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October 2009 Blog Posts (221)

Behind the Poem: Spiritual Irony

Now that people are becoming more aware of my poetic efforts, interests are being expressed regarding the background of my poetry - in addition, to my spiritual muse. In this installment, I briefly look at the crucifixion of Christ - an event central to the core beliefs of Christianity. This poem was composed in February 2007, in anticipation of that year's celebration of Resurrection Sunday (Easter).

If I were relegated to a single television channel, it would be the "History… Continue

Added by Joseph J. Breunig 3rd on October 21, 2009 at 12:27pm — No Comments

An interview with author J. J. Breunig 3rd

1. What caused you to write a book and have it published?

Thankfully, I’ve enjoyed a career in IT (Information technology) for over 25+ years. However, I’ve been downsized out of a job four times – the last time in 2005, I was unemployed for nine months. During that time, I looked at over 19,000+ companies to find one job. With more jobs in my field being outsourced to lower wage earners overseas, I decided I needed an exit strategy from the corporate world to launch a more stable career… Continue

Added by Joseph J. Breunig 3rd on October 21, 2009 at 12:26pm — No Comments

Branding, Podcasting, Online Marketing - the new PR! LEAP! Synergy Energy Show with Pam Perry

Promotion Strategies to Crank Up Sales in a Slow Economy

By Stephanie Chandler

In a time with so much economic uncertainly, consumers are on the hunt for bargains. And consumers aren’t the only ones tightening up their belts; businesses large and small are scrutinizing purchases more than ever.

Whether your company sells to consumers or business, creative promotion strategies can give sales a much-needed boost to revenues in a… Continue

Added by Pam Perry on October 21, 2009 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Where to Find Me

I have two blogs, and they keep me pretty busy. Since I don't think there's any way to simply drop an RSS feed in here, I'll just direct you to the blogs I do currently keep.

The blog that supports my book, Waltzing Australia, is at http://waltzingaustralia.wordpress.com.

My other blog combines culinary history, travel, and recipes related to either the culinary history or the travel tales. It's at… Continue

Added by Cynthia Clampitt on October 21, 2009 at 10:02am — No Comments

My Memoir: Sweet Madness

Sweet Madness

by Gabrielle Bryant-Gainer

pages: 84

Memoir

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/sweet-madness/7806186

This is a memoir. A mental illness is not something you can test in a lab or through physical means. It is marked by unusual behavioral symptoms. This may include paranoid beliefs or unrealistic fears,… Continue

Added by Gabrielle on October 21, 2009 at 9:49am — No Comments

100 Ways to Market Your Book for Free (or really cheap)

100 Ways to Market Your book for Free (or really cheap) is now available as an e-book for only $6.95! Visit http://abookinside.blogspot.com to learn more!

Added by Author101 on October 21, 2009 at 8:59am — No Comments

A Sleep Of Years by Maria Rachel Hooley

“Authors - get your own page-turning book-previewing book widget at www.bookbuzzr.com and share your book-extract on over 60 networks such as Facebook, Digg… Continue

Added by Vikram Narayan on October 21, 2009 at 5:18am — No Comments

Award Winning Finalist USA Book News Spirituality -General 2009 Ponder Awhile-Mohit.K.Misra

Award Winning Finalist USA Book News Spirituality -General 2009 Ponder Awhile-Mohit.k.Misra

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Added by Mohit Misra on October 21, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

Amazon.com Incredible CAP Program

Hey Everyone! Great News...You may have overlooked about Amazon.com

Amazon.com is a huge organization that attracts big-time publishers who are looking for new talent. To that end, Amazon.com will allow self-published authors/publishers to upload into the CAP program to attract Publishers and or large organizations who are searching for writing talent.

Today - I uploaded my new title: "The Love He Saved."

The objective of this program is to give the small press… Continue

Added by Denise Coulter on October 20, 2009 at 5:14pm — 2 Comments

Winter's Tail - Review

Winter's Tale, How One Little Dolphin Learned to Swim Again, is the fascinating, TRUE story of a little dolphin that lost her tail in an accident.

The book is published by Scholastic. See my review at http://booksandboys.blogspot.com

Max Elliot Anderson

Added by Max Elliot Anderson on October 20, 2009 at 2:38pm — No Comments

BookBuzzr - The One Free Tool That Every Author Needs for Book Marketing

As an author trying to market your book online, you may find that many of the simple steps involved in Internet marketing are actually quite daunting. Consider the simplest and most important pre-requisite of offering an extract of your book online in a nice to read format that can be easily shared among your readers. 99% of author websites are unable to allow sampling of books on their websites. They simply stick in an image of their book and hope that this is enough to stimulate the desire to… Continue

Added by Vikram Narayan on October 20, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Running in Good Company

I am proud to announce that my story Irish Mist about my cross-country jumping days in the wild west of Ireland is included in a wonderful anthology titled WHY WE RIDE. It is a collection of women writers talking about the horses in their lives. Forward by Jane Smiley, of Horse Heaven fame.

You can make advance purchase on Amazon. It will be out in… Continue

Added by Linda Ballou on October 19, 2009 at 10:14pm — No Comments

If Emily Stone Had a TV Show, This Would Be the Title

Every so often, I will flip by the program “To Catch a Predator” when it is being re-aired as part of the late-night programming on MSNBC. I am sure that many of you are familiar with the show. Host Chris Hansen surprises men who have arrived at a home with the intention of having sex with an… Continue

Added by Jennifer Chase on October 19, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Good Washington Post Article on Book Marketing

I ran across this Washington Post article on Tumblr. It aptly describes book marketing in today's world. Enjoy!

Novice Authors Must Promote Themselves Since Publishers Won't

Added by Bill Frank on October 19, 2009 at 8:47am — 5 Comments

Why your book cover image is as dead as a fish out of water when it comes to marketing your book online

As an author, you know that a lot of effort goes into your book's cover - its title, the imagery and so on. Of course, the cover's aim is to get a reader to open the book and sample your writing - and then hopefully, buy the book. In terms of marketing a book, giving a reader the opportunity of glancing at the cover and flipping through the book's pages is the bare minimum required.

There's nothing wrong with this approach except that it works only in…

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Added by Vikram Narayan on October 19, 2009 at 6:59am — No Comments

The Lonely Digger by Margaret Merry

“Authors - get your own page-turning book-previewing book widget at www.bookbuzzr.com and share your book-extract on over 60 networks such as Facebook, Digg… Continue

Added by Vikram Narayan on October 19, 2009 at 6:36am — No Comments

A Cause For The Heart - An interview with Dr. Mani

Dr. Mani please share a little about yourself.

Thanks for having me on this interview, Freya. I'm a paediatric heart surgeon, and treat children born with congenital heart defects.

Since the vast majority of my patients come from families of low economic means and are unable to afford the expensive treatment, I came up with the idea of running an online enterprise which funds these surgeries.

As a result, I now have an information business online as well as a… Continue

Added by Vikram Narayan on October 19, 2009 at 3:30am — No Comments

Newest Review for Looking Through The Mist

Review by: Rita Hestand on Oct. 16, 2009 : * * * * * (5 Stars)

Looking through the Mist by Rebecca J. Vickery-Review

Buy Link: Smashwords

Psychic Jessica Wilder had a breakdown during her last case with the FBI. She wanted to start her life over, but the problem was…her visions were back. And not just back, but this time they involved children being kidnapped.… Continue

Added by Rebecca J Vickery on October 18, 2009 at 4:40pm — No Comments

Winning Websites book now available

"Winning Websites: How to Identify Your Ideal Client & Sell More to Them" is now available for sale on amazon.com, amazon.ca, iuniverse.com and barnesandnoble.com.

Benefits of reading this book include:

- identifying & clarifying who your ideal client is

- learning how to think like your ideal client

- learning how to write online marketing content that convinces your ideal client to buy from you

- avoid the pitfalls of putting together a… Continue

Added by Alison Silbert on October 18, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Secret of the Sands eBook is now also available on OmniLit!

Hi fellow readers,

I wanted to pass along some cool news - the eBook version of Secret of the Sands is now also available on OmniLit! We were honored that they added our book to their site.