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August 24, 2010
Posted by Carla René in: Accountability, Advice, African-American, Attitude, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Books, Business, Business Management, Cancer, Cap and Trade, Children, China, Climate Change, Commentary, Comments & Discussion, Communications, Communism, Community, Computers, Congress, Contributor's Audio/Video, Creative Writing, Current Events, Democracy, Democrat, Diet, Economic Crisis, Economics, Education, Energy, Entertainment, Environment, Environmental Issues, Faith, Family, Fiction, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Freedom, Freelance Author, General Topics, Geopolitical Events, Global Warming, Governance, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Heroes, History, Homeland Security, Humor, Inspiration & Motivation, Internet, Internet Advice, Interview, Islam, Journalism, Latino & Hispanic, Legal, Life Experiences, Lifestyle, Literature, Marketing, Marriage, Medical, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Mexico, Military, Minorities, Morality, Motivation, Music, Native American, Nature/Wildlife, Non-Fiction, Nutrition, Opinion, Personal Experiences, Philosophical Genres, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, Question of the Day, Recovery, Relationships, Religion, Republican, Rhyme, Satire, Self-Help, Sex, Short Stories, Social Aspects, Social Classes, Social Issues, Sociology, Spirituality, Sports, Technology, Television, Terrorism, The Economy, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Travel, Uncategorized, Website Instructions, Weight loss, Wellness, Women's Perspective, Women's Rights, Working Women, Workplace, World Issues, Writing Essentials
 Begun back sometime in 2001, this book was originally a fluke of an idea… [...]
August 21, 2010
Posted by Carla René in: Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Books, Creative Writing, Entertainment, Fiction, Freelance Author, Humor, Non-Fiction, Short Stories, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized, Writing Essentials
Announcing my two newest releases:
 Book Cover Description: Bill can’t find a writing space to save his wilting life. While in Canada, Sam learns to “go convert” himself; back in the States, mum and dad are playing hide the Azalea, Delores can’t keep her father’s arse covered to get any work done, a pack of wild Kens are hurtling toward the atmosphere, and dad is sitting in his car picking his ears with his keys. Often compared to Sedaris (mostly by herself), this collection will make you sick…with laughter.
Original cover artwork by me.
July 18, 2010
There may only be two universal rules of history. The first is that the entire wealth of the world will inevitably concentrate into fewer and fewer hands until a revolution takes place. The second is that hardly ever does a conventional army defeat a guerrilla force, so that revolution will indeed take place.
It is yet another example of the inherent cyclicality of nature (thank you, Freddie Nietzsche) – the concentration of power leads to the revolution that overthrows it, typically led by only a few ardent folk who then find power concentrating into their hands instead. And so it goes, as Kurt Vonnegut used to say.
At the moment, all the power in the book publishing industry is in the hands of the major publishing houses whose first intent is profit. However, as Bruce Springsteen and others argued when Sony took over their record label a decade ago, art is about a lot more than money.
Art is first and foremost about self-expression and communication and, if that is what you are after, there is no better time to be a writer – $10-15 and your book is in print globally. Continue reading Brothers in arms – a revolution just for fun
April 26, 2010
Once upon a time in a time and space far distant from our own, I used to work for 3M, a company famed far and wide for its innovation.
Inside 3M we were far less convinced of 3M’s innovative capabilities than seemingly those who had read the publicity, but it was clear that 3M in its first 75 years had been ground-breaking, commercialising one landmark innovation after the other in a relentless, if never smooth, sequence.
The insight that 3M had from around 1920 was that all landmark innovation is not a risk, but a gamble. The chances of success cannot be calculated. However, there is a formula which 3M used. Identify a whole bunch of crazies, fire them up, tell them to break every rule, and taunt them with the idea that their obsessively cherished baby of an invention will never, ever be born unless they go through hell and back again.
That really gets the manic juices going.
The truth is, though, that while a small-to-medium sized company can handle a bunch of out-and-out whackos, it is untenable for a massive mega-corporation to do the same with 70,000 employees, which is why those sorts of companies nearly always buy in landmark innovations from elsewhere. Continue reading Didn’t that use to be a bookshop?
January 30, 2010
With huge thanks to Bob Grant of SWI for publicising our new venture to help writers find their audiences, and vice-versa, here is our report on the first day.
Bruce Essar and I (both SWI contributors) took the concept of Night Reading from conception to execution in a few hours, and the first day has proven extremely promising – 31 members and 16 posts / first chapters.
This is an experiment and although we know what we want to achieve and how we want to achieve it, we don’t know whether the formula will allow us to get there or not. We are seeking a triumph of faith and optimism over cynicism and despair, and so far the signs are that we may even all win.
What we want is a kind of revolution in publishing and we are following D.H. Lawrence’s dictum that if we are going to have a revolution, we are going to have it for fun (a seriously fun guy, that D.H.). Continue reading Night Reading – Day 1 report
December 4, 2009
I don’t know if you know Authonomy. If you are a writer you should. It is an excellent place for showcasing whole or part books in the same way that SWI is a superb place for blogging.
The trick with Authonomy (which is HarperCollins) is to load at least 10,000 words of your book onto [...]
November 29, 2009
You saw me as a baby helpless in my mother’s womb
You watched as she murdered me, my life was quickly doomed
You saw me as a child helplessly shaken by my father
You walked away, how could you? You were my mother
You watched as my father abused me
You didn’t do anything, I was never set free
You turned your head, why did you? You are my mother
You saw me being beaten by my mother’s lover
You were afraid to speak up for me, therefore, I was murdered
You saw me as a boy wanting to live my life in a gang
You never told me how quickly my life would end Continue reading You
November 12, 2009
 —-(This is a re-post of my column today. Thought you guys might like to see it. the actual blog post is here)—-
I just got an email from the New York Times; along with my weekly subscription, I get a “free” electronic edition. Even though I only get the Sunday paper (which comes on Sunday and Saturday, for some reason), I have the electronic edition every day of the week, “a $174 value!” And you guys are giving it away for free?
The “free model?”
Sure, because the “free model” works. The free model is a business model where a company gives away the content, but sells advertising. As it turns out there is quite a bit of money in the free model, especially for Google who has mastered it. However, there doesn’t seem to be as much for others who try. That doesn’t stop them trying of course, hence, the NYT is letting me know I am getting a $174 freebie.
The only problem is that the electronic version of the New York times that they’re offering is a picture of today’s paper. Page for page, ad for ad, but without the wrinkles and grimy news print. You can’t crunch it up and stuff it in your clothes for insulation, but otherwise, it’s all there.
I see some difficulty with that. As an illustration, try holding up one double leafed page of the Times to the monitor of your computer. It’s a little bigger than the monitor, isn’t it? If it’s not, and you have a monitor that big, congratulations. I envy you.
The rest of us will have to scroll back and forth, up and down, page by page until we’re blind, too tired or somehow satisfied. This is a classic mistake for utilizing new technologies; trying to stuff an old format into the new one. Continue reading Electronic publishing
November 4, 2009
Have you been wondering how not to make marketing blunders when it comes to your website and online? [...]
October 28, 2009
Have you been wondering how to market yourself? How about how to market a business? I discovered there’s a way to help market yourself that many people seem to overlook. [...]
October 14, 2009
What are your customers saying about your products or services? Are you sharing your customer testimonials with your future customers and clients? [...]
October 7, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Books, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Wellness
 Carl Jung Now here is another brain teaser for your therapist, or should I say mind teaser, the notion of curing someone with depression. Sadly, this is one of the most common causes of problems in marriages, and while we look for help from the professionals they take advantage of that vulnerability with a platform that doesn’t get to the root causes of depression. All the while, we spend about $12 billion a year on therapy and $15 billion on pharmacology drugs to treat “mental illnesses”, particularly depression.
I even find it hilarious that there is an ad on TV promoting a drug called Abilify that begins by stating that 2/3rds of people suffering from depression still have depression symptoms after taking traditional “medicine”, in essence admitting the inability of the medical approach to curing people. After all, our “mental illnesses” are biologically based, hence the medical approach to a “cure”, and there is really nothing that can be done mentally.
But there was a psychologist who actually did cure people, the one-time heir apparent to Freud by the name of Carl Jung. I refer to Jung as the greatest psychologist who ever lived basically because of the fact that his objective was to cure his patients.
Let me relate to you one of his patients whom he did cure, a patient suffering from depression. Ironically, the professionals of his day actually diagnosed her with Schizophrenia. Boy I can imagine the response from the professionals if I would have titled this post “Curing Schizophrenia”, because as most people realize after 100 years of propagating the biology conclusion, Schizophrenia is incurable. Continue reading Curing Depression
September 23, 2009
Today any and everyone can create a web presence online overnight. Yes! You can have a web presence overnight. However the key is this, doing it right. [...]
September 18, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Books, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Life Experiences, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Personal Experiences, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Wellness, Women's Perspective
 Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage If you would like to get your therapist’s head spinning ask him or her what it means to be cured and watch as your therapist struggles to answer that question. The unfortunate reality is the psychology industry, with its biological foundation, has not yet defined what it means to be mentally cured. What makes this notion even more amazing, is the rest of us as a society knows the answer to this question, to be happy with yourself. To clarify, though, individual happiness has nothing to do with the level of wealth or looks, but is an internal quality where the individual finds balance in his or her perception of self against the backdrop of the rest of society.
I wanted to discuss one psychological problem to demonstrate my point, the notion of alcoholism. Modern medical definitions describe alcoholism as a diseaseand addiction which results in a persistent use of alcohol despite negative consequences. The Journal of the American Medical Association defines alcoholism as “a primary, chronic disease characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking.” According to Wikipedia it is estimated that 9% of the general population is predisposed to alcoholism based on genetic factors.
In other words, alcoholism is defined as a biological disease defined by the genetic makeup of the individual. Alcoholics Anonymous’ basic text, known as the “Big Book,” describes alcoholism as an illness that involves a physical allergy and a mental obsession. And of course the mental obsession occurs because of the biological makeup of the brain. Because of this definition there is no attempt on the professionals part to “cure” the alcoholic. In fact, the 12-step program in AA basically teaches people that they have a disease and must give their lives up to God to manage their disease, despite the fact that the fourth step involves clarifying those experiences from the past that have caused the mental problems in the first place, in what is called the “moral inventory”. Continue reading Curing Alcoholism
September 3, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Books, Creative Writing, Fiction, Freelance Author, Journalism, Literature, Marketing, Poetry, Publishing, Short Stories, The Writer's Corner, Writing Essentials
When you are ready to publish your book, how many copies should you order? The numbers may surprise you. [...]
August 25, 2009
I’m just letting parent with children as young as five to listen to my radio interview on the Author Show. Will be posted for the time Monday Aug. 31st.
http://www.theauthorsshow.com/
Also set up a story telling event on Sept/22nd for third and forth graders.
I was wondering on just how people would read this? [...]
August 21, 2009
Posted by AngelaPoseyArnold in: Accountability, Attitude, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Books, Family, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Healthcare, Inspiration & Motivation, Marriage, Medical, Relationships, Religion, Social Aspects, Social Issues, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wellness, Women's Perspective, Working Women, Workplace
By the time she arrived he had seen, diagnosed, and treated at least ten patients sometimes forgetting to charge them. Francie arrived to find her work cut out for her for the day. They worked all day sometimes without a break until dark, or until the last patient was seen whichever came first. [...]
August 19, 2009
Today, I’m sharing with you symptoms that are harming to many entrepreneurs, authors and small business. [...]
July 22, 2009
Email book marketing is found to be one of the best strategies when it comes to effective and low cost book marketing. Due to the fact, it is the most practical and has the best reputation in generating targeted traffic to websites. [...]
July 16, 2009
Have you screamed, “I need traffic to my website!”? With over 500 million Google searches taking place daily: How do you get traffic to your website? [...]
July 5, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Books, Creative Writing, Education, Entertainment, Family, Fiction, Freelance Author, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Interview, Journalism, Literature, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Self-Help, Short Stories, The Media, Writing Essentials
Nearly 81 percent of people say they have a book inside them. It’s in their hearts, minds, and soul; but unfortunately, it never seems to develop in pen. Most of these people feel their life story or an event in their life is worthy of becoming a book—and they may be right.
Why then don’t we write our special and unique story? Are we afraid of failure? Do we feel we just don’t have the time? Whatever the reason, we can overcome it. So what if it does take you five years to complete your manuscript? And what is failure anyway? If you sit down and spend one hour a week writing what’s been festering in your heart for years, would you consider that failure? I would define it as true commitment, a healthy outlet, and an expression of your being; far from failure.
Writing doesn’t have to be a full-time job; in fact, it shouldn’t feel like a job at all. Set aside an hour a week to write. You have a story to tell and there is sure to be someone who would be interested in reading it. Even if you never publish your story or make it available to the public, writing it will be an accomplishment to be proud of. Continue reading Should I Write My Life Story?
July 1, 2009
Almost everyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of book marketing and internet marketing is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. [...]
June 10, 2009
E-books are the future and the future is now. Have you been wondering how to write an ebook or how to make an ebook? [...]
May 29, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Publishing, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
 Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage We know from Darwin’s theory of evolution that the notion of development elicits controversy from many intellectual corners. If we think about the notion of development through to its conclusion then many established organizations lose their grip on us as individuals. This question becomes extremely important in relationships.
We need to look no further than our corporate environments to get a real sense for the answer to this question, for corporations live and die by the notion of development. The following excerpt from “Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage” addresses just that question, and the perspective of two very influential organizations on our lives. The question is whether we as individuals develop or not?
Do we develop or not, that is the question?
GE’s involvement as a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index tells us so much about this most important question. Two men, Charles Dow and Edward Jones, who had started a newspaper company devoted entirely to covering business news, began publishing the newspaper The Wall Street Journal in 1884, developed the DJIA in 1896. The DJIA index was invented as a gauge of the success of our economy. Continue reading Book Excerpt: Do We Develop or Not?
May 20, 2009
Content is king. You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Internet marketing medium today. Internet surfers just can’t get enough of information on various topics and subjects. Providing information through these articles is a surefire way to drive traffic to almost any website. [...]
May 11, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Advice, Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Business, Business Management, Communications, Computers, Creative Writing, Education, Fiction, Freelance Author, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Journalism, Literature, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Publishing, Self-Help, Short Stories, The Media, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized, Website Instructions, Women's Perspective, Working Women, Writing Essentials
When new authors write non-fiction, they will often base their subject matter on personal experiences. One mistake commonly made, is the over use of the word “I” in the beginning of sentences. “I know this because I’ve been there, done that.” Or, “I did it this, or that way.” Over use of “I” can make your work sound self-absorbing; not something you should want to portray to your readers—especially if your plans include a follow-up edition. Try finding other words to begin your sentences, such as, “Having learned my self, I tried it this way, and it seemed to work.”
Another word or “phrase” really, to avoid beginning a sentence with, “Oh, by the way,…” Before you add this to your text, sit back and decide if it is really necessary to make your point. “I went to the grocery store and they don’t have beans. Oh, by the way, they didn’t have rice either.” Instead, how about, “When I went to the grocery store they didn’t have beans or rice.” Play with your sentences and try to hone in on your creativity.
“You should try fishing on the Rouge River.” Sounds a bit like your insisting I do what you ask. How about, “Fishing on the Rouge River is great.” It’s okay to address your reader in a personal manner, but overuse of the same word, such as, “you,” might begin to sound aggressive in tone; try sounding more suggestive rather than forceful. Continue reading Non-Fiction Writing—Avoiding the I, Oh and You
May 9, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Creative Writing, Entertainment, Fiction, Publishing, Social Issues, Sociology, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized
In a time when Kirstie Alley is on the cover of People Magazine for gaining eighty seven pounds.  Elizabeth Edwards rules the airwaves with a book that promises to dish dirt on her husbands affair and possible love child–do we care about the novelist who puts it all on the line?We better. It’s our only chance for great stories.
Novelists starve, they endure, they barely make it for years. You are always presented with a choice. Keep doing this wrenching wonderful thing or take the easier road like so many before and get a regular job. It is the writers plight to hang by a thread, a nanosecond away from oblivion as you send out your hundredth query, write that final chapter, begin that new story. We hear of the starving artist. For many this is true. The difference is in that moment when you think you can go no further, when truly oblivion seems a better way and nothing good will come of your labor–the difference is the writer who then takes it all and puts it on the line for one last shot and then puts themselves into the writing. That moment when there is nothing left to lose–that is when the possibility of something great quivers on the horizon. Rex Pickett, the author of the novel and movie, Sideways, hit that moment.
“I thought this was it. I’m going to cash it in,” he said on the phone, speaking in a quick staccato voice. “There I was. Rejection letters plastered all over the apartment, divorced, broke, my mother in the hospital, my agent had just died of AIDS, I was in a rent controlled apartment and I still couldn’t pay the rent…a few produced movie shorts, rejected screenplays, novels…but nothing had worked….that’s when I sat down to write Sideways…and it literally saved my life.”
What happened then was a nine week writing marathon that left him exhausted but thrilled.
“I started with this place I went for wine tasting called The Bull Pen…I wanted to write this short story…so while I was writing it this epiphany struck me and I got out of my chair and came up with the idea of Jack and Miles heading up to the wine country for a last hurrah…that was it, I knew I had the book.” Continue reading Between Enthusiasm and Money–Interview with Rex Pickett Author of Sideways
May 8, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
 Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage Here is the most significant point made in the entire book, transference causes divorce. This one single point can probably do more than any other to motivate couples to learn how to move their relationships in the right direction. And for the first time ever on a public forum, you can read what I am talking about. For the first time a psychological cause of divorce is explained.
The following link was one of the stops on my blog tour on relationships, where I visited Blogging Authors to discuss this very important point. To view the link please visit:
Transference Causes Divorce
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009
April 29, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Advice, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Literature, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
 Tim Kellis, Author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage" I want to pose to you one of the most significant questions needed to understand before we are going to solve our marriage problem. Are we biological beasts or psychological beings? Unfortunately the belief within the mainstream teachings of the psychology industry is that we are nothing more than biological beasts. The industry still experiments on animals to try to extrapolate behavior in humans.
Are we biological beasts or psychological beings?
It is impossible to completely explain the significance of going the biology route instead of the psychology route. The hypothesis that our behavior is driven by our biological needs implies we are born with our problems and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. The notion that our psyche is psychologically driven implies we can learn and we can think, or develop.
In other words, the biological concept holds we are born with our brain pre-wired and that our psychological development occurs when our experiences activate the pre-wired neurons and synapses creating behavior. Or put another way, the biological conclusion would lead psychologists to claim that our understanding of the use of the computer occurs because we are born with the knowledge of how to use the computer and we simply must use the computer and these pre-wired neurons and synapses become activated, giving us the understanding of the use of the computer, to behave by using the computer. Continue reading Book Excerpt: Are We Biological Beasts or Psychological Beings?
April 21, 2009
Book marketing in social networks can help or damage your results. It’s about providing value rather than selfishly book marketing and book promoting. [...]
April 1, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Book Marketing Online, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner
 Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage" Hello
The month of April is upon us and I would like to invite you for a Blog Tour I will be doing this month, and next. The focus on the tour will be relationships, and the discussion is sure to be lively.
I want to begin by thanking Dorothy Thompson at Pump Up Your Book Promotion (http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com/) for her tireless work over the last 2 months putting this Blog Tour together.
She already has the month of April filled up, and is sure to have a full lineup for May too.
Our first stop is going to be Lessons from a Recovering Doormat. Please join us on April 1st at http://www.lessonsfromarecoveringdoormat.com/ to participate at our first stop. Continue reading Blog Tour on Relationships with Relationship Expert Tim Kellis
March 28, 2009
JA Konrath & Jack Kilborn Cornered By Rob Walker (an interview and a reunion)
Today I want to welcome to Speak Without Interruption the indomitable JA Konrath, author of the bestselling Jackie Daniels series begun with Whiskey Sour and Bloody Mary and Rusty Nail and Fuzzy Navel. We discuss pen names here at this our humble niche of the internet. Konrath is the author of six thrillers in the Jack Daniels series, all named after drinks. He also has now a new book coming out this month–AFRAID, a horror novel, under the pen name Jack Kilborn. It is called Afraid for good reason! Will anyone come out of this novel alive? Fast paced and a wild ride it rivals anything Stephen King (or anyone int he King family) has written. You can visit Joe/Jack at http://www.jakonrath.com/. Continue reading Interview at gunpoint with J.A. Konrath aka Jack Kilborn: be AFRAID
March 25, 2009
Can you use free book marketing website promotion? Is that even feasible? [...]
March 23, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Creative Writing, Education, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner, Women's Perspective
Hello.
I wanted to share with you a recent book review by Bettie Corbin Tucker from Independent Book Reviewers. To view the review online please visit the following link:
“Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage” Book Review
If you would like to pick up a copy of the book you can get it for a 20% discount at the following link:
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 "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"
Equality
The Quest for the Happy Marriage
Tim Kellis
Gilgamesh Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-9799848-0-8
440 pages
When I began reading Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage, by Tim Kellis, I expected to read a typical counseling book such as those that fill the shelves of bookstores. Most of these are written by experts in the field of counseling who have degrees in psychology, psychiatry, or pastoral ministries. I was totally wrong in regard to the word “typical.” This book delves deep into the mind, reminding readers of historical happenings, successful businesses, politics, education, religion, family backgrounds, and the scientific work of many individuals, all which, according to the author’s findings, can unlock some of the mysteries as to what is behind the 50 percent divorce rate among couples who promised to love one another “for better or worse.” Continue reading Book Review by Bettie Corbin Tucker from Independent Book Reviewers
March 20, 2009
Preflight
My father is a traveling salesman, that peculiar brand of Willy Loman
that actually loves the natural flight of American selling. When I was
a boy, I thought of him as a man who appeared on Fridays when we
had a steak and ice cream for dessert. After dinner, my father would
watch whatever football game was on television and fall asleep with his
mouth open, tie loosened, hand over his brow as if he had just finished
one hell of a race. I usually waited until he woke to tell him of my latest
achievement and show him my banana bike and collection of baseball
cards. But I had a brother who demanded his small time with him also,
so when my time came, it was usually just before he ran for his car,
briefcase in hand, and waved away another week. Continue reading Preflight
March 11, 2009
When it comes to learning how to market your book online, you want to find people who are ready to act or make a purchase, and this requires subtle tinkering of your keywords until your find the most specific and directly targeted phrases to bring the most motivated traffic to your site. [...]
March 5, 2009
Posted by TimKellis in: Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Communications, Current Events, Education, Family, General Topics, Health & Fitness, Inspiration & Motivation, Lifestyle, Marriage, Men's Issues, Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Philosophical Genres, Relationships, Self-Help, Social Issues, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner
Tim Kellis, author of "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage"
My biggest influence, and the reason I have taken on the challenge of saving marriages, were my parents, who again just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. And their influence wasn’t because of anything they ever said to me, [...]
March 4, 2009
Your keywords serve as the foundation of your online book marketing strategy. If they are not chosen with great precision, no matter how aggressive your book marketing campaign may be, the right people may never get the chance to find out about it. [...]
February 26, 2009
A true viral book marketing campaign gets forwarded because consumers are compelled to do so by the glory of the content, not because you bribed them with a free gift or something else. [...]
February 22, 2009
Posted by Author 101 in: Biography & Memoir, Book Marketing Online, Book Review, Business, Business Management, Communications, Computers, Creative Writing, Education, Entertainment, Fiction, Freelance Author, General Topics, Inspiration & Motivation, Journalism, Literature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Publishing, Self-Help, Short Stories, Social Issues, The Media, The Writer's Corner, Uncategorized, Writing Essentials
One of the most commonly asked questions of new authors is “Should I copyright my work?” Authors are concerned their work might be stolen by some smuck (sorry, couldn’t think of a better descriptive word) who reprints their work and claims authorship for it. Well, the truth is, it could be. But whether filing a legal copyright will make a difference; that’s uncertain. [...]
February 10, 2009
How is it possible to sell your own self-published book with 692.3 million books reported by Nielson BookScan as being sold in 2007? This is a 5% increase from the previous year. [...]
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