March 2012 Blog Posts (164)

Who's Really Teaching Our Children? Read my article at Homeschooling Today online http://www.homeschoolingtoday.com/article/whos-really-teaching-our-children/

Please help us pick the cover for the upcoming print book for Amazon Kindle Best-Selling Author Big Daddy Abel. Either leave a comment here, Big Daddy Abel’s Facebook wall ,Trestle Press Facebook wall or email me directly-gelati.giovanni@gmail.com

The book will be released April 21,2012. Here are the Two…

With all the hoopla surrounding my KDP select issue I almost forgot that one of my sponsorships started today. Here is the link for SILENT INVASION’s Frugal Ereader Book of the Day. http://thefrugalereader.com/2012/03/20/the-frugal-find-of-the-day-silent-invasion-neil-ostroff-1-99-or-borrow-free-with-prime/  I signed up for this sponsorship because it…

I hate that question.  I bet if you were to interview as many authors as you could (me included), you would find that one of those authors absolutely HATES interviews.  And, if you haven't figured it out by now, I am that author.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't want to get the word out about my latest…

WHAT THE MAYAS HAVE TO SAY…

According to the ancient Mayas, a profound shift of realms is eminent. This shift has to do with the transformation of our own personal lives in order to bring about a change in collective consciousness.

Views worldwide are in tune with this possible shift. This entrainment is what makes this year so prominent for important events to take place. Regardless of what that those events might be, the important element here is, everyone is in accord.…

  5 Things others don’t know about me:

-         I am fluent in Russian

-         I competed in the 2002 NCAA Track and Field Championships in the 200 meter dash and 4x100 meter relay

-         The tip of my right ring finger was cut off by a sliding glass door when I was two years old

-         I have tried out for the TV shows Survivor…

Meander Scar won last year’s ‘Grace Award’ for women’s fiction and now I know why. This book was nothing short of wonderful. Author Lisa Lickel has crafted an unorthodox romance fraught with complications and intrigue that draws the reader in almost immediately and keeps you guessing right until the very last page.

Ann Ballard is an older woman caught in emotional limbo. Her husband went missing years earlier without a trace. He left behind a thriving business…

I have recently joined this group after finishing research on depression for an upcoming publication. I would dearly love to hear about other members' experience with depression.

DECEITFUL THINGS SERIES BOOK II

D   r   e   a   d   f   u   l       P   l   a   c   e   s

When the horrifying images that Carter Dawson has been seeing for days finally come for him in the middle of the night, he clings to a new found hope deposited in him from a supernatural…

Smile author Raina Telgemeier

Everyone loves a perfect smile with great white teeth that sparkle and shine. No child wants to walk around with metal in their mouth, braces and feel like they are wired for sound. But, when Raina Telegemeier slips and falls that beautiful smile of hers disappears and what’s left in its place is two empty spaces. Bad enough she injured two front teeth but the end result will be every young sixth grader’s nightmare and many adults too as…

You're invited to a book shower for The Limping Dog. No gifts required, though a comment would be appreciated.

Here's the address: http://chickdickmysteries.com/blog/

I haven't been doing as much writing as I would like lately because I have to attain a qualification to enable me to continue working as a carer.  Yes, I am an author, but like most Australian authors can't make a full time living from it.  I work part time as a community carer, and my employer is training me in the appropriate qualification.  Don't know what you call it in the US, but in Oz it's a Certificate III in Aged & Communitiy Care.  Some of the old people whom I assist with…

Well, I got my issue with KDP select solved… kinda. In a panic over the email I received, I quickly unpublished all my books from Smashwords, including my six that are in the premium catalog. I figured the trade-off was worth it considering I sell about five times as many books through Amazon. I also de-selected the automatic renewal for KDP select just in case any heat came down about my books being on Smashwords. Here’s the kicker. I got an email earlier today from KDP informing me that…

My book table at the Methodist women's monthly luncheon when I spoke about my books.

With this unusually warm weather comes chances to get out and talk about my books and do a reading. I was the speaker for the Methodist Church women’s group in Chelsea, Iowa on Saturday March 17th for their monthly luncheon. It was a nice day for a scenic drive past…

Utah Children's Writers: What is Fiction with VS Grenier: 

Storm Rising – A Kelli Storm Novel takes place in and around the 33^rd Precinct of the NYPD in Washington Heights, NYC. Detective Second Grade Kelli Storm became a Police Officer to follow in her father’s footsteps, a Detective with the 34^th Precinct, who was murdered twenty-one years earlier. During the course of a murder investigation,…

      5 things about Karen Anna Vogel that can be found in her writing

1.)     She’s a real Jane Austen fan and likes to include Jane’s thought in her books. One thing on her bucket list is to go to go on the Jane Austen Tour in England with her friend, Maryann Roberts. For now, they have tea together and watch Pride & Prejudice…over and over and over…

I am very excited by this! "Dinosaur George" has written the foreword for The Secret…

One day my wife and I were driving along our way to her parents’ house to pay them a visit, when suddenly we had a flat tire. The day was early for such an unpleasant reality, but off course we had to stop. The road was empty, and not many people were walking around, as it was early on a weekend. I pulled over to the side of the road and got out all the equipment and the spare tire. As I was busy working on the tire, my wife

stood there beside me for support, not to mention endless…

My Enemy My Love – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of  Stir, Laugh, Repeat; A Book and A Dish; Think With Your Taste Buds