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The E-book as a Starting Point to Print Publishing? - article

Many authors see an e-book as a starting place for their publishing dreams. Their ultimate goal is to publish their book as a print book. This is certainly possible, as illustrated by the story of Amanda Hocking’s self-published e-books that caught fire through the following she built through her platform of networked blogs. Her efforts ultimately led to sales of over a million dollars and then to a traditional publishing contract.

Other authors have also found their way from e-book to print success. Author Victorine E. Lieske e-published and found her way onto the New York Times Best Sellers list with her suspense romances. She now offers paperback covers of her novels on her website. Yet another success story is Aaron Patterson’s. He achieved a No. 1 Amazon Kindle Best Selling Book status with his e-Book and now also sells print books. For more success e-book stories, check out Novlr , a website dedicated to reading, writing, and Internet fiction. Generally, successful e-Book authors redistribute with indie-published print books.

Heady stuff, but don’t go crazy with excitement because only relatively few authors are achieving this kind of success. Proceed with the idea that you might succeed if you work hard, your content is excellent, and you educate yourself. There are a myriad of print-on-demand publishing (POD) options available to successful e-book authors.  Be aware that print options continue to evolve. Author Solutions has partnered with several traditional publishing companies to provide a hybrid-platform for self-published authors.

Finally, no one can guarantee that your book will be a hit. All publishing is a risk. The beauty of e-publishing is you have a chance to test the waters before trying paper copies. The low production costs and the ability to test the popularity of a book in the market helps self-published authors make informed decisions. Research the success stories. If your e-books achieve significant sales, educating yourself will put you a step ahead of the competition, if you should later decide to print books.

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by Molly Blaisdell

Five Star Review for Larry D. Thompson's White Witch

I have read 2 previous novels by this author, known for his legal thrillers, DEAD PEASANTS and THE INSANITY PLEA, and have been anxiously waiting for his latest book, WHITE WITCH, which has a bit of a different spin that I absolutely loved.

Will Taylor, VP of security for an international mining company, finds himself dealing with more than your average security. Set in the rainforests of Jamaica, the settlers and owners of the land will fight to keep the mining company out. Will soon finds out that there is much more going on. Is it pure legend or is there truth to the Voodoo stories associated with the land.

What could go wrong on this tropical island? Co-workers and officials are being murdered? Why and by who? Could ghosts of the past have something to do with the killings? And who’s side does Will align himself with when the owners of the land sue his employer?

This was an exceptional read!!!! Not only was the story intriguing, so was the history of Jamaica. The way the author weaves his legal expertise with the history of the island makes for a compelling read! This novel was well worth the wait! Fantastic!

Highly, highly recommend!!!

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"The Meg" The Trailer is Coming! The Trailer is Coming!

The trailer for The Meg, based on Steve Alten’s book Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, will arrive in the first few weeks of April!!

Jon Turteltaub is the man directing The Meg, and to appease fans, a brand new photo of The Meg‘s cast on the film’s set has now been released. Check it out!



This is totally gonna be a new generation’s Deep Blue Sea and we’re here for it.

One of this year’s most hotly anticipated horror movies is no doubt director Jon Turteltaub’s The Meg, a feature film adaptation of Steve Alten’s killer shark novel. The very first trailer for the film, which was originally scheduled to arrive this month, is on its way next month; according to Alten, it’ll arrive in the first couple weeks of April.

While we wait, check out a new photo of the cast on-set below.

Warner Bros. Pictures will release The Meg on August 10, 2018.

Jason Statham, Ruby Rose, Li Bingbing, Cliff Curtis and Page Kennedy star.

In the film, “A deep-sea submersible—part of an international undersea observation program—has been attacked by a massive creature, previously thought to be extinct, and now lies disabled at the bottom of the deepest trench in the Pacific…with its crew trapped inside. With time running out, expert deep-sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew—and the ocean itself—from this unstoppable threat: a pre-historic 75-foot-long shark known as the Megalodon. What no one could have imagined is that, years before, Taylor had encountered this same terrifying creature. Now, teamed with Suyin, he must confront his fears and risk his own life to save everyone trapped below…bringing him face to face once more with the greatest and largest predator of all time.”
Rounding out the international main cast of Meg are Rainn Wilson (TV’s The Office, Super), Winston Chao (Skiptrace, Kabali), Jessica McNamee (The Vow, TV’s Sirens), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The BFG, TV’s The Missing), Robert Taylor (Focus, TV’s Longmire), Sophia Shuya Cai (Somewhere Only We Know), and Masi Oka (TV’s Hawaii Five-0, Heroes).

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Dennis Palumbo’s Daniel Rinaldi Reconciles His Past in Head Wounds

We all look forward to the debut of a new Daniel Rinaldi novel and reunion with the psychologist we all would like to consult. Head Wounds (2018) is the fifth and latest in the Rinaldi series, and it does not disappoint. Rinaldi’s warmth and his tendency to run a bit afoul of the system is still evident and reading it is like welcoming back an old friend.

As Head Wounds begins, Rinaldi still cannot quite move on from the past. His wife’s murder has deviled him in every preceding book in the series. He cannot accept the conclusion that Pittsburg Police have agreed upon: Barbara Rinaldi’s death was a mugging gone wrong. Rinaldi nearly lost his own life in the attack and incurred infinite blame from Barbara’s father, who made his professional and personal life equally miserable. The irony is, of course, that Barbara’s father need not have bothered because no one could hold him more responsible than did Rinaldi himself. By this time, he has come closer to putting his life back together and taken up his practice. However, he has succeeded in resuming his life, survivor’s guilt has haunted him. Now it seems that a background investigation dossier from an outside source on Rinaldi himself has emerged reviving a hope that something new will emerge to further the investigation.

Now, years after the event, Rinaldi gets more than he bargained for when a person of interest emerges to finish what started that evening in a restaurant parking lot. We learn that Barbara’s past had complexities Rinaldi was ignorant of and that a quirk of fate kept Rinaldi in relative safety these past years. All bets are off as Rinaldi and his associates are harassed, threatened, and put in physical jeopardy while Rinaldi’s life threatens to unravel. We meet an adversary worthy of the term who has had the ensuing years to plan his revenge and is one or two steps ahead of Rinaldi at every turn. That this perpetrator does not quite have all the facts of Rinaldi’s life straight makes him unpredictable. That he is brilliant, egotistical, and relentless ups the stakes.

No small part of the pleasure in reading Head Wounds is reacquainting ourselves with Palumbo’s recurring characters in the police as well as in Rinaldi’s personal and professional life. We meet Harry Polk again who somehow makes irascibility and professionalism work in tandem to make him a better cop. It would be too easy to dislike Polk if not for the way his character develops in every novel. Very good to see him and his take on Rinaldi’s tormentor.

Also, back again is former FBI profiler, Lyle Barnes–he of the “night terrors” that still have not quite gone away. Barnes’s situational analysis, not to mention his many years of experience dealing with the most elusive and canny of the worst of the nation’s criminals, makes him a sterling cohort. Barnes knows all too well what the experience of having a clever, calculating murderer on his trail is like. Also back are Noah and Charlene who run the bar Rinaldi is particularly fond of and spends time in frequently to our delight. Besides being a big sweetie, Noah is a paranoid schizophrenic who stays on his meds and the straight and narrow thanks to his partner Charlene. I always look forward to Rinaldi’s down time at the bar not least because its informality encourages all the characters involved to speak their minds and reveal more than was intended—Rinaldi included.

So sit back and enjoy yourself welcoming back people who are part of your reading life. Is it too early to be anticipating the next Rinaldi novel?

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Sharon Tucker is former faculty at the University of Memphis in Memphis TN, and now enjoys evening supervising in that campus library. Having forsworn TV except for online viewing and her own movies, she reads an average of 3 to 4 books per week and has her first novel—a mystery, of course—well underway.

Meet the Author Alan Gibson March 29th!!

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Join Alan Gibson for a book signing.
Thursday, March 29 at 7 pm
Four Seasons Bookstore 
Shepherdstown, WV    
A famous award-winning Hollywood director has read Leave No Trace and already wants to direct it, so we're on track to turning it into a feature length film. 
I'll let you know what happens. 
In Leave No Trace, hi tech and low tech collide on the Appalachian Trail and in the town of Harpers Ferry.  There's plenty of intrigue, with trail name aliases, assassins, revenge and murder .
See you at the book signing.
-Alan Gibson









For more information about Alan Gibson and his books, visit www.ABGibson.me
You can buy Leave No Trace at Turn the Page Bookstore in Boonsboro, MD
and at Amazon.com
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Congratulations Ian Bull!

A Bookaholic Swede Reviews Larry D. Thompson's White Witch

I must say that White Witch is a truly interesting book that started off great with a flashback to Annie Palmer tyranny before the story turned its focus on the present time and the Maroons struggle with an American aluminum company that is after their land. For someone like with pretty little knowledge of the history of Jamaica was this book awesome to read. I love getting to know the history of the Maroons, how they fought both the Spaniards and the Englishmen for their freedom and won. Now they once again have to fight against a powerful enemy, a company after their land.

The beginning of the book really made it out to be more of a horror book than a thriller with a lot of strange things going on. I would have loved it to be more of a horror book than a thriller actually. Still, I found the plot to be interesting with murders being done with snake daggers, the same kind that is said that Annie Palmer, the White Witch, had used to kill with.

I also liked how ex-Navy SEAL Will Taylor and his team more and more realized that they are working for the wrong side and I liked this change and what it brought on as Will and Vertise Broderick, a journalist who is also a Maroon decides to hire an attorney to fight for their cause in the court. The question is will they be able to prove that the land is the Maroons?

White Witch is a book that gave me a lot in return. I got an interesting story and I also gained some insight into the history of Jamaica and the Maroons.

Congratulations Gary Wenkle Smith!