You'll find the next article of my virtual book tour here: http://writingspace.blogspot.com/. Please feel free to post a comment on that blog. I look forward to it. :)

I updated my website to include Monday night's Internet radio interview with Phil Harris.…

Today Marta Stephens talks about her journey as a published author.

check it out at :

http://www.writingspace.blogspot.com

There are plenty of new posts on my special promotional blogs. Take a look at the details of a lot of great books. There’s a wide variety of genres, topics, authors and storylines. Any author is invited to submit information about their books for these blogs. I’ve had a waiting list since the second day they were online – get your information in…

Dr Barbara…

• 325 million - number of copies the first six books in the series have sold worldwide.
  
  
  
  
• 66 - number of languages Harry Potter books have been published in.
  
  
  
  
• 6.9 million - number of Half-Blood Prince copies sold in the 24 hours after it went on sale in 2005 (more than The Da Vinci Code sold…

Himalayas: where the summits and clouds mingle

"Will the passengers please…

Eva Gerhards, Satis Shroff & Toni Hagen at a pub in Freiburg…

The Inheritance of Loss: Kiran Desai

‘My characters are purely fictional,’ says Kiran Desai. In her book (The Inheritance of Loss) she has tried to do exactly that, namely to capture her own knowledge about what it means to travel between East and West, and to examine the lives of migrants who are forced to hypocrisy, angst of being…

Yaks, Yeti and Lakhe (c) satisshroff freiburg 2007

Book-review by Satis Shroff, Freiburg: Himalaya: Menschen und Mythen…

One of the great things about online book promotion is that there are so many options. Websites, reciprocal linking, SEO, virtual book tours, blogging, podcasting, RSS, social networking, multimedia—so many different ways to market your book, each with its own spin and variations. If you’re like me, you keep a list of all the different ideas you think of to promote your books. Sometimes, it’s a very long list. So long that it can be hard to get going or know where to start. And so the list…

This morning, on Day 1 of my 'Touring the World' virtual book tour, I dropped by 3Rs Reading Den for a chat with RJ. Check it out! You never know what you might learn about me, Whale Song or my other novels. And you never know what surprises may lie in wait!

rj: Let’s start off with talking about characters - the creation of & the relationship the character has to the…

My ophthalmologist drew close as he examined my eyes. "Hmm. they’re pretty thick." He pulled back. "When we removed the cataracts, maybe some sight will be restored, especially on the left eye." He patted my hand. "But I don’t want you to get your hopes up high, or disappointed or discouraged if it doesn’t happen."…

Part 1

I am like an open book being read by a blind man

Everything he needs to know is there, but he can't see it.

Part 2 (Revisited)

So I decided to publish it in braille

Maybe then, he could at least feel it!

Evy (spiritluvchild) has been writing as far back as she can remember with well over 3,000 pieces. She recently is a regular poet on the spoken word scene in Los Angeles.

She’s been featured at several local venues, including: The famous, 5^th Street Dicks Coffeehouse in Leimert Park…