Brand building: Saguaro Books, LLC has rolled out two new facets of our offerings: a) Books for Young Readers (Sold by but not Published by Saguaro Books, LLC) and b) New Adult (16-25 yrs. old) Fiction. Saguaro Books is looking for volunteer book designers, developers and editors to join a small, independent publishing firm in Fountain Hills, AZ.
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Book Trailer Production
As you probably already know, book trailers are a great way to promote and sell your book. We have worked with a graphics company specializing in the production of book trailers. Their prices are more than reasonable and they produce your trailer fast, in weeks. We had them produce a trailer for A GIRL NAMED MARY, an historical fiction YA novel. See the product for yourself at https://youtu.be/RGRN1Xi7rWY.
The company is www.rocket-trailers.com. Please mention Saguaro Books, LLC or this blog when contacting them.
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Our next Author TakeOver Author
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Introducing K. L. Kranes as our next Author Takeover Participant…
K.L. Kranes lives in the Washington, DC metro area with her husband, daughter and dog. When not writing fiction, K.L. is a freelance editor.
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Happy Birthday!!!
Happy Fifth Birthday…five years ago we received our first manuscript, Kenning Magic, which became our first published title.
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Our next author to be introduced for our Author TakeOver…Jenny Hawes

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Meet Judy Fischer
Judy Fischer is our fourth author in our series. She is the author of “He Fell from the Sky”.
I am an author, a teacher, a nana and a mother
With a thousand different stories to offer
Years of experiences under my belt
Love, sadness, loss and success.
The daughter of a man who married late in life
Who took a much younger woman, my mother as his wife
She married him for security and financial strength
I became the product of their bond, instead of wealth
A victim of civil war, I was robbed of my home
A daughter of a revolution, I lost my comfort zone
A refugee, an immigrant at a tender age
I sailed across the ocean, during a storm’s rage
I adopted a new country, swearing to its flag
With the clothes on our backs and only a single bag
A foreign language, a new city, displaced, ragged and poor
Thankful to Canada for opening her door.
A latch-key kid, I went to school, embracing my new life
My parents worked, they struggled, they toiled to provide
I had their love but their time I craved
Not really understanding the future they had paved
Education, example, love, devotion and travel
My parents had given it to me all
I am grateful for their guidance and sacrifice
Their efforts, patience and love did suffice
As a teenager, I travelled to all different lands
Finding the wonders of nature small and grand
And in every port, I left a piece of me
Giving my heart to young men willingly
As time went by, true love I found
And luckily, I was homeward bound
Destiny however soon upstaged my life
I did not become his partner in life
The teacher emerged, a new role to embrace
To educate, mould, to guide human race
Each young mind, my canvas and sponge to fill
My vocation, my obligation I was ready to fulfil
I met a man, someone I did not know well
He filled my emptiness and into his web I fell
To replace a love I missed so much, I relented, I committed
I promised to love him and so we wed
Two beautiful children blessed my world
However, for true love, my heart still yearned
After years of disappointment, heartache and grief
My marriage disintegrated, I turned another leaf
Life goes on and so did mine, with another man
Someone who gives me the freedom and is my biggest fan
I can now write the stories I have saved well
Those which developed and are ripe and ready to tell.
I write about love, I write about tolerance and peace
I believe in harmony, balance, equality and bliss
I see the beauty on this earth, the beauty in man’s soul
My stories blend and capture the essence of all of this.
My only fear I have today
Is that I cannot have enough time to say
All the thoughts about life I weave
Those words are the ones I want to leave.
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Coming soon…
A New World Bk. 4 Thunder Moon
Tonya Coffey
List Price: $11.95
5″ x 8″ (12.7 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on White paper
188 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1548533144
ISBN-10: 1548533149
BISAC: Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
Micha, King of Ancients, hoped the fighting between the realms would ease since the treat had been eliminated, yet the forest is filled with enemies who are not what they seem. They can be a plant, animal or even disguised as a friend.
While Micha battles Shifters, old enemies and himself, Jessa struggles to regain her life. A friend, in the spirit world, guides her through the adjustments of the truth, allowing her to uncover the Wars true beginning and of a man who will stop at nothing to obtain the True Power.
Micha must tread lightly as the Shadows reorganize the kingdom, demanding a union between Micha and Roselle. His only hope for happiness is for the curse Jessa cast upon herself to be broken by a Sorcerer, a man he did not trust. Will the King get his true Queen or will evil win?
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New from Saguaro Books, LLC
List Price: $11.95
5″ x 8″ (12.7 x 20.32 cm)
Black & White on White paper
226 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1547149582
ISBN-10: 1547149582
BISAC: Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Canada/Native Canadian
Until now there has been no magic, no adventure in Mary Bell’s life. Her small community in northern Saskatchewan is not a place where anything ever happens. Other than a heinous murder some thirty years ago, Buffalo Narrows has remained unscathed by notoriety. The population of Aboriginal people and of ancestors of European settlers, cohabit the tiny remote town and together they enjoy a peaceful, harmonious and simple but difficult existence.
But then on a beautiful summer day, in 2000, life as Mary Bell knows it, comes to a sudden halt.
A small Cessna hydroplane with five passengers on board crashes in the fields near Mary’s town and she is the only witness to a bloody and fatal tragedy.
Jack Holden, a lawyer and human rights activist enters the scene and turns Mary’s dreary life upside down. Not only does she fall in love, but a truth about her community, an ugly truth is revealed. An adventure which she dared only to dream about, is presented to her.
A gripping tale of romance and self-discovery mixed in with a relevant social issue.
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Rules Beginning Writers Should Never Break
We often talk about the “rules” of writing for kids citing proper page lengths and
story types for different age groups. A better term would probably be “guidelines”;
these rules exist only to tell you what, in general, editors like to see in the
manuscripts sent to them. And, of course, for every rule there are numerous
exceptions. But while we’d all like to think our book is strong enough to override the
guidelines, this is usually not the case. Here are some rules that shouldn’t be broken
until you a best-selling author:
Write Within Designated Word Lengths
No editor is going to turn down a terrific book just because the text length falls
outside the average guidelines. If your young adult novel is complete in 100 pages,
there’s no sense padding the manuscript simply because most YAs are longer. But
length guidelines are there for a reason — publishers have determined about how
much text kids of different ages can read, and so it behooves you to try to stay as
close to those guidelines as possible.
Don’t Provide Testimonials in Queries
It’s nice to have lots of neighborhood kids read your manuscript and give you
positive feedback, but your potential editor doesn’t want to hear about it. Frankly,
editors don’t give much credence to testimonials from readers who may be family or
friends of the author. Also, don’t clutter up the query letter with ideas for why
children need your book or what they’ll learn from it. This is up to the editor to
decide. (One exception: You’ve written a nonfiction book and can show that there
aren’t any other books in print that cover the same subject.)
Keep your query letter tight, brief, and to the point. Provide an intriguing plot
synopsis or nonfiction outline, relevant information about yourself, and enclose a
self-addressed, stamped envelope. Sell your book, not your reasons for writing it.
Don’t Write a Series Before Selling the First Book
I’ve critiqued many manuscripts from authors who say, “I’ve got six more books
written with these characters. Should I mention that to the editor when I submit my
manuscript?” My answer is always no. Unless an editor is specifically looking for new
series proposals, and the books were written from the start to form a series, this is a
bad idea. Realize that series are created as a group of books that are bound
together by some sort of hook; in fiction, it might be a club the main characters
form, a neighborhood they all live in, or a cause they champion. In nonfiction, it’s a
topic (natural sciences, biographies) and an age group. Rarely do you see picture
book fiction series. What does happen is a character may become very popular with
readers and the author is asked to write another book featuring the same cast.
These fiction “series” actually grow slowly one book at a time.
So, unless you’ve conceived your books as a traditional series and are able to
send a thought-out series proposal to the editor, stick to selling one book. When an
editor sees you have numerous manuscripts featuring the same characters and
similar plots, she may feel that you’ve spent too much writing new material and not
enough time revising what you’ve already got. And remember, each book — series or
not — must stand on its own. It needs a strong beginning, well-developed middle,
and satisfying end. No fair leaving the ending unfinished with the intention of
continuing the story in the next book.
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