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Indie House Books rocks!

This great web site has posted a fantastic feature on Come Find Me and an interview with me. It has all sorts of random facts about me, plus details about my writing life and work. You can also find information on all sorts of authors and books on the site -- it's a fun place to discover new voices. Here's the link to the interview:

http://indiehousebooks.com/author-int...

Thanks to Julie's Book Review!

Check out the great article about me and COME FIND ME on Julie's Book Review today!

Also, fill out the contest entry form on her home page, and you might win a free ebook and gift card from one of 40 authors!

www.juliesbookreview.blogspot.com

Fun article about me published today!

This article that just came out has fun and random facts about me! What a nice service they offer authors for free! Thank you, Free EBooks daily!

http://www.freeebooksdaily.com/2014/0...

FREE Come Find Me June 27 and 28

I'm offering my new novel COME FIND ME for free today and tomorrow on Amazon! It's gotten great reviews. Please share with your friends and family. Here's a promotion of it on Choosy Bookworm.com.

http://choosybookworm.com/product/com...

Great Writing Advice from 5 Great Novelists

Today I decided to pick through some of my favorite books about writing, written by famous novelists. Here's a link to what five wonderful quotes that I came up with by Norman Mailer, Jane Smiley, Anne Lamott, Stephen King, and John Updike.

What are your favorite pieces of writing advice?

http://www.patchofearth.com/writing-a...

New 5-star review of COME FIND ME from The Kindle Book Review!

I'm really excited! I just got another 5-star review for COME FIND ME from a different reviewer on The Kindle Book Review! Here's what Heather Austin said:

"True love overcomes all.
This is an amazing story of how love can overcome any obstacles that are in the way. It is the story of how Jessica feel in love and became married to Chelsea's dad. Chelsea is in a bad place after losing her boyfriend and Jessica feels it is time to tell her their love story in the hopes of being able to save her from herself. It is not only an amazing story of how two people feel in love with each and overcame many obstacles to be together but also the lengths that a mother will go through to "save" her child. It is a must read for any who love this type of novel, it is well written and the characters are believable. I received a free copy of this book in exchange of a honest review (KBR)."

The Unified Theory of Love and Everything

I'm working hard right now on finishing up the rewrite of my next novel, The Unified Theory of Love and Everything. I actually started it long before I started writing Come Find Me. If you want to see the cover, go to my web site at www.travisnward.com.

Here's the description of the book:

Seductive and profoundly moving, The Unified Theory of Love and Everything is at once a stirring portrait of contemporary love and marriage, and a poignant evocation of vanishing small towns in the American South.

Troubled by her unsatisfying marriage and determined to leave a mark on her town, gardener Emerson Wheeler volunteers to restore the decrepit estate at Hay Manor, an elegant mansion in Georgia owned by Sybil Hay, an aging physicist with highly unconventional ideas.

When Sybil tells her that another person will be helping out, Emerson is worried. She has met Finn Lowell, a married Navy police officer, only twice through her husband, but the attraction between them is like none she has never felt before. As Sybil unveils stories about her summer with Einstein in 1951, unusual beliefs about monogamy and love emerge. Will Finn and Emerson resist their desires in order to preserve their lives at home? Will Sybil survive long enough to reveal what really happened in her past?

With startling grace and power, The Unified Theory of Love and Everything offers a fresh perspective on the way that love and passion can help us or hurt us, but no matter what will change us.

Indie Author Celebration-40 free books and gift cards!

Please share with your friends who love to get free books! I'm participating in a very cool indie book giveaway with 40 other authors, starting today, on a great book review site called Julie's Book Review. We're giving away hundreds of dollars in gift cards and free ebooks over the next five weeks. You can enter the contest by clicking on this link, then going to the entry form ("rafflecopter") at the bottom! It's a great way to discover new authors at no cost to you. Every day you can see a spotlight on a different author (my day is June 29th!)



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Free Book Promotion Web Sites – 15 of the Best

I combed through tons of web sites that help authors promote their books for free, and I narrowed my list down to 15 really great ones--including Goodreads, of course! I also included some links to pages of free promotions that I got for COME FIND ME, so you can see just how generous these sites are. There are many more out there. Are there sites you'd like to recommend? Please go to my blog and add in in a comment! Here's the link to the article:

http://www.patchofearth.com/free-book...

Going after Einstein!

For my third novel, which I've already written and plan to publish this fall, I've got a bunch of quotes from Einstein about love and relationships. So, I've been going through the process this week of applying for permissions to use them. I had to start with Princeton University Press, which then forwards the info. to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Fingers crossed that they approve it! It's an interesting topic since a U.S. judge recently declared that Einstein is now in the public domain, given that more than fifty years have passed since his death. (That's why GM won a lawsuit over this for use of an Einstein image in an ad -- read about it here: http://www.dailynews.com/20121017/gms....

But, written copy in a book is different, so I'm going the correct route by applying. Hopefully I'll get a speedy "yes" in response and the novel can move forward!