My girlfriend told me the saddest story I believe I’ve ever heard in my life. Today she went to a special needs school to help volunteers teach at the school. She coordinates placements of volunteers to help poor or disadvantaged kids. She showed me photos in her camera of a 7 yr old boy with [...]
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Archive | June, 2010
A Boy of 7… Saddest Story I Ever Heard
Posted on 30 June 2010.
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Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP) Raises Commissions to 70%
Posted on 30 June 2010.
You have to opt-in, but still – it’s a meaningful change to a system that I was convinced, sucked through and through. As near as I can figure they are now charging authors, publishers for the distribution digitally of their books. My books are all well compressed using MS Word’s image compression function so most [...]
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Kicking Smoking’s Ass – Done
Posted on 24 June 2010.
I made the final edits to this book – Kicking Smoking’s Ass! and just finished the audio capture. I’ll have both up online here today – probably a few hours from now. Kicking Smoking’s Ass! is a motivational stop smoking book that I think has a lot of potential. What remains to be seen is [...]
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Amazon is NOT the Answer for Selling Your Ebooks
Posted on 24 June 2010.
Pros and cons of using Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) to sell your ebooks. Pros Joining is free. They take care of all payment processing. You need not reside in the USA and can have checks sent to wherever you are in the world. Their market is massive. Even if your book is completely unknown [...]
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Kicking Fat’s Ass – The Weight Loss War
Posted on 23 June 2010.
Kicking Fat’s Ass is a new book I just released in June 2010. I’ve had a problem with weight gain – exactly one time. I had slowly gained over 30 pounds over some months – and my wife took a photo of the back of me as I sat in a meditation pose while on [...]
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Kicking Smoking’s Ass! Coming Momentarily…
Posted on 22 June 2010.
The 2nd book in the Kicking ___’s Ass! series is finished – just getting some feedback from a couple of people before I make it live. Stopping smoking is becoming a financial necessity for so many people. $10 a pack in NYC now. $15 a pack… is coming within a few years I’m sure. If [...]
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62 Foot Jesus Set Aflame by Lightning!
Posted on 15 June 2010.
God apparently wasn’t feeling the love exuding from this giant 62 foot statue of Jesus. The giant Jesus burst into flames after a lightning strike! A giant sculpture of Jesus with his arms raised high – townspeople were calling it touchdown Jesus because it looked like he was celebrating a football touchdown – was struck [...]
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Vote in My Latest Poll – Who/What Created This Mess?
Posted on 14 June 2010.
I have a blog I rarely write at anymore, but it’s been the source of great amusement over the past 4 years I’ve had it going. I Talk to God > I have a poll here at this post that I’d love for you to participate in… Who Created this World?
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Author Interview at Jess C Scott’s Blog
Posted on 13 June 2010.
Seems I’ve forgotten to write a note about my author interview at JessCScott.wordpress.com. Jess is a talented young writer that is attending school in Maine, USA – where she arrived from Singapore. I enjoyed her interview format – click below to see mine and others: Mike Fook Interview >
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Independent Publishing Vs. Traditional
Posted on 12 June 2010.
My friend Jess, over at JessCScott.wordpress.com had a great post that was actually a school assignment she shared with the world. She compares Indie vs. Traditional publishing – quite interesting info! Independent Versus Traditional Book Publishing
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