Autumn is in the Air!

 

My Favorite Season is on the way.

Wishing You a Memorable, Colorful, Magical Autumn!

An Upcoming Free Kindle Book Promo!

Coming up this weekend: February 1st and 2nd, my poetry collection:

My Poetic Path: Selected Poems 2000-2010 

will be available as a free Kindle download at: 

Amazon.com, .ca, UK....

Do share this post if you can. 

And if you enjoy this book, a review at Amazon.com would be most appreciated. 

While you're there, I hope you'll check out my other books/ebooks too! 

Happy Reading! ;-)

Friday Funnies! Coming This Friday ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

I have a new post series/meme starting this Friday, over at my poetry blog: My Poetic Path:

 

Friday Funnies!

 

Stop by this Friday, September 10th, to read the minor details, enjoy some laughs and hopefully participate too.

 

And do spread the word if you can. The more the merrier. :-) 

 

 

Hope to see you for:

 

 Friday Funnies!

 

 this coming Friday and many more to come.

 

 We can all use more laughs, right? ;-)

 

Late Summer Book Launch and Free Promotion!

 

 

My new novel:

 

Third Chapter, Second Chance

 

 

 My new cookbook (first in the series):

 

 The Groovy Green Slow Cooker

 Weeknight Veggie Slow Cooker

Taaaa...daaa!!

 

As many of my regular readers already know, I've been working on several book projects during the past couple of years.

 

 I'm happy to say that my two newest books are now available at Amazon.com. :<)

 

Both are available in Kindle and print formats.

 

You can read more about both of these books by clicking the links above.

 

I will be having ongoing promotions for all of my books, starting with a free promotion for Third Chapter, Second Chance on August 24- 25 (this coming weekend).

 

Stop in at Amazon this weekend, to download a free copy of Third Chapter, Second Chance!

 

And do check back on a regular basis at my Amazon Author's page for a upcoming promotions, for all my books. 

 

 

I am also reissuing Kindle editions of my two poetry books:

 

 

 

Haiku Reflections: The Four Seasons

 

 

 

 

My Poetic Path

 

 

If you enjoy poetry, these books will now be available in Kindle versions too.

 

I've also added some photos to Haiku Reflections for the Kindle version.

 

Both of these poetry eBooks will be available before the end of August at Amazon.

 

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If you'd like to be notified by email about my upcoming new books and some of the future promotions I'll be having, send an email to:

 

mypoeticpath @ my way . com  

 

 (spaces removed)

 

subject line: SUBSCRIBE

 

and I'll add you to my mailing list.

 

Note: my email mailing list is currently sent via a telus.com account as I have several email addresses, that I'm combining contacts from, for my book promotions.

 

But I will have my name in the subject line so you'll know it's from me! :<)

 

And I promise, you won't be inundated with tons of emails!

 

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I hope you enjoy my two new books, my reissued poetry kindle editions and future work too.

 

I have several new book projects in progress, including the second volume of The Groovy Green Kitchen and an Ebook formatting guide for Word 2013.

 

 

It's all been a lot of work but so rewarding too.

 

And I've had a lot of help and encouragement along the way.

 

My sincere thanks to: my novel beta readers, recipe testers, friends, family and blog-readers at all my blogs. And a special thanks to the established authors I've been fortunate to correspond with over the past few months, who have helped me tremendously.

 

 You all know who you are and I've thanked you personally already.

But just to say again: all of the help, encouragement, constructive criticism and good wishes have been most appreciated.

 

 

If you do enjoy my books and eBooks, reviews at Amazon.com would be great! :<)

 

And do share this post with your blog, Facebook, Twitter readers, family and friends too.

 

Thanks so much!

 

 

Happy Reading and Cooking!

 

 

CreateSpace (Self-Publishing)

CreateSpace is an Amazon company that specializes in self-publishing services including books, ebooks, music and film.

I tried out CreateSpace for the first time, a few weeks ago and I'm certainly glad I did.

I had been wanting to publish a collection of my poetry for a long time. I had started and stopped this project many times. With a couple of other self-publishing services that I had tried previously, including Lulu and IUniverse, there was always something that kept me procrastinating and not focused on actually completing my book.

 In terms of Lulu, I had high hopes initally after reading some reviews about their services. But when I attempted to download my completed poetry document file at their site; right off the bat, I was faced with an error message that made no sense at all. Listing several font errors for a font I wasn't even using! I was turned off big time and decided not to waste any more time there!

CreateSpace makes the whole process of self-publishing a book not only easy but fun too!  I was able to download my poetry document and with only a bit of minor tweaking to adjust for the page size I had chosen; it was ready to go within a couple of days, after being checked over by the CreateSpace team.

Here's how my book turned out:

And here's a link to the Amazon page with the Click Inside the Book feature included. (The back cover may be still appearing as it was for the first one I created (green) as this may still be in the processed of being updated on the Amazon product page.)

I then had a few things I wanted to change after I received the first copies of my book, including the cover and a few tweaks of the text, that were minor errors I had missed. No problem. I submitted an updated document, chose a new cover photo (this time, one I took myself) and presto, my book was on it's way to being updated to my complete satisfaction.

CreateSpace provides a Cover Creator option that makes this process so easy. And completely customizable. Not some "cookie cutter" same old, same old....options, as is the case with some of the other self-publishing companies offerings.

And with Amazon behind a book, well the opportunities to take it to whatever level you aspire to, are definitely there. Channels offered include: Amazon US, Amazon Canada, Europe, UK...library distribution, online distributors....impressive!

Their support services are excellent too. And again, an area that I think is so important and is lacking with too many companies, of all types it seems. I had numerous questions along the way and all were answered in a friendly, timely and professional way. No "jumping through hoops" to get someone to respond to questions and that's something that I really appreciate.

Price-wise. Hard to believe. For a mere $25. investment I not only was able to create my book to my complete satisfaction. The $25. also included the expanded distribution options, mentioned above and only available through CreateSpace,editing assistance and a free ISBN number. This was $25. very well spent! And without the expanded distribution, initial costs are FREE! Hard to go wrong.

Only two things that I can think of that would have made my experience with CreateSpace even better.

I had asked about the title and my name being included on the spine of the book but was told that for a book with 70 pages (as mine is) the spine was too small to allow for print. I know that Lulu does offer this service and it would be most helpful to have this provided at CreateSpace, especially when targeting bookstores and libraries for selling prospects.

Also, when checking the proof of my book online at the CreateSpace site, the magnify page option is a bit "wonky" with only a very large and rather small size of magnification offered. To have incremental zoom options, again would be helpful and appreciated.

I am now working on another book, this one a collection of my haiku poems. I am also putting together a marketing plan specifically targeted to regional libraries including a media release for both of my poetry books. Wish me luck! To see a labour of love come together as has been the case with both of these book projects is oh so satisfying!

If you've been delaying your own creative indie project be it a book, ebook, Cd....make sure to stop by CreateSpace to find out just how easy, inexpensive and rewarding it can be.

Overall rating for this service: Very Good. 4 out of 5.