Well at this exact moment I just finished processing this photo I took of the Flatiron Building in New York City. It’s only 10:49 a.m. and I’m ready for a nap.
We set our alarms for 5:30 and headed out at 6 a.m. emerging from the Subway just at daybreak. The Flatiron Building was so pretty at this hour.
I may not just be a small-town contemporary romance writer because the next book in the trilogy about the Cruz sisters has a bit of suspense and doesn’t take place in a small town. But I do love that sub-genre. I am reading Virgin River by Robyn Carr as part of a reading challenge for a romance genre Goodreads group called For the Challenge Impaired. We get to read at our own pace, which really suits me.
This is the first time I’ve been active in a Goodreads challenge group, and I’m really enjoying getting to share the experience of a book with other readers. Spoilers are hidden but we can discuss things in general. Once I’m through the first book, I want to delve into the spoilers and see what people think. After a bit of a slow start, I’m loving Virgin River, a small-town contemporary romance set in Northern California. I am inspired.
Being a tourist and on vacation in New York is lovely. For one thing I could take photos of people hurrying to their jobs. These two women were similarly attired and I thought tan and black was a nice color combo for work.
I’m starting to think about visual branding. I hadn’t heard that term before but recently I did. I immediately locked onto it. Anything having to do with branding and marketing captures my attention. Visual branding is a great term to know because it turns up informative articles in Google. I’m starting to get clear about what I want to do. How to do it is another matter! Stay tuned.
Nicci Carrera 
Hi Nia,Please keep up your excellent work and high spirit! Best to both of you! And keep enjoying the northeast! 🙂
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what an impressive building !
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Thank you, Gwennie. It’s really amazing, huh? I actually didn’t know about it until this trip so something new for me too. 🙂
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it certainly looks amazing !
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Nice photos, especially I like about women, I felt NY working atmosphere! Visual branding, hmm, sounds very interesting…huge good luck!
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Thank you Ann! It’s good to know you like to see people. That way I can keep up the observations!
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And while observing you can find and keep in mind something for your book heroes…
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Yes, that’s a good idea! I think I’ll write about one of these women escaping the city to live in the country!
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Oh, Ann, I forgot to respond to your comment about the visual branding. Branding is something that companies do. When I was reading about it, the examples used were Starbucks and Home Depot. I don’t know if you have those in Ukraine, but they are common here. Anyway, the idea is that you have some colors and a logo that you use all the time so people can recognize you out in the world, or for a writer, in social media, in online bookstores, on your website, and so on. It’s a science people study, but I’m just fiddling around and guessing for now. I’m choosing some new colors. I’m going to make a logo and header that I can put on my website and blog. I like my new header for my blog though, the photo of me taking photos, so I’m in no hurry to change that one! But you might see this blog change a bit. I already changed the background color. I’m just experimenting. 🙂
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Hello – finally getting caught up on all my to-do things…it was a pleasure to meet up with you in NYC this past week – I hope you are feeling better. Nice selection of shots from your travels around town.
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Thanks Robert! I really enjoyed meeting you too. It was fun trying to take photos of that library with you. That was tricky! It was good I went home early and rested as I really peaked on my cold that day. Now I am all better and appreciating my health like never before. 😉
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Glad to hear that…enjoy the balance of your time with our gal from down under…
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Thank you, I will. We are resting today. (It’s pretty cloudy, so a good day to catch up on photo processing and blogging. 🙂 )
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I’m back to work…no rest for the wicked I guess…Enjoy!
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Great pics Nicci, tall buildings look great. Good luck with the visual branding. I was thinking of using a visual brand: Me pulling what’s left of my hair out in despair. 😦
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Ha ha! The only problem is it wouldn’t be unique enough among authors, Laurie. I worked for 10 hours and made a mess. Then I did something very simple.
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Is there anything unique in the world today regarding books Nicci? it would make you spit, all that time then the simple way works. there’s no justice. 🙂
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