I realized today that one can respond, or add comments to a book review on Amazon.com
As an author, I wanted to thank someone in Australia for a wonderful review of "Walk Forward," but
I could not find his email address. I read the reviewer was from Australia.
I clicked on his name in his review of my book, which lead me to more book reviews.
I finally saw the comments area and decided to try to thank the reviewer for his review and add something which I thought might be of interest to potential readers of "Walk Forward" and those who have read the book.
It was most simple to post the comments and I wonder if my comments might be picked up by Google in a few days as each book review is eventually included in Google?
Herein is the link to Walk Forward, click on the more reviews area to see all reviews and where one can add additional comments, http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC
Or go directly to the comments area where I replied to the most current book review of "Walk Forward" at http://www.amazon.com/review/R25SLXY2AMDY2F/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B009H6Y7AC&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful
Saturday, December 8, 2012
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Walk Forward is #1
Walk Forward is #1 today and has been #1 in its category for a few days. Free downloads last Thursday and Friday moved the book to #1 and it has remained at #1 over the weekend.
Creating a paperback version has not significantly added readers when considering the book has been downloaded by more than 700 persons during its short life of almost two months as of this November 25, 2012, having been first published in ebook format on September 25, 2012.
The paperback version is available on two platforms, Amazon.com and CreateSpace a separate, but wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.
Although CreateSpace is owned by Amazon, the web interfaces for an author or reader differ from that of Amazon.com.
It may be of interest to information professionals and readers, that book titles are not searchable in CreateSpace as they are on Amazon.com. If I find a way to search a title on CreateSpace, as one would have to if one did not have the CreateSpace identification number for a book, I will post herein.
CreateSpace has some nice features including the option of setting up discount codes for a book. Up to 3 discount codes may be set up for a book, but not being searchable and not being able to search for a discount code, makes the feature useless to anyone, but authors of the book who discount copies to family and friends. An author has to give a potential reader the discount code and the URL (address) of the book on the CreateSpace website.
It was actually easier to create a paperback copy of the book on CreateSpace than it was to create the ebook on Amazon Kindle Select, because CreateSpace requires a PDF of the book (which Open Office is great in creating)!
Creating a paperback version has not significantly added readers when considering the book has been downloaded by more than 700 persons during its short life of almost two months as of this November 25, 2012, having been first published in ebook format on September 25, 2012.
The paperback version is available on two platforms, Amazon.com and CreateSpace a separate, but wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.
Although CreateSpace is owned by Amazon, the web interfaces for an author or reader differ from that of Amazon.com.
It may be of interest to information professionals and readers, that book titles are not searchable in CreateSpace as they are on Amazon.com. If I find a way to search a title on CreateSpace, as one would have to if one did not have the CreateSpace identification number for a book, I will post herein.
CreateSpace has some nice features including the option of setting up discount codes for a book. Up to 3 discount codes may be set up for a book, but not being searchable and not being able to search for a discount code, makes the feature useless to anyone, but authors of the book who discount copies to family and friends. An author has to give a potential reader the discount code and the URL (address) of the book on the CreateSpace website.
It was actually easier to create a paperback copy of the book on CreateSpace than it was to create the ebook on Amazon Kindle Select, because CreateSpace requires a PDF of the book (which Open Office is great in creating)!
Friday, November 16, 2012
WALK FORWARD IS FREE TODAY
Walk Forward is FREE today, Friday, November 16, 2012 at
http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC
Please share the link with everyone!
Friday, November 9, 2012
Walk Forward, Press Release
Herein in my Press Release about Walk Forward.
When the Press Release was posted, the URL for the YouTube video on the book, embedded into the Release.
I had read that placing the URL for the YouTube information at the end of a paragraph or by itself, in a paragraph, would enable the embedding process, the linking of the Press Release to the URL of the YouTube information within the actual text of the Press Release.
Here in is the Press Release of today on my book, Walk Forward. A link to the Release where one can see the embedded, live link to YouTube is included at the end of this post.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Rosa Raskin
Phone: 440.461.4125
New Book, WALK FORWARD, Uncovers Holocaust-Related Hidden Secrets
On the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, German born Rosa Raskin describes her 50 year search for her lost sister.
Cleveland, Ohio – November 9, 2012 – Fulfilling the promise made to her father, Rosa Raskin tells the story of her immigrant family and her father’s hope to find his lost child. The purpose of the book, WALK FORWARD, is to continue to uncover information about her older sister, Eugenia Chimowicz, a blond-haired, nine-year-old girl last documented alive in concentration camp Stutthof on September 3, 1944.
Using letters from a newly-found cousin verifying the stories young Rosie heard as a child, she details the history of the family, including events before, during, and after the Holocaust. Jewish family members are caught in a hellish spider's web as the "last 500." As pawns in the chess game between Hitler's assistants, they survive the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Stutthof, the last place where two young mothers and their four children were seen alive. Born in Germany after the Holocaust, Rosie describes the courage of her mother, Louise, who enabled the family to continue forward in the complicated journey to the United States as displaced persons.
WALK FORWARD is available as an ebook ($0.99) and paperback ($8.99) on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC and at Createspace.com ($8.99) at http://www.CreateSpace.com/4015278.
Contact: Rosa Raskin
Phone: 440.461.4125
New Book, WALK FORWARD, Uncovers Holocaust-Related Hidden Secrets
On the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, German born Rosa Raskin describes her 50 year search for her lost sister.
Cleveland, Ohio – November 9, 2012 – Fulfilling the promise made to her father, Rosa Raskin tells the story of her immigrant family and her father’s hope to find his lost child. The purpose of the book, WALK FORWARD, is to continue to uncover information about her older sister, Eugenia Chimowicz, a blond-haired, nine-year-old girl last documented alive in concentration camp Stutthof on September 3, 1944.
Using letters from a newly-found cousin verifying the stories young Rosie heard as a child, she details the history of the family, including events before, during, and after the Holocaust. Jewish family members are caught in a hellish spider's web as the "last 500." As pawns in the chess game between Hitler's assistants, they survive the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Stutthof, the last place where two young mothers and their four children were seen alive. Born in Germany after the Holocaust, Rosie describes the courage of her mother, Louise, who enabled the family to continue forward in the complicated journey to the United States as displaced persons.
WALK FORWARD is available as an ebook ($0.99) and paperback ($8.99) on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC and at Createspace.com ($8.99) at http://www.CreateSpace.com/4015278.
Upcoming free days for the ebook include November 15-16 and December 13-14, 2012, on Amazon.com.
The book’s video trailer is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M.
About the Author
Rosa Shine Raskin (nee Chimowicz) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1951. She has a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Microbiology, from The Ohio State University. She also holds an M.L.S. from Kent State University. She is currently a freelance writer, researcher, and consultant, after having worked in hospitals, government, and the Fortune 100 for over 30 years. She founded Rosa S. Raskin & Associates, LLC, in 2007, and has three blogs on the web including "Precious Cooking," "Information Specialist Secrets," and "Most Precious Memories." She has published more than a dozen articles on paint and coatings in trade journals, having been taught by her father, at the age of eight, to paint the bricks on houses.
For more information on WALK FORWARD please check the book’s website at http://www.raskinfo.com/walkforward.html, which includes photographs.
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The book’s video trailer is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M.
About the Author
Rosa Shine Raskin (nee Chimowicz) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1951. She has a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Microbiology, from The Ohio State University. She also holds an M.L.S. from Kent State University. She is currently a freelance writer, researcher, and consultant, after having worked in hospitals, government, and the Fortune 100 for over 30 years. She founded Rosa S. Raskin & Associates, LLC, in 2007, and has three blogs on the web including "Precious Cooking," "Information Specialist Secrets," and "Most Precious Memories." She has published more than a dozen articles on paint and coatings in trade journals, having been taught by her father, at the age of eight, to paint the bricks on houses.
For more information on WALK FORWARD please check the book’s website at http://www.raskinfo.com/walkforward.html, which includes photographs.
Shortened link to the entire Press Release on the PRlog.org web site is: http://www.prlog.org/12019630.html
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Secrets to Creating a Press Release
It is time for me to write and publish a press release about my new book, WALK FORWARD. I have timed the release with a significant event, the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, also called the Night of Broken Glass, as the Temples and glass store fronts of Jewish shops were shattered on November 9-10, 1938. The writing was on the wall for the Jews in Europe.
I just came across an important item in regard to publishing a release. Since I have a book trailer in YouTube, the trailer can be embedded in the release, if and only if, the URL (address) for the trailer is in the last sentence of a paragraph or stands along in a paragraph. The URL must also be in the first 500 characters if there is no picture of the book included or the first 1000 characters if a picture of the book is included.
I guess I must move my URL for the book trailer from the last line in my release to higher up in the text
The text in my release is exactly one page in Microsoft Word, with the three hash marks ### centered on the very last line of the Press Release.
Whether the release should be faxed to newpapers as in years gone by, or only emailed, is my remaining question. There are many online free press release sites to which I can email the release, but wonder what their preferred format might be?
I will make an HTML version of my release for my own website and report back when I figure out the preferred formats on other sites.
I just came across an important item in regard to publishing a release. Since I have a book trailer in YouTube, the trailer can be embedded in the release, if and only if, the URL (address) for the trailer is in the last sentence of a paragraph or stands along in a paragraph. The URL must also be in the first 500 characters if there is no picture of the book included or the first 1000 characters if a picture of the book is included.
I guess I must move my URL for the book trailer from the last line in my release to higher up in the text
The text in my release is exactly one page in Microsoft Word, with the three hash marks ### centered on the very last line of the Press Release.
Whether the release should be faxed to newpapers as in years gone by, or only emailed, is my remaining question. There are many online free press release sites to which I can email the release, but wonder what their preferred format might be?
I will make an HTML version of my release for my own website and report back when I figure out the preferred formats on other sites.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Book Marketing Secrets
The first rule for book marketing is to get reviews. It sounds easy, but it is hard to have someone read a book and "volunteer" to write a review. It would seem to me that anyone who might receive a gifted book from a new author, might think of submitting a review, but this is not necessarily the case. Some family think that since family and friends are often the first to review a book, that they should wait. Unfortunately, at least five reviews are required to post on some popular ebook sites. If one does not have at least five reviews, the new title may not be included in certain important book lists.
I finally have six reviews and forwarded my book, Walk Forward, to addicted to ebooks at http://addictedtoebooks.com/. I received my 5th and 6th reviews yesterday, and am most grateful to anyone that wrote a review so that I might post the book to such lists. Walk Forward is #2 on today's list at http://addictedtoebooks.com/.
Since my book is about my search for a lost sister, one would think that family might jump at the chance to participate in finding our half-sister, lost to our father when she was only nine years old. I am most sorry to report that this is not necessarily the case. One of the six reviews for Walk Forward is from a family member!
I wrote a press release for the book this morning and hope to post it on Friday.
Per book marketing to date, I have learned that their are some great book lists on the internet for free, low cost and books on any subject one might have an interest in. Books in the Kindle Select program have five free days in each 90 day enrollment period. In the case of my book which has about 100 purchases, the book was downloaded almost three times that amount on it's first free promotion day. Since the first free promotion day on 10/11/12, the book is now also in paperback format on Amazon and on CreateSpace.
Links to the ebook and paperback formats on Amazon are at http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC. The CreateSpace link is at https://www.CreateSpace.com/4025278M, and the book's trailer is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M.
I finally have six reviews and forwarded my book, Walk Forward, to addicted to ebooks at http://addictedtoebooks.com/. I received my 5th and 6th reviews yesterday, and am most grateful to anyone that wrote a review so that I might post the book to such lists. Walk Forward is #2 on today's list at http://addictedtoebooks.com/.
Since my book is about my search for a lost sister, one would think that family might jump at the chance to participate in finding our half-sister, lost to our father when she was only nine years old. I am most sorry to report that this is not necessarily the case. One of the six reviews for Walk Forward is from a family member!
I wrote a press release for the book this morning and hope to post it on Friday.
Per book marketing to date, I have learned that their are some great book lists on the internet for free, low cost and books on any subject one might have an interest in. Books in the Kindle Select program have five free days in each 90 day enrollment period. In the case of my book which has about 100 purchases, the book was downloaded almost three times that amount on it's first free promotion day. Since the first free promotion day on 10/11/12, the book is now also in paperback format on Amazon and on CreateSpace.
Links to the ebook and paperback formats on Amazon are at http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC. The CreateSpace link is at https://www.CreateSpace.com/4025278M, and the book's trailer is on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Walk Forward in Paperback
Walk Forward is now in paperback on Amazon.com. The Kindle ebook and paperback are linked and appear on the same screen, but one might have to hunt for mention of the paperback copy on the original screen shot of the ebook at http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC.
One can search Amazon.com, however, for any book format. For example, if one types "Walk Forward Paperback" into Amazon's search box, all books with each of the words will be included in the result. Today the search resulted in three books, my book Walk Forward was listed first, followed by two additional publications which have the three words included on their Amazon page.
If you have not yet seen the YouTube entry on the book, you might want to see it and discuss herein at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M
One can search Amazon.com, however, for any book format. For example, if one types "Walk Forward Paperback" into Amazon's search box, all books with each of the words will be included in the result. Today the search resulted in three books, my book Walk Forward was listed first, followed by two additional publications which have the three words included on their Amazon page.
If you have not yet seen the YouTube entry on the book, you might want to see it and discuss herein at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Walk Forward in Paperback
As of tonight, Wednesday, October 24, 2012, "Walk Forward" is available in paperback at CreateSpace at
https://www.CreateSpace.com/4025278
Walk Forward should also be available in paperback on Amazon.com, hopefully by this Sunday. Walk Forward has been on Amazon.com since September 26, 2012 as an ebook!
Friday, October 19, 2012
No Sales other than the U.S. or U.K., why?
I have been trying to figure out why not a single copy of Walk Forward had been purchased in Germany, although hundreds of copies have been downloaded in the U.S. and the U.K. in the book's first three weeks of life!
I should have read about the state-of-the-art in regard to ebooks in Europe, before I tried to gift several copies to family and friends in Europe, who either did not know how to read a Kindle book nor understand that the book could be read in the Amazon Cloud (assuming it works in Europe).
Germany is much behind in reading ebooks, but I want to make sure that Walk Forward is ready and waiting in Germany when ebooks take off! Ebook readers have increased much in the last year.
The cover of Walk Forward is a picture of my mother taken in 1938, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
I read today that I should include the international Amazon nodes on the website for my book and have done so. I added Amazon Germany, U.K., France, Spain, and Italy to the books website at:
http://www.raskinfo.com/walkforward.html
The reviews of my book, uploaded in the U.S., show up on each of the international Amazon outlets, however, things like "like" the page, review, or tagged terms must be input in each country.
I could select German tags for Walk Forward on Amazon.de, Germany, but can not do the same for the other countries as I do not know the language!
In order to post my book on various websites, I need a 5th review and hope someone reviews and uploads a review of my book to the books page on Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC
I should have read about the state-of-the-art in regard to ebooks in Europe, before I tried to gift several copies to family and friends in Europe, who either did not know how to read a Kindle book nor understand that the book could be read in the Amazon Cloud (assuming it works in Europe).
Germany is much behind in reading ebooks, but I want to make sure that Walk Forward is ready and waiting in Germany when ebooks take off! Ebook readers have increased much in the last year.
The cover of Walk Forward is a picture of my mother taken in 1938, in Karlsruhe, Germany.
I read today that I should include the international Amazon nodes on the website for my book and have done so. I added Amazon Germany, U.K., France, Spain, and Italy to the books website at:
http://www.raskinfo.com/walkforward.html
The reviews of my book, uploaded in the U.S., show up on each of the international Amazon outlets, however, things like "like" the page, review, or tagged terms must be input in each country.
I could select German tags for Walk Forward on Amazon.de, Germany, but can not do the same for the other countries as I do not know the language!
In order to post my book on various websites, I need a 5th review and hope someone reviews and uploads a review of my book to the books page on Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC
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