Author Guest Post with Carole P. Roman, Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex

Templeton Academy- the superhero high school is finally open!

Welcome to the September 8th stop on the blog tour for Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex by Carole P. Roman with Goddess Fish Promotions. Be sure to follow the rest of the tour for spotlights, reviews, author guest posts, and a giveaway! More on that at the end of this post.

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Author Guest Post

Marketing 101 – How to market to readers of your genre

I remember back over forty-four years ago when I gave birth to my oldest son. I was very young, the first to have a baby in our group, and I knew NOTHING.  I was in labor for hours and hours. The nurse came in and told me now was the time to push. I looked her straight in the eye and said, “What? And what are you going to do!”

She laughed at me and said, “Honey, if you want this baby to come out, you have to do the work yourself.”

Well, here I am, and I can tell you, it was pretty much the same thing for getting my books out to market.

You think, create, write, write, edit, and bring this baby to completion. Just when you think you’re done, you have to market and promote this sucker if you want anyone to read it.

Nobody tells you about that when you announce you are going to write a book.

Even if you have a publicity team, publisher, and lit agent, you better get prepared to promote your work or watch it end up going unread and unnoticed.

You must talk about it on your blog, tease on Facebook, look for podcasts, anywhere you can to bring word of your story out.

There are blog tours, guest interviews, Facebook takeovers, and the ever-difficult getting reviews. You can’t ask for them, you can’t give a free book in exchange, and the rules are endless, but the goal is that you must get the name of your book on as many lips as you can manage.

Every time I meet a new author, and they tell me that they just finished writing their new epic novel, I respond to them, oh no, you’ve just begun.

About the Book

Grady Whill and the Templeton Codex
by Carole P. Roman

Published 18 July 2022
Chelshire, Inc.

Genre: YA Adventure
Page Count: 267
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Templeton Academy- the superhero high school is finally open!

The prestigious academy is recruiting the best of the best to enroll in its student body.

The school is as mysterious as it is exclusive.

Grady Whill thinks there is nothing special about him to make the grade.

However, his best friend, Aarush Patel has been selected and thinks Grady has the right stuff.

Even school bully Elwood Bledsoe is attending.

If Grady is fortunate enough to be picked, his guardian has forbidden him to attend.

Will a family secret prevent Grady from becoming the superhero he was destined to be?

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Excerpt

I’d like to say that life improved, but I’d be telling you a lie. Elwood Bledsoe continued to bully Aarush. While Aarush constantly cautioned me to rein in my reaction to him, I could not. It landed me in two more detentions, and the last one finally cost me my job at the supermarket where I bagged groceries.

“You’re coming for dinner,” Aarush informed me one afternoon.

I shook my head. “Can’t.”

Aarush neatly packed his brown bag with unfinished food and said, “You have to come over. You’re not working. Tonight they are announcing the winners of the Find My Power Essay on television. Devon Neely has to win. Imagine losing your sight and learning— ”

“Aarush, they’ll never accept a blind kid.”

“They took that girl Lydia,” he blurted.

They had indeed.

“She’s not blind,” he retorted.

I raised my eyebrow. She hardly looked like someone people expected to make it into the Temple. All I could recall was she seemed most unremarkable. Most of the kids who were accepted had a rare talent. They could run the fastest or do math without a pen or paper. I couldn’t remember what made her special.

About the Author

Carole P. Roman is the award-winning author of over fifty children’s books. Whether it’s pirates, princesses, spies, or discovering the world around us, her books have enchanted educators, parents, and her diverse audience of children of all ages.

Her best-selling book, The Big Book of Silly Jokes for Kids: 800+ Jokes! has reached number one on Amazon in March of 2020 and has remained in the top 200 books since then.

She published Mindfulness for Kids with J. Robin Albertson-Wren.

Carole has co-authored two self-help books. Navigating Indieworld: A Beginners Guide to Self-Publishing and Marketing with Julie A. Gerber, and Marketing Indieworld with both Julie A. Gerber and Angela Hausman.

Roman is the CEO of a global transportation company, as well as a practicing medium.

She also writes adult fiction under the name Brit Lunden and has created an anthology of the mythical town of Bulwark, Georgia with a group of indie authors.

Writing is her passion and one of her favorite pastimes. Roman reinvents herself frequently, and her family calls her the ‘mother of reinvention.’ She resides on Long Island, near her children and grandchildren.

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