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All I Know About e-book Marketing

[image error]All I know about e-Book marketing. Is a short book, because I, by no means, claim to know all there is to know about e-book marketing, nor am I even an expert. What I am is experienced in what not to do, enough that I have somehow stumbled on to a few things that actually work and I want to pass that on to other authors. I hope this book will give you at least a few nuggets of helpful of information.

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What’s in a name?

What is that line from Romeo & Juliet?

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

This topic comes up because I have more than one name that I use and it often causes confusion and while it can be a pain sometimes I have good reasons for this.

My legal name is Laina Molaski. My degrees are in that name, in my academic life I have always used that name, and my kids have that name. I chose to write under my maiden name, Laina Turner, for a couple reasons. One as a homage to my mother who always wanted to be a writer and two because I wanted some separation between my academic profession and frivolous fiction persona. Then on Facebook, Linked In, and twitter I use Turner-Molaski as a bridge.

Now I do have people get confused as to what they should call me and frankly while it technically should be Molaski I don’t really care. Having a first name like Laina has gotten me used to answering to anything close.

What do you think?

Laina

Download Stilettos & Scoundrels FREE

Follow me at @lturnermolaski

Find me on my Facebook Fan Page Laina Turner

Visit my website www.lainaturner.com

Download my iPhone app

Trixie Pristine now on Audible!!!

[image error]After long anticipated wait A Day in the Life of Trixie Pristine is now available in audio format on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes for your listening pleasure.

It has been so exciting to work through this process with my fabulous narrator Melissa Strom who is currently working on the second book in the Trixie series, Books Aren’t Just for reading which will be out sometime in January 2013. You can connect with Melissa on twitter  @melissastrom1 and check out her website at www.melissastrom.com.

Review on Amazon:

This is the best series. I wanted more. Laina Turner is so good at writing the fun stories that you do not want to put down. She allows her characters to get into some funny situations.


Thanks to the person who wrote that review. It’s what keeps me motivated!

Help Richard lower his ebook price

[image error]Hey faithful readers. I need your help. My good friend Richard David Bach, you might remember I profiled him a couple weeks ago, changed his book price from 2.99 to .99 and Kindle has still not lowered the price. Because he wants to be able to offer this great book for a great price he needs your help.

 

Please go to Amazon and let them know about the lower price on Nook. Your help is greatly appreciated!

 

Here are the links to:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Common-Enemy-De...

Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/commo...

Women vs. Men

[image error]Before you read this post please know I could really care less about politics. During the debate last night for the most part I was more interested in the online sale at Ann Taylor Loft than what the candidates were saying. However, one topic caught my attention and I feel strongly enough about it I felt compelled to write this post. That is the topic of the wage gap between men and women. I feel this is more of a  gender/society issue rather than a discriminatory issue and frankly it kind of pisses me off as a women for anyone to think I need their help:) That’s not how I was raised. Women don’t make as much as men because they don’t ask for the money that men do.

Women dominate men at every education level and the workforce has become more family friendly. The playing field is level. I am an educated women and in my career have out earned the majority of the men I know. I work hard, I’m able to balance my work with family obligation, and because I know I’m good at what I do –  I ask, and have received, the money I deserve.

I know I may piss some people off with this post but ladies ASK for what you are worth and we will close the gap!

Laina

Meet Author Richard David Bach and win a free book

[image error]                                           COMMON ENEMY         A Romantic Thriller by Richard David Bach

When attractive young women start disappearing from the luxury cruise ships of Camelot Cruise Line at an alarming rate, Viktor Viken, Camelot’s billionaire owner with a questionable past coerces his lawyer, Raam Commoner, into doing whatever it takes to stop the seagoing serial killer without a story on the six o’clock news.

A chance but near fatal shipboard encounter compels Raam — the tall, good-looking but burned-out womanizer who has been cleaning up after Viktor Viken for years — and Kayman Karl, the smart, beautiful and independent private investigator who has been hired by a distraught father to investigate the cruise line disappearance of his daughter — to lay down their swords and join forces in the search for the motive behind the murders.  Eventually, opposites attract — but all thoughts of romance are put on hold once it becomes obvious that Kayman fits the profile of previous victims and they must race to find and stop a twisted murderer before he strikes again.

Revenge for a long-ago crime drives the killer, a brilliant manipulator who misleads and misdirects Raam and Kayman in a deadly game until they decipher the clues he leaves in his wake — clues leading them to a final shipboard confrontation that can end only in the hands of a common enemy, or in the depths of a watery grave.

Purchase Common Enemy on Kindle, Nook, iTunes, and Smashwords

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Richard David Bach was born in New York City and grew up on the south shore of Long Island. He acquired a Civil Engineering degree from Rensselaer Po

lytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where it was claimed that the mechanical and nuclear engineers designed weapons while his fellow civil engineers built targets.

ROTC at RPI led to a commission in the Air Force and two years on active duty overseeing design and construction of anti-missile radar sites in the Arctic, after which he accidently migrated to Portland, Oregon where he studied law at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College.

With law school and the bar exam behind him, he joined Stoel Rives, LLP, one of Portland’s most prestigious law firms, where he founded and chaired the firm’s Environmental Law Practice Group — practicing environmental law until he retired to take up writing.

Richard David Bach lives and writes in Portland, Oregon where he dotes upon his wife (always his first reader!), four children, nine grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

Connect with Richard on Twitter and Facebook.

Comment on this post and be entered to win a copy of Common Enemy! Winner will be contacted by Friday October 12th, 2012.

Crazy is an art form – chiczofrenic.com

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  Empowering women to discover their voice

Chiczofrenic

…affirming a womens voice exactly where she stands

“I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”

— Marilyn Monroe

 

What is Chiczofrenic:

Chiczofrenic was coined one day when Dr. Laina Turner-Molaski was on a plane back from a conference and trying to work on her to do list, which was quickly spanning three pages. She felt with all she had going on in her personal and professional life she was driving herself crazy. And  was doing it intentionally because she wanted all these things. Laina wanted to be a great mom, a great wife, a great friend, and a great businesswoman. She felt she should be perfect. She wanted to be perfect. However, the stress of trying to do it all was making her nuts. It made her start to think about what it was she was doing versus what she really wanted to do. Laina realized they were two different things. She had somehow started down a path years ago, she continued to follow out of habit because it was what she thought she should be doing. Why? At first she thought it was what others expected of her. But then  realized it was more her own perceptions of what she thought others expected of her and if she were honest she put most of those pressures on herself.

As Laina continued to think and reflect about this it made her wonder how many other women felt the same way. Who have got caught up in the perceived pressures of society making them feel they should be everything to everyone at all times at the expense of who they are and who they want to be.

How can that be changed? She really doesn’t know but is hoping through bringing women together and sharing their own brand of craziness with each other they can better understand how to be confident about who they are and true to their inner voice. Women owe it to themselves and others around them. So Chiczofrenic came to be in the summer of 2009.

 

WHAT DOES CHICZOFRENIC MEAN?

It’s About Listening to the Voices Within.

AN ONLINE INTERACTIVE MAGAZINE

Featured contributors as experts in their respective areas of craziness, facilitating resources for members

o Blog Radio – weekly show that will focus on current topics while highlighting events, opportunities, and advertisers

o Blogs – topics and ideas user and facilitator generated

o Discussion – created to engage members in conversations that support vision

 

Who is Chiczofrenic

The Chiczofrenic Vision does three things:

… present a safe environment for women to discover and embrace their authentic voice.

… raise up the leader within each woman.

… create valuable content for each role within a woman’s life.

 

Chiczofrenic – It’s Who Women Are …no disclaimers

WHY?

Women try to be everything:

• spouse

• girlfriend

• mother

• daughter

• community leader

• friend

• housekeeper

• career woman

• dreamer

……….and one hot mama!

There are many sites out there for women but none are really designed to address the needs of a contemporary woman.

Chiczofrenic affirms a woman’s authentic voice to stand confidently where she is.

As a strong woman who embraces your own kind of crazy, we’re inviting you to help us start the Chiczofrenic movement. This will be as featured contributors: Writing blogs / discussion topics, encouraging other women to embrace their authentic selves. We have many different levels as to where you can help and your assistance in any place is extremely welcomed. 

Join the Movement

Featured Contributor

Get more exposure for you and your platform by being a featured contributor.

Being a “featured contributor” is not a paid position at this time. We are looking for women (and men) who have a story and want to give back by sharing that story with other women. The site will be promoted through social media channels and other blogs.

We launch nationwide in November 2012 and are looking for people now who want to go on this great journey with us.

As a featured contributor on chiczofrenic.com it is expected that you will:

*post 1 interactive, thought provoking question on your scheduled day

*post 1 blog on your scheduled day

*interact with the commentors to your posts

 

You may link back to your site and promote your own platform as long as its tasteful. We want our contributors to get just as much from this as the readers coming to the site will receive.

 

If interested please contact me at laina@lainaturner.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Business 101

[image error]Back to basics isn’t an uncommon term in big business, small business, or on a personal level. In today’s world it is so easy to overcomplicate things. But there is a reason people “get back to the basics” it’s because sometimes simple and easy is the best approach. I’m teaching a Intro to Business class this year and it’s been a long time since I’ve taught undergrad. In teaching this class which is starting them on learning business principles at the very lowest level it’s been refreshing. It’s made me rethink my approach to business. Do I made my life more complicated than it needs to be?

What about you? Do you make your business life more complicated it needs to be?

 

Laina

Calling all authors

In a recent effort to consolidate I decided one less website to maintain would be great and so I am incorporating Indie pub Promos in this blog. If you look to the right of this post you will see a tab for Indie Pub Promos where I want to be able to feature other Indie Authors and their great books.

This is free exposure just send me the following at laina@lainaturner.com:

cover art

author pic

book blurb

short author bio

buy links

I work from home

For the last several years the majority of my work has been performed virtually. I work. Just from the comfort of my own home, or Starbucks, or like tonight from my car as my son was at football practice. But I work. So why is it the majority of the world who works a traditional 8-5 go into the office type day think I just have all day to run errands and putz around? Do they think I pay my bills by magic?

I admit I’m lucky. I have a PhD. and my education allows me make about half my income from teaching online and it pays well as it should. I’m teaching graduate level business classes and spent a lot of money getting an MBA and a PhD to prepare me for this profession. The rest comes from consulting on this and that, and then my books. My day consists of getting up by 6am at the latest and writing a bit before getting kids off to school. I then have from 8-2:45 to work before they get home. In the afternoon I either have a extra curricular activity for the kids or I teach riding lessons to kids and those are in the after school time frame. Then there’s dinner and the homework and other kid related activities. After they go to bed at about 9pm I pull out the laptop to do some more work until bed time. I don’t get to walk out of the office and leave it until the next day because in my line of work if it doesn’t get done I don’t get paid.

So no I don’t have time to take your car to Discount Tire because you’re at “work” and I’m not.

I would love to hear from other work at home folks who deal with this frustration.

Thanks for letting me vent!

Laina