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Book Award Deadlines for Self-Publishing Authors

26 Oct

Registration deadlines for the winter season book awards are fast approaching:

Reader Views Literary Awards – November 12th, 2009
Benjamin Franklin Awards – November 30th, 2009
ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award – December 17th, 2009

Outskirts Press published authors can purchase any of these a-la-carte award submission options or select the package and save 25% on all 6 award contests throughout the year.  Enjoy maximum convenience by allowing us to submit your book to 6 recognized, vetted, and legitimate book award contests, some of which offer major cash and prizes (Writer’s Digest and Foreword) and all of which offer the chance  for extra exposure, recognition, and the chance to claim “award-winning” during your marketing efforts.  Click here for more information about the Book Award Submissions Package.

It used to be that simply having a published book was indicative of supremely high quality, but now that self-publishing is available for everyone, winning a book award is one of the most powerful and effective ways you can make your book stand above the crowd. With so many book awards and contests available, Outskirts Press has pre-screened and vetted 6 contests. Outskirts Press can facilitate the submission details to all these contests for you. With your purchase of this package and your eligible book, we will handle all the details, including

  • the award submission fee
  • registering your book with the contest
  • sending them each the necessary review copies of your book
  • accurately and completely filling out the necessary entry forms
  • selecting the most appropriate category for your book (if we’re not sure, we’ll ask you)
  • shipping and handling costs of your book to each of the contest’s multiple judges

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Posted by on October 26, 2009 in Marketing Packages

 

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Self-Publishing Spotlight: Looking for Closure

18 Sep
In Looking for Closure, The Theresa Ferrara Story, Maria Stewart chronicles her decade’s long investigation into the true story of her aunt’s disappearance in 1979.  This real life, true crime thriller offers important new details on a case that captured the city of New York in fear, during the aftermath of the largest heist in New York’s history.  Theresa was believed to be the main informer for the Feds on the mafia’s involvement in the heist and other drug related crimes.  The newspaper headlines for months speculated on Theresa’s involvement and possible death, and provided inspiration for characters in the movies Goodfellas and Ten Million Dollar Getaway.
On the afternoon of February 10, 1979, Theresa Ferrara got off the phone at Apple Hair Cutters on Long Island, NY, and told her niece she’d be back in ten minutes.  She was leaving briefly “to make an easy $10,000.” 

She was never seen again, but three months later a body identified as hers was discovered with no arms, no legs and no head.

Was she killed over her involvement in the Mafia’s legendary Lufthansa heist – the biggest in history?  Was she murdered in connection with the rumors of her being an informant in New York drug deals?  Was her death, ruled by the FBI a homicide, due to other circumstances altogether?

For more than twenty years Theresa Ferrara’s oldest niece, Maria Stewart, carried on a brave, thorough investigation of her beloved aunts disappearance using police and court records, newspaper reports, interviews, and new forensic technology.   Over the years she probed every tidbit of information she could unearth, from mysterious phone calls suggesting that her aunt was still alive to a psychic’s intriguing statements.

As with some truths that are even stranger than fiction, Maria Stewart reveals in Looking for Closure the long suppressed secrets of corruption and lies that she uncovered and that are even more shocking than what she first imagined possible.

The incredible facts that Maria Stewart discovers about the life of her aunt – a life she thought she knew – accentuate the flaws in the original inquiry into Theresa Ferrara’s disappearance and death and suggest the urgent need for a renewed investigation.

 About the Author: Maria Stewart is the oldest niece of Theresa Ferrara. At age 40, after examining every piece of her aunt’s case, she uncovered major discrepancies in the investigation, prompting a new look at what actually happened to her aunt. Stewart has three children and lives on Long Island, New York.

This author purchased the Book Blast package and saved 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast her book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the author’s center.

 

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Posted by on September 18, 2009 in Author Spotlight

 

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