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Merry Christmas From Outskirts Press

From our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Standing: Elise, Deni, Shirley, Ellen, Jenny, Patrick, Donna, Cindy, Tony, Lonni, Brent
Sitting: Jeanine, Lora, Lynn

If you don’t see all your Production Team members, don’t worry. Only about 20% of us are in the photograph above, but we ALL wish every one of our published, in-progress, and soon-to-be-published authors a happy, safe, and wonderful holiday season! And from all of us, thank you for choosing Outskirts Press to help you meet your book publishing and marketing goals.

 

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Self-Publishing This Holiday Season? We Can Save You Some Money

Seasons Greetings!

As a community endeavor, Outskirts Press helps people realize their dreams of self-publishing and sharing their words and work with everyone. But we understand that self-publishing can be a time-consuming and expensive experience.

Regardless, it is always exciting to self-publish and market your own work.

So this Christmas, for a limited time only, we are making self-publishing more affordable and even more exciting!

If you order our self-publishing packages over the 2011 holiday season, you can receive a twenty (20) percent discount on either of the two top-of-the-line publishing packages. Both the Diamond and the full-color Pearl publishing packages include a greater range of formatting, pricing and distribution options than any packages offered by any other publisher.

Both the Diamond and the Pearl packages include paperback editions and hardcover formats. Each Diamond and Pearl book includes its own ISBN, price-embedded barcode and  unlimited wholesale printing, fulfillment and distribution through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Ingram, Baker and Taylor, Bertram and others.

And, of course, if you publish with us, you get to keep 100% of the royalties, 100% of the rights, and 100% of the control.

All in all, this is a win-win situation for you.

As Outskirts Press Vice President Kelly Schuknecht puts it, “This is a way of saying Happy Holidays to our growing family of self-publishing authors from all of us here at Outskirts Press.”

The promotion code to save 20% instantly is HOLIDAY2011 and the deadline is December 31, 2011.

Order Diamond Package Here

Order Pearl Package Here

For more details on this limited-time offer, click here.

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VOTE NOW: Best Holiday Book in Self Publishing – November 2010

This Self-Publishing Book Contest is hosted by Outskirts Press, America’s fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company.

The following ten books were selected for the 2010 Holiday Season – Best Holiday Book Contest. View all of the books in alphabetical order below (click on the cover to visit the author’s webpage and read more about the book) and vote for your favorite holiday book at the bottom of the page. The author of the winning book will win a free Custom T-Shirt, courtesy of Outskirts Press.

Voting begins now! Votes will be tracked through the end of the month and the winner will be announced in the first week of December.  



 

 

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Holiday Greeting Cards for Self Publishing Authors

Want to send out a Holiday mailing to promote your book? Outskirts Press now offers personal and customized Holiday Greeting Cards, featuring your published book!

Greeting cards are 4.25”x 6” on Premium 14 pt. gloss cover stock. These cards are full color, front and back, and scored for easy folding. The front of the card recognizes the occasion. The inside-left of the card highlights your single book, along with the title, the author name, the cover image, and the webpage address. The inside-right of the card is blank so that you can personalize each card with a handwritten message before folding and mailing them in the included white envelopes.

Greeting cards come in quantities of 250. Outskirts Press authors can also order Custom US First Class Postal Stamps to send out these promotional mailings. Both of these optional marketing products can easily and conveniently be added from the Marketing Options screen of their author’s center.

*Production, printing and shipping can take up to 3-4 weeks. Order now to allow plenty of time to receive your cards for a timely holiday promotional mailing.

** The interior image in the example features “Sell Your Book on Amazon.” Details and cover image will be replaced by the details and cover image for your book.

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Self-Publishing Author Spotlight: The First Christmas

In Er Nuylan’s new work of fiction, The First Christmas: What Could Have Actually Happened, published by Outskirts Press, the author bravely asks the question, “How could Jesus be born without a human biological father…or was there?” Religiously faithful in tone, this first novel realistically explores the world in which the teenage Mary gave birth and offers a unique view of this fundamental Christian mystery.
Set against the historical backdrop of the struggle of the Jews against Caesar’s Roman Empire, The First Christmas relays the story as it might have been of a father, Joachim, who finds out his teenage daughter is pregnant. Joachim is not a Christian and is not accustomed to miracles. Instead, as a father, he is enraged that his daughter has been adulterous and has thus broken Mosaic law; yet he is also frightened for his daughter, who now can be stoned to death because she has broken the holy morals of his people.

Nuylan realistically portrays the emotions, the blame and the misgivings of this otherwise typical family that finds its teenage daughter pregnant before marriage despite her protests that she has not slept with anyone, fiancée Joseph or otherwise. The baby in her swollen belly is there “by the power of God and the Holy Spirit,” is all she can say.

What would the reaction of a loving mother and father be to that situation today, the novel asks, and by showing the dramatic scenes which follow this discovery, The First Christmas shines new light on the beginnings of Christianity.

The author has stated that it was his love for and fascination with Christianity that prompted him to write The First Christmas: What Could Have Actually Happened. The book is a faith filled and intriguing portrayal of Mary as a young woman willing to become a social outcast and even to be stoned to death as she stands up for her belief in the miracle that has happened for a religion that does not yet exist.

It is a fascinating, fictional account of the people and the potential of these first few days from which more than two thousand years of Christianity have sprung.

About the Author:

Er Nuylan is a teacher with many varied interests. His love for Christianity and his fascination with the religion prompted him to write The First Christmas in order to view the virgin birth mystery from a new point of faith and reality.

He resides in Japan with his wife Yuko, his daughter Pearl, and his son Ken.

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

Nuylan purchased the Book Blast, 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 author’s center.

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Self Publishing Gifts for the Holiday Season Feature Outskirts Press Books on Custom T-Shirts

November 10, 2009 – Denver, CO – Outskirts Press, the fastest growing self-publishing and book marketing company, today announced it is offering a Custom T-shirt option so authors can wear their books, literally. Each high-quality T-shirt displays the front and back covers of the author’s book in order to promote the publication.  This option is now available so that the shirts can be ordered and shipped in time for the upcoming holiday season.

“Some authors are known to wear their emotions on their sleeves,” stated Outskirts Director of Author Support Kelly Schuknecht.  “And now they can wear their book on their back, and promote it at the same time, perfect for author events, or an ice breaker for any occasion.”

Ever since Marlon Brando and James Dean popularized the T-shirt in the 1950’s, Americans have been using them to communicate all manner of things to each other.   Today 91 percent of Americans profess to owning a “favorite” T-shirt and more than 60 percent claim to own more than ten T-shirts.

Outskirts Press has tapped into this popular American custom to help its authors promote and market their books.  Their new Custom T-shirt option now flanks other recent promotional options like Custom Greeting Cards and Celebrity Endorsements options, among the other innovative marketing services available through the self-publishing company.

The front cover of the book is printed on the front of the white T-shirt while an image of the back cover is displayed on the back of the shirt.  Each short-sleeved T-shirt is heavyweight, pre-shrunk 100% cotton.  The shirts can be ordered by Outskirts Press authors in time to give as gifts for the 2009 holiday season or simply to wear themselves as a fun, and unique way to promote their books. 

Outskirts Press’ continued attention to post-publication marketing for their authors has kept them at the vanguard of the today’s self-publishing industry and has earned them the accolade of being named among the “Best of the Best” from Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 500 in the October issue.

About Outskirts Press, Inc,: Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.

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Holiday Greeting Cards for Self Publishing Authors

Want to send out a Holiday mailing to promote your book? Outskirts Press now offers personal and customized Holiday Greeting Cards, featuring your published book!

Greeting cards are 4.25”x 6” on Premium 14 pt. gloss cover stock. These cards are full color, front and back, and scored for easy folding. The front of the card recognizes the occasion. The inside-left of the card highlights your single book, along with the title, the author name, the cover image, and the webpage address. The inside-right of the card is blank so that you can personalize each card with a handwritten message before folding and mailing them in the included white envelopes.

Greeting cards come in quantities of 250. Outskirts Press authors can also order Custom US First Class Postal Stamps to send out these promotional mailings. Both of these optional marketing products can easily and conveniently be added from the Marketing Options screen of their author’s center.

*Production, printing and shipping can take up to 3-4 weeks. Order now to allow plenty of time to receive your cards for a timely holiday promotional mailing.

** The interior image in the example features “Sell Your Book on Amazon.” Details and cover image will be replaced by the details and cover image for your book.

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