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“What is Man? Part One ~ Where We Were” by Thomas Sedaker

July 17, 2014 by SF Parrott Leave a Comment


by Thomas Sedaker ~

What is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him? Where We Were (Part One), The first of a three part series by Thomas Sedaker takes us back to the garden of Eden, explaining what happened and bringing resolution to questions we’ve always wanted to know but never thought of asking.

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Filed Under: Non Fiction, Religion & Spirituality Tagged With: project, shop, tsedaker

“I Am Awesome ~ A Healthy Workbook for Kids” by Mary Richards

July 2, 2014 by SF Parrott Leave a Comment

I Am Awesome by Mary Richards


MIDDLE GRADE | 8-12


by Mary Richards ~

I Am Awesome, A Healthy Workbook for Kids was written with the needs of our youth in mind. It was written for both boys and girls, especially the tweens (ages 8-12) and early teens (13-14). The author wrote with the intention of helping this age group develop positive self-esteem. Kids have many physical and psychological changes to deal with while going through puberty, plus they are trying to cope with pressure from family, friends, teachers, coaches, and society in general, to act a certain way, often with mixed messages.  This informative and motivating book will help the owner work through several of those challenges. [Read more…] about “I Am Awesome ~ A Healthy Workbook for Kids” by Mary Richards

Filed Under: Books, Bookstore, Education & Teaching, Health, Fitness and Dieting Tagged With: covers, fspbook, mary richards, new release 2014, project, shop

Author Marketing Tip: Easy and Free way to promote and brand yourself

June 28, 2013 by SF Parrott Leave a Comment

Gravatar.com What are they?

Globally Recognized Avatar

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, so why not on any site?

What this means for the Author

You can brand your name, your book, link to your site – all the time you are commenting and building connections. It is done seamlessly and silently.

But they are so much more… They include your bio, links to your websites, images of you your book. And best of all they are free. If you have not set up this easy marketing tool – then do so now. Easy-Peasy Author Marketing Tip!

Setting up a Gravatar

Setting up Gravatars on your site is easy; you don’t even need an account! Plugins are available for leading blog software and content management systems, and our tutorials will have you running Gravatars in no time. [Read more…] about Author Marketing Tip: Easy and Free way to promote and brand yourself

Filed Under: Marketing & Promotion Tagged With: author marketing tip, marketing tip, self-publishing

Author Branding using Author Central Account

June 28, 2013 by SF Parrott Leave a Comment

Yippie! Your ebook is published. Now, you need to set up your Author Central Account.

When you received notification from Amazon on your publishing success, they included several links to where you can set up an Author Page. Below is how you can set up the page for Amazon.com (US), and then you can simply copy and paste the information into all the other Amazon accounts.

Amazon Author Central

https://authorcentral.amazon.com/

You can sign in with your Amazon.com account, but if not, JOIN NOW and use the same login and password (makes it easier to remember).

NOTE: you must have a book published on Amazon before you can access Author Central.

Once you are logged in you want to connect to your books.

Link to your Books

  1. Click the text link that says “list of your books” under the heading Update your Author Page
  2. Click Add more books button
  3. Search by your name or the title of the book. Add it to your list

Profile

Click the Profile tab in the top menu

On the right you will see your personal link to your author page. You can share this link form your blog. This is also the link that will display your Author Page anytime someone clicks your name next to your book. Without an Author page, clicking your name link will only display a generic Amazon page with your books.

Example: this is the link to my Author Page:

http://www.amazon.com/author/suzannefyhrieparrott

Add your Biography – keep it clean, professional, and typo-free!

Bio Image: Add a photo professional image of you.

Blog Feed Click “add blog”and add your blog feed url. It is commonly something like this: http://unrulyguides.com/feed/

Twitter if you don’t have a twitter account (get one). Your tweets will post here.

#authorcentral #authorbranding

Filed Under: Amazon, Marketing & Promotion Tagged With: amazon, author marketing, marketing tip, self-publishing

“Kindle Micro Solutions ~ Tables” by Suzanne Fyhrie Parrott

January 30, 2013 by SF Parrott Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Books, Bookstore, Education & Teaching, Formatting & Design Tagged With: ebook formatting, fspbook, HTML, new release 2013, Suzanne Fyhrie Parrott, tables

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