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April 12, 2013

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Name of book:  THE OLDEST ENEMY
Genre: SUPERNATURAL THRILLER

Description: David Lighthouse was once a hard-hitting investigative reporter for the Denver Post-back before he was accused of the brutal murder of his fiancée and his life unraveled. Now, six years later, he
suddenly finds himself the target of sinister, supernatural forces as he tracks down a conspiracy to release an ancient evil upon an unsuspecting world.

Link on Amazon KINDLE http://amzn.to/RWyv4c PAPERBACK http://amzn.to/Rolsf1
4.7 star rating on Amazon

Author MICHAEL J. WEBB

Format Availability KINDLE, or PDF
Contact information  Reviews@SeventhDimensionSeries.com
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Name of book:  HOW TO LIVE A FABULOUS LIFE IN CHRIST, TEN LESSONS: A WOMAN'S
GUIDE ON SPIRITUAL GROWTH
Genre:  RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Description: How to Live a Fabulous Life in Christ encourages women to develop their new lives in Christ
through spiritual growth. Sabrina teaches 10 lessons that are common obstacles to spiritual maturity,
intimacy with God and personal peace.

Link on Amazon
http://amzn.to/TU6k64
5 star rating on Amazon

Author SABRINA C ANDERSON

Format availability
PAPERBACK AND WILLING TO GIFT A LIMITED NUMBER OF KINDLE
COPIES.

Contact information Reviews@SeventhDimensionSeries.com
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Name of book:  KEEPER OF REIGN
Genre: YA FANTASY (for readers 12 and up)

Description: The Elfies of Reign, already cursed for centuries, are in further trouble as Gehzurolle, the evil lord, scours the land for Keepers and their Books. Jules Blaze and his family seem to be his primary target. Jules must adventure into dangerous enemy territory to find his answers and the truth that could save him and his family.

Link on Amazon http://amzn.to/16Tem7I
No reviews yet on Amazon

Author EMMA RIGHT
Format availability PDF
Contact information Reviews@SeventhDimensionSeries.com

30-day turnaround time to post review on Amazon.

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Name of book: THE LIFE SYSTEM: GOD AND MAN 101
Genre:  RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY

Description Christian How-To that teaches people the benefits of a seed and to use words to change any situation in life.

Link on Amazon http://amzn.to/12U1Wht
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Author Matthew Thedford

Format availability PDF and KINDLE MOBI
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Name of book:  THE STORY IN THE STARS
Genre:  SCIENCE FICTION

Description: The Creator who wrote the story of redemption in the stars has commanded to share it with her reluctant savior. That's not all He expects of her, but the rest is unthinkable.

Link on Amazon http://amzn.to/12U4AUl

4.9 stars on Amazon

Author YVONNE ANDERSON

Format availability PRINT, .PDF AND KINDLE MOBI
Contact information Reviews@SeventhDimensionSeries.com

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Name of book:  STOLEN WOMEN: WHAT WOULD YOU RISK?
Genre: CHRISTIAN SUSPENSE / ROMANCE

Description Human Trafficking:  Asha knew nothing about it before meeting 16-year-old Rani,
stolen from her home and forced into prostitution in Kolkata, India.

Link on Amazon http://amzn.to/154TZWL

4.8 stars on Amazon

Author KIMBERLY RAE

Format availability SOFT COVER, PDF, KINDLE, NOOK, OR SMASHWORDS COUPON

Contact information Reviews@SeventhDimensionSeries.com

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Name of book:  WHERE LOVE ONCE LIVED
Genre: CHRISTIAN ROMANCE

Description She has worked hard to put her love for Brian behind her and rebuffs his advances. Brian can see that winning her over again isn't going to be as easy as he had hoped, but he's willing to do whatever it takes.

Link on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451511817

4.5 stars on Amazon

Author SIDNEY W. FROST

Format availability PAPERBACK OR KINDLE MOBI.
Contact information Reviews@SeventhDimensionSeries.com
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Name of book:  TERRELDOR AT WAR
Genre: FANTASY / ADVENTURE

Description: The Kingdom of Terreldor has fallen into war, and Mark must choose the path to selfpreservation, or follow his mentor to battle a great evil. He will learn the lasting scars of war are not
always wrought on the battlefield.

Link on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C7HGAPS

5 stars on Amazon (2 reviews)

Author CHRIS M. HIBBARD

Format availability PDF, MS WORD DOC, or KINDLE MOBI
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Name of book: SEVENTH DIMENSION - THE DOOR, A YOUNG ADULT CHRISTIAN FANTASY 
Genre: CHRISTIAN FANTASY / YOUNG ADULT

Description:  Shale is an emotionally and psychologically injured girl - after many years of torment at school and abandonment at home, she is left empty and hollow inside.One day, she is transported to a happy, peaceful garden...or is it?

Link on Amazon http://amzn.to/170JeEm

4.7 stars on Amazon

Author LORILYN ROBERTS

Format availability PDF, KINDLE MOBI, SOFT COVER, OR SMASHWORDS WITH A FREE COUPON
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Name of book: CHILDREN OF DREAMS
Genre: Adoption Memoir

Description: A one-of-a-kind inspirational adoption story--in fact, two stories. Children of Dreams is borne out of Lorilyn Roberts' shattered world, a story of turning broken dreams into a heart-warming realty.

Link on Amazon http://amzn.to/V86QUB

4.6 stars on Amazon

Author LORILYN ROBERTS

Format availability PDF, KINDLE MOBI, OR SMASHWORDS WITH A FREE COUPON

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Name of Book: MEOW MAYHEM

Genre: Mystery

Description: After being dumped at the altar Ivy moves her message business and cat to Apple Grove, IL where she meets handsome but scarred True Thompson, bookstore/coffeeshop owner. When their friend the mayor winds up dead, can their love withstand the sudden rise in crime?

Link on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/bnc956d

4 stars on Amazon

Author LISA LICKEL

Format availability PDF, PRINT

Contact information: lisalickel-at-gmail.com
30-day turnaround time to post review on Amazon.


Name of Book: The Last Bequest, book one of the Buried Treasure series
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Description: When Judy Winters inherits the family farm upon her aunt's death, Judy must decide whether to stay there or sell her family's heritage. Meeting the boy next door who helped with chores could be an incentive to stay - unless he's a murderer.

Link on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/cyjsf4w

4.8 stars on Amazon

Author LISA LICKEL

Format availability PDF, KINDLE MOBI

Contact information: lisalickel-at-gmail.com
30-day turnaround time to post review on Amazon.

Name of Book: Healing Grace
Genre: Women's Fiction

Description: Grace could fix anyone with a touch - until her husband got cancer and died. Grace runs far and fast--right into the arms of another man who desperately needs her. What would you sacrifice to save the life of someone you love?

Link on Amazon: available April 19

 stars on Amazon

Author LISA LICKEL

Format availability PDF, KINDLE MOBI

Contact information: lisalickel-at-gmail.com
30-day turnaround time to post review on Amazon.

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Should You Purchase Your Own ISBN's and/or Form A Publishing Company?

by Lorilyn Roberts
First, buy your ISBN’s from Bowker – not from a secondary vender, though they are a lot cheaper – but you will end up throwing them out. They are worthless.

Should you incorporate or make yourself a publisher? What I did is I used my business name, Roberts Court Reporters, as I am already incorporated and have been for about 20 years. 

The only advantage to getting your own ISBN’s (rather than using Smashwords or Create Space) in my opinion is if you want to try to sell to bookstores or more easily to libraries. If you use the Create Space ISBN and publish only through them, you will never be able to get your book into bookstores unless the bookstore is willing to open up a Create Space account and buy directly from Create Space. If I were a betting woman, I wouldn’t count on it.

I want to get my books into bookstores. Why? I don’t like having just one revenue stream for selling my books. While Amazon is a big part of the pie, it just makes business sense to “spread the wealth” – and yes, I consider my books an asset, even if nobody else has figured that out yet.

Okay. Don’t mean to be cocky, but the point is, you are limiting yourself if your dreams begin and end with Amazon. I got my ISBN’s, and I will be publishing through Lightning Source shortly. I honestly don’t know if you can publish through Lightning Source as an independent author. I think you have to become a publisher. You also have to show credit worthiness, which is why I went with my business name – too many hoops otherwise. Maybe an LLC is easier. It’s about $500 in Florida to incorporate, and unless you are making a profit, I don’t know whether it’s a good business decision to do it. You will pay more in taxes – CPA fees, et cetera, to help you not pay so much in taxes.

But if you want to get your book in bookstores, you have to have returnability of books, and Create Space won’t give you that.

This is what I am doing: I am republishing with Lightning Source, using my own ISBN that I bought from Bowker, both for the ebook and the print copy, you need two different ISBN numbers because then you have to go back and register those books with Bowker. I will republish with Create Space using my own ISBN number for both ways of publishing. 

I also got a Library of Congress number – and that was not easy because I didn’t know how to do it, and I did it all wrong. YOU MUST GET YOUR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NUMBER BEFORE your book is published. After it’s published, you can’t get the number.

I wanted the number to help get my book into libraries. Plus it just looks good. I believe it will help me to get some reviews from people who review books with those numbers, because libraries use those numbers to determine which books they want to order.

I know you don’t have to be incorporated to publish with Lightning Source or to get a Bowker number, but you need more than just being an author. Essentially you become a publisher. It’s a lot more of a hassle, but anything worth having sometimes just takes a lot of work.

Tressof the Book

by Kimberley Payne, illustrated by Esther Haug

Trees of the Book is a 26 page children's activity book, #1 in the Science & Faith Matters Series. It explores the trees discussed in the Bible in a way that is both fun and informative for children of the grade 2 - 3 level, or ages 7-9. With a colorful interior and 8.5" x 11" format for comfortable handling for children, it offers challenging activities, fun facts, opportunities for Bible study and presentation of stories connected to the trees.

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Paperback: 28 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches

Publisher: byDesign Media (February 13, 2013)

ISBN: 978-1896213736

$9.95

 

Kimberley Payne shares information and activities from biblical accounts, from the oaks of Genesis to cedars and palms, and the mustard tree, to the less common fig, sycamore, and brooms.

 

Told in a fanciful first-person style as though the tree is telling its own story, Payne gives both the biblical passage where mention of the tree is made, and questions related to it. For example, the first story about the oak involves using the tree as a landmark. At the camp Abram set up near these mighty oaks, God made a special promise. Payne asks her readers to think about promises.

 

Following these passages and questions, Payne gives the scientific description of the species, including growth pattern, names, and other details.

 

Each chapter also has an activity, such as word search, fill-in-the-blank paragraph, match the facts, or a crossword.

 

Haug’s illustrations are charming and add depth and beauty to each chapter.

 

It’s hard to mix science and faith for many. In this book, readers don’t have to even enter a debate. God’s creation is wonderful and varied and awesome. Payne ends with a great glossary, answers and a fun list of further activities.

 

Highly recommended for fun and learning, Sunday School, family activities.

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Guest Post by Dianna T. Benson -- A Writer's Journey

Dianna T. Benson

www.diannatbenson.com

When U.S. DEA Special Agent Lelisa Desmond refuses to follow an order to bury evidence in a high profile case, her superior hires a hit man to kill her deep in the ocean off Grand Cayman Island. Lelisa survives the first attempt on her life, but someone close to her is mistakenly murdered in her place.

With no one to trust, Lelisa enlists Inspector Alec Dyer for help but learns she's his number one suspect in the scuba diving homicide. She sets off on a daring mission to bring down the man who ordered her execution. A man in a high position, with power friends. A man who will stop at nothing to silence her forever in order to hide his son’s crimes. 

A Writer's Journey

In 1993, I started writing my first suspense novel. After completing five novels, I signed with an agent in 2007. Six agents offered me representation that spring; it was difficult to turn down the other five since all of them are top-notch agents. In the fall of 2007, a film agent requested a screenplay of The Hidden Son after reading the book. Just days before I completed the script, I learned the film agent suddenly and recently retired due to health issues. I never pursued anything further with the script.

In 2009 I was offered a four-book publishing contract in mainstream, but soon after that my husband was diagnosed with cancer. I turned that contract down to focus on our young family of five, and God carried all five of us through the surgeries and radiation treatments.  

I finaled in the Golden Palm in 2007, finaled in the Daphne in 2010, double semi-finaled in the Genesis in spring 2011, and won the Genesis September 2011. I switched agents January 2012. I signed a nine-book publishing contract July 2012. My first book, The Hidden Son, released in print world-wide on March 1, 2013.

Starting in February 2012, for thirteen weeks I had a pending contract offer from one of the largest traditional print publishing houses. They made me an offer only three days after my new agent submitted my work out. The entire editorial staff and the entire leadership team loved my writing, but the business team was concerned their suspense list is already too full.

The senior acquisitions editor drew up a matrix broken down by genre of their release list for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 (my books included in it), proving to them they have room and finances for one more suspense writer (me). Much to that editor's stunned shock, after thirteen weeks the business team decided they can’t add another suspense author.

During this thirteen week timeframe, the senior acquisitions editor thought it was just a matter of time before my contract finalized, so my agent understandably let go of all the other interest in my writing. Soon after those thirteen weeks with that publishing house, Ellechor Publishing House, a small traditional print house, contacted me and asked me to submit my 2011 Genesis Winner, Illusion of Safety. A few days after I did so, they offered me a nine-book contract.

The publishing industry today is not just about the writing (not even close). A reputable agent won’t offer representation unless he/she truly believes the writer has potential in today's market. Your marketing platform needs to be an absolute stand-out. Example: I’m an EMT and a Haz-Mat and FEMA Operative; I write suspense and medical thrillers.

However, even if you have a solid marketing platform, there are other obstacles.

Two other large traditional print houses loved my writing as well, but neither could offer me a contract only because they can’t have me competing with their current authors who write the same genre I do.

A limited number of books every month are print-published worldwide. Every traditional print house nowadays (large and small) is fighting to stay in business, and it takes a ton of money to publish and market a book, so the business team of any traditional print house needs to be convinced spending tons of money on a debut author is profitable for them without hindering any of their current authors.

Contest wins look great on a proposal, but in the end the business side of a publishing house makes the final decision on contract offers, and reality is unpublished writing contests have no relation to their current lists, their financials, the market, sales, a writer’s platform, or what constitutes as excellent and high profitable writing.

A little discouraging, but my hope here is to inform (not discourage) as well as to focus on the positive.

The publishing industry is rough, but I think stand up comedy is way harsher. When a comedian gets rejected (their act isn't going well), they're on stage in front of a live audience—yikes.

Keep in mind, if you’re unable to land an agent and/or a traditional print publishing contract, it doesn’t prove your writing is the problem, so continue to believe in yourself as a writer.

Above all, if you love to write, then never stop writing. God gave you a passion, so spend time on your passion and enjoy yourself! It may not be all about the writing anymore in the industry, but it will always be all about the writing to us writers.

*****

Dianna T. Benson is a 2011 Genesis Winner, a 2011 Genesis double Semi-Finalist, a 2010 Daphne de Maurier Finalist, and a 2007 Golden Palm Finalist. In 2012, she signed a nine-book contract with Ellechor Publishing House. Her first book, The Hidden Son, released in print world-wide March 1, 2013.

After majoring in communications and a ten-year career as a travel agent, Dianna left the travel industry to earn her EMS degree. An EMT and a Haz-Mat and FEMA Operative since 2005, she loves the adrenaline rush of responding to medical emergencies and helping people in need. Her suspense novels about adventurous characters thrown into tremendous circumstances provide readers with a similar kind of rush.

Dianna lives in North Carolina with her husband and their three athletic children.

Website: www.diannatbenson.com

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