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Today Dianne is sharing some of the basic information she has been learning as she continues to improve the SEO for Burckhardt Books and their social media. As a sole proprietor, as many indies are, Dianne is having to teach herself how to best optimize her sites so search engines will effectively connect Burckhardt Books and Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt with their target markets.

SEO set up and maintenance can seem very intimidating to the novice, but even small improvements in the SEO for your site can bring more engagement with your desired audience.  Dianne shares a few beginning steps she has been working on to try to help  increase site engagement.

If you are one of the SEO newbies, do not let anxiety stop you from working to improve your SEO setup. Every step in the right direction will be beneficial.

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Reference:
The 10 Must-Follow SEO Content Writing Rules
10 Actionable SEO Content Writing Tips To Rank Higher
SEO Tips For Book Authors
KDSPY - Keyword Research for Authors
Chrome SEO Keyword Surfer Extension

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Hello Happy People,

In 2015, Dianne Buckhardt started self-publishing books under the pen name Stephen Burckhardt. In today's episode, Dianne shares an update on her current works in progress. She is working on finishing up the Into the West Saga Serial under her pen name and will be doing a reading from the final book in that serial, Into the West: Family Ties.

Dianne will also share what is going on with her first book she is working on which will be published under her own name. Her first book release will be an FBI profiler thriller titled, The Touch.  Dianne will give a brief outline of this new book and do a reading from it as well.

*Trigger warning - a chapter marker has been added for those who wish to skip over the reading from The Touch. Just click the marker to skip over that section and hear the end of the show.*

Dianne is also working on some new author interviews coming very soon. Keep watching the updates on www.BurckhardtBooks.com and subscribe to this podcast on your favorite streaming service so you never miss an episode because if you love books like we do, you will not want to miss this podcast!

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Hello Happy People,

In today's episode, we are rebroadcasting the interview with Val Collins due to illness. Dianne is down with a bad head cold and will return to new shows next week.

In this rebroadcast, Dianne is joined by international bestselling author of the Aoife (pronounced EE-fuh) Walsh books, Val Collins.  The books in this collection are psychological thrillers and will keep you guessing until the very last page.

Val has been an avid reader since she began at age three. She tried writing as a child, but her perfectionism stopped her from exploring it.  As she grew up, life took a different turn for her career wise and it wasn't until an economic crash in Ireland left Val unemployed that she returned to writing.

Now an international bestselling author, Val currently has four titles available in her Aoife Walsh book collection: Girl Targeted, Only Lies Remain, The Silent Speak, and Where Loyalties Lie. Her fifth Aoife Walsh book, Dying To Tell, is set to be released Feb. 28th.

If you love thrillers, don't wait, go listen now!
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Val Collins, Author of Dying to Tell (release date Feb. 28th 2023)

• Val Collins Books website
• Val Collins Books on Facebook
• Val Collins Amazon author page
• Read a sample of Dying To Tell
• Val Collins Books on Instagram
• Dying to Tell on Netgalley

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Hello Happy People,

Today Dianne continues her chat with cozy mystery author Stephanie LaVigne. Stephanie is a bestselling author of more than fifty popular mystery and romance novels under both her own name and pen names. She is known for her humor, quirky characters, adventurous situations, and captivating plots. Today the women focus more on Stephanie's upcoming mystery series, the first book is in pre-sales now on Amazon.

Stephanie is an adventurous person and has been blessed with all kinds of real-life adventures to help inspire the fictional ones she writes. From helping crew a sailboat on a trans-Atlantic crossing, to "awkwardly" mush a dogsled, and even accidently hiking Mount Washington she has plenty to draw on. 

Stephanie lives in South Florida with a few wild kids, one wild husband, and a tribe of loved ones. The women talked so long, Dianne ended up splitting the interview up into two shows. If you missed part one you can still check it on in episode 61. You can definitely tell they had fun with this interview and you will love listening to it.

Don't wait ... go listen now!

• Stephanie LaVigne's Website
• Stephanie's Amazon.com (US) Author Page
• Stephanie on Facebook
• Stephanie on Goodreads
• Stephanie on BookBub

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Hello Happy People,

Today Dianne finally gets her wish to chat with a cozy mystery author and she hit the jackpot with Stephanie LaVigne. Stephanie is a bestselling author of more than fifty popular mystery and romance novels under both her own name and pen names. She is known for her humor, quirky characters, adventurous situations, and captivating plots. Dianne got to read an advanced copy of her next book, Sunshine State of Crime and she can tell you, it is everything you want a cozy mystery to be!  The ebook version is available for pre-order now. 

Stephanie is quite an adventurous person. She helped crew a sailboat on a trans-Atlantic crossing, she managed to "awkwardly" mush a dogsled over the snow, and somehow managed to hiking Mount Washington without actually meaning to do it. Stephanie has been blessed with all kinds of real-life adventures to help inspire the fictional ones she writes.

Stephanie lives in South Florida surrounded by palm trees, peacocks, a few wild kids, one wild husband, and a tribe of loved ones. The women talked so long, Dianne ended up splitting the interview up into two shows. Be sure to come back next Wednesday for part two when they talk more specifically about Stephanie's upcoming books. You can definitely tell they had fun with this interview and you will love listening to it.

Don't wait ... go listen now!

• Stephanie LaVigne's Website
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• Stephanie on Facebook
• Stephanie on Goodreads
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Hello Happy People,

Today Dianne chats with author, academic, podcaster, and theater savant, Kelly Florence. Kelly teaches communication at Lake Superior College in Minnesota and hosts the Be a Better Communicator podcast. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in theatre and a master's degree in communication. She is active in theater and has worked on productions including Carrie The Musical  and Treasure Island. 

Kelly, along with her writing partner Meg Hafdahl, has co-authored five of the eighteen books currently in publication in The Science of Series .  The pair will be publishing a  sixth book, The Science of Agatha Christie, very soon. They also co-host the Horror Rewind podcast which was called "the best horror podcast out there" by Film Daddy.

• Kelly Florence's Website
• Kelly Florence on Facebook
• Kelly Florence on Instagram
• Kelly Florence's Amazon.com Author Page
• Horror Rewind Website

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Hello Happy People,

In today's episode, Dianne gets to chat with indie sci-fi author, Linaya DiNoto, in her first podcast appearance. The women chat about Linaya's book, Lithaflora the Chrysalis. This is the first book Linaya has published, but if the reviews are any indication of her future as an author, she is someone you are going to want to remember.  If you like her book, you are in luck because it is the first book in a planned trilogy so there will be more story to come. 

(From her website)
Linaya DiNoto has been writing fiction and poetry for over a decade. She has a love for all things literature and can often be found tucked away in her Northern California home reading a questionable amount of fantasy romance. She has a degree in English, has published short fiction and music journalism, and has been working towards publishing her first book for close to five years. Linaya loves her pets, tea, magic things, and spending time with her community of badass lady friends.

Be sure to check out her social media (and Dianne's). You'll find all the links you need below.

• Linaya DiNoto's Website
• Buy Linaya's Book on Amazon.com (US)
•  Linaya on TikTok
• Linaya on Instagram

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In today's episode, Dianne chats with Dr. David J Gibson. Gibson is a professor of botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He holds a PhD in Plant Biology and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB).

Dr. Gibson has years of field research in botany and has written a number of books mostly focusing grasslands and ecology. However, his most recent work focuses on the forensic study of plants as a means to murder and an aid in investigations in fiction and actual criminal cases.

Dianne talks with him about his new book, Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes, which is available now at booksellers.  He is an incredible wealth of knowledge about forensic botany and where to find a decent pint in Illinois.
 

• David J Gibson, PhD FRSB Website
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• David J. Gibson on BookFunnel 
• Frost Magazine mention of Planting Clues

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Hello Happy People!

In today's episode, Dianne finishes her chat with her good friend, Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen. Between the common jokes, the two focus todays chat more on Lance's screenplays and theater work.

Be sure to check out Lance's social media sites for more information on him and his work and be sure to subscribe to his YouTube channel so you can see all the amazing industry insiders he brings on for interviews about various creative arts fields including, authors, actors, directors, playwrights, and so much more!

Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen, Author of Diamonds in the Sky Series

• Lance's Facebook Page
• Lance's Diamonds in the Sky Website
• Diamonds in the Sky series on Amazon.com
• Pegasus Bridge The Screenplay on Amazon.com
• The Outcasts Creative theatrical productions on Facebook
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Lance interviews Dianne and bestselling author,  Val Collins, recorded live March 1st. 

Industry Interviews presents - ADVICE FOR NEW WRITERS Meet the Authors 

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In today's episode, Dianne chats with her good friend, Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen. Dianne always looks forward to chatting with Lance for several reasons. Besides the fact that he is multi-talented, working as an author, a playwright, an acting coach, and a director, but Lance knows how to make her laugh too.

Lance was born in South Africa and adopted at a young age by an English mother and Danish father. Raised in Kingston-upon-Thames in the United Kingdom, it was here, according to his website, "... he spent much of his time engaged in designing fictional worlds for role-playing games, rolling dice, renting videos, going to the cinema and forgetting to tell his mother what time he would be home when he went out." While under the influence of JRR Tolkien, he made his first attempts at writing a book series, The Prophecy of the Witch-King.  Since then, Lance has written many amazing works for stage, screen, and print. He chats about them all with Dianne in episodes 56 & 57, be sure to catch them both.

Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen, Author of Diamonds in the Sky Series

• Lance's Facebook Page
• Lance's Diamonds in the Sky Website
• Diamonds in the Sky series on Amazon.com
• Pegasus Bridge The Screenplay on Amazon.com
• The Outcasts Creative theatrical productions on Facebook
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Lance interviews Dianne and bestselling author,  Val Collins, recorded live March 1st. 

Industry Interviews presents - ADVICE FOR NEW WRITERS Meet the Authors 

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