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

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“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.

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“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.

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“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…

A quick Q&A With Marianne and Judy

Q: Where can we find you on a typical Friday night, and what kind of trouble are you getting into there?

Judy: at home, relaxing, and being glad I don’t have to set the alarm on Saturday morning

Marianne: HAHAHA … I’m so used to getting up early in the mornings that I can’t sleep in on Saturday anyway.  Usually I’m already asleep by nine.  Every night.  Funny thing is, I used to be a bartender and one place I worked was an afterhours bar, so I’d get home around 5 a.m. … and even then, I’d sleep for an hour or two and was up for the day.  Once a morning person, always a morning person.

Q: What’s your exercise or sport of choice when getting out from behind the desk?

Judy:  I try to swim every day when the weather permits, and this fall (if it ever cools off) I’m going to start walking/running

Marianne: At minimum, I walk with my dogs a couple of miles every day.  I also have a treadmill that I try to hop on for a mile jog a few times a week.

Q: Name three things on your desk right now.

Judy:  my phone, my Yeti with ice and an Arnold Palmer, and the television remote.

Marianne: My phone, my index card file with all the open tours I’m working on, my dog’s chin…

Q: Hamburger or sushi?

Judy:  I like them both, but have been trying to eat healthier, so tend to eat more sushi than hamburger.  If I have a hamburger, that pretty much screams for French fries and.. well…

Marianne: If those are my choices, then hamburger. I keep trying to like sushi, but it just isn’t taking.

Giveaway!

Goddess Fish Promotion is giviing away One $50 Amazon or BN gift card; two $25 Amazon or BN gift cards; and two $10 Amazon or BN gift cards! Just use the rafflecopter form below to enter:

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Be sure to visit all of the tour stops to increase your chances of winning. You can see all of the tour stops here: Goddess Fish Anniversary Tour

More about the People Behind the Fish

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.

Judy Thomas  Judy 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.

Marianne Arkins Grammar freak and coffee lover, Marianne 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.

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Live the adventure!

29Oct2018