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7 Things Publishers Really Want: Book Business Plan
What publishers seek in an aspiring author doesn’t just involve your book idea or even your writing. You need a book business plan. By producing a business plan for your book, you'll have done the work to prove your idea is, indeed, one publishers want. Business Partners You have a product you want to market (book). You seek a financial partner … [Read More...]
SPECTER ~ The Lazarus Project, A Paranormal Suspense Thriller
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY ~ A PARANORMAL SUSPENSE THRILLER See all Books by Carrie Merrill _______________ In the afterglow, the grid vanished, and Ryan’s breath caught in her throat when she saw what remained. There was Jean, walking through her living room just as she had imagined her. Except, this woman was outlined in a halo of blue … [Read More...]
Where I’m Bound, A Civil War Novel by Allen Ballard
Where I'm Bound, a stunning and engaging Civil War novel, was the first novel (in 2000) to focus solely on the soldiers of an African American regiment. Throughout the war, more than 180,000 African-American men fought for the Union Army. Many were escaped slaves, others were freed men; yet all voluntarily enlisted for one cause: freedom. For the … [Read More...]
Voices in the Past: Journeys Beyond the Peaks (The Journeys Saga) by M.F. Erler
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY In this historical fiction novel, thirteen-year-old Cinda Parker knows she and her brother Ian have a special mental connection. When a mysterious stranger, Lexi, arrives from the future, they realize they are more than typical mid-twenty-first century children. Lexi convinces the siblings to travel back 200 years … [Read More...]
Time of Death, Not all Secrets Stay Buried by Carrie Merrill
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY ~ A PARANORMAL GHOSTLY THRILLER See all Books by Carrie Merrill _______________ Evan finds herself lost in a world between life and death, but something else is there with her. Something sinister, demanding that its secrets be revealed. _______________ Dr. Evan Jensen is a fourth-year resident in a General … [Read More...]
TATTOO 313, a political thriller
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY ~ Dead dogs, a cryptic email, and a suspicious death. When Jack Quinn’s friend, Tom, is found dead by apparent suicide, Jack turns to a cryptic email for answers. Then, when Tom’s wife goes missing, he uncovers a far more disturbing truth that will send the country spiraling out of control. While investigating … [Read More...]
Where All Worlds End, Book 7, The Peaks Saga
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY Martina's past and her depressions have come back to haunt her, even though she should be content to see her time-traveling daughter, Celestia, married to Laken Meta, a Time Portal Guardian. Instead she flees to The System, putting herself and all her family in jeopardy. Will they be able to get her back, despite the … [Read More...]
Beyond the World, Book 6, The Peaks Saga
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY Celestia, daughter of Jon and Martina has been taught well by her Gap-crosser father. Like him, she has learned to leap the Galactic Antipaterminal Passage across space and time. But she has also committed herself to the True Lord and to use her power to help others in need, whether physical or spiritual. Celestia … [Read More...]
Carried By Six, A Novel of Urban Bravery in America by Allen Ballard
Release Date: June 1, 2020 READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY " . . . a fast paced, page turning story of a black community determined to rid itself of the drug-driven plague of crime and violence. . . . It entertains, ennobles, and inspires." --Darlene Clark Hine, co-author, The African-American Odyssey "Ballard keeps it real and writes with … [Read More...]
A Covetous Spirit: A Shelly Gale Mystery Book 2
READ A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY ~ HONEYMOON CRUISE TO MURDER What was to be a wonderful honeymoon has turned into a nightmare as people are being murdered, and Shelly’s husband is the security guard's number one suspect. “Oh, them poor things! To lose your pa like this! And you knew them? If I’s you, I’d be real careful. You’ve … [Read More...]
Even JK Rowling Needs a Good Publicist
If you’re not JK Rowling, there’s work to be done If your book received “withering reviews” that included an assessment like, “so willfully banal, so depressingly clichéd” you’d never sell any copies, right? Unfortunately, writers with gold-plated names like JK Rowling can overcome such a New York Times review (it was of one of her post-Harry … [Read More...]
FAQ – Hybrid Publishing
FIRESIDE PRESS CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS PUBLISHING SOUL FIRE PRESS Are you a self-publishing company or a vanity press? Neither. FIRESIDE, CMP and Soul Fire Press are the hybrid divisions of First Steps Publishing. Self-publishing companies will generally publish whatever is submitted to them, regardless of writing quality, careless editing, poor … [Read More...]
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