Write for Profit – Writer Progress

When a writer gets online and starts promoting their work via Internet, writing becomes the only real option. Whether you write for actual publication or for voice over, writing is part of the promotional process.

But does it work?

How much can a book increase your profits? Publishing a book and promoting it on the Internet can give you the competitive edge. In fact, it can make your business profitable online. Simply having a book published gives you credibility.

My Utmost for His Highest

Some days you just can’t get everything accomplished, no matter how hard you try. Those are the days when it’s best to step back and realize that time, your chores, your accomplishments, and all are in God’s hands. No matter what you do, you won’t accomplish all that YOU want to accomplish. But, if you put the day and your wishes in God’s hands, you’ll accomplish all that HE wants you to accomplish.

That’s what trusting is all about. Trusting the Lord to order your days and accomplishments according to His Will means doing your best and allowing Him control over the rest. If you’re hoping to accomplish great things…

Try this:

 Give Him your day in your first morning prayers. Invite Him to determine your successes and failures for the day. Ask His guidance for your day.

Give praise and thanks for the miracles of life and wonders of your life experiences.

Bill Clarke Remembers the OJ Connection to Nathan

April 20Th, 1986, 10 PM

I was watching 9 News to see if my lucky Lotto Picks on the Colorado Lottery would bring me a one in a million fortune.  It did not, so I was going to head to bed.

At this very moment my son, Nathan, age 23, was clocking out a Ruth’s Chris, a Denver Lodo restaurant that he had worked at since they opened three years ago.

At this moment Debbie Cameron was picking up food for herself and her daughter, Heather, age 9.

Duncan Cameron,  at this moment was waiting in the Parking Garage that both his estranged wife Debbie and my son Nathan used. It sits in the middle of downtown Denver on 15Th between the old Denver Dry on 16Th and California and Neusteders, two departments stores that had gone condo.

Duncan wanted to beg Debbie to come home with him.  Her six month lease was up and he was tired of the trial separation.  Heather and Debbie were not living with him and Debbie had it in her mind not to return to this controlling environment.

Duncan was a former Prosecuting Attorney in the Denver DA’s office and had a list of upscale clients on his agenda that he could no longer care about.

Heather was a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado and was a successful accountant.  

Nathan was a graduating Senior at the University of Northern Colorado and had plans to move out of the downtown loft after graduation on May 11Th.  Tonight he was headed over to his Mom’s to study all night in peace and quiet.

Before he headed over there he had boxes in his car to take up to his loft since he was moving.  He drove into the parking garage only to witness Duncan stabbing Debbie to death with a knife.  Nathan stopped and got out, and confronted Duncan with pepper spray.

Duncan not only had the knife he had his pistol. He shot Nathan once in the face, the bullet crashing into the C2 C3 vertebrae.  Duncan then turned to his wife and blamed her for what he had done to Nathan and shot her multiple times. 

Debbie and Nathan died that night. 

Duncan died on the following Tuesday 18 miles from Barstow on the Interstate.  He had fled Colorado, stolen plates in New Mexico and was headed to LAX to fly to New Zealand where he knew he would not be extradited because of our death penalty. He was stopped by a California Highway Patrol Officer. His stolen plates were falling off. 

Duncan ate a bullet out of his own gun, rather that go to jail. 

Duncan knew this:   You may not get death for stabbing your wife, but the odds are much higher if you kill the witness.

The city reacted.  This was front page news for a week.  Debbie’s friends knew immediately that Duncan had killed Debbie because Duncan saw OJ get off for killing Nicole and Ron Goldman, and he figured he would get off too.

Debra Norville sent a crew to Denver because of the OJ tie in.  They asked me in an interview what I thought of the Goldman’s lawsuit.  I replied it was a waste of time.  They used my sound clip and mentioned my only comfort is found in the Lord.

Today, September 16Th, 2007,  I see that OJ is in cuffs and he is in Clark (how appropriate) County jail without bail.

Oh, yes, Shall we Dance with Angels?

Shall we rejoice?

Bill Clarke

Impact – Marketing for Traffic Generation

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Daddy’s Tavern – Written by Curt Gibson

 Jan Verhoeff Reviews “Daddy’s Tavern” Written by Curt Gibson

Lenny kicks off this page turner like a can from the gutter along Maude Street, a community living in the shadow of the Chicago Fires. The result of an afternoon respite from the summer heat and loneliness of the war, Lenny carries his personal burdens as he blunders through the early years of his life. A troubled youth with many strikes against him, Lenny hangs onto the hope of his father’s return from the military. His mother’s choices together with happenstance leaves Lenny on the street. Another time another place, and the man who suspects he’s really Lenny’s father finds him, brings him back to the tavern and keeps him until the military takes him away.

A series of events meander their way through Lenny’s life until he meets the woman who inspires him to change. His motivation is complete as he comes full circle to entrepreneurial pursuits. Lenny can be what he wants to be and he endeavors to become more.

You’ll be won over by his spirit and soul in this book surprisingly packed with murder, crime, and mayhem from every port. Lenny is an innocent soul who overcomes the trials of a rough start in life and actually becomes an upstanding businessman with a grand future. I found myself crying in one part and laughing in other parts as his character overcomes tragedy and ascends to greater heights.

I think what impresses me most about this book is the fact that Lenny comes from a place of underachievement and actually overcomes obstacles of most every sort to start his own business and become a productive part of a society where his friends are actually thugs. The recognition of a different sort of justice from the inner city where values arise from a different place in the soul brought me back to reality in the end of the book, as one character realized and stood on the fact that he was a good person, despite rough beginnings and errors in his life.

I would read the book again, recommend it to friends and have suggested it to a few who prefer a good life line story over the traditional mysterious crime tales.

This and more reviews are posted at http://janverhoeffonline.wordpress.com

September Dawn – Updated Review

My friend Dianne offers a review of “September Dawn” and a few questions she perceived while watching it. Coming from a Christian perspective, it would appear quite a long shot different from our beliefs. Perhaps worth investigating further?

 See her Review at Butts About It!

Ebook Publication – Design your Niche

 Have you ever wondered what would happen if you put just a little bit of the wisdom you have from your day to day job down on paper and shared it with anyone who wanted to know about your niche?What you do every day is a niche and there are others who do what you do too.

I remember when I was a teenager, my parents were doing floors professionally, and I thought that was the worst job in the world. I worked two or three nights a week with them in the summer scrubbing up wax after they used the stripper on it, and then we’d wax the floors before morning came and all the shoppers came back into the store.

One night we’d hired a new guy and he was just learning the trade. He didn’t know that you had to edge your mop every time you wrung it out! As a 16 yer old, I was smarter than this guy who was 20 years my senior (way back then I thought he was pretty old). I mean truly, anybody can do what I was doing. But I had to teach him how to do it.

When I got home the next morning, my mom said something to me about training the new guy. She then suggested I write a manual about how to strip the floor and she’d read over it. So, I wrote a manual and showed it to her. It was about 30 pages of typed work, and it had all the steps necessary to clean, scrub, strip and rewax a floor for a professional looking shine. I photo copied that manual and mom bought 12 of them for training purposes. She took one to her supplier and he bought 30 of them, then he bought 30 more. I had the book bound by a local print ship with spiral binding and printed off 500 copies. Those 500 copies were sold within a few weeks.

Last week, I was visiting with a local professional janitor and he showed me his ‘catalogue of information’ and in his book case was a black spiral bound copy of my book with a rather tattered looking cover. He didn’t know I was the writer of that battered old book. But he thumped on it with a knuckle and said, “That’s my floor cleaning Bible, whenever I hire someone new I run copies of that book and they have to read them. There’s every step you take when you clean and strip a floor in there, and it works. Says right on the first page the writer was 16 and worked with her parents in the business, but she sure knew her stuff.”

I asked if he had an extra copy of that old book and brought it home.

It’s embarrassing the number of mistakes in that book, but I’m telling you, if what I wrote in that book has made that much difference in someone’s life, how much more difference could you make by sharing the steps, tips or ideas you have from doing your job all these years?

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“September Dawn” – the plot thickens…

While it may or may not be true that the LDS church has slowed the release of “September Dawn” the fact is, this movie is well talked about over the Internet. The Seattle Times indicates the story blends Fact and Fiction? Perhaps… But don’t most historical movies ride on writer creativity, restoring the tales of long ago with folklore and fact blended to intimate perfection with the writer’s cool version of fact and comprehension? I believe we even have a name for that “Perspective”.

I’ve heard, and long experienced the changes of historic tales told down through the ages to fit the tellers perspective. No matter what the genre, the teller seems to make himself the hero. Aren’t we all the hero of our own lives?

<a href=http://www.maximonline.com/entertainment/reviews.aspx?p_id=13129>Pete Hammond</a>, devils advocate, Maxim Online implicates September Dawn as a bad choice movie taking advantage of the Terrorism of more recent years to blow a historic event out of proportion. Could it be that the September 11, 1857 date of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in which more than 200 settlers were murdered by Mormons was a precursor to the Terrorist events of 9-11? Interestingly enough, although the two events don’t have anything to do with each other, the dates are the same.

Perhaps 9-11 should be stricken from the calendar?

Review By Jan Verhoeff

“Angels Watching Over Me” Written By Carol Roach

Simplistic and understated, this book reveals a side of life where adventures are pure and uncomplicated. Yet, deeper inside the book, tales of struggles, abuse and abandonment suffered by a child reveals a powerful sense of self. The character of Carissa becomes more than simplistic, her heart exposes gentle hope, deep faith and a sense of pride.

Escaped from American slavery, this family had made their new home in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Carissa, born in 1951 was the youngest member of the family, a child living under the unwavering protection of her eldest sister. Katie-Ann became her champion, giving her the love she never received from her mother.

Carissa’s life revolved around imaginary friends, angels and a special sense of being that carried her through the discard of life with faith and hope. Her pride kept her moving forward, even in the face of tragedy and danger.

This book ends in a happily ever after fashion that encourages the reader. I appreciated the open honesty in the book, and the happy ending.

Carol Roach, a writer from Canada, who produces Story Time Tapestry, a daily newsletter for writers.

You can get your own copy of “Angels Watching Over Me” at Carol’s Bookstore

Coolest Woman on the Planet – Karina Fabian

How could that be? A science fiction novel sporting Catholic doctrine and religion? Interesting concepts Karina Fabian shares in her anthology Infinite Space, Infinite God. Fifteen stories told from a point of faith, leading the reader to explore the options of faith, hope and religion.

 

Explore the world of Science Fiction with Karina. Share the doubts, trials and triumphs of humans who find their journeys in time and space are also journeys in faith.  Experience spine-tingling adventure.  Marvel at technological miracles–and miracles that transcend technology–and meet the writers who made a leap of faith and dared to incorporate familiar religion with fantastic universes.  When Karina asked me to post her book in the Blog Tour, I was kind of surprised. I’ve long admired her work on a group site I’m on. I hadn’t realized how deeply her writing had touched me, but after reading a few sites on her blog tour… It was obvious, her writing has had an impact on, not only me, but others who read her work.  Finding a strong foundation for writing fiction means you have the ultimate resource from which to write. Katrina’s foundation is poetically simple.

Katrina’s work is available from her website, http://isigsf.tripod.com, for more information. ISIG is also now available at www.twilighttimesbooks.com, www.amazon.com, Barnes and Noble online, or by order from your favorite bookstore.