Meet Children's Author Kathy Webb Penrod and Tumptin #Video #Author

"I love this book. My daughter cannot put it down!"

Laurie Hansen

"I just received "Tumptin's Sneeze" and found it a great story with many fantastic lessons. The main message is about food allergies but it also is about compassion, friendship, problem solving and knowing kids can make a difference and shouldn't be ignored. Great job Kathy!"

Suzee Sanders

My love of books reaches far into my childhood. But my love of writing was inspired, in part, by the never-ending persistence of my sister, who would NOT STOP pestering me to write. She was inspired. Once I began, I realized this is what makes me whole. It connects my thoughts to my emotions and provides such soothing comfort. I am so grateful that my sister didn’t give up on encouraging me to write. 

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MEXICO On A MOTORCYCLE: Riding Out The Recession #NewBook #Video AVAILABLE NOW!

In 2009 Mac Patrick, Pacific Northwest rigger, took off on the ride of a lifetime - an odyssey of 17,358 miles on a BMW R 1200 GS. Circumnavigating the coast lines of the United States and Mexico Mac has now written about his incredible experience, with insights encouraging You to capture that Inner Explorer. Video point 3.50 features the author's inspiring fluency in Spanish!
The thrill of the ride, the joy of the road, the reflection that one is afforded on a solitary ride of this magnitude will open Your eyes and inspire You to see MEXICO On A Motorcycle! Patrick's book releases to Nook on April 12, 2011. Watch for announcements regarding its release to Amazon and Ingram's booksellers soon thereafter.

17,358 Mile Tour on a BMW R1200 GS

#NewBook: Letters to Bangkok ~ true story of love born on the internet…

From author John Smith comes Letters to Bangkok, a unique and life-changing story about the journey of two people in their quest for finding love. This story of love begins, as many stories of this genre do, when two people meet by chance.

Letters to Bangkok is a true story of love born on the internet between a practicing Thai surgeon and an English University marketing manager. It is, in essence, a story of this time spawned by the age of mass communication, and acted out for the most part with protagonists living thousands of miles apart. The letters are true and exact records of written exchanges between two people trying to find love. As the story unfolds with the protagonists facing many obstacles from within themselves and without, the author offers a running commentary on what is happening, shedding light on the story as it twists and turns to its inevitable conclusion.

Also a story of personal resonance, Letters to Bangkok is without doubt an amazing story of love, of dreams and of destiny foretold.

About the Author
John Smith lives in a small market town within the Greater London area, England, some seventeen miles to the West of the city center. Originally brought up in the North of England, his family for generations fished the cod off the Icelandic sea banks. His tribal influences are mixed, Irish from his mother's side and Scottish from his father's forebears. Formerly serving a number of years in the Royal Air Force including lengthy overseas tours, he ended his military service in the 1990s to take up a career in marketing at a London University, where he has been employed for the last seventeen years. Studying with the Open University, he graduated in 1992 majoring in Psychology. Letters to Bangkok fulfills a boyhood dream of becoming a writer. Letters to Bangkok * by John Smith

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A Mother’s Love (The Love of a Non-Biological Mother), a new book by Cassandra Mitchum

Silver Springs, MD Author Publishes New Book

Silver Springs, MD (Vocus/PRWEB) March 24, 2011

A Mother’s Love (The Love of a Non-Biological Mother), a new book by Cassandra Mitchum has been released by RoseDog Books.

It all began in the early fifties in a little dusty southern town in South Carolina. Annie and Luby Williams were blessed with two little girls from New York City. Cassandra Mitchum was one of the little girls. They lived in St. Stephens, a small farming community, surrounded by large acres of cotton and tobacco fields. They lived far from the city limits, yet still in walking distance from the town. Their dusty old road was connected to the main Highway 45.The drinking water came from an old hand-pumped well on the back porch. Their laundry water came from an old well in the backyard. The Williams family had no refrigerator, no television, no phone, no electric iron, and no radio, but they did have electricity.

Mitchum was five years old and her sister, Paulette, was four. Mama sat them down in the living room and showed them their birth certificates. She said their mother’s name was Pauline and their father’s name was Leroy Gordon. They both lived in New York. She explained that she and Daddy were not their real parents. She began to tell the girls the story of how they became her children.

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Live Wire by Harlan Coben Released March 22, 2011 #Book Trailer

Live Wire, the new Myron Bolitar novel from Harlan Coben, goes on-sale March 22, 2011 in the U.S. and Canada. This stay-up-all-night thriller was called "a perfect 10" by Publishers Weekly. Visit www.HarlanCoben.com to learn more.

Untreed Reads releases Dan Bessie autobiography REELING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD #ebook

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PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 21, 2011 – San Francisco, Calif. – Dan Bessie doesn’t dish on any Hollywood stars or directors. He doesn’t tell stories of endless parties or brushes with the law. Instead, in his lighthearted and sometimes poignant memoir, Bessie offers a fresh insight on the filmmaking industry and an insider’s look at how movie making actually works. His autobiography, fully titled REELING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD: HOW I SPENT 40 FABULOUS YEARS IN FILM AND NEVER MADE A NICKEL, is now available exclusively through Untreed Reads.

Bessie is an award-winning filmmaker who entered the industry in cartoon animation and then went on to write, produce and direct more than 125 films, both live and animated, and everything from shorts for schools, to features and TV specials.
Works by Untreed Reads represent a variety of electronic formats, including ePub, the new industry standard. Titles like REELING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD are downloadable to computers, mobile devices, and dedicated ebook readers, including the iPad, nook and Kindle. You can purchase the titles through UntreedReads.com and everywhere ebooks are sold, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
To pick up a copy, visit the redesigned Untreed Reads bookstore at http://store.untreedreads.com/.

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The End and the Beginning a novel of #historicalfiction set on the American frontier

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PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 14, 2011 – The northwest territories were unlike any other land in America with it’s enormous lakes, great rivers, endless dark forests and vast prairies providing habitat and sustenance to the original people for thousands of years was about to come to an end. The unrelenting migration from the east by European settlers threatened the very existence of the native people. They would make a stand to save their civilization.    

South of the great Ohio River other Europeans were also moving westward and bringing with them their black property to build and work new tobacco and cotton plantations. Many of these slaves heard of a chance for freedom in the new state of Ohio and further north beyond its border, Canada, where black men could live free and prosper. Many would risk everything for a chance to be free.

Into this crucible of conflict and change author Jim Oleson introduces a young, homeless Jim Morgan who travels through this critical period in American history.  His adventures find him as a reluctant soldier in the early battles of the war of 1812 and he is there when Chief Tecumseh and his Indian alliance fight their last desperate battle.  Jim rescues and protects labithia an escaped slave girl from violent slave catchers and he learns first hand the cruelty of this dark institution.

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#NewBook "In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats: Your Guide to Turning One House into Two Homes"

Newtown, Conn. (PRWEB) March 15, 2011

The Taunton Press is pleased to announce the release of Michael Litchfield’s new book "In-laws, Outlaws, and Granny Flats: Your Guide to Turning One House into Two Homes."

In this first-ever comprehensive survey of second housing units, Michael Litchfield offers us a richly illustrated and informative guide to transforming a single-family house into a property with an independent living space. A Coldwell Banker survey of agents says that one third of today’s would-be homebuyers are looking for properties with the potential to house multiple generations.

While news reports focus on the economic and real estate crises, a remarkably upbeat and widespread change is taking place in households across America. Homeowners are creating second dwelling units—often called in-law suites, or granny flats, to house relatives, friends, and sometimes even to downsize from the main house without selling or moving. Second units are perfect for Baby Boomers to care for elderly parents with respect and independence. They provide private quarters for adult children still at home, or, rented out, second units generate income to offset the mortgage and provide for retirement.

Cities and municipalities all over the country have recognized this, and many have updated zoning regulations to encourage the construction of secondary living spaces. The AARP and the APA have been at the forefront of the movement to ease zoning regulations. The AARP strongly advocates for states to encourage local ordinances that encourage accessory dwelling units (ADU). In fact, an AARP study indicates that 36 percent of Baby Boomers surveyed would modify their home to add an ADU if they needed assistance as they got older.

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New Kindle Exclusive: Seven Books by World-Famous Physicist Albert Einstein #ebook

NEW YORK & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Open Road Integrated Media LLC and Amazon.com today announced that Open Road has published seven digital books by iconic physicist Albert Einstein exclusively in the Kindle Store. Open Road has added new photographs and biographical information from experts at the Hebrew University Einstein Archives, introductions written by Neil Berger and new covers to previously published print editions (a portion of which have been available digitally in the public domain) to create new Albert Einstein Archives Authorized Editions of the works. These books are available starting today for download exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

“These books cover everything from the Theory of Relativity to Einstein’s own letters chronicling his thoughts on life. We’re excited to make these books available for Kindle device owners and app users, and think readers will enjoy them.”

“As part of our mission to bring iconic books to E, we are proud to digitally publish the authorized ebooks of a selection of Albert Einstein's most important writings,” said Jane Friedman, CEO and Cofounder of Open Road Integrated Media LLC. “In partnership with Philosophical Library and Hebrew University, we have curated fascinating material about Einstein’s life that will both attract new readers and appeal to diehard fans. We are excited to be kicking off the launch of these classic titles with Amazon today, for what would be Einstein’s 132nd birthday.”

“Albert Einstein is one of our most important thinkers,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “These books cover everything from the Theory of Relativity to Einstein’s own letters chronicling his thoughts on life. We’re excited to make these books available for Kindle device owners and app users, and think readers will enjoy them.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1940. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the Atomic Age.

This selection of Einstein books was designed for readers interested in Einstein’s seminal works in physics, his collaborations with colleagues, and his broader philosophy. The seven digital works that will be exclusive to the Kindle Store are:

• “Essays in Humanism”: An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on a rapidly changing world;
• “Essays in Science”: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history;
• “Letters on Wave Mechanics: Correspondence with H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, and Erwin Schrödinger”: A lively collection of Einstein’s groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics with other contemporary giants in his field: Schrödinger, Planck and Lorentz;
• “Letters to Solovine: 1906-1955”: A provocative collection of letters to his longtime friend and translator that spans Einstein’s career and reveals the inner thoughts and daily life of a transformative genius;
• “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”: An inspiring collection of essays in which Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher and humanitarian;
• “The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays”: E=mc²: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?
• “The World As I See It”: A fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect.

Open Road has digitally published these titles as part of its ongoing publishing partnership with Philosophical Library.

Like all Kindle books, Einstein’s books are "Buy Once, Read Everywhere"—Kindle customers can purchase them and read them on the $139 third-generation Kindle device with new high-contrast Pearl e-Ink, as well as on iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones and Android-based devices. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

About Open Road Integrated Media

Open Road Integrated Media LLC (www.openroadmedia.com) is a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences. The company’s ebooks offer a 360-degree world of existing and originally produced premium content that is marketed through a new proprietary platform.

Open Road’s Author Brand Program focuses on extensive backlist catalogues, while its Publishing Partner Program is based on co-marketing of ebooks with originating publishers. Open Road publishes new titles that are “born digital” in the company's E-riginals program.

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#NewBook: Perspective is one factor that makes Mark Ozeroff’s novel “Days of Smoke” a standout. #HistoricalFiction #WWII

Days of Smoke by Mark Ozeroff

Numerous American authors have penned novels set during World War II, but few have chosen to tell their tale from a German viewpoint.

Perspective is one factor that makes Warren native Mark Ozeroff’s novel “Days of Smoke” a standout.

Told from the point of view of Nazi German fighter pilot Hans Udet, “Days of Smoke” has been praised for its historical accuracy and has earned a Gold Medal for historical fiction from the Military Writers Society of America and a Golden Quill from the American Authors Association.

A pilot himself with a lifelong passion for aeronautical history, Ozeroff said a chance conversation with a former German ace fighter pilot named Gunther Rall helped inspire him.

“I wanted to write a different sort of World War II novel that would catch the eye of a publisher,” Ozeroff said during a phone interview from his home in Daytona Beach, Fla. “I originally intended to make the main character, Hans Udet, a much meaner guy, but he sort of took on a life of his own.”

Protagonist Hans Udet has an early involvement with Hitler’s air force, and as he progresses from naive young fighter pilot to ace of increasing rank, tension grows between his love for Germany and his natural compassion for humanity.

“After he rescues a young Jewish woman from a brutal assault, his growing feelings for her sensitize him to the so-called ‘Jewish problem,’ and he is torn between disdain for the Nazis and his sense of duty to Germany,” Ozeroff explained. “Hans undergoes a great transformation in his views of Hitler and undergoes a sort of crisis of conscience.”

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#NewBook: Counting to Ten by Didi Pratt

Fort Pierce, FL (Vocus/PRWEB) March 12, 2011

Are killers born or made? Alexis reaches a turning point inside her soul and decides her boss, Larry Lucas, must die by her hands. She then decides to kill all the people who hurt her and had escaped punishment. The twist comes when she plots to kill them all in one day. You find out how each person makes the list and what transforms this middle-class mother of two into a cold-blooded, calculating killer.

After a two-month stay in a mental hospital, Alexis returns to society and attempts to rebuild a normal life. While reclaiming her life, her boss verbally humiliates her, and Alexis decides he must pay with his life for her humiliation and pain. So if you must go to prison anyway, why not settle all your scores? She takes us on a journey to discover how and why she is counting to ten.

Has each person earned his or her place? You have an opportunity to decide if anything is worth killing for.

Counting to Ten by Didi Pratt at Amazon

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Foresight Releases a New Children’s Book on Character Building in Young Girls~A Chattanooga author writes a full color, fully illustrated two-book series to inspire girls in building good character based on Biblical principles

Chattanooga, TN (PRWEB) March 10, 2011

Foresight Book Publishing announces the release of “GG4G: Good Girls for God” and “GG4G: Building Spiritual Character”. The books are the first two in a series by new author, Tina M. Shabo. The book companions are now distributed through all major retailers worldwide.

In “GG4G: Good Girls for God” Series, Mrs. Shabo gives advice that is simple and to the point, aimed at building a spiritual character in young girls. “It’s my prayer that God will use these books to, not only build your special relationship with your GG4G, but her relationship with God. “GG4G: Good Girls for God” Book 1 & Book 2, can remind our daughters (and us, as parents) to plug into our greatest power source... GOD,” states the author, Tina M. Shabo. She brings light to how important family values should be in every home. Mrs. Shabo started writing bits of advice for her girls when they were all very small and now has a passion for raising good girls for God. In the books, the author gives parents a place to write their own advice, offering parents a great opportunity to build a legacy of character in their own daughters.

Mrs. Shabo is a mother of four GG4Gs in the making, a Registered Nurse and a wife to Dr. Drew Shabo. She resides with her family in Ooltewah, TN. The Shabo’s enjoy spending time together as a family.

Mrs. Shabo’s books have been published through Foresight Book Publishing Company; a regional publishing company located near Chattanooga, TN, affiliated with the largest book distributor in the world. The company specializes in On-Demand book printing technology for Christian authors. Foresight’s channels of distribution include all major book sellers worldwide, such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and Books-a-Million, to name a few.

To learn more about “GG4G: Good Girls for God” and “GG4G: Good Girls for God-Building Spiritual Character”, visit the books website at http://www.goodgirlsforgod.com or http://www.foresightpublishingnow.com.

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#NewBook: New Silverstein collection, 'Dragons' release date

New Shel Silverstein collection on the way! HarperCollins will publish a posthumous collection of Silverstein's poetry called "Every Thing On It." The book, with more than 130 poems and drawings never before seen, is slated for a September release. Silverstein died in 1999

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Shel Silverstein’s poems, stories, books were always so much fun for the kids, teachers and classrooms I worked in! LP

Nashville’s Rhinestone Mask Exposed in Mystery, Blood Country by Dan Jewell, Published by Outskirts Press–5 Star Reviews

Goodlettsville, TN, February 20, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Blood Country: A Nashville Sideman Mystery by Dan Jewell. The author's most recent book to date is a 5 x 8 paperback in the mystery and detective fiction category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/BloodCountry was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.

In Nashville, it’s conventional wisdom that if you’re a sideman looking for work in the music business, you’d better have a steady day job.

Guitarist Joe Rose has a day job, and his business card reads: “Sideman Investigations, Put Someone on Your Side.” Rose is hired by strung out country music superstar Vern Hamlin to look into his father’s two decades old murder. Hamlin has received an anonymous letter suggesting that the man accused of the crime and who was killed in an escape attempt was not the real murderer. Because of Hamlin’s drug and alcohol problems, his uncle Claude, CEO of Hamlin Enterprises, doesn’t approve of his nephew’s plan to reopen the old murder case; he believes it will jeopardize Hamlin’s present sobriety and interfere with his career. But Hamlin’s personal assistant, Jessica Apple, thinks his father’s death is actually the cause of his substance abuse and that pursuing the investigation will help him get closure.

After Rose questions a Desert Storm vet with PTSD, the man is found dead. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? As the sideman searches for the truth, he encounters a violent rogue P.I., Hamlin’s sexy ex-wife, a strange Professor who writes mystery novels, Hamlin’s promiscuous stepmother—now married to the pastor of a Nashville megachurch, and a songwriter with a big gun.

In Blood Country sideman Rose rips off the rhinestone mask of the Nashville Music scene to expose a family’s buried secrets.

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Untreed Reads goes even more green with two St. Patrick’s Day–themed stories #ebooks

Untreed Reads goes even more green with two St. Patrick’s Day–themed stories

Authors Beth Mathison and S. Furlong-Bolliger have previously released holiday-themed material through Untreed Reads in the past six months.

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PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 04, 2011 – San Francisco, Calif. – Untreed Reads, the San Francisco-based ebook publishing company with the environmentally friendly name, is now going green for something a little different—St. Patrick’s Day. Untreed Reads announced today two new short stories with the leprechaun’s touch—A MOBSTER’S TOAST TO ST. PATRICK’S DAY by Beth Mathison, and PADDY WHACKED by S. Furlong-Bolliger.

Both authors have previously released holiday-themed stories through Untreed Reads. Mathison introduced Jeremy, her cupcake-making hero with mob ties, in the Thanksgiving story A MOBSTER’S GUIDE TO CRANBERRY SAUCE and the Valentine’s short A MOBSTER’S RECIPE FOR CUPCAKES. Her latest work finds Jeremy on the brink of business failure, his girlfriend is ready to dump him and he can’t seem to catch a break from two inept “family” employees.

Furlong-Bolliger’s latest release takes a darker tone. In PADDY WHACKED, Inspector Helmes and his sidekick have their work cut out for them solving the murder of Paddy O’Toole, the Grand Leprechaun. However, nothing can prepare them for the strange lineup of suspects they encounter at the Holiday Icon Convention. Furlong-Bolliger previously released the Thanksgiving mystery DEATH BY JELLO, and the yuletide short CHRISTMAS IN KILLARNEY.

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New Books in March–Jodi Picoult, James Patterson/Neil McMahon, Piper Kerman

By Inayah Bristol

Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult, who has written a number of bestsellers, including the popular books The Pact and My Sister's Keeper, is releasing her first book of the new year. In this book, titled Sing You Home, Picoult once again tackles family and relationships as she has done with countless other works but in a new way. This time she tells the story of a music therapist who has become completely engrossed with her job after experiencing a great amount of tragedy. In the middle of her tumultuous life the woman finds love and happiness, only to have the ones she holds dearest reject her newfound love. Though the synopsis leaves readers feeling as though they know exactly what's going to happen, Picoult has a way of surprising readers. Knowing this, Sing You Home is bound to be as good as its predecessors.

Toys by James Patterson & Neil McMahon
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Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
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Author recreates the 1940s for #newbook

The novel would take eight years to write because Blake became so immersed in the research, finding one fact leading to another as she attempted to become part of a time some 70 years ago.

But besides weaving an era into a story, Blake also weaves the three separate lives of very different women – Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, Massachusetts; Frankie Bard, a reporter who covered the Blitz in London in the early days of World War II; and Emma Fitch, a newly married bride of a doctor. From NWI.com

New Marketing Book Gives Professionals a Crash Course in Online Marketing

Understanding everything about online marketing is tough to tackle in this wild web world...until now. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Online Marketing, written by web marketing guru Lorrie Thomas, guides readers through essential information for...read the complete press release for the Crash Course in Online Marketing