2012 Writing and Marketing eBook Extravaganza

2012 Writing and Marketing eBook Extravaganza

To start the New Year with a BANG, from January 1^st through February 28, 2012, Karen Cioffi is offering all her writing and marketing e-books (purchased directly from her site/s using the Paypal SHOPPING CART) for a $1.19 each. And, this will include new titles added within that time period.

Yep, that’s right, only $1.19 for each of these titles:

How to Write Books for Children: Writing, Publishing, and Marketing Children’s Books (nominated in the 2011 Global eBooks Awards – over 100 pages)

http://www.karencioffi.com/how-to-write-books-for-children/

Editing Books Like a Pro: Self-Editing for Books and Articles

http://www.karencioffi.com/editing-books-like-a-pro/

How to Create an eBook and Its Many Uses

http://www.karencioffi.com/create-and-sell-your-own-ebooks/

Writing, Publishing, and Marketing – You Can Do It!

http://www.karencioffi.com/writing-publishing-and-marketing/

How to Start a Freelance Writing Business

http://www.karencioffi.com/how-to-start-a-freelance-writing-business/

How to Attract Customers With Informational Marketing

http://www.karencioffi.com/how-to-attract-customers-with-informational-marketing/

Learn How to Create and Sell Information Products From Your Own Site

http://www.karencioffi.com/create-and-sell-information-products-from-your-own-site/

New titles to be coming some time in 2012 include:

Webinar Marketing: Create and Present Your Own Webinars

Book Marketing: DIY Virtual Book Tours From Start to Finish

Book Marketing: Soup to Nuts

Marketing Information Products

If you’re reading this you’re probably an author or writer, and it’s no doubt you how important it is to stay on top of your writing and marketing game, the above e-books will help you do just that.

For only a $1.19 each, get all seven titles for under $10.

Click on the links above to review what each book has to offer – each landing page will have a shopping cart on January 1^st, for your convenience. Be sure to use the Shopping Cart Paypal Buy Button, otherwise you’ll pay full price.

For a complete list (with brief descriptions of each ebook) go to:

http://www.karencioffiwritingandmarketing.com/p/karens-books.html

AND

Want to create your own press releases? Join us for a Free webinar Jan18

http://tinyurl.com/79nh7qv

100+ Middle Grade Must Read Books

Just in time to start school, I decided to create a list of the Best Middle Grade books. Parents can use this to recommend old favorites for their back-to-schoolers, kids can use this list as a guide to selecting the absolute BEST books written for readers aged 10-15. See how many of these you remember reading.

If I missed YOUR favorite, please list it in the comments section.

1984 by George Orwell

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  by Betty Smith

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin

A Wrinkle in Time (and others) by Madeline L'Engle

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Alices’ Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Charley Bone series

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Crispin by Avi

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Feed by M.T. Anderson

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

Hatchet (and many others) by Gary Paulsen

Holes by Louis Sachar

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Journey to America by Sonia Levitin

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Life of Pi by Yann Martell

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Messenger by Lois Lowry

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM by Robert C O'Brien

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Ramona the Pest by Beverly Clearly

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Sabriel by Garth Nix

Slave Dancer by Paula Fox

Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen

Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Sounder by William Armstrong

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Doyle

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

The Book Thief by Markus Zusa

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli

The Fighting Ground by Avi

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

The Last of the Mohicans by James Cooper

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

The One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinan Rawlings

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Water Sky by Jean Craighead George

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

List compiled by Rebecca Ryals Russell

The Classic YA and Childrens Books of All Time?

What are the books you prized most highly growing up? Who were/are your beloved authors? How about your children's favorites? You have a chance to share them with others, by participating in a poll.

Hi, everyone! I’m on a “Best Ever Young Adult Book” crusade.

I don’t know if anyone here frequents Pred and Edit or Critters, but “Preditors and Editors” and the writers workshop group, “Critters”, have combined resources for a “Best Ever” poll. The poll has subcategories for virtually every kind of book, story and poem ever written. That includes both Young Adult and Children’s books, stories, poems, poets and authors. The poll has been open for submissions since sometime in January. Any one can nominate a title or an author in any category. According to the site, the poll never closes—they hope to create a resource for potential readers for the future, actually a kind of shopping list for parents and children.

It’s not going well.

The problem is that very few people know about this poll or alternatively people are glancing at the interim results but no one is taking the time to vote for their favorites. I can think of any number of YA books and authors alone that deserve nomination at least. Here’s a few of my favorite authors from either my teen or childhood years: Walter Farley, Madeline L'Engle, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, Jane Louise Curry, Diana Wynne Jones, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Lloyd Alexander, and of course Grimm, Lang, and Anderson when it comes to fairy tales. (Some of these have been entered in the poll already) With all due respect, I’m not a fan of Rowling, but I was surprised to not find her name.

In spite of Rowling’s absence and probably the absence of every member of YAAYNHO, right now the list is slanted toward books written in the last decade or so. There’s lots of votes for Stephenie Meyer for instance. May I suggest that you visit the site, and contribute your favorites? Perhaps, you could also tell friends, parents and fellow authors about the poll as well. How can there be only 13 favorite YA books and only 11 favorite Children’s books on these lists? Seven YA authors? Six Children’s authors? The poll has been open for weeks.

The website is:

http://critters.org/bestpoll/ Links to various categories are listed in the table at the bottom of the page.

Below is a rather crowded list of the Young Adult and Children’s Entries to date. Sorry for the mess! I’m trying to keep the blog entry from running to pages and pages.

p.s. There's lots of other categories too.

Sherry Thompson, author of Seabird ( http://bit.ly/bKBQ7x ) and Earthbow ( http://bit.ly/b9vDW1 )

Young Adult:

Book---

His Dark Materials Philip Pullman

The Book Thief Markus Zusak

Leviathan Scott Westerfeld

Lioness Rampant Tamora Pierce

Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones

The Old Kingdom Series Garth Nix

Beauty Robin McKinley

The Neverending Story Michael Ende

Twilight Stephenie Meyer

A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket

The Chronicles of Prydain Lloyd Alexander

The Last Unicorn Peter S. Beagle

The Westmark Trilogy Lloyd Alexander

Short Story--- (no entries)

Poem--- (no entries)

Poet--- (no entries)

Author---

Diana Wynne Jones

Garth Nix

Melina Marchetta

Jane Yolen

Madeline L'Engle

L. M. Montgomery

Andrew Clements

Childrens:

Book---

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C. O'Brien

Marianne Dreams Catherine Storr

arabatt clive barker

Spellhorn Berlie Doherty

The Silver Brumby Elyne Mitchell

A Friend is Someone Who Likes You Joan Walsh Anglund

The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis

Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery

My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George

Shadow Castle Marian Cockrell

Short Story---

Unicorns on Octavion O'Neil De Noux

Poem--- (no entries)

Poet---

Walter de la Mare

Lewis Carroll

Shel Silverstein

Author---

Dr. Suess

Neil Gaiman

Roald Dahl

J.M. Barrie

Brian Jacques

Andrew Clements