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Bubbling to the Surface

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Hey all… There’s a lot going on under the hood these days at QRI, and it’s starting to bubble to the surface. 🙂 REVIEWS: To start, we’ve signed up a number of review sites, so you’ll be seeing more and more reviews here on the blog for the books you love. EVENTS: We’re also starting to launch more events on our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/queeromanceink/ In addition to our promo day, Flirtatious Fiction Friday, we’ve added Lazy Reading Sunday, a weekly event where we’ll disucss a particular genre or subset of Queer Romance. And We’re also launching Author Takeover Saturdays and Release Days, where our authors will take turns hanging out … Read more

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Lazy Reading Sunday – Mystery

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Today we’re launching a new feature on QRI – our weekly Lazy Reading Sunday. Each week we’ll choose a topic – a genre, pairing, or identity – and talk about our favorite reads on the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/queeromanceink/ Today – mystery. Do you have a favorite queer sleuth? An author who keeps you guessing right up until the very end? A favorite book or series you’ve recently read? Tell us about it. AUTHORS: Please do not use this chat to recommend your own books

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Reaching and Rewarding Queer Romance Readers

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Today we have a guest post from D.J. Jamison, one of the members of a new queer romance facebook group: Readers love freebies, and authors love reaching more readers. It’s a formula that you see all over — from blog tours to holiday giveaways to special events to celebrate book releases. The Queer Romance Freebie Fan Club takes that concept and gives it a regular home on Facebook. I’m one of 12 m/m romance authors who came together to create the group. It’s different from other m/m romance interest groups in that it’s not an open promo group. We created it specifically to connect with readers and to reward them … Read more

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SITE UPDATE: Next Up… Filtering

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Hey all, Time for the weekly check-in. 🙂 The site continues to grow – we just hit 270 authors, and are shooting toward 1,200 books in the directory. We’re also working on our ad campaign – we’ve started running regular Facebook ads, and are reaching out to various cons in the US and abroad to secure sponsorships and ads to get the word out. And site traffic will reach a new high this month, close to 7,700 unique visitors. We’re partnering with a number of review blogs to bring you great blog content, too. Filtering is the next big feature we’re looking to add on the site. It’s a bit … Read more

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Where We Are, and Where We’re Going

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Hey all, Time for the weekly check-in. 🙂 The site continues to grow – we just hit 250 authors, and will soon have 1,100 books in the directory. Last week, we updated to version four of the library plugin we use as our site foundation. There were a few small bugs with the upgrade, but in the end it resulted in a great speed bump on the site, We made a few more tweaks that helped as well, including adding pagination to the book pages, so you don’t have to load hundreds of books at a time. All of this means the site is now running much faster than it … Read more

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We Broke the 1,000 Book Level!

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It was a good week at QRI. We surpassed 1,000 books on the site – 1,030 to be exact – and now have more than 230 authors. We have our first official advertisers on board – Dreamspinner and MLR Press. And on Friday our developer will be upgrading the site to version four, which will set the stage for getting our long awaited search and page filtering. We’re also addressing the site slowness – it’s a new system and we’ve loaded a lot into it. Our ISP and developer are working to make the site run more efficiently and quickly. Once we launch V4, we’ll start doing more reader outreach. … Read more

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Flirtatious Fiction Friday!

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Flirtatious Fiction Friday

Welcome to F3: FLIRTATIOUS FICTION FRIDAY at our FB discussion group – a chance for our queer romance writers chance to pop in and tell us about their latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. As long as it’s queer romance, we want to hear about it. This is our once a week promo day. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the … Read more

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220 Authors, 900+ Books and Much More to Come

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Hey all, Just popping in for our weekly update on the QRI site, or Q-Rink, as the hubby calls it. 🙂 We just topped 900 listed books, and will probably hit a thousand this weekend – phenomenal growth in just five weeks, thanks to the wonderful authors on the site. We’ve also added our first ad, sorted out some site slowness problems, and plan more speed optimization to come. Next week will likely see our upgrade to Version Four of the the books plugin we use, which will add a few things but is more of a back-end update. But V4 will allow us to move forward on our most … Read more

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Flirtatious Fiction Friday!

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Welcome to F3: FLIRTATIOUS FICTION FRIDAY at our FB discussion group – a chance for our queer romance writers chance to pop in and tell us about their latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. As long as it’s queer romance, we want to hear about it. This is our once a week promo day. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the … Read more

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QRI Is Growing Fast

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Hey all… We’re just about at the one month mark for the Queeromanceink.com site. 🙂 We’re also within spitting distance of 800 books on the site, and have almost 200 authors on the site now. Our short to mid-term plans: Update to Version 4 of the plugin that runs the directory Work with the developer to get our search and book page filters up and running Bring in publishers and bloggers to work with us on site content Outreach to cons for advertising Building a reader base for the site If you’re an author, you still have time to take advantage of our launch sale – 15 months for the … Read more