BooksChatter: ☀ℚ Goddess Fish Promotions Tenth Anniversary Celebrations!

Thank you for joining us today for the Goddess Fish Promotions Tenth Anniversary Celebrations!

Goddess Fish Promotions is one of the companies behind our book tours - they make it all happen! They organise tours and provide other essential services, such as editing, graphic design, and more.

They are wonderful to work with (as well as being great animal lovers) and we would always recommend them to any author wishing to promote their work, hence we are very proud to introduce them to you today.

Goddess Fish Promotions will be awarding lots of prizes to randomly drawn winners via Rafflecopter during the tour - full details below! Please do take part: comment on our post and join in the poetry competition, and follow the tour where you will be able to read other fun titbits from Goddess Fish.

|| An Introduction from GFP || About GFP || Giveaway & Tour Stops ||

An Introduction from Goddess Fish Promotions

Welcome to the Goddess Fish Promotions Tenth Anniversary Month Long Celebration!

Who is Goddess Fish Promotions? And what do we do? We're glad you asked!

We didn't want your visit here to be dry and boring, so we decided to have a poetry competition and put what we do into verse. Here are the initial entries:

Marianne:

Roses are Red.
Violets are Blue.
I'm awful at poetry.
Coffee.

Judy:

We can edit your book
find things you didn't see
It will be fun to look
at the changes from me.

Yeah, for some reason, Judy won!

Even better, her poem is correct. We DO offer editing as one of our options.

Here are a couple of testimonials from clients:

I worked with Marianne on a complete edit and was very happy with the results. Her feedback was clear, easy to follow, and she probed on things I hadn’t thought of. She was also responsive whenever I had questions and helped me work through a few issues. Her feedback and guidance improved the quality of my manuscript, all at a very fair price. I’m working on my next book and plan to use their services again.

– J B Glazer, author, In Search of Mr. Anonymous*

Choosing the right editor for a project is incredibly important to an author. Let’s face it, we want the best for our books. When I was considering editors for my first indie-published book, Regenerate, I naturally thought of Goddess Fish Promotions–and I’m so glad I did.

Marianne Arkins and Judy Thomas are incredibly attentive and professional during the entire editing process. Their input was invaluable and the story is much stronger because they cared enough to help unsnarl plot points and find order in the chaos..

I can’t wait to work with them again. Truly, a top-notch editorial team!

– Sarita Leone, award-winning author of Regenerate

We also offer Virtual Book Tours, Graphic Design, Social Media Promotion and more. You can see more testimonials here.

We hope you enjoyed getting to know us a little (more information is below) and we'd like to do the same. We'd LOVE to see a little poem that tells us a bit about you in the comments.

We'll be awarding random book giveaways and $5 Amazon GCs to some of the best poetry we find. It might not be at every stop, but when something really makes us smile, we'll reward it!

Come on, be daring!

And now, more about us...

About Goddess Fish Promotions

Goddess Fish Promotions was established October 14, 2008. Why?

Well, when Marianne became a published author and got her the first taste of trying to promote a book on a budget, there was only one other virtual book tour company in place at the time, and their fees were simply too high for a small press author.

After coordinating and running her own tour, she knew other authors could use the same service for a reasonable price. Thus, Goddess Fish Promotions was born.

Because both Judy and Marianne were authors and editors prior to running Goddess Fish Promotions, they approach the business with a unique point of view, and treat their clients how they would expect to be treated.

The people behind the fish

Judy Thomas

Judy Thomas has a college degree in English and she’s worked in retail, education, at her local library as well as an editor for a small press and for the now defunct ShadowKeep Ezine.

She’s also a published author so can see things from both sides of the fence. In 2013, she “retired” and now spends her days helping authors make their dream come true—as well as working as much as she can with her local theater group.

Let's find out a little bit more about Judy!
Have you ever found true love?

"I have ...and I had to kiss a lot of frogs along the way, but I wouldn’t change a thing. What we went through before we found each other, made us the people was are."

What do you want to be when you grow up?

"Do I have to grow up? I think adulting is very overrated sometimes."

What is your favorite bedtime drink?

"A glass of wine before bed, but I keep a glass of water on my bedside table for nighttime drinking"

Favorite food –

"pizza… followed closely by potatoes in all their incarnations"

Marianne Arkins

Grammar freak and coffee lover, Marianne Arkins wrote her first novel at ten years old, built her first commercial website in 2000, and published for the first time in 2006.

She worked as a professional editor for just over a year, and knows what it’s like to write, edit and promote a book on a budget.

Let's find out a little bit more about Marianne!

Have you ever found true love?

"Sure. I’ve been married for more than twenty years!"

What do you want to be when you grow up?

"Black Widow (Natasha Romanov) from “The Avengers”... seriously. Every single time I watch any of the movies, I literally say, “I want to be her when I grow up.” She’s snarky and smart and caring and she kicks butt!! She’s my hero. Seriously… check this out, it’s one of my favorite scenes with her:"

What is your favorite bedtime drink?

"Lately, it’s been kombucha. I don’t like to drink a lot before bed, though, because I don’t want to have to visit the potty during the night."

Favorite food –

"pizza … it’s good for any meal!"

Giveaway and Tour Stops

For Everyone

Enter to win: one $50 Amazon/BN GC, two $25 Amazon/BN GCs, and two $10 Amazon/BN GCs – a Rafflecopter giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway For Authors