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Mari Bianca
Goodreads Author
Born
in South Africa
Website
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Member Since
May 2014
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Serenade: A Mermaid Tale
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2014
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7 editions
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The Lost Girls (The Lost Girls #1)
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2015
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3 editions
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Hush Now Baby: A Bedtime Story
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Journey to a book launch
Launching a book is hard. Like, really, really hard. And, it’s especially hard when you are going the DIY route. Amazon, mercifully, has made this process as seamless as possible for indie authors like me, but even this incredible platform can only take you so far. Here is the journey I have been on for the past 15 months:
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Paranormal Romanc...:
July 2015 Group Read Nomnation Thread
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
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“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”
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