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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is INSIGHT OUT by VANN JOINES, PH.D.

NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON!

INSIGHT OUT

by

VANN JOINES, PH.D

5 out of 5 stars – 7 reviews

$26.95 – Paperback

The most effective way to help people change is to understand how they adapt their behavior in childhood in response to the adults in their lives. That’s the premise on which Vann Joines, PhD, based his book Insight Out: The Six Personality Types That Hold the Key to Success in Your Life and Relationships. Once you understand the personality type that has been at your core since your youth, you can begin to put your best self forward and transform your relationships. After more than 50 years as a psychotherapist, Joines has written an in-depth yet accessible step-by-step guide to achieving personal change and developing the kinds of relationships you desire.

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is PENNING PATIENCE by Justin Israel

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PENNING PATIENCE

by

Justin Israel

$21.95 Paperback

Do you feel forgotten? Forgotten by your family and friends? Your hometown or country? Maybe even by God or love? Author Justin Israel understands. After his military service in the US Air Force, he became a contractor working in Iraq and Afghanistan as a firefighter. Then he came back home yet these high-risk jobs took a toll, and Israel didn’t feel supported, personally or in the bigger picture. He suffered from PTSD, and watching society strain under political in-fighting didn’t help. What started as a coping strategy-writing about his experiences and feelings-has become a book, Penning Patience, that Israel hopes will help others remember that you have not been forgotten, no matter how dark it may seem because through the Lord, you too can overcome any tribulation.

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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is On the Edge of Nineveh by M.J. Huntsy

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On the Edge of Nineveh

by

M.J. Huntsy

Paperback $23.95

Vietnam and shocks of the day commanded the headlines for a decade from the mid-sixties into the seventies. A few other things were going on as well; tectonic shifts of the American Landscape rumbled below. The characters in Nineveh find themselves neck deep in a whole lot of other. Set principally in the summers of ‘69 -‘71, with an epilogue set an indeterminate time after the conclusion of the main story, Nineveh portends the future by bringing the past back for a visit. Stylistically, the novel presents as late 20th Century American hewing to traditional conventions of structure. Dialogue is the preferred medium for bringing the characters and story to the reader. A large Nineteenth Century summer house on fictional Lake Nineveh is the principal setting, and the bucolic resort hamlets and one-factory towns are about to be subsumed by the wave of development bearing down on their way of life. Locals deliver large characters brimming with personality but disgruntled as thoroughly modern Babbits invade the environs. As new pharmacies of fun sprang up, those so inclined seized the moment. Erik Frinjuhr’s group of hale fellows better not met incline and indulge. Romps and parties and the emergent recreational drug market before Big Brother had lightened up are captured in sense-around prose and dialogue inviting vicarious participation. As usual, the young women are a step ahead in gaming the changing rules of the war of the sexes. Their varying strategic approaches to achieving romantic goals unfold with Machiavellian charm and weaponized caresses. Written in 1982 on a manual Smith Corona typewriter, the substance of the original manuscript has been maintained through periodic edits, the last of which brought the novel to publication in its present form. The author’s early childhood was spent in Minneapolis. He moved with his family to Lake Minnetonka west of the Twin Cities in the ‘60’s. The author attended and graduated from the public schools of Mound, Minnesota, and is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota Law School. He resides in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

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Prime Amazon Marketing Advice from Outskirts Press

As the only #1-ranked and A+ rated self-publishing company*, Outskirts Press lists, distributes, and sells its books on Amazon through a variety of technical and highly-effective ways (read yesterday’s post to see how).

That means authors self-publishing with Outskirts Press have access to all the advantages and book marketing benefits Amazon offers, which can make all the difference once your book is published. Some of these benefits include:

  • Amazon KDP: Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform empowers authors to create and sell e-Books. Outskirts Press authors publishing under the Ultimate Black and White and Ultimate Full-Color packages are automatically enrolled in KDP with eBook editions of the books that we publish for them.
  • Amazon Advantage:  Amazon Advantage is a suite of book-selling tools to help authors distribute books to Amazon’s other channels, such as the Kindle Store, Audible, and the Kindle Unlimited program. Outskirts Press authors publishing under the Ultimate Black and White and Ultimate Full-Color packages receive automatic distribution in the Kindle Store; optional AudioBook publication is available for distribution to Audible; and our eBook publishing process explains the pros and cons of joining Kindle Unlimited.
  • Amazon Author Central: Authors who publish their books through Outskirts Press can create an Amazon Author Central profile. This allows them to manage their book’s metadata, set up author alerts, and connect with readers. Outskirts Press marketing services can help their authors with this, too.

Outskirts Press also offers a variety of free and paid marketing services to help authors promote their books on Amazon. These services include:

  • Amazon Book Marketing: Outskirts Press offers a variety of Amazon book marketing services, such as Amazon email campaigns (Amazon’s Featured Book-of-the-Week, for example) and free guides with tips on getting Amazon book reviews and offering Amazon giveaways.
  • Amazon Author Page: Outskirts Press can create a professional Amazon Sales Page for authors who publish their books through the company.
  • Amazon Search Inside the Book: Outskirts Press can add the Amazon Search Inside the Book feature to authors’ books. This allows readers to preview the content of books before they buy them.
  • Amazon Launch Bundle: All the Outskirts Press marketing services rolled into one for the ultimate in convenience and effectiveness.

Of course, the best advice we can give you is that today is the last day to save during Amazon Prime days. If you want to experience the convenience and satisfaction of self-publishing and selling on Amazon, you can take advantage of an instant 20% discount during Amazon Prime Days. Simply enter the promotion code twtybkmark at checkout when you purchase the Ultimate Black and White or Ultimate Full-Color publishing package from Outskirts Press. With this offer, not only will you receive an instant 20% savings, but once your book is published, you’ll also get 500 free bookmarks to kick-start your Amazon book marketing efforts.

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Connect with a Publishing Consultant today to learn how Outskirts Press can help YOU publish YOUR masterpiece:

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* Outskirts Press is the only self-publishing company ranked #1 in self-publishing by Top Consumer Reviews and rated A+ by the Better Business Bureau.

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Prime Amazon Self-Publishing from Outskirts Press


Outskirts Press is a full-service self-publishing company that partners with Ingram Wholesalers and its global partners to publish, list, and sell self-published books on Amazon and its worldwide retail websites.

When an author self-publishes their books with Outskirts Press, the books are automatically made available for sale on Amazon.com and its worldwide suite of book-selling retail websites, like Amazon.ca in Canda and Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom, among others.

How does Outskirts Press combine the zero-hassle power of print-on-demand with the maximum convenience of drop-shipping to deliver the easiest, fastest, and highest quality publishing services to its thousands of satisfied authors?

  • Providing metadata to Amazon for zero-hassle: In collaboration with Ingram and its partners, Outskirts Press provides Amazon with “metadata” for all of the books it publishes. Metadata is digital information that includes the book’s title, author, ISBN, BISAC, description, and cover image. This metadata helps Amazon (and other global retailers) index the book and make it discoverable by customers around the world.
  • Drop-shipping to Amazon for maximum convenience: When an author publishes their books with Outskirts Press, the books are “stored” digitally and securely under the ISBN with all their related metadata. When a customer orders a book from Amazon, the book is printed and bound to professional standards and shipped directly from the printer, rather than from the author or publisher. This saves time for everyone and the buyer receives the book as fast as possible without the author having to worry about inventory, packaging, or driving to a postal office.
  • Drop-shipping directly to the author and to readers: Authors publishing with Outskirts Press can enjoy the convenience of zero-inventory by having access to their own online book ordering process through their password-secured Author’s Center. They can order books in quantities of as low as 5-at-a-time for quick printing and shipping directly to them, or for direct delivery to anywhere. Readers purchasing from the Outskirts Press bookstore or from the author’s webpage receive the same delivery times as they would from Amazon (sometimes even faster), and the author worries about nothing.
  • Amazon marketing: Outskirts Press can provide a suite of book marketing advice and services geared toward maximizing Amazon sales.

Tomorrow’s posting will discuss more about Prime Amazon marketing.

In the meantime, if you want to experience the convenience and satisfaction of self-publishing and selling on Amazon, you can take advantage of an instant 20% discount during Amazon Prime Days. Simply enter the promotion code twtybkmark at checkout when you purchase the Ultimate Black and White or Ultimate Full-Color publishing package from Outskirts Press. With this offer, not only will you receive an instant 20% savings, but once your book is published, you’ll also get 500 free bookmarks to kick-start your Amazon book marketing efforts.

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Have you written a book that you’d like to publish?

Connect with a Publishing Consultant today to learn how Outskirts Press can help YOU publish YOUR masterpiece:

Outskirts Press stands behind our book printing and design services with the best 100% Satisfaction Guarantee in the self-publishing industry. 

Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is My Life Full of Blessings by Andrew Valrosa Jr.

Now Available on Amazon!

My Life Full of Blessings

by

Andrew Valrosa Jr.

5 out of 5 stars – 9 reviews

Paperback: $21.95

Just a kid from The Bronx, born 2nd generation of a family of immigrants from Italy, Andy was blessed in so many ways over the years. There was no silver spoon or any kind of privilege in his life or his family. He learned the value of hard work at a very young age and was blessed with the fruits it yielded the rest of his life. Having left home at barely 17 years of age, he joined the Navy (Vietnam era), served over 8 years, and was honorably discharged. After being discharged from Active Duty, he went back to college, full time at night, while working full time during the day. Although this was done during difficult family times, it set a firm foundation in place for his next career in life to reap more blessings.

It was just after this time that he received another Blessing… he met his wife, Grace, with whom he has shared 35 wonderful, glorious years as of the time of this writing. Looking forward to many more years, he and his wife are happily retired in their home on Whidbey Island, WA. Putting to use his lessons in life, he applied what he learned with the help of God, and an extraordinary amount of hard work and sacrifice, to build a home, a successful career and a retirement, adapting to the many unexpected hands that life sometimes deals you.

“Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans”….. John Lennon.

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is FIRST BULLET by Andrew Ceroni

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FIRST BULLET

by

Andrew Ceroni

4.6 out of 5 stars – 16 customer reviews

Paperback $18.95

ANDREW CERONI is at his very best with his 7th novel, “FIRST BULLET!” A White-Knuckle Thriller with three intermingling plots that will keep you glued to its pages!

Facing the grave dangers of a triple-threat, the CIA is on its heels. CIA Agent Dave McClure and his Special Operations teams face deadly action at a Chinese base hidden in the mist-covered Blue Mountains of Jamaica to German terrorist team attack on a strategic missile base near the western forests of Wyoming, and finally to Berlin, Garmisch, and the German Alps where, to top things off, intelligence sources warn the CIA of a plot by cabinet members in Germany to arrest the Chancellor, overthrow the government, and invade Poland and the Czech Republic. The CIA must act fast and forcibly to avoid the outbreak of World War III. For thriller lovers, this riveting thriller will will give you goosebumps.

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Self-publishing author PERSONNE wants your help choosing their book cover.

Who are these Surrealists, and why would they befriend me?

I shook my head. “There must be someplace… There’s got to be some way for a man to live.”

“Why not look for it here?” Robert Desnos asked. “I’ll help you, and so will Artaud.”

“In Paris?” I glanced around contemptuously. “No offense, but being a man of letters sitting in some café with his blood as pale as his skin—”

“But I agree with you!” Desnos exclaimed, amused. “I feel exactly as you do about academics in tweed, playing pimp with poems. You’ll meet the same problem no matter where you go. The world has been explored. The whole goddamned world has been at war.”

I shrugged. “I know.”

“Instead of walking where the footprints already are, and calling that an adventure—”

“Adventure,” I sneered without intending to, “is that what you call what we did this afternoon? A childish prank, that’s all it was.”

Desnos regarded me as I shoved at the pile of wood with my toe. “So what is your idea of adventure, Weidmann?” he demanded. “Enjoying beautiful women? Exploring Africa? Going to war? Couldn’t war be someone else’s childish prank?”

Earnestly I asked, “What’s your idea of adventure?”

About the Author

The author of this novel series has been working on a way to tell the story of the lives of Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos for 30 years. Other publications include horror, science fiction, and weird short stories as well as independent journalism. “Personne” has also been an actor, dancer, scholar, librarian, archivist and voice-over artist.

Please take a look at two possible covers below and then vote on the choice you recommend for PERSONNE.

COVER A

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COVER B

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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is Culminating Experience Personal Theory: Open Feelings Toward Choosing Your Dreams by Maria Alice Silva-Amey

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Culminating Experience Personal Theory: Open Feelings Toward Choosing Your Dreams
How Self Identity Helps Us Understand Our Feelings Toward Career Paths and How We Can Accept Different Directions and Choices

by

Maria Alice Silva-Amey

4.5 out of 5 stars – 14 customer reviews

Paperback: $15.95

“With unwavering support, I endorse this magnificent book on chasing one’s dreams. The book is a creative and innovative reflection of the incredible character of the author Maria Alice, whose passion and love for life display and express her determination and commitment to dream fulfillment. I applaud her on this work of literary art and hope it inspires today’s generation and those to come in pursuing their highest goals in life.”

– Marcellene Watson-Derbigny, PhD, Associate Vice President, Student Retention and Academic Success,

California State University, Sacramento

“You have focused on understanding feelings as a way of understanding and appreciating “self,” but also using this understanding as a way to direct oneself toward more gratifying career choices and empowering oneself to make smarter choices over one’s career life. This is particularly challenging in the complex and diverse world you have described. I agree that it is valuable to focus on feelings as they are indicators of basic responses to environment and circumstances in the environment. This is the basic “approach/avoidance” instinct we are born with, but often ignored due to our social learning…to get a job and support yourself and endure the conditions simply because you need to work. Employers would do well to learn from your work as they often are instrumental in creating the work environment.”

– Al Striplen, MA, Healing Arts, Native American Counselor & Spiritual Guide

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is Poetry Gives Different Magnitudes: Feelings of Visions by Maria Alice Silva-Amey

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Poetry Gives Different Magnitudes: Feelings of Visions

by

Maria Alice Silva-Amey

5 out of 5 stars – 8 customer reviews

Paperback: $28.95

“Granted, poetry can be thorny and often difficult to comprehend. But some poetry, like that in Maria Alice Silva’s new book, is like a small gift: morsels of meaning slide right past your poetry defenses and lodge in your head and heart. You don’t have to love poetry to love Maria Alice’s poems. There is no secret key required to unlock them. They speak to common aspects of all our lives-dreams, nature, challenges, relationships-and we can receive the poems’ insights loud and clear.”

– Alice Parente, Executive Director, Process Theatre

“These poems are philosophical meditations about life. A life filled with happiness, a life filled with sadness. Maria Alice explores contrasting universal themes such as love and pain in this collection. Trails filled with thorns and chasing false dreams to love in the park and music filled hallucinations. This poetry collection has it all.”

– Jeremy Spencer editor, Scrambler Books

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