Linda Dunn
@dunn4authors.bsky.social
Hawaii-based author's assistant offering personalized, confidential services to streamline the author platform and strengthen the author brand.
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Go all out = take action
How might this apply to your social media and book reviews?
Take action by regularly requesting a book review from your followers. Take action by sharing your excitement over a new review.
Sometimes they just need a nudge to leave their own review.
How might this apply to your social media and book reviews?
Take action by regularly requesting a book review from your followers. Take action by sharing your excitement over a new review.
Sometimes they just need a nudge to leave their own review.
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Go all out = take action
How might this apply to your social media and book reviews?
Take action by regularly requesting a book review from your followers. Take action by sharing your excitement over a new review.
Sometimes they just need a nudge to leave their own review.
How might this apply to your social media and book reviews?
Take action by regularly requesting a book review from your followers. Take action by sharing your excitement over a new review.
Sometimes they just need a nudge to leave their own review.
Every Christmas Eve, the Icelandic people practice something called 'jolabokaflod,' which translates to Christmas book flood.
Jolabokaflod involves giving books as presents on Christmas Eve, so that friends and family can spend the cozy night in curled up with a good story.
Jolabokaflod involves giving books as presents on Christmas Eve, so that friends and family can spend the cozy night in curled up with a good story.
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Every Christmas Eve, the Icelandic people practice something called 'jolabokaflod,' which translates to Christmas book flood.
Jolabokaflod involves giving books as presents on Christmas Eve, so that friends and family can spend the cozy night in curled up with a good story.
Jolabokaflod involves giving books as presents on Christmas Eve, so that friends and family can spend the cozy night in curled up with a good story.
Hello, it's me.
How often do you create a new blog post?
Not often means your subscribers aren't seeing your content drop into their inbox.
Don't lose that connection. Step up your game.
How often do you create a new blog post?
Not often means your subscribers aren't seeing your content drop into their inbox.
Don't lose that connection. Step up your game.
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Hello, it's me.
How often do you create a new blog post?
Not often means your subscribers aren't seeing your content drop into their inbox.
Don't lose that connection. Step up your game.
How often do you create a new blog post?
Not often means your subscribers aren't seeing your content drop into their inbox.
Don't lose that connection. Step up your game.
December 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hello, it's me.
How often do you send out a newsletter?
Not often means your subscribers aren't receiving the valued information they subscribed for.
Step up your game.
How often do you send out a newsletter?
Not often means your subscribers aren't receiving the valued information they subscribed for.
Step up your game.
December 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hello, it's me.
How often do you send out a newsletter?
Not often means your subscribers aren't receiving the valued information they subscribed for.
Step up your game.
How often do you send out a newsletter?
Not often means your subscribers aren't receiving the valued information they subscribed for.
Step up your game.
December 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
-Peg Bracken
-Peg Bracken
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
-Peg Bracken
-Peg Bracken
Go all out = determination
How might determination play into your social media?
By showing up consistently. Day in, day out.
You can't drop the ball and expect any platform will put your content in front of new followers if you take a 6 month hiatus.
How might determination play into your social media?
By showing up consistently. Day in, day out.
You can't drop the ball and expect any platform will put your content in front of new followers if you take a 6 month hiatus.
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Go all out = determination
How might determination play into your social media?
By showing up consistently. Day in, day out.
You can't drop the ball and expect any platform will put your content in front of new followers if you take a 6 month hiatus.
How might determination play into your social media?
By showing up consistently. Day in, day out.
You can't drop the ball and expect any platform will put your content in front of new followers if you take a 6 month hiatus.
Hello, it's me.
How often do you post on social platforms?
Not often means your followers aren't as familiar with you as they need to be.
Step up your game.
How often do you post on social platforms?
Not often means your followers aren't as familiar with you as they need to be.
Step up your game.
December 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hello, it's me.
How often do you post on social platforms?
Not often means your followers aren't as familiar with you as they need to be.
Step up your game.
How often do you post on social platforms?
Not often means your followers aren't as familiar with you as they need to be.
Step up your game.
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
As a verb, bother can mean that you take the trouble to do something. It's often presented as a negative.
-Vocabulary
Winnie the Pooh may have thought anything was a 'bother' unless it included honey.
Your email list is golden. Pooh would consider it honey-like. Build that list today.
-Vocabulary
Winnie the Pooh may have thought anything was a 'bother' unless it included honey.
Your email list is golden. Pooh would consider it honey-like. Build that list today.
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
As a verb, bother can mean that you take the trouble to do something. It's often presented as a negative.
-Vocabulary
Winnie the Pooh may have thought anything was a 'bother' unless it included honey.
Your email list is golden. Pooh would consider it honey-like. Build that list today.
-Vocabulary
Winnie the Pooh may have thought anything was a 'bother' unless it included honey.
Your email list is golden. Pooh would consider it honey-like. Build that list today.
December 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Comfort Zone
Author, do you need to step out of your comfort zone?
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Author, do you need to step out of your comfort zone?
Get your complimentary guide here: www.subscribepage.co...
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Comfort Zone
Author, do you need to step out of your comfort zone?
Get your complimentary guide here: www.subscribepage.co...
Author, do you need to step out of your comfort zone?
Get your complimentary guide here: www.subscribepage.co...
Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it — you feel it. You know it. You believe it.
-Kevin Alan Milne
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christmas magic is silent. You don't hear it — you feel it. You know it. You believe it.
-Kevin Alan Milne
Is follower engagement important for authors?
Followers want to build a relationship with you, the author.
Engagement is key to building a long-lasting relationship with them.
Make time to engage.
Followers want to build a relationship with you, the author.
Engagement is key to building a long-lasting relationship with them.
Make time to engage.
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Is follower engagement important for authors?
Followers want to build a relationship with you, the author.
Engagement is key to building a long-lasting relationship with them.
Make time to engage.
Followers want to build a relationship with you, the author.
Engagement is key to building a long-lasting relationship with them.
Make time to engage.
Is there power in a book review?
Definitely. A positive review can sway a potential reader to purchase your book.
Request reviews from your followers.
Definitely. A positive review can sway a potential reader to purchase your book.
Request reviews from your followers.
December 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is there power in a book review?
Definitely. A positive review can sway a potential reader to purchase your book.
Request reviews from your followers.
Definitely. A positive review can sway a potential reader to purchase your book.
Request reviews from your followers.
Jolabokaflod is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas.
These books are gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift in the country.
-Wikipedia
These books are gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift in the country.
-Wikipedia
December 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Jolabokaflod is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas.
These books are gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift in the country.
-Wikipedia
These books are gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift in the country.
-Wikipedia
My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
-Johnny Mathis
-Johnny Mathis
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
-Johnny Mathis
-Johnny Mathis
Go all out = energy and enthusiasm
How might this apply to your social media posts?
Do you have energy and enthusiasm behind your posts?
Followers want to be entertained. Bring your vibrant self to your posts.
How might this apply to your social media posts?
Do you have energy and enthusiasm behind your posts?
Followers want to be entertained. Bring your vibrant self to your posts.
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Go all out = energy and enthusiasm
How might this apply to your social media posts?
Do you have energy and enthusiasm behind your posts?
Followers want to be entertained. Bring your vibrant self to your posts.
How might this apply to your social media posts?
Do you have energy and enthusiasm behind your posts?
Followers want to be entertained. Bring your vibrant self to your posts.
What is the meaning of oh, bother?
From time to time, Winnie the Pooh and his friends share unexpected words of wisdom.
-Bookmans
While you may consider your email list a bother, I assure you it is well worth your time.
It is your direct contact with your subscribers.
From time to time, Winnie the Pooh and his friends share unexpected words of wisdom.
-Bookmans
While you may consider your email list a bother, I assure you it is well worth your time.
It is your direct contact with your subscribers.
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What is the meaning of oh, bother?
From time to time, Winnie the Pooh and his friends share unexpected words of wisdom.
-Bookmans
While you may consider your email list a bother, I assure you it is well worth your time.
It is your direct contact with your subscribers.
From time to time, Winnie the Pooh and his friends share unexpected words of wisdom.
-Bookmans
While you may consider your email list a bother, I assure you it is well worth your time.
It is your direct contact with your subscribers.
In the age of digital, it can be easy to forget that your books are physical objects. It is important to do a thorough assessment of the physicality of your books (and yourself) as well as a digital one.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In the age of digital, it can be easy to forget that your books are physical objects. It is important to do a thorough assessment of the physicality of your books (and yourself) as well as a digital one.
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Jolabokaflod
The Christmas book flood is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas.
These books are purchased as presents to be gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift.
-Wikipedia
The Christmas book flood is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas.
These books are purchased as presents to be gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift.
-Wikipedia
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jolabokaflod
The Christmas book flood is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas.
These books are purchased as presents to be gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift.
-Wikipedia
The Christmas book flood is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas.
These books are purchased as presents to be gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas gift.
-Wikipedia