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Book Review: Hidden (A bone secrets novel) by Kendra Elliot

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(Blurb) : Eleven years ago, the Co-ed Slayer murdered nine female students on the Oregon State University campus. Lacey Campbell barely escaped his attack, but lost her best friend whose remains were never found. As the sole surviving victim, Lacey helped send the sadistic serial killer to prison for life. Now a forensic odontologist examining teeth and bones for the state Medical Examiner, Lacey is devastated when she arrives at a crime scene and identifies the skeletal remains as her college friend’s. The remains are discovered on the land of ex-cop Jack Harper. Sparks fly between him and Lacey, even as they realize that the prosecution’s witnesses from a decade ago are now being murdered one by one. All the evidence points to the Co-ed Slayer as the culprit—only, he’s long since dead. So who’s the new killer? And is Lacey next in line to die? Golden Heart finalist Kendra Elliot combines chilling suspense and steamy romance in a gripping tale, uniting in-depth forensic knowledge w

Blog Talk: Why follow for follow is useless

One thing that I haven't gotten too caught up in around the blogesphere (luckily) is the "follow for follow" schtick. Anyone who has tried to promote anything has heard of it -- writers, reviewers, bloggers, etc. -- "If you follow my blog/author site and all of my social media, then I'll follow back." The problem is that it doesn't get you very far. Usually. I can't speak for everyone's experience. 1. many will end up unfollowing in a week or month 2. you're lost in the crowd Following people:  I just purged my Twitter and I'm feeling great about it. While I didn't do the follow for a follow routine, I just naturally accumulated a bunch of twitter accounts. Hitting on 800 (which is no where near what some people have), I noticed that maybe 25% of those I was following were showing up in my feed. Others were buried, not tweeting, or tweeting spam. This goes for any social media site. Of course, there are those annoying Twitter