Lorii Myers's Blog, page 9
May 3, 2012
eLit Book Awards -- For Immediate Release
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The Wave of Great eBooks Swells - The eLit Book Awards Celebrates the Best eBooks of the Year
May 3, 2012 - Traverse City, MI - The rising and roaring tide of the year's best eBooks that have landed on the "readers" of readers are being celebrated with the announcement of the second annual eLit Book Awards. Conducted each year to honor the year's best electronically published books, the eLit awards are known for recognizing excellence in a broad range of subjects and for rewarding titles that take the eBook reader's experience to the next level.
Electronic publishing is extremely diverse, in both style and technology. This year's awards attracted hundreds of entries, and the winners represent books published in 28 states in the U.S., and five countries overseas. Launched in 2010 as the first unaffiliated awards program open exclusively to eBook titles, the eLit Awards contest is celebrating its second year.
"The eBook publishers are the pioneers on our cultural cross-format adventure," says awards director Andrew Parvel. "To these publishers, expanding the limits and creating new and unique ways to experience their material has become the priority. These are the books that win our awards and these are the books that lay the ground work for the future of publishing."
Winning titles offered an incredible array of interactive fun ranging from stories with hidden content to endless bonus features from authors and publishers. See complete results for the eLit Book Awards at: http://www2.dmpemail5.com/jenkins/main/index.php?action=t&tag=2011_results.php&id=4114&viewers_email=lorii@3-off-the-tee.com&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitawards.com%2F2011_results.php
The eLit Awards are operated by publishing services firm Jenkins Group of Traverse City, Michigan. For more details about the Awards, please contact:
Andrew Parvel, Director of Marketing & Awards Director
eLitAwards.com / Jenkins Group
Ph: 1.800.644.0133 x1004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The Wave of Great eBooks Swells - The eLit Book Awards Celebrates the Best eBooks of the Year
May 3, 2012 - Traverse City, MI - The rising and roaring tide of the year's best eBooks that have landed on the "readers" of readers are being celebrated with the announcement of the second annual eLit Book Awards. Conducted each year to honor the year's best electronically published books, the eLit awards are known for recognizing excellence in a broad range of subjects and for rewarding titles that take the eBook reader's experience to the next level.
Electronic publishing is extremely diverse, in both style and technology. This year's awards attracted hundreds of entries, and the winners represent books published in 28 states in the U.S., and five countries overseas. Launched in 2010 as the first unaffiliated awards program open exclusively to eBook titles, the eLit Awards contest is celebrating its second year.
"The eBook publishers are the pioneers on our cultural cross-format adventure," says awards director Andrew Parvel. "To these publishers, expanding the limits and creating new and unique ways to experience their material has become the priority. These are the books that win our awards and these are the books that lay the ground work for the future of publishing."
Winning titles offered an incredible array of interactive fun ranging from stories with hidden content to endless bonus features from authors and publishers. See complete results for the eLit Book Awards at: http://www2.dmpemail5.com/jenkins/main/index.php?action=t&tag=2011_results.php&id=4114&viewers_email=lorii@3-off-the-tee.com&dest=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elitawards.com%2F2011_results.php
The eLit Awards are operated by publishing services firm Jenkins Group of Traverse City, Michigan. For more details about the Awards, please contact:
Andrew Parvel, Director of Marketing & Awards Director
eLitAwards.com / Jenkins Group
Ph: 1.800.644.0133 x1004
April 24, 2012
Lorii Myers thinks...: eLit National Silver Medal Award Goes to 3 Off the...
Lorii Myers thinks...: eLit National Silver Medal Award Goes to 3 Off the...: eLit National Silver Medal Award Goes to 3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success from Author Lorii Myers: Develop the Right Business Attitude ...
April 22, 2012
eLit National Silver Medal Award Goes to 3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success from Author Lorii Myers
eLit National Silver Medal Award Goes to
3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success from Author Lorii Myers: Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace (2011)
Cited for “Illuminating Digital Publishing Excellence” in
Business/Career/Sales Category
Author of the 3 Off the Tee series of Motivational Selp-improvements books.
An honor citing the author
for “illuminating digital publishing excellence."
Four time award winning Business Book 3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success, has won a national eLit silver medal in the
business/sales/career category, an honor citing the author for “illuminating
digital publishing excellence.”
When business professional Lorii Myers
decided to write a motivational book that used “golf as a metaphor for life,” it
was because she saw the game of golf as a perfect reflection of what a person
needs to do to be successful in their career. Myers: “I love golf because, as in
any game, you are always trying to improve. You are always working on your
abilities and skills, but you also want to improve your score. In the working
world, you want to get better at what you do, but you also want to improve your
skill sets and knowledge base so you become a better employee.”
Myers named her book 3 Off the Tee:
Targeting Success to represent the kind of choices we all want to make in our
daily work life. Not only do you have to read the course, you have to know how
to deal with the hazards. You even have to deal with your own abilities,
knowing that a slice could cost you a stroke or two. “When you make a bad
play,” Myers says, “in golf or in business, it’s not the end of the world. It is
just time to regroup, work a little harder, and get back on track.”
It’s clear that Myers’s purpose is to help
others make the most of themselves no matter if they are new on the job or high
up on the corporate ladder. Utilizing the framework of a round of golf, she
takes readers through the career game from the first hole to the eighteenth,
focusing our attention on what makes a businessperson successful every step
along the way.
The “Front Nine” is about self-perception
and self-direction. It unveils and discusses the finer points of
self-improvement, the development of confidence, the value of ethics, and how to
become a positive influence at work, which involves learning how to communicate
fairly.
The “Back Nine” delves into effective
success strategies for employees and employers alike and is a call to action to
engage in proper leadership, empowerment, teamwork building, and learning how to
become proactive effecting positive change.
eLit Awards
The global eLit
Awards Program is committed to honoring the very best of English language
digital publishing entertainment. The contest is presented by Jenkins Group
Inc., a Michigan-based book publishing and marketing services company that has
operated the popular Independent Publisher Book Awards contest since 1996.
About Lorii Myers
An empowered employee-turned-entrepreneur,
Lorii Myers’s three decades of business experience include a wide variety of
career challenges: business manager, controller, senior manager, and business
owner.
Believing you should aspire to learn from
those who inspire you, she was careful to choose her early employment
opportunities well by working for entrepreneurial companies that were owned or
managed by formidable entrepreneurs.
When asked what she learned, Myers is quick
to answer, “The right attitude is everything!” and in her early thirties, she
left the security of employment to fulfill her own sense of entrepreneurial
flair.
Because of Myer’s personal quest to explore
every opportunity, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her books.
Also author of 3 off the Tee: Make it Happen, Myers currently resides north of Toronto, Ontario.
Visit Author Website
3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success from Author Lorii Myers: Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace (2011)
Cited for “Illuminating Digital Publishing Excellence” in
Business/Career/Sales Category
Author of the 3 Off the Tee series of Motivational Selp-improvements books.
An honor citing the author for “illuminating digital publishing excellence."
Four time award winning Business Book 3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success, has won a national eLit silver medal in the
business/sales/career category, an honor citing the author for “illuminating
digital publishing excellence.”
When business professional Lorii Myers
decided to write a motivational book that used “golf as a metaphor for life,” it
was because she saw the game of golf as a perfect reflection of what a person
needs to do to be successful in their career. Myers: “I love golf because, as in
any game, you are always trying to improve. You are always working on your
abilities and skills, but you also want to improve your score. In the working
world, you want to get better at what you do, but you also want to improve your
skill sets and knowledge base so you become a better employee.”
Myers named her book 3 Off the Tee:
Targeting Success to represent the kind of choices we all want to make in our
daily work life. Not only do you have to read the course, you have to know how
to deal with the hazards. You even have to deal with your own abilities,
knowing that a slice could cost you a stroke or two. “When you make a bad
play,” Myers says, “in golf or in business, it’s not the end of the world. It is
just time to regroup, work a little harder, and get back on track.”
It’s clear that Myers’s purpose is to help
others make the most of themselves no matter if they are new on the job or high
up on the corporate ladder. Utilizing the framework of a round of golf, she
takes readers through the career game from the first hole to the eighteenth,
focusing our attention on what makes a businessperson successful every step
along the way.
The “Front Nine” is about self-perception
and self-direction. It unveils and discusses the finer points of
self-improvement, the development of confidence, the value of ethics, and how to
become a positive influence at work, which involves learning how to communicate
fairly.
The “Back Nine” delves into effective
success strategies for employees and employers alike and is a call to action to
engage in proper leadership, empowerment, teamwork building, and learning how to
become proactive effecting positive change.
eLit Awards
The global eLit
Awards Program is committed to honoring the very best of English language
digital publishing entertainment. The contest is presented by Jenkins Group
Inc., a Michigan-based book publishing and marketing services company that has
operated the popular Independent Publisher Book Awards contest since 1996.
About Lorii Myers
An empowered employee-turned-entrepreneur,
Lorii Myers’s three decades of business experience include a wide variety of
career challenges: business manager, controller, senior manager, and business
owner.
Believing you should aspire to learn from
those who inspire you, she was careful to choose her early employment
opportunities well by working for entrepreneurial companies that were owned or
managed by formidable entrepreneurs.
When asked what she learned, Myers is quick
to answer, “The right attitude is everything!” and in her early thirties, she
left the security of employment to fulfill her own sense of entrepreneurial
flair.
Because of Myer’s personal quest to explore
every opportunity, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her books.
Also author of 3 off the Tee: Make it Happen, Myers currently resides north of Toronto, Ontario.
Visit Author Website
March 28, 2012
MAKE IT HAPPEN NOMINATED 2012 (Lorii Myers)
ANNOUNCEMENT:
We just found out that 3 Off the Tee: Make it Happen (ebook format) has been accepted into nomination by The Global eBook Awards in the following categories:BUSINESS / INSPIRATION / SELF-HELP
Winner! Gagnez! Pinnacle Book Achievement Award
3 OFF THE TEE BOOK SERIES:
Targeting Success by Lorii Myers
wins Best Business Book 2012
www.3-Off-the-Tee.com
January 27, 2012
UPDATE: It's that time again!!!
Make it Happen
launches March 1st, 2012.
3 Off the Tee: Make it Happen went out for review a few months back and we are gearing up for it's official launch on March 1st of this year.
3 Off the Tee: Targeting Success (2011) has been nominated in sixteen book award competitions across more than sixty-four categories. So far only one competition has closed and we made it to Finalist in two categories -- Best Advertising, Marketing and Sales Book and Best Book Trailer for a Non-fiction Book.
The next Book Award competition up is the AXIOM Business Book Awards with the winners being announced March 15th, 2012.
What an exciting time of year!
December 20, 2011
Speech Recognition
This is a clever tool that I've been playing with.
It's called "Speech Recognition" and I found it shortly after NANOWRIMO closed at the end of November. I had been writing frantically some nights at a rate of 4500 words in just under 4 hours after which my wrists were numb. Hey, I made it to 28,000 words basically in 20 days.
This does take a while to catch on to. You have to speak incredibly clear and perfect like a radio or TV announcer. You also have to catch on to the various common commands so that you don't waste too much time correcting.
Best of all this program was free on my computer. Check it out, you may have it to!
It's called "Speech Recognition" and I found it shortly after NANOWRIMO closed at the end of November. I had been writing frantically some nights at a rate of 4500 words in just under 4 hours after which my wrists were numb. Hey, I made it to 28,000 words basically in 20 days.
This does take a while to catch on to. You have to speak incredibly clear and perfect like a radio or TV announcer. You also have to catch on to the various common commands so that you don't waste too much time correcting.
Best of all this program was free on my computer. Check it out, you may have it to!
November 25, 2011
November 22, 2011
NANOWRIMO day 22... Yikes! 4222 words a day to go!
Keeping in mind that I was in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain for 10 days on vacation, and my writing slowed somewhat ... I am still 38000 words away from hitting my target of 50000 words by the end of November.
YIKES! That equates to 4222 words a day for nine days to make it!
Am I still determined to go for it? Yep!
Oddly being in Tenerife was quite inspiring and I was able to gather some pretty kewl material for the manuscript which I have now inserted in point form... and which I will be developing in the days to follow.
Initially Tenerife was not even in my mind when thinking about what I would write about. Now it is the location where "it" all happens -- the pulse of adventure -- the mysterious destination steeped with haunting history and intrigue.
So, the names have been changed to protect the innocent ... I'm just sayin'. lol.
Joking aside, the Tenerife adventure proved to be more than I was expecting -- in real life. We heard gun shots in the afternoon. Moments later as we walked around the corner toward our hotel we saw policia everywhere. Yet, this news never hit the papers.
Hmmmm ... A woman was beheaded there in May of 2011 -- in a grocery store - with lots of witnesses. It hit the news everywhere. But nothing of this? I will keep googling.
YIKES! That equates to 4222 words a day for nine days to make it!
Am I still determined to go for it? Yep!
Oddly being in Tenerife was quite inspiring and I was able to gather some pretty kewl material for the manuscript which I have now inserted in point form... and which I will be developing in the days to follow.
Initially Tenerife was not even in my mind when thinking about what I would write about. Now it is the location where "it" all happens -- the pulse of adventure -- the mysterious destination steeped with haunting history and intrigue.
So, the names have been changed to protect the innocent ... I'm just sayin'. lol.
Joking aside, the Tenerife adventure proved to be more than I was expecting -- in real life. We heard gun shots in the afternoon. Moments later as we walked around the corner toward our hotel we saw policia everywhere. Yet, this news never hit the papers.
Hmmmm ... A woman was beheaded there in May of 2011 -- in a grocery store - with lots of witnesses. It hit the news everywhere. But nothing of this? I will keep googling.
November 21, 2011
30 covers, 30 days
There are a lot of kewl creative things going on during NANOWRIMO (outside of the shear fact that a bunch of us are writing like fiends) and here is a great example.
30 covers, 30 days. Talented artists worldwide are creating book covers for some of the novels being written within this competition. Here is the link!
http://blog.lettersandlight.org/rss
30 covers, 30 days. Talented artists worldwide are creating book covers for some of the novels being written within this competition. Here is the link!
http://blog.lettersandlight.org/rss
