AllBooks Review 2010 February Newsletter

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Winners 2010 Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice

Shirley A. Roe, Managing Editor of Allbooks Review would like to announce the winners for the 2010 Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award. From the hundreds of books we receive each year, a few outshine the rest; Allbooks Review likes to show our appreciation of their excellence. www.allbookreviews.com

Suicidal Tendencies                                    Mystery

Garry Patrick

Son of my Soul                                              Memoir

Debra Shiveley Welch

City of Gardens                                            Health

P. Schnerch

Shattered Reality                                        Inspiration

Kimberly Cheryl

For God and Country                                 Fiction

Daniel Reyes

Beyond Those Distant Stars                    Sci/Fi

John B. Rosenman

Shipwreck of a Nation                             History

Peter Nennhaus

The Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing for Profit! Writing

Pinheiro and Nick Russell

Congratulations to all of our winners. We have chosen the 8 overall best books from our list of various genres, rather than one from each genre. Books can be purchased on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and various bookstores.

Just a reminder, your book is automatically included in the award program with the purchase of our promo package. The award is given to the authors that outshone the rest in their particular genre. Book Awards are a great marketing tool.

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TIPS FOR BOOK READINGS.

1. Come prepared with a rehearsed reading.

2. Unless you are a Pulitzer prize winner, never read longer than 20 minutes max. Preachers know this, and authors should, too. Rehearse and time yourself before the reading. Include any introduction you give in that 20 minutes. If necessary, have a friend in the audience who can give you a 2-minute warning and PAY ATTENTION TO IT.

3. Just READ. No apologies of any kind for the work. This is embarrassing and makes the audience uncomfortable.

4. Just READ. No long introductions or rambling stories about how you happened to write the book or why or what happened during that long winter or how bad the agents were or any other extraneous information. If the audience is interested, they'll ask.

5. Just READ. Choose a selection from the book - generally the opening pages - that doesn't require a lot of explanation or background for the audience.

6. Leave time for questions. This is how you bring the audience into your book and get them interested in buying it.

7. Leave the ego at home. Be pleasant to the audience and don't wear the "I'm a Writer and you're not" hat, tee-shirt or attitude. These are the people who might buy your book. And writing is a job not an anointment.

8. No matter how small the audience, be grateful. And remember the show biz axiom - "The show must go on." I once did a reading for one person who bought both my books and recommended them to several other people who also bought them.

--Molly Larson Cook, Blue Finch Press, www.bluefinchpress.com

Success Stories

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Remember to post your book signing, guest speaker events on our Bookstore page. Simply send us an email with details of your events and we will be happy to post them. Just part of the Allbooks service to our authors.

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Allbooks Review wishes to thank all of the authors that purchased our promo package in 2009, making this our best year ever. We have grown over the past 10 years and will continue to provide excellent service for reasonable fees. Our goal is to make your book sell !

Interview with Richie O'Brien - Owner of The Book Sale and Realtime Publishing

Excerpt:

Cindy: Welcome, Richie! Thank you for allowing this interview today. Let’s start off with a little background information. You live in Ireland! Briefly give a little history on your life there – i.e.: family, children, pets

Richie: Hi Cindy, I’m delighted to be talking to you today. Well, I hail from a parish called Fethard and Killusty, located in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. I feel I’ve been lucky to come from such a beautiful part of the country (and world)… greeted with a view of Slievenamon (which translates into English as ‘Mountain of the Women’) and the River Anner, from my bedroom window each morning. I grew up on a dairy farm with my three sisters and one brother. My mom died when I was nine, so Dad had it tough, but I’d like to think he did a good job.

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ALLBOOKS REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD 2010 NOMINEES.

Suicidal Tendencies Mystery
Garry Patrick

Capital Reflections Mystery/Thriller
Jonathan Javitt

Beyond the Ordinary…and more Short Stories
Authors: Haley Adams, Kirsten Bussiere, Leslie Crone, Michael Gertenschtein, Kanishk Goomer, Cletus Kim, Andra Popescu, Annecy Spencer, Guy Tzizis, Emily Wang, and Grace Xie under the direction of Emily-Jane Hills Orford.

Our Mother’s War Memoir
Mel Fiske with Christina and Laurina Radich

Son of my Soul Memoir
Debra Shiveley Welch

Your Health in the information Age Health
Peter Yellowlees

City of Gardens Health
P. Schnerch

Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round Health
Alberta Sequira

Shattered Reality Inspiration
Kimberly Cheryl

Attitude: It’s not what you see It’s how you see Inspiration
Ernie Carwile

For God and Country Fiction
Daniel Reyes

The Judas Ride Fiction
Peggy Sue Yarber, PhD

Demon Key Fiction
David Brookover

Beyond Those Distant Stars Sci/Fi
John B. Rosenman

The Sarran Plague Sci/Fi
AC Katt

Shipwreck of a Nation Spec. Int/History
Peter Nennhaus

Clean Energy, Common Sense Spec. Int/Envir.
Frances Beinecke w/ Bob Deans

The Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing for Profit! Spec. Int/Writing
Pinheiro and Nick Russell

Congratulations to all of our nominees, Winners to be announced this month!!!
Just a reminder, your book is automatically included in the award program with the purchase of our promo package. The award is given to the authors that outshone the rest in their particular genre. Book Awards are a great marketing tool.


Success Stories

We love to hear of your success stories, submit them to us at: allbookreviews@aol.com
Remember to post your book signing, guest speaker events on our Bookstore page. Simply send us an email with details of your events and we will be happy to post them. Just part of the Allbooks service to our authors.

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The title of your Web page, and your page description are also important
to search engines. Use a title that has keywords someone might use to
search for your site. For example, if your book is titled Homemade Cookies
the Easy Way, you might choose the domain name
www.EasyHomemadeCookies.com.


Allbooks Review Interview

Please state your name and location.
Alberta H. Sequeira
Rochester, MA 02770-1506

Tell us the title and publisher of your book:
Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round; An Alcoholic Family in Crisis
Publisher: ISBN# 07-7414-5415-7; Infinity Publishing; 1094 New DeHaven St., Suite 100, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2713; www.infinitypublishing.com

Tell us about yourself:
PUBLISHED AUTHOR: I’m the author of my second memoir (June 2009) Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round. My first memoir is A Healing Heart; A Spiritual Renewal (November 2006) PublishAmerica.

SPEAKER: I’m a speaker on “The Affects of Alcoholism on the Whole Family.” I talk at rehabilitation centers, halfway homes and to the public. I also give speaking engagements on my spiritual changes relating to my first memoir
INSTRUCTOR: I also teach workshops “Bring Your Manuscript to Publication.”
I’ve been on numerous radio and Cable TV shows and have had write-ups in the surrounding newspapers.

When was the book released?
June 19, 2009

Give us an overview of your book.
Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round is a very, deep emotional story of the author’s seventeen years living in an alcoholic family. Soon their security turns to confusion, fear, broken promises and abuse by Richie’s drinking. No matter what Alberta tried to do to keep her family together, it fell in tiny pieces. Richie died 1985 at 45 years of age at the VA Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island.

What inspired you to write this book?
I found so many people suffering with alcohol abuse and families falling apart from it. I wanted to share my life behind closed door with others living in the same dark hole. My desire was to help others see the light of hope; both the alcoholic abuser and family members.

How is your book different from other books in this genre?
This book hides nothing with the emotional and physical abuse. It’s an honest and realistic story with nothing omitted. It’s a rollercoaster of ups and downs with the good and bad. It shows the sober person who turns into a stranger from blackouts.

Where can people buy your book?
www.amazon.com; www.buybooksontheweb.com, and bookstores. Order by ISBN# 0-7414-5415-7.

Are you working on another book? If so when do you expect it to be published?
I’m completing the sequel Please, God, Not Two; This Killer Called Alcoholism. It’s the continuation of our lives after Richie died. The author comes to realize that her daughter, Lori, is taking the same path as her father with alcohol abuse.
Hopefully, the sequel will be out sometime in the Spring of 2010.

If you self published, what advice can you give to fellow writers?
Work hard! Get as many reviews as you can, call newspapers to do a story on you and a write-up each time you have a book signings or special events. Build a trusting relationship with editors and producers. Do the same with local cable TV stations. Get seen and heard. The hardest job is getting your book(s) into bookstores. A traditional publisher usually gets an author’s book(s) into bookstores. Don’t depend on your publisher to get your book known.

If published traditionally, tell us how you benefited:
I wish I had a traditional publisher. I decided on self-publishing because I was already into speaking engagements at rehabs and halfway homes. The requests were starting to come for public speaking. I would still love to get a traditional publisher if the book starts to sell well.

Can you share one of your marketing successes with us?
I get interviewed with local newspapers, local TV stations, review from different countries, Magnificat, A Catholic Woman’s Ministry, libraries, etc. I was told by Steven Harrison, who is a promoter that a poor author depends on getting books in the bookstores and book signing. A rich author sees what else they have to offer with their talents. So, I started a workshop titled “Bring Your Manuscript to Publication.” In other words, get seen and known for more than just your book. I joined five other published authors and started our group called “Authors Without Borders” in May of 2009. We offer different services to bookstores, libraries and schools.

A successful marketing plan is when you see your books are selling in stores, online and your phone is ringing off the hook for speaking engagements. I’m still waiting!

How did you find Allbooks Reviews and what are you hoping for in your relationship with us?
Allbooks Review had been recommended to me by another author in 2006. I feel like family with Allbooks because they have done reviews on my first book A Healing Heart. I wouldn’t think about skipping their services with any book I may get published.

Was the low cost a surprise? What other things would you like Allbooks Reviews to offer writers?
It’s such a relief to see a professional site that offers services at a low price. Authors are struggling trying to get reviews, marketing plans or any other service so we can get our books out there.

Allbooks has many services right now and I can’t think of what’s missing. I would love to purchase more but I’m tied up with purchasing my two books to sell on my own, and working on a third (sequel). Money seems to disappear. Once the last book is completed, I’m going heavy on advertising and marketing.

Thank you for this interview and best of luck with your book.

Allbooks Review wishes to thank all of the authors that purchased our promo package in 2009, making this our best year ever. We have grown over the past 9 years and will continue to provide excellent service for reasonable fees. Our goal is to make your book sell !

Writing Tip

Step Two: Spying



One of the best ways to research your own marketing plan is to spy on other authors.

Visit as many other authors' websites as you have time for or interest in. What are other

books in your genre doing? What do they look like? What are they selling for? How are

they promoting their books and most important - what can you do to stand out among

them? These are vital questions you will need to answer for the market plan development.

This research will provide you with information on what they are doing to promote their

book, what they are highlighting and how they are attracting visitors to their site.

Knowing what others are doing will help you develop your website and other

promotional materials so that you stand out in a crowd. Visit your library and use the

Internet to obtain the information you need. We also invite you to visit our site

(http://www.brummet.ca) where press releases, interviews, reviews, articles, book

excerpts and information, links and much more are available.

Your favorite search engine can be a useful tool to learn about book marketing, book

promotions and promotional materials. Writers are natural researchers - we have to be!

We just need to focus this talent in a slightly different way.

Step Three: Get Online

Allbooks Review Dec 2009 Newsletter

Season’s Greetings to all

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Authors! There’s Power and Profit when you get FREE Publicity
by Kathleen Gage The Street Smarts Speaker and Author

One of the greatest ways to promote a book is with free publicity. It is not difficult to secure publicity if you know what you are doing. With all that is available on the Internet it’s even easier than ever. The fact is, many times your potential readers will pay attention to free publicity more than they do with paid advertising…especially when it comes to promoting a book.

There are ample opportunities to get publicity if you keep your eyes and ears open. Some authors make a feeble or one-time attempt at gaining publicity and if they don’t immediately get massive coverage they give up. They are under the mistaken notion that either they will never get free publicity by their own efforts. They either give up or they believe they have to hire a PR firm.

For someone on a limited budget, hiring a PR firm may not be a solution. The fact is, you can learn how to get publicity by your own efforts; and lots of it. You can literally get thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free publicity if you know where to focus your attention.

Social networks are fast becoming a great way to get visibility thus creating the opportunity for publicity. Think of it this way; you become a reliable source in specific areas. People know they can count on you for great information. Over time, people turn to you as an expert. And some of those people may likely be in a position to give you exposure via the Internet through web radio, teleseminars, other social networks and blogs.

The key is to gain the mindset that you are a resource before you are a vendor. It is also to see how you can create win/win opportunities for others. Do that and publicity will be yours for a long time to come.

Kathleen Gage, The Street Smarts Marketer™, is an Internet marketing advisor who works with spiritually aware speakers, authors, coaches and consultants who are ready to turn the knowledge into money-making products and services. Visit http://www.kathleengage.com for free resources to build your online presence and credibility.

Allbooks Review is offering an Author’s Page, for $75 per year. You prepare your page to tell readers anything you like. Bio, book titles, where to purchase, link to website, etc. Include a photo of yourself, and a covershot for your books, one or ten+ it is up to you.

Each additional year is only $25. Get a full page ad that you can send your readers to. Just like having a website without the fuss.
Contact me at: allbookreviews@aol.com for details.

Remember to post your book signing, guest speaker events on our Bookstore page. Simply send us an email with details of your events and we will be happy to post them. Just part of the Allbooks service to our authors.

Success Stories

We love to hear of your success stories, submit them to us at: allbookreviews@aol.com
A LETTER RECEIVED FROM ONE OF OUR AUTHORS
Dear Shirley,

I am writing to say thanks so much for the 2009 Allbooks Editors Choice award for 'WE ARE ALL ONE' in the Inspiration & Spirituality category. Since receiving your award there has been a noticeable increase in media interest in my work and I have been offered more radio and magazine interviews as well as creating a platform for a variety of other opportunities.

I was offered (and accepted) a publishing deal for my next book 'NAKED BEING', and I believe the Allbooks award of January 2009 played a significant role in that. My new book is published by O books and is due to be released in May 2010. It's already listed on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Being-Undressing-Your-Transforming/dp/1846943035/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258992944&sr=1-4

To any budding writers out there, I highly recommend the professional and honest services offered by Allbooks and can personally vouch for the prestige and media interest which an Allbooks award can bring.

Thanks again Shirley, and all the very best for the future,
In peace and love, Jonathan ( J.M.Harrison author of 'WE ARE ALL ONE' and 'NAKED BEING'). www.we-are-all-one.net


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I thought I’d fill you in on Robert Fates journey since I reviewed for the first Baby Shark stories. He’s still writing and is as good as ever. A while ago he sent me a pre-release copy of Baby Shark: Jugglers At The Border. It was excellent and entertaining as well. I’m not sure if you have followed him but Juggler’s was his fourth in the series. What is more interesting is that the original Baby Shark–is now being made into a movie. Robert Fate is published by Capital Crime.
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Shirley A. Roe has released her third and final historical fiction in the Whittaker Family series, Return to Whittakerville. Copies can be ordered from: www.theebooksale.com or www.amazon.com.

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Tip: As family and friends gather for the holiday season, pay attention to those stories and funny anecdotes. You might be able to use them in your next book! (Change the names, of course)

Allbooks Review Interview

Please state your name and location. (city and State or Province, Country)
D. Wayne Dworsky
New York, New York, USA
Tell us the title and publisher of your book:
The Carpenter of Auguliere

Tell us about yourself:
I am an avid reader, writer, and reviewer

When was the book released?
The book was released August, 2006

Give us an overview of your book.
The Carpenter of Auguliere is the classic tale of good and evil, set in a far-away place in times past.

What inspired you to write this book?
The story came to me in a dream, driving me to recall tales my grandfather told from the “old” country.

How is your book different from other books in this genre?
Although my book is folklore, it has a modern aura.

Where can people buy your book?

The book is available from Amazon.com, Barns&Noble.com, Borders.com and from the distributor at Atlasbooks.com

Are you working on another book? If so when do you expect it to be published?
I do have a sequel in mind, but it has not found its way to paper yet. However, I have another book, a sci-fi, which is complete and looking for a market.

If you self published, what advice can you give to fellow writers?
Seek out the internet and exploit its options.

If published traditionally, tell us how you benefited:
Can you share one of your marketing successes with us?

Best marketing strategy is direct mail.

How did you find Allbooks Reviews and what are you hoping for in your relationship with us?
I found Allbooks Reviews by browsing Amazon.com. I am hoping for more exposure and discovery.

Was the low cost a surprise? What other things would you like Allbooks Reviews to offer writers?
Yes, I found the low price a pleasant surprise. I hope that Allbooks will continue to support writers and encourage them and give them hope for exposure.

Thank you for this interview and best of luck with your book.
Thank you. And I am honored to have the opportunity to share my view on writing.

Allbooks Review wishes to thank all of the authors that have made this another banner year for us. We are here to help you make the most of your book. Wishing everyone a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year for 2010.

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

AllBook Reviews wishes everyone a joyful and Happy Thanksgiving Day!