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What's Your Biggest Challenge with Your Book?

The biggest challenge in today's market is the price of books. As a relatively new author, and an unknown author it's difficult to compete with the mass market prices of best selling authors, or ev...

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My love of metaphysics, paranormal research and justice lead to my first book, The Gifts, A Jacody Ives Mystery. My readers are solely responsible for my hopefully soon to be released second book which is a prequil to The Gifts. If all goes well, Sacred Secrets, A Jacody Ives Mystery will be available in early 2010.

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Knowing Your Market And Using that Knowledge

One of the hardest things for new parents to understand is not everyone loves a baby as much as they do. This is a lesson that we have to apply to our books and our writing. There are millions of readers, each with their own need, imagination and drive. A die hard fantasy fan probably isn't going to be interested in a love story--unless it occurs in outer space.

So if I were a fantasy writer or science fiction writer--I'd become a Trekkie and attend every conference I could find.

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At 11:11pm on December 3, 2009, Natalie Regoli, CEO said…: Are you on Facebook and LinkedIn?

I would like to connect with you there also. I am trying to make more friends and fans so that I can spread awareness for breast cancer during pregnancy. I was diagnosed Stage 3 in the 5th month of my pregnancy in May. My status updates on Facebook and LinkedIn are usually about my fight.

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