Street Team Machine

Join a team. Discover new-to-you authors. Read books for free. Enter giveaways and win prizes!

If this sounds like a good plan to you, check out the JOIN A TEAM giveaway. 

Do you want to be a part of a street team? Join mine!

I’ve updated the Facebook cover in my street team. What do you think? Are you not a part of my team yet? I’d love for you to join us! There are no minimum participation requirements, but there are lots of chances for you to win exclusive prizes, give your input for future book covers, read for review and talk books with other readerly people like you!

If you’re at all interested, feel free to join the closed group on Facebook and check it out. You’re free to leave the group at any time, but why would you?! It’s a judgment-free zone and we’re all there to have a little fun. We leave drama where it belongs–in our fiction!

Twitter’s New Character Limit Change

There has been rumor that Twitter will be making a major change in how it counts characters in TWEETS moving forward.

Links currently account for 23 characters of the 140 character limit. Rumor has it that Twitter Inc. will soon stop counting photos and links as part of its 140-character limit in as soon as two weeks time!

Bloomberg’s report credits “a person familiar with the matter” for spilling the beans. Oops! Let’s hope this person is correct.

I don’t know about you, but I welcome this change! It will give Twitter users more freedom to compose a complete message without having to use shortened words and disjointed sentences when the words just won’t fit.

While I love the short and sweet display of information on Twitter, which has been the thing that sets this social media company apart from all the rest, I can appreciate the need to add a few extra characters into the mix to stay competitive with the other big-guns like Facebook, Pinterest and Google Plus. Especially with the new GIF option on my Twitter app. Love those darn things.

How do you feel about the proposed change? Do you think this is a move in the right direction for Twitter? Let me know in the comments down below.

For more social media updates, marketing tips and other writerly things, join me on Twitter! I follow-back all non-spammy writers, bloggers and entrepreneurs!

www.twitter.com/christasimpson

A Blog Post About Blogging and Becoming an Author

When I first started blogging, while I was writing my debut novel, I was so uncensored. I had very few followers and so I posted to my blog regularly (LIKE THREE TIMES A WEEK, EASILY!) without fretting too hard over grammatical and typographical errors. I didn’t own licences to any stock photography and I didn’t understand how to use the free feature on WordPress to add images, so my posts had very few photos, if any at all. Life was simple. The people who followed me, joined my blog on their own accord, by no request, force or pressure to do so. I knew, if they were following me it was because they actually cared about what I had to say. I didn’t blow time hanging out on Facebook and Twitter (as much), although I did really enjoy Twitter before the auto-bots ruined it over there. I spent time writing my book, learning about publishing, and sharing my results. And you know what? PEOPLE LOVED IT!

So, what changed?

Are You a Winner?!

Welcome to all the newcomers. The Twisted Desire Cover Reveal Party was a success!! Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support. <3 <3

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

Giveaway #1: ARC of Twisted Desire

HUGE Indie Author Giveaway!!

So you might be wondering who the lucky winner is from last week’s giveaway. Drum roll please… and the winner is… MAUREEN MAYER. Congrats to Maureen, who won a copy of the Twisted e-book.

No worries, if you weren’t the lucky winner this round.  Don’t give up just yet. You have three more chances to win!! Yes, three!! Add to that 12 other fabulous indie author’s promotional giveaways and suddenly the odds are ‘eva in your fava’. 😉

The best part about this HUGE Indie Author Giveaway is that, if you already LIKE my Facebook page then you already qualify for free ballots to enter the draw. A quick click is all you need otherwise, if you haven’t already paid me a visit, and you have a chance to win a copy of Twisted together with lots of other wonderful prizes. 😉

Here’s the link for the HUGE Indie Author Giveaway: http://bit.ly/ZfA8Sy

Good luck!!

Time for a Giveaway!!

What can I say? It’s been a hell of a week. I’ve reached some major milestones and I want to share the love. 😀

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• 3,000 followers on Twitter;

• 240+ LIKES on my Facebook page;

• 125 people on Goodreads have added Twisted to their shelves;

• 110 followers on Pinterest; (my fav pin would have to be Jensen Ackles reading a book with that sexy ass) I strongly recommend that you go check it out.

You can click on any of the links above to visit my sites and see what you’re missing out on and I’d love if you would.

Last, but certainly not least, thanks to all of you who joined my blog recently to help me get over that hump!!

I’D SAY THIS CALLS FOR MY FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY!!

Is your SUPERPHONE all that super? Really??

YES REALLY!!  My Samsung Galaxy S3 is truly all that and a bag of chips… make that Doritos… Jalapeno and Cheddar (my fav).

  VERSUS

Back in November when I was using a Blackberry Smartphone I have to admit: it was totally useless. Smartphone? I think not. Sure BBM was awes and I didn’t know how I would live without it, but here I am… still kickin’.  Too bad I can’t say the same for my “smartphone”. RIP