Inspiration from Author Maxwell Maltz

This is taken from author Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.'s book, "Psycho-Cybernetics":

"The Picture of Success:
1 - Sense of direction - we are engineered as goal-seeking mechanisms.
2 - Understanding - be willing to see the truth
3 - Courage - to take a calculated risk and to act
4 - Charity - people are important
5 - Esteem - appreciate other people more
6 - Self-confidence - is built upon an experience of success
7 - Self-acceptance - "you" are not your mistakes"

Listing Your Tour

When touring with your book or making appearances, here's some places to list your event:

Bookwire.com

BookTour.com

Netread.com

CraigsList.com

KnowAboutNetwork.com

WritersWrite.com

And of course, on your own website!

Amazon Booksurge Monopoly

I highly recommend that any author who utilizes a digital/POD printer to read this article: http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/004597_03272008.htmlAmazon's

Booksurge is contacting publishers and requesting that they use Booksurge to print their books - or have their Buy Now button removed from their listing on Amazon. This will affect many publishers and authors!

The greatest volume of my sales go through book stores, so a listing with Ingram is far more important to me than a listing on Amazon. But I know many authors & publishers rely on Amazon. This is really going to shake things up if Amazon eliminates all other digital/POD printers.

One Small Triumph ...

As of 3:30pm today, I have finally completed all re-edits on Book I!!!!

What began as a 173,923 word novel is now only 151,464!

It is tighter, more concise, better grammer, and missing a couple continuety errors. (Dang, and I thought I had all those!) But most important, it is now up the the same standard of quality as the last three books.

First efforts are so first efforts!

Now, on to the editor ...