10 Ways to Make the Most of Your Book Endorsements
by Gregory Kompes

Endorsements, sometimes called "Blurbs," are wonderful and often witty comments about your book provided by respected authors, journalists, entertainers, and industry experts connected to your topic. They're also one of the strongest sales tools an author has in their book sales toolbox. These short quotes should be gathered both before and after your book is published. Once you've gathered your endorsements what do you do with them? Here's a list of ten ways to get the most out of your well earned endorsements:

1. Book Cover. Readers respect the opinion of others, especially respected authors and industry experts. Endorsements gathered before production should be included on your book cover. In addition to placing your blurbs on the back cover, a great, short endorsement on the front will increase your sales.

2. Inside Your Book. Place pre-publication endorsements on a page or two just inside the front cover of your book. If you don't have pre-publication blurbs, consider adding your blurbs on your next printing.

3. "What Others Are Saying" Page. Collect your best endorsements and reviews on a single page and include it in your media kit. Positive endorsements will increase your press coverage.

4. Promotional Materials. When creating postcards, bookmarks, flyers, brochures and other give-a-way items, include an endorsement. They send the message, "Don't take my word for it, this is what others think of my book."

5. Tip Sheets: Create a tip sheet to include in your media kit and as a handout. Tip sheets, sometimes called a "One Page," include four basic elements: About the Book, About the Author, Book Statistics, and Order Information. A callout box or sidebar with a blurb about your book is an excellent addition.

6. Website. Include call out boxes or sidebars on your website that contain your endorsement quotes. Boxes add interest to your website. Your site visitors will view them as testimonials from others adding a level of trust.

7. Email Signature. Endorsements included with a link to your website draw interest and attention to your email signature.

8. Advertisements. Include a quality endorsement quote or two in all your print and online advertisements.

9. Query Letters. Include an endorsement or two in query letters when selling editors on stories connected to your book.

10. Press Releases. Use endorsements as quotes in your press releases. This will add interest and value to your book related news items. Additionally, a great endorsement from a recognized name is press release worthy on its own.

Want to learn how to obtain endorsements for your book? Gregory A. Kompes is the author of THE ENDORSEMENT QUEST (http://www.EndorsementQuest.com). This eBook outlines an easy to follow and affordable way to obtain those all important endorsements. "A beautiful, professional piece—and much needed" --Carolyn-Howard Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter. "Well done. Smart Idea." --Eva Shaw, author, writing coach, mentor.

Computer Ease
by Helen Gallagher.

"Computer Ease" is a state of mind - one you can't reach when you're frustrated. It's hard to feel like a success when your mouse won't move, you're stuck on hold with tech support, and you can't format a page margin. There isn't one magical manual for all computer problems because computing is both so broad and so specific to a user's unique needs. But there is a way to understand why computers work the way they do, and how you can gain the upper hand.

"Computer Ease" shares a positive strategy and philosophy that has already helped hundreds of the author's clients. The book includes real world solutions, actual user profiles, and Helen Gallagher's unique perspective from her years of consulting with Computer Clarity. With this book, you can finally understand how to manage your files, deal with error messages, learn keyboard shortcuts, protect your computer from spyware, and realize the power of the web.

Dear Mrs. Freed
by Naomi Golden Gerbarg

"Dear Mrs. Freed" is set in the present but recalls a time when flowers were power, love was free, and abortion illegal and dangerous. After years of emotional tumult, Gayle Kendell, tormented by the past she refuses to acknowledge but cannot forget, marries up and into Philadelphia's Main Line. But luxury does not lessen the feelings of responsibility Gayle carries for the 1969 death of her best friend, Meredith Freed. The good life only exacerbates her guilt and precipitates an elevator phobia that threatens to turn Gayle's new penthouse into hell. No amount of meddling into friends' lives, their marriages, men, or cellulite obsessions, is enough to distract Gayle from her demons until, in a turn that surprises everyone, answers to questions never asked bring changes to Gayle and everyone around her.

The Sons of the Fathers
by Clara M. Miller

"The Sons of the Fathers," the eleventh volume in the BROTHERS Series and the seventh in the Shamrocks Saga, continues the story of the Quigley family. As the older generation ages and dies, the young generation gives way to their children and the younger generation begins to face the trials their parents had already endured. The demons haven't given up on trying to capture or slay members of the Quigley family by whatever name they're known. Each of the cousins is subjected to horrendous tests because the game is complicated by the addition of demon surrogates. Now the Kennison children will find out if being half-Archangel has any advantages. The Old Man watches with interest as the latest chapter in the saga unfolds.

Take Five
by Douglas Clark

TAKE FIVE is an eclectic collection of stories about provocative circumstances and intriguing events..............

"Dreams" blurs reality in a macabre interplay between the conscious world and the unconscious imagination.

In "e-mail," the Internet extends a global reach of high tech revenge from Washington, D.C. to Central America.

EVERMORE follows one man's unusually long journey that starts in the nineteenth century and continues into the twenty-first.

"Parfum de Femme" is a sexually charged romp through the world of haute perfume marketing and corporate transgressions.

From the SITUATION ROOM, the President and his senior staff try to control escalating events as the world moves toward nuclear cataclysm.

His Way
by Tom Jewett

"His Way" is a collection of twelve short studies for spiritual growth. Each study can be used by the individual for personal enrichment or in a group setting. Discussion questions are included.

Flying with Scissors: A Different Perspective on Childhood Cancer
by Bob Wallace

What do superheroes, Spam, "The THING?" Yoda, snipe, Jell-O, flatulence and cancer all have in common?

Until now, not much.

But, "Flying with Scissors: A Different Perspective on Childhood Cancer" changes all that by weaving these and other unlikely topics into a totally unique look at childhood cancer and the kids who have moved beyond the illness. Having trained under the greatest guru of all-life--these kids are set on reminding us that the world is not made up of problems, but of dreams, hope, and triumph.

Hilarious and heartfelt, "Flying with Scissors" takes the personal experiences and insights of children who have battled cancer and turns them into universal truths that relate to each of us. It provides a non-traditional look at a typically solemn topic. "Flying with Scissors" is a resource and companion for anyone close to a child going through the cancer experience. Possibly more importantly, "Flying with Scissors" provides guidance for all of us, valuable insights for living life-every, every day.

And, like DC Comics used to say, "It's more fun than a barrel full of genetically-altered winged monkeys!

The First Life of Andy McCurdy
by Eben Dobson

Andy McCurdy, not yet seventeen, describes himself as irresponsible and underachieving. The night before embarking on a Baja sailing voyage, he sees a creepy-looking couple on the dock in San Diego and becomes convinced that he has witnessed the getaway of murdering smugglers.

The serenity of sailing in the gorgeous Sea of Cortez and soothing daydreams about his love for his stepsister become clouded by Andy's obsession that he and the two killers will cross paths again.

Heart stopping adventures expose him to certain death, but Andy reaches inside himself and discovers his own latent courage and resourcefulness.

"It flashed through my mind that I had seen my last glorious sunset, seen my last look at Arcturus, and had my last dream of Maggie. I was facing death, but I wasn't frightened anymore."

Wolf Journal
by Brian A. Connolly

Wolf Journal, the young adult novel adults should read, is set in the Allegheny Mountains of northern Pennsylvania.

Jimmy Warren, a farm boy, finds wolf tracks in the snow. No wolves have been in these woods for a hundred years. The tracks lead him deeper into his passion for nature guided by Hawk, an old Susquehannock storyteller. Along the way, Jimmy falls in love with the beautiful Sherry Woolman who shares his love of the wild. As a school project, Jimmy keeps a journal on wolves. In order to protect the wolf he's discovered, Jimmy writes about him as if he is fiction. The Tanner brothers, a derelict pair of would-be bounty hunters, threaten to destroy the perfect balance of nature that Jimmy has found.

Wolf Journal is a journey into the natural world where intricate details, like the imprint of a wing in snow, tell a larger story, one of endangered species, an endangered planet, and the human spirit that strives to understand and protect.

The Conscious Hours
by Stephen Lissberger

Represented in this novel is a microcosm of what lies beneath the civilized facade of a New York society, and what lies are fed to gullible believers. Any facsimile to real persons or events may or may not be coincidental. That primarily depends on the point of view of the guilty as well as the innocent, and how they perceive themselves.

Eric Soloman represents an effort to coerce the mind's eye to focus on two perspectives at the same time: that of the participant and that of the observer. The insurmountable anxieties throttling his ambition and the community in which he lives comprise the collisions that drive him to the point of inevitable madness. The contagious complacency of a self-serving society is the only thing separating him from possible acceptance. His struggles reflect the natural instincts of survival. His heart houses two windows. One through which he sees COURAGE, the other COWARDICE in his uncertain quest for life's elusive meaning.

Drugs and the 'Beats': The Role of Drugs in the Lives and Writings of Kerouac, Burroughs and Ginsberg
by John Long

In this fascinating and informative exploration of the relationship between drugs and literature, the reader will discover the lives and writings of three celebrated "beat" writers: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.

In examining the drugs they used and the consequent effects on how they lived, what they wrote about, and how they wrote, the author offers an intriguing study of the role of drugs in the creative process. No literary movement had ever explored such a variety of drugs (heroin, morphine, alcohol, amphetamines, marijuana, LSD, etc.) with such such intensity as these three iconic writers.

As precursors to and models for a whole generation of "flower children," they had a profound impact not only in literature but on the whole of society.

Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental Crisis
by Joanne Poyourow

What if a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens set out to change the world ... and did?!

Tia Chandler's status-conscious West Los Angeles lifestyle of SUVs, sterile corporate offices and shopping malls all changes the day her father is brutally murdered. Through her father's radical environmental books, Tia learns of the crisis around her, and is horrified that her lifestyle is contributing to it. At a gathering of environmental activists, Tia meets Ari Damek, a driven, purposeful negotiator who works with U.N. delegations for the Kyoto Protocol. From their first date, he speaks of Legacy: how the choices we make now will affect the generations to come.

A story of love and heroism, Legacy integrates climate change forecasts and real solutions. It brings alive technologies and proposals from today's leading environmental scientists, economists and political thinkers. This is a tale of possibilities.

Join Tia, Ari, their circle of activist friends, and their children on a 40-year journey, battling consumerism, coping with climate change and sea level rise, restoring wildlife ecosystems, wrestling national policies and international treaties, counteracting citizen apathy with both grassroots and top-down approaches. Legacy envisions the wonder that can be if we work together toward a more sustainable future. Come join us.

Five-Mountain Morning
by William Bridges

In his second memoir, Five-Mountain Morning, teacher and writer William Bridges describes a life that has stretched from the Army in postwar Germany to journalism around the world to archaeology on a remote island in the North Atlantic. This book follows Under the Heaven Tree, a childhood memoir that a critic says, "did what we all should do - not only recall our lost lives and loved ones from oblivion, but also see ourselves as links in a long chain of being that reaches dimly backward and brightly forward."

In Five-Mountain Morning, Bridges writes about lost loves, marriage and children, a writer's life, travels, and encounters with people ranging from a woman who named her cat for a Kentucky Derby winner to actress Marlene Dietrich. Bridges is a storyteller and poet whose work has been called both "beautifully crafted" and "never far removed from the daily course of things."