The Weekend Edition

Today in Seekerville we're celebrating the upcoming release of 
The 12 Brides of Summer Collection: 12 Historical Brides Find Love in the Good Old Summertime, which features Seekers Mary Connealy and Pam Hillman. Leave a comment for a chance to win a copy. Winners announced in the next Weekend Edition.

We Have Winners ***

 Giveaway rules can be found here. Drop us a line to claim your giveaway at seekers@seekerville.net. Please allow us the 6-8 weeks per our legal page to get your prize sent out.  

** Effective 5/31/16 all winners are required to submit their address and phone number to verify their identity even if they win an e-prize. This is due to scammers attempting to claim prizes. ***

All prizes not claimed in 8 weeks go back into the prize vault. We wish we could contact all our winners individually, but we'd rather write books!


From the last Weekend Edition,Sharee Stover is the winner of a writer mug and Tracey Hagwood is the winner of a reader mug or a Seeker BOC.

Tuesday Mary Alford was our guest hostess with her post, "Finding The Courage to Submit Your Manuscript And The Inner Strength To Move Beyond Rejection." Edwina and Sandy Smith are winners of print copies of her latest Love Inspired Suspense, Rocky Mountain Pursuit,. And Vince and Laurie Wood are winners of ecopies. Thanks so much, Mary! 

 Wednesday was time for the June Contest Update and to meet our June Contest Diva/Divo, Angie Dicken Additionally, today we unveiled our Conference tab, where we conveniently list conferences, retreats, and workshops held annually. Our hope is that you can find one close to you that meets your writing needs. Winner of a Girl Nerd mug is Cindy Regnier and winner of a SBOC is Heidi.

Seekerville welcomed back L.A. Sartor on Thursday.  Leslie shared a few of her favorite ways to make your hero anything but a Superman. Caryl Kane and Cindy W. are winners of the new collection - Simply The Best .

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Next Week in Seekerville

Monday: Mary Connealy is your hostess and she always has something to talk about. 



Tuesday: Janalyn Voigt is our special guest today. Her post is called "Where to Start a Novel (Tips and Traps)." Don't miss this great learning opportunity! The prize vault is open.


Wednesday: Hallmark movie, anyone? Join award-winning Christy nominee Denise Hunter for a peek into the world of selling a book to Hallmark. Denise discusses what happens When a Book Becomes a Hallmark Movie: 8 Things You Didn’t Know. A giveaway will be included of her soon-to-be-aired Hallmark movie novel, The Convenient Groom, along with a sneak peek at the actors chosen for the roles of hero and heroine.


Thursday: Sandra Leesmith will talk about the world of Audible.com and will be giving away an iPod loaded with her Audible books so the lucky winner can discover this world for themselves. She also has some surprise photos to share.


Friday: Best of the Archives: Today we feature Ruth Logan Herne. Comments are closed each Friday so we can achieve our reading and writing goals.

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Seeker Sightings

Congratulations to Julie Lessman her latest novel, Isle of Hope, is a finalist in the Long Contemporary category of the IRCA.

Stop by the Coffee Cups & Camisoles Blogspot on June 7, when several Seekerville authors participate in "Online Workshops - Pithy Advice That Packs a Punch."

Get your cowboy fix. Back in the Saddle is on sale for Kindle. $1.99! 

WHOA!! Get FIVE best-selling novels -- including two Seeker books -- in one ebook for less than $.79 each with Heart & Soul at only $3.99!









 

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Random News & Information

Thanks to everyone who sent links!

FIRST SALE!  Villager and Diva Leanne Bristow.










Congratulations to the Seeker Villagers who placed in the FabFive Contest! (Rhonda Starnes (1st place), Jackie Layton (2nd place) and Preslaysa Williams (HM). 

Congratulations go out to the IRCA  finalists! WOOT!! Check out all the Villagers on this list!!!

Alicia Rasley July Workshop Registration is open. July 5-29. Channeling Your Characters. In this (online) interactive workshop, you’ll be exploring your main characters’ journeys, strengths, conflicts and values. From these discussions and exercises, you can deepen your scenes and your plot with an emotional arc. And you’ll be able to individualize your plot events by determining where the characters start, where they end up, and how they get there through interacting with the other characters in the story events. 

Almost Six Figures. My Breakdown Of One Year Of Book Sales By Format, Vendor, Genre, And Country (The Creative Penn)**

Have You Checked out Gilead Publishing's Blog here?**

May 2016 Author Earnings Report: the definitive million-title study of US author earnings (AE)**

Avoiding Author Intrusion (Romance University)

Invest in Yourself (Writer Unboxed)**

5 Ways That Authors Can Use Facebook Advertising (The Creative Penn)

Always Be Closing (Steven Pressfield Online)**

Creating Promotional Matter That Works: Swag (Fiction University)**

How to Make Agents' Blogs Work for You (Steve Laube Blog)

Self-Publishing My First Audiobook (JA Konrath) 

The Audiobook Boom: What's Happening and How Can I Be Included? (DBW) 

Every Day You Get Our Best: Lessons in Viral Marketing from One of the Nation's Top Supermarkets (The Writer's Alley)**

Reviving Your Backlist Title: Revisions (Nancy's Notes from Florida) 

**Short on time? Read these now and save the rest for later!**

Have a great writing and reading weekend!