August is “Write A #BookReview on Amazon Month”

A highly appreciated initiative comes from Rosie Amber, writer ,blogger, reviewer.
I reblogged her post:
                   Rosie Amber.wordpress

Readers from all over the world are being inspired to post reviews for books they’ve read on Amazon.

In a Bold attempt to increase reader awareness of the importance of book reviews to all authors, Terry Tyler is leading the campaign to get more people posting those all important reviews on Amazon.

Authors: #AugustReviews is about readers posting a review of a book to Amazon, we would also like to encourage them to share the Amazon Review Post Url on Twitter. An author can take part as a reader, but please don’t use this to promo your own books.

Book Bloggers: We really appreciate your support and know you are likely to already post reviews on Amazon, please keep the Hashtag for Twitter with a link to your Amazon review url only, not your blog post. We don’t want to put off readers who think they need to be a blogger to take part.

We are asking readers to Tweet the url of the book review using #AugustReviews and we will help share and mention you in the August Reviews Hall of Fame.

 Read the whole post here:
                       Rosie Amber 
and, please, follow the advice! I will!

Wednesday Writing Wisdom (38) Nora Roberts

"Write what you like to read. If you are not captured by the story, who will be? Write every day—a habit that you need to build. And remember to have fun with it."

Nora Roberts

real name Eleanor Marie Robertson

   (1950) 

Curious facts about

She didn't start writing until she was 29 years old. It all began with a #2 pencil and a spiral notebook. Snowed in with her two young boys during a 1979 storm, Nora Roberts, AKA, J.D. Robb, Jill March, and Sarah Hardesty (U.K. pseudonym), got in touch with her creative side and began writing.

She once said, "I've never taken a course on writing. I've never read a book on writing. This isn't something that would work for me. Every writer has to figure out what works best -- and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits..."

She also writes a futuristic crime/romance series under the name J.D. Robb.

She first tried submitting her works to Harlequin, but was rejected. Her first publisher was Silhouette.