Welcome to July's Insecure Writers Support Group, started by Alex J Cavanaugh. Join us HERE . Happy summer in the northern hemisphere! How's your summer going? I love swimming laps in my outdoor pool... ...and I can't wait to watch swimming and other sports in the Olympics. I don't love a day job extra project that involves writing long papers with an August deadline. Fiction writing is WAY more fun! I'm ramping up to release my next novel on 10/1/16: New Adult Sports Romance SPIKED (Blocked #3). Spiked features the awesome sport of swimming. We plan a cover reveal and review tour as well as a Facebook party . I hope to put the first two novels on sale, too. Any other marketing strategies you recommend? If you'd like to help host the cover reveal for Spiked on 8/1/16, sign ups are HERE . (Warning: this cover contains another shirtless man. But my character's personality is much more important than his abs, I swear!)