Your Publishing Poynters
MARKETPLACE Newsletter: April-May 2009
Publishing Poynters Marketplace
A Publishing Poynters supplement about Buying, Selling and Reviewing. Authors
and publishers helping each other.
April-May 2009. Copyright ©
Para Publishing. ISSN: 1530-5694. Published monthly roughly monthly since 2005.
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IN THIS ISSUE OF THE MARKETPLACE
A.
ParaStories-Stories/Information Wanted
B. ParaWants-Publishing Items,
Services & Help Wanted
C.
ParaSales-Companies/Properties/Jobs/Rights to buy or for sale/Remainders
D. ParaReviews-Reviews on Amazon and B&N wanted
E.
ParaCoop-Co-operative marketing programs. Offer/Join.
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A. ParaStories
STORIES/INTERVIEWS/INFORMATION WANTED
NEED STORIES to flesh-out
your book? List your wants here. Focus on a single topic and provide your
contact information. Write tight: limit your listing to 100 words. Conform to
the format so we can Copy\Paste and do not have to edit. Send your listing to
DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com
Put Stories Wanted in the Subject line of your email. There is no
charge for listings.
WANT TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR STORY? Contact requesters
directly. Do not send stories, etc. to Dan.
STORIES REQUESTED:
1. Authors want to interview people born after 1982 for a book about
MILLENNIALS. If you're interested in participating, e-mail
dbloods@gmail.com --Doris Bloodsworth
2. Award winning author seeks short essays/interviews/anecdotes from
mothers and fathers who feel concerned about the pressure on "tween" girls
(aged 6-12) to grow up too quickly. Quick turnaround. Contact
opheliasmother@aol.com for guidelines.
3. Have you lost weight or improved your health on a whole-foods
plant-based diet? Please share your story so we can help others. Thanks.
vegwriter@ymail.com.
4. Looking
for input from WOMEN WHO CAN'T QUIT SMOKING. Simple three question survey at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zRT8fnh6XN_2f9SYfh12Fpow_3d_3d
Your answers will help improve the lives of women around the wolrd. Thank you,
Stan Lubowicki,
www.WomensSmokingCure.com ,
stan@WomenssmokingCure.com
5. I am researching womens relationship with money for my next book
called Chicks Make Cents. If you are a professional woman willing to be
interviewed by phone or email on the topic of money and emotions, please send
an email to Kathleen at
kbk@kbkconnections.com. If you are a
money coach or financial advisor looking to giving me your two cents
worth on the topic also feel free to contact me. Thank you! Kathleen
Burns Kingsbury, Principal, KBK Connections, Inc.,
www.kbkconnections.com.
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B. ParaWants
ITEMS/SERVICES/HELP WANTED. This is a new section where book- and
publishing-related items and services may be posted. Send your wants to
DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com
Put Item/Service Wanted in the subject line.
If you supply
a solicited item, contact the poster directly. Do NOT write Dan Poynter. If you
know of a supplier, please help the poster by writing him or her.
If
you are a supplier looking for customers, see
http://parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/supplier.cfm
ITEMS/SERVICES/HELP WANTED:
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has a circulation of 34,000+. You must know several authors and publishers who
dont receive it. Why not forward it to them?
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C. ParaSales
SELLING OUT/PARTNER WANTED/POSITIONS OPEN/TITLE CLOSEOUTS/ PUBLISHER
SOLICITED/RIGHTS. Send your selling-out company or inventory items to
DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.
Put ParaSales-Selling Out in the subject line.
SELLING
1.
2. SEE MORE SUPPLIERS AT
http://parapublishing.com/sites/para/resources/supplier.cfm
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You are in the
information business. This newsletter is information. Forward it to your
publishing colleagues now.
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D. ParaReviews
REVIEWS SELL BOOKS. Reviews make a book stand out.
We can help each other by posting (five star) reviews at Amazon.com,
B&N.com, BooksAMillion.com and other web sites.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE
TO REVIEW BOOKS in your area of interest/expertise, contact the listing
publisher directly with your Postal address. Do not send your request to Para
Publishing. Please award the book at least four stars or decline to review it.
A review with fewer stars is harmful to sales. The book you receive is yours to
keep.
IF YOU WANT YOUR BOOK REVIEWED on Amazon.com, B&N.com, etc,
list it here in Publishing Poynters Marketplace (no charge). You must be
willing to send a book and promotional materials (review-book package) to
readers of Publishing Poynters Marketplace who contact you. Make sure the book
is already listed at Amazon.com.
Just send your request and
description to
DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.
Draft your request so that I do not have to edit it. Make it SHORT (100 words
max), no italics or bold type. Just describe the book in a few words;
dont send a lengthy review of it. Lengthy submissions will be returned
for rewriting or ruthlessly cut. Reviewers only need enough information to see
if they have expertise and an interest in your category. Supply full contact
information including your email address. Write the draft as it should appear
so that I do not have to do more than Copy\Paste. Put Review Wanted
in the subject line.
OFFERED FOR REVIEW:
1. RETURN TO
MEANING: THE AMERICAN PSYCHE IN SEARCH OF ITS SOUL
In RETURN TO
MEANING, Dr. Andrew Cort demonstrates that when western myths and scriptures
are interpreted in a symbolic, psychological way rather than merely as
literal history they are all found to have the same underlying meaning
and purpose: the enlightenment of the human soul. That is, when read
allegorically and internally, the stories describe the steps of spiritual
Initiation. The justification for religious bigotry disappears, the atheist
observation that these stories are irrational becomes irrelevant
(even if true), and the enmity between science and religion is defused.
I am seeking reviews. For a review copy, contact
andc39@aol.com 2. THE WANDERING HEART
by Mary Malloy. Leapfrog Press, 2009. Lizzie Manning digs into an increasingly
sinister past while researching Englands Hatton family. As she looks
backward in time, from the eighteenth-century voyage of Captain Cook to the
thirteenth-century Crusades, evidence comes from ships logbooks,
ethnographic artifacts, artworks, the local landscape, the Hatton family home,
and church crypts. The project takes her into her own familys history and
a search for a Crusaders disembodied heart. Email
books@leapfrogpress.com for a copy.
3. MARIJUANA GROW BASICS: THE EASY GUIDE FOR CANNABIS AFICIONADOS by
Jorge Cervantes
Simple easy guide shows American, Canadian and
European techniques to grow the maximum yield of the most potent cannabis
possibleincluding week-by-week photo-based instructions to grow a 12-week
crop from seed and a 10-week crop of clones. Trade Paperback: 6 x 8.25 inches,
240 pages, 760 color images, appendix, index ISBN: 978-1-878823-37-3 Contact
estella@gardeningindoors.com for
review copies.
4. A former FBI Chief offers a historical rebuke of
the largely unchallenged record of the American Indian Movement. American
Indian Mafia, An FBI Agents True Story About Wounded Knee, Leonard
Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (AIM) is The History Book They
Do Not Want You To Read, where They includes controversial
Professor Ward Churchill. Mafia identifies the merchants of myth
and unapologetically blames AIM violence on federal judges, politicians, FBI
HQ, the US Army, the Nixon White House, and a corrupt AIM leadership who
literally got away with murder.
For a review copy, contact James Simon
at
jamessimon500@comcast.net. For
additional information, visit americanindianmafia.com.
5. FATHERHOOD
PRINCIPLES OF JOSEPH THE CARPENTER: Examples of Godly Fatherhood - (GIL
Publications -ISBN# 978-0-9802185-0) Exciting new motivational book for
Fathers. Shows Joseph's history & education, how he taught and coached the
boy Jesus (like Eli did for Samuel). Details the Jewish background for many
Biblical scenes. Seven principles for fathers and husbands to implement today.
Ground-breaking analysis of the scant scriptures on this Great Man of Faith.
Pub Date. May 15, 2009. For review copies send e-mail with info on where you
would place the review. Thank you. By Akili Kumasi -
kumasi@GILpublications.com -
www.rFathers.net 6. The Pros Pro:
Warren Smith, Golf Professional. Lessons on Life and Golf from the Ol' Pro at
Cherry Hills Country Club.
Warren Smith is a celebrated PGA of America
Golf Professional and instructor of the game who served as head professional at
Cherry Hills Country Club in Englewood, Colo. for 28 years. The book includes
interviews of Arnold Palmer, Dan Reeves, and Hale Irwin, and features stories
about Warren and his assistant professionals, all of whom went on to become
head pros at clubs throughout the nation. Leaders in the golf community view
Warren as one of the ultimate club professionals because of his demeanor, his
spirit, and his influence on the game. The Pro's Pro is filled with engaging
and entertaining vignettes from a golf career played -- and a life lived -- in
the full.
I am seeking reviews. For a review copy, contact me at
ab3@comcast.net.
7. Title: Hunting
Ground Author: Elrod Stanton Publisher: Outskirts Press, December 2008 ISBN:
978-1-4327-3211-0 Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure Trade Paperback: 284 pages
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED? Hunting entire species to
extinction is a way of life for the Phoron. And their next target lives on the
planet Earth. When scores of animals turn up dead on the African plain,
poaching is the first suspect. But poachers don't usually leave their victims
with perfectly cauterized wounds. Something else is at work in the Malawi
killing fields--and rumor is it's not human. Now, American videographer Buddy
Brown--out to capture on film whoever is responsible and make his name in the
process--unwittingly finds himself on the front lines of what might be
mankind's last stand. The Phoron are here. And these extraterrestrials with an
inscrutable exterior and glowing, brilliant colors have one malicious intent:
to hunt down humans like dogs. But allied with a renegade Phoron named Flit,
buddy and an unlikely duo of a Malawian exotic dancer named Lilongwe and her
four hundred pound aunt who Buddy calls Big Mamoo have other plans. Along the
way, they'll learn the terrifying secrets that have brought the Phoron to
planet Earth--the latest in a long line of worlds that have been decimated by
the Phoron's unyielding drive to hunt other species to destruction. But can the
humans mount an effective resistance before it's too late? Hunting Ground is a
rivitingriveting, action-packed alient thriller that explores what happens when
the hunter becomes the hunted.
Title: Hunting Ground Author: Elrod
Stanton Publisher: Outskirts Press, December 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4327-3211-0
Genre: Science Fiction/Adventure Trade Paperback: 284 pages A copy of Hunting
Ground will be mailed to you upon request. Thanks for your consideration.
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The Publishers Marketing Association (PMA) hosts a number of co-op programs.
Join with other publishers to send flyers to libraries, send you books to book
fairs, make category mailings, etc. See
http://www.pmaonline.org/programs.cfm
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