Marone Memoirs – An immigrant Story by author Sarah E. Lingley is the story of her great grandparents Raffaele and Rosa Marone and their voyage to freedom in America. This book chronicles their journey and subsequent life in America. Raffaele Marone, tired of his life in Laurenzana, Italy, travels to New York to begin a [...]
The Review The narrative opens on a dusty Tennessee day in 1965. That is the day when Eddie Russel’s preacher father drops a bomb shell. Eddie and his sister Lakeesha will be part of a small group of black high schoolers to integrate the local all white high school. For football star Eddie this is [...]
When I first published my first novel, The Ebony Tree, I’ll never forget how I found out later that my then, 23 year-old niece ran through the house and screamed with laughter, after she read the book. Now mind you, my niece had always been an avid reader of white romance novels since her early [...]
New writers have often been the cause of some of their own failures when trying to sell their own self-published book. Unlike what many people believe it takes some well thought out planning when deciding what to write if you want to be a successful author. To begin with there’s keywords, market saturation, traffic, conversion [...]
While most writers really don’t have the knowledge or the desire to fully create their own book cover design, it’s important that they be invested in the process. The design process should start with a vision that the writer has of a scene that evokes the feeling of the work he or she has completed. [...]
When many novice promoters think of internet marketing, they believe it’s all about putting up a good web site and then driving traffic to it using banner ads or a Google AdWords campaign. Sure, that’s one way to promote your books online. But it’s one of the least effective, in my opinion. Another line of [...]
It’s a big world out there — especially on the Internet. The number of Internet users worldwide now exceeds 1.5 billion people. That’s right. Billion with a B. More than 250 million of those users are in North America alone. It’s intimidating to think about connecting with all those people. No wonder so many authors [...]
Many folks have always wanted to write a book and now with computer software and word-processing programs writing a book can be fairly easy. In fact, it’s not too difficult to get e-book templates to help in the process. This means anyone with any experience in any endeavor can write a non-fiction book, and anyone [...]
Good Rep, Baby You’ve got to find a publisher with a decent reputation. Ask friends who have self-published. Go to writers’ forums and websites and quiz individuals on their publishing experiences. Then go to publisher websites and read the testimonials. But, remember, they will not print any of the critical author emails they’ve received. And, [...]
As with car insurance, policies come with an excess to discourage small claims and for boat insurance, this is usually quite a large sum of money, as the intention of the insurance is to cover you against substantial losses instead of just scratches and dents. There is little difference between the two types of policy [...]