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Meeting with A Clay Pottery and Textiles Artist from West Chester, PA

Author Fida Abbott with Artist Nancy Rasch Salamon
What was an interesting news from the author Fida Abbott who had book signing this morning, Saturday, October 13, 2018 at West Chester Public Library from 10 AM to 12 PM? For the first time a clay pottery and textiles artist from West Chester, PA, Nancy Rasch Salamon met Fida in her book signing event. They had a good conversation about their each work. Nancy was interested to have a copy of Fida's books, Exploring My Ideas and Fida would love to visit her studio someday that is located on 349 West Barnard St, West Chester, PA 19382.

You can find Nancy's works in many retail stores around the USA. For wholesale, you can contact her directly via email or phone.

An artist and a writer met together! What a wonderful moment! They both would love to look forward to meet again in one of Nancy's Shows in West Chester area.(*)

Book Signing "Exploring My Ideas", West Chester Public Library, PA
Published on Saturday, Oct 13, 2018

Two Book Events in a Week

~ PUBLIC SPEAKING ~
ENTHUSIASM!Meet Author Fida Abbott
Coatesville Area Public Library (eLounge Room)
501 East Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, PA 19320Thursday, October 11, 20186.30 – 7.30 PM

Fida will share her story about how she wrote her first novel, Enthusiasm , based on her own true story written on her second language and won Pinnacle Book Achievement Award from the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs. Enthusiasm has been translated and published in Indonesia by an Indonesian publisher: Yayasan Komunikasi Bina Kasih (YKBK)Book will be available for purchase during the event with 20% discount from retail price. One dollar for every book purchased will be donated to Coatesville Area Public Library.(*)

~ BOOK SIGNING ~
West Chester Area Public Library 415 N Church St.West Chester, PA 19380Saturday, October 13, 201810 AM – 12 PM
Author: Fida AbbottPreface by Lut Nero, Ph.D.(Dean Emeritus of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania)
Exploring My Ideas Ten Short StoriesFollowed by the Author’s Shared Ideas with a Simple and Practical Guide How toExplore and Compose Ideas into Short Stories
Take 20% discount from retail price during this event. One dollar for every book purchased will be donated to West Chester Public Library

Published on Tuesday, October 9, 2018

PRESS RELEASE BY READERS' FAVORITE: Author's New Book Receives a Warm Literary Welcome

Readers' Favorite announces the review of the Fiction - Short Story/Novela book "Exploring My Ideas" by Fida Abbott, currently available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984518429.Louisville, KY-USA, October 4, 2018 - Readers' Favorite is one of the largest book review and award contest sites on the Internet. They have earned the respect of renowned publishers like Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins, and have received the "Best Websites for Authors" and "Honoring Excellence" awards from the Association of Independent Authors. They are also fully accredited by the BBB (A+ rating), which is a rarity among Book Review and Book Award Contest companies.
"Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' FavoriteExploring My Ideas: Ten Short Stories Followed by the Author's Shared Ideas with a Simple and Practical Guide How to Explore and Compose Ideas into Short Stories is a collection of short stories and an educational guide for writers by Fida Abbott. Abbott is an author and writing instructor, who was born and grew up in Indonesia. She sees her stories as a way to express and share her experiences, feelings and thoughts, and she shows aspiring writers how they can do likewise with their own stories. While the conventional wisdom is to write what you know, Abbott demonstrates how writers can use written material and their imaginations to make other realities vivid enough to base a story on. She concludes each of her short stories with a section that gives “the story behind the short story.”

Fida Abbott’s short story collection and writer’s guide, Exploring My Ideas, is a well-written and thought-provoking book that analyzes and breaks down the writing process for new writers. Abbott’s voice is conversational and informative, and reading her book felt a lot like having her directly interacting with me as I read. I loved the supernatural aspect of The Rent House which was inspired by her own experiences with a haunted house. In Makeup Makeover, the reader is immersed in the world of a preteen whose first experiment with makeup transforms her into Elsa, the Snow Queen from Frozen. Abbott also includes a worksheet for creating and categorizing your story ideas and a chapter entitled Ten Guides to Plot a Short Story that analyzes in detail a short story from her collection. Exploring My Ideas is highly recommended."You can learn more about Fida Abbott and Exploring My Ideas at https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/exploring-my-ideas where you can read reviews and the author’s biography, as well as connect with the author directly or through their website and social media pages.(*)Readers' Favorite LLC
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EXPLORING MY IDEAS: A Review by Janelle Alex Ph.D. from Readers' Favorite

Reviewed by Janelle Alex, Ph.D. from Readers’ Favorite
Exploring My Ideas: Ten Short Stories Followed by the Author's Shared Ideas with a Simple and Practical Guide How to Explore and Compose Ideas into Short Stories is exactly what it claims to be - a compilation of short stories created by Fida Abbott, as well as her explanation of how people can think critically and write their own stories. Abbott starts off by sharing a bit of her personal story around writing the stories before sharing the actual stories themselves. Interestingly enough, each of the ten stories has a “story behind the short story above” section at the end of each tale. The overall concept of Exploring My Ideas is unique. 

As each story is quite short and easy to read, Fida Abbott offers a number of fun, quick reads to enjoy from an entertainment perspective and as examples of how readers can follow her methodology and write their own stories based on their personal experiences. A drawback of Exploring My Ideas might be that it’s only five chapters long. The chapters jump from the introduction to an entire chapter with all of the stories and the final chapter being the guide to publish one’s own stories. However, the concept is excellent. The guide in chapters three through five is more like a mini-workbook to help readers and Abbott even uses one of her stories as an example of how to use her questions and guide. Fida Abbott’s Exploring My Ideas could be a great little book for inexperienced young writers. Good effort.(*)
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Published on Wednesday, October 3, 2018

EXPLORING MY IDEAS: 5 Stars Review from Readers' Favorite

Reviewed by Jack Magnus from Readers’ FavoriteExploring My Ideas: Ten Short Stories Followed by the Author's Shared Ideas with a Simple and Practical Guide How to Explore and Compose Ideas into Short Stories is a collection of short stories and an educational guide for writers by Fida Abbott. Abbott is an author and writing instructor, who was born and grew up in Indonesia. She sees her stories as a way to express and share her experiences, feelings and thoughts, and she shows aspiring writers how they can do likewise with their own stories. While the conventional wisdom is to write what you know, Abbott demonstrates how writers can use written material and their imaginations to make other realities vivid enough to base a story on. She concludes each of her short stories with a section that gives “the story behind the short story.”

Fida Abbott’s short story collection and writer’s guide, Exploring My Ideas , is a well-written and thought-provoking book that analyzes and breaks down the writing process for new writers. Abbott’s voice is conversational and informative, and reading her book felt a lot like having her directly interacting with me as I read. I loved the supernatural aspect of The Rent House which was inspired by her own experiences with a haunted house. In Makeup Makeover, the reader is immersed in the world of a preteen whose first experiment with makeup transforms her into Elsa, the Snow Queen from Frozen. Abbott also includes a worksheet for creating and categorizing your story ideas and a chapter entitled Ten Guides to Plot a Short Story that analyzes in detail a short story from her collection. Exploring My Ideas is highly recommended.(*)
Published on Thursday, September 27, 2018

EXPLORING MY IDEAS: Foreword by Dean Emeritus of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

Book Launch Party for Exploring My Ideas was held on Saturday, August 4, 2018. Lut Nero, Ph.D., Dean Emeritus of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, attended to this event. When he was given an opportunity to introduce a new published book, Exploring My Ideas , he read what he had written: Foreword. As a sign of appreciation, Fida Abbott, author of Exploring My Ideas , gave a copy of her book to him.

Author Fida Abbott was giving a copy of her book, Exploring My Ideas
to Lut Nero Ph.D.

Published on Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Yunita's Short Speech for Fida's Accomplishment

Book Launch Party that was held by Fida Abbott, author of Exploring My Ideas went well. Yunita Phillips, former General Manager of YKBK publisher in Indonesia (YKBK published Enthusiasm in Indoensian, entitiled Antusiasme ) who came from Ohio and attended to this event wasn't able to do her speech, so she sent it to us and let us to publish it here.

Thank you Yunita Phillips. Your support is greatly appreciated.


YUNITA'S SPEECH 
Today we celebrate enthusiasm. The enthusiasm that always inspires our friend, Fida. When I first got to know Fida, she had just published her first novel entitled Enthusiasm . As a person who worked at a publishing house, I appreciated her writing and immediately fell in love with her story, especially to the main character.
Fida and I have never met before. We have just communicated mostly via e-mail or Facebook messenger, and sometimes on the phone or Skype. As I got to know Fida more, I feel Fida’s enthusiasm for her life is very strong. Fida is always pro-active and productive. She is always enthusiastic about her life and she believes that God has provided everything she needs to fulfill God’s will for her life. She is always willing to learn new things and very open to work together with other people. No wonder she has a large number of friends.
Let’s celebrate her new book. Let’s celebrate her enthusiasm and may her enthusiasm be contagious to all of us. Congratulations Fida Abbott and God bless you! (*)
For the first time they met after 8 years communicating via virtual world and phone.
Left: Yunita Phillips. Right: Fida Abbott
From left to right: Ken Phillips (Yunita's husband), Yunita Phillips,
Ariel Abbott (Fida's daughter), Fida Abbott, and Gregory Abbott (Fida's husband)
Published on August 22, 2018Marketing Team of Exploring My Ideas

Exclusive Interview with an Award-Winning Author and Entrepreneur Based in Northern California Who Endorsed "Exploring My Ideas"

Have you read Fida Abbott's new published book entitled Exploring My Ideas? If you have read it, you won't miss to read the endorsement page. You will find one of the endorsers name: Jennifer Xue. Her profile is interesting as she was born and raised in Indonesia and ever be a millionaire in the USA because of her smart and hard working habit and her mindset to become a successful and independent financially person. You also should not miss her famous article 10 Habits that Changed Me from Penniless to a Millionaire. 

We are so grateful to have an exclusive interview with her.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER XUE

1. What is "the mindset" you ever wrote in your book or in your article?
Many years ago, I wrote about "the mindset of success." It's simple and straightforward: Success is a mindset. It's not a journey nor a destination. It's already within you. The concept invites readers to seek "success" within, not from external sources. Success is much more than just about achieving financial independence. It's more about inner peace, tranquility, self-sufficiency, and the feeling of "abundance." Once you've been able to maintain this state of mind, the whole world is yours.
2. Has that mindset ever changed your life? What is that?
Yes, definitely. As a human being, I experience the ups and downs of life. This mindset accompanies me through the thick and thin. Whenever I was depressed and unsure, for instance, I'd remind myself that everything is going to be OK and that what matters is to keep moving forward.
3. You are an author who has written more than 100 digital books. What are they about and where can we find them?
Most of my ebooks are about business, and many of them are now being revised and being rewritten as online classes. They will be made available again through StyleCareer.com in the future. I'd suggest subscribing to my blogs http://www.jenniexue.com and http://www.jenniferxue.com to be notified of their launching.
In addition to publishing them on my own venture, there are also ebooks published by international publishers. They are available on their publishers' websites.
- White Paper Writing for Business (2016) published by BookBoon, the largest ebook publisher in the world based in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Guide to Become a Management Consultant (2003) published by FabJob based in Vancouver, Canada. This ebook was named 2003 finalist for EPPIE Award (USA) Excellence for Electronic Publishing under non-fiction how-to category.
4. You are an author with many digital and printed books published, a columnist, a certified content marketing writer, and a technical writer. What is the next goal in pursuing your career and how will you realize it?
My goal is publishing various non-fiction and fiction books (both electronically and in print) through my own publishing company. Also, I'm working on a series of how to start niche business startup courses through my own online business academy, which will also be reachable through StyleCareer.com in the next few months.
5. You are one of the endorsers of the book Exploring My Ideas. What would you share about the power of this book to the readers?
Mrs. Abbott's works are all inspirational and motivational. It's her strength as an author. In this book, especially, her ability to tell stories well is exemplary, as they have the power to change people for the better.
6. As that book contains ten short stories, what is your favorite one and what is the reason you choose it as your favorite short story in that book?
I love every piece, as every one of them gives insights and practical ideas on how to explore and weave them into short stories. This book is filled with various entertaining incidents and learning lessons about life and our relationship with others and the society.
7. What do you think that book is for?
The author's intention in writing this book is two folds. First, to share the ideas contained in the stories and to inspire readers by the messages. Second, to show beginning writers that story ideas can come from anywhere, and that writing short stories doesn't require a colossal undertaking. 
Instead, writing a story requires merely sharp senses to grasp the uniqueness of each incident in your life journey. After all, life is a masterpiece and stories are the building blocks.
8. What will the message you give to the readers regarding this book? 
Read this book with a grain of salt, like reading any other books. Mrs. Abbott is a great storyteller, so you'll find it intriguing and enjoyable. The ideas and the stories are uncommon, so you'll find them quite surprising and wouldn't be able to put this book down. 
Overall, you'll find each tale insightful, funny, a bit scary, inspirational, or even useful. For new writers, let this book inspires you to see ideas from everyday living, including at home, at work, at school, and other areas.(*)
Profile:

Jennifer Xue is an award-winning author, content marketing writer, ghostwriter, and entrepreneur based in Northern California. She has over 2000 articles and 100 eBooks published under several pen names in two languages. She has proven record in gaining traction, revenue generation, and brand awareness.


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Published, Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Book Launch Party for "Exploring My Ideas"

Thank you all who have given responses "YES" or "NO" to attend and not to attend Fida Abbott's Book Launch Party. All guests are special and Fida appreciates your effort and time. Besides family, friends, co-workers, former co-workers, and neighbors, there will be Dean Emeritus of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania who wrote Foreword of Fida's new published book, Former General Manager of YKBK (Indonesian publisher who published Fida's book Enthusiasm in Indonesia) who came from Ohio, Director of Coatesville Area Public Library, Music Director of CASD for Middle School, Rector and Deacon of the Episcopal Church of the Trinity, former Ass. Manager of Walmart in Parkesburg, former Support Manager of Walmart in Parkesburg and former Girl Scouts Troop Leader, etc.
During the event, book will be available for purchase with special discount 20% from the retail price. As most of the guests don't know about Fida's book  Enthusiasm  and they asked about it, book  Enthusiasm  will be available for purchase too with 20% discount from the retail price. 
There will be door prize, entertainments with non classical and classical music, and silent auction. The proceeds of this silent auction will benefit the Episcopal Church of the Trinity in Coatesville, PA who is going to celebrate 150 Anniversary and is having renovation. Have fun at Fida Abbott's Book Launch Party amd thank you all for your support.(*)
Source: Episcopal Church of the Trinity, Coatesville, PA
Source: Episcopal Church of the Trinity, Coatesville, PA






Published, Thursday, July 26, 2018

PRESS RELEASE: Read, Learn, Practice, and Enjoy Exploring My Ideas Written by An Award-Winning Author, Fida Abbott

From the award-winning author of “Enthusiasm” comes a new hybrid book “Exploring My Ideas” that the readers will enjoy ten evocative short stories and the author’s sharing ideas as well as learning and practicing how to compose ideas into short stories as well as publishing tips.
Coatesville, PA, July 6, 2018 --(Abbottsbooks.com)-- Designed to fire up readers’ interest, ExploringMy Ideas provides a perspective that is enlightening and inspiring and occasionally challenging to the readers’ perspective as they travel along the path toward understanding what makes them all tick in the way they do. Abbott uses her talent to teach readers about publishing short stories while adding their own story about how they got to the point of being published. Ten short stories about psychology, crime, relationship, family, horror, and others, and author commentaries from a multicultural population is a somewhat unique approach to this type of project that only adds insight to the efforts of readers who will benefit from the lessons learned.
ExploringMy Ideas is an ideal book for those who love literary collection and all writers who write as a hobby or a necessity, especially for beginning-aspiring writers.

About the Author
Fida Abbott is an award-winning author. Her book, Enthusiasm, received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award from the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs in 2010. She was a 2011 winner of 50 Great Writers You Should be Reading, presented by The Author Show.
She was born and raised in Indonesia. With her husband and daughter, they live in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where she expresses herself in her writings in English and Indonesian.
She is the director of an online writing course, www.pelatihanmenulis.com, as well as KabarIndonesia, an online Indonesian news, based on the citizen reporter, and a certified Defense Language Instructor for Bahasa Indonesia, serving USAF.
For more information, you can visit www.abbottsbooks.com.
ExploringMy Ideas * by Fida Abbott
Ten Short Stories Followed by the Author’s Shared Ideas with a Simple and Practical Guide How to Explore and Compose Ideas into Short Stories
Publication Date: June 5, 2018
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