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Comment by Tonya Kinzer on December 7, 2011 at 12:20pm

Bloggers, join me in my New Year's blog hop and attract more readers and followers. Just join the linky and your blog is added. I'll be sending all involved more information soon! Pass it on so we can have an awesome hop for our readers! Linky closes Dec 23rd...

Comment by Yolanda Jackson on November 25, 2011 at 10:41pm

Get your ideas into stores http://www.quirky.com/?r=e189f337a09ec63233600f9fdde6f809

Comment by Neil Ostroff on November 21, 2011 at 12:45pm

Greatest feeling ever!

Got a new book coming out next week and I must say it’s a great feeling. Not because I finished another book, but because I finished a book that I started writing in 1997. As I slowly weed through more than two decades of manuscripts, there’s a certain joy that comes each time one is finally declared “finished”. Even as I re-read the manuscript for the
thousandth time, I could still picture myself fourteen years ago, sitting
upstairs in my sweltering bedroom pumping out the first draft of the story into a 546 megabyte hard drive all while dreaming of having legions of fans and wild success. It’s these dreams that have kept me writing for all of these years. But, I digress. What I really wanted to do is give you a quick overview of the people I use and trust to put a raw manuscript into absolute professional standards. When you sell an ebook, the cover and interior formatting must be perfect if you are to attract a growing audience. You don’t want to cheapen out on these things. So… once again, I get no kickback or any other incentive to mention these people, only that they have been fantastic when it comes to producing my ebooks. The first person I recommend is my cover artist Judy Bullard. Jubu@cox.net. She is absolutely fantastic and has an uncanny way of creating the exact cover I had envisioned in my head. She’s done the last four of my books, including my latest, which you can see on my blog. Here are the links to see my covers of books she’s done that are for sale now:

AFTER

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050Q8D8U

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0050Q8D8U

DROP OUT

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FX0K7U

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005FX0K7U

INSECTLAND

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005P81J48

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005P81J48

The second person who makes my ebooks possible is Chris
O’Byrne. You can check him out on Linkedin or his website. This is his email address. theebookeditor@gmail.com

Chris is great at formatting the manuscript, assigning ISBN’s and downloading the manuscript to Kindle and Smashwords. So, that’s about it. Simple, huh? These two and a great story and you’ve got the makings for success. I’m confident my book is in the right hands and I’m getting ready to market and promote it like mad. Check out DREAM TRAVELER, available in about a week.

Neil Ostroff’s official blog:  http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

Comment by Neil Ostroff on November 20, 2011 at 12:58pm

Imagine a world where humans are pests and insect-like aliens rule over them. Imagine that world is Earth.

INSECTLAND 

Be frightened! Be very frightened! Tiny, dragon-like creatures hiding in our homes are going to harm us. They will shrink us to the size of ants, enslave us, and turn our world into their own. But there is hope. Legions of insect robots intent on stopping them have recruited high school sophomore Dan Larson for help. Thrust into danger, Dan risks everything in a desperate attempt to thwart an attack and prevent the end of society as we know it.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005P81J48

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005P81J48

Comment by Patrick M Kennedy on November 18, 2011 at 9:47am

My Latest Novel is now available on: Amazon/Kindle

Several months after finding evidence that 80-year-old Duffy had been mugged and is missing, and per his will and the money he left for it, many of Duffy’s friends and enemies from Seattle’s Market and around the country gather for a wake and/or a celebration at a Pacific Ocean beach. They are not certain if he is actually dead or just playing one of his cantankerous old-man tricks. Some hope he is dead, and others expect him to walk down the beach and have a beer, laughing at the big joke on all. Detective Murray is there to find the truth and he suspects everyone. 

 

Comment by Patrick M Kennedy on November 10, 2011 at 8:56am

It's near the holidays and time to market my books as a gift. Where is the best place it promote seniors books? Any ideas?

Being a Senior Citizen

Being a Senior Citizen is a self-help book with loads of information for a growing segment of our population.

When senior citizens enter this stage in life there are so many issues: Where is the money? Where do I live? How is my health? A senior citizen means just that, an elder and responsible person. It is not just quitting work and traveling, and it is not just the changes in sociality, good or bad, but how they adapt to them as seniors.

So many things are disappearing, appearing, and getting better or getting worse. Senior citizens must settle into what is, and not to what they think it is, or how they would like it to be. This book is a guideline to help these individuals adjust to what is happening in their lives.

 

And the second book:

 

How to Have Fun with Retirement

FUN and RETIREMENT

are assumed to be one and the same.

 

This is a collection of light-hearted, yet informative, articles about

seniors and retirement living.

 

They are written for the SENIOR WIRE NEW SERVICE, the nation's

leading syndication of news, information and features for mature market

publications. Over 50 papers nationwide (as well as Canada and India)

currently pick up stories from SENIOR WIRE.

Many of the articles in this book were also published in the Concrete Herald of the Skagit Valley area, north of Seattle, Washington;

and others in assorted publications across the land.

 

In addition to the fun articles, there are tad bits of useful, if not

useless information to enhance the FUN with RETIREMENT: Dreams,

Fantasies, Loose Facts, Jokes, and Elucidations that have come from semi-scientific

papers, true stories told by a liar, personal experiences as logged

and blogged on the Internet and passed on as remedies and antidotes for the

human condition … and also just plain old made-up stuff.

Comment by Patricia de Hemricourt on November 10, 2011 at 8:25am

My blog is about epublishing and I have been raising traffic manually for three month, resisting the urge to automated any part. Just gave in and bought TweetAdder, as tweeting my posts a few times a day and senfing thank you DMs to new followers got very tedious. Gained 3 hours a day and doubled my traffic. Just thought that might be a useful tips for authors wanting to raise traffic to their blog/website without spending too many hours on Twitter.

Comment by Paidra Delayno on November 6, 2011 at 12:02am

perhaps Neil, the scenes your mind is focusing on will appear in a future project, which of course is a perfect excuse for relaxing and spending time with your wife taking in the sights.  keep thinking, RESEARCH!

Comment by Patricia de Hemricourt on November 3, 2011 at 2:58pm

All you need to know about organizing a blog tour, an essential tool in book promotion.

Comment by Neil Ostroff on November 3, 2011 at 2:00pm

Environment and inspiration

 

As readers of my blog know, I am currently on vacation in the Florida Keys while my step-kids are at our house up north. The Keys is and was home to many famous artists and writers including its most notable resident, Earnest Hemmingway. Hemmingway lived and fished here, and wrote some of his most memorable novels in this tropical paradise. So, how has my own writing been going? I must admit the scenery is breathtaking and watching the sunsets really does get the creative juices flowing. But I haven’t been as productive as I had hoped to be. Since I’ve been here, (a little over a week) I have almost finished with the final read of my new novel, DREAM TRAVELER; about a fifteen-year-old girl who travels to other times and dimensions whenever she falls asleep. I have also skimmed through my next novel, WASTED, about a group of crazy, drug-addicted friends, which is complete and ready for a final read. The clean air and abundant sunshine has helped make the process of revision easier, but it’s still hard to concentrate with so much beauty around me. I haven’t had any new ideas for books or started any new projects while I’ve been down here, but that’s okay. I have all winter and the coming ice and snow to isolate myself and start a new book. Also, I can’t spend too much time on my writing at the moment or my wife will get mad. Her not being a writer, I can imagine that it’s pretty frustrating that I’m sitting at my computer for hours at a time when the day outside is extraordinary. I just enjoy writing stories so damn much! Anyway, the ocean calls and the sun beckons. Gotta go.  

http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

http://www.authorsden.com/neilostroff

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