Finding My Invincible Summer A Book by Muriel Vasconcellos

MURIEL VASCONCELLOS

 Finding My Invincible Summer

 

Muriel Vasconcellos shares how terribly sad news can eventually become positive and inspiring in her touching memoir, Finding My Invincible Summer.

Witness how her prognosis of six months to live becomes catalyst for discovering the secrets of being truly, joyfully alive.

She recounts her tumultuous life that included tragedy, betrayal, and corrosive guilt, and her finding love and happiness, only to be stricken with breast cancer. She thought she won that battle, but life takes another challenging turn with the wrenching loss of her soul mate and, soon afterwards, another cancer diagnosis.

Unremitting pain, physical and psychological, sends her to the depth of despair. Rather than giving up, she embarks on a courageous quest for health that includes not only her body, but also her psyche and spirit. Follow her as she discovers that all aspects of her being are woven into one tapestry. Feel the soothing calmness, joy and serenity that abide in the deep recesses of her soul as you join her in Finding My Invincible Summer.

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I Have Proof of a Higher Power: My Prophetic Dreams Predicting Real Events

Ioan Dirina

Dreams.
Do they really mean anything?

Yes, they are prophetic… And author Ioan Dirina shares his prophetic – paranormal – dreams that predict real events in the near future to offer proof of a higher power which can only know that future.

Unravel the visionary dreams that actually materialized a day later as you follow him from his school years in his native country of Romania a half century ago to the present.

The author’s dreams had already been coming true for more than a year before he realized that they were a permanent part of his consciousness, at which point he started recording them. Accompany him from Romania and Austria to the United States and the Caribbean, and see how the similarities between his dreams and his life are truly fascinating.

I Have Proof of a Higher Power: My Prophetic Dreams Predicting Real Events

The phenomena described in this book have no scientific explanation in accordance with natural laws discovered by Physics. Therefore, these dreams can only be explained as proof of existence of a supernatural entity – one that may know the future. This shows how science can bring to the conclusion that a supreme rationality really exists.

The next time you dream… know that it’s your future unfolding.

Please take a glimpse at a few free excerpts from my rare spiritual book at www.dirinaioan.com, some of which are devoted to public policy matters, meant to warn readers that our country is being invaded, and this time the enemy is already inside the gate.

In a few decades, our America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents. This is the trust also of Pat Buchanan’s book “Suicide of a Superpower”. America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.

You can purchase a copy of I Have Proof of a Higher Power from these online bookstores: Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

or Order it at 1-800-699-6397 or fab@americanfreepress.net and wake up before is too late!

Get Your Book Self-Published [Infographic]

Getting your book a name in self-publishing industry is your smartest decision to profit from your book in short time. You’ve got to retain all that revenues while keeping the pace in book publishing’s high competition.

Benefits of self-publishing

First, you’ve got the control of everything: from the costs, to whom you are partnering with for a high level of publication, up to the kinds of marketing platforms for the marketing of your books. Second, you keep 100% of the gross profit from book sales compared to percentages acquired when you do the traditional way of publishing. Further, you’ve got that online shelf for your book forever. Yes; unlike the traditional way in publishing a book, going to self publishing means your book is published online and so long as you want it; it stays there forever rather than be taken out of the shelf after four months the way traditional publishing would go.

It does not stop there. Self-publishing would enable you to get hold of a global distribution of your e-book on day one. For instance, your book can be listed in 100 countries and that is how the business of Kindle Direct Publishing goes. In addition, you can obtain more profits when your book can get attention from international publishers, because you are not sharing any revenues with any traditional publisher. You can also go all the way and sell your books in huge organizations unlike the limited ways of traditional publishers who can only sell your book only to re-sellers.
What’s most important of them all? You’ve got no boss to follow—because you do things by yourself and grab options offered by publishing companies…by yourself.

Choosing the Right Publisher: The Weighing Scale

In real world of self-publishing industry, authors do not have the luxury of picking more than one book publishing and marketing service so that publishing their books can be perfect. Yet, depending on the kind of the quality of services that can furnish their books, authors do take risk as well—just to get that name dreamed by every aspiring writer.

So, where do you start in that weighing scale to single out the right publisher?

Quality of service

Everything starts with the quality of the service and ends with the quality of service: any other bits and pieces in between are just the seasoning of it. So, before jumping to which publisher might offer the best services for your books, consider first whether that certain publisher’s tactics in making a publicity campaign, the kind of marketing support, the quantity of physical distribution of marketing campaign materials, and the pricing strategy it implements. Compare all these features with the other publishers and surely at the end of the day, it will help you decide whether you will be getting good value in the deal.

Do research about the publishers that are on your list of preference. Most of their book publishing and marketing services are comparable based on the quality, popularity and prices—and they are all found online. Bookwhirl publisher’s Full Color book publishing service for instance starts at $699 while the Refresh publishing package at Author Solutions starts at $999.

Define your target audience

When you have time and money to invest, it is always safe to assume your enthusiasm about your self-publishing is on the highest level. And, when you’ve got that high level of fervor to self-publish your book, then you know your direction or at least, you know what you really want for your book. Your goals for your books will always be based on what kind of genre you have for your book. For instance, when you have children’s book, you should target children to be your right audience. So get those finest services from that publisher who can help you furnish your book the best way that it should appeal to child readers.

Most publishing companies have specific book publishing and marketing service designed for each genre of a book. Let’s take a look at Bookwhirl.com’s new launched Ingram Catalogs service. The company has specific catalog service for children’s books and these can be distributed to 10,700 booksellers, librarians, and international accounts.

Meanwhile, Smith Publicity has also a specific marketing and publicity campaign for children’s books. The company enables the campaign to work out using media (magazines, and newspapers), broadcast, and the Internet.

Consider the publisher’s track record in the business

Like any other company, every publisher has its own highs and lows. No matter how excellent and great the services seem to most of the authors based on their experiences working with the company, there are really some who do not see any satisfaction with the service. They start to post bad reviews online and worse, some who have not even tried to experience the service for real, do also criticize the company.

In some point, some online criticism, especially when reviews are coming from those who have personal experience with the company, do help authors to decide which company is really reliable and not. It is just important to take note whether the person posting reviews online has really experienced the service by himself so as to turn your researching time and energy worthwhile.

There are publishers who have been in the business for quite a long time and that makes them worth to be called established firms. Yet, there are also some firms who are just starting the business but are really fast-growing industries, by which they are reaching the level of those established ones and giving the same level of service quality that established companies have been offering ever since self-publishing world evolved.

At the end of the day, the verdict is all yours. What matters most is that you are right there and ready to get published. Research more and opt for the right publisher for the kind of book you have on hand.

Book Publishing and Marketing Services: Which one is Your Pick?

Self-published authors are now turning a glimpse of different publishing and marketing services provided by different publishers around the world. For some, self-publishing doesn’t work on their ways because they lack to strike it toughly. Yet, self-publishing has proven to be strategically smart decision for most authors nowadays, especially with those who are eagerly responding to its every vital plunge.

Self-publishing companies on competition

The evolution of self-published authors gives havoc among publishers and book agents trying to find ways so as to respond to their every book publishing and marketing need. Publishing companies are on high competition of offering fast and inexpensive ways to get authors’ books off their computer screens into their readers’ hands.

Through effective publishing and marketing tools, huge publishing companies like Bookwhirl, Outskirts press, lulu.com, and Author Solutions (ASI) have always topped on self-published authors’ list of which they can choose which one to partner with in the process.

Similar book services differ in some angles

While all of these publishing companies have offered authors almost the same publishing and marketing services, the latter can still be comparable in some stances.

Prior to self-publishing a book, an author can have all the options of furnishing it from text editing to designs from all these companies offering such services. Professional copyediting and design services are offered by all publishers for a set price.

Copyediting services

Outskirts Press offers high-quality copyediting services for books by which price depends on manuscripts’ length. While the company requires a payment deposit that varies the length of the manuscript, the completion of the service usually takes four weeks in general. Under the Ala Carte Services of BookWhirl is the publisher’s copyediting service which sets specific price range for specific length of words starting at $0.0069 for 120,001 words, up to $0.0089 for 10,000-60,000 words.

Author Solutions (ASI) on the other hand, charges $0.022 per word on its copyediting service and requires a 5,000-word minimum to begin with two-three weeks timeframe. Like ASI, Lulu.com charges $0.023 per word and requires the same minimum number of words before the service can be started.

Usually, the game for the said service in all these companies revolves around “per length of word” approach. Now, let’s proceed how these companies differ in the real world of publishing.

Publishing services

Publishing packages make a distinction with their features from one publisher to another. Bookwhirl has two general classifications of its publishing packages: Black & White and the Full Color; by which each has sub categories. There is specific publishing package that suits every book theme such as Dreamer, Adventurer, Sensation, and more. Publishing package service for the company starts at $699. Meanwhile, Outskirts Press has “one-click” classifications for their publishing packages: One-click publishing for fiction, for coaches and speakers, and for children’s books. Whatever the price set for each publishing package; the publisher requires $35 for down payment before they can start using the service.

Book publishing services of Author Solutions Inc. have been varied through its partnership with other different publishers like Iuniverse, Trafford, and Xlibris. With Iuniverse for instance, book publishing packages’ rates start at $899 with the basic book publishing features including but are not limited to book stubs, copyright registration and digital formatting. The company’s Book Launch Premier Pro package, which costs $ 4,449, has the most comprehensive features like book signing kit, and promotional materials.

Concurrently, Lulu has set its publishing packages separately for e-books, and photo books. The publisher has classic/classic color, debut/inspired color, and blitz/artful color publishing packages by which price rates start at $999. Through the $3,999-artful publishing package, features included on top of the basics are five paperback copies and a free hardcover copy for free, author website, eligibility for Lulu social promotion, and more promotional materials.

Book marketing services

Outskirts Press has four main book marketing packages: Book Blast, Global Book Tour, Promotional Materials, and the Elite e-book Package. While the company assures 25% on five popular marketing services for book blast, it also offers one discounted book for four books set for global events. The publisher’s 2000 promotional items include bookmarks and postcards while for the elite package, books can be featured at Amazon kindle, B&N Nook, and Apple iPad ebook editions with 25% discount on the set $829 set amount for the service.

On the other hand, book marketing services of Bookwhirl includes Newswire service, Web Design, Email Advertisement Campaign, and Specialty Marketing. The Newswire Service features a 400-word press release article that will be sent to over 17,500 media outlets all over United States. Moreover, Web Design service is initiated in a way to be SEO friendly while authors can freely write any articles and stories to its blog page included on the design.

While publisher’s EAC program is considered to be a distinctive technique to reach a massive audience through electronic mail ads, Bookwhirl’s Specialty Marketing service includes the features like Book Exhibit Service, Radio Interview report, book trailer and more.

Like BookWhirl.com, ASI has similar features in its book marketing campaigns such as press releases, traditional publicists, and review services under its Publicity package. The publisher has also other marketing service packages such as Online, Multimedia, and Events. Social Media Setup and web design services are under their online package; whereas the publisher’s Multimedia package features its marketing kits, print advertising, and author videos and book trailers. ASI also caters book fairs and book signings though its Events package.

Lastly, Lulu publishing categorizes its book marketing services into main packages such as Publicity service, Book fairs, and Promotional services. The publisher’s Publicity Service package includes features such as newsmaker publicity campaign, online newsmaker publicity campaign, video newsmaker, and social publicist. Under the publisher’s Book Fairs package, books have the chance to be featured in book exhibits whether regional, national, or international events. In addition, its Promotional Services package let authors benefit the service’ features including the creation of an author’s website, business cards, and bookselling promotional materials.

Book and self mastery

No matter what service and which publisher has the various range of services, authors will always have the last say which company to choose and what service that best fits their books. Publishers and publishing companies might have the same range of services but they always differ in prices and online connections which always matter to authors in weighing and making their best preference. More importantly, authors weigh these services from different publishers based on their specific knowledge about themselves as authors and knowledge on what their books are all about.

A Beginner’s Guide to Publishing

Great writers in the world started being like any other aspiring writers. They had looked for help and used all available resources just to finish an article or a book. Not all people are gifted with writing skills and so if you have already started writing; that’s the good beginning of your writing journey. Soon, you will be praised like gods in literature.

To be great is to have your book keep going; continuously and timelessly giving interest to the readers. This is where publishing evolves. Here are some of publishing tips for you to mull on.

Eliminate your fears

Award-winning writers in the world have landed the literary grand’s peak because they choose to be there. They conquer their fears and they are proud of what they are doing. Some authors love to write but are less confident with their work; making them hesitant to let others know about what they’ve got.

Before moving further, it is necessary that your mind is set to aiming the summit of writing success fearlessly. You should not be hindered by any possible failures in the middle of the way from writing up to publishing your book. To get rid of fear is to free yourself from any worries whether your book can draw interests in the reading public or not; and whether your piece can lead you to success you have been dreaming of. What matters most is that you are on that stage and are willing to take more steps upwards.

Publish with the right tools

It is not enough that you have written a book. If your goal is to succeed; then never hesitate to take the risks, chances, and options towards making your goal possible. Do something about it because writing success can never be a destiny—it takes action.

Publish your book. Since self-publishing is the new trend today among the authors; you have all the power to make your book get heard in the market with all your effort.

Chances will be the fact that along the process of publishing your book comes a variety of options you can take advantage. Most publishers are offering effective publishing tools to give your book an edge in the market. Some of them, such as BookWhirl, are giving FREE publishing guides to authors to help them out along the way. Not all publishers are giving help for free; so if you find one, grab that opportunity without a second thought.

Keep Moving

You can start little actions by spreading good news about your book to your families and friends. Persuade them to spend some of their free time reading the book and ask for their comments or critiques after they will do so. Be willing to accept anything worse they can say because it will help you along the way—to keep you do more to perfect your work. Most publishers have all the access of professionals who can help furnish your book with proficient layout and design. BookWhirl, for instance, has a circle of book experts who cater free consultation regarding your book publishing and marketing plans. You simply need to set off your own ideas and get help when needed. After all, you know your book better than others do.

Be more resourceful

Don’t limit yourself to two or three ways that you can get yourself a name in publishing your book. Take risks if possible just to go out beyond the standards. Using the social media is also among the many effective means you can try these days. Say something on your wall about your book. Make sure you are creative in making your own advertisement on it so that it can easily draw the readers’ attention.

Also, it is more fascinating if you can give a social implication of what you have written. When the readers find a social significance of your book by which the story can easily let everyone relate with reality, that’s already a plus. You can expect that readers themselves will spread the book’s theme to others. Don’t quit on finding ways how to make your book known to others. If one doesn’t work, try looking for something else. Welcome every help from your friends or from other authors. Communicate with the other authors in any ways—that will surely help.

Fundamental Rules to gain Success in Self-Publishing

Fact says that in 2012 alone, the number of self-published authors earning more than a million in their books gradually increased. This rapid success shows that more self-published authors are seeing incredible sensation in self-publishing. Let’s discuss what essential rules that winning self-published authors take to hit success in self-publishing ground.

The Attitude

Successful self-published author would first find triumph in himself as a person before pursuing something else. First question should an author ask himself is whether he has the mindset of writing, publishing, and marketing his book. Because you, as an author need to be the project manager in self-publishing your book, there is a need to have a business mindset. You may need to think about hiring professional editors, layout artists, and cover designers in the process. Further, you need to understand the deal with self-publishing and book marketing business so that you can st ep-up and take that huge responsibility of being independent book publisher.

Write

When your mind is set and you know what you want to do; then start doing it. Without a book, there is no where to start in getting yourself involved in the publishing industry. Start jotting down your words and ideas and make it your outshined masterpiece.

This is the time you may need to look at your life and find out the way your personality, hobbies, and career will help you in the process. Your own astuteness learned in life always comes first; then your reliable researching skills follow. Look forward to create something that has worth to be talked about and use your expertise in such genre.

Get out of the standard way

You believe you are a good writer but not all people know who you are. You need to self-publish your book. That’s the main reason why there is such thing called publishing and marketing a book. This is the right beginning of getting exposure of your book to the readers; so make the best out of it. Get out of the customary way and start self-publishing your book. Today, every author has all the options to stand out among the others by going outside the box of traditional publishing. Self-publishing a book has often been considered more rapid option nowadays. Once you’ve done writing your book; you need not to contact publishing houses that cater the specific genre of your book anymore. You can pretty much just go ahead and publish it at will, without having to go through the process of waiting for publishing houses to decide whether or not your book has equaled their standards. You may take advantage of professional skills offered worldwide by publishers such as BookWhirl.

Hire Professionals

A book is said to be self-published when you decide to become a publisher of your own book; or take the option to hire a self-publishing company, and pay them for publishing and sometimes do the marketing of your book.

As mentioned earlier, you may need to think about hiring professional editors, layout artists, and cover designers in the process because that’s how the business of self-publishing goes. If you believe you have what it takes to be a successful book self-publisher, you would not need a second thought of taking the risks and the challenges in the business. With the augment of self-publishing, authors have become more powerful than ever before; making all publishers, agents and professional layout artists and designers scuttling to figure out what do authors need in every step they take.

There are several self-publishing companies that you can partner with; and that include BookWhirl. With its professional publishing and marketing services offered, it is simpler for you to reach your desired audience. While it is true that hundreds of publishers are offering self-publishing services; at the end of the day, it is essential that you choose a reputable one. Pick something like BookWhirl that helps and guides the writer in all angles, from writing, publishing, up to marketing his book. When you have the mindset of becoming successful in self-publishing your book; start stepping up through these significant rules that bring you towards where you dream to be found.