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November 2009 Blog Posts (228)

Are You Ready for American Diabetes Month?

November is American Diabetes Month, devoted to increasing awareness about diabetes and educating people about the prevention and treatment of diabetes. We all need to pay attention to this increasing epidemic.

Some alarming facts about diabetes:

1 in 3 American children born this year will develop diabetes if they follow the typical American diet and lifestyle.

Every 20 seconds someone is diagnosed with diabetes.

Diabetes is the #1 cause of blindness… Continue

Added by Carolyn Strimike on November 20, 2009 at 3:22pm — No Comments

Sneak Peak inside

Hi,

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with the folks over at Author Offerings and do an interview for their blog.

Find out about Demon Hunter and get a sneak peak at the sequel Demon Hunter 2: Seek & Destroy.

Enjoy!

Cynthia Vespia

Author of Thrills and Chills…

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Added by Cynthia Vespia on November 20, 2009 at 2:32pm — No Comments

Writing for Vision AND Sales

At a recent gathering of social entrepreneurs, marketing icon Mark Victor Hansen asked how many in the audience were writing or planning to write a book. Every hand in the room went up. These folks are working for peace in the Middle East, replanting Amazon rainforests, and helping the homeless in the Southwest. They sustain these efforts through business ventures. So the books they are writing will champion their social and environmental causes with passion and compelling detail, of course—but… Continue

Added by Gary Kliewer on November 20, 2009 at 2:26pm — No Comments

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Usability Tips for Authors Looking to Sell - By Hajni Blasko, Search Engine Optimization Specialist

With the Holiday book-buying season on our doorstep, online publicity efforts are more important then ever. A Search Engine Optimized Website will increase the number of target-marketed visitors / book buyers, enhancing the profitability of your Internet efforts. Due to the highly ephemeral nature of Search Engine Marketing, once your title is not within the TOP 10 listings of major Search Engines, your online exposure is essentially six feet… Continue

Added by Hajni Blasko on November 20, 2009 at 1:33pm — No Comments

DEATH BY BROWNIE

My monthly newsletter is probably more popular for the recipes than the prose, but that's okay! Don't miss this month's THE PRIVATEER newsletter and the To. Die. For. recipe just discovered: DEATH BY BROWNIE. I've had two batches in the last week!

November's issue goes out tonight so come aboard now!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThePrivateerNewsletter/

daniellethorne…

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Added by Danielle Thorne on November 20, 2009 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Day 15 of my tour go to ) www.psychoticstate.blogspot.com ...more

Day 15 of my tour go to ) www.psychoticstate.blogspot.com ...more Continue

Added by Victoria Simcox on November 20, 2009 at 11:23am — No Comments

Day 15 of my tour go to ) www.psychoticstate.blogspot.com ...more

Day 15 of my tour go to ) www.psychoticstate.blogspot.com ...more Continue

Added by Victoria Simcox on November 20, 2009 at 11:23am — No Comments

Feel Good Story

In search of traditional Hawaiian healing venues I circumnavigated the Big Island sampling lomi-lomi, and other forms of massage along the way. What better way to rejuvenate body and mind than in the knowing hands of masters and restorative waters of Hawai’i. If you follow in my footsteps, I promise you won’t be sorry.

Healing Hawaiian Holiday featured article in Real Travel Adventures Nov. 15 issue

www.realtraveladventures.com… Continue

Added by Linda Ballou on November 20, 2009 at 11:11am — No Comments

TOME OF MIDNIGHT (Two Sample Chapters of Story Two)

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Added by Chad Fleagle on November 20, 2009 at 9:08am — No Comments

Wondering Where I Have Been?

Hello everyone;

If you have been wondering where I have been, please let me bring you up to date. I have been living beside the Cape Fear River. It is a dark motionless wet and deep place. I at times am lost therein wanting to find a more gentle place to be. I sought to do what I thought was right and honorable and found myself blamed for lie's I did not tell and names I have not used. I find myself hungering for the human side of mankind and have been filled with naught but comtempt… Continue

Added by Christian-Michelle on November 20, 2009 at 8:39am — No Comments

To My Friends?

Maybe I shouldn’t share this with any of you, but I have grown so very tired of crying in the dark. All of my pains and sorrows have been poured out there in that cold and complete darkness. I covered my windows and covered my head with blankets. I only emerge from time to time to walk silently among you and your kind, pretending as you do that all is well and that there is nothing wrong. Pretending as one might to be strong and fearless, competitive and confident. You have destroyed me and now… Continue

Added by Christian-Michelle on November 20, 2009 at 8:35am — No Comments

The Band Wagon of Dead Abused Children!

Once again the public is rallying for what I call a false noble cause. And once again the public was prompted to do so because of the sweet pungent sickening smell of death. How noble and honorable and concerned you all are once the band wagon starts to roll. How conveniently blind you are when you see abuse and not report it such as the case of this dear child Shaniya Davis, and how deaf you all have been to the cries that you choose not to hear.

One friend of the fathers stated… Continue

Added by Christian-Michelle on November 20, 2009 at 8:31am — No Comments

Mr. Obama is not one of you!

How do you see Mr. Obama? I can assure you that your vision of what you think he is is completely distorted. What Mr. Obama wants you to see is not a Black man in the white House. He wants you to see how they see him. They don't see an educated gentleman married to an elegant educated attractive lady. They see a Nigger in the White House who brought along his Bitch ass Ho and their two little nappy headed little nigglettes. And you danced in the streets because you thought that you were getting… Continue

Added by Christian-Michelle on November 20, 2009 at 8:29am — No Comments

Mr. Obama is not one of you!

Added by Christian-Michelle on November 20, 2009 at 8:29am — No Comments

Black Thursday or Gray Wednesday? Let’s make a deal NOW!

Every year for Christmas I put one of my writer’s books on special for a couple weeks. This year I’ve decided to do something different and “a little extreme.” I’m putting ALL my books at half price now until Black Thursday. That not only means A Book Inside, How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story is 50% off, but ALL of my other books as well, including my e-books, How to Organize A Virtual Book Tour and my latest 100 Ways to Market Your Book for Free (or really… Continue

Added by Author101 on November 20, 2009 at 8:03am — No Comments

uncertainty

Being an independent author can be tough at times. While you have to find your own Medical Insurance and benefits, you also have the challenge of unpredictable income. While signing bonuses can tie you over for a few years, there is always the unknown. It is about as unpredictable as some Sport Events. You never know what is… Continue

Added by Cindy Fallsen on November 20, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Salad Days

Salad Days

I happened to realize during the utmost 29th year of my life that while I was busy planning and doing absolutely nothing I was also growing old. So I rushed to Roopsa and asked her about my age and she just smiled. There was a kind of silence about her laughter that made me uneasy and I left her place to blunder into the night. I was newspapering in Calcutta about that time and my boss started calling me all sorts of names as I managed to land in the office a couple of… Continue

Added by Dr Prasenjit Maiti on November 19, 2009 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Questionable Ning Members and Networks....

Hello my fellow writers,

Due to a costly scam experience as the result of a fellow Ning member, I created the site:

"Questionable Ning Members and Networks"

http://lookingoutforningmembers.ning.com/

I would appreciate if you would add it as well as invite your friends.

Please read my blog post on the main page titled "Michael Louis Brittingham..."

Communication and exposure is the only way we can… Continue

Added by SJ on November 19, 2009 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Trash Proof News Releases ebook at Smashwords

My new book Trash Proof News Releases is up on SmashWords – it’s a free download.

Here's the description:

TRASH PROOF NEWS RELEASES is a tool designed with one specific goal – to get you publicity in your target media that achieves a return on investment that rivals and even exceeds your best marketing. It offers you everything you need to know to give media everything they need to run with the story using you and the resources you’ve arrayed and meet their needs in… Continue

Added by Paul Krupin on November 19, 2009 at 9:24pm — No Comments

THE CHRISTMAS STORY-POEM

MAN WITH THE GOLDEN WINGS

by

Vernon J. Davis Jr.

It is Christmas Eve

and the snow is falling

on a lonely little house

in the countryside.

Come..., let us go inside and listen.

In this house, a little girl lies asleep

in her bed.

But sleep she… Continue

Added by VERNON DAVIS JR. on November 19, 2009 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment