If you're a writer or e-book author, beginner or advanced--and if your basic question is: "How can you make money selling your written material online?"--then this book provides a lot of answers for you. Most of the ebooks and information out there talk about what ebooks are, or how to create them. This book talks about all those and more...

While there are many topics covered, I chose to focus more on the useful marketing and promotion info found in this book. For example, it includes links to places that help you market your ebook.

And that's the key: Your ebook is worthless unless you can market it and get the word out to your paying customers that your product even exists. Here are some topics that I liked:

- How to post audio clips of you reading from your own books.
- 6 popular online promotional tactics...that didn't work (Learn from their mistakes, so you make better use of your time. )
- 6 surefire ways to write new releases that get published.
- 21 places to send your book-related press releases and announcements online.
- Sample telephone pitch to the Media, plus 37 responses and insightful tips from them.
- 22 sites that host author chats.
- How to get publicity via discussion lists
- 10 places to find Discussion Lists.
- 9 electronic newsletter promos you can send your sample chapters to.
- 6 Ongoing Publicity Campaign Tactics.
- 9 places where you can advertise cost-effectively.
- 5 case studies of authors who used the "FREE" approach to boost book sales.
- And a lot more.

Bottomline: Get the book if you need brushing up on how to market your publications online, or if you want to gain insight on what worked for someone who reportedly earns $5,000 a month in ebook sales alone.

M.J. Rose and Angela Adair-Hoy know how to promote. They were sick of people cornering them in public and e-mail about how to "do it", so they wrote a book about it. All you need to know about publishing, promoting, where to target and who to contact is included in this useful book. Tips and advice are offered by over twenty e and print authors. The main thing to remember is that you will probabally work harder on the promoting piece than the actually writing of your actual book. The experts all got to where they are by working on these tips, using their time and effort, and not giving up. The thought alone depresses me, but there is a wealth of info found in How to Publish and Promote Online.

I received this book two days ago and was shocked to see how much information it contains. The book contains a detailed Table of Contents as well as a detailed Index. The body of the book is filled with websites to help you promote your book and information on the different formats in which you can publish. It also is filled with inspiring stories of famous people who either started out self-publishing or ended up self-publishing. I'm an author and website designer currently constructing WeddingReflection.com and this book will help me in both venues!

Mr. Adair may be a competent writer, but a reading of _Death in Venice_, by Thomas Mann, will reveal that he owes a great deal to Herr Mann. It may be to the contemporary readers' shame that we are more familiar with pop fiction than great art, but is to Mr. Adair's that he -- aside from not crediting Mann -- does not credit the reader with the education or the wit to tell a pale imitation from the real thing.

A brilliantly witty and beautifully written short novel. Comparable to the prose stylings of a personal favorite, Graham Greene, his prose is eloquent and romantic. Adair proves himself as a wordsmith of the highest order, possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of the english language. I only wonder why a writer of his caliber lacks the publicity and popularity of his more noted literary confreres.

What a small gem! Only 137 pages, but a rich and full journey into the mind of a closeted academic as he works his way through an infatuation with vacuous teen idol Ronny Bostock. Gilbert De'Ath's encounters with the modern world in the form of multiplex cinemas, teenage fanzines, video recorders, pulp cinema and Pakistani newsagents is both hilarious and touching. A vast improvement on the somewhat lacklustre screen treatment.

If you use PhotoDraw 2000, which I highly recommend over the much more expensive Adobe Photoshop 6, this book is a must. IT clears up any questions that you might have and gives you all the information you might want to know.

It tells you about all the different toolbars, menus, and preferences you can tweak and use to their full potential. You can become just as good of a graphic designer as any 'Photoshop-er' with this guide to the program.

Highly Recommended

This book has been enormously helpful to me. It explains the basics of using Photodraw thoroughly and gives you lots of ideas for using the tools and dealing with some of the program's quirks. I also learned a lot of stuff that I didn't know about working with computer graphics in general. I recommend it highly.

I found this book to be of great assistance with easy to follow instructions. Following them gives a good product making one feel good about one's achievement. Since I am not an expert on "dummies" books as others indicate they are, (or do they have close ties with the this book's competition) I only use what works for me and this book does.

This book was different from her previous one (Kiss and Tell), but great nonetheless. It was refreshing to read a subsequent book by the same author and not be able to predict the next page. In this book we meet "Doc" Kyle (brother of Marnie from Kiss and Tell) and Delanie a kindergarten teacher. She has gone "undercover" as the girlfriend of a drug lord/terrorist to find her missing sister. Kyle is a brilliant doctor working undercover for an anti-terrorist group to stop the distribution of viruses for chemical warfare. Kyle and Delanie met previously and after a one night interlude part ways (to their mutual disappointment) and unexpectely meet on the drug lord's island. Kyle and Delanie must maintain their cover to stay alive while dealing with their anger and attraction for each other. This is a fast paced, action/adventure romance which is chock full of great sex scenes, witty and funny dialogue and lots of surprises. A must read - you won't be able to put it down!

All of you who LOVED Kiss and Tell will be blown away by Hide and Seek! Cherry Adair has given us an awesome romantic suspense with a "to die for" Alpha hero and a heroine you can't stop cheering for!

Dr. Kyle Wright, a T-FLAC operative working undercover at the cartel headquarters to destroy drug lord Ramon Montero, who plans on producing and selling small pox virus to terrorists worldwide, suddenly finds Delanie Eastman there posing as Montero's girlfriend. She is the one woman he can't forget from an encounter four years ago when she chose him for a "one night stand" to lose her virginity. Kyle suddenly has a dilemma. He either has to rescue Delanie or kill her! Thus begins a drama as each try to decide whether the other is a good guy or bad, and the sexual tension between the two is explosive!

Delanie has posed as a bimbo dancer and convinced Ramon to bring her to his headquarters, but she is there to find her sister Lauren, who had last been seen with Ramon in Las Vegas but hadn't been heard from since.

The action is non-stop and the tension incredible! If Amazon.com thought Kiss and Tell a bestseller, they'd better stock up on Hide and Seek!

Karen

After her stunning debut KISS AND TELL, Cherry Adair packs an invigiorating tale HIDE AND SEEK to her credit as her latest offering. Deep in South America, Delanie Eastman braves high and low to locate her missing sister Lauren who was previously linked to the virulent drug-lord Ramon Montero. Assuming her dumb blonde persona, she enters the lion's den as Montero's interest. Little did she expect her plans to explode when Dr. Kyle Wright, her one-night stand years ago to appear as Montero's assassin. He has a secret agenda - to save the world from Montero's destructive plans in bioterrorism. Together Delanie and Kyle are gripped by treachery, propelled into present danger and even a frigid and emotional passion....

What action and high-flying passion! HIDE AND SEEK blends seamlessly propulsive drama and rollicking adventures as they survived through anacondas, piranhas, bugging devices and even the evil Isabella, a prostitution ringleader. Delanie is endearingly vulnerable yet a suitable candidate as Charlie's Angel with her ballet kicks. Kyle is a sexy and strong hero, fierce in his passion. Their chemistry is a exploding effervescence, especially in the sex department. HIDE AND SEEK is blazingly sensual and explicit.

In all its cloak of fast wits and cynical humour, HIDE and SEEK no doubt loses its predecessor's warmth and tenderness. Yet it reigns as this year's best contemporary romance so far. The heart-stopping action and steamy sex is enough to justify Ms. Adair's uncompromising talents in scripting a good read.

This book is totally Mills and Boon, only thicker. Not suitable for mature readers who are used to novels by writers such as Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Teresa Medeiros, Christine Feehan, Linda Howard, ..well you get me.

Maybe it was just this book, I don't know. I might try another book of hers just to see if she's what her fans says she is.

All the best for your next book, Ms. Adair... :)

Cherry Adair's "In Too Deep" is her most spectacular novel yet. Tally Cruise, at her biological Dad's invitation, has come to the beautiful, private island Paradise that he owns. Finally, for the first time in her life, her estranged father wants to see her. No sooner does she arrive, then explosions and life threatening things begin happening around her. Ex Navy SEAL Michael Wright rescues her. But Michael has is own agenda to get rid of Tally's father who cost him his eye, his career, and the death of his best friend. The action is non-stop excitement, the sex really sizzles, and the dialogue is witty and funny.

Adair does a really good job in developing her characters - their passions and their fears, their strengths and their weaknesses. It's nice to find a book where you truly like both the lead characters, and truly hate some of the evil ones. Its also nice once more see the rest of the Wright family that we met in the first two books - Marnie and Jake, Kyle and Delanie, and a couple twin brothers, Kane and Derek, whose tales I'm sure will follow in books to come. Grab a copy of this book quickly - you will love it!

Cherry Adair just keeps getting better.

This book grabs you by the throat and never lets go. I felt for Michael and Tally for their fears. Cherry Adair made these two come alive and showed that love can help overcome fears.

If you love action, suspense, steaming scenes, this book is for you. I for one am looking forward to the next installment of the Wright family. (I also went and found the first book of the T-Flac men.....The Mercenary.)

I can't believe this book is up for a RITA! I have heard mixed reviews on this book. Mostly I hear the word "HOT"! That doesn't tell me much.First, was this book written in the 1970's? Seriously, this book seems so dated and caveman like. Joshua is a throwback to those he-men of past who like to have mistresses and total and complete control. Add to the fact that the story has a preposterous premise and you get one star. I am surprised that so many women were not offended by this masochistic story. Big he-man Josh needs a wife. Enter virginal waitress Jessica. He marries her in a quickie wedding then, he leaves her. He only needs a wife for business/inheritance purposes. He doesn't see Jessie for seven yrs. In that seven yrs. Jess decides she needs a baby, but surprise, she is still a virgin, please!She tracks down Josh. Of course he doesn't remember her, even though they are still married. Do you think he might have checked up on her once during that time? Of course not. He has spent his life making himself rich. He also seems to aquire mistresses but only for twelve months at a time. Can you say "JOHN"? This story is so far out there it is almost comedy. The funniest thing is the author falls back on the old, I was neglected as a child routine which is suppose to explain why Josh is a whiny, overbearing caveman. I find it funny that we as readers are still suppose to believe that Jessie kept herself pure for some reason, oops! guess it was to save herself for Josh because guess what? Jessie is an interior designer, but not really, ya see Jessie really wants Josh's baby. She is a homebody at heart. She is one of those good girls who only wants hearth and home. She also takes tons of verbal abuse from Josh so why she would want him to father her child is beyond me.

If you enjoy a racy, erotic read, this book is for you. It has a hot, sexy story that grips the reader right from the very beginning and never lets go.
It's the story of business mogul Joshua Falcon and designer Jessie Adams and a marriage in name only. Jessie marries him as a favor and seven years later, after falling in love with him at first sight, she decides to she wants to be repaid for her generosity with the only thing he can give her: a baby born to married parents. The story is completely believable, as well as so hot it steams up the pages.
Cherry Adair never fails to give the reader exactly what they want: a little excitement and a lot of passion. Add in two great characters and you've got a winner.
However, a word of caution: I am definitely not exagerating about the sex scenes. If you don't like really descriptive erotica, this is not for you. :)
It just doesn't get any better than this!

Okey Dokey,........ here I was at the bookstore picking out a few of these innocent little Harlequins & I picked up HB # 51 'Take Me' by Cherry Adair. Yes, I knew that Harlequin had moved into this century - I just had NO idea how far they had moved! lol Now for the book:
All joking aside, this is an excellent love story. I laughed, chuckled, grinned, (& yes, turned red), & just darn near cried towards the end. I really had fun reading this & totally fell in love with both Joshua & Jessie. I read the whole thing in a 5 hr sitting; couldn't bear to put it down to finish tomorrow. Cherry Adair doesn't just know how to write hot scenes - she knows how to write a love story. I will have to look around for more books by this author. This will definitely be on my keepers-shelf.

Covers all the important things that you had to learn as a film photographer. Lots of great ideas for getting the most out of a digital camera, like things that you had to pay Kodak for in the past. Calendars, cards, stationery, photos in data bases are but few of the tips offered. Intros to the software available for touch-up too.

I have never read the any of the "Dummies" books...I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of this particular "Dummy" book. Digital Photography for Dummies contains just about anything you need to know about the world of digital cameras: storing images, transferring images, printing etc. and a bunch of (well marked) trivia you'll never use but you'll be glad you read....

It seems digital cameras and taking photos with aforementioned equipment isn't quite enough to fill an entire book. To skirt the lack of material afforded by concentrating solely on the taking a good picture and being done with the whole mess Digital Photography for Dummies includes plenty of pages spent on various digital image-editing programs. This may seem odd to those of you who are used to the way some traditional photography books read (many focus on getting the picture right the first time) but once you accept the benefits of going digital the inclusion of methods to manipulate the image is necessary. As Julie Adair King notes: you can make a pretty average picture into a pretty good picture if you spend a little time with a decent image-editing program. Don't believe Julie Adair King? That's okay Digital Photography for Dummies is packaged with a compact disc that contains a bevy of useful software including a Photoshop Elements demo so you can actually see for yourself just how powerful digital photography can be.

One of the better features of Digital Photography for Dummies is the photo examples found throughout. Julie Adair King's visual examples are the best use of figures I have ever run across. Every point Julie Adair King makes with a figure is very well made...Digital Photography for Dummies also includes something that I once thought I would never see in a twenty-five dollar digital photography book: Color Plates. Jammed right into the middle of Digital Photography for Dummies are sixteen pages of color plates. These pages are particularly informative and you're not going to get close to Digital Photography for Dummies's level of instruction with a book that is entirely grayscale.

Still, Digital Photography for Dummies has some miscues and errors. I'll focus on one: Apparently Photographers are ignorant to the standards of science...on the whole the book is very good. The inclusion of color plates is outstanding and Julie Adair King's touch with the visuals is remarkable. Go to your local bookstore and toss any books without color plates in favor of this one...

As a newbie to the field of digital photography, I found Julie's book to be extremely helpful. If you are new to this field like I am, disgregard the prior negative review. She does a very good job in explaining digital cameras and how they work. The included softward is outstanding and worth the price of the book alone. I read the book from cover to cover and can recommend it wholeheartedly.

I thought this book was good for the most part. It gives great discussions on topics like bat types and different pitches (curve, fastball, etc). It dispells myths about corked bats (they don't really help) and rising fastballs (they don't rise).

Most results of his studies are presented in tabular format, so it will be easy to get the basics of the book even if you don't understand all of the physics. Personally, I had trouble understanding the sections about curve balls. I think this is more of a personal hang-up. Even though I have an engineering degree, I have never quite grasped the physics of spinning objects.. Otherwise, I thought this was a good book. Just not quite great to earn a 5 Star..

Ever wondered why a curve ball curves? Why major leaguers stretching for third often take a wide turn between first and second? Why bats seem to break much more often than they used to? This wonderful book contains the answers. Written by a Yale physicist, it contains well-documented but sometimes densely worded explanations of why and how a baseball, a bat and even the players behave as they do. Any serious fan of baseball will finish this book with an enhanced appreciation for the game. Not to mention the ability to speak intelligently about how grip and mechanics differ between pitchers throwing curves and sliders. The author has wisely chosen to address the questions posed most frequently by baseball lovers who aspire to higher knowledge. His only failure is his heavy reliance on technical academic language and somewhat mysterious graphs. It makes for a very enlightening but slow read.

Before my wife and I married, she had to pass the "basketball" test by sitting through a University of Illinois game in a crowded bar and at least feigning interest. The first nights of our honeymoon were taken up with the World Series (luckily for her, the winning team swept the series). I thus consider myself a sports fan (I am obviously a reader). Accordingly, I was delighted to receive for a recent birthday Robert K. Adair's The Physics of Baseball. The book itself, however, did not quite meet expectations. I encountered two key problems. First, Adair writes in the dry, passive-voice-laden prose of the scientist lacking a good editor. Second, much of the scientific analysis was simply beyond me. What I enjoyed -- and found useful -- were the qualitative discriptions of the game: how and why curveballs curve; how far a batted ball can be hit; the differences between metal and wood bats. While I could not follow each step of his scientific description, the general, non-technical account which he also gave was clear and persuasive. From henceforth, I will watch the game somewhat differently.

It's been a while since I've used this book - I borrowed and used it for a few months a few years ago, when I first started teaching and had almost no other resources. I did not like it enough to buy my own copy.

This is maybe a little better than some other books I've seen, but I don't seem to like *any* pre-made worksheets. The idea of notes "spelling words" strikes me as pedagogically flawed, and the ways of explaining rhythm are very dry and meaningless and don't seem to help students, in my opinion. I've seen so many students who have had music for years and yet have no idea what the difference between a half note and quarter note are. Kind of makes you wonder what we're doing wrong.

Anyway, now I personally create all my worksheets for all grades and find that the amount of learning is much greater.

One other point, although I'm not absolutely positive it was this book, I think it was: when I was first teaching, one day I needed a warm-up worksheet and was in a hurry. I quickly flipped through this book (I think) and xeroxed a sheet about spelling words with notes on the clef. When my middle schoolers completed it, I was stunned and embarrassed to realize that one of the words was "Fagged"! Needless to say, some of my eighth graders did not handle it very well. So watch out for that one!

First the pluses, Progress chart, great for tracking students progress. Everything is divided into concepts. Concepts progress in a logical manner. Answer key is in a handy place. Minuses, some of the questions are not presented in a consistent manner. For instance, when comparing whole note values to those that are smaller the question should have always read "The tone of a whole note is ___ times as long as the tone of a quarter note." Then Half note is __ as long as a whole note" In my experience students understood better when the larger note value was placed first. It is also confusing when the answer is sometimes a fraction and sometimes a whole number. Some terminology may need to be changed if you only use the word tone for the sound of a note and not it's duration. Overall a valuable resource, I mean, who wants to reinvent the wheel when Ms. Adair has done such a good job?

This book is a Music Teacher's dream! No matter what concept you're teaching, this book always seems to have an activity to reinforce what you've taught, and see if it is being understood! Very Useful!

I never meant to read this book. Though I am a big fan of Adair's column, I often got irritated when she wrote about her daughter, Morgan. What an infuriating girl! No way did I want to read about her antics. However, after reading a few pages just out of curiosity, I was hooked. Without being saccharine, the book pays a sturdy tribute to the redemptive power of persistent love and offers a valuable lesson in faith in the human spirit. While Adair captures the sense of parental powerlessness endemic to living with a wildly rebellious teen-ager, she does so with humor and a passion that pulls the reader in (even when she doesn't intend to be sucked in!). She also deftly draws a picture of her relationship with an errant father, paralleling her own struggles to guide an unwilling child with being the daughter of--and eventually reverse-parenting--an unwilling father. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has ever been tempted to give up on another human being, relative or not.

They say to write a good memoir, you must write as if everyone is already dead. Man, Adair Lara knows how to follow that advice - and apparently is still on good terms with everyone in this book. Stupidly shelvedin parenting sections, bookstores should better market this as memoir. No one, having read it, would take it for a parenting manual. It's one woman's story of her difficulties, triumphs, and failures, challenges and sacrifices, doubts and agonies of blundering her way through parenting one of god's most difficult and brilliant (always a dangerous combination) teenage girls.
Also, as Lara is primarily a humor writer, it's screamingly funny, and laugh you will, when you're not holding your breath to see what new devilment Morgan (the daughter) will get up to next. I think the most profound lesson a parent would get from this book is that if you love your kids and let them know it, you'll all probably survive those difficult transitional years.

Hold Me Close, Let Me Go by Adair Lara is a wonderful, terrible, funny, devastating book that took me by surprise and held me in thrall from the first page. I didn't mean to read it. As a 63 year old childless gay man, I had little investment in a book (regretfully) being marketed as a mother-daughter self-help manual. But since I read only nonfiction, when browsing I'll pick up books on any subject, just to see how well the author writes, and so it was with Lara's book. Also, I was struck by the photo on the cover. Anyway I picked it up, began to read, then found I had to buy it. Gay, straight, childless, parent, this book is a staggering read for anyone who loves stories and admires those who can get out of the way and tell them true, even when artful lies are used. Though teenage/family dysfunction is at the center of Hold Me Close, Lara writes of universal experience--one of family, friends, and wrestling demons to the ground to find grace. Suddenly, I am in love with Adair Lara, though my partner of 26 years is not threatened. Read this book. You will be better for it.