January 2011 Blog Posts (223)

The Preditors & Editors Readers Polls close at midnight, GMT on the 26th January, so there are just two days left to add your votes. If any of my friends and readers haven't yet voted, and may feel kindly disposed to do so, please may I ask if you'd support my two nominations by visiting the links to the individual voting pages, below, and adding your votes, for which I would be extremely grateful.

Glastonbury has been nominated for Best Mystery Novel and…

HEAL THE WOUNDED is the second in a trilogy by Canadian author Lynn Dove.  The entire series is aimed toward the YA market, but it is worth reading no matter what your age. In HEAL THE WOUNDED , we are introduced to several teenagers who are facing some tough problems. First, Jake, a Christian from a loving family, has to deal with the fact that his mother has been diagnosed with cancer. He is still reeling from the death of a close friend and wonders where God is in all of this. His…

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I had a difficult though interesting childhood, and lived a good deal inside my own head, which

could usually be found in a book.   From the time I could find my way to the

Saint John Library, I was a constant visitor. For me, the library was a

magical place - a hushed, warm haven where, through the…

The Name of the Cat.

If you take the responsibility seriously, it is surprisingly difficult to choose the right name for cat. I was recently thrown into confusion when an RSPCA inspector asked me to name the litter of kittens she’d brought in for vaccination. Rescue names usually follow a theme eg. Animals abandoned at Christmas will be named Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe, Noel et.c. When suddenly landed with the responsibility of naming my mind went completely blank – each theme I…

Authors Helping Authors presents tips for marketing ebooks on Kindle

Title: Hang On, It’s Not Over Yet

Author: Joseph Arhavbarien

ISBN 9781907294419

Review Date: January 12th, 2011

Reviewed by: CBM Christian Book Reviews

9.1 on a scale of 10.0 stars

Avalon Travel Publishing has launched the 9th edition of Moon Fiji, the original travel guide to the 322-island Fiji archipelago. Since 1985, Moon Fiji has been the leading travel guidebook to Fiji. Author David Stanley has been writing about the South Pacific since 1979, and over the years tens of thousands of Pacific travelers have used his guides to Fiji,…

Here are a few author success stories I shared a few

years ago in my Book Marketing Tip of the Week newsletter. They're still relevant today, especially for novelists.



The following story came from book publicist Denise Cassino of

http://www.wizardlywebdesigns.com:



I recently got one of my young adult fantasy fiction authors a gig at a local grade school. She sent flyers a week in advance with…

DESTINY’S DREAM by Delia Latham has it all. There’s romance, mystery and action – all very skillfully woven together into a well told and satisfying story. Add to that a solid presentation of the gospel using real and believable characters, and you have a recipe for a great Christian romance novel. These elements on their own are enough to make this book worth reading, but Latham has taken her story telling to another whole level. There were so many unique things about this book that I’m not…

I recently finished reading The Bishop's Man by Canadian author and well known broadcast journalist Linden MacIntyre. What can I say but that the book was profoundly beautiful in its descriptiveness and unique 'Cape Breton' voice, but also proundly disturbing and melancholy because of the subject matter. It takes place in the 90's when the news of the ongoing scandals within the Catholic church first begin to surface. It is written from the point of view of Father Duncan…

Catherine's Ring is now up on amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/Catherines-Ring-ebook/dp/B004HKIMDG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1295727730&sr=1-1

In a small fictional town in the…

Vegetable soup

Mission 2

Story 2

Birmingham at St Martins in the Bullring

In the late sixties I was living in Birmingham and trying very hard to have an effect on young people.  At that time we were running an event each Sunday night at my local church, it was attracting hundreds of youngsters including ‘rockers’ on their motor bikes, which did not make us particularly…

Beyond this tale of continuous action, surprising ideas and exciting events, there lies a vision of a world where peace prevails and humans live in harmony with the Earth. While Utopia is a distant land it is the constant striving to seek perfection that matters. The story tells of Yani and his friends who learn the value of persistence, courage and loyalty as they struggle against evil and danger.

Peppered with extrapolations of…