The Pen presents Santa's Birthday Gift by Author Sherrill S. Cannon

Santa’s Birthday Gift is an attempt to include Santa in the meaning of Christmas. (After I read a story of the nativity to my young granddaughter, she looked at me and asked “But where’s Santa?”) The editor who critiqued this book wrote: “What a cute story! I know there are many stories about how Santa came into the picture, but this is a delightful idea behind the gifts at Christmas.” The story is best for ages 3-10, to be read to children who still believe in Santa! This book received a 2011 National Indie Excellence Finalist Award, and is a 2011 Readers Favorite Finalist. ~ Sherrill Cannon

Other books by Sherrill S. Cannon include:

Peter and the Whimper-Whineys (2010) is designed to help parents cope with whining and complaining children. The book is a 2011 Readers Favorite Finalist.

Sherrill's third book was released in February of 2011, The Magic Word. The book has received a NABE Pinnacle Achievement Award for summer 2011, a Global eBook Finalist Award, and is also a 2011 Readers Favorite Finalist.

Visit Sherrill Cannon at Sherrill S. Cannon's Website and Blog or at Sherrill Cannon's Amazon page

Christian Authors Free Book Marketing Challenge

Dear Christian Authors,

Would free marketing on 25 separate sites help you to promote your book? Would that free marketing help you to increases your online presence, possibly page ranking and placement on the major search engines? What if the marketing was for one full year, shared your book cover, a description of your book and a link back to your authors site, blog or authors page?

Join The Authors Page Now To Enter

1st Place: One Year Of Free Marketing On 25 Christian blogs.
2nd Place: One Year Of Marketing On 15 Christian blogs.
3rd Place: One Year Of Free Marketing On 10 Christian blogs.

How do I enter? Simple, become a active member of The Authors Page or sign in and follow us. Your membership automatically qualifies you in the drawing.

What is a active member? Become a blog author, place a post and share your book with our readers. It's free.

How do I become a follower? Simple, visit the blog, find the follow us section and sign in.

When will the drawing take place? Drawing and winners to be announced December 31st, 2010.

How will the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners be determined? That's simple, each member will receive a number assigned to them, all numbers will be placed in a hat and 3 numbers will be drawn for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

Rules: Let's keep it simple. Your book must be a Christian book, you must have a authors site, authors blog or authors page.

The Authors Page

The Wife Of The Fisherman

The Fisherman’s Wife

Synopsis: Johanna marries the man she has loved since they were both children, but it doesn’t turn out quit like she’d dreamed. Her husband Simon works hard at his fishing business on the Sea of Galilee. Johanna established her home, but struggles at giving Simon the children they both want. Her society shames her. They live in a world ruled by Rome and filled with rumors, rebellion, and messiahs. When a new rabbi arrives and calls Simon to follow him, she is left alone and must choose what to believe.

Rebekah Redeemed

Synopsis: Orphaned Rebekah becomes a servant in her uncle’s house in Bethany. Traded from relative to relative, she suffers neglect and abuse. When a Roman soldier assaults her, she flees in fear of her life and hides. Rebekah is discovered and Lazarus becomes her kinsman redeemer. Can Jesus redeem her soul? Can she forgive or break the chains of her past?

Shelter From the Storm

Synopsis: Brittany Camp flees to a short-term shelter for battered women as the worst snow storm in 50 years hits Seattle. She uses the judicial system to fight for her family’s safety but finds herself only one step ahead of her volatile husband who is bent on killing her. This story focuses on courage and hope for a better life rather than the actual violence. Brittany’s journey shows the development of her emotions and personality as she learns how to face the fear and navigate the courts. Can she survive and save her children? Will the authorities believe her? How can she win when her husband, Abel Camp, is so charismatic? What if she loses her children?

A work of fiction, it is based on several women’s experiences. Its purpose is not only to give the reader a suspenseful novel, but to help raise awareness about the plight of the thousands of women who are abused every day. It helps those who never experience the terror to understand the victims, and shows victims that there is a way out that does not include taking personal revenge on their abusers.

• Author Dianne G. Sagan
• The Fisherman's Wife
• Rebekah Redeemed
• Shelter from the Storm

A Mystery Thriller With The Elements Of Science Fiction

NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON – Conspiracy is the first novel in the Conspiracy series.

A mystery/thriller with elements of science fiction, it merges fiction with facts similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

Conspiracy reveals the shadowy underside of the illusion we call reality, revolving around the discovery of an ancient shadow organization of immense power.

Reviews: “wild and unexpected”; “a real page turner”; “an unforgettable experience”. Michael Cross had a troubled past. Forces set into motion long before his birth put him in conflict with the ancient, secret organization. Who began the Brotherhood? How long had they existed? A hundred years? A thousand? In that time, they had gained massive power, even infiltrating governments. How can such an organization be destroyed? This is the task that Michael Cross faces. In his conflict with the Brotherhood he discovers a secret so overwhelming, so unimaginable that it changes his life forever.

One thing is certain–nothing is what it seems. Conspiracy is available through Amazon.

When The Authors Pen Goes Dry

Well today its the authors keyboard. However, and just imagine the days of a author using a pen to write a manuscript or quite possibly one of those old time typewriters. Whoa! Just imagine writing a manuscript all in ink. Now that's a major project. I'll bet publishers just loved that.

As a author, sometime the ink in my pen seems to dry up and I find myself searching for content and story lines. Maybe you too. When I hit those days and sometimes weeks, I take the time to visit some other online sites / blogs and enjoy the reads of others.

So if your finding writers cramps cramping the flow of your pen. Take a break and take in some great reading. Pick a interesting subject and perform a online word search and simply take in all the great writings.

Authors Community Forum

Hey all you authors. Here's a brand new forum just for authors. Membership is free and easy. Come share your books, your experiences, your new book realeases, projects and information.

The Authors Club

The Reality About POD Publishing

If you've published a book with a POD publisher, half the work is done. Now you have to market your books and that is just as important as writing and publishing a book.

Maybe you've paid for the 25,000 online bookstore promotion package. OK, cool your in the data base, along with millions of other author's and books. Maybe you've paid for the national and international promotions package. That's great, now your again among the millions and millions of online books.

Have you Googled your books title, or maybe your name and found that your book is found on the search engines? That's great, however in all honesty does anyone other than you, your publisher and a few friends know the name of your book or who you are? Let's be honest, if your a first time author or a unknown author, who's going to search for your book by it's title or your name as the author?

As a author, you must market yourself and your book. That's where having a author media site becomes your starting point. You can showcase your book, a description of your book, your author description, some interesting things about yourself, share important links and share your contact information and where and how book lovers can order your book.

Provided that you can order your books from your publisher at a author's discount. Then you can sell them right from you're authors site and the profits by far exceed royalties.

Your author's media site becomes your online worldwide business card. It is where people can find you, read about your book, you as the author, about local book signings and whatever other interesting information and content you provide. Without your own personal website, or authors blog, your just another book and author among the millions and millions found online.

Some author's join every book club they can find, sign every guest book they can and join other author communities hoping that this will bring book sales. However, in the end, this usually proves to be a lot of work with very little results.

If your looking for some assistance in creating a author's site and marketing your site and book, contact us at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com , we can help you get online, jump started and get you the online exposure that you deserve.
Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing

Choosing The Right POD Publisher

There are many POD Publisher's out the that offer various publishing packages to author's. Some of them have some very attractive sites with endless pages to take in that offer lots of information. I have spend endless hours reading all the content on many POD Publisher's sites. That's a lot of reading and by the time you get to reading the publishing contract, things can get somewhat confusing.

Let me encourage you to take you're time when choosing a POD Publisher. Take the time to read "all" the content on the site, all the pages and do comparisons with other POD Publishers. There are some great POD Publisher's out there that offer some great publishing packages.

Do you're homework, find the right publisher for you, and get the best deal. Most importantly think things through from start to finish to make sure that the POD Publisher that you choose fits into you're overall vision and objective for you as a author and you're book.

Author Media Site & Book Marketing

Author Media Blog Marketing Challenge

Well you've authored you're book, most likely built a great author's media site or blog, however what about you're online marketing and presence? You might say, I paid for a extensive online marketing package with the publisher and my book is listed on countless online bookstores and sites. Congratulation, so are hundreds of thousands of other authors and books.

Maybe you've joined a few online social communities, signed a few guest books and have some online interaction out there that markets you're book and author media site. I could share some great book social clubs and communities with you that have again thousands of author's all trying to do the same thing, the sites are flooded with great books and the competition is fierce.

If you're looking for prime ad placement on a network that consist of over 150 separate sites, that will get you the marketing you deserve and market you're author media site, contact me. I can prepare a marketing challenge that will market you as a author, you're author media site and dramatically increase you're online presence.

Interested parties may contact me at: kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com

Building A Online Presence

Are you interested in building a online presence, market you're site or blog and attracting visitors? Do you have a product or service that you're trying to market? If so, contact us. Without cost to you, we will look at you're site or blog and make some suggestions that will assist you.

For information send you're site address and any questions that you may have to propheticwords1@gmail.com

Author Media Site & Book Promotions

Have you just published a new book? Congratulations. I would imagine your quite excited. I would also imagine that you're already pondering book signings, book events, book conferences and possibly online marketing. If so we can help in the online marketing area. Simply contact us at propheticwords1@gmail.com, send us a picture of your new book cover, share a little about you as the author and the book and we will get back to you with a great online marketing plan.

While you here, take some time and visit The Authors Club which is a brand new forum just for authors. You can also market your book and book site at the forum free of charge.Simply visit The Authors Club and again, it's a brand new forum just for authors.

The Authors Club Forum

Are you a published author, or possibly considering publishing your first book and want to interact with other authors? If so, here's a brand new forum just for authors and unpublished authors. Come join The Authors Club. The membership is free and the pages require your gifts and talents.

Finding Great Books At Great Prices

With the holiday season soon coming, what a great time to get some great books and catch up on some reading. There's nothing better than a warm fire on a cold winter evening, a cup of java and a great book to read.

I use many online book stores to search for great books at great prices. From Amazon to Barnes & Noble to simply performing searches online. Another great place to look for books is Deal Oz

Too Many Ideas In The Pot

Ideas are great, however too many ideas are like confusion springing forth. For example if you have four great projects in the frying pan, let em cook until there done. Don't throw 10 more projects in the same pan, you'll just burn everyone out. Focus is more than a saying. It must be applied, walked out and tried. Focus is not hocus pocus, it's focus.

It's better to stay the course and to stay focussed than to end up with a can of marbles that just make a lot of noise. After a while, no one will want to hear the marbles rattling around.

Leaving Those Yesterday Behind

Life is full of memories and we all have memmories that we cherrish. However, sometimes life also comes with memories that we would prefere not to ponder. Hopefully we all have learned lessons from those seasons and memories.

It's important to be about moving forward and leaving some of our yesterdays behind us. For we never want to become stuck in the quicksand of bad memories and the cards that life sometimes deals us. For today and tommarrow brings new challenges and victories to be won.

Quiting Out Of Fear Of Failure

There's nothing worse than starting something and falling short. Failure comes with fruit and the taste of that fruit is not sweet. It's one thing to fail and from time to time, we can all fail at things. However, to just give up and quit out of fear of failure, well that is a crime. A crime against all those whom believed in you.

Never just quit, especially after chasing after people that believe that rocks speak to them.

Driving, Make Up & The Eye Lash Stroking

OK, we have laws that state that you can't use your cell phone while driving. Thank God because there's nothing worse than being behind someone that's talking on a cell phone while driving. So what about driving and make up. Have you ever seen that one? Your driving along and the lady in front of you has her eyeball stuck in the rear view mirror as she's stroking her eye lashes. It's funny actually because most of the time the gal is so into her eyelash that she doesn't have the foggiest idea that she is even driving until you honk the horn and she tattoo's her whole face with the eye lash brush. Even funnier is how they adjust their face as their stroking the eyelash, as if no one else in on the freeway.

I just wonder how many accidents have been caused by those last minute insecurity adjustments.

Blog Blink Blink

OK, I thought the subject title was a little catchy. Blog Blink Blink. Actually thanks for stopping by. If your a dedicated blogger like I am you've probably got you own blog. I have a few here and there too. I'm looking for some dedicated blog authors to post original content at some of our blogs, like this one. Take a look around, get the feel and if your interested contact us. We'd love to have you aboard. Also, if you take the project on, feel free to add a link back to your blog at the end of each post you place. That way people will also find your blog.

Just contact us via email at kingdomexpansion1@gmail.com

Product & Website Marketing

Looking to advertise a product or website? We have prime ad space available. Simply contact us and let us know what you want to market or advertise and we will be happy to assist you. All products, services and/or web sites must be approved, so please send us the blog or web site address so that we can review it. We can even help with designing a banner that fits your needs.

Online Product Purchasing

There are some really great sites online that offer great products at great prices. You'd be surprised how much money you can save if you're willing to wait for the shipping time. Many of these sites even offer free shipping. Think about some of the things that you buy monthly and consider Googling them and checking out the potential online savings that you can find. Especially if you purchase in light bulk.

With a little homework, you can save money and still get great products, merchandise and service.