Boldly.Blue

@boldlyblue
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Award-winning #author, retired digital marketing & mediation nonprofit organization owner, Center for Progressive Leadership Fellow, advised six political campaigns & make a mean deep dish. Online at https://Boldly.Blue. Get my first novel at: https://bit.ly/4m0pyLW
Buy My Novel "One Grain of Sand"https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084
Websitehttps://Boldly.Blue
When is #corporateteambuilding beneficial and not? Let's get into it, in this interview I did with #teambuilding expert David Goldstein: https://boldly.blue/corporate-team-building-and-bonding/
Corporate Team Building and Bonding - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Corporate team building is an essential part of running efficient, larger, corporate businesses. In this blog post we discuss an interview conducted with a corporate team building consultant.

David Somerfleck

Why does digital marketing fail for so many small businesses? The answer mirrors the 5 stages of grief. A 20yr digital marketing veteran maps the Kübler-Ross model onto the patterns that keep business owners stuck in the swamp.
https://boldly.blue/digital-marketing-and-stages-of-denial/

#digitalmarketing #marketing #business #smallbusiness

Digital Marketing and Stages of Denial - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Why does digital marketing fail for so many small businesses? The answer mirrors the five stages of grief — denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance. A twenty-year digital marketing veteran maps the Kübler-Ross model onto the patterns that keep business owners stuck in the swamp.

David Somerfleck
Podcast Guesting for Authors: Microphone as Megaphone
https://boldly.blue/author-podcast-directory/
The most comprehensive author podcast directory ever assembled w/ case studies of authors who used podcast guesting to build their career
#AuthorPodcast #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity #BookMarketing
How Podcast Guesting Can Launch an Author Career: The Microphone as Megaphone - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

The most comprehensive author podcast directory ever assembled. 400+ podcasts, pitching platforms, and case studies of authors who used podcast guesting to build their careers. Science fiction, horror, speculative fiction, literary, indie, and more.

David Somerfleck
The Flesh Betrays: A Definitive Guide to Body Horror Fiction
https://boldly.blue/body-horror-fiction-definitive-guide/
A guide to body horror fiction from its philosophical origins, its 4 distinct creative approaches (psychological, erotic, feminist, political) & 5 essential texts.
#BodyHorror #HorrorFiction #Kafka #CliveBarker #HanKang #AgustinaBazterrica #CarmenMariaMachado #LiteraryHorror #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #TheMetamorphosis #TheHellboundHeart
The Flesh Betrays: A Definitive Guide to Body Horror Fiction - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

A definitive guide to body horror fiction — its philosophical origins in Frankenstein and Kafka, its four distinct creative approaches (psychological, erotic, feminist, political), five essential texts from The Metamorphosis to Tender Is the Flesh, its social critique dimensions from gender to capitalism to race, and six craft principles for writers entering the tradition. When the body is the monster, nothing is safe.

David Somerfleck
Solarpunk: The Genre That Dares to Dream the World Repaired - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Solarpunk is the speculative fiction genre that replaced dystopian doom with solar panels, community gardens, and radical hope. A complete introduction to the genre's origins, subgenres, key writers — Becky Chambers, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula Le Guin — and how it compares to science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and horror.

David Somerfleck
Welcome to the Borderlands: A Definitive Guide to the New Weird
https://boldly.blue/new-weird-fiction-guide/
A definitive guide to the New Weird — the genre that ate the walls between #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #horror.
#NewWeird #SpeculativeFiction #ChinaMieville #JeffVanderMeer #MJohnHarrison #NnediOkorafor #WeirdFiction #GenreFiction #HorrorFiction #FantasyFiction #LiteraryAnalysis
Welcome to the Borderlands: A Definitive Guide to the New Weird - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

A definitive guide to the New Weird — the genre that ate the walls between science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Origins in Lovecraft and Machen, the 2003 naming debate, in-depth analysis of Perdido Street Station, Annihilation, Viriconium, and Who Fears Death, author quotes, political dimensions, and eight craft principles for writers entering the territory.

David Somerfleck
The Indie Listener's Choice
Buy the One Grain of Sand audiobook through Libro.fm and send a piece of every dollar to an independent bookstore of your choosing — speculative fiction that sustains the shelves.
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798347391011
#Librofm #IndieBookstore #SupportIndieBookstores #DystopianFiction #SciFiRomance #SpeculativeFiction #Audiobook #AudiobookListener #DystopianSF #SciFiAudiobook

Is #Pinterestmarketing a fit for your #business or #sidehustle or #freelance #gig? Here's an interview I did some time ago that I think is still very relevant today and might help: https://boldly.blue/pinterest-marketing-with-sherisse-marie/

#pinterest #onlinemarketing #socialmediamarketing #marketing

Pinterest Marketing with Sherisse Marie - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author

Pinterest is new to many and I was certainly skeptical of it myself until this interview. Listen or watch here.

David Somerfleck