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Comment by Gene Cartwright on February 3, 2012 at 12:20pm

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Comment by Neil Ostroff on February 3, 2012 at 9:11am

Free this weekend!!

 

SILENT INVASION

They are here! They are hidden among us! They will stop at nothing to destroy us!

 

Thirteen-year-old Tim Madison’s life turns upside down when a strange visitor takes him aboard a magnificent spaceship to train for a future alien invasion. Returned home with new skills and this terrible knowledge, he confides in his two best friends about his experience. Now, they’re in a race against time to prevent an all-out attack on Earth. Can they stop ruthless, spider-like creatures from constructing a massive extermination army deep inside our planet? Or will we all perish?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ZQTWPW

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006ZQTWPW

 

Also, please check out my other books.

http://www.authorsden.com/neilostroff

Comment by Neil Ostroff on January 31, 2012 at 11:44am

Best ad deal!

 

I just signed up for what I believe is currently the best deal in advertising your books on the internet today. I bought two 1-day ad promotions for AFTER and SILENT INVASION on Kindle Boards. This site currently gets more than 100,000 unique hits a day. The ad will run at the top of every page hosted by the site for that whole day, potentially stimulating thousands of sales. And I get all this for a mere $35 dollars per ad. There’s only one catch. The first available spaces are Dec. 4th and 7^th of the year 2012. I know that seems like a lifetime away, but knowing that such a powerful ad will appear in the future motivates me to keep marketing. I think that’s the key to persistence. Spacing ads and promo out so if one campaign doesn’t work you know there is another coming up. I have many promo campaigns for all my books over the course of the next few months and now I even have a year out to look forward to. Think how many more Kindle owners there will be and how much larger the site will probably become. Now is a golden time to lock into sponsorship with these emerging ereader sites for very low rates. I noticed that my rates for KND are almost double what I paid and the wait is now more than six months. My ads on KND come out in late March. I’ll blog any great ad deals I find so check back here often. My daily promo for today is SILENT INVASION being feature on INDIE SNIPPETS. Please check it out.

http://indiesnippets.blogspot.com

 

http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

Comment by Neil Ostroff on January 29, 2012 at 10:39am

I’m not famous!

 

Funny thing happened yesterday while I was working at my conventional job. A young, attractive girl happened to stumble upon my books on the internet and came up to talk to me about them. She said how much she respected someone who could do what writers are born to do and she wished she could author a book. (What I didn’t tell her about was the years of isolation and sacrifices made). Anyway, she then said something to me that struck as both humorous and poignant. She said, and I quote “Wow, you’ve written nine books! You’re going to be famous!” I replied with a little laugh “Maybe I’ll get rich, but writers don’t really get famous.” That thought stuck in my head for the rest of the night and obviously into today. Unlike musicians and actors, writers aren’t usually in the lime light. We don’t ache for public attention (at least I don’t), and generally prefer being alone. Even if I sell a million books I don’t expect to walk into a restaurant, be recognized, and be given a special table. Or go shopping and have a crowd of admirers follow me around the store snapping photos. Writers write because they have to. They tell stories because it’s an urge that must be fulfilled. Whether getting famous or not. Rich or not. Real writers must put pen to paper (or in my case, fingers to keyboard) every day or they feel somehow disconnected from the world. Some would call it lunacy. Others, mad genius. And still others would say I waste a huge amount of time tapping away. Whatever it is that drives writers cannot be understood by those who don’t. So if you see me out and about you don’t need to come running for an autograph or pull out your phone for a picture. You can just step up and say hi, because I’m nobody famous; just a writer.

As promised, here is another example of a query that got a lot of publisher and agent requests. I’ve omitted the last paragraph of credentials since I’ve listed them in prior posts.

 

DREAM TRAVELER

In the far reaches of the galaxy, thoughts can become reality. DREAM TRAVELER is a 30,000-word young adult fantasy adventure in which a fifteen-year-old girl journeys to the future and risks her soul to understand the politics of an alien civil war and stop the destruction of the universe.

 

After centuries of conflict, ageless spirits called Phelastians, who live on a magnificent floating city, are finally making peace with Dwellers, ape creatures who live on a decimated planet Earth. Ancient formalities require that a human be present as a witness to the treaty. A Phelastian travels through the interstellar continuum back in time and recruits Jamie Richards, a geeky, everyday teenager.

 

Core, a Dweller overlord, is pro war and sabotages the link connecting Jamie to her world. Jamie vanishes from the signing, crumbling the negotiations, and sending her on a series of fantastic, alternate-reality adventures that shatter the boundaries of possibility. Stumbling into shifting prisms of both worlds, she visits war-ravaged landscapes, returns to an Earth ruled by mechanical aliens, and even meets herself as a frail, old woman. Through it all, Jamie pieces together the disjointed fragments of space and time and discovers a stable vortex. She returns to the moment of signing and stabilizes the link seconds before creation explodes with parallel dimensions.

 

DREAM TRAVELER is the second in a completed three book sci-fi/fantasy series. Readers can expect a mind-bending adventure punctuated by bizarre plot twists. Jamie faces and overcomes unimaginable obstacles. She is a strong, smart, female hero. The story will delight children, teens, and adults alike.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006F2AGUQ

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006F2AGUQ

 

ALWAYS WRITING

http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

Comment by Neil Ostroff on January 26, 2012 at 10:51am

Marketing plus

 

In my endless quest to market and promote myself so I can sell millions of books and spend my days fishing in the Florida Keys, I’ve discovered yet a few more sites and tips that are free and can do wonders for promotion. The latest cool marketing bit is on the Kindle Forums, ie. Kindle chat. This forum has thousand of members and there are hundreds of topics to comment on. But do not self-promote! So, why is this so cool? Because, Kindle forums allows you to place cover widgets of your books at the bottom of everything you comment on. So you can engage in lots of talk while also showing off your titles. You do this by going into your profile and at the bottom it has a button for the code to link your books. This is like showing off your covers to thousands without overtly self-promoting. Some other great sites for strictly posting your work are: writing.com, published.com, book daily.com, scribd.com, and Booksie.com. There are hundreds of others of course, but these are easy to sign up and easy to navigate.

In other news, SILENT INVASION has sold a few copies and I’m gearing up for a big promo blitz. My other books are beginning to sell okay and between the five exclusively for sale on Kindle, I’m selling about three to five a day. The next month should be exciting because all my promotion gigs start, including my Kindle Nation spot. That one took three months to get and I got it before they raised their rates. I just checked, and most of their spots are filled three to four months out. If you have a book to advertise, I’d book space now.

Also, something I’ve wanted to get off my chest. In the last year I’ve published five books on Kindle, set up accounts on more than 35 writers sites and have marketed and promoted my books for hours daily, yet I still feel it’s not happening fast enough. I feel like somehow if I don’t hit it big soon that technology will make authors obsolete. Or at least, the ability for authors to make a living at writing. I feel like it’s only a matter of time before books are pirated on the internet as easily as music. I feel like an aging dinosaur in an increasingly modern world. I only hope this way of life for all of us writers doesn’t disappear.

Please check out SILENT INVASION and please hit the tags and like button. Thanks.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006ZQTWPW

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006ZQTWPW

 

blog: http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

Comment by quiniece sheppard on January 21, 2012 at 2:06pm

My relationship book tour for Valentines Day will begin on 1/28 at Family Christian bookstore in alexandria, VA and then on to MD, FL and AL.  It's coming just at the right time with Valentines Day approaching.  If you're looking for a great relationship book, then check out "Before the Lights Go Out:11 Keys to Achieve Real Physical Intimacy".  Great for book clubs, bible study groups, ministries, conferences or just reading it yourself.  Learn 11 keys to enhance intimacy from biblical insight and christian perspectives.   Available on Kindle and Nook for $6.95 and Amazon for $11.  Get your relationship right in time for Valentines Day

Comment by Neil Ostroff on January 18, 2012 at 10:56am

Query that worked

 

Continuing to showcase queries that got agents and publishers interested in my work over the years, when there was a publishing industry willing to take on new writers (ha ha), here is the query that got the head of Random House Children’s Division (Jim Thomas) interested in AFTER. It was submitted by my agent at the time and was given a read in less than forty-eight hours. This is his exact reply.

“Thanks for the look at AFTER. There’s a lot I like about it. It’s quite inventive, with ideas I haven’t seen before. I was compelled to read through the entire manuscript. But I fear it may be too…gruesome? If not for the YA market then for my sensibilities. Still, I was glad to read it.”

That was October 9^th 2008; a lifetime ago in the way books are sold today and what the industry has become. I don’t know if Mr. Thomas is still head of Random House but I do thank him for that feedback all those years ago and the encouragement (hey, I’ll take it in any form). I went on to rewrite the novel a little less “gruesome” than it was before. My former agent, Gary Heidt has gone on to open his own agency, Signature Lit. and is doing very well. We don’t keep in touch but we left on mutually good terms. He tried to sell my books for three and a half years (I have copies of the rejection slips to prove it), and I don’t blame him for moving on. Publishing and selling my work on my own is much more exciting and rewarding anyway, than sitting around waiting for numbers, and contracts, and dealing with executives. Here’s the query. Feel free to plagiarize any part. I won’t be using it.

 

Dear ?

 

On the day we’re born we’re all destined to die. But what lies after? For fifteen–year-old Nick Murray, death is only the beginning. His entire human life has been an illusion in preparation for the epic role his soul will play in the destiny of the universe.

 

Nick always believed he was an ordinary kid until an unusual cardiac arrest strikes him down. Leaving behind his mother and girlfriend, his soul enters the hereafter and finds it is nothing like the fire and brimstone he’d always imagined. Incoming entities are distributed to levels according to the good vs. evil they had done in their lives. There’s only one problem, Nick never had any real human experiences. Fostered to be a celestial super hero, he must prevent the devil from damning for eternity all who ever lived.

 

Because of your amazing track record at ? for selling books like ? which is similar to my style, I’m writing to query you about my completed 35,000 word middle grade paranormal novel, AFTER.

 

High-stakes action, outlandish settings, and featuring a cast of fearsome and angelic characters, mixed with a subtle love story, makes AFTER a novel that will appeal to tweens, teens and adults alike. Nick is a smart, captivating protagonist who must overcome insurmountable obstacles to succeed in the quest he’s been given. A quest that includes traveling through various realms of the ethereal, outwitting the sinister demons and gods who reside there, and becoming human again to end a war on Earth fought with futuristic weaponry.

 

My publishing history spans twenty years with credits in online and printed publications. Thanks for your time. I have enclosed a short sample of AFTER. I’d be delighted to send the entire manuscript.

http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

Comment by Carolyn Boyce on January 18, 2012 at 7:26am

Abound – How to be effective and fruitful in ministry, by Carolyn Boyce

About The book:

Are you burnt out and stressed over your ministry assignment? Do you wish to quit and walk away? Or are you concerned about the level or quality of your current ministry involvement? Then Abound is a book relevant to your need.

Abound offers a fresh, Biblically sound perspective on Christian ministry.  As a diagnostic tool, Abound re-examines Christian ministry and how it is currently administered, suggesting Biblical solutions for addressing common problems.

By unlocking the Biblical principles for long-term fruitfulness and effectiveness, this book can curb the disillusionment experienced by some Christian ministers.  It is the sequel to the book Stand – Biblical principles of balance for the soul.

 

Available from: www.rosedogbookstore.com

 

ISBN: 978-1-4349-8828-7

eISBN: 978-1-4349-7822-6

Available in ebook (pdf) and hardback formats

Comment by Carolyn Boyce on January 18, 2012 at 7:20am

Stand – Biblical principles of balance for the soul, by Carolyn Boyce

About The book:

Stand is a practical book probing common areas of weakness in the human soul while mapping out Biblical solutions for overcoming these areas. Stand also makes a solid case for soberness to support balance in Christian life and ministry.  It is a timely book for any Christian wishing to stand in challenging times.

Available from: http://outskirtspress.com/stand, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble,

ISBN: 978-1-4327-8107-1

Paperback format

Comment by Neil Ostroff on January 16, 2012 at 11:08am

Exposure, yes!

 

Just another example of how the internet has changed authors and the exposure that their books are capable of receiving with a little marketing and promotion. Here is a review and blurb about me that appeared in Italy. I couldn’t even read it and had to have my step-daughter translate it for me. This was a totally unsolicited article and I thank the writer for it. Also, now that it’s over, the free book promo on Kindle is resulting in paid sales. Quite a few I might add. The way I understand it, if someone downloaded the promo then the book comes up as a recommendation to their friends as a book he’s read. It also brings up other books by that author, so my other books would appear on his page. It’s a bit confusing but seems to be working. I highly recommend doing this. My Facebook Fan page is also way up in likes and my blog is nearing 50,000 hits. I’ve composed another list of all the sites I belong to and market and promo my stuff on. I’m tweaking it down to the very best places and I will post it when it’s complete. By my estimation, every time I post a blog comment it reaches an audience of about 2,000 people, so I’m becoming more aware of what I post and try to keep the boring stuff about the writing life to myself. That said, SILENT INVASION is well under way as my next release. The cover is complete and I’ve been in contact with Chris, my ebook formatter. Most of you know the history behind this book from past posts so I won’t go into detail about it. I’m going to start booking ads and sponsor space now, so I’ll be ready to go when it’s released. This has potential to be a big one because it is the first in the series of three (two are already released). If I do this properly, I could attract an audience that will read all three. Now that I’ve narrowed what works and what doesn’t with marketing, this could take off as a monster. Also, I’m back working on IMAGINATION, which is turning into the wildest, mind-bending, head-spinning project I’ve ever worked on. Here’s the cover for SILENT INVASION out soon.

http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com

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