About Jaime McDougall
Jaime McDougall is a citizen of the world, currently loving life in beautiful country Victoria in Australia. She loves eating sushi, kidnapping her husband and naming her pets in honour of science fiction authors.
She has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: High School: The Real Deal and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Campus Chronicles. So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging is her most recent non-fiction ebook. She has also enjoyed writing a column called ‘The New Australian’ in local newspapers as well as various articles online.
Echo Falls is her first paranormal romance novel. You can buy it now at:
Amazon ( Kindle ) | Barnes and Noble ( Nook ) | Smashwords ( Multiformat )
Amazon ( Print ) | Barnes and Noble ( Print )
You can visit her website at InkyBlots.com
Five Reasons I Love Reviewers by Jaime McDougall
1. Reviewers give of their time and energy to write about the books they love. Not only that, they often share these reviews on sites beyond their own blogs. All this for a copy of the book or sometimes for nothing at all.
2. Reviewers are the lifeblood of true publicity. I’m sure you can do a lot with ads and other things, but reviewers will give you that ‘not for sale but oh, so valuable’ word of mouth publicity.
3. Reviewers provide valuable feedback. A review of my first ebook, So You Want to Write a Guest Post, prompted me to revise the ebook. Not only do I now have a better product for readers, I used that feedback to make So You Want an Online Tour an ebook I’m incredibly proud of.
4. Reviewers let me know I’m being read! This one may seem obvious, but it’s a little more than that. It’s one thing to sell books, but to inspire someone – one way or another – to write their thoughts about my book makes me feel great.
5. Reviewers are loyal. When a reviewer finds an author s/he loves, s/he will stick with the author. Reader and reviewer loyalty are what authors like me dream of.
About Echo Falls
Running from a nightmare stalking her every move, Phoebe Martin arrives in Echo Falls hoping she has finally found a safe place to stop. But trouble has a way of catching up and soon the signs are there.
After a vicious attack in an alley, policeman Aidan O’Bryan is left with Phoebe as his only path to understanding why the Echo Falls werewolf pack – his pack – is being attacked. When another pack member is killed, Phoebe is forced to confront her past before she loses Aidan and everything she has come to love.
Love and duty become one as Aidan strives to prevent Phoebe from becoming the next victim. But with Phoebe just as determined to protect Aidan and her new home, secrets from her past threaten to tear them apart.
Will love give Phoebe the strength to trust Aidan and face her fears, or will her past destroy her future?
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