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This is very important for all of us to support. Just featured on NPR this week:…

Check out my new website at www.standoutauthorpromotion.com! I can create a book trailer, postcards, bookmarks, etc. for you for a reasonable fee!

The book features interviews with lobbyists, volunteer advocates, politicians and politicians' staff, all in pursuit of the answer to these questions:

What influences politicians? How do they make decisions? Do they listen to ordinary people or is it all about big-money interest (hint: don't believe the newspapers and tv).

The second section gives step-by-step analysis and proven techniques so you can…

Hello all.

I was just asked by my boss yesterday if I liked my job and what I was doing. I couldn't put into words the absolute joy I take in my job each day. It certainly does not feel like a JOB, as many of my other employment opportunities have. Here are several reasons why:

• I am asked what my opinion is, daily, by authors, my boss and other book industry colleagues, and people actually consider what I have to say as being important.
• I am proud to tell people…

Lewis & Clark - Wanted for Treason

We just revamped our media kit and did a test mailing to retailers in the gift shope and museum shop market. It will be interesting to see how it works out. If you're curious, you can check it out at http://frances-hunter.com/retailer_kit.pdf.

Praised or maligned, the Nobel Prize for Literature is always news. It selects the best from the world and therefore misses much of value. Carolyn Howard-Johnson, “Back to Literature” columnist for MyShelf.com, closes the gap (only slightly) with her an annual “Noble (Not Nobel!) Prize for Literature.”…

...and getting awarded for it! (-: Here is the result of that and something I'm proud of! (-: By the way, thanks to Book Market.ning.com member Yvonne Perry for reminding me to do this! Ha!

Writers Group Names Carolyn Howard-Johnson Honorary…

I thought many of my new Book Marketing Network friends would be interested in a contest I run to honor literary novelists and poets who so often get overlooked by the mainstream. Here is a media release on that award:…

I self-published and in doing so I got 5 copies of my book back from the printer with a few ugly spelling and grammar issues...yuck!

I have been holding onto these because I knew at some point I would find a good use for them - but of course I couldn't show anyone these!

Until now... since you are all my new friends... does anyone want to do a little book exchange? a bad copy of my book for a copy of yours? I'll take yours in any format - word, pdf,…

Mark your calendars—Please!

“Silenced Cry,” the first in a series of crime/mystery novels, was released in April 2007. An August virtual book tour will give readers further insight into the book and the author. The tour will kick off on Monday, July 30, at 7:30 p.m. EST with a talk on the Internet Voice Radio. Other planned virtual events throughout August include guest blogs, interviews with the author…

Perhaps it's just me, but I can't stand looking at a blank page. I'll admit that my mind is somewhere between Ancient Rome and a horrific death scene (two books I'm currently working on) but I just had to put something on this blog.

It may seem odd to those that don't write, but I don't have as much time to write as I would like, so I can't be here too often. There just isn't enough hours in the day. So, that being said, I'm going back…