J. Lesley Graham is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press, and he wants your help deciding on a book cover.
Book Summary: Rogue Warrior
From a Doctor to a Star Warrior Cadet to Rogue Warrior to the Savior of Humanity
Star Warrior Basic Cadet Scarlet Smithe should be on her way to a Star Warrior Advance Cadet School. Instead, she finds herself assigned to a huge junkyard on an arid ball of sand called Home III. Worse, the old curmudgeon in charge tells her to do nothing and stay out of his hair.
Scarlet goes exploring and ends up purchasing Blackbird, an ancient starship. An anomaly is detected while Scarlet is testing the starship’s systems in space. A starship the size of a small planet has entered the Home Star System. An alien species called the Planet Eaters have arrived and will strip Home III of all life, including the old curmudgeon.
Unfortunately, Blackbird is Home III’s only defender. Even though Scarlet realizes attacking the Planet Eater’s starship will be futile and she will probably die, she has no option but to attack the monstrous starship. She is critically wounded early on, but is not only able to destroy the starship, but capture a live Planet Eater.
Scarlet survives. Unfortunately, her long rehab bars her from becoming a Star Warrior and even remaining in Star Service. Thankfully for humanity, she becomes the Rogue Warrior.
About the Author
J. Lesley Graham and Ursula, his wife, live in Wichita Falls, Texas. He enlisted in the United States Air Force a week after graduating from Thomas Carr Howe High School, and retired as a Captain after serving 20 years, 6 months, and 9 days.
J. Lesley has also been a college professor, and a software engineer. He holds a BS in Mathematics, a Masters of Divinity, and a Masters of Software Design and Development. That’s pretty good for someone who has flunked every spelling test he ever took. He can be contacted at JLesley1941@outlook.com
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Kenwyn K. Smith is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press, and he wants your help deciding on a book cover.
Book Summary
Humanity now recognizes we are partway through a transformational epoch that may be even more impactful than the Renaissance. A central feature of this reformation is discovering that all of life is predicated on abundance. Never before has the world been so wealthy. Yet mostly we still feel it is a struggle to survive, largely because our economic system is based on real or artificially created scarcities. The world order has been founded on the economics of scarcity, which is an insufficiently robust architectural edifice given present geopolitical complexities. It needs to be augmented by a financial infrastructure centered on abundance.
About the Author
Kenwyn Smith, professor of organizational behavior at the University of Pennsylvania, is a scholar-practitioner. His work has ranged from schools to prisons, businesses to health care institutions, state-run enterprises to entrepreneurship, pharmaceuticals in Belgium to HIV/AIDS communities in America, from restoring under-resourced black South African townships to supporting livelihood-development in rural India.
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Margaret Watkins is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press, and she wants your help deciding on her book cover.
Book Summary
TIBET. Land of mystery. Or is it still?
The author finds out when an unexpected opportunity takes her across the arid Tibetan plateau and lands her at the foot of Mount Everest.
About the Author
During the decade surrounding this adventure and the writing of this book the author lived in a small cabin in Stanley, Idaho (population 100) with her husband, two horses and two large messy dogs.
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Genesis T. Yengoh is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press, and he wants your help deciding his book cover.
Book Summary:
Nsiemboh Ngoske is the most successful member of his family. Intelligent, educated, and poised on the brink of a career promotion, he has blessed his parents and siblings with wealth and comfort formerly beyond their reach. His parents, Elias and Lydia Ngoske, want to do all they can to protect and support their son. Lydia Ngoske believes in the Christian God—that wonderful heavenly Father who has so much to give, and who asks only prayer and belief of His followers. She prays fervently for protection and favor from God, but she knows that won’t be enough in a world where personal agendas are advanced through the powers of the occult. She demands that her son be protected by traditional medicine, and enlists Elias Ngoske’s brother, Nsanen Jude, to find the most powerful protection available. He recommends Mforme Tata, a renowned traditionalist sought after by the most influential men in the country. He agrees to give the Ngoske family what they want…but inexorable rules govern the world of the occult, and the Ngoskes find that they are given something unexpected, which neither the dark arts nor the Christian God can control. In a compelling, richly atmospheric, beautifully characterized exploration of how belief shapes destiny, God and the Gods draws you into a world of intricate ritual and family love, where one person’s mistake may have irreversible consequences.
About the Author:
Genesis T. Yengoh was born in Oku, in the North West Region of Cameroon. He grew up in Buea, Limbe, Kumbo, and Bamenda. He studied geography at the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon, and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Yaoundé. He went on to study environmental and geospatial sciences as well as physical geography at Lund University. Currently, he lives in Lund, Sweden where he works as a researcher at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies.
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Terell M. Hinton is self-publishing a book with Outskirts Press, and he wants your help deciding on his book cover.
Book Summary
The Table is a short thrill ride that follows a group of young adults through a twisted misadventure. From the beginning of each chapter, you are introduced to select charter from their perspective. What’s suppose to turn into a simple night of shifts into highly energized thrill ride and the uncertainty of if they’ll make it home alive.
About the Author
Terell Hinton is a young man who resides in Metro Detroit. He has always had an interest in creativity, as well as adventuring in the worlds of writing and art. In high-school he often competed in writing contest and art contest, sometimes making well placements. He is still in pursuit of his interest and hopefully this will not be the last story in his journey.
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Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, is pleased to announce its top ten best-selling titles for February 2015, 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 marketing 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 February 2015 were:
Congratulations to our best-selling authors for the month of February 2015!
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 in need 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%.
Are you ready to put a book promotion strategy in place for your self-published book?
Book marketing is one of the most important pieces of being a successful self-publishing author. Outskirts Press is an industry leader in providing post-publication support, products, and services to its growing family of published authors.
Your book is written. Your book is published. Now what? Our list of Top 10 Book Marketing Tactics can help you prioritize your book marketing efforts by providing you with excellent marketing and promotional tactics you should consider pursuing.
These are the marketing products and tactics determined to be most popular by our authors for the month of February 2015, listed below in alphabetical order:
Amazon Kindle Submission Service:Make your book available on Amazon’s Kindle ebook reading device. More formats on Amazon means more exposure on Amazon, and the Kindle is heavily promoted by Amazon.
Barnes & Noble NOOK Submission Service: Millions of books are available on Barnes & Noble’s NOOK. If your book isn’t one of them, you are missing out on tapping a very important, and growing, market of readers.
Book Review Submission Service:Securing positive book reviews is the first step toward building word-of-mouth buzz for your book. In addition to receiving a complimentary copy of your book, the reviewers will also receive a professional cover letter, a coy of your press, and your sales sheet. We take care of all of that for you, including sending the review copy!
Custom Press Release: Have our professional press release writer compose an original, unique press release for your book, submitted to you for your review/approval, and then distributed to our newswire service on your behalf.
Elite E-Book Package:Combine the 3 most popular electronic edition submissions. This package includes formatting and distribution of an Amazon Kindle Edition, an Apple iPad/iPhone Edition, and a Barnes and Noble Nook Edition of your book.
London Book Fair:The London Book Fair is regarded by many as the most important spring publishing event and welcomes tens of thousands of attendees from all over the globe. Capitalize by exposing your book to key industry contacts like acquisitions agents, editors, and translation rights agents.
Personal Marketing Assistant:Do you need help developing a book marketing plan? Arranging book signings? Establishing/developing your author platform? Hire your own Personal Marketing Assistant today!
PR Publicist Campaign:Imagine having a publicist handle your custom press release distribution with targeted distribution and phone call follow-up? Imagine receiving the media leads personally and a clipping service that notifies you whenever your book is mentioned on the Internet.
Outskirts Press Published authors who are interested in any of these (or many of our other available services) can find further details and ordering information from the Marketing Options page of your author’s center.
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Every year during the month of March, Outskirts Press joins indie companies all across the United States in celebrating independent publishers and the talented self-publishing authors we serve. As a self-published author, you’re a pioneer at the cusp of a new era in literature. In fact, nowhere will you find a more eclectic, determined, creative and talented population of artists.
So, claim your rightful recognition! This month of celebration is your opportunity to promote your own self-published book with 31 effective marketing and promotion tactics. Believe it or not, high-quality self-publishing is the easy part; effectively marketing your book once it’s published is the real mark of success as an author.
Throughout the month of March, take a moment each day to make an important step toward successfully marketing your self-published book. Here, we offer one simple tip for each day of the month that will help you advance your book through book marketing efforts:
March 1 – Start up. If you have another manuscript in the works, Small Press Month is the perfect time to take the plunge (again). As you know, Outskirts Press has several convenient, high-quality, full-service publishing packages, one of which is bound to be perfect for your next publishing endeavor.
March 2 – Stock up. Order hard copies of your book today. You’ll need them as you pursue the following 29 marketing and promotion tips.
March 3 – Bone up. Become the local authority on Small Press Month. Do a little research about the history of independent publishing, your publisher (Outskirts Press) and what Small Press Month is all about, then offer yourself as a resource to local media. This will help you build your platform as a local writer and self-publishing author.
March 4 – Connect. Meet with other independent published authors in your area, either in person with a local writers’ guild or online via social media. Hooking up with other authors can enhance marketing results, because you can pool resources and share advice. For example, Outskirts Press already has a growing community of active and passionate fans/followers on Facebook and Twitter, with whom you can connect at any time. There’s a lot to do, and many minds are a better than one.
March 5 – Alert the media. Send a press release to the local media (newspapers, radio, television) mentioning Small Press Month, your knowledge of the industry, your connection to the community and your independently published book(s). If you’ve planned book signings and other events, mention them in the release as well. Your press release should explain what Small Press Month is, why it’s important, what local organizations are doing to celebrate, and how the media can contact you for additional information. Supplement the press release with your sales sheet and/or positive book reviews you have received.
March 6 – Dig up bookworms. Contact local libraries and suggest they feature Small Press titles, including yours. Offer to leave them a free copy, along with your sales sheet, and offer to speak about Small Press Month at a library event. If you’re an Outskirts Press author, your sales sheet can be generated automatically from within your Author Center, and you can update it at any time through your Author Toolkit.
March 7 – Offer a discount. Contact your local bookstores and suggest they offer discounts on Small Press books. Bring discounted copies of your own book to get the ball rolling. Offer to leave them a free copy along with your sales sheet, press release and any promotional materials you have. Ask if you can host an event at their establishment for local independent authors, citing your expertise on the topic of small press.
March 8 – Get schooled. Contact schools in your area and tell them about Small Press Month. Mention that you are a local published author and offer to speak to their students and staff about Small Press Month, self-publishing, and how they can realize their own publishing dreams. This is particularly effective if you have a children’s book you can autograph and sell after the assembly.
March 9 – Get reviewed. Send out review copies of your book to get some good buzz. The free Book Review Starter Kit from Outskirts Press includes tips for sending books to reviewers, as well as a list of reviewers with contact information to get you started. If you’re pressed for time, don’t worry – Outskirts Press can take the task off your hands with the Book Review Submission Service.
March 10 – Go to college. Contact local universities and colleges and offer to share your self-publishing story, as well as your knowledge about Small Press Month. You can even sell copies of your book after your presentation.
March 11 – Follow up. Touch base with the bookstores and local media outlets you contacted earlier to see if you can offer any additional assistance or information. Reiterate the importance of Small Press Month, your planned events in the community and your Small Press book.
March 12 – Think outside the books. Contact sales channels outside of the traditional brick-and-mortar bookstores that may be likely to sell your book. This may include websites related to your book’s topic, gift stores, hardware stores, grocery stores, boutiques and specialty stores. Ask yourself where you like to shop when you’re not reading, and where your readers may be shopping, then make contact with those retailers. Even a little shelf space can make a big difference.
March 13 – Unite with artists. Contact local art studios, design boutiques or other small independent businesses in your area. Work with them to forge co-op advertising initiatives and other promotional partnerships. You can even trade services. For example, you could offer to write promotional materials for an artist in exchange for cover art for promotional materials or your next book. If applicable, offer to conduct some events in their venues. Show them how sharing your promotional efforts helps everyone gain greater visibility.
March 14 – Share your experiences. Schedule a seminar or tele-seminar on “How to Write and Publish a Book” and offer a Small Press Month discount on the registration fee. Send local news outlets a press release about your event.
March 15 – Co-op. Connect with other independently published authors and arrange co-op advertisement in the local media. In addition to promoting your books, promote your upcoming events. Encourage other authors to join in the events, which may generate more interest about future events among bookstores.
March 16 – Get talking. Small, local radio stations – particularly news/talk formats – are constantly on the lookout for interesting guests. Contact local radio producers in your area and pitch them on your book, tying it into Small Press Month. Not sure where to start? Outskirts Press offers a Top 10 Radio Interview & Media Training option to get you started.
March 17 – Think green. St. Patrick’s Day green, that is. Take the day to get started on electronic editions of your book, which save trees and open you up to huge audiences of ebook consumers. Outskirts Press can set up a Kindle, NOOK or Apple iPad edition of your book in no time at all.
March 18 – Think big. Local is a great starting point, but don’t forget to contact the major newspapers about Small Press Month, too. They’re more likely to cover something if they are contacted by authors, so reach out in person. Be ready to tell your press contact what sets your book apart from others (unusual topic, great reviews, a sudden spike in sales, past media attention, etc.):
THE NEW YORK TIMES: 229 W. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036-3959 (212) 556-1234
USA TODAY: 1000 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22209-3901 (703) 276-3400; and 535 Madison Ave., 20th Floor, New York, NY 10022-4212 (212) 715-5410
WALL STREET JOURNAL: 200 Liberty St., New York, NY 10281-1003 (212) 416-2000
WASHINGTON POST: 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20071-0002 (202) 334-6000
March 19 – Center yourself. Contact local community centers and inform them of Small Press Month; post information on their community bulletin board, if one is available. Gather the local authors with whom you’ve teamed up and schedule an impromptu event, celebrating Small Press books.
March 20 – Make a leap. If you published elsewhere, this may be the month to switch to Outskirts Press. If things have stagnated with your current publisher, a fresh start may be just what you need to get sales moving again. Even if you’re not ready to switch, Outskirts Press can still help. We offer a variety of marketing products and services for authors, regardless of where they published. Browse those marketing products today.
March 21 – Don’t neglect the other 11 months. Small Press Month is just one month out of 12. While you can’t do it all in 31 days, you can lay the groundwork for the rest of the year. Schedule other book events throughout the year, like London Book Fair, BookExpo America, Beijing Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair. Or do it all with the Global Book Tour marketing package from Outskirts Press, which includes all four book fairs with a 25% discount.
March 22 – Socialize. Open social networking accounts and set up your author platform on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, where you can easily reach out to readers and other authors all around the world. Outskirts Press makes it easy with a social media platform set-up service that gets you started toward promoting and marketing your book through social media.
March 23 – Promote through learning. While you’re making the rounds at educational institutions in your community, don’t forget about the local Learning Annex or adult education programs in your area. They’re often cash-strapped and eager to welcome guest speakers. Offer to teach a class on the subject of your book, or about self-publishing. As a published author, you are an expert on these topics. Your book may even become required reading for each student!
March 24 – Name drop. Start writing online reviews through Amazon. Write reviews for books you’ve read recently. Mention that you are the author of a book at the bottom of each posted review, and include the book title and a link (if allowed). If people like the writing style of your review, they may investigate your book, especially if you write reviews for books within the same genre as your own.
March 25 – Go public. Local libraries are a great place to get the word out about your book, but branch out too. Contact the public libraries in each state and mention your involvement with Small Press Month. Send them information about your book and offer to donate a copy for their shelves. Here’s a link that will get you started: http://www.publiclibraries.com/.
March 26 – Get well-versed. If you’re a poet, start preparing for National Poetry Month in April.
March 27 – Be a “commissioner.” Help other writers you know get published and earn a 10% commission for the referral after their book is published. Register for the Outskirts Press affiliate program today and start spreading the word to all of the writers in your life.
March 28 – Blog, blog, blog. Start a blog and keep it active and up-to-date with blog posts about you, your book, possible future projects and other things that interest you. Take every opportunity you can to engage readers through polls and other methods that elicit feedback and build relationships. Register your blog with blog directories to gain more readership and participation.
March 29 – Be a merchant. Google Merchant Center is a great place to make your book available to Google Shopping and other Google services, so readers can buy directly from you. You can enter your product description, price and even book cover art on the product listing ad, and inclusion in the Merchant Center helps get your book in the Google search engine results when someone searches topics or items similar to your book. Signing up is easy: http://www.google.com/merchants/signup
March 30 – Think big (print). Expand your market by publishing a large-print edition of your book. With the world’s population growing older, easy-to-read editions in 14- and 16-point fonts are becoming more and more popular. It’s easy to re-release your already published book in large print to expand your readership with Outskirts Press.
March 31 – Kick back, at last. It’s been a busy, productive month. Take a couple hours to yourself today to recharge and gear up for all the events, promotion and marketing opportunities you created for yourself in 2015! If you’re feeling energetic, get in touch with an Outskirts Press Personal Marketing Assistant to help you organize all of those opportunities and create a detailed marketing calendar just for you.
The New Year is a time for renewal. It’s a time when we reassess the year that’s just passed and resolve to make the next one better yet. This is especially true for published authors. Have you made your resolutions for 2015 yet? If not, these tips will help get you started:
Set goals. Seems simple, right? Still, you’d be amazed how often authors make a list of resolutions with no clear set of goals to help them keep their resolutions. Consider these “mini” resolutions – and consider them important.
Facilitate goals. Remove any hurdles that might prevent you from keeping your resolutions. For example, if time is an issue, consider working fewer hours or cutting back on social engagements to make time to meet your goals.
Read. Even after you publish, reading keeps you in touch with your literary side and abreast of the latest bestsellers.
Write. Writing regularly is a reminder to you that you are an author. Feed that need for creativity.
Find your platform. Don’t forget to establish your identity as an author on social media. It’s a great place to gather with other people who share your interests and want to learn more about you and your work.
Connect. Use social media to connect with other authors like yourself. They’ll often have valuable insight on how they achieved their own successes in publishing and marketing.
Find self-love. Embrace your style as an author! You may do things a little differently, but that’s what makes you so special. Find a way to play it up.
Stretch. While you should embrace your true self as an author, it’s always good to step outside of your comfort zone once in a while. Market in places you wouldn’t have considered before, or read/write in genres that are foreign to you.
Follow up. Many authors find that a second book does amazing things for the first book. Resolve in 2015 to write a second book. Maybe a sequel – or maybe something completely different.
Mentor. Offer your wisdom to aspiring writers. You’re now where they would like to be – published! Isn’t that a nice thought? It’ll feel good to show a newbie the ropes as they negotiate the writing and publishing process.
Release the press! Resolve to use press releases early and often. Remember, they’re not just for announcing book releases. They can be useful in boosting sales when you’ve hit an important benchmark – big sales, good reviews, awards and more.
Get materialistic. Marketing materials like business cards, posters (for bookstore and library use), bookmarks and more are extremely inexpensive to produce, but they provide potential readers with a memorable way to find you and your book.
Make yourself accessible. If you don’t already provide readers, media contacts and others several ways in which to contact you, get cracking on it. The easier you can be reached by important movers and shakers, the better your chances of moving forward as a successful author.
Anticipate selling opportunities. Opportunities to promote and sell your book are abound. Resolve to have your “author hat” on at all times so you can recognize these openings – then be bold and act on them!
There’s plenty more where that came from! Let an Outskirts Press Personal Marketing Assistant help you make other resolutions that are specifically tailored to you.
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Book marketing is one of the most important pieces of being a successful self-publishing author. Outskirts Press is an industry leader in providing post-publication support, products, and services to its growing family of published authors.
Your book is written. Your book is published. Now what? Our list of Top 10 Book Marketing Tactics can help you prioritize your book marketing efforts by providing you with excellent marketing and promotional tactics you should consider pursuing.
These are the marketing products and tactics determined to be most popular by our authors for the month of March 2014, listed below in alphabetical order:
Amazon Cover Enhancement:Get your cover on Amazon faster or enhance the way it looks to increase exposure
Amazon Kindle Submission Service:Make your book available on Amazon’s Kindle ebook reading device. More formats on Amazon means more exposure on Amazon, and the Kindle is heavily promoted by Amazon.
Amazon Search Inside the Book:Amazon claims that books participating in this program enjoy “significant” sales improvement, on average, over books that do not.
Barnes & Noble NOOK Submission Service: Millions of books are available on Barnes & Noble’s NOOK. If your book isn’t one of them, you are missing out on tapping a very important, and growing, market of readers.
Barnes & Noble See Inside: Barnes & Noble’s answer to Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” program. Books that participate in this program receive a “See Inside” icon next to their Barnes & Noble cover image, which invites potential customers to electronically “flip” through a small section of the book.
BEA Book Fair:The BEA Book Fair is America’s largest and most popular writing and publishing tradeshow/event. If you’re looking to make contacts with agents, scouts, sub-rights, or movie/television production and development personnel, you can’t miss this event.
Bookmarks Magazine Co-Op Advertising:Reach at least 40,000 affluent readers guaranteed! Targeted exposure is key to your book’s success. Advertising in Bookmarks Magazine can help reach the audience that’s already waiting to read your book.
EVVY Awards Submission:Winning a book award helps separate your book from the rest, especially when it is the coveted “EVVY Awards” and “Book of the Year” Award, held annually by Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA).
Apple iPad/iPhone Standard Edition:Allows self-publishing authors to enter the ebook marketplace at significantly lower upfront cost with a no-hassle, standard iBookstore retail price of $9.99. It’s the simplest one-click solution for published authors to publish a book in Apple’s iBookstore.
Outskirts Press Published authors who are interested in any of these (or many of our other available services) can find further details and ordering information from the Marketing Options page of your author’s center.
Not yet published with Outskirts Press? Today is the perfect day to start and take advantage of our current publishing promotion.
Every year during the month of March, Outskirts Press joins indie companies all across the United States in celebrating independent publishers and the talented 
March 7 – Offer a discount. Contact your local bookstores and suggest they offer discounts on Small Press books. Bring discounted copies of your own book to get the ball rolling. Offer to leave them a free copy along with your sales sheet, press release and any 
March 9 – Get reviewed. Send out review copies of your book to get some good buzz. The free 
March 16 – Get talking. Small, local radio stations – particularly news/talk formats – are constantly on the lookout for interesting guests. Contact local radio producers in your area and pitch them on your book, tying it into Small Press Month. Not sure where to start? Outskirts Press offers a 
March 21 – Don’t neglect the other 11 months. Small Press Month is just one month out of 12. While you can’t do it all in 31 days, you can lay the groundwork for the rest of the year. Schedule other book events throughout the year, like 
March 22 – Socialize. Open social networking accounts and set up your author platform on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, where you can easily reach out to readers and other authors all around the world. Outskirts Press makes it easy with a 
March 26 – Get well-versed. If you’re a poet, start preparing for National Poetry Month in April.
March 31 – Kick back, at last. It’s been a busy, productive month. Take a couple hours to yourself today to recharge and gear up for all the events, promotion and marketing opportunities you created for yourself in 2015! If you’re feeling energetic, get in touch with an Outskirts Press 
The New Year is a time for renewal. It’s a time when we reassess the year that’s just passed and resolve to make the next one better yet. This is especially true for published authors. Have you made your resolutions for 2015 yet? If not, these tips will help get you started:
