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Author Spotlights

Ana Balen (Weekly Author Spotlight 26 July 2021)

AUTHOR BIO Ana Balen was born in Zagreb, Croatia, where she still lives with her husband, their son (read boss!) and the son’s pet rabbit named Shhh! (or some other gibberish that’s the favorite of their son for the day.) She spends her days driving her husband up the wall (when he can’t get her ass up from the bed

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Book Spotlight – Quietus (The Death Witch #1) by D.J Hawkins

BLURB A prophecy of death, a power unparalleled, and a fate she can’t defy. There is an age-old prophecy that foretells of a girl born from death itself. Devlin Raben is that girl, a witch born with death trailing her shadow. She has lived her entire life in the dark, feared by those outside the witch community as an omen

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Author Spotlights

Anna B. Doe (Weekly Author Spotlight 28 June 2021)

AUTHOR BIO Anna B. Doe is a young adult and new adult contemporary romance author. She writes real-life romance that is equal parts sweet and sexy. She’s a coffee and chocolate addict. Like her characters, she loves those two things dark, sweet and with little extra spice. When she’s not working for a living or writing her newest book you

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Book Spotlight – Snake Bandit by Nikki Ashton

BLURB When Dirty Riches have taught you how to rock, the rest don’t stand a chance! Summer has arrived and all the kids of the band Dirty Riches have plans Eliza wants to get Rocco to fall in love with her, but he just wants to have sex with as many girls as possible. In fact, he and Ethan appear

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Author Spotlights

H.C. Newell (Debut Author Spotlight June 2021)

AUTHOR BIO My name is H.C. Newell. I’m 28 years old and live with my husband in Nashville, TN. I’ve been working on this series for seven years, and have just recently decided to publish after completing half of my series. I have no formal training in writing, no awards, and no friends of friends of Steven King or J.K.

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Author Spotlights

KM Lowe (Weekly Author Spotlight 31 May 2021)

AUTHOR BIO My name is Kelly, but I write under the pen name of KM Lowe. I live in Scotland, with my husband, 2 kids, and two dogs. I love reading writing, walking, swimming, and cycling. I have a love of the great outdoors. QUICK INTERVIEW Where are you from? “I’m from Scotland.” When did you first realize you wanted

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Book Spotlights

Book Spotlight – The Lost Mage (War of the Wood #1) by Ben Alderson

BLURB A Mad Queen. A host of ancient dragons. A jealous heir. Maximus Wodlin hated magic. Long before it erupted from him, killing the son of Master Gathrax and altering the course of his life forever. Over 100 years had passed since the War of the Wood, when the northern army swept across land and killed the four ruling mages.

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Author Spotlights

Clare Bentley (Weekly Author Spotlight 24 May 2021)

AUTHOR BIO Clare Bentley is a married mother of a son and a daughter, who are now adults. She was raised by a single mother and didn’t care to know her abusive biological father, instead considering her stepfather to be her dad. Playtime for her growing up was filled with creating scenarios to act out and making up dance routines

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Author Spotlights

Brittany Oldroyd (Weekly Author Spotlight 10 May 2021)

AUTHOR BIO Brittany Oldroyd lives in Idaho with her husband and their two boys. She loves kickboxing, anime, and all things art-related. She’s also obsessed with fantasy and science fiction and spends most of her reading time devouring books in one of those categories. She loves to write young adult and new adult sci-fi and fantasy, stories with heroic characters

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5 disastrous formatting mistakes you probably don’t know you’re making
Formatting

5 disastrous formatting mistakes to avoid

authorTree has formatted dozens of paperbacks and ebooks over the past few months. So, here are the 5 disastrous formatting mistakes to avoid. Some of the books we’ve worked with earlier during our formatting process were previously formatted books. So, naturally (or naively perhaps) we expected them to be quick and easy to re-format. But when we started working with

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