Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
Image by Hubspot Facebook has been under intense pressure lately. On one hand, both public and private bodies scrutinize its every move, worried about privacy issues and undemocratic material posted online. On the other, shareholders are troubled by dwindling membership. So, Facebook has been quietly making a number of changes, placing a renewed emphasis on building relationships and interactions. The company’s most immediate concern is losing members. In response, it wants people to stay longer on its pages by only showing them posts which are of genuine interest to them. It measures that by measuring how engaged you are to each type of post which shows up on your timeline. What does all this mean for you? Ari Meghlen has some tips for you. 1. The changes There are two main areas of change: changes regarding Groups and changes regarding Pages and your organic reach. Specifically: Group Changes The main changes concern changes in the way people are invited and accepted into your groups and in the way our posts are shared with our Friends. If you’re hosting a Facebook Group to contact your readers, you may have noticed the following changes: Updated Group Invitation — Now, when people are invited to a group, they can accept or decline the invite. Before, people could be added to groups by friends who thought they might be interested in them, and they’d immediately become a member.…

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Originally posted on A Little more Fiction:
It gives me great pleasure in highlighting this book, Undercover, written by my friend, Jane Risdon. Hopefully, this brief article will entice you to grab a copy. Under one cover for the first time, a collection of crime shorts from Jane Risdon with more twists and turns than Spaghetti Junction – a must for those who enjoy gripping yarns. Undercover: Crime Shorts features new short stories written with strong female protagonists at its heart, and includes Sweet Sable – a redheaded nightclub singer with sex appeal and a sting in her tail, and The Look – a hit woman with an agenda for revenge and a talent for hire. There is an extract from the first novel in the series, Ms Birdsong Investigates Murder in Ampney Parva: Operation Matryoshka – where former MI5 intelligence officer, Lavinia Birdsong, is asked to look for a missing woman and finds herself embroiled in murder, the Russian Mafia, and Ukrainian gun-runners. My readers say: Roger A Price: a former detective and crime author says: Crime Shorts is a wonderfully satisfying anthology of seven short stories which transcend above the crime fiction genre providing a ripping yarn irrespective of the reader’s crime fiction preference. Jane Risdon has cleverly stitched together a mix of tales to suit all fans of the genre. Gloria Clulow: reader says: As with all Jane’s stories I find them intriguing and unpredictable, leaving me wanting more;…

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Originally posted on authorsinterviews:
Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. My name is Fiona Mcvie. Hi Fiona – thanks for the invitation to your Author Interviews   Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name. What is your age? My writing name is Gilli Allan, but my age…..You will have to read this interview with close attention.  It will offer up clues. Fiona: Where are you from? I’m from Orpington, in Kent. Fiona: A little about your self (ie,  your education, family life, etc.). I am from an arty family.  My father was a graphic designer in advertising, my mother was an amateur painter.  I was a bright but dreamy child, and didn’t excel educationally.   Though I managed to get into a Girls’ Grammar school, I pretty much scraped along.  My only obvious talent was art, and I left and went to art college as soon as I was able to. Fiona: Tell us your latest news. I only wish I did have some edge-of-the-seat news to disclose. I can only tell you where I am in the process.  Currently I am about a quarter of the way through a new book set in the world of costume design, and at the same time I am trying to interest agents or publishers in my last, BURIED TREASURE for which I’ve used ‘Educating Rita meets Time Team’ as the elevator pitch! But I am beginning…

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