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As I write this, it is National Cozy Mystery Day, so social media is awash with Cozy Mysteries, which I have found a great deal of fun. As I was noodling over what to write for this months' blog post it got me thinking how we can use any National Day to market our books. There are a veritable fest of national days to choose from on any given day but I thought I would issue a fun challenge to you. Below, I have chosen two for each day of October. The challenge is to use one of them to market your book(s) for the 31 days of October. This is a follow on from last month's  blog post when I talked about a challenge that others had set up and why I felt they were a good idea. So, here is my challenge and my my thirty-one choices: 1st      World Smile Day     National Hair Day 2nd     National Name Your Car Day     National Custodial Workers Day 3rd     National Techies day     National Boyfriend Day 4th    ...

  During the month of August I have joined in with a book marketing challenge, which I have thoroughly enjoyed doing so far; although I will admit it has been a real challenge. Some of the days are tough but I've enjoyed working my way through them. This has got me thinking about these challenges - are they worthwhile and more importantly, do they drive book sales? Half way through I would say a categorical yes to the first part, while the second part is difficult to measure in tangible terms. Firstly, the question you are probably asking, how do you get involved in these challenges? I got involved with this one as one of my friends said she was doing it. I asked her if I could join in and we first cleared it with the authors who set the challenge. Whilst the challenge is out in the universe and I suppose I could have just done it, I believe it is polite to ask the originators as they have put the hard work into preparing the challenge, may have a specific reason for doing so and m...