All Blog Posts Tagged 'I' (162)

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Between self-deprecation

and ideas of lowliness,

who am I to believe, that…

I’m completely unlovable?

When can I love… what God

sees in me? Is my Creator,

wrong in thinking that I…

have value? Does this flesh

prevent me from being fully…

submerged in righteousness?

I’m of the humble opinion,

that His wisdom is greater

and far more knowledgeable

than my own; His judgment

remains unquestionable; He

reigns…

Sprig of Broom - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish…

Last Saturday, I took an empty seat

on a park bench, with book in hand.

Feeling sorry for myself, I failed-

to notice others on this public land.

Disillusioned with life’s loneliness,

my heart and face both wore sad frowns.

From my perspective, this world was…

insistent on dragging my weary soul down.

While my inner sadness wasn’t enough,

to completely complement my pitiful day,

I was approached by a breathless boy,

who had taken…

COMING THIS SUMMER... My new novel 'Rosie Wrinkles and the Wiccan Deity' will be released this Summer through Mirador Publishing.

Here is a brief synopsis-

It is 1910 and Rosie Wrinkles is an orphan.

Shanghaied by a stranger in the dead of night, and delivered to the local Workhouse Rosie arrives with little else but the clothes on her back and a 'memory bottle'.

A stranger bundles her into a sack and sells her…

In the summer of 2004, I had a startling, life-changing Holy Spirit encounter. Following that encounter, I became a Holy Spirit-inspired writer. I had no previous experience of book publishing, therefore when I completed my first book I had no idea of how and with whom to publish my book.

My first book is a question and answer book with me asking God the questions on behalf of the entire human race and God the Maker providing all the answers. As far as I was concerned, this makes my…

After being a self-published Author for some time, I decided it was time to do something to progress my writing career.

Sometime ago I was brave enough to enter a short story competition created by Mirador Publishing with my humble offering called ‘Sock monster.’

To my amazement, I had been selected as one of the lucky winners to be entered into a collection by Mirador called the ‘The Mirador Fantasmagoria’.

Since then I was honoured when Mirador asked me to produce my…

Here I go! I just spent the most ever on a huge promotion blitz for SILENT INVASION and DROP OUT (my two best sellers). I did it through blogads.com. I’ve read other posts about the effectiveness of such ads and most said that author’s sales increased because of them. I booked on nine different sites with a combined reach of 312,000 avid readers. These are people who actively read the blogs. My ads will feature the cover, a blurb, and the link to buy the book. The blitz will run on all sites…

My latest novel is off to my formatter and should be ready for sale in a few days. I’m ready to go with publicizing it once it is live and plan on doing all that right after Christmas. It’s been nearly a full week that I haven’t written any new fiction material. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing (I wrote the back jacket copy for IMAGINATION and I am posting this blog) just not doing the kind of writing I love most. Though I have been marketing and will continue to reserve…

Once again, I’ve reach the elusive milestone of finishing a book. My latest novel (my eleventh to date) is now complete and awaiting the formatting process. The novel took exactly 374 days from first sentence until the final read. A lot has happened in the past year and a lot of changes have taken place both in my life and the world. So, as I sit here on this first day of non-novel writing I find myself feeling quite odd and at a loss of how I should spend my morning. I could market and…

Fellow/author and fan from the U.K. is promoting me on her blog. Please check it out and also check out her books.

http://amymahvampire.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/neil-ostroff-drop-out-degenerates.html

Please check out my paranormal, sci-fi experience AFTER. http://www.kindleboards.com/ It’s Kindle Boards book of the day! Thanks!

http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

I’m posting the results for my Kindle Boards book of the day sponsorship. One sale of SILENT INVASION. Yep, that’s right. One sale. But, all is not lost. Strangely enough, sales of my other books went up. I even sold a few copies of PULP, my ultra-noir thriller. I also got invited to promote SILENT INVASION for free on a few blogs and two websites. So, that’s good. I have another Kindle Boards sponsorship tomorrow for AFTER so we’ll see how that goes. All in all, the Kindle Boards…

Please check out SILENT INVASION as Kindle Boards book of the day. Enjoy a great sci-fi adventure!

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If you read my blog you know I’ve been dealing with some family health issues related to the dreaded C. Doing my final read for IMAGINATION has helped ease the boredom of fifteen-hour hospital room waits. Of course, waiting is nothing compared to what the patient must endure. It was during one of these interminable waits that I had my sudden, ‘ah ha’ moment. I realized, as my wrist and fingers grew sore from typing on my laptop sitting literally on my lap, that I’ve spent my life…

Now that my Kindle Fire Department.com sponsorship has officially ended I can now look back on it as a success. I sold enough copies of DROP OUT to break even but what most important is that so many new people have now been exposed to my stuff. It also got my ranking down below 10,000 which according to the Amazon algorithms, means that the site will give me a little more promotion than a book that hasn’t sold so well. As of this post I’m still below the 20,000 rank. As I’ve…

Please check out my latest novel on Kindle Fire Department.

Thanks.

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Please check out my latest novel, it's book of the day on Kindle Fire Department.

Thanks.

http://fireapps.blogspot.com/2012/11/drop-out-kindle-book-of-day-1130.html…

I’m at the absolute most fun time in the novel writing process for me. The plot of IMAGINATION is complete and tight and coherent. The characters have all been fleshed out and the settings are all detailed. Now, I spend the next few days reading fast and tweaking the tiniest details. Once that is complete I give one final, very quick read and send it off to my editor/formatter. I just contacted my cover artist and we are about to begin the process of designing a cover. I have a tagline for…