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Review Building an Author Platform that can Launch Anything: a Social Media Minibook.

19 Apr

author, platform, marketing, promotion, sales, networkingBuilding an Author Platform that can Launch Anything: a Social Media Minibook, by Toby Neal, is a concise yet information packed mini-book that gives straight-forward advice for authors on how to build an author platform (writer-speak for a system of marketing and promotional tools) that will build readership and excitement for both the author and their book.  The end result: sales!

Book Description:

Effective steps to building an author platform that can take advantage of free programs and launch any book into visibility and better sales.

Self published or not, today’s authors have to develop their own “platform” for reaching book buyers. This power-packed booklet contains tips based on author Toby Neal’s sales and psychology background and experience with her bestselling crime novel, Blood Orchids. These secrets maximize social media to build an author platform that can bring fast, wide-ranging visibility and increased sales to any book.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Review: Sullivan’s War, All Good Men Serve the Devil

02 Apr

Sullivan’s War 1: The Story

book review, Sullivans War, Michael K Rose

Cover art,

Rick Sullivan is an idealist, bent on ending a corrupt government’s strangle hold on his home planet of Edaline.  Sullivan is the bad-guy and not above killing people to accomplish his goal.

Frank Allen is an investigator in the equivalent of a galaxy-spanning FBI.  Someone killed a planetary assemblyman, Frank is part of the team sent to investigate.  This quickly pits him against Sullivan in a planet hopping game of hide and seek that comes to involve an assembly of colorful and often loathsome characters.  There is little regard for The Law among the fringe planets and Allen and his team meet with opposition even from among their own side. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Movie Review Round-up

22 Jan

movies, family, entertainment

From www.stacysrandomthoughts.com

In the past I have been known to post movie reviews here: mostly Sci-Fi, particularly old Sci-Fi because that’s what I enjoy watching.  Through those reviews I met a few others who would pop in to see my comments and use them to plan their own movie watching.

Then a few movie eZines chose to throw money at me if I’d publish my reviews through them. Not lots of money, mind you, but some is better than none. So I ‘ve been shipping my reviews off to Socyberty, Cinemaroll and now Telewatcher.  I do tweet and Facebook these when they get published, but they often get lost in the stream of gazillions of tweets.  A couple of these folks have said that they miss my insights.  Not many, mind you, but a couple.  So I decided to post this post were I can offer a digest of these reviews with links to their published locations.  I’ll update the list as new ones go out.

Book reviews will continue to be done here because they do directly relate to my topics of writing and publishing (and because no one has offered to buy them).

(Click the titles to read the reviews – and ‘Thank You’ for your interest!)

 

 sci-fi, movie, space opera, cult classic, Richard ThomasMovie Review: Battle Beyond the Stars

Battle Beyond the Stars, starring Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard, and  a host of others is the story of a young man who ventures out from his pacifist home planet when it comes under attack by the evil tyrant Sador.

Published by WritingHood on April 3, 2012
Buy the movie here: Battle Beyond the Stars

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Book Review: Hunted

22 Dec

Hunted, Lindsay Buroker, steampunk, fantasyThis is my review of “Hunted”, which is the second novella in the  Flash Gold Chronicles series by Lindsay Buroker.  In this story Ms. Buroker continues the adventure begun in Flash Gold with Kali and Cedar, now business partners as bounty hunters.  They’ve left Moose Jaw and are setting out upon a new adventure seeking Cedar’s arch nemesis, both for the bounty and for personal vengeance.  This takes them to a mining camp out in the wilds of the Yukon where they encounter Kali’s greatest enemy, and her hero, and find themselves in one desperate situation after another.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Review: Flash Gold

19 Dec

Steampunk, novel, BurokerThis free novella is the lead-in to Ms. Buroker’s series The Flash Gold Chronicles.  And a fine lead it is.  I’ll borrow the author’s synopsis:

“Eighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered “dogless sled” in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father’s alchemical masterpiece.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Review: Semper Audacia

31 Oct

Semper Audacia, Mary Pax, M Pax, Sci-Fi, novelSemper Audacia is the story of a warrior; the last of her kind, defending her home world via an orbital outpost.  The planet’s population too has dwindled and is just hanging on.  Their ancient foe attacks and the last guardian springs into action accompanied by a battalion of ghosts; the memories of her fallen comrades.

The odds are almost hopeless.  Almost.  She must try; it’s what she does, it’s what she is and has been all her life.  But then a wrinkle – the enemy battleship transmits a valid “friendly” code even as it’s powering up weapons.  If the enemy are finally responding to their pleas for peace, attacking the ship would fling her people back into eternal war.  If it’s a ruse, her people could be exterminated.  She chooses a decidedly unconventional solution.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Review: The Burning Sky

24 Oct

The Burning Sky was my very first encounter with a truly Steampunk novel.   I read it more out of curiosity about the genre than anything.  I’m glad I did, and I’m glad I chose this one as a starting point.  This is my review.

 

The Burning Sky novel, steampunk LewisThe Burning Sky, by Joseph Robert Lewis is the first book in the Halcyon Trilogy.  I found it to be the embodiment of the old writing adage that says: to create suspense, place your protagonists in a very bad situation, then make it worse.  The story starts out with a horrific act of terrorism sweeping up an uninvolved mechanic on an air ship and carrying her along throughout the story.  For most of the story, her plight and those of the characters that get rolled into the mix, get steadily worse.  Resolution is saved for the very end.

The story is a masterful weave of multiple story lines, all winding around the main plot, although we don’t learn what that is for quite some time.  However Mr. Lewis does not allow us to founder in confusion; each character’s contribution is quite interesting all on its own and the intrigue builds as they begin to coalesce and we start to make the connections.     Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Review: The Fountains of Paradise

12 Sep

Fountains of Paradise, review, book, sci-fi, A.C. ClarkeArthur C. Clarke’s 1979 Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel, The Fountains of Paradise is Science Fiction’s definitive novel about the “space elevator,” or “Skyhook”.  This concept enjoyed a brief period of enthusiastic interest among SF circles in the early 1980′s. The concept deals with an elevator (more like a monorail train car actually) that stretches from Earth’s surface to a space station in geosynchronous orbit, which would in turn serve as a construction, servicing  and  launching facility for ships voyaging to the moon, planets and even deep space.  A primary plus was eliminating the need for expensive, inefficient, and environmentally unfriendly rocket launches from the ground.  The whole idea seems incredible but is not outside the realm of engineering possibility.  Clarke makes a strong case for the feasibility of such an unconventional project within the context of a completely engrossing story set mostly in the 22nd century.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Review: In Her Name – Empire

05 Sep

In Her Name: Empire by Michael R. HicksThis is a review of the eBook version of “In Her Name: Empire”; the first book of the In Her Name series written by Michael R. Hicks.

On a five-star scale, I’m giving this one four stars.  It probably deserves five stars, but I’m snatching one back simply because there were parts of it that made me, personally, uncomfortable.  If this were a literary review I would not do that, but this is me telling you how *I* felt about this book.

***No Spoilers***

This is an exciting, well-crafted read. It embraces a number of genres as the story goes along, but I’d classify it primarily as Sci-Fi.  The initial chapters are definitely Sci-fi as remnants of a defeated human population try desperately to fend off an alien invasion of their planet.  Our protagonist is a boy caught in the devastation.  The second scene is an orphanage planet established for youths like our protagonist who lost their families in the war.  It is a harsh environment, an alien place run by petty bureaucrats who think nothing of exploiting the children in their care.   Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Book Reviewers List

19 Jul

If you have wriiten a book, or are writing a book and are nearly complete, you will no doubt be thinking about having it reviewed as part of your promotional process.  But, where do you find book reviewers?  I found this rather comprehensive list of reviewers, their genres and terms, and thought I’d share it with you.  These gals have git a lot of work into the list. it’s worth checking out.

http://pippajay.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-reviewers-list.html 

If I run across other *lists* I’ll add them to this post as a reference.  If you are a reviewer or know a reviewer and want to be added to a list, please contact the list keeper.

 
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