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@Self-Published Authors: Let’s Get #Social!

We’ve spent a lot of time this month talking about the advantages Social Media holds for self-publishing authors when it comes to book marketing and connecting with readers, fans, and other writers. So, it’s time to put our money where our mouth is: here are all the places you can find Outskirts Press out there in the great world of social media and beyond:

SelfPublishingNews.com

Our company blog and the location of the very post you’re reading now. If you haven’t subscribed to our blog, yet, now is the time. That way you won’t miss any of the great promotions and discounts we offer throughout each month.

Facebook.com/OutskirtsPress

Like everyone else on the planet, Outskirts Press is on Facebook. Follow us there to participate in our active community of self-published authors.

Instagram.com/OutskirtsPress

Instagram started out primarily as a way to share images before gravitating toward the short form videos and “stories” it’s known for now. But Outskirts Press still uses Instagram mainly as a way to share our authors’ amazing book covers. And yes, since Instagram is closely associated with both Facebook and Threads (since they’re all owned by Meta), that means we’re on “Threads”, too.

Pinterest.com/OutskirtsPress

Speaking of book covers, we also show off our authors’ books on our Pinterest board. Follow us there if you’re looking for some inspiration for your next book cover.

Twitter.com/Outskirts Press

Elon Musk may have changed its name to “X” but it will always be Twitter to us. Here you’ll find author success stories, promotions and discounts, and great writing, publishing, and marketing advice all boiled down to 140 characters or less.

YouTube.com/OutskirtsPress

Not only do we love showing off our authors’ book covers, we also love showing off our authors! Our YouTube channel is where you can see our authors’ most memorable moments, from videos of them seeing their books for the first time, to our collection of Valentine’s Day themed “Share the Love” videos, to heartfelt messages about their publishing experience. And of course, all our authors’ book video trailers are here, too!

Visit our various social media platforms today and follow, subscribe, comment, like, and share. See you there!

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

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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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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is The Entrepreneur’s Edge – Tapping Into Your Inner Entrepreneur by James A. Vena

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The Entrepreneur’s Edge – Tapping Into Your Inner Entrepreneur

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James A. Vena

$14.95 – Paperback

3.5 out of 5 stars – 11 reviews

James Vena is an innovative and strategic thinker who has influenced key decision-makers globally in business development and revenue growth strategies. For more than thirty years, James has built a resume that encompasses a wide range of industries and expertise in sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, merger arbitrage, technology and executive management. He has successfully developed innovative, high growth businesses and restructured companies that immediately demonstrated accelerated sales and profit growth. His 30 year career has been marked by success across many countries and industries. This track record has established James’s credentials as both a seasoned internationally astute executive and a disruptive innovator with a quick and fearless mind to seize opportunities along with the ability to articulate the mission needed to achieve specific goals. Mr. Vena’s career started as a China trader of commodities in the early 1980’s for a large US firm. After 5 years, he founded his own trading company at 26 and over the next 20 years developed that company into an internationally recognized brand with offices in 24 locations in some 15 countries. After retiring as CEO and Founder of his global trading company to take a 5-year sabbatical in order to care for his cancer stricken wife and help raise the couple’s young children, the always energetic James unretired and re-entered the world of international business. However, this time focusing on his past experiences, leadership skills and entrepreneurial mind-set to help develop and grow small businesses and early stage ventures. James’s entrepreneurial mind-set and dynamic personality combined with high energy, passion and purposeful manner, makes him an effective inspirational and motivational communicator. James has been mentoring entrepreneurs, lecturing students and publicly speaking to corporate leaders on the importance of cultural awareness, social responsibility, entrepreneurship, benevo.

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Featured Book of the Week

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

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My Life Full of Blessings

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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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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is A SIMPLE LOVE by Tatiana Gfoeller-Volkoff

Now Available on Amazon!

A Simple Love

by

Tatiana Gfoeller-Volkoff

4.7 out of 5 stars – 9 reviews

Hardback $36.95

A Simple Love, as the title suggests, is a love story. American student Marielle goes to study at the University of Florence in the 1980s. She meets two bisexual Italian students, who both fall in love with her. She loves them both in return. Tragedy ensues, but also redemption.

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Please note that product prices and availability are subject to change. Prices and availability were accurate at the time of this posting; however, they may differ from those you see when you visit Amazon.com.© Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Amazon, Amazon.com, the Amazon.com logo, and 1-Click are registered trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon.com, 410 Terry Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210.

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Congratulations to Andrew Ceroni on his 5-Star book review from Readers’ Favorite!

Reviewed by: Alma Boucher

Review Rating:  5 STARS – Congratulations on your 5-star review! 

First Bullet by Andrew Ceroni is a brilliantly written espionage thriller.

Roy Phillips and his wife are eating dinner in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, when he notices a group of oriental-appearing men sitting near their table. His suspicions are aroused, and he questions the manager. And soon after, CIA Agent Dave McClure is sent to Ocho Rios to investigate the circumstances surrounding Roy’s death. Dave’s investigation leads him to a Chinese military base in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. There also have been several confrontations in the Gulf of Mexico between American and Chinese missile submarines. It is not clear if there is a connection between these incidents and the Chinese military base. To add drama, the CIA is warned about a plot to overthrow the German government and invade of Poland and the Czech Republic. Dave and the CIA have their hands full to prevent an outbreak of World War III.

As noted, First Bullet is an outstanding tale of espionage. Andrew Ceroni planned an enthralling story with three plots woven together. I was hooked from the first page until the end. It was a brilliant read and fast-paced. With all the non-stop action, there was never a dull moment. The descriptions of the events were detailed and vivid. It was easy to lose myself in this world of espionage and become part of it. It was a real page-turner full of twists and turns. The suspense kept me on the edge of my seat. The characters were excellently developed and were both authentic and intriguing. It is a riveting work full of action with a fitting end.

Congratulations to Andrew Ceroni!

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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is The Ranch by Robin R. Randolph

Now available on Amazon!

The Ranch: JUST JETT Series Book VII

by Robin R. Randolph

5 out of 5 stars – 3 customer reviews

Paperback $23.95

Famous rock n’ roll couple, Jett and Brodie, have remarried and are off to a secret honeymoon place that Brodie purchased as a wedding gift to his bride. And holy crap, it’s a ranch! Now maybe, just maybe, this time Brodie Marxx will prove to be the husband Jett always wanted. And dare Jett think that she’ll be allowed to retire soon? P-leez! Get serious! All the old characters return, yet trouble just can’t keep it’s hands off our little billionairess. And when tragedy strikes at the ranch, Jett’s head goes spinning then knocks her out for the count. Can she stand on her own two feet in time to save her life? Or is she permanently down and out?

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Writer JASON DYE wants your help with his book cover.

About the Book:

The hope for the future is locked in the past.

In the not-so-distant future, life as we know it, will disappear. In a few decades, humans will be responsible for the decimation of most of the Earth’s natural resources. Greed and entitlement plague humanity and devastate the natural evolution of the Earth.

The hope for the future is locked in the past! An average Joe holds the key. The problem is, he has no memory…

How can he unlock the secrets from the past to save the world from the Black Death and mindless drones? Will he be the hero everyone hopes he can be?

Join the journey as this action-packet, Sci-Fi thriller takes unexpected turns and twists that confirm the statement; “Things are not always what they seem!”

About the Author:

Jason served in the United States Army from 2001-2008 and served in Operation Noble Eagle and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He then served an additional 3 years in the Missouri National Guard. Jason graduated with his Master’s in Social Work from the University of Kansas in 2014. He earned his Clinical License in 2018. Jason has had a passion for writing for as long as he can remember. Jason lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife and children.

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

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book marketing

A Fantastic Book Marketing Idea for a Fantastically Adventurous Novel!

Author M. R. Rodriguez isn’t just thinking outside the box when marketing his novel Moravian Falls—he’s wrapping it in a whole new look!

In this case, the “box” that we’re talking about is his SUV, which he had wrapped in a skin featuring his book cover. A car skin is what it sounds like—a large piece of vinyl that completely covers the vehicle. It looks like a new paint job, but it can be removed—and it allows for not just one color but multiple images and words to be emblazoned across your vehicle. Rodriguez is driving his “DomoMobile,” named for his book’s main character, Dr. Domo, on a cross-country book tour, from Orlando to Seattle and back again.

Moravian Falls: The Fantastic Adventures of Dr. Domo is set in 1965 Dominican Republic. Dr. Domo, a university professor, is called away into the island’s mountains by an ancient behique, or shaman. She passes on to him a magical Taino power—that comes in handy when he returns to Santo Domingo—to find the city in flames from the revolution, his wife missing, and his grandson in danger from evil forces. Can Dr. Domo’s heritage help him save his family during a time of political tumult? Moravian Falls was an EVVY finalist.

We’re excited to hear how Rodriguez’s book tour goes. His unique and bold marketing idea is sure to bring lots of attention to his book—with the added bonus of helping to protect his SUV from scratches on his epic journey.