It’s that time of year again when I try many of the new marketing and promotional websites that have popped up and are available to authors and then my report on the results. So far, I’ve booked out $119.95 worth of services from four different sites for my suspense novel, DROP OUT. Here they are.

The first thing I tried was ebookbooster. For $25 the site sends your title and link to 25 sites that will promote it for free.…

Check out my listing at Author Showcase on the Book Marketing Bestsellers blog:

Martha Carr, author of the new thriller The List, has received plenty of praise for her thriller. Check out the following reasons to read her new book:

"The List is one of the best…

Best – Selling author Marsha Hubler was my guest today on The G-ZONE!

We covered a number of topics and discussed all of her current and upcoming projects.

Here is the link for the show and a little bit about Marsha:

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Snippet from Chapter 17 of Cosmogonic Marbles

http://www.amazon.com/Cosmogonic-Marbles-Botolf-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00E2SB1P4…

Orphaned as an infant, Madeline Snow grew up in the Shaker community—the perfect place to learn reverence, hard work, and a love for God that surpasses the need for an earthly family. But the difference between what…

Eradicate the Evil by Kathy Bruins

Every time I hear of a teen missing, I pray they do not become a victim of a growing evil called human trafficking. While this term refers to both sex and labor trafficking, the commercial sex industry is growing so fast and could surpass the drug dealing…

Thought provoking reflections on life.

This story begins in Arkansas with the nine-year-old Michael, and his younger brother, abandoned by their father, living with their strict grandmother who regularly beats them. The family attend church regularly, he discovers at a young age, he has a gift for playing the organ and it is the beginning of a lifelong love of music.

In…

you know you're a comedy writer when one of your chapters is titled 'The Psychic Chicken of Cork'

Tips for a Great Interview

By Karen Lange…

I'm Holli Castillo's guest today at http://www.gumbojustice.blogspot.com/

Boss Man

By Diana Palmer

4 Stars

Heart of Gold

Attorney Blake Kemp has got to be one of the orneriest, stubborn men there is.  Not only is he a terrible boss, barking orders like a general and demanding that the staff bring him coffee, but he seems to be just as prickly outside of the office, too.

By…

It is a busy week on The G-ZONE and the incredible list of guests just keep rolling on.

Joseph Max Lewis is my…

The final volume in the Painted Sky series and the dramatic conclusion to the epic drama of New Mexico in the year following the Civil War. Will ruthless cattle barons have their way and turn southern New Mexico into a…

LOS ANGELES, CA (November 18, 2013) – Author Tori L. Ridgewood recently announced her new paranormal romance book series, The Talbot Trilogy.

Wind and Shadow: Book One of the Talbot Trilogy, published by Melange Books, was released on June 20, 2013. This first book introduces Rayvin Woods, a photographer and natural witch. After a series of misadventures including being accused of attempted murder in high school, Rayvin left her hometown of Talbot…

We are fortunate to get amazing guests on The G-ZONE blogtalk radio show.

No doubt about it.

This week we are going Monday through Saturday, here is the list of guests and the times the shows start:

Monday 11/18-Linda Wood Rondeau 7PM EST & James J. Griffin 7.30 PM…

Bad Elephant Far Stream: Where It Came From by Samuel Hawley

The idea for…

My Journey to Film Scoring…

A Touched Life

When I do research for historical fiction one of the first things that strikes me is how much everyone has suffered down through the ages. That we no sooner cure the world’s ills – like leprosy or TB or polio or the Black Death – only to have other ills take their place – lung…

Zoo

By James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

5 Stars

Heart Stopping Action

If you adore heart stopping action, thrills and suspense, then this is the book for you!  Jackson Oz, a young biologist, has a startling theory.  Little by little, he’s noticed some aberrant behavior in animals, and it isn’t just one or two…