How To Promote Your Book ANYWHERE

SO you've got a WINNING Title and subtitle for your book, what’s next?
(YOU'RE NOT SURE? Read next week’s post to find out the formula)

How To Promote Your Book 

On Amazon

1.   Ensure you are categorized in super niche categories. (Where is your target audience?)

2 .   Conduct your Amazon “Book Buying” campaign during a 24-48 hour period.   (Pre-market your book)

3. Create a BOOK LAUNCH TEAM.

 (other bloggers in your network, including community leaders, people with lists and tribes, that will HELP YOU promote your book.)

4     Organize bulk book purchases from associations and professional organizations.

5     Utilize Amazon TOOLS: Amazon Create Space, Author Central, Author’s Rank, and Kindle.

To See MORE: "Bestseller in a Weekend" 

http://youtu.be/xbZXET3oxjM

The Hound Dog

I’ll never forget that snowy winter morning when I was ten. At seven a.m.,  it was still dark, and frosty outside, my Dad would crack the upstairs hall window and stand there smoking his Kent cigarette staring into the blackness, waiting for the dawn.

His deep, throaty Guten Morgen Cornelia, exhale matched mine as I echoed my answer,

Morning Dad, close that window, its freezing I can see my breath!!  Mom tell him to close the window, we are ALL going to get sick!

KURT, Connie, Angie come look; Mom screeched from the Kitchen; I just saw the hound dog!

I beat them into the kitchen  as Mom continued to wave towards the window, as her eyes grew wider. She was so excited, I thought she would burst.

What, I countered?

The Hound Dog, the HOUND DOG!

Okay Mom, back up. What hound dog? The neighbor’s dog? What dog?

She shook her head emphatically and said

The Hound DOG has no shadow! 

That means Spring is coming early this year.

OHHH!

Navigating Change: Making A Difference!

conniededona's photostream on Flickr.

These 16 pictures are courtesy of Habilitat!
An Evening of Poetry at Habilitat, with special guests Kealoha, the first Poet Laureate of Hawaii, myself Connie D. and Fellow Pen Woman, Marcia Zina Mager

A Special Thank you to Habilitat Poets
Sarah S.
Ocie G.
Shannon N.
Mark B.
Krystal A. for the ART

Seeking Employment

Mature woman with skills in office management, publishing, editing and bookkeeping seeks position as an Assistant. Hard worker, excellent people skills, willing to learn.

Mature? as in 50+-- Fat Chance!

Like THAT’S Going TO HAPPEN!

So what’s a mature woman to do?

Become an Expert, that’s what!

So I need your Help—I need you to tell me what problems you are having, navigating the internet?

The other day I got an email from Joanne Z. she wanted me to take her off my Google + email list because frankly she was getting too much stuff from me, stuff she didn’t want or have time to read. So how can you gracefully un-friend a friend on the internet?

I have GOOGLE+ and if I add you to my circles as a friend or an acquaintance and you add me back and I am  sending out way too many updates, what can you do to get rid of those updates? Besides spending all of your time hitting the delete button?

I still like you; I just don’t want all of your updates. 

Well, you can check out my blog from time to time, if you want to catch up AND you can simply hover over that green box next to the email and un-check the friend box in your g-mail account. That’s on the far right next to the email message. It will be highlighted in green. What if you don’t have g-mail? If you don’t have g-mail, you can still ask your friend to un-check you from their circles, after all what are friends for? 

Send me your Questions!

Letters to a Prisoner by Connie D. is available at your local Library Hawaii. Order your copy today!

Because the Earth Without ART is just "EH"

listen to ‘Because the Earth Without ART is just "EH"’ on Audioboo

Because The EARTH without ART is just "EH"

**This poem was inspired by a T-shirt design—I bought the shirt! I am also trying to convince certain people of the importance of POETRY!

Because The EARTH without ART is just "EH".

They say that ART will weigh heavy on their plate

that they have to scale back, that ART will have to wait

Maybe things will change, sometime down the pike

Maybe HELL will freeze or just go take a hike

The World without a poem is gonna suck BIG TIME

ADMIT IT can you FACE, this world without a Rhyme?

So listen Mister please, have a little HEART

And contemplate my drift let’s SAVE a place for ART

COS if you take the ART out of E A R T H

All that’s left are two letters; all that’s left is “EH”.

They want to get to basics

they still don’t know the way

they think that Aristotle

and Plato played with clay

but the world without their thinking

without their ART is “EH”.

They think that Science rules

that RELIGION will save the day

that man can live on mere hard work

but that is not HIS way

For MAN is only human

and needs to chill and play.

And people let us face it

without ART The Earth is just “EH”.

So let us break it down

and investigate today

finding new solutions

for our external fray

and promote this dialogue

vs. placing limits on the ARTS, OKAY?

They say that ART is an ACT

for people on the fringe

retards, creeps, and losers

waiting to unhinge

BUT we are not the nihilists

on the periphery

We are not IN SEASON

or Zombie meat delivery.

Understand!

LANGUAGE IS AN ART

it must be understood and not taken for granted

giving us not only a love of WORDS, but a love of LOGIC

to frame the argument

add up our influence

to lessen  events beyond our control

to translate the sea of language in which our minds swim

To plug into our power

 our humanity

into what separates us from the APES.

our evolution throughout the Ages

to be the conscience

make intelligent choices

to define our place IN  nature not APART from it

NATURE—THE GREATEST SOCIAL NETWORK

To carry out the critical thinking required

to deal with planetary issues like global warming

ocean acidity, invasive species and  white coral disease

to discuss our addiction

to plastic, fossil fuel, and waste

We need to emerge as the

authentic heroes and heroines

of our OWN HUMAN STORY.

Our language must go on!

WE MUST CONTINUE to create, educate, and relate

BECAUSE The EARTH without ART is just “EH”.