Thought Provoking

Reflections Of A Quiet Storm
Patricia A. Bridewell

As CEO and owner of a new nursing registry, Pauline Bridges is striving to reach the height of success, and then unexpectedly tragedy strikes. After a near fatal automobile accident, she climbs from the wreckage unscathed. Shortly thereafter, God begins to reveal her past. Chronicled in a series of stories, her life unfolds through a long journey; a pathway that unveils many secrets that not even her children had been told. Memories, dreams and flashbacks of her mother's abuse at the hands of her stepfather, a rape during adolescence, her brother's stormy lifestyle, and the agony of a marriage that was destroyed by her ex-husband, Naman's infidelity and substance abuse, all return to torment her. Read more about Reflections of a Quiet Storm, by Author Patricia Bridewell at her site

**From Author Christine Prescott**

Spiritual Nutrition

Healthy Eating for the Christian Heart focuses on the development of healthy spiritual habits by identifying five core spiritual nutrients and comparing them to their physical counterparts:

•Prayer is like water-vital for life and essential for survival.
•Bible study is like protein necessary for growth.
•Christian fellowship is like carbohydrates-gives us energy.
•Worship is like healthy fats-helps keep our hearts healthy.
•Thinking on good things is like vitamins-necessary for helping the othernutrients work effectively.

A must read book by Author, Christine Prescott of Your Spiritual Nutrition

From Pacific Northwest's award-winning author Kaylin McFarren comes a powerful novel about love, loss, and the power of forgiveness.

Successful yet emotionally stifled artist Kate Flaherty stands at the deathbed of her estranged father, conflicted by his morphine-induced confession exposing his part in her mother's death. While racing home, Kate's car mishap leads her to a soul-searching discussion with a lone diner employee, prompting Kate to confront the true reasons her marriage hangs in the balance. When her night takes an unexpected turn, however, she flees for her life, a life desperate for faith that can only be found through her ability to forgive.

KAYLIN'S CAUSE
Kaylin is proud to announce that 100% of her proceeds from the sale of FLAHERTY'S CROSSING will be designated to cancer research and you can make a difference!

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. Will Foley

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. Charles C. Finn

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Louis Bergson

Thinking to much can give you a headache. Thinking to little can put you to sleep. For others, both can be boring. But then again, most thoughts seem to remain silent, until speech is applied.

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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.

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Author Media Blogs & Book Marketing

Book Marketing For The Successful Author

There are lots of ways to marketing you're book and author media site. You can join other blogging communities, sign endless guest books, create great online friendships, join book clubs and do many other things to market you're book and author media site. However, keep in mind that thousands of other authors are all doing the same thing.

A question. Do you see successful businesses doing these things? Rarely, as they advertise and marketing their business, products and services through advertisers and marketing programs. In fact, this practice is what leads to success. Advertising and marketing.

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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.

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Thanks for stopping by. We hope that you enjoy you're time with us. You will note additional links to the side to various other sites of interest, plus some great blogging communities. There's no doubt that blogging is transforming into various new areas of interest and interaction. While you're here, leave us a comment and please share your site or blog with us and our readers. Happy blogging.

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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 River Deep Within The Author

You love writing and that's because deep within you is this creative DNA. You have this ability to write stories from start to the end, and see things unfolding while your writing. You have this desire to publish books, write great stories and become a author. Deep inside of you is a river and that river must flow or you feel as if your a stagnant pound.

Let that creative river flow. You're only an idea away from success.

There are some really great sites out there filled with valuable information for 1st time authors considering doing book signings. After all you just don't show up with a few books in hand and go for it. It's important to show up prepared and to also put on a great book signing event so that the bookstore will be pleased. Professionalism is very important, while also providing the bookstores customers with a exciting and fun experience.

Here is a site with a great article on preparing for A Book Signing Event and here's another site that offers some great information 40 Ways To Make Your Next Book Signing A Event

Thoughts that run wild can wear you out, while a mind that sleeps accomplishes nothing. The key is to find balance without allowing your thoughts to control you. This applies to both when your wake and when your sleeping. Try and stay away from roller coaster brain tracks and stay on level ground.

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As a family we attend church each weekend on Saturday nights and on Sundays. Our daughter whom is 5 years of old loves church. She loves hanging out with all the other kids, singing songs, doing arts and crafts and just playing and having fun. Over the last five years she has spent basically every weekend in church and looks so forward to each weekend.

As a parent I can share that this has been a very positive influence on her life. I'm so happy that we as a family attend church services every week because I can see the fruit of that in my daughters life. If your a parent who hasn't attended church, consider attending. Your entire family will be blessed. Especially your children.

As children we dream some huge dreams, That's OK. Yet somewhere along the line we are suppose to grow out of cartoon land. Some do, and some don't. Occationally it's good to watch a good old cartoon, read a great fantasy or watch some strange movies. Yet and again, reality calls.

Have you ever pondered your dreams, the creativity and how your mind creates places, people, and things you've never seen or done before?

Reality Check!

Here's a site that offers Free Christian Blog Banners. It's a new blog and service, however it's free and there's no messy registration process. You simply look through the banners, pick what you want, save it or copy and paste it. It's that simple. Check out Free Christian Blog Banners and share them with your blogging friends.

Remember back when oil was $180.00 a barrel. It's down to what $50.00 a barrel these days. So where are the savings at the pump? Do you see them? I sure don't. Oil drops over $130.00 a barrel and the pump price drops .50 to .75 cents a gallon. Do you see something here?

On another topic, the Iraq war. How much money has the American Citizen paid for that war? and even greater, when do we get paid back for liberating the country? Yes another topic, here, The Bail Out situation. So the American Citizen bails out all these multi billion dollar corporations? That makes us stock holders. Did you get your stock certificate? I didn't either and I also didn't get a invitation to those $300,000.00 plus parties they threw.

Meanwhile millions and millions are without jobs, have lost their homes or soon will. Great mathematics. Geeze, the blogging world operates more efficiently.

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In today's world saving money is a must. Especially when it comes to the money we spend. Looking for the right products at the right price can make all the difference in the world. Savings add up and if we can save on many of our purchases, those savings can be applied to other things. There are tons of great products that can be purchased online through various reputable companies and websites. All you have to do is find those websites and that's easy in today's online world. Simply Google them and you will find lots of information and great sites.

Remember, a dollar saved, is a dollar earned. Just imagine saving $2.00 per day. That's over $700.00 per year. Now think bigger.

How many megs can one's brain hold before the memory chips clog up. Occasionally, we must clear the clutter out and come down from the high altitudes of our own thoughts and find reality. Otherwise, the families always running for cover, the dogs batting it's head against the walls and we lose track of what we were trying to accomplish.

Blink!

Do you sometimes feel as if you have bad luck? Cars breaking down, automobile accidents, headaches, illnesses, and family problems? Maybe your days and life are ruled by frustrations, anxiety, fears, thoughts gone wild, or maybe true happiness just seems to escape you.

There is a scripture in the Bible that basically says "we reap what we sow".

Don't train wreck others, don't add frustration to the lives of others, don't sow seeds of destruction into other families, don't bring frustrations upon others, or create anxiety in their life, or fear and it's quite possible, these things will leave you. We do, we reap what we sow.

Sow love, honesty, truth, integrity, peace, compassion, mercy and good things into the lives of others and be blessed.

If you want to find happiness and success in life, start with keeping you're promises. Broken promises are like wounds cast upon others that bring infections back upon you.

Have you ever encountered a situation when someone owed you money that they promised to give to you, yet you never received it. Or maybe someone promised to take care of another matter, yet that too never came to pass. Next think you know, the person does everything they can to avoid you. That's because they don't want to be held accountable. They are hoping it will just go away.

What they don't realize is that they are accountable and their actions or shall we say non actions will catch up with them and many times they will be multiplied back upon them in other areas of their life. You see, we all reap what we sow and if we sow dishonesty and broken promises, we will reap the fruit of such things.

Have you ever noticed how sometimes people's true colors shine through and the colors are the complete opposite of what they wanted you and others to think about them? Only to realize that you have been handed a continuous flow of deception and lies? It amazes me how some people use and abuse others basically to make up for their own miserable worthless lives. Many times you can even see the fruits of such people in their children do to the dysfunctional family and dysfunctional family lifestyle. It's sad because their lives are filled with endless scares, headaches, and metal illnesses and the affects upon the children lead to emotional problems, anger management problems, guilt, shame, embarrassments, and they become disconnected from reality.

Know this, they do not go un noticed and while they think they have pulled the wool over the eye's of many, in time, they will be exposed. You see, those who cast evil and wickedness upon others in the end become ensnared in their own ways. Life becomes endlessly painful for them, they continue to encounter emotional, mental and even health problems that soon overtake them. It's really sad to see a life and the lives of others waste away and decay like that. It's a long, slow and very painful death, yet death is withheld from them.

There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

There are big fish and small fish in the oceans of life. Many times we set out for the big catches and end up with sardines rather than tuna. Yet even as a child we must learn how to catch the minnows before we attempt to catch the big ones. We learn from the process of starting with small things when we are small. Sometimes we see ourselves as giants with great capabilities. Sometimes we see ourselves as that which we are not or shall I say have not arrived at or accomplished yet. Now don't get me wrong, that's not to say that we all can't find and become successful. However it is to say that we must work at success, earn success, cultivate success and become successful before we lay claim to it. Oh, and by the way, quitting is not in the formula.

Success is sometimes like threading a needle. It requires pin point accuracy.

It is good to dream about success, however it is better to find success. One way to find success is to open you're eye's and get your focus off yourself. Another way to find success is to invest in the lives of others without using them and abusing them along the way. You see, when you do what is good and right, success will find you.

I encountered a dream last January. There was this man and he appeared to be like a professor. At least he thought he was. He had all his books and papers in front of him on a table. He was speaking as if to a large crowd. In front of the man were rows and rows of chairs. The chairs were all empty, yet the man continued with his speech as if all the chairs had people sitting in them. The man was speaking and teaching to empty chairs. It was only a dream.

What colors does your character and personality give off? Are you a beautiful rainbow or a headache? Are your colors full or transparent? Do people like you or put up with you? Do people enjoy you or walk away wondering if you're all there. Do you see yourself as beautiful colors while others see you as colorless?

Do you know him? He's full of idea's. He's a master at sharing things. He has volumes of great ideas, endless projects on the board, and he's constantly thinking up new ones. The wheels of his mind are full of great accomplishments. The racing thoughts fuel his very existence and he sounds off at every listening ear the very thoughts that consume him. Like a speeding racing thought, the next thoughts come into play, and the world is his play ground.

Success escapes him as fear of failure takes rule over him. For it's easier to create another new idea than it is to complete the ones already on the table. Like a frog leaping from leap to leap, as the battlefield of the mind unfolds.

He's an imaginary idealist just waiting for the next chapter of his mind to unfold ...

Have you ever noticed how soft words, words of encouragement and words of hope can bring healing to peoples situations and circumstances. Yet words of condemnation, bitterness and hatred bring destruction, emotional heartaches and rotten fruit forth.

Seeds of love and compassion, words of healing.
Speak them.

It is better to be about building ones future than sitting silent waiting for your future to fall into your lap. Where did everyone go?

It's a way of life ...

Thank you, In His Glorious Name Ministries Online

Blessings, in Christ
In His Glorious Name Ministries Online

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Authoring a book can be quite a challenging undertaking. Some people spend 10, 20 & 30 years trying to get a publishing deal. The business is quite competitive and publishing deals don't come easy to a first time author or un known author as they are called.

To the left are three books that were published within 8 months. The author provided un edited story lines which were edited. For example the children's book manuscript only made for 48 book pages, however the end result was a 116 page book with editing and additional authoring.

The team performed all the editing, manuscript layout, ghost writing, cover designs, submission processes and produced three books with the help of a print on demand publisher. All the publisher did was print what was prepared, laid out and submitted in print ready form. The author played no further role past his original storyline and manuscript.

Having a team of people with the knowledge and understanding of how to prepare and submit a book in print ready form according to the publishers guidelines and submission process makes a very intense situation much easier. From editing, to the manuscript layout & design, designing and creating the front and rear cover, that is where all the hard work comes in. Creating a print ready template for the entire book from cover to cover that the publisher can take to print is where the difficult part comes in.

If you are in the process of preparing a manuscript for layout print ready to include the cover design and cover template contact Elijah Rain Publishing. They have the experience and knowledge to get the project rolling and completed. They also can recommend a publisher that can get your book printed and in circulation at very reasonable prices. That will leave you time to focuss on marketing your book, setting up book events and marketing yourself as a author which is a must if you want to sell your books.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

When I was a kid, my mother use to say "remember son, what goes around comes around". At the time, I didn't realize that she was expanding on a scripture that says " we reap what we sow". Therefore, sow good things, that you may receive good things.

How many years of dust collecting?

Soon we will be celebrating spring. I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to the season to come. The warmth, sounds and wonderful colors of spring.

May your spring be filled with joy.

ERP