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About two months ago I received an invitation from Night Owl Romance Reviews to submit my work, In the Brief Eternal Silence for review. This requet took me by surprise for two reasons:
1. I didn’t recall contacting them offering them the book (or, if I had contacted them, it had been so long ago I couldn’t [...]

I don’t often blog about customer reviews our works receive, but occasionally one will catch my eye, like this one for Skylar Hamilton Burris’ An Unlikely Missionary:
A wonderful premise that captures the Austen era. Ms. Burris has a beautiful voice. I felt she nailed Charlotte’s persona. It was a bit of a struggle for me [...]

Review Date: 05/09/09 
Rating:
Rules of Attraction: Fourteen Practical Rules to Help Get the Right Clients, Talent and Resources to Come to You by Mark Deo
Market Analysis:
Amazon sale price: $12.21. List Price: $17.95.
If this were a paperback printed on demand: cost per page: $0.013 x 228 pages = $2.96 to print + .90 per cover = Total print [...]

Reveiw Date: 04/13/2009
Rating:
Content Rich – Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web by Jon Wuebben, published by Encore Publishing Group (independent publisher), 270 pages (hardback edition)
Market Analysis:
Amazon sale price: $15.56. List Price: $19.95.
If this were a paperback printed on demand: cost per page: $0.013 = $3.51 to print + .90 per cover = Total print [...]

Over the weekend, one of my kid’s friends was over. This particular friend is over nearly every weekend, to the point where we don’t even notice him anymore. He blends in, and a look around the dinner table without his extra face on the weekend would give me the feeling that something was missing.
This weekend, [...]

In addition to working on Jim Spurr’s upcoming Reflections in the Wake, anticipating Martha being featured in a prominent newspaper, working up a proposal for Choice Books, switching out the discounts to wholesalers and retailers in general, and the on-going real estate classes (which I consider as my ‘extra-curricular’ activity), there’s another little on-going project [...]

A new review was posted this morning on the Long and Short Romance Reviews site for Skylar Hamilton Burris’ An Unlikely Missionary. It received 4.5 books (their equivalent to stars).
Here’s the link: http://longandshortreviews.blogspot.com/2009/03/unlikely-missionary-by-skylar-hamilton.html

Thanks to Gail MacMillan’s head’s up, I submitted one of our titles (mine) to “The Long and Short of it Romance Reviews”.

 
 
 
 
 
 Well, the review is in. There’s something a little disconcerting about starting to read a review of your book and having the first word be “Terrible”. . . lol. But for the complete review, [...]

Book Review: The Shack by William P. Young — Rating 1 Star
First, I’m not going to do a Market Analysis as I normally do when doing a book review because the book has been on the best-seller list for some time and I think it suffices to say that the publisher (in this case, Wind [...]

Over the past couple of days I have been reading ‘The Shack” by William P. Young. This is a book I have avoided reading since buying it in July. Why? Because after my purchasing it but before reading it, I was informed that the author portrayed God as a human being in a woman’s form. That [...]