Reborn cover reveal & What Works and What Doesn't Marketing Symposium

To save a kingdom, a prophetess must challenge Fate.

On the day of Yssa’s death and rebirth, the god Apenth chose her as the Phoenix Prophetess.

Sea serpents and gods endanger the young prophetess’s journey and sour the omens. Yssa is cursed instead of blessed, and her duties at the Temple of Apenth prove it. She spends her days reading dusty scrolls, which does nothing to help her forget Tym, the boy back home. But the annoying yet gorgeous ferryman’s son Liam proves to be a distraction she can’t predict, even though he rarely leaves her alone for two sand grains.

Her boring temple life screeches to a halt when visions of her parents’ murders consume her. Yssa races across an ocean to stop the future. If she can’t change Fate, she’ll refuse to be the Phoenix Prophetess any longer. Fate, however, has other plans for her and the kingdom.

Yssa must either accept her destiny or fight to change Fate.

Reborn, book one of The Fate Challenges, by Cherie Reich will be released on May 23, 2014. For more information about Cherie and her work, please visit her website or blog. The cover art is created by Laura Sava. To add on Goodreads, click here. If you'd like to be notified when Reborn releases, please sign up for the newsletter here.

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Here's what worked and what didn't work last year during my promotion for the 13th Floor series.

What worked:
- Goodreads giveaway. Lots of exposure. Over 1300 people entered.
- Guest posts with helpful writing tips.
- Making the first book of the series free.

What didn't work:
- Rafflecopter giveaways. I had one each time I released a novella. I progressively got less and less people entering the giveaways as the tours went on.
- Guest posts with interviews, excerpts, or character posts. I did get some comments, but people seemed to have more interest and commented more when I offered them helpful tips.
- Book release tours with several hosts a day. It was too many for people to visit. One host a day seems to be best, or at the very least, much easier on me!