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GETTING PUBLISHED IS JUST THE BEGINNING

Many writers begin writing for the joy of the writing experience. They have no true idea of where the end of the road leads to. It is believed that getting published is the answer to it all. Then the cold hard reality of going from writer, to salesperson hits them when they have to write their first Query Letter. After they snag an agent with the query letter, then they have to write a synopsis of…

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Added by LM Preston on April 15, 2010 at 9:24am — No Comments

Free eBook Publishing

FREE eBook Publishing. Cover design and text formatting included. Get 75% royalties!!! Author keeps all rights

Visit http://dlitepress.com/FunStuff.html for…

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Added by Olive Peart on April 12, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

New Trailer for Dream Crossing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndMEV23L-Xc&feature=email

Added by Matthew Vossler on March 12, 2010 at 1:09am — No Comments

HOW YOU CAN DO IT ALL

How do I do it all? Well to start, I am a mom of four kids. I work a full-time job as an Engineer, and I teach part-time at a University. Lastly, I am an author.

I learned a long time ago to manage my time. I’ll provide tips below, however, you must make…

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Added by LM Preston on March 10, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

boy,crazy is NOT about being boy crazy

This experience was funny in a rather disturbing way. Then again so was the novel.

http://lisalahey.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-03-01T01%3A42%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=7…

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Added by Lisa Lahey on March 1, 2010 at 4:30am — No Comments

Gone Away Into The Land by Jeffrey B. Allen a Book Review

The dust jacket text for Gone Away: Into the Land promises an epic fantasy adventure. I can tell you that this is one novel that exceeds expectations. Author Jeffrey B. Allen takes the reader on an

adventure that will leave you thinking about the story long after you

close the final page.

We meet our protagonist, twelve-year-old John Gerber. John's life is not that of an average…

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Added by William R. Potter on February 6, 2010 at 12:47pm — No Comments

My new novel, Dream Crossing

My new novel Dream Crossing is now available in paperback: http://dreamz-work.com/products/Dream-Crossing-by-Matthew-Vossler.html
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I've started writing the second in the Dream Crossing series (Dream Crossing 2) and will soon begin working on the movie screenplay to Dream Crossing.

Added by Matthew Vossler on December 28, 2009 at 7:29am — No Comments

Watery Deep Book Review

WATERY DEEP Book Three of The Colonial Scouts Adventures by Roxanne Smolen

science fiction for young adults and the young at heart

Natica and Impani are Colonial Scouts, an elite group of teenagers who search the galaxy for habitable planets. The girls were best friends until the day a terrible accident took the life of an innocent colonist. Now Natica is consumed by guilt, and she hates Impani for not understanding. She quits the Scouts and returns to her water-world home. The… Continue

Added by Roxanne Smolen on September 25, 2009 at 10:10am — No Comments

Blog Talk Radio and Movie Trailer

September is an exciting month. So much is happening. My tween/young adult novel, Just Breeze, has just been released. Will have my copies soon.

Monday, Sep. 21, I'm a guest on Robin Falls Kids Blog Talk Radio. If you have a chance, stop by and listen. Barbara M. Hodges is host. Call in # (646) 649-1005. Or you can join the chat room and make your comments or ask questions there. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/RobinFalls. Time: 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 1 pm Pacific. I'll be reading… Continue

Added by Beverly Stowe McClure on September 20, 2009 at 2:56pm — No Comments

A Journey of Self Discovery-A Native American Author

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Book Brings Focus on Contemporary Native Americans

“Poneasequa, The Goddess of the Waters is the coming of age story of a contemporary Wampanoag

Somerset, NJ June 29, 2009 – Native Americans are still here. Author Stephanie Duckworth-Elliott lets us know this in her debut Young Adult book, “Poneasequa, The Goddess of the Waters”. The story follows McKenzie Jones, a young girl who is not really into her culture, and her journey to becoming… Continue

Added by stephanie a. duckworth-elliott on July 15, 2009 at 7:13am — No Comments

BOOK PROMOTION ON A BUDGET - Part 4

Part four of this five day blog to try and help authors and share some of the many things I've learned and wished I’d known before I started out on the published authors trail.

VISIT: http://acrossthepond-storyheart.blogspot.com

To read and I hope learn from today's PART 5 of REVIEWS AND TIPS

Barry Eva… Continue

Added by Storyheart on June 4, 2009 at 2:49pm — 1 Comment

The Devil’s Darning Needle -- Excerpt

The Obrero Gang

By Ben Furman

The Obrero Gang was Frank Durazo, Johnny Salinas and Jimmy Tag Along. The ten year olds had grown up on a nameless, carved-out street in Barrio Obrero on the outskirts of San Juan, and throughout the barrio it was well known that when one was sighted the other two would be right behind. It was time to hide the valuables.

Frank was the biggest and fastest, and he could more than hold his own with the older kids. He possessed the… Continue

Added by Ben Furman on May 26, 2009 at 6:53pm — No Comments

June 12 is Crowded Nest Syndrome Awareness Day

Olympia, Washington—What’s Crowded Nest Syndrome? It’s when your home, your nest if you will, includes more than just yourself and/or your spouse. A crowded nest can involve returning adult children, taking care of aging parents, raising grandchildren, or any other relatives or friends that move in.

You Know You’re Living in a Crowded Nest When…

—Your other car is a U-Haul.

—You have to take a number to use the… Continue

Added by Kathleen Shaputis on May 20, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Interview with Zoe from Zoe's Book Reviews

As anybody who has read me reviews interviews or heard my comments on either my own radio program or where I have been a guest, you will know I am a great believer in what I call the "Small Blogger". These are the people who read, write and live books are as one blogger brilliantly put it the other day... "The 'sham wow' of Teen/YA literature".

Today my special guest is Zoe from Zoe's Book Reviews…

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Added by Storyheart on May 18, 2009 at 12:32pm — 1 Comment

A BOOK AND A CHAT with "Greenbeanteenqueen""

Today's radio show with Sarah who is better known and Teen/YA blogger GREENBEANTEENQUEEN. who was today's guest on my podcast "A BOOK AND A CHAT".

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond

Nominated for YA blog of the year, avid reader, tween and teen librarian and recently… Continue

Added by Storyheart on May 16, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Eight Days A Week

It seems to have been another long week, yet still the same five days of work, funny how sometimes those five days turn into eight or so it feels.

So what is there heading my way this weekend?

Saturday is looking like a fun day.

At 11:00am (EST) at "A BOOK AND A CHAT" my very special guest is Sarah, better known at "GREENBEANTEENQUEEN" nominated… Continue

Added by Storyheart on May 15, 2009 at 2:29pm — No Comments

Interviews, Reviews and Tuesdays Weird News

Tuesdays blog is normally the time I get to update people about up and coming radio show guests, some of the latest interviews and reviews and some weird news from Across the Pond.

INTERVIEWS:

Wednesday May 13th 6:30pm EST…

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Added by Storyheart on May 12, 2009 at 6:03pm — No Comments

Interview with Steph Bowe - "Hey Teenager of the Year"

Today I am… Continue

Added by Storyheart on May 11, 2009 at 3:01pm — 1 Comment

The tablet of whose heart?

At the age of eight a little girl found herself in a whirlwind of loss, abuse, and neglect. That girl at the age of nine new she wanted to be a writer. Now many years on bumps along life's highway later, Elizabeth Walker has been able to share as the foundation of her book "THE TABLET OF MY HEART".

The book is built from poetic excerpts from the journal that she… Continue

Added by Storyheart on May 6, 2009 at 6:38pm — No Comments

Why Leaving on a Jet Plane?

Why "Leaving on a Jet Plane"?

I have been asked why I use "Leaving on a Jet Plane" as a sign off for my Radio Show "A BOOK AND A CHAT".

To my mind is tells not just about my book "Across the Pond", the act of flying to another country but also the sadness of leaving somebody special and having to fly away. It also tells about me the author "Storyheart"… Continue

Added by Storyheart on May 4, 2009 at 3:22pm — No Comments