tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86798350287892988552024-03-12T22:51:38.206-07:00StorytellerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.comBlogger547125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-36268229572139915092018-11-22T17:51:00.000-08:002018-11-22T17:51:29.943-08:00Shifting GearsFive years ago I was forced to make a career change. In most cases that would be a devastating event for some one of my age. It has been a challenge and daunting at times but my new career has been a blessing beyond belief. As I am approaching a time when I will have extra funds, be able to afford good if not expert editing for my novel writing I shall be picking up where I left off five years ago.<br />
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When I walked away from writing I had several books done that I have not published yet so when I come back it will be with re edited versions of my published works and soon to follow sequels to both and a new series novel. While this work is being edited I will creating new work still working towards that 1 million word published mark before I start my premiere work.<br />
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Just wanted to drop a note to say I will be returning soon with Blog posts and new and improved work.<br />
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Tom Wilson<br />
Story TellerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-55392240848172157272014-07-02T19:58:00.001-07:002014-07-02T20:05:05.947-07:00Just Like Riding a Bike<div class="MsoNormal">
We’ve all heard the expression that it is just like riding a
bike. Generally referring to something
that once you learn how it is something you never forget how to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But do you remember those daunting steps towards that
initial goal of learning how to ride your bike.
How you first had to learn to ride with the training wheels on the bike,
teetering from side to side as the bike gained its stability from bouncing against
the training wheels. Do you remember how
scared you were of your new favorite toy once the training wheels came off?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The most terrifying part of coasting while trying to steer
as you leaned to pull your feet up automatically to the pedals as you tried to
coordinate pedaling, steering and trying not to wreck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Recently my five year old son mastered riding his bike just
before his sixth birthday. The utter joy
and excitement that beamed from him from this milestone achievement. His first real vehicle that actually belongs
to him that can convey him at unrealized speeds much faster than his legs and
feet alone. The excuse to travel to the
end of the street – the new much farther boundary of his universe beyond his
yard.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My son has a younger brother who is 20 months behind
him. The enthusiasm of my older son was
countered by jealousy and abandonment from his younger brother. The younger sibling tried as much as he could
to follow and keep up with his older brother who he idolizes on his
tricycle. There is a physical limit to
pedaling a trike that can never catch a much bigger bicycle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember telling my wife that it wouldn’t take the little
one long to catch up to his older brother and he would be riding much sooner
than it took his older brother. I was
right but never did I dream that desire to keep up with his older brother was
as strong as it is. Within two months
the youngest mastered the art of bike riding in order to stay up with and
remain in his big brothers realm of influence as it involves playing, travel
and boundaries.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was the oldest in my family and know the pressure of
always having to push through the fear and do everything first, right or wrong,
before my siblings as we grew up. I
never realized the tremendous monumental push and strength of character the
younger siblings have in an effort to keep up.
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Sharing the thrill and excitement of them both learning to
ride their bikes between April and June was a trip down memory lane for
me. Remembering when I learned to ride,
remembering my first bike with the banana seat and orange paint. Seeing how over joyed my boys were at their
accomplishment and the new found passion that is starting to wear on my wife
and I as every free second the question is asked by one and both, “Can I ride
my bike?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking back as a boy at the ripe old age of 48 I know how
this is the first steps towards the ever growing fascination with locomotion
that will lead to cars, motorcycles, thoughts of flying. The learning of the history to flight to mankind’s
trip to the moon and ideas being planned now to carry mankind off this planet
into the Universe. That same desire that
spurred young men to travel, sail away on ships and discover how small our
planet really is in the ages past.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The development and desire of mankind to move faster, expand
our boundaries in order to just go farther and ultimately see what’s around the
next corner or over the horizon is just as awesome as mankind’s survival
instinct. Both of these traits have done
more to promote our species and allow us to grow possibly only surpassed by our
curiosity and desire to learn new things and answer questions. I love seeing my baby boys develop and grow
into young boys and seeing their desires push them to new heights and over come
new challenges.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Driving a stick shift or manual transmission – it’s just like
riding a bike. I pray I can restore on
old manual shift car for when it is time for them to learn to drive – since most
cars today are automatics. I want them
to have that same experience I had when the time comes. It is true that once you learn how to do it –
it is just like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hope you too got a little walk down memory lane. That through reading this you could remember that awesome feeling of achievement you once experienced when you took off on
your bike for the first time. I really
pray you get to experience it with your children and God willing your
grandchildren.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-17896170438564732932014-01-02T21:39:00.000-08:002014-01-02T21:39:47.149-08:00Election Question<div class="MsoNormal">
I feel it is important for people to vote as much as I still
believe the true power of our country and the major reason it is so great is
because of its people. Patriotic? Yeah, just a little.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hear from people all the time that they believe their vote
does not count. That it doesn’t matter
who they vote for. I hate hearing about
the horrible feelings people have about our government even though I can’t say
I am impressed with the job they are doing for this country.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It dawned on me that with today’s technology a major
television station or I would even be more impressed if all three, CBS, NBC, and
ABC, joined together and did the event simultanenously! I think it would be great for Presidential
Elections to start with numerous candidates from numerous parties and introduce
them through an investigative report with breaks to do questions and answers in
the form of a debate style and then let the country vote.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Each night of a week a one hour special and narrowing down
the peoples choice by party and then by qualifications making it more in depth
and harder as the candidates progress through the process and then people vote
on their computers, cell phones and eliminate candidates with the grand finale
being the actual presidential election.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The best part would be if they did it live and we got to
watch these candidates self destruct on national television!<o:p></o:p></div>
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No Campaigning! No
huge amounts of money spent by candidates or supportors trying to buy their
candidate a seat. The money that would
normally be spent on campaigns should be collected and spent on paying down the
national debt which would get people to stop donating rather quickly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No National conventions!
Within each party numerous candidates would be sent to the show to
represent their respective party. For
those who are afraid of getting stuck with a popular would be actor as
president – let us remember President Reagan who didn’t do all that bad as
Presidents go. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is just an idea. I
would be entertained and happy if we threw out the electoral college and limit
the whole thing to those who are registered through their computer and cell
phones to vote and part of the registration process is to have a valid drivers
license, and proof you have paid your taxes.
Get the NSA to run the voting polls for the computers and cell phones,
they could do it honestly and have the technology. Definitely do not let the government hacks
who are responsible for the Obama care website near it. The IRS would love to be able to verify the
registered voters by who have paid their taxes. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-15807134810922839812014-01-01T20:09:00.002-08:002014-01-01T20:09:52.979-08:00Bigfoot, Jack-a-lopes, and New Years Resolutions<div class="MsoNormal">
Three things among many that I don’t believe in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don't believe in Big Foot!</div>
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Someone asked me yesterday what my New Year’s Resolutions
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I said I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They asked me in a very concerned sort of way, “You don’t
have any goals or ambitions for the coming year to become a better person?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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That’s different. I have tons of goals and ambitions along with trying to become a better person as I grow, learn and mature.</div>
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I don't believe in Jack-a-lopes!</div>
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thinking about it – This is a ongoing process that needs to be adjusted
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it to some special place by achieving your desired goals. I do believe if you are not happy living your
every day life and enjoying it to the fullest as you go – you are wasting your
life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know what the person was striving for when they asked the
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2013 was definitely a year of change. I entered the year having reached a twenty
year mark with working for the same company.
I had finished two more books but needed a editor to get them ready to
be published. I had not published a new
book in 2012. I lost my job in March and
my company truck I had driven for years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I found a new opportunity with the Edward Jones Company and began
studying for my Series 7. I did not
publish a new book in 2013 nor have I written a single word towards a new one
since I lost my old job. I have been
busy reading, studying, and learning since I took this new position. Working for the Edward Jones Company is like a person dying of thirst trying to get a sip of water from a fire hose - At least at the start of your career. Fast paced, almost over whelming, non stop learning and training, challenging and a hell of a lot of fun if you don't let it over run you. I have never worked with a more helpful and up beat group of people in all my life!</div>
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The Good News is that I have never been happier in my
life. I have been blessed repeatedly since this new
career has started. I enjoy the fact, that by doing my job well, that I get to help educate people to understand, manage
and protect their savings. I never
dreamed I would be so comfortable in such a social environment where I
literally talk to hundreds of people every week. I am surprised by how much I have learned in
less than a year and how much I know about different vehicles for investing
money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goals for this year are to break records of various types
within the Edward Jones Company. I plan
to grow my business and help as many people as I can. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was able to purchase my own vehicle last year and finally
after years have a means to listen to my favorite music in my car after years
of having nothing but an AM/FM radio. I
have even managed to aquire a speaker machine that will play my music off my
cell phone while I am working in my office.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I plan to purchase my dream house with an in ground pool
this year and get moved into it and settled.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I plan to begin painting again in order to paint a piece for
my office and see who will notice that I painted the painting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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self published along with finishing my fifth and sixth novels. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Most of all I plan to continue enjoying every day for the
blessing that it is as I learn and grow to higher and greater heights that even
I can’t imagine. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I will try to blog more often this year. My writing career and blogging are coming up
on the third year since I started both. This year I will get back to writing as I grow and become continually better
at my new career as a financial advisor. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-46424574963061442562013-11-28T10:55:00.000-08:002013-11-28T10:55:49.079-08:00The Things You Can Control<div class="MsoNormal">
For those who have followed my blog, you know I went through
a major career change this year. I have
learned so many new things this year I can’t even qualify it all at this
point. Some of the lessons I have
learned have been more prominent and useful than others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Focus on the things you can control.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is applicable in every area of your life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For me, I focus on the aspects of what I can control. Prospecting, following up with prospects and
current clients and learning as much as I can every day about the myrid of
products at my disposal. Multi-tasking
and focusing on the critical activities that need to be done to suceed are
important, but you must continue to not get hung up on the stuff you can’t
control.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As today is Thanksgiving, a day I have been looking forward
to for a long time for many reasons. My
oldest son is sick and so I am staying home with him instead of going to the
family Thanksgiving. I am disappointed
but not upset, as this falls into a category of stuff I cannot control. So you just make the best of it and try and
enjoy the day the best you can.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Your attitude about work, your career, your life, your
family is your attitude. The only person
who can change it and control it is you.
So why not be enthusiastic and happy?
This is controlable! Focus on
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Go through everything in your life and determine what you
can directly control and that which you can’t.
Focus on what you can control.
Let go of what you can’t. Don’t
focus on the stuff you can’t control.
Don’t let it get you down or put you in a bad mood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Happy Thanksgiving my loyal and wonderful fans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For those who have read “Whisper” and “No Rules Of
Engagement” the sequels are being edited and I am still planning on a launch of
the next books in both series next year – 2014.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-59372252481559929732013-09-17T20:47:00.000-07:002013-09-17T20:47:51.273-07:00Discovering Who You Are<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">For
those who have followed by blog you know that I had a directional change in my
life this year as I lost the job I had held for over twenty years.</span><br />
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First off losing my job has turned out to be the biggest
blessing God has given me since my wife fell in love with and said I do and my
children being born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Secondly God has further blessed me with an opportunity to
begin a new career which has has challenged me in many new and exciting
ways. So much so that I have had to
rediscover who I am.<o:p></o:p></div>
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day I am faced with new vistas and discoveries as I proceed on my new adventure
and career. I am in one of those phases
of life when you don’t fully realize what you are capable of. You keep going forward, step by step,
learning and </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">stretching</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"> and discovering new and more wonderful things as I
proceed. Discovering who I am as I
go. Realizing what is most important in
the world and embracing it. Enjoying the
things I do everyday. Excelling in ways
that surprise myself as I enjoy the journey, enjoying the journey is what true
success is all about.</span></div>
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I am in a situation where I am meeting many new people every
day and they have no idea who I am, all that I am, all that I can do to help
them, and how truly happy I am to meet them.
It’s amazing because some of these people I will end up having a
meaningful relationship for the rest of my life. We will change each others lives forever as
we all proceed on this incredible journey.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t know exactly where this journey is taking me, but I
am thoroughly enjoying the journey. My
writing career is on hold until I get good enough at this new career that I get
my evenings back and am not working until bed time each night hand writing out
thank you cards and catching up on work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am sorry I have not been blogging more but I have been
terribly busy. Burning the candle at
both ends but in a good way.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-22956448198043338232013-07-19T18:16:00.000-07:002013-07-19T18:16:13.012-07:00PASSED MY SERIES 7 EXAMAs a writer and someone who has experienced the thrill and wrath of written work being edited, the entire Securities Industry needs to be edited desperately!<br />
<br />
There is over ten terms which have more than one or two ways of referring to the exact same thing. There is more definitions for the word BASIS within the same industry, @^#%$&$*.<br />
<br />
Any Editor worth their salt could have condensed that manual down by a quarter and determined for the industry what terms and phrases will be used and are acceptable and really clear up a lot of confusion and misunderstandings. <br />
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Who ever came up with the bright idea of two three hour tests back to back with only an hour break in between should be tied to a tree and shot to death! A lady was there testing for her CPA - four tests spread over months that can be taken in any order. I am not down rating their test in the slightest but the schedule seems far less grueling than the Series 7 Exam.<br />
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I passed! You need a 72% to pass. Most do not pass it the first time. Average passing score is 73%. I squeezed a 75% to pass, nearly wet myself before finishing the last 10 questions and although happy and elated I feel at the present moment Scooby Doo has me beat by about 50 IQ points.<br />
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Thank you everybody who said a prayer. Tomorrow I start studying for the State Registration Series 66, wish me luck.<br />
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It is amazing what we will do so some day we may return to writing.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-64534159380609876622013-07-18T19:35:00.001-07:002013-07-18T19:35:48.451-07:00New Directions - Training - Series 7 ExamAs I have hinted about previously - my life is taking a new direction. Part of that is contingent on my passing the registration exam. In this case it is the Series 7 Registration Exam.<br />
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For the past three weeks I have been doing nothing but reading, studying, taking notes, taking tests and getting ready for this two part - six hour test.<br />
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Tomorrow I go sit for the Exam. I have never worked so hard for anything in the entire previous 46 years of my life! I want this opportunity and chance at a new career and great opportunity.<br />
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Please if any of you are of the Christian persuasion - even if you are not. Say a prayer for me tonight.<br />
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Going to go to bed early with this thought on my mind. I have done the studying, and the work. Either I know it or I don't. Tomorrow the test will reveal the truth and my destiny as far this is concerned.<br />
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I can't wait to get to life as normal again, tweeting, blogging, writing my novels.<br />
Wish me luck, Say a Prayer, and Goodnight my friends and follows.<br />
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Sincerely Future Famous Science Fiction Author<br />
FA for a Awesome Company<br />
and truly brain fried! Thomas Wilson!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-1992795533073588022013-06-14T09:33:00.000-07:002013-06-14T09:33:39.668-07:00Hibernation<div class="MsoNormal">
On March 7, of this year I was let go from the company I had
been employed with for over twenty years.
At the time I thought it was a terrible injustice and was extremely
upset over the entire situation. I did
realize very soon after I had left that I seemed to be a much happier person
without the stress associated with aspects of working there.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At other times in my life, I had experienced something which
during the time you are going through it seems terrible. Only after time when things have changed and
worked out do you realize you are in a much better place than you would have
been in if the event which forced the change had not happened in the first
place.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is what has happened in my life once more. I am not going to go into the details of what
caused me to be let go or the events which have transpired to bring about a
completely new, more profitable and totally new direction to my life. I will say that as of Monday June 17, I will
be starting eight to ten weeks of intensive training for this new
opportunity. It is not related to my
writing, but eventually will allow me to continue my writing (at a later date),
pay for professional editing, professional book covers and advertising for my
future books. I do have two books (the
sequels to my first two books) currently being edited and still planning on
releasing them later this year or the first part of next year. I do want them to be as professional as I can
possibly make them prior to releasing them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So for the next few weeks there will be none of the
following:<o:p></o:p></div>
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My Daily Twitter Mentions to all the wonderful people I have
so faithfully mentioned six days a week.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No New Blog Posts<o:p></o:p></div>
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No Posting of links for my books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will still be here, occasionally checking e-mails if I
get the chance. For the most part I will
be in very intensive training which is planned to take 6 days a week. As to give this new opportunity the best I
have to offer I will devote all my energies to studying and preparing for this
new challenge. This as I have stated
will facilitate and pay for everything else I want to accomplish in the future
in regards to writing novels and pursuing a career as a novelist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As with many things in life – It is one step back, to take
several steps forward. In this case what
will be a slight hibernation in blogging, writing, editing, and being a
novelist, will be a giant step forward in securing my financial future and
making all my other dreams come true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wish me luck. I will
be back in a few weeks.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-62881783731568090392013-05-27T18:30:00.001-07:002013-05-27T18:30:58.197-07:00Cover Reveal
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cry Me A River</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">by Devyn Dawson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Caide Palmer, Emerald Isle's resident chef and grieving father. Everything in his life is turned upside down when his ex-girlfriend Heather dies from an accidental overdose. She left behind their eighteen month old daughter. Heather's parents filed for emergency custody of baby Lucy. Now Caide is in the fight of his life to raise his daughter to the best of his ability. The courts order Caide to attend parenting classes and Al Anon meetings. It is there that he meets twenty-two year old River. She is drawn in by his story, and she wants to mend his grieving heart. Will Caide allow River in to his world, or will he find his role as single father is to be faced alone? There's something about her that he wants to save. Can they really save each other? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cry Me A River is a New Adult book with sexual situations and explicit language. If you've ever mourned the loss of someone you loved, Cry Me A River will show you that love can conquer when you meet the right person. <b>Available July 2, 2013.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Add to your TBR list <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17930846-cry-me-a-river" target="_blank">Cry Me a River</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The author Devyn Dawson is from Oklahoma, but she kicks up her boots in New Bern, NC. She spends her days writing about the characters who live in her head. Devyn has been intrigued by the young adult world and is now branching out to new adult. This is her first non-paranormal book. Although the characters are fictional, grief of losing someone you love is drawn from her own experiences of death and loss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.devyndawson.com/" target="_blank">Stalk Devyn's website</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://devyn-dawson.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Devyn's Blog </a>- tons of giveaways!<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Devyn-Dawson/e/B0055KR17K/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1368816020&sr=8-2-ent" target="_blank">Amazon</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Young Adult Books by Devyn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Legacy of Kilkenny - book one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Seduction - book 1.5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Malevolence - book two</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Light Tamer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Enlightened</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Light Bound - Summer 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Wisdom Series</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Trust - book one Winter 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sapphire, A Werewolf Love Story</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-32681032181083542842013-05-25T21:44:00.000-07:002013-05-25T21:44:13.993-07:00Writing Fiction<div class="MsoNormal">
It seems that some new writers have a hang up or problem
with taking that leap in to altered realities of their made up stories.</div>
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Taking that step into the unreal, into the
part of your imagination that makes your story fiction, different, unreal, or
magical. What the new writer doesn't
understand is that the readers are looking for that special moment or point in
the book when it strays into that unreal part with altered rules of reality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Remember your favorite books or movies and the moments they
crossed that line and hooked you. You
didn't need a huge drawn out description of the rules of physics for this
particular story. You didn't need to be
lead around it, or have it hinted at to you through multiple chapters, you were
looking for it when you picked up the book and started reading it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That moment in the movie of Jurassic Park when they first
see the dinosaurs. The moment in Jaws
when the shark appears at the back of the boat and all the sheriff can say is
that they need a bigger boat. When Yoda
lifts the X-wing fighter out of the swamp.
Those are the moments people are looking for in stories. It’s how the author brings these moments out
to the audience that makes all the difference.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s your story! Just
write it. It is your chance to be as
brilliant, stunning, shocking, and awesome as you can dare to be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How many times have you read a story where you imagined a
terrific ending and yet the book came up short.
You imagine different alternatives a story could go and it doesn't come
up to reach any of them. These stories
made it to become books, plays, and many of them even movies. Of all the stories, books, screenplays, and
movies that are created every year many are garbage, some are good, few are
great. Think about the greatest stories
you have read, watched as shows or movies and think about what made them great.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Focus on the moments when they stepped past the natural
boundaries and became magical, entered the realm of fiction and the story
really began. Unleash your imagination
and write your story, the perfect story you would love to read except you haven’t
written it. Then write it. If you get that feeling you get when you are
reading a great book while writing your story then you are on the right track.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-72087603502349468612013-05-12T21:15:00.001-07:002013-05-12T21:15:32.620-07:00The Great Gatsby<br />
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Review of The Great Gatsby<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the time of it’s original publishing in 1925, F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s, “The Great Gatsby” received critical reviews and had
disappointing sales.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fitzgerald once said in 1920, almost prophetically, “An
Author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next,
and the schoolmasters of ever-afterward.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Well, he definitely did that. “The Great Gatsby” didn't become great in it’s
own right until about ten to twenty years after Fitzgerald had died. When college students were reading it, later it
became required reading in schools before ultimately being considered one of
the top 100 pieces of literature from the nineteen hundreds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My daughter read Gatsby in college and began telling me
about how I have to read it. After I
wrote and published my first book I was giving her hell about not reading my
book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Have you read ‘The Great Gatsby’ yet?” She snapped.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No, I don’t have a copy of it.” I replied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We left lunch and our argument and ended up at a used book store. She found used copy of “The Great Gatsby” and
I bought it. It upset me that a used
copy of a book that was published in 1925 cost me $7.50 and my new and first
novel was selling for 2.99 at the time, and frankly I was giving copies away to
get people to try mine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I read the book soon after that. I don’t believe my daughter has read my book
as of yet. Neither has several of my
very good friends or my wife. I wrote a
blog post after reading the book because one distinct point in the book caught
me, spoke to me, and convinced me of Fitzgerald’s genius as a writer. He described something I had experienced but
never formed into words before. He
nailed it completely. The description
was so perfect and took me to that existential place that time stood still for a
moment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“He smiled
understandingly – much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a
quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five
times in life. It faced – or seemed to
face – the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on <b>you</b> with an irresistible prejudice in
your favor. It understood you just so
far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to
believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you
that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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This was the instant in the book that Nick Carraway meets
Gatsby face to face and Carraway’s description of Gatsby’s smile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On my birthday, May 10, last Friday night, my daughter took
me to the new movie on the opening night in Kansas City, of the “The Great
Gatsby.” Because of our history with
discussing this fantastic book and the many layers of meanings and symbolism,
this movie had a special significance to each of us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Very seldom does a book capture the spirit, the visual
interpretations and the heart and soul of the original book. This movie surpassed my expectations and was
as true to the book as I could have ever imagined. The casting was inspired and only surpassed
by the talent of the actors involved with movie. I almost felt as if it took Leonardo DiCaprio
to reach this age and maturity as a great actor to be the perfect person to totally
capture the essence of Gatsby.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tobey Maguire has also matured so much since Spider Man and
portrayed Nick Carraway better than what I ever envisioned in my imagination
when reading the book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Gatsby (DiCaprio) turns and smiles at Nick (Maguire) it
was every bit as magical as Fitzgerald’s description. The Director (Baz Luhrmann) must have sensed
the greatness of Fitzgerald’s description because they had Maguire narrate the
words from the book as if we could hear his thoughts. The result was dead on target bulls-eye!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I don’t know what was CGI and what was real but it looked as
if you were seeing New York in the 1920’s.
The octologists sign which was featured on numerous versions of book
covers. The Green light at the end of
the dock. The elements of the mansions,
the decadence and extravagance of the times before the crash.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unfortunately many of the people who will go and see the
movie will have never read the book.
They will have no idea the great and monumental lengths those who worked
on that film went to in order to capture the essence, detail, and relive a piece
of the past. They won’t understand the
part of the last sentence and it’s significance to the story, plot, and Gatsby’s
fatal flaw.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I give the movie a ten out of ten, perfect score.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a writer, who is working through my life's work, that which
will be my future legacy, I pray I write at least one piece as great as this in
my life. That I write for the youth of
my generation, the critics that follow and the schoolmasters of ever-afterward. That one piece that is
hopeful, fun, tragic, true to life and enduring. To see Carraway write the story in long hand
by pen and type it with that antique typewriter spoke to my soul as a writer.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-65237523675685851972013-05-02T21:03:00.001-07:002013-05-02T21:03:56.655-07:00Snow in May<br />
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I am extremely competitive and love to see records broke of
about any type, but for snow in May, that one I can do without. My wife looked it up and the previous record
was 1.7 inches of snow in 1907. Yeah
that’s right. We have the chance to
break a hundred and six year old record for Snow in May, in Kansas City,
Missouri.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I remember feeling elated that the Ground Hog didn't see his
shadow and how that was supposed to predict an early spring. Somehow a snow storm in May doesn't sound
like an early spring.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-44475192325118459852013-05-01T20:19:00.000-07:002013-05-01T20:19:35.646-07:00Synchronicity<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is the experience of two or more events that
are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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books, will find out sooner or later I am religious, converted later in life
mostly because of my wife. I still have
a problem with cussing, in that I still do it habitually out of habit even
though I know it is wrong. My wife and two
young boys have enlisted in the crusade of trying to correct my bad habits.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am a devout Christian because of things I
have witnessed which can only be nothing short of a miracle or divine
intervention. A faith Experience. Many believe, but until you experience
something personally that cements your faith in God almighty, you will struggle
with faith and your belief. I love the
church my wife and I attend because they are very big on knowing what you
believe and why you believe it. They
don't tell you what to believe. They
preach the Holy Word of the Bible and even present different view points on
some of the controversial topics, but they believe a you should know what you believe
in and why you believe it.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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life and ready or not, when it is time, God moves. Your plans don't matter. You want to make God laugh, by all means put
your hands together and tell him about your plans. You understand that point much better when
your three year old and five year old son start laying out their plans for the
way the evening is going to go. It
dawned on me while explaining what was really going to happen, to my two sons, that
God pretty much does the same thing with us, only he doesn't always explain as well
to us. Then again maybe he does but we
are listening like a couple of small children and more concerned with our plans.
We don't see or listen when he is speaking
to us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am old enough and wise enough to realize
that not everything is a coincidence. God brings people into your life for a reason,
and it might be years before you figure it out why. We may never figure it out. Looking back I can see how my plans and my
life has changed and not quite gone the way I had imagined it would, and as it
turns out I have ended up in a much better place and better off for what has
happened. I know when God is working in
my life and adjusting things, getting ready to change things, and I am wise
enough to sit back and marvel in his awesome power and design and watch it
unfold. When I was younger, I would act
like my children fighting and kicking while trying to resist the changes.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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every grain of sand is exactly where it is supposed to be. When you understand that proverb, you’ll
realize we might not like everything that is going on, but it is all according
to his master plan and design. You can
fight it, refuse it, change the course but in the end it just means you end up
at the same point later in life having taken a little harder and longer road,
than you might of. I probably could have
listened to the writing and English teachers years ago and been a writer years
ago, but it probably </span><span style="color: #222222;">wasn't</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 15pt;"> the right time.
I needed to be seasoned, experience more of life, be tempered by
challenges and difficulties, and mellowed in certain areas to get to the place where
I am right now. The Place that is “Exactly”,
where I am supposed to be.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 15pt;">We should
open our eyes and ears, listen and watch what's going on around us very
closely. We live in a supernatural world
and too many don't see all that is truly going on around them. Most people are going through life sleep
walking, while a few of us are walking around totally and utterly amazed at
what we see.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-82441842048082765402013-04-30T21:25:00.000-07:002013-04-30T21:25:21.137-07:00New and Different Paths<br />
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In 2010 I made the decision to challenge myself and try to
start and finish writing a novel. I
primarily did it just to see if I could do it, and the book <a href="http://amzn.to/TW_Whisper" target="_blank">“Whisper”</a> is the
result of my efforts which I published in January 2011.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Prior to writing a novel I had spent the last seventeen on
the same path, with the same job, with the same company. I have heard about prisoners developing a
fear of being able to exist outside the walls of their prison because they had
gotten so comfortable with what they know.
I have felt pangs of that fear recently as my life has taken what I
would call drastic changes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Google Plus, Jillian Michaels, posted a picture that said <b>"Every Accomplishment starts with the Decision to TRY."</b> I saw it tonight as I applied for a possible
new position with a company that will take my life in a completely new
direction. A new path, a new direction,
new challenges, and a chance to grow, stretch myself, and expand my horizons to
new vistas.</div>
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I have skills and talents, a plethora of them, that I have
honed over the last 46 years through many challenging things I have tackled in
my life. To make such a change in my
life, to not play it safe, but put myself out there fully into unknown realms
is a little daunting to say the least. I
realized something today while going through this process of meeting with a
company representative, and then formally applying for the position, and that
it is something I want to do! I feel
excited and energized more than I am afraid of the unknown quantities involved
with it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One of the pins I have on Pinterest under the board entitled
Quotes is the following.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” Bill Cosby.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So now I begin the formal process of trying to get a chance
at this new job, this new challenge, this new direction. Wish me luck!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am still working with my editor to edit and prepare the
sequels to both my books. As soon as
they become available I will be doing some promotions, and a lot of that
shameless self promotion that us authors have to do from time to time to get
the word out about our new releases. If
we don’t, nobody else will. We have to
get you, our followers to read our books so you can do the real magic which is
telling the rest of the world about this great book you read. So stay tuned.<o:p></o:p></div>
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– I am almost finished with book five, a start to a new series.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-15996579412977193282013-04-29T18:46:00.000-07:002013-04-29T18:46:47.092-07:00Write Down Your Ideas<br />
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Before I started writing full time I read everything I could
about writing, especially the stuff that was written by my favorite
authors.</div>
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I remember reading that Piers
Anthony wrote that he lost more story ideas than he ever wrote because he didn't write them down at the time he had them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can’t count the number of wonderful ideas I have had in
the morning taking a shower and how they vanished like the fog on the mirror by
the time I was dressed and had reached work.</div>
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I have had numerous discussions with individuals about the need for a
way to take notes while taking a shower.
One of the last people I had that discussion sent me a picture and link
to get a water proof computer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have lost several ideas over the last three years because
I didn't write them down when they were tearing across my brain as my muse
whispered to me. I like to write down
the good and bad ideas, because later on you never know what not so great idea
might meld or congeal with several other ideas into something phenomenal.</div>
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I have taken to traveling with a pen and
small notebook everywhere so when I see, hear, or experience something that
sparks an ideas for a character, a scene, or a completely new novel, I can
write it down immediately. I still am
losing ideas in the shower because I can’t afford the water proof computer and
with two small boys in the house my wife will never let us put a computer in
the shower.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-34804291636617906392013-04-03T19:35:00.000-07:002013-04-03T19:35:06.220-07:00Writer Versus Singer<br />
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90 Seconds versus the first Chapter!<o:p></o:p></div>
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it reminded me of hearing Johnny Cash recall how during an audition where the
music producer told him to sing something, anything, in 90 seconds to convince
him that he had what it took to be signed by him.</span><br />
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the show, ‘The Voice,’ the contestants have 90 seconds to sing in order to get
one of the four judges to turn their chair around. How many times throughout music history has
an artists career been decided in 90 seconds or less?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">As
a reader for years before I became a writer, I know that avid readers are a bit
more tolerant and patient than 90 seconds before deciding to not read something
new. Trust me, the pressure is just as
great to capture and hold the readers attention, as ever before in history. There is so much to read, that a reader </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">couldn't</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"> possibly read everything thing they want to in a single life
time. Recently, with the advent of self
publishing, there is a exponential increase in the amount of written material
to be read that hasn't been seen since the invention of the printing press.</span><br />
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Writers have to compete with music, video games, texting,
social networking of many various forms which all compete daily for peoples
attention, time and money. Thankfully
there is also a rise in the amount of stuff being read and bought by
readers. With all the things competing against
books and the tremendous influx of free and cheap books that are available on
line and even traditionally published books at the book stores, it is amazing
that the market is growing! I had to
stand in line at the book store the other day for quite some time just to
purchase a book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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what they do spend their money on and more importantly what they spend their
time to read! I don’t believe any of
them are so strict or harsh that they decide on a book in the first 90 seconds.</span><br />
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When people are looking for a new read, surfing the web,
browsing book shelves they may pass by many possible selections in less than 90
seconds. In this case you have literally
4 to 6 seconds on-line to grab a readers attention, to get them to pause enough
to see what the book may be about, but that’s a topic for another entirely
different blog post.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-75031214567905683732013-03-22T20:52:00.000-07:002013-03-22T20:52:27.154-07:00Names For Characters<br />
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I devised a system a while back that I use for coming up
with names for characters in my books. I
use names from people I connect with on-line through social media sites. Not the peoples names directly as I find them
on the different sites but I put the names in cells in a spread sheet so they
can be manipulated and re-arranged. Then
I put first and last names together at random until I find a name I like for a
particular character.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even as random as this system appears to be, I am sure that I
come up with names which match the names of real people somewhere. Many years ago and what feels like a
different life time ago I was a clown (Hobo) with the Red Cross Clown Corps. In doing so we needed to make up names for
our clown characters. I drew a lot when
I was younger and had several cartoon characters I had come up with and made
several cartoon pictures with these characters.
One was a duck and the other ‘Elsworth’ the Dragon. So I came up with Hobi Duckworth as my clown
name and for the next couple of years when I was performing people kept asking
me if I was related to this bunch of Duckworth’s or that bunch of Duckworth’s. I realized back then that no matter what name
you dream up for yourself somebody probably already has that name or something
very close to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So if I have followed you on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or
some other social media site your name is probably in my homemade data base for
names for me to mix and match. Sooner or
later part of your name may end up in one of my books as one of my characters.</div>
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I was presented with a sweatshirt from one of
the ladies of my book club who was responsible for me actually taking the
plunge and trying my hand at becoming a novelist. The sweatshirt says on the front of it, “Be
careful, you may end up in one of my novels.”<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-46348189850924383182013-03-20T13:58:00.000-07:002013-03-20T13:58:26.730-07:00The Vernal Equinox<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The word Equinox comes from
the Latin and means ‘Equal Night.’ The
Vernal Equinox is the Spring Time of the year where the days and nights are
roughly equal and from here on out the days will be increasing in the amount of
daylight, the temperatures will be warming up, and the earth will begin the
rebirth of plants until fall comes.</span><br />
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The grass will turn green, the trees will regrow
their leaves, and the flowers will grow.
Soon will be planting time to begin gardens and refill the flower beds
for the summer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Summer time is on the way. Once again the cycle of rebirth will begin
and transform our world in the northern hemisphere one more time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Please take time to enjoy the season, see the
new plants sprout, plant a garden, and smell the flowers as they bloom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Everybody.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-30462052148271927472013-03-17T21:24:00.000-07:002013-03-17T21:24:53.151-07:00Changes and Silver Linings<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">From
time to time life presents us with changes.
Maybe we move to a new house, get a new job, a new relationship, or a
new car. Sometimes these changes are
planned for and expected while other times they are a total surprise. Changes manifest themselves in many wondrous
ways.</span><br />
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Maybe your old car died.
Maybe you had to move to a new residence. Maybe you lost your job. Maybe you lost a person who was close to you. Obviously the many wondrous ways changes can
manifest themselves isn't always in the delightful, heart warming, fuzzy way
you would have liked it to come about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>“All Changes, even the
most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part
of ourselves; WE MUST DIE ONE LIFE BEFORE WE CAN ENTER ANOTHER.” ~ Anatole
France.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The one thing you can truly count on besides getting older
is that one way or another things will always change. Many people fear or hate changes and have
trouble coping with changes as they barge into your life and change
things. It’s so much easier, just like
getting older, to embrace them both with an open mind and child like wonder as you
look for the silver linings in the aspects of changes and getting older. It doesn't do any good to avoid changes or
attempt to keep from getting older.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How you embrace changes and getting older can determine how
happy and fulfilled you can be throughout your life. As I have stated numerous times through blog
posts in the past, success is the journey, not a destination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Confessions Time – </b></span></div>
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On March 7, 2013, I was let go from the company I had worked
at for the last twenty and a half years.
It was un-expected, a total surprise, and definitely what one would
describe as an unexpected life change.
For the last seventeen years I drove a company vehicle, so not only did
I lose my job but I lost my means of transportation also!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I know something like this could devastate some people,
maybe most people. I know a lot of
people have lost their jobs since the collapse (or major hi-cup ) of the
economy in 2008. Success is the Journey
not the Destination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What would be some Silver Linings of a situation like this?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I haven’t had my own vehicle in seventeen years. Each time the company I worked for would
switch out the vehicle I was going to be driving they would ask what I
wanted. I would always ask for a CD
player in the vehicle. Every other
vehicle the company owns has a CD player and for the last seventeen years all I
could get in a vehicle was AM/FM Stereo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will be getting my own New Vehicle with not only a CD
player but with the MP3 player adapter so you can listen to the music off your
MP3 player. I have never owned a new vehicle myself in the thirty-four
years I have driving. A Silver Lining!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I was initially upset, felt betrayed and angry. Really, who wouldn't be after faithfully
coming to work and helping grow and run a company for so long. After some serious soul searching I realized
that I was excited about the opportunity to try something new. I have
found that I am extremely happy and in a much better place since being released
from my previous employer. To find
another company that I may be able to help grow from a small company and build into something much bigger and more valuable
over time is exciting. This is a major
chance, exciting opportunity and wondrous Silver Lining of a magnitude that
many people never get an opportunity to attempt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since the seventh of this month I have used my time to secure a vehicle,
because let’s face it without reliable transportation your chances of securing
gainful employment are slim.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have made a resume for the first time in twenty some
years, and it is much more impressive than what I had twenty years ago, another
Silver Lining!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have started working out daily, not that I was in bad
shape to begin with for a man of my age.
It is amazing how quickly you can tone back up and rebuild muscle mass
you had when you were younger. I am
blessed that not so many years I was in awesome shape. There was a time when I would work out in the
morning, have breakfast and then go work in a tire warehouse all day long. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In retrospect my time with my previous employer changed me
in many ways. I am much older and a hell
of lot wiser than I was twenty years ago.
I have seventeen years of hard management experience learned and earned
in the trenches of real lives, hard business with brutal competition. I have learned that I am capable of things that
I would never believed possible twenty years ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people in life have no concept of their true potential
and capabilities unless pushed to extremes by extreme circumstances. I have been blessed over the years to face
some large and daunting challenges along my journey. Having survived and succeeded in these
challenges opened my eyes to my capabilities, gave me the confidence in my
abilities and convinced me of boundless opportunities I am capable of rising up
to overcome. The chance to face new
challenges with a new company excites the hell out of me as it is an
opportunity to grow to new and greater heights in my journey of success.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a writer, starting a new book is as easy as taking a new
idea and beginning a new word document.
Given time and an active imagination and weeks of writing and you have a
new novel. Months of editing and
polishing and eventually you have a marketable new book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In real life starting a new book with your life isn't so
easy. In real life you don’t know where
the story is going to end up or how the story is going to play out. In real life we are the characters in our
lives dramas and the decisions we make, our daily attitude toward the
situations we are dealing with, and the attributes our own characters will
largely determine if the outcome is positive or negative.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is exciting as I enter a new phase, a new book, with new
chapters in my life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-80697043033891658952013-02-28T22:16:00.000-08:002013-02-28T22:16:40.608-08:00The In Between Time<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">My
favorite days are the ones In Between.</span><br />
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Everybody has a certain amount of routine which naturally
gets sifted into their lives. Life then
invades our time with dinners out, shopping trips, birthdays, party's special
events, deaths, funerals, visits to the hospital and on and on. Sometimes it’s bigger interruptions like
planned trips to places you have never been before, sort of mini adventures
away from your stomping grounds and venturing in to a new region of the world
just over the horizon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most people spend their lives living from one special event
to the next. They have to have something
to look forward to, a reason to check the days of the calendar to count down to
that next big event. They live the rest
of their life just getting by, doing the least amount possible to just get
through to that next event.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I live for the days in between the events. The events to me are an interruption of my
work, my life, my time that I use to accomplish my goals the time I spend with
my family. The in between times are the
normal every day days of our lives, where you read another chapter or two in
the book you are reading. Get another
chapter finished on the book you are writing, or write another blog post. It is another lunch by yourself, dinner with
the family and catching up with what is going on in their lives. It’s listening to the radio and singing along
with it. Wearing comfortable clothes and
not trying or having to try and impress any body.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s the in between times which are the back bone of our
everyday lives and moves us to the special moments. It’s the wise use of and the really hunkering
down and enjoying the in between days that add up to make an ordinary life an
extra ordinary life. People don’t notice
all that you do. The kind word here and
there. The many things you have done
just a little bit of work on today and everyday in between, which are slowly
and quietly adding up to an inconceivable level over days, months and years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So if you don’t have anything special going on today or
tomorrow – relish in the fact that it is a in between day and knock yourself
out taking full advantage of it. Suck
the marrow out of life. Carpe Diem! Slow down and smell the roses. Express yourself! Share the love! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Make everyday, especially the in between days, the best and
most productive days of your life!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-91004500638876833852013-02-13T20:40:00.000-08:002013-02-13T20:40:18.428-08:00Die Hard Movie Marathon<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The local AMC Movie
theaters are running a “Die Hard” Movie Marathon on St. Valentine’s Day, the
same day as the newest movie of the bunch opens at the theaters.</span><br />
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This could be something that AMC is doing around the country
or even worldwide as far as I know. I
only hope they do it again sometime so I can’t get off work to attend this
awesome event.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I can only think of two other movie series that I would
attend an all-day marathon to go watch them all back to back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">I think it is
hilarious that the newest movie in the series, “A Good Day to Die Hard” is
opening on Valentine’s Day of all days.
I’m sorry it just catches me as funny and makes me giggle inside. To be able to pay $35.00 dollars for five
movies, plus you get a ‘Special’ Die Hard Poster and a commemorative lanyard
for attending the event. I love going to
the movies because growing up where I did they </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">didn't</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"> have cinema style movies.</span></div>
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We had to wait until summer time for the Drive-in Theater to
open to see movies. That’s how I saw
Star Wars, Jaws, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and many other great memorable
movies sitting outside in a lawn chair beside the car watching movies in the
summer with my family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To purposely sit all day in a movie theatre seems a touch
insane to me but when I think of watching all five Die Hard movies back to back
it gives me a shiver of excitement.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am really sorry I am going to miss out on the opportunity
to join in the craziness. Somebody at
AMC is a freaking marketing genius!<o:p></o:p></div>
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YIPPEE – KI – YAY!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18204290075555686429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8679835028789298855.post-50962666381620858402013-02-12T19:02:00.000-08:002013-02-12T19:02:59.427-08:00Competition and Cross Promotion<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Authors are not our
competition . . .and Cross Promotion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In today’s fast pace
world of texting, e-mailing, television, movies, and video games for the home
computer, home television, and even your cell phone, it is amazing that anybody
still reads books.</span><br />
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still is a love of reading and in spite of all the things vying for our
attention the potential market of people buying books is growing every day.</span><br />
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is helping that because with the growth and expansion of e-readers around the
world the way we digest our books is changing.</span><br />
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I love the fact that many of the books I read my Kindle can
read them to me with the text to speech function. This doesn't diminish the time I actually
spend reading, it only serves to turn other times like driving or folding
clothes times I can also enjoy listening to a good book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a new Indie Author I am always on the lookout for cheap
and inexpensive ways to help market my books.
I know of two authors I plan to approach before publishing my next novel
with the idea of cross promoting our books together. At the end of my book I will include the
first chapter of the next book in the series along with the first chapter of
another author who writes similar stuff to what I write. With each we can provide links to the other
books.<o:p></o:p></div>
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That coupled with social media exchanges between the two
authors on their blogs, tweeting about each other’s books; we can push
like-minded readers into reading both our stuff and following both of us. As I can only write one to two full length
novels a year and as of yet been able to get that many edited and published
within the same time period it will not take a reader long to read everything I
have written. So they will be reading
other peoples stuff in between my books.
By Cross Promoting books with like authors we help each other get the
word out about our books and with each sale of a book it is one more chance to
help each other along our road to being successful best-selling authors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Collaboration is an inexpensive way to bridge the gap
between us, do it yourself authors, and the Big Publishing Houses which provide
full services and prepaid royalties to their authors. I personally have no interest in selling the
rights to my work to a large company for a fraction of the royalties I can make
publishing the book myself. As the skill
sets of the Indie Writers increases and we join together to help each other we
are gaining ground on the Goliath s of the publishing industry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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