July 2011 Blog Posts (192)

Check out Mandy’s Book Reviews. This week’s featured book is Guerrilla Marketing for Writers by: Jay Conrad Levinson, Rick Frishman, Michael Larsen, and David L. Hancock.

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Dr. Vijay Mallya is not your typical everyday CEO. He has made it to the Forbes billionaires’ list many number of times but he doesn’t care if he is on the list or not because he doesn’t want to be categorized as a ruthless moneymaker. He not only lives like The King of Good Times but he is working overtime to persuade others to live the high life too. Once upon a time, his critics called him the playboy of the east for his glamorous lifestyle but slowly and steadily Dr. Mallya has earned…

A writer that moves on to a new lifestyle

I was born in South Africa,  and due to marriage I moved to Croatia.

Nine years ago when I first came to Croatia I was blank in thought, not knowing much of the place, the language, or any other information.  This made me feel most unhappy, my life had changed like a light switch from brightness to darkness, but I didn’t give up, I had to  move on though it took me a while before I got back on my feet, for  my son and I life…

After his spaceship is damaged going through a worm hole he comes to Earth. On Earth he encounters many different creatures. He meets humans and the action begins. This is not your normal alien invades Earth tale. He befriends some humans but others desperately try to get his technology and use it for their ends.
He writes about his journey in his memoirs while he is on Earth.
The tale is full of action and surprises.

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I never used to read the newspaper; it usually just made me sick as a dog. My grandfather used to read the ‘Obits’ just to see if he was in there (our hometown was THAT boring). My Dad had sports, and Mom had the comics. My sister usually looked for “sales.” Me? I always thought it was better staying with the stories in my own head, considering the outside world was like one 24/7 nightmare. (Not much has changed,…

I am going to be launching a first novel in a few weeks.  I would like to envision an "event": book signing, photo opps, book buyers galore, and all in a place exotic or evocative at least .... Okay, so I do have a vivid imagination!

What unusual locations have your used or seen used to reveal a new work?

Around the Globe with MARTIN BARTLOFF

The Author’s lab/ Collaboration series now has an even dozen installments to its name. Who would have thought way back when (April, 2011), when we did “Down Low-Dead”  with the great Vincent Zandri, that this series would carry on as it has. Rose A. Valenta came up with an excellent idea and executed it and me to a tee.

You see Rose A. Valenta is a syndicated newspaper columnist and she specializes in humor, she is also the author of “Sitting on Cold…

Everywhere I go, I see people reading books on Kindle, on iPads, on Nooks.  And I'm jealous.  I'd like to buy a book reader, but Isaac Asimov won't let me.



Dr Asimov is telling me to forget book readers -- I need to get the most audacious multi-media device in existence. Salivate over this:



"A cassette as ordinarily viewed makes sound and casts light. That is its purpose, of course, but must sound and light intrude on others who are not involved or interested? The…

I was born in South Africa,  and due to marriage I moved to Croatia.

Nine years ago when I first came to Croatia I was blank in thought, not knowing much of the place, the language, or any other information.  This made me feel most unhappy, my life had changed like a light switch from brightness to darkness, but I didn't give up, I had to  move on though it took me a while before I got back on my feet, for  my son and I life had to get better. 

So much change which I…

The changed life makes you a different person in many ways, it is not only age that makes you feel your life is going in another direction,  think about your lifestyles

Everything around you becomes a change once you experience something new, no matter how you approach life a change is always there.  A fairytale life is the easy one you will often dream of, but the reality of life is…

I have never done this with a review, I mean this is supposed to be my thoughts and feelings on a what I think of someone’s written work. BUT, yesterday I read a review, a five star review on Amazon that someone put up about Paul D. Brazill’s “Drunk on the Moon”.  It is so amazing I just felt I had to show this to you instead of just popping the link in here, it is probably one of the most complete reviews I think I have ever read on there. Just intense as well as…