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Title: Angel With A Mission
Author: Donna Boddy
ISBN # 9781462010615
Review Date: April 19, 2011
Reviewed by: Christian Book Reviews
10.0 on a scale of 10.0 stars

From Author Donna Boddy comes Angel With A Mission, a captivating and inspiring story of true love, tragedy, loss, and the restoration, forgiveness and redemption that is found in Christ. This intriguing novel offers immense hope in the midst of overcoming great adversity.

Let Author, Donna Boddy, transport you back in time, as she invites you to take a journey through life with young Kata. A woman who had everything this world had to offer. A promising career and fame, a loving husband and family, wealth, a high place in society, stability and security, but as life would have it sometimes these things can change rather abruptly. And although life is ever changing, what do you do about it when you come to the end of yourself and life as you once knew it has forever changed?

A triumphant story of restoration, this novel follows Kata during some of history’s most memorable moments to include war torn Germany, during the Great War. Kata weathers the dismal storms of many of these challenges and life’s tragedies, as we all have, but comes to find a greater hope. This is an overwhelming, emotional and delightful novel that will have you fully engaged. You will not be able to put this book down with this powerful novel that will have you sometimes crying and grabbing for a tissue, as you follow Kata through her life’s winding path.

Author Donna Boddy’s writing style flows so well and eloquently, it’s like you’re right there with Kata in each scene. This is a wonderful novel of a life interrupted by betrayal, war, sickness, death and tragedy, yet offers true biblical inspiration and strength to the trials and tribulations that we can all face in life. Relying on powerful spiritual truths, the author will lift you up and encourage you in your faith as you follow Kata on her life’s journey where you might find your own story within the pages of this exhilarating novel. None of us are exempt from life’s tragedies and tribulations. We all have our own grief to bear and burdens to carry. This novel will point you to the One that cares for you. Truly an encouraging, captivating, faith builder!

This book would make a wonderful ministry tool to those who are weary or to those that do not know Christ. One can look at your own life through the pages of this intricate novel and find that there is a familiar sense that we’ve all been there before. This novel will leave you with an undeniable and unshakable faith. A true mini-series in the making and I will be looking forward to the next sequel!

Angel With A Mission by Donna Boddy
Highly Recommended
Reviewed by: Christian Book Reviews
10.0 on a scale of 10.0 stars

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Author Jennie Marsland
McShannon's Chance

Trey McShannon survived the carnage of the Civil War, only to discover that the deepest wounds are those to the heart. A traitor to his home state of Georgia, Trey has built a new life for himself in the untamed Colorado Territory. Now it's time to find a wife to share the future he's worked so hard for - but can he free himself from his past? Beth Underhill is looking for choices. Needing to marry to escape being sent back East, she prefers Trey's honest business proposal to false promises of love. Can a union between a man who isn't sure he can still feel love, and a woman who doesn't believe it exists, blossom into more than a marriage of convenience?

For further information visit Author Jennie Marsland

Authors Blog Class 101

For those of you that are considering launching a blog here is a authors blog in the makings and unfolding. As with most sites found on the web, everything starts from scratch with a overall vision and then starts unfolding one creation and one page at a time.

First a author needs to decide on which blogging community to go with. Personally I like blogger and for various reasons from A to Z. Second you must pick a template to work with. Now for the best part regarding templates with blogger. You can change template designs at any time or within any process of building your blog from start to finish and blogger has some pretty awesome templates to choose from.

After you have chosen a template, next comes putting the furniture in the house so to speak and laying out your blog using the design program, color choices, ad ons and extras. I would recommend laying out your side bars first with all the ad ons, extras and goodies if possible because the length of your side bar will also determine the length of your blog and how many posts that you display on the home page.

There are millions of blogs on line so take some time to look around and determine which blogging community and template that you want to start out with, how you want the overall appearance of your blog to look and this will make things a lot easier. If you use blogger to build and launch your blog spend some time in the management program viewing all the templates, ad ons and extras. This will make your designing process and finished product go and look much cleaner.

Check out God's Nuggets, a Christian Authors Blog unfolding to see a blog in it's beginning stages.

Something else to consider from the get go is your blog address. Think this one out and create a blog address that best describes your blog, you as author or your book.

And the best part, if you choose blogger just follow the simple instructions and you will be live and online in minutes.

author blogging

Are you thinking about getting your own authors blog? While it's very important that a author have a authors web site, many authors are also using blogs to promote and market their books. Blogger and Word Press are the two most popular blogging networks. Both offer free blogs, great templates and easy to use design programs. Here are a few authors blogs to give you some ideas about creating your own authors blog.

The Writers Life
Story Tellers Unplugged
Spiritual Nutrition
Author Sandy Steele
The Authors Page
Romancing The Blog
The Author's Dilemma: To Blog or Not to Blog

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Having a author's blog is a major part of author promotions and book marketing for the self published author. A authors blog becomes the place where book lovers, bookstore managers, publishers and other people find you and your book. It is the place where they read about you as a author, about your book and where they find out how and where to order your books at. A authors blog becomes you're 24 hour 365 day a year online business card.

Here are a few examples of some author media blogs:

If you are in need of a author media blog like the above, contact kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com

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Get Your Own Author Site, Blog Or Page

Need some help getting a authors site, blog or page up and online? We can help. Don't settle for just any page, site or blog to showcase your books. Let's put something together that puts your name up in lights, promotes you as a author and shares your book with book lovers and ptential buyers.

Contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com for advice, assistance and help.

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Too many times I come by author blogs that are created more so for the author than the visitor and reader of the blog. It's as if the author has designed their blog to make a statement or just to get their name up in lights.

A authors blog should be tailored to the visitor, the reader or the book lover. It should be created with simplicity in mind providing just enough information to capture the readers attention. The whole purpose of a authors blog is to promote, market and share your books with book lovers and readers.

So what should the basis of a authors blog be built upon?

1) A short description about the author with a authors head shot.
2) A short description about the book with a cover shot of the book.
3) Some reviews about the book.
4) A sneak preview into 1 or two pages of the book.
5) Where and how to order the book.
6) Some links that share where and how to order the book.
7) Some other short interesting writings or poetry to share with interested readers.

Of course from the above list one could become creative, but the who purpose of a authors blog is to create a simple marketing blog that showcases the book 1st, the author 2nd and how and where to order the book or books 3rd.

Expand Your Authors Blog Reach

If your using a blog to promote and market your books, there are ways to increase your online presence and reach, get your name out there and attract attention to your authors blog. In the last post I shared the benefits of the Blog Catalog. In this post I want to share Technorati with you.

Technorati is a huge blogging network that allows bloggers to build networks, create widgets and utilize the power of Technorati's huge membership to share your blog with other bloggers.

I encourage you to spend some time at Technorati's site, become familiar with how it works and then register and add your authors blog into the mix.

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Extending your authors blog reach into other great blogging communities is a great way to market both your authors blog and books. The Blog Catalog is one of the industries premiere blogging communities. At The Blog Catalog you can create groups, join groups, create widgets for your blog and choose from quite a selection in The Blog Catalog Directory.

This is a great way to share your authors blog and books within a well established community with a very large readership and following that is daily growing.

The Simplicity Of A Authors Blog

To the left you see the book cover of The Examined Life by Author Virgil Jose. Virgil was in need of a authors blog and we helped him to accomplish that and also performed some expanded on-line author promotions and book marketing for the author.

The blog showcases the authors book cover, shares information about his book, has additional pages and links that share about the author, where and how to order the book and provides a simple yet affective authors blog where readers and book lovers can find the author, his book and important information

Author Virgil Jose's The Examined Life

If you need some help creating a authors blog, contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com

The Beauty Of A Authors Blog

To the left you see Sharon Ellis's book cover for her book Communions With Christ.

Now take a moment to see Sharon's author media blog which showcases Sharon's books, writings and other information about the author.

This is a great example of a author using a blog to promote and market their books online and in the online blogging world.

The Kingdom Of God In Earth

If you need some assistance creating a authors blog, contact us.

Building A Authors Blog

Creating a authors blog is a great way to market and promote your books. Every author needs a authors site or authors blog. Many authors choose to use both.

With a blog you become part of the online blogging world and it's huge with millions upon millions of users and readers. Blog owners have the ability to network with other bloggers, in great blogging communities and great social networks.

Blogger offers free blogs and has some great templates to choose from. The design program is easy to use and even a beginner can create a simple blog. Wordpress offers free blogs and have some great templates and design goodies. However, Wordpress is not for the novice.

If you need some help designing and launching a blog to promote and market your book, contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com as we can help you get a authors blog up and running and create some online marketing for you.

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Are you fast into promoting and marketing your books. If that is the case, I would imagine that you are following the authors buzz circuit. Blink, I'm sure your wondering what the authors buzz circuit is? Me too, but what it boils down to is all these authors running around from site to site trying to get their name in lights while creating some fame and book buzz.

That's when authors attempt to pump up their book sales by hanging out at authors sites. You know, these cool sites where gazillions of authors register, hang out, interact and try and sell each other their books. Now that's targeted marketing. Imagine McDonalds trying to sell In N Out Hamburgers and french fries.

1st let me encourage you that while it is a lot of fun to hang out with other authors and writers, interact and share information. Authors write books and only make up for a very small tiny percentage of book buyers. In fact it's so tiny that it's not worth mentioning. You must not fall into that trap believing that you will find success selling your books on authors sites. Yes I know you get the cool profile pic, you can uplaod your book cover, create a description, click a few buttons and there you are in lights. Along with a kazillion other authors and books. Impressive.

Don't get me wrong there are a few premire sites out there that as a author you want to get pluged into. However authors that run around from site to site to site registering and interacting at these authors sites will find their inbox and email filled with not book sales, but simply online interactions, which can be fun by the way. However, I believe that what every author is hoping for is book sales. Right?

All authors must find the market that their book falls into and tap into that market and just because some forum, group or site has a room set to the side that your book falls into doesn't mean anything when it comes to sales.

Focus on the following:

1) A Authors site or blog. (This is a must)
2) A sister site or sister blog. (It's nice to have a fulltime salesmen)
3) Promoting and marketing those sites. (Bingo, this is key)
4) Prime networking using targeted marketing. (Marketing 101)

The above 4 things should be your 1st priority for online marketing. You must create your own network that shares you as author, about your book, contact information, additional content of interest and where and how to order your books. Then you must market your site, blog and network.

If you need some advice, assistance or a online specialist to help you with the above. Contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com as we can help.

We also assist authors in creating online promotional pages, authors media blogs and other forms of marketing and author promotions.

Author Book Marketing & Blogs

Every author must have a authors site of blog. However, in this post lets talk blogs. Blogs provide you with a great way to promote, market and share your book online. With a blog you can also join other great blogging communities, networks and social clubs that you can't with a website. With a blog you can add your blog address to many profiles in endless networks, communities and social communities that do not except websites. You see, the blogging world is a HUGE online world and a world of it's own.

With a blog you can easily upload photos, place daily content posts, add other great online programs, services, images and all sorts of things that are usually built right into the design and management program. With a blog you can create a simpe easy promotions and marketing platform or a intense platform.

Many times authors either don't have the experience or the time to design and create a authors blog. If that's you, contact us as we can help.

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Many authors don't realize that they can build a really nice blog to showcase their books from. Just imagine having a blog that showcases your book, the book description, about the author, where and how to order the books and other important information.

So where do you start at? Here are some blogging communities that offer free blogs:

Blogger WordPress Bravenet Live Journal SosBlog MyBlogSite

Creating A Simple Authors Blog

Here's a blog that we just launched for Virgil Jose, author of the book The Examined Life, A Gil Rodrigues Mystery.

Here's another great addition, Alexander Vassilieff's blog ODYSSEYA.

Spiritual Nutrition By Christine Prescott is another new release that we just launched. In the near future Christine will be adding some great content about healthy lives and healthy living for her readers. This will be a great way for Christine to share great content with her readers while promoting and marketing her book Spiritual Nutrition.

I encourage all authors to create a authors blog to further promote and market their books. It's fun, exciting and rewarding. If you need some assistance, advice or help, contact us. We'd love to help.

Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing

Get Your Own Authors Site

Looking to design, create and build a authors site or blog? Creating a online presence and having a author site that showcases your book and you as a author is very important. It becomes your online business card and book marketing site. It's the house that houses all the information about you as a author, your book, contact information and where book lovers can find and order your book. Maybe you just don't have the time to built a site. Maybe it's just not your specialty. If that's the case, we can help.

Here are a few basic author sites that we have assisted authors with as some authors just don't have the time, the knowledge or the desire to create, design, build and launch a authors site or blog. If you need some assistance, advice or just some pointers, contact us via email at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com as we can help.

Author Christine Prescott
Author Virgil Jose
Author Patricia Bridewell
Author Alexander Vassilieff
Author Eric Zehnder

Authors Showcase Your Books

Every author needs a authors site where they showcase their books, book descriptions, about the author, contact information, order information, book covers and other content of interest for their readers. A authors site becomes a great meeting place where book lovers can sit back and read about the author, his or her books and get acquainted. Creating a online presence can be fun, exciting and very successful for a author.

Here are two simple author sites to look at. If you need some help getting started, simply contact us as we'd love to help you. Authors helping authors to find success.

Author Media Blogs Made Simple

Are you looking to design and build a simple yet affective authors site to showcase your book, the book description, about the author and provide other important information. Maybe you would like to create a blog that does the above and also creates a online meeting place for your readers to find you and read your latest posts.

Here is a simple authors blog that provides the above and more. If you need some help in getting started and some assistance in the design process, contact us as we would love to help you.

Author Christine Prescott's Blog, Spiritual Nutrition

Building A Sucessful Authors Blog

Over the years I have seen hundreds of authors sites and blogs. From the basic to the extravagant there are many of them. I have found that simplicity attracts more attention and readers than sites that are overwhelmed with flash. Most book readers are the same and if one studies some of the biggies with regards to online book stores, one will find professionalism, great photos, great content and simplicity.

If you are a new author that needs a professional author media site, contact us. We can help you put a authors site together and create a online presence for you that will showcase your books, provide the right information and get you the author promotions and book marketing that will help you find success.

For further information and some personal interactions contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com or visit is at Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing