As an author and father, one of my driving passions is to help children, especially those that do not have help. One small thing I am trying is eBay Giving Works. I have listed a paperback copy of The Empyrical Tales Book I: The Fourth Queen on eBay and set it up to donate 90% of the sale to …

Join Marsha Casper Cook & VS Grenier on a special edition of the What is Success show November 26, 2012 at 2pm EST - 1pm CDT - 12 (noon) MDT - 11am PST

The What is Success show hosts will be discussing the crushing rejection letter and what writers need to understand about traditional publishers.

The hosts will be joined by author…

I’ve been reading a lot of threads lately about Amazon and Kindle and how Amazon is changing the algorithms to promote books that are more expensive. It makes good business sense if you think about it. You need to sell five ninety-nine cent books or just one five dollar book. If you put equal amount of promotion into each book, naturally the five dollar book will make more money if both books benefit equally from the same amount of promotion. Make sense? There is also the ‘perceived value’…

It’s here, the day when the crazy people of the world jam into stores and fight for the best bargains. Personally, I avoid that mess at all costs. That doesn’t mean black Friday doesn’t have an impact on me, it does. But from a writer’s point of view. As I mentioned in my last post, the ads for Kindles and Nooks are out of control. The ebook marketplace is definitely gaining steam and soon ereaders will be as common as cell phones. Because I believe black Friday does influence people to shop…

Beginning Monday, November 26, and continuing through Monday, December 10, I will be participating in the Mystery We Write Blog Tour. Each day I will feature a different author on my blog and, in turn, I'll be featured each day on one of fifteen blogs.…

The story opens during a diving salvage operation with experienced divers and treasure hunters Sam Lyons and Chase Cohen. Though they’re working on the Griffith wreckage, Sam believes the site also contains the wreckage of none other than the Wanli II—the Ming Dynasty Emperor’s lost dragon ship containing an ancient figure head, a fierce dragon in gold leaf and…

"Had to be a Butterball" is posted on my blog at http://www.thereindeerkeeper.com.

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It's about time I started to contribute to the Book Marketing Network. After all I've been a member for quite a while. Unlike most other posts here I've decided that publicising someone else's work would be good for my soul.

I have recently finished reading a novel by an American…

I decided to do a For I Am Zeus Black Friday sale, and it started early! If you're having a hard time coming up with gift ideas for some of the people on your list, you could always give them my book (I can almost guarantee that they don't already have it)...get it while it's only $8!

http://www.amazon.com/For-Am-Zeus-Collection-Mythology/dp/1475104626

Renaissance is a collection of short stories featuring The Forgotten Well, my Florida Writers' Association award winning story. The collection of four stories is only 99 cents:http://goo.gl/bT8MO

Please have a look here: …

I’m just amazed at the number of Kindle and Nook ads that I’m seeing on television. It seems just the other day that people were scorning ebooks as a fad that would never take off. Well, guess what? People were wrong. Kindles and Nooks are selling by the millions now. I foresee a near future where paperback books, like music CD’s and large boomboxes, will be an oddity, a relic from the past. Now, I’m not talking about coffee table books and photography books, and the book as a work of art.…

Featured BTR World of Ink Network Show The Writing Mama on November 19, 2012 at 2pm EST - 1pm CDT - 12 (noon) MDT - 11am PST

Join hosts VS Grenier & Irene Roth as they chat with debut romance author Traci McDonald about her romantic suspense, Killing Casanova published by Crimson Romance.

Traci McDonald has been a writer since she figured out how to make…

I’ve been working feverishly lately trying to finish IMAGINATION by November 30^th, but alas, it doesn’t appear that is going to happen (I’m about a month from completion). Between the damage from Superstorm Sandy and my wife’s cancer, my priorities have changed a bit. Had I finished the book on time it would have been a year to the day that I wrote the first sentence. When I first conceive of the plot of IMAGINATION (What if everything we perceive, all that we experience, is just…

Three Books To Give Away Nov 15 - 25: You have a chance to win a book or an ebook by Linda Weaver Clarke. There are 2 different genres to choose from: Mystery/Adventure and Non-Fiction. Books: U.S. and Canada, Ebooks: International.

“One thing I admire about Linda Weaver Clarke’s writing is that she desires to put the reader right there with her characters by describing the setting so well that you are swept away. From page one Linda eloquently describes in…

It took more than a year, but finally we have. Olivia and I started this project when she was 8 years old. Next week, she turns 10. What a wonderful journey! I have loved sharing every minute of it with her. Who knows what comes next?

http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2012/11/this-is-end.html

HE SHALL BE BORN OF A VIRGIN,  HIS NAME JESUS

What love is this, Creator of the universe born in a horse’s stall.  Whose mission was to restore man’s fallen nature from the first Adam’s fall.

A child whose birth was marked in the Heavens with the light of a brilliant star.  The child prophesied of thousand of years before, now being searched for by wiseman from afar.…