February 2008 Blog Posts (176)

Today's article is a by a special guest, Athena Dean, founder of WinePress Publishing and three-time self-published author.

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The Who, What, Where, and Why of Christian Book Promotion & Marketing

By Athena Dean

So, do you think every Christian needs to read your book? If you do, let us stop for a moment and get real. If you think your book…

My friend Margie Lawson is a guest blogger on Barbara Vey's Publisher's Weekly Blog on Tuesday, Feb. 12th. Her topic: What's Your Body Language IQ?…

What do you have that is the "best ever" that is related to your book or web site? Head on over to Squidoo and quickly create a "lens" to let the world know at The Ever Project: at http://www.squidoo.com/ever/hq .

This project allows you to create your best ever collection on any subject. You could do the best recipe books ever, best quotes ever, best authors ever. I created a lens on the best Adoption Scrapbook…

In my magazine, HopeKeepers, we featured an article and at the end of the article gave the author’s bio and web site. Unfortunately, her web site was www.myfirstname-mylastname.com.

When the paragraph was justified, unfortunately her bio appeared to say:

After a weekend of catching up with everything I'd let slide for too long, today I start the second week of the tour for my novel, The River, By Moonlight. Today's stop is a review:

http://www.virtualwordsmith.blogspot.com/

It's another good one, by Mary Evelyn Lewis, and I'm very grateful and the sun is shining and the week is off to the best possible start.

Tags: Atta, Empire State Building,…

For the first time in my career, I have had an actual interview! It will be aired on Valentine's Day but you don't have to wait until then. I have added it to the music downloads so you can hear it on the podcast yourself! I am very excited about it. I was a little nervous during the interview but it wasn't so bad. I could do another one of those lol. Authors on the Net is a new website who did the interview. Check it out if able!

My website is always being updated. I have a…

Please start reading about the concerns over the Bering Sea. This is the U.S. and Russians big fish tank. Those fish sandwiches you eat from the fast food places are most likely coming from that part of the ocean. Unfortunately, we are fishing the region to depletion and the climate changes melting the pack ice is gravely effecting all marine life in the region. This includes marine birds and marine mammals beyond polar bear..walrus, sea otters and seal are in a perilous situation in…

The odds of getting a book published by a NY publisher are astronomical for a new author. Even for the seasoned author or one who already has NY contracts, it’s much the same. For the lucky ones who make it, they’ll tell you it’s a battle to keep their slots on these publishers’ wish lists, but for the new author,…

My Ning Friends:

I am offering a very special Valentine's Day discount on my newest book, The Orphan Boy, A Love Affair with Mining. This book retails for $19.95. I am offering this special 25% Valentine's day discount for the entire month of February, 2008.

If you know anyone that loves history, mining or stories about the development of the western United States, this book is the ideal Valentine's gift. For more information or to order…

Reading Marco Polo's "The Travels" this week, I was struck how like a very early Lonely Planet Guide this 13th century manuscript is. Except, the venerable Marco desperately needs a great modern editor to make his chapter titles a bit more zappy, and to create history boxes and culture boxes to highlight features of interest. Maps and some illustrations would make the text a bit less stuffy, too.

That got me thinking ... how much of a book's success is from the original content, and…

On top of that, we ask using words that express apprehension, tainted with a bit of doubt.…

Only seven days until the release of Enchantment's Embrace! See the information about my second book release here at my official website-- http://www.maryjdresselbooks.com

Also, don't forget about my special Valentine's Day Newsletter. Tall, blond, sexy, muscular... Don't miss this exciting interview with a romance cover model! Bookmark my Newsletter site now--…

This morning GMA did a story on treasure hunting off the eastern coast of Florida. They profiled Doug Pope, the captain and creator of the Polly L, Amelia Research's very unique treasure hunting…

This is an incredible review of me, Adrienne Zurub, and my book, 'Notes From The Mothership The Naked Invisibles' by the author of emerigblog.com noted as one of ten

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Adrienne Zurub spent 26 years of her life as a member of the Cleveland Clinic open heart/heart transplant surgery team.

A couple of weeks ago, after almost three decades of professional nursing in…

"Another one bites the dust." For the last two years, I've watched Canadian independent bookstores fight to compete with the 'big boys'--major big-box outlets and Internet retailers, but it seems like a fight to the death. As a Canadian, I cheer them on, hoping they'll succeed. As an avid reader, I mourn their loss. As an author, I feel their…