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Friday, July 23, 2010
All you need to know about Mike Saxton, Author of "7 Scorpions: Rebellion"
All you need to know about Mike Saxton, Author of "7 Scorpions: Rebellion"
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
All you need to know about Jerry Sorlucco, Author of "The Two Martini Diet"
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Amazon Optimization would like to introduce you to author Jerry Sorlucco. He has published 3 books to date and we look forward to seeing what he will produce!
Jerry Sorlucco, Author of "The Two Martini Diet"
All You Need to Know about Jerry Sorlucco
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, within walking distance of Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937: the only child of Marie and Jerry Sorlucco, both Italian immigrants.
My early education was in the New York City public school system, which was a model of excellence in its day. World War Two was very much part of my young life, including the warplanes that were often featured in newsreels and the movies of the day. From that, and a very close uncle that served in the naval as an aircraft mechanic, I was drawn to aviation and at the age fifteen to enroll in a flight school at Deer Park Airport on Long Island. Most of my high school life was spent working the maximum number of hours allowed after school as a Western Union bicycle messenger—this was decades before facsimile and e-mail. The job bought many hours of flight training on the weekends when I rode the Long Island Railroad out to Deer Park; I’d often find a bed or a light aircraft to sleep uncomfortably in on Saturday nights, which was many times quite an adventure in itself. In the end I got a job as a line boy at the airport, a furnished room to call home, and graduated from a local high school. The major accomplishment however was my flying credentials: at the age of eighteen I was a licensed commercial-instrument pilot, and a certified flight instructor. From this point forward I was paid to fly, not the other way around.
What followed was a great, forty-year, career as an airline pilot that I wrote about in a memoir titled, A Good Stick; An Airline Captain Lives the History of 20th Century Commercial Aviation, published in 2005. Along the way I attended Queens College in New York for two years as my career permitted, loved English literature and began to write as part of my work in air safety and union activities as an officer of the Airline Pilots Association.
When forced to retire at age sixty by Federal Air Regulations in 1997, my mind naturally turned to public service and politics, another passion brought about by a lifetime of reading history. I lived then and now in northern New Hampshire, a state noted for having the first in the nation presidential primary and its resulting retail politics. In 2002 and again in 2004 I ran unsuccessfully for the New Hampshire State Senate as a progressive Democrat in a historically conservative Republican district. Although losing the elections I managed to vitalize the Democratic Party in northern New Hampshire and helped turn New Hampshire from “red” to “blue’ in subsequent elections. The experience led me to write my second book, Facing Fascism; The Threat to American Democracy in the 21st Century, published in 2007.
The writing of my current title, The Two Martini Diet; How I Lost 100+Lbs While Eating Well and Having a Drink, was brought about by the fact that I achieved a major weight loss in a society that is killing itself from obesity. I want people to know how I did without feeling deprived and even have a drink or two in the process. The message is simple, if I can do it, you can do it—here’s how. I truly want to help people live longer, healthier lives. The sad fact is that 75 percent of the astronomical coast of health care be attributed to three factors: obesity, lack of physical activity, and smoking. The cost trajectory is not sustainable. A fact recognized by President Obama’s wife, Michelle heading up an effort to fight the obesity epidemic.
I live in a lovely house on top of a hill overlooking the Connecticut River. The view is fantastic, the nighttime sky reminds me of my frequent flights across the North Atlantic, which I loved. I share our home with my wife Sue, Airedale Spencer, and Tiger, a Bengal cat. Just last week Spencer’s sister, Tracy, died of a rare immunological disease—it was a great loss. The loving bond between pets and people is unique. Stay tuned for my next book, I shall write about it.
Jerry Sorlucco
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Amazon Open House: Featured Author of the Week Hanli Bothma
AMAZON OPEN HOUSE
Genre: Children's Fiction
Strategic Book Group would like to announce this week’s featured authors on Amazon.com. These are new up and coming authors whose books are really beginning to turn heads.
Getting a book published and out to the public is a daunting task for any author and we would like to help spread the word of these titles as best we can.
Please take a moment to browse through the following new releases to Amazon.com
Hanli Bothma- Author of 3 Children’s Books
MERANT, The Muddled Ant
www.t-Muddled-Ant-Hanli-Bothma/dp/1608609928/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1279226924&sr=1-1
BLOSSOM the Timid Mouse
BILLY The Playful Bunny
Please if you have the time visit these books on Amazon. Read their reviews and vote on which ones you find helpful. This can only benefit the author and we appreciate any sort of feedback.
If you would like to review either one of these titles on Amazon please email me and I will send you a free electronic copy for review.
For more information about one of these authors or books please contact:
Kait Neese
Amazon Optimization Consultant
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Writers Literary Script Consultant Named in the Top National
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Suzanne Stenson O’Brien
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612-868-7619
Writers Literary Script Consultant Named in the Top National
Creative Screenwriting Magazine's BEST SCRIPT ANALYSTS AND CONSULTANTS AS RATED BY SCREENWRITERS report just came out and Anton Diether of Writers Literary is ranked! This report is based on a survey conducted over a period of weeks from December 2009 to February, 2010. More than 80,000 recipients of the CS Weekly E-Zine, published by Creative Screenwriting, were invited to take the survey on line at surveymonkey.com, a professional surveying forms service.
"I'm pleased be included in Creative Screenwriting's report,” stated Diether, “ but most of the credit should go to Writers Literary's expert staff of editors whom I have personally handpicked and trained to assist screenwriters around the world."
The survey received nearly 1,000 responses covering 212+* script analysts and consultants. About 100 responses were dropped from the final study because of confusing or incomplete data entry, leaving 905 responses in the final study. The full data set was analyzed for totals, ranges, and average scores. This report individually names and reports on the top 164+* analysts and consultants as rated by screenwriters.
ANTON DIETHER is the writer of the 1998 Hallmark TV miniseries Moby Dick, the highest-rated long-form show in basic cable history, nominated for five Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards; the 1999 ABC-TV miniseries Cleopatra; and the 2002 Hallmark Channel miniseries Stranded. Anton developed Beauty and the Beast for Fox Family, Land of Oz for Disney, Gold Fever for Phoenix Pictures, Operation Greylord for Showtime, and Taj Mahal for Threshold Entertainment. He recently wrote Lost At Sea for TNT, which was to star Patrick Swayze, directed by Nicholas Meyer; and Swim For Your Lives for RHI, to be filmed in 2011.
For more information about the BEST SCRIPT ANALYSTS AND CONSULTANTS report, visit http://www.creativescreenwriting.com.
For more information about Writers Literary, visit http://www.writersliterary.com.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Amazon Optimization Featured Blog- Check it out! Increase your Presence on Amazon!
Hello Everyone!
Here is a weekly blog we are participating in! Please take the time to check it out. There is some great information on how to increase your Amazon presence.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
Vote on these LISTMANIAS please!
Listmania
Strategic Book Group would like to take a moment to announce the following Listmania Lists. These lists contain the books in our program so please vote them as “helpful”. The more votes these lists get the more exposure these books get.
Voting Instructions:
When you click on a list you will notice at the top right of the list it says this: List Stats
Last updated: 6/16/10
Read: X times
Rated: X out of X helpful
Rate it! Do you find this list helpful?
YES or NO Obviously you will want to click YES. Then you will get a message that says: "Thank you for your feedback." HOWEVER - and this is important - leave the page OPEN for several minutes AFTER you vote so that your vote "sticks"!!! Then refresh the page to see that the Rated # has increased with your vote. Amazon doesn't like voting and running, and lots of times your vote will disappear if you leave the page immediately after voting. Again: leave the page OPEN after voting. Ask your family and friends with Amazon accounts to vote. The point of being on this particular list is not just to have your book on a list - anyone can do that - but to have it voted on ALOT so that Amazon will rank your book higher in its algorithms. That's how their formula works.
Listmania 1: Listmania 2: Listmania 3:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Children-s-Books-to-Read-with-YOUR-Kids/lm/R3443TMLT4X22S/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full
http://www.amazon.com/Action-Suspense-Intrigue-check-these/lm/R1B4DDX7LG71AP/ref=cm_lmt_DYNA_f_1_russss1?pf_rd_p=496997231&pf_rd_s=listmania-center&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1419654802&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1PCJ41KDZWHGYBKYRMGZ
http://www.amazon.com/Great-New-Age-Self-Help-Books/lm/R32XEHT9BJ0CF0/ref=cm_lmt_fvlm_f_3_rlrsrs1
