Thursday, October 3, 2013

Walk Forward Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Rosa Raskin
Phone: 440.461.4125

“WALK FORWARD,” A Different Schindler's List Revealed

Per recent participation in the Shoah DNA project (http://www.dnashoah.org/), which seeks to reunite family members, German born Rosa Raskin describes her 50+ year search for her lost sister.


Cleveland, Ohio – October 3, 2013 – Revealing a different Schindler's list and 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 her Uncle Alfred, Head of Metals #1 in the Lodz Ghetto, who selected each member family of the “last 500,” and those of her father 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 pawns in the chess game between Hitler's assistants, the group designated as metal workers, 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 an ebook ($2.99) 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.

A silent tribute, “We WALK FORWARD, but will never forget,” is presented in the book's video trailer 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 cited on the covers of leading international paint and coatings trade journals, APCJ and PPCJ, 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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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

A Different Schindler's List Revealed

"Walk Forward," a different "Schindler's List" story revealed, see trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7uQap6p2M                                          

                                         

                                                             We Walk Forward, but
                                                               will never forget!
                                                

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Next Step

When databases, contacts, and in-person research have been exhausted, publishing a book opens up a new pathway.

The Kindle version of "Walk Forward," has been reduced on all Amazon.com international nodes for the remaining days in August and the month of September 2013, with the hope of quickly finding any new information on a sister lost in the Holocaust! Time may be running out per the aging survivor population.

http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC


Stay tuned for the next step,  submitting a mouth swap for DNA testing!

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Free Promotion Days

I just finished a three day, free promotion period for "Walk Forward" on Amazon Kindle.
Several hundred copies of the book were downloaded worldwide during the free promotion period.

It is interesting to note that sales of a book seem to increase as soon as one advertises free days, but the sales do not seem to necessarily continue after the promotion ends.

Although the UK is active in downloading the ebook, very few downloads have taken place in Germany. Germany does not yet appear to be a fan of ebooks, but will most probably catch up sometime in the near future. When Germans are ready to read ebooks in mass, hopefully, they will download Walk Forward. 

In the first six months, many more ebooks have been downloaded that paperback copies sold. 

The link to Walk Forward on Amazon.com in the U.S. is http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Forward-ebook/dp/B009H6Y7AC.


Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Book Reviews, the other side

Not all book reviews are good, in fact some are on the borderline of hurtful, especially is the reviewer had not truly read the book and has an "agenda" in writing a review.

However, it is fascinating that negative and controversial reviews seem to sell books or get them distributed in a wider range!

As of today, January 1, 2013, Walk Forward continues to hold the following:

"Eugenia, if by some reason you are alive and find this book, please contact me, your half-sister Rosie!"

#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Children's Nonfiction > History > Holocaust
#1 in Books > Children's Books > History > Holocaust 

What is the secret to being #1 in two categories? Good question and I hope to find the answers soon!

Happy New Year 2013 to everyone, especially those that frequent this blog!

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Posting Responses to Book Reviews

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

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)!

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

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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Shortened link to the entire Press Release on the PRlog.org web site is: http://www.prlog.org/12019630.html