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Editing Your Manuscript for Logic Inconsistencies

Having a professional copy editor review your fiction or nonfiction manuscript before publication is a very good idea. But what makes a professional copy editor?

The above question is a serious one that I have been pondering as I find numerous errors in books (including my own) that are both self-published and published by major publishers.

And here is an interesting consideration: How much does the copy editor know about the world? Seriously.



Let me explain:

I have been reviewing before publication the fourth humorous short story book by my 88-year-old father Al Zimbler. He has a professional copy editor, who does a very good job of finding grammar errors, etc. But what about logic errors?

In a story that takes place in 1940, a person is referred to as working at a “high-tech company.” I think we can agree that this term was not used in 1940. (I eliminated the reference.)

In another short story, in one place the woman has never dated and in another place she only goes on occasional dates. (I corrected this inconsistency.)

Then there is the question of varying cultural references in the same language:

In my experience Robin is usually a woman’s name in the U.S. and a man’s name in the U.K. So in a short story meant for English-speaking readers, using the name Robin can cause gender confusion. (How about choosing a clearly masculine or feminine name for this issue?)

As much as we authors strive for perfection in our books, there will be errors. (Hopefully ones that we can correct.) But logic inconsistencies can give us all headaches!

P.S. If you are at Book Expo America in New York, I’ll be hanging out part of the time at Booth C1283 with the team from Booksicals, which is launching its Sweetness of Reading campaign. Stop by and say hi!

And you can see my father’s humorous short stories about love and sex at www.amazon.com/author/albertzimbler

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

In Honor of Memorial Day: PINKY SWEAR, SOLOMON’S JUSTICE and PTSD

While honoring this Memorial Day the men and women who died serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, we should also remember the veterans who carry both visible and invisible scars from their military service.

One of the most debilitating invisible scars is that of PTSD.

Some of you may know that I am working on a fiction project to attract more attention to the need for people suffering from PTSD to get help — www.SolomonsJustice.com

(The image above is for the cover of the Kindle short story SOLOMON’S JUSTICE, which I hope to publish very soon.)

And in honor of Memorial Day, I wanted to share a scene from my new YA short story PINKY SWEAR. The story takes place in 1964 — before the term PTSD was used — but the aftereffects of combat still took their toll as the excerpt below demonstrates:

Ft. Knox, Fall 1964

That afternoon, after their high school classes were over for the day, Donna and Laurel were in Laurel’s room listening to “Under the Boardwalk.” From the next-door quarters sharing a wall with Laurel’s family’s unit came the sound of a man screaming.

“What’s that?” Donna asked.

“Sgt. Stewart.”

“Why is he yelling like that?”

Laurel shook her head. “He served in Korea and his wife told my mother that he has been like this since then.”

“Why is he still in the Army?”

Laurel started the record again. “He manages okay most of the time. Just sometimes things get to him.”

“Can we do anything?”

“He has young kids. Let’s go next door and see if we can take them to the park.”

Next door Mrs. Stewart, a black woman in her mid-30s, opened the door and beckoned Laurel, followed by Donna, inside. Two small children hide behind their mother.

Laurel coaxed one child into her arms, and Donna bent down and picked up the other child.

“I’m sorry for the ruckus,” Mrs. Stewart said. “The post hospital gave him some new medication today and it doesn’t seem to agree with him.”

“This is my friend Donna,” Laurel said. “We came over to see if we could take the kids to the park for you.”

Donna saw the relief flash across Mrs. Stewart’s face. Mrs. Stewart said, “If you would walk them over there and watch them, I would really appreciate it.”

Still holding one child, Donna followed Laurel out and watched as Laurel gestured to the little red wagon leaning against the outside wall. The girls plopped the kids into the wagon and Laurel grabbed the handle.

Donna tagged along beside Laurel, thinking about Sgt. Stewart. He had come back from Korea, but what had happened to him there? She asked Laurel about this.

“He was in one of the first integrated Army units. President Truman integrated troops during the Korean War. No one says what he’s suffering from.”

Donna hesitated before speaking. “If our fathers get sent to Vietnam, do you think they might become like Sgt. Stewart?”

Laurel looked back at the kids in the wagon. “No way of knowing.”

“How long is he like this?” Donna asked.

“He should be better soon,” Laurel said. “We’ll just keep the kids in the park for an hour.”

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If you want to read the entire YA short story PINKY SWEAR for FREE now, you can download the Kindle format at www.booksicals.com/books — SCROLL DOWN the page until you come to PINKY SWEAR and then click on “Special FREE Ebook.”

Don’t have a Kindle? No problem. You can get a FREE Kindle app for your iPhone, iPad, Android, PC or Mac at http://budurl.com/freeKindleapp

(The Donna in this short story is the same Donna — one of four new U.S. Army officers’ wives — featured in the novel MRS. LIEUTENANT, which takes place at Ft. Knox in 1970. Click here to read about this novel and two other experience-based military novels written by former military spouses.)

And do share this post and the link to the short story with people you think will appreciate it.

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Going to Book Expo America?

Book Expo America (BEA) is in New York May 30 through June 1, and I will be there as the marketing consultant for the book company Booksicals, which is launching a book project in partnership with Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (CBTL).

The MAGIC TEA HOUSE project is more than a new children’s picture book thanks to this unique collaboration.

Susan Chodakiewitz of Booksicals and David De Candia, tea master of CBTL, co-authored the new picture book MASTER DAVEY AND THE MAGIC TEA HOUSE with illustrations by Kent Yoshimura.

At the same time, CBTL developed the BLUE TIGER HERBAL INFUSION to accompany the book’s launch. (The book and the tea tin will be sold separately, as well as together in a gift set as shown in the illustration above.)



This is such a unique partnership that the Booksicals booth at BEA – C1283 – has been selected as one of the stops on the Book Expo America VIP tour. (For location see the schematic at http://bit.ly/184ImRh )

The Magic Tea House team is working on various promotional opportunities for BEA, including tea tastings at the booth from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. each of the three days. There will also be a raffle for a signed copy of one of the incredible book illustrations.

In addition, there will be a special raffle for museum store buyers with a chance to win a free author event and tea tasting ceremony with CBTL tea master David De Candia at the winner’s museum.

As a BEA special — Booksicals is offering free ebooks. These include TOO MANY VISITORS FOR ONE LITTLE HOUSE, YA short story PINKY SWEAR, and the brand-new Middle Grade novel JACK STROM AND NEW ORLEANS HOODOO by Yael K. Miller.

(Yes, readers of this blog post can take advantage of this free offer even if you are not going to BEA. Just go to www.booksicals.com/expo and look for the links to these free ebooks.)



And, finally, let me know if you’re going to be at BEA. I’d love to meet in person with people whom I currently only know online.

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Creating Author Taglines

Author Jean Oram wrote a valuable blog post about why authors should consider creating a tagline for themselves:

Author taglines (or even writer taglines — you don’t need to be published to use one!) help readers, editors, publicists (hopefully!), and stumblers immediately recognize what you and your brand and your site is about. It should be memorable, short, and encompass what you are and what you write about, and in doing so, let folks know what you are not.

This blog post resonated with me — and reminded me that I had once written a tagline for the screenplays that Mitch and I write: “We write what we love — romantic comedies — and what we know — spy thrillers.”

(Mitch’s and my book FOUR COMEDY SCREENPLAYS features variations on the theme of romantic comedies. See the book on Amazon at http://amzn.to/TPy6Cs)

Actually, the above example is somewhat long for the taglines that Jean Oram envisions: “Right now my blog tagline is ‘Always learning. Always writing.’ That about sums up my blog and website at the moment.”

If I were to try creating a tagline for my fiction and nonfiction books combined, I might use “I write what I know and what I love.” And then I might add, for my fiction writing, “Featuring strong women.”

If you are a writer, do you have a tagline? Leave it below in the comments to share with others. Or try out a tagline now to see if it “fits” you.

For inspiration, click here to read Jean Oram’s entire post.

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Reverse Engineering: Turning a Novel Into a Screenplay

In my blog post “Turning a Screenplay Into a Novel” I talked about the importance of point-of-view characters.

But what happens when you turn a novel into a screenplay and screenplays do not have point-of-view characters (unless you employ voice over) — people whose thoughts the audience can know?

In this case writers have to be able to convey interior thoughts in other ways — or let the actions speak for themselves.

A famous screenwriter once said that an screenplay adaption of a book was easy — all you had to do is open the book and start typing the screenplay.

But in fact this is not true.

For example, I am about to adapt my cozy mystery novel CAST THE FIRST STONE into a screenplay. I have been playing around in my head (I like to write in my head first) how to begin the screenplay:

I plan to eliminate the first scene of the novel as well as another scene early on. I will then add a very brief scene of the murder victim while he is still alive. Then there is the scene whose information I may add in shortened form into a different existing scene.

Each one of these decisions is based on the need to consider the visual components of a film as well as other screenplay parameters. I actually love the challenge of changing one form of fiction into another form — using the strengths of a particular medium to best serve the story.

Now, for the purpose of full disclosure, I will admit I took numerous writing courses in fiction writing, screenplay writing and playwriting at UCLA Extension. Plus I spent a pirate’s ransom on how-to writing books from Writer’s Digest Books. (I read all the books I bought.)

It did take me considerable time to learn the differences between all these forms of writing. And I continue to learn more whenever the opportunity arises.

Still, adapting a screenplay from a book is not as simple as opening the book and starting to type. Or maybe it is that easy if you are a famous screenwriter!

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Catch-22 With Book Promotion

Book marketing can seem like an endless loop in a “fun house” — no way out.

Why do I say this? Here is one example:

My cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE was free via Amazon’s KDP Select May 2-4. It did rather well, subsequently earning a place below the 10,000 rank in the paid Kindle store, which some people believe is the magic number of keeping the momentum going.

Now to help this momentum I wanted to buy an ad for CAST THE FIRST STONE on one popular Kindle site. But I was unable to do this because at this moment CAST only has four reviews. The minimum for buying an ad on this particular site is eight reviews with an average rating of 4 out of 5.

Thus CAST has been rising in the paid ranks (not a good thing) and will soon lose all the momentum earned from the successful three days of free downloads.

While I understand a site owner setting parameters for accepting ads, it is frustrating because there is no assurance that the minimum requirement of eight ads and an average rating of 4 out of 5 did not all come from the book author’s relatives.

Now I do have the option of creating a paperback for CAST (now only available as a Kindle ebook) and then offering it as part of a Goodreads giveaway. In theory I might get a couple of reviews from the people who win the paperback copies of CAST.

And in the meantime I can hope that some of the people who downloaded CAST for free will like the story and write a good review of the book on Amazon.

Eventually CAST may get enough reviews with a good rating to qualify for an ad on the site I like. Who knows? I can only hope.

Meanwhile, click here to check out cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE on Kindle — complete with three kosher recipes.

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Turning a Screenplay Into a Novel

In a Facebook group in which I participate, someone asked whether anyone had turned a screenplay into a novel.

I answered that my romantic suspense spy thriller CIA FALL GUY was a screenplay first, and that my military thriller LT. COMMANDER MOLLIE SANDERS was adapted from two screenplays that have the same protagonist.

Then I started to think about the differences between a screenplay and a novel.

Point of view:

One of the biggest areas is point of view. I will admit it took me years to clearly understand point of view in a novel. I like close third person, which means that the person whose point of view that segment is being told in can only know his or her own thoughts and not what the other people are thinking.

(A novel can have several POV characters as long as it is clearly signaled to the reader by chapter changes or section breaks that the POV has changed. In my women’s friendship novel MRS. LIEUTENANT I actually labeled each chapter with the name of which of the four POV characters that chapter’s viewpoint character was.)

But in a screenplay there is no POV character in terms of knowing the internal thoughts of any of the characters. (Yes, people’s actions can demonstrate how they feel but this is not the same as actually reading in a novel what a character’s thoughts are.)

Thus one of the important considerations when adapting a screenplay into a novel is whose POV is being used. And one of the ways to signal this is the use of character names.

For example, in LT. COMMANDER MOLLIE SANDERS, LCDR Sanders is the protagonist, but she is not always the POV character. Thus, when she is the POV character, I use her first name, Mollie, in descriptions and dialogue attribution.

But when the POV is that of LCDR Kevin Witlow, I use her call sign, Gearhead, because that is how LCDR Witlow thinks of her.

Present or past tense for description:

Another change is that in screenplays the description is in present tense. And unless you are writing a novel in present tense (which I did with MRS. LIEUTENANT), you have to be careful to switch to past tense description.

Extending the brand:

I used an unpublished short story about LCRD Sanders to bridge the two screenplay stories for the novel. In hindsight I would not have used the short story and instead would have published it separately on Kindle as a short story.

I am working on the short story CIA SPY GUY as a followup to CIA FALL GUY, and I am planning on using a one-hour TV drama pilot I wrote with different characters as the basis for this short story featuring the main characters from CIA FALL GUY.

Think about it.

Most writers of screenplays and novels truly like their characters and the stories created for those characters. If the characters in a screenplay are not seeing the light of day on film, why not bring them out into the world of novels? Thanks to ebooks and POD, this is now a reality.

Click here to see all my books on Amazon. And notice the new cover for FOUR COMEDY SCREENPLAYS, none of which has yet been turned into a novel.

P.S. If you are a member of Goodreads, click on the widget in the top right-hand corner to sign up to win one of the copies of MRS. LIEUTENANT.

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Notes From the Self-Publishing World

From a book author’s perspective:

I love being a self-published author and being able to take control of my own books. But on the downside of this power comes having to deal with the non-book tasks.

For example, this week I once again had to get in phone contact with Amazon Author Central because the LOOK INSIDE feature of my women’s friendship novel MRS. LIEUTENANT continues to show the old cover instead of the new cover. While I was assured in a phone call weeks ago that this would be taken care of promptly, this has not been the case.

Note to other authors: Do you check your LOOK INSIDE feature on Amazon to ensure that the correct information is inside?

Today I had to get in phone contact with CreateSpace (owned by Amazon) about the new uploaded cover for my book FOUR COMEDY SCREENPLAYS. Although, when creating this cover, Yael was very careful to leave ample space on either side of the title (so as not to touch the edges of the picture), I got an email rejecting the upload because the title on the cover is supposedly too close to the edges. (Clearly this is not the case as you can see from the above image.)

UPDATE: A few hours later I got an email from CreateSpace saying my book was approved — no explanation of why I got the previous erroneous email.

Then I checked on the marketing opportunity for which I paid to have MRS. LIEUTENANT included at Book Expo America. Click here to see this promotion now.

And from a book consultant’s perspective:

An author emailed me about my company’s social media consulting services, adding that up to now the author had not thought social media important. Requested to look at the long online sales page for the book, I was struck by one glaring absence:

Even if authors are not currently participating in social media (and why not?), they should be aware of how social media has impacted the expectation of prospective readers of our books. The VERY LONG sales letter (from my skimming) appeared to have no author picture and no information on the author.

Even if I missed the information buried somewhere in the long sales piece, today’s social media participants expect information on the author to appear front and center.

If you are an author and have not yet joined in the vast online opportunities to connect with potential readers, you would be wise to consider how those potential readers may have expectations about the promotion of your book.

Goodreads giveaway: You can find me at www.goodreads.com/pzmiller — and if you are a Goodreads member and would like the opportunity to win a copy of the paperback edition of MRS. LIEUTENANT, click on the widget to the right of this blog post to be taken to the Goodreads sign up.



And click here to check out my May book marketing post at Joylene Butler’s blog.

P.S. A big shoutout to FreeBookDude — While I cannot prove it, I am fairly sure that the inclusion on this site on May 6th of the free days for cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE made a big difference in the total number of free downloads for that book (as well as the subsequent sales after the free days ended).

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Juggling Apples and Oranges for CAST THE FIRST STONE Free Days

May 2-4: Los Angeles cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE is FREE on Kindle via KDP Select. Click here for U.S. download or click here for U.K. download.

The one absolute in online ebook promotion is that there are no absolutes. But oh how I wish it were easier to compare different marketing strategies in order to arrive at a “best practices” model.

The reality is, though, that all of us authors are comparing apples with oranges. First, of course, we write different books in various genres. Second, some may have only one book being sold on Kindle, for example, while others may have many books. Some write only fiction, others write only nonfiction, while there are many authors who write both.

What makes it really hard to duplicate past successes or avoid past failures is that there is little ability to keep all variables the same.

Let me give you an example:



One effective strategy I have found for past KDP Select free days for other books of mine is to pay for inclusion in Digital Book Today’s top free books. But besides a slot being available on the day you want it, your book has to have a certain number of reviews and a certain level rating.

CAST THE FIRST STONE does not yet have the number of reviews needed for such an advertising opportunity. Thus I chose another Digital Book Today advertising option — a one-week slot along with other books on the sidebar of the site.

But trying to compare the effectiveness of this advertising opportunity with the one that CAST is not yet eligible for would not prove that one advertising option is better than another.

BECAUSE … the difference in the type of novel plus the difference in the number of reviews can be the determining factors rather than the actual advertising option.

Thus I am comparing apples with oranges when trying to determine an effective strategy for my next KDP Select free days.

And this one example is multiplied by all kinds of other examples, such as comparing using a service to submit your free book listing to numerous sites to submitting yourself.

Putting aside that some of the top sites also have requirements in terms of number of reviews and rating level, there is the consideration of sites that request a small donation to “guarantee” your book’s listing. If you are using a service to submit your book, you are probably missing the opportunity to make these donations.

And on any one day you have no idea what other books in your book’s genre are also free.

Then there are the questions re KDP Select (exclusive only for the ebook and not for physical formats):

How many of the five free days in each 90-day exclusive KDP Select period should best be used at one time?
Which days of the week are the best for free download offers?

Okay, now that I have reviewed just a portion of the considerations for KDP Select free days, I have to go back to juggling apples and oranges.

And please share the links to the free downloads for CAST THE FIRST STONE with your friends.

P.S. Thanks to prolific author Elaine Raco Chase for this tip: Now on an author’s Amazon Author Central profile there is an option in the top right-hand corner to “Stay Up To Date.” If you are signed into your Amazon account, click on the link to get an email when there is a new release.

(Note: This new option is somewhat wonky. First I saw it on my Amazon Author Central profile and then the next time I looked the option was not there. Elaine has experienced this issue in connection with which web browser is being used, but I used the same browser both times.)

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com

Book Marketing Update

A collection of book marketing information from around the web:

Goodreads giveaway:

The two-week Goodreads giveaway I did for HOW TO SUCCEED IN HIGH SCHOOL AND PREP FOR COLLEGE has now ended. I have mailed an autograph copy to each of the 10 winners.

So far I am pleased with my first participation in a Goodreads giveaway (has to be for a physical book). And I have now started my second one — a month-long giveaway of five copies of my women’s friendship novel MRS. LIEUTENANT. (If you are a Goodreads member, you can click through on the widget on the right-hand side of this post and sign up to win one of the books.)

Google Plus:

You can now have a larger image at the top of your Google plus profile. The problem, in my opinion, is that the image is so large that — when a person comes to your Google Plus profile — the person only sees the image (unless that person has a huge computer screen) and nothing below the image.

I am not sure what I think of this expanded image option. I may try it out and see what I think.

Gimp:

Gimp is a free alternative to Photoshop, and I am starting to dip my fingers into learning this software. Yael has been doing all the image creation for Miller Mosaic. But now that she is going to Silicon Valley for an intensive 9-week programming course, I need to learn how to do this for myself.

I’ll be happy if I can become half as good as Yael is with this software as I have several ebook covers that I want to create.

Guest posts around the web:

My women’s friendship novel MRS. LIEUTENANT got to be featured on Victoria Twead’s site, which requires a minimum of 25 5-star Amazon reviews to be featured. Click here to read this interview.
I wrote the guest post “Why I Sometimes Worry About Writing Cozy Mysteries” for the Cozy Mystery Book Reviews site. Click here to read this post.
And finally I wrote the guest post “Book Marketing Is Also Murder” for the site Mystery Writing Is Murder. Click here to read this post.

Mark your calendars: On May 2-4 my cozy mystery CAST THE FIRST STONE will be FREE on Kindle at http://amzn.to/SLYBJY and, if you would enjoy a Los Angeles-based cozy mystery that includes 3 Jewish recipes, download the ebook then.

P.S. Again, I want to give a special thanks to AuthorShout.com for choosing me as the April author of the month — click here to see this honor now with the new cover of MRS. LIEUTENANT clearly displayed.

© 2013 Miller Mosaic LLC

Phyllis Zimbler Miller is the author of fiction and nonfiction books/ebooks, including TOP TIPS FOR HOW TO PUBLISH AND MARKET YOUR BOOK IN THE AGE OF AMAZON and the romantic suspense spy story CIA FALL GUY.

Click here to visit her Amazon author page at www.amazon.com/author/phylliszimblermiller

She also has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and is the co-founder of the online marketing company www.MillerMosaicLLC.com