads Thriller Author Showcase.

​I've written a special post below on the background of the book. It was inspired by true events, and this is why...

Hi everyone!

Wow! March 31st is approaching fast! I'm getting everything ready for the book release and preparing the final finishes to the book. Could you help me spread the word? If so, here are some ideas:

• If you haven't already, please sign up for the virtual promotions team to distribute the promotional materials to social media and emails. Just click on the button below. Everything will be prepared so all you need to do is copy and paste the posts.
• Please share/retweet any posts you see about the book on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The reach from social media with this is amazing!
• Listen to and share the information on my radio show which will be broadcasting on March 31 at noon - see the ArtistsFirst Radio Network. Soon they will be adding me to their upcoming guest list. I also prepared a commercial, so you may hear me during the day. They have some really interesting shows too.
• Participate/comment on any blog hops/blog tours. I'll be announcing these soon on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and via email.
• Purchase the ebook on March 31 or April 1 - this will help my Amazon ranking soar! The printed version will be available the following week, since that's a different ranking system. The book will also be available on other major outlets such as Barnes & Noble.

Hope you're doing well. As always, thanks for all of your support. I appreciate it! :)

Have a good weekend!  --Sandie

Like Thrillers? Check out this new book by the talented author, Jen Ponce, coming March 1!

It's almost here - finally! The Caging at Deadwater Manor will be released on March 31, 2017! 

I have hired a book promoter to help me get this book noticed. Suzanne Moore is a specialist with social media marketing and the Amazon ranking system. The idea is to gain as much exposure as possible prior to the release date and sell as many ebooks as possible on March 31. This will move my book up the ranks on Amazon who will then help me with promotions as well. Plus, if the book ranks high enough, this will be a great selling point for future books.

What's going on: ALOT!
We've already started book promotions as follows:

• Deadwater Manor Virtual Team Facebook Group - I have started a Facebook Group for my virtual team. These members have signed up to receive marketing products to post on their social media pages and emails on March 31 and April. I will be posting promotion updates and insider information about my book in this group. All the promotions including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. and emails text and graphics will be prepared by Suzanne's team and provided to all participants, making it quick and easy to share my book that day. If you'd like to join in, please sign up for my virtual team at the green button below. 
• New book webpage - I have purchased a new webpage for the book at www.deadwatermanor.com. The webpage is not live yet, as Suzanne will be working her magic on preparing the landing page for the release date. I'll make an announcement as soon as it's live!
• Blog Hop and Facebook Live Event Signups - I've begun to sign up for blog hops and Facebook Live events to share information about my book and support other authors. So far, I've signed up for two events:
  • Our Books Are Not Free Facebook Event. I'll be posting live on 2/13/17 at 6:30 PM EST.
  • Brandi Kennedy Blog Hop. I'll be participating in a blog hop for Brandi Kennedy's new book release on 2/26/17.
• Researching Book Tours, PodCasts, and Facebook Live videos
  • Prior to the release, I'll be on book tours, podcasts and Facebook Live. I'm currently researching the best way to do these and will let you know when they are scheduled.

It's going to be a busy couple of months, but it looks like a good plan in preparation for release day. I can't wait to see all the promotion products from Suzanne and her team. Please share this blog, my website, social media posts and emails as much as you can. I'm a new author, so I need all the help I can get! 

Thank you for all the support from my virtual team and others!

Have a good week.  --Sandie

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this year brings much happiness and success to you. I'm looking forward to an exciting 2017 with launching two books and finishing up my third novel. This will come with lots of outreach and promotions which I'm excited to learn and share with you.

The Caging at Deadwater Manor has now been signed over to me from my former publisher (I decided to leave them), so now I own both the book and the book cover. Waiting for this delayed the December release, but it will give me time to prepare for the upcoming release in March 2017. I'm currently looking at book promotion options, blog hops and other ways to get the word out. As soon as I have an exact date of release, I'll let you know.

My second book is a young adult historical time travel which I describe on my home page. This was actually the first book I wrote and I've held back publishing it due to the Irish Gaelic that I included, requiring additional editing time. This will be a series titled, "Time Lands," and is about a teenage girl from today who meets a guy from 1849 Ireland who's living through the Great Irish Hunger. I plan on having the main characters, Carly Matthews and Liam Healy, explore a different time period and history for each novel, all the while trying to evade the pursuit of Liam's old landlord who wants nothing more than to bring her "slave" back to her time. The historical settings for each novel in the upcoming series will be unusual ones that you don't hear about too much in school. I can't wait to bring this series to you and for you to join Carly and Liam on their adventures back through time. This book will be released in late 2017.

In the meantime, I'm currently writing a third novel titled, "Vision's Edge." This is another psychological thriller about a young man who is tortured by his past. I can't reveal much about the book for now, but I can say that he has a peculiar way of handling his pain.

Again, I hope you have a wonderful year ahead. Thank you for following my blog and watching for my upcoming book release!

Take care,
Sandie

Hi Friends!

Since becoming an Indie author, I've been waiting for my official release from the publisher which should be coming soon and the back of the book cover which the artist is currently working on. In the meantime, I've completed a final read through and uploaded the final version to CreateSpace who will facilitate the softcover book and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) for distribution as an eBook. I'll be looking at Ingram Spark, Smashwords and Draft2Digital for non-Amazon publishing, but I need to learn more about this. In the meantime, I'm setting up the business information on Createspace and KDP. Until I hear from my former publisher, I'm in a holding pattern. I'm hoping to release the book on December 15, and I'll be sending out an announcement when it's ready. If you're interested in the announcement, add your email for my newsletter on the right side of this page. The release is getting closer!!

As you can imagine, seeing the book cover for The Caging at Deadwater Manor can conjure up memories of experiences or stories of old psychiatric hospitals or hauntings. My employer recently announced my upcoming book release on their newsletter, and I've had several coworkers stop by my office to share their experiences with me -- several of which have given me chills.

One such experience came from Nick Makris who grew up near Cedar Grove, New Jersey, home of the infamous psychiatric hospital named the Essex County Hospital Center (aka The Overbrook, sanatorium, asylum, etc.). The hospital opened in 1896 and was used to treat tuberculous and patients with mental illness. Nick remembers riding his bicycle several miles and seeing his grandfather who worked as a barber in the hospital when he was young. He later visited the hospital after it was abandoned and took pictures as part of a photography class -- forgotten photos that have been sitting in a shoebox until today. He gave me permission to use the photos to help promote my book, so I thought I'd share them as a blog post since they are right in line with the theme of my book.  The pictures have an eery feel since Nick tried out different photography techniques during this visit back in 1993. Thank you, Nick!

Coincidentally, another coworker viewed the photos and mentioned that she had heard all sorts of stories about the patients and treatments at the hospital from a previous professor. She could barely look at the photos.

In my last newsletter, I asked which photo was from an actual psychiatric hospital in my latest trailer. If you guessed the first picture in the slideshow below - you were right!

How about you? Would you visit an old, abandoned psychiatric hospital?

Here are a view more internet sites I found about the hospital:  
Wiki
Video
Demolition

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to announce that my second book trailer for THE CAGING AT DEADWATER MANOR has just been released! See the YouTube video below. Looking forward to reading your feedback.

I created this book trailer in iMovie just like I did for the first book trailer, only I used a different theme. This captures the essence of the book with more hints about the story. Hope you enjoy!  Sandie