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Self-Publishing Book Spotlight: The Answer: A Journey from Anger to Peace by Allison Wynn

Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Allison Wynn’s The Answer: A Journey from Anger to Peace.

In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Allison Wynn, innovatively starts her readers off with the clever, but startling prompt: “How do you want to feel on the last day of your life?”

Wynn’s accessible narrative begins with Eric McPhearson stopping off at his favorite coffee shop for a pick-me-up before work. He is an angry man. His marriage is non-existent; his career seems on the rocks. While sipping his coffee, he spots and starts reading a stranger’s journal left on a table.

What he reads in the fine, leather bound journal suddenly silences all the anger inside him. He undergoes a breakthrough in his troubled marriage and his work, and he begins to live a happier, more peaceful existence.

Like Eric, the readers of The Answer will begin to explore the roots of the conflicts they’re experiencing in their relationships, and through the book’s simple, resonating message begin to make peace with those relationships. While that is sometimes easier said than done, Wynn acknowledges, her process does work and does restore the power of choice to create changes in one’s life.

Allison Wynn has spent thirty years as a professional in leadership effectiveness, personal empowerment coaching and family and relationship development. The two questions she’s been asked the most, she writes, are “How do I deal with anger in either myself or others?” and “How do I create a more peaceful life?”

This guide was written from her experience in helping others to find a practical way to answer those questions.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Allison Wynn has spent 30 years helping people create more peaceful lives. The two questions she’s been asked the most are, “How do I deal with anger in either myself or others,” and, “How do I create a more peaceful life?” She lives in Mission Viejo, Calif.

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/theanswer.

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Triple Treat of Free Options for Authors Self-Publishing with Outskirts Press in May

The May Triple Treat for Diamond and Peal package authors includes a free Book Video Teaser that authors can upload to their YouTube accounts, a free Library of Congress Control Number to give readers access to new books throughout the United States library system, and a free Espresso Book Machine® edition to make their hardcopy book available at Espresso printing machines in universities and libraries across the planet.

Book Video TeaserThe Book Video Teaser is a fast, flashy way to announce the publication of an author’s book on all the most popular Internet video and networking sites. Outskirts Press produces a professional quality, thirty second long video that features the book title, the author byline, the cover, a photo of the author, the retail price — all dramatically displayed to the accompaniment of background music.

The author is provided with an .mp4 Book Video Teaser file that the author can easily use to launch the book’s viral video promotion. Some of the most popular video sharing sites that authors use today to announce their book’s publication are YouTube, Myspace, Metacafe, Daily Motion, Live Video and Viddler.

Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN)The Library of Congress Control Number helps facilitate the distribution of a new title through the entire United States’ library system. Outskirts Press will take care of all the administrative paperwork and acquire the number for the author, print it on the book’s copyright page in the standard format and submit the required number of copies of the book to the Library of Congress offices after publication. The Library of Congress is a broad distribution channel available for new books which is frequently overlooked by first time authors.

Espresso Book Machine EditionThe third “treat” in Outskirts Press’ May promotion is an Espresso Book Machine® edition. Billed by Time Magazine as the “invention of the year,” the Espresso Book Machine® is a revolutionary automated book-making machine that provides an immediate and direct-to-consumer distribution channel. A consumer walks up to the machine, selects a title to print and presses a button. Within a few minutes a full color cover, perfect bound edition of the book, indistinguishable from the publisher’s version, is delivered right into the reader’s hands.

These literary ATM machines have been set up in select universities and libraries in this country and abroad and provide convenient and immediate world wide distribution for an author’s work. Espresso Book Machines® are in the New York Public Library, the University of Michigan library, the World Bank InfoShop in Washington, DC, the London Newsstand, UK, and the Melbourne, Australia, Angus and Robertson Bookstore, just to name a few of the current locations.

Authors can take advantage of this May promotion by using the promotion code “3FREE2012” when ordering the Diamond or Pearl publishing packages at http://outskirtspress.com/p/diamond or http://outskirtspress.com/p/pearl, respectively.

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Self-Publishing Book Spotlight: A Life of Courage and Love by Mark S. Foster

Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Mark S. Foster’s A Life of Courage and Love.

In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Mark S. Foster, tells the remarkable story of a woman who agreed to be an “experiment” as an early kidney transplant recipient and went on to become the world’s longest living diabetic kidney transplant survivor, all the while working tirelessly to provide hope to other kidney transplant patients and to the blind.

Marcia Lortscher’s early years showed no signs of the exceptional life she was eventually destined to live. She was born and raised in a comfortable, conservative middle class Catholic family in Denver and she finished college before the 1970’s feminist revolution. She then explored several different career paths before marrying in her late twenties.

Then fate intervened. Marcia had been diagnosed a diabetic at age ten, but just after she married, her kidneys failed. She had been looking forward to settling comfortably into a conventional housewife’s role, but instead doctors suddenly began measuring her life expectancy in weeks. So serious was her condition that her doctors initially demurred at performing a kidney transplant.

She was finally accepted for the operation as an “experiment” and she ultimately became the longest living diabetic kidney transplant patient, surviving for thirty-six years.

Marcia experienced an endless array of harrowing medical problems and she went blind in her early forties, but she devoted her life to serving others through volunteerism. She and her husband had no biological children of their own, but they became surrogate parents to well over a hundred young people whom they called their “kids.” Marcia’s continuing work on behalf of other social service groups eventually brought her widespread recognition as one of the nation’s most valued volunteers.

Although this exceptional woman was uncomfortable with being singled out for praise and disliked being called an “inspiration,” readers of A Life of Courage and Love may decide that that label is, in fact, totally appropriate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mark S. Foster is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he taught for 33 years. He was named both teacher of the year and researcher of the year and has published eleven books previously, including works on urban transportation, city planning and the automobile culture in the United States; five biographies, including Henry J. Kaiser, Carl G. Fisher and Quigg Newton; and works on the history of baseball.

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/alifeofcourageandlove.

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Indie Books Dominate Amazon ‘Movers & Shakers’ Ranking

Self-published authors, take heart: Readers are receptive to your work.

In fact, according to the Huffington Post (“Why You Can’t Find Indies in Bookstores,” April 12, 2012),
lovers of literature are scooping up self-published books in unprecedented numbers. So-called “indie” authors recently claimed more than half of the top 20 spots on Amazon’s “Movers & Shakers” list. The list, which is updated hourly, ranks books that rose most quickly in sales over the last 24 hours.

It wasn’t so long ago that self-published authors just didn’t seem to get any love. So why the change of heart? In short, readers recognize a good value when they see one. Self-published ebooks tend to be less expensive than big publishing house offerings, and thanks to author services such as those provided by Outskirts Press, their quality is comparable.

Another factor pushing self-published authors up the sales ladder is the availability of promotional tools and services that weren’t as accessible or as easy or cheap to utilize in the days before the dawn of the Internet. Readers fear what they don’t know. The more self-publish authors like you get the word out about their work, the more those works will be appreciated — and the more they’ll sell!

Learn more about increasing book sales by reading more Outskirts Press’ self-publishing and author inspiration blogs and by visiting the Outskirts Press website to get familiar with what services are available to self-published authors.

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Top 10 Best-Selling Books in Self-Publishing for March 2012

Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, today announced its top ten best-selling titles for March 2012 according to combined data from Ingram Book Wholesalers and Outskirts Press Direct via http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore. These authors have likely created a solid book promotion strategy and put it into motion either by themselves or with the help of a Personal Marketing Assistant.

In alphabetical order, the top ten best-selling books in self publishing during the month of March 2012 were:

Congratulations to our best-selling authors for the month of March 2012!

How can you get your book on the bestseller list? While we can’t make any guarantees on sales success, many of our most successful authors invest time and money in marketing themselves and their book. Authors who are needing a bit of a marketing boost often turn to a Personal Marketing Assistant for help.

All of these books (and other Outskirts Press titles) are available from all major online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books A Million, and others, plus conveniently from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore for discounts ranging from 10% – 55%.

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Self-Publishing Book Spotlight: A Glimpse Into the Inner Workings of My God by Michael L. Watson

Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Michael L. Watson’s A Glimpse Into the Inner Workings of My God.

In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Michael L. Watson, shows how the outdated and counter-productive dogma of today’s organized religions discriminates against all non-believers and against any believers who tend to be different and often overlooks the importance of women in God’s universe.

Today the media embellishes the thoughts of scientific geniuses such as Stephen Hawking and Craig Venter in their rush to heighten their celebrity status, but by doing so they lower the value that God plays in the sanity of this universe. For those struggling to find some moral conscience in a world full of economic and political unrest and natural disasters, organized religions no longer provide the spiritual and pragmatic support to parishioners made uncertain by this endless assault of “bad news.”

Believers and non-believers alike want to know why the endless strife of the world creates more pain and suffering than does transitory spiritual joy. They want to know if God created evolution or if evolution created God and they want to know if there is any other reason than blind faith to believe in an afterlife.

In A Glimpse into the Inner Workings of My God Watson chronicles his thirty year spiritual journey overcoming challenges to his health and to his human frailty and offers his readers a new understanding of a personal relationship with God that will bring them an inner peace in this world at war with itself.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Michael L. Watson is an inspirational author whose life has been nothing short of exceptional. Michael was raised by a divorced, always working, tough-loving mom who placed God first in their tiny, cramped apartment and put Michael through disciplined parochial education. Following in God’s ordered steps, Michael weathered more than his share of life’s endless struggles. For almost 30 years, with a “thy will be done” attitude, he overcame such life threatening health challenges as uncontrollable hemorrhaging, Tuberculosis, and Stage IV Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. With a Bachelors Degree in Health Care Administration, this proud father of seven college-educated children spent over 50 years experiencing life to perfect his reality-based personal relationship with God.

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/aglimpseintotheinnerworkingsofmygod.

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Did You Know …? Notable Self-published Classics

What do “The Bridges of Madison County,” “The Joy of Cooking,” and “The Christmas Box” have in common? You guessed it! They were all self-published.

Today, the authors of these and many other self-published books can wax nostalgic about the old days of self-publishing: selling out of car trunks, hawking stacks at every bookstore within a hundred miles of home, and staring at more than a few slammed doors.

In those days – right up until recent years, really – many writers viewed self-publishing as a last resort. It was the only avenue left once all the big (and small) publishing houses rejected their work. These days, independent publishing is a viable first option, offering authors complete freedom and autonomy over their work at relatively little risk.

Today, authors can rely on a number of convenient online services and tools to help them polish their work and package it for mass consumption. And, with a whole world of online publishing opportunities available to them, good, creative writers who play their cards right can reach more people than early self-publishers could ever have imagined.

Times have changed, and we have innovative authors such as Robert James Waller, Irma Rombauer and Richard Paul Evans to thank for blazing a trail and changing perceptions.

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Self-Publishing Book Spotlight: Highway Odyssey by Alexander Flint

Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Alexander Flint’s Highway Odyssey.

In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Alexander Flint, reinforces for readers what really matters in life and how important it is to tell the ones we love how much they mean to us.

Flint’s first trip was in 1978 when he and his seven year old his son set out in their customized van to drive from New York to Colorado with their eyes set on the adventures of the road. Little did either know that that first summer trip would start a twenty year tradition that would make Flint’s son eligible for setting a Guinness world record. Nor did they realize how close these treks would bring them to each other.

Highway Odyssey tells of treacherous moments, such as when father and son backpacked across the snowfields of the Grand Tetons and had to climb over a closed mountain pass to reach Hurricane Pass and then descend down into the Alaska Basin. It also reveals moments of candid introspection and consequent revelation, such as the trip that should have been merely a short visit with old friends, but turned instead into an unexpected increase in understanding by the author of his role and his responsibility as a single parent still struggling with the failure of his marriage.

Flint’s tale is far more than a fascinating travelogue of the western United States, although it is that, too. It also reveals the healing power of travel itself as well as the unyielding strength of family bonds forged on the road.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alexander Flint is a native New Yorker and retired New York City high school teacher. He is also a retired military officer, having served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. His previous books are The Frozen Dozen (Rutledge Books, 2002) and Stress Survival (Xlibris, 2006). Flint edited his father’s memoirs, The Way It Was: From Second Avenue to Staten Island (Xlibris, 2005). The father of five children and six grandchildren, Flint lives on Staten Island, New York, and Hollywood Beach, Florida.

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/highwayodyssey.

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Outskirts Press Author Nathan Seven Scott’s Book Featured on Wendy Williams Show


Wendy Williams, the acclaimed Queen of Media/Queen of Radio recently featured an Outskirts Press author’s book live on the air. The book: MY TURN by Nathan Seven Scott.

Self-publishing authors, like any other author, often hope to achieve some level of notoriety for their work. The ultimate? Being featured on a national television show.

The praises Wendy gave the book can be found at the front of Nathan’s book video here:

Wow! That’s a pretty big deal. Because we know that many authors find their inspiration from others, we asked Nathan to share a little bit about his book and how he got his book into the hands of the Queen of Media. Here’s what he had to say:


OP: Tell us a little bit about My Turn. What is it about?

Hotshot reporter Courtney R. Knight lands the opportunity of a lifetime to head the social media division at a high-profile media firm. Drama, mystery and murder unfold when he gets caught up between rival moguls, a jealous ex-lover and a host of colorful characters amidst the electrifying backdrop of New York City.

OP: Why did you decide to write this story?

I’m a fan of the Showtime series Dexter. When I created this story, it was essentially a cross between my own hunger to become a successful media mogul infused with murder. I wrote the story to challenge myself. Once I got started, there was no turning back. My editor advised me to make it a trilogy, so I did and now I have two others in the works.

OP: What types of readers would be interested in this story?

Readers who will enjoy this story are people who want a fast paced page-turner about sex, murder and power.

OP: What is special about your book? What differentiates it from other books in the same category?

The book is special because it’s a new story. People who have read My Turn thus far have told me they have never experienced anything like it. The story allows readers to get a slice of what I call The Rotten Apple, New York City.

OP: Have you published any other books? Do you plan to publish more?

My Turn is my very first novel. The goal is to produce several other novels, after completing the trilogy.

OP: How did Wendy Williams get a copy of your book?

One day, I thought it would be a good idea to send Wendy Williams a copy of the book and as fate had it, she read it and the rest is history. I was excited to know that she thoroughly enjoyed it.

OP: What advice do you have for new budding authors?

Once I discovered that I could publish my own book through Outskirts Press, I knew that anything was possible. If I had to give any advice, it would be to put your best pen forward and write. Be sure to find a good editor and someone who believes in their story. Don’t be afraid to put your work out there because someone will read it.

OP: Congratulations on this exciting accomplishment, Nathan! We look forward to your next one!

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Self-Publishing Book Spotlight: Race War by La-Temus Marshall

Self-publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring La-Temus Marshall’s Race War.

In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, La-Temus Marshall, uses the dramatic tale of two U.S. politicians trying to turn back the hands of time in America for their own racist agenda in a riveting fictional vehicle that shows readers the dangers of ever allowing racism and separatism to prevail.

Race War starts off not far from the reality of today. The American economy is in shambles. Crime and unemployment are at an all time high. Then, as things worsen, many cities move to the verge of anarchy. Blacks suddenly begin to blame whites for allowing America to lose its place as a world leader. Whites have already been blaming blacks for the decline.

Two U.S. congressmen hide behind this racial confusion and use their influence and powerful friends to stockpile weapons for the white race after a majority of federal lawmakers vote to change the Constitution, dissolve the United States of America and give each race its own territory.

As the blacks — themselves now armed – and the whites wage war against each other and start to take heavy casualties, a Chinese-Russian federation is quietly being formed. It begins to build its own armed force and to prepare for attack in order to take advantage of the disruption and take over what was formerly a unified, and impregnable America.

Race War shows that what makes America great is the appreciation of one culture and race for another. When Americans live and work together in harmony toward a common goal, the country is, in fact, indivisible, and freedom and justice can become available for all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

La-Temus Marshall is a graduate of Sullivan University and recipient of the Who’s Who Among College Students and the 110 Percent award (now called Student of the Year). He began writing Race War after observing his daughter’s second-grade class, where the children played happily together regardless of skin color. Marshall’s mission is to eradicate racism in the United States, and he is a passionate advocate of the unity of humanity of all colors. He lives and works in the pristine, beautiful city of Lexington, Kentucky.

For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/racewaramericasworstnightmare.

This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the 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 Publishing Center.

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