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Presenting the new Melanie Robertson-King “brand”<\/h2>\n

As children, we’ve been taught that bragging, boasting or tooting our own horn is not an attractive quality and we shouldn’t do it.<\/p>\n

But authors, well we have to be “out” there. Launching and signing our books, marketing ourselves. Besides good writing, being approachable to our readers, there is still something else that’s important. What’s that you say?<\/p>\n

Your author “brand”. A catchy tag line on your products – website, business cards, etc. will make you stand out.<\/p>\n

And in keeping with that… I now unveil the “new” Melanie Robertson-King “brand”.<\/p>\n

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Please visit my website melanierobertson-king.com<\/a> and sign my guestbook with your feedback about my new “brand”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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