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Review: Make It Rain: Increase Your Wealth & Financial Security by Vercie Lark

Make It Rain: Increase Your Wealth & Financial Security by Vercie Lark

A successful investor offers personal and professional tips for others to follow in the practical and encouraging financial planning guide, Make It Rain: Increase Your Wealth & Financial Security.

Basing his advice on his own investment strategies, Lark’s book begins by asserting that amassing wealth is part of the American dream. To fulfill that dream, start with education: it’s a proven fact that those with better education earn more money. It’s also true that to amass wealth, one has to have discipline. Set an educational goal and follow through with it by completing high school, college or a trade […]

2019-03-20T07:29:02+02:00March 18th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |

An Interview with JW Patrick: Author of The Sandbox

 JW PatrickI live in Scotland, UK and have written numerous documentary voice-over scripts broadcast on television in the UK and USA (Discovery Channel, PBS etc.). I also work as a ghost writer, copywriter and part-time chef. I have two children, one of whom I tipped out of a kayak on her 3rd birthday while writing the non-fiction book, Why Have Adventures?

I also love cooking, cricket, reading and cycling. My other books include: The Family Travel Journal Volumes 1 & 2: Look. Laugh. Talk. Together: Two volumes of fun family activities to get families talking together more and reduce their screen […]

2019-03-12T09:00:00+02:00March 12th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with D.R. Pollock: Author of Koa Kai

D.R. PollockD.R. Pollock has been an avid sailor for over 50 years, including a crew member for one year on Elissa, the Texas Tall Ship. The years of sailing adventures and misadventures inspired several sections of Koa Kai. He is widely traveled and lived in a dozen states, including six years in Hawaii. Pollock holds a BBA from Georgia State University and an MBA from Drexel University. Koa Kai is his second book, and first novel.

Tell us about your book.

In this historical novel taking place in the 1790s, a young lad from New England, because of some adventures […]

2019-03-12T08:48:22+02:00March 12th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with Bart Ringer: Author of Routine Patrol

Bart RingerBart Ringer was born in Compton, California where he lived until the age of five when his family moved to North Long Beach where he grew up. From as long back as he can remember, his family spent summer vacations visiting relatives who lived in small towns in Southeastern Idaho. It was from those experiences that he developed a love for small towns and the lifestyles that they offered. Early on he decided that if he could ever figure how to do it, he would like to live somewhere in a small Western town.

After graduation from Jordan High School, […]

2019-03-12T08:28:41+02:00March 12th, 2019|Categories: Interviews|

Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World is Watching by Cara Cilento

Say Cheese! The World is Watching by Cara CilentoPoems and short prose pieces are mated with vibrant photos in the emotive collection Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World is Watching by debut writer Cara Cilento.

The two dominant themes in the collection are Cilento’s acceptance of herself as a lesbian, and her decision to adopt two boys, a bold move as both children are African American. Cilento is white, of Italian descent, which is made clear as she describes messages (“The Facts”) from her upbringing:

I was made from two parents

who went to school to get out of the ghetto

who tried to forget their last name had

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2019-04-10T08:26:15+02:00March 12th, 2019|Categories: New Releases|Tags: , |

Mindful Dementia Care by Ruth Dennis with Velma Arellano and Luke Nachtrab

Mindful Dementia Care by Ruth DennisMindful Dementia Care: Lost and Found in the Alzheimer’s Forest by Ruth Dennis with Velma Arellano and Luke Nachtrab is an informative guide for caregivers outlining the difficulties of caring for an Alzheimer’s patient, as well as effective alternative methods of therapy.

The author and her two supportive co-authors are connected with the Sierra Vista Alzheimer’s Community in New Mexico. Dennis has care responsibilities for a brother with Down Syndrome, so her wish to share knowledge about the diseases and complex problems of aging is intensely personal, and it is this personal perspective that makes this such a strong guide.[…]

2019-04-25T11:54:21+02:00March 5th, 2019|Categories: New Releases|Tags: |

Book Promotion Services: What Works for Immediate Sales?

Promotion for eBooks on emailersA lot of the advice you’ll find about book marketing is frustratingly vague. You’ll find a lot of blog posts touting “Top Ten Book Promotion Strategies” with advice like:

  1. Be Active on Social Media
  2. Blog Regularly
  3. Build an Email List of Readers

While these things may help build a readership, they won’t sell books in the short term…or even the long term. A lot of social media is tweeting into the wind, and blogging can sometimes gain a following of five loyal followers, three of whom live in your house. The same goes for email lists: you can only run […]

2019-03-01T13:40:21+02:00March 1st, 2019|Categories: Features, Resources|Tags: |

Review: Kidnapping the Prince of Albany by James J. Dunn

Kidnapping the Prince of Albany by James Jay Dunn

To create an enthralling account of a significant crime, author James J. Dunn has embellished events that emphasize our legal history in the riveting Kidnapping the Prince of Albany: The Real Story of the 1933 Kidnapping of John “Butch” O’Connell, Jr.

When John “Butch” O’Connell was kidnapped in 1933, the United States was a more lawless place. Prohibition was coming to an end, meaning less money for bootleggers, but as much or more for legitimate manufacturers. Among those former bootleggers in Albany, New York now going legit was the powerful clan led by Dan O’Connell, notorious mobster and political mover […]

2019-03-25T09:04:34+02:00February 28th, 2019|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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