AJ Barnett - Tell Me a Story

Amazon Lending Library Kills the Goose

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:40:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story Is Kindle KDP strangling the goose that lays the golden egg? Amazon's latest venture is to offer a free lending library to Prime members. Authors supposedly gain from a ratio share from a money 'pot' - those having most books borrowed having the biggest payout - designed to benefit the big players only. It doesn't end there, Amazon allow each book enrolled in the scheme, to...

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Abysmal Book Promotion

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:59:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Promotion I own to vulnerability. I am terrible at book promotion. I have tried to analyze why I'm so abysmal at it. I should be capable of marketing my stories. I ought to be adept at talking about my books - but it's not that easy. The first problem is I'm appallingly bad at connecting with people. I am an introvert. I can do shy for the Olympics. My family...

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The Drop

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:19:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Author - Michael Connelly Title - The Drop Stars - 4 The Drop: A slipshod DNA test from a rape and murder has been pinned on a convicted rapist, who was only eight years old at the time of the crime. Harry's inquiries into the incident are disturbed by the ostensible suicide by the son of a former police chief. The former chief demands that Harry...

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Guerilla Marketing to Promote Your Book

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:44:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story Guerilla Marketing to Promote Your Book on the Web ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It used to be that promoting a product was an expensive undertaking, one that required excessive amounts of funds for television or radio advertising, or slightly less for publications of the paper variety. And promoting books, in particular, meant making deals with booksellers...

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Hunter

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:34:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Author - Robert BidinottoTitle - HunterStars - 3.5 Hunter: A man and a woman, in love, each conceal a noxious secret. He, a crusading vigilante on a brutal pursuit for justice, she, tracking this nameless slayer, pledged to stop him. Neither understands the truth about the other, and neither knows that a dangerous predator is hunting both Robert...

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The Colour of Glitter

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:38:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story As a change, I thought I'd post this poem by my seven-year-old Granddaughter, Sophie, who wrote it this morning over breakfast. We live in Spain, while Sophie and her parents live in the UK. We don't get to see them too often. Little things like this touch me. Sophie struggles with anything to do with English as a school subject, hates reading etc, so I'm amazed she...

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Wife By Wednesday

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:41:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Author - Catherine Bybee Title - Wife By Wednesday Stars - 4 Wife By Wednesday: Blake, wealthy, and amiable … must have a wife by Wednesday so he turns for help to Sam Elliot of the Alliance matchmaking firm. Sam Elliot is not the businessman he expected. Instead, Blake is confronted by Samantha Elliot, charming and lively with a...

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Flat-Out Love

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:23:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Author - Jessica Park Title - Flat-Out Love Stars - 4 Something seems wrong in the Watkins home. Julie, college freshman, the newest resident in the Watkins home, is determined to get to the bottom of it. To Julie, there is something about the emotionally jumbled members of the Watkins family that doesn’t quite add up. It is only when she...

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Treachery

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:20:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Title - Treachery Author - Ellie Jones Treachery: Rafael mounts an aggressive take-over bid for the English factory owned by Katrina’s father. The incompatibility of uncompromising wills, irrational emotions, and peaceful Spanish Sierras, reinforces the mood of TREACHERY. Katrina finds herself fighting with Rafael on a number of levels; her growing...

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The Hunger Games

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Tell Me A Story - Book Review Author - Suzanne Collins Title - The Hunger Games Stars - 5 Panem, is a Capitol surrounded by twelve remote districts. The Capitol is demanding and pitiless and keeps the districts in line by compelling each of them to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to play a part in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on...

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The Litigators

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:40:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Author - John Grisham Title - The Litigators Stars - 5 With their new associate on board, Finley & Figg feel they are equipped to confront a big case, a case that could make the partners rich without necessitating them to actually practice much law. A popular drug, Krayoxx, a best-selling cholesterol reducer for the morbidly obese, manufactured by Varrick...

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When the Devil Whistles

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:12:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Title - When the Devil Whistles Author - Rick Acker Stars - 3.5 Allie, accountant and professional whistle-blower, is skilled at locating and unmasking corporations that over-charge on government contracts. Her lawyer and friend, Connor, keeps her identity a secret while helping her make money that bankrolls Allie's lavish lifestyle. When she...

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Finding Positano

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:04:00 +0000

Tell Me A Story - Kindle Book Review Author - William James Title - Finding Positano Stars - 5 Jack Campbell is separated from his wife. His daughter, Maggie, writes a letter expressing her resentment and frustration. She ought to know not to take sides in such a private matter. Jack and his daughter have not spoken since. Three years later, with the pressure of work and...

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Inheritance

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:29:00 +0000

Tell Me A Story - Book Review Author - Christopher Paolini Inheritance Not so very long ago, Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider—was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Months of training have produced triumphs and optimism, but they have also brought loss. The real...

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Daily Cheap Reads

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:38:00 +0000

Tell Me A Story - Promotion I'm so excited, SHORT MOMENTS is featured on the blog Daily Cheap Reads Please take a visit. Hopefully it will annex exposure to a wider readership, and let people searching for inexpensive books see what is available. Author - AJ Barnett

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Right as Rain

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:54:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Book Review Author - George Pelecanos Right as Rain Derek Strange is hired by Chris Wilson's mother to find out why her son, a black police officer, was killed by a white police officer, on a dark night in no man's land. Derek guesses the answer is a case of mistaken identity, driven by the assumptions and preconceptions of innate racism. But what Derek finds is a...

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That Immortal Jukebox Sensation

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:21:00 +0000

Tell Me A Story - Book Review Author - Gareth R. Roberts That Immortal Jukebox Sensation The novel centres on Richie Strafe, who in his mid-30s finds himself trapped in a career as a solicitor and is going nowhere, caught in a liaison that has lost meaning and deeply bitter about the pop star success of his one-time school band mate, Capaldi. Events combine to push Strafe back to his...

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Book Give-Away

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:03:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story We want to give away this book We want to give away TREACHERY so that readers can get a flavour of what we offer. But we REALLY need YOUR help to do it. TREACHERY is presently $0.99 on Kindle. We want to drive it to £0.00. Please help. Please go to TREACHERY and under product details click on tell us about a lower price and indicate that TREACHERY is $0.00 on...

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Winning a written argument

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:22:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story Presenting and winning a written argument can be a struggle without coming over as overbearing. So what do you need to do to get there? The short answer is, be logical. Techniques Apply these ideas to your argument and you won't go far wrong: Incitement: Describe the problem that must be settled. Description: Clearly state your solution. Reiteration: Recap your...

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Treachery - a Love Story - SampleSunday

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:06:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - A Love Story Sorry about this folks. I'm in on Twitter and KindleBoard's #samplesunday. We offer a sample of our work for readers to check. This is my effort, from TREACHERY - a love story - available from Amazon.com for $0.99 - Treachery or from Amazon.co.uk for £0.86 - Treachery TREACHERY - a Love Story Kat’s suit was delicately pinstriped, the jacket...

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Tribute to an old man - poem by Anon.

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:38:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story - Tribute This is a copy of an email sent to me by Jack Chambers. I thought it very poignant. When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, They found this poem Its quality and content so impressed the staff...

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How to Doctor Your Own Book

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:46:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector." - Ernest Hemingway -The Book Doctor Most first time writers fail to understand that writing the first draft of a novel is but one small step on the long road to becoming published. Most think that getting those precious words down is all that is needed. They are wrong, they must now ...

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Amazon take on the publishers

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:44:00 +0000

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CS Forester Writes Steamy Book

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:13:00 +0000

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A Bad Review Doesn’t Have to Mean Your Book is Bad

noreply@blogger.com (ajbarnett) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:32:00 +0000

Tell Me a Story John Locke says something along the lines of – Write for people who love your book, not for ones who don’t. Good counsel. We all want good book reviews, but books are subjective. Like all art, books have separate meanings to separate people. Some readers enjoy TREACHERY while others don’t - it can't be helped. We can’t write to please everyone. People will...

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