Indi Books Are a Good Thing

Just read a great article in Forbes, 8/15/12 online - Publishing Is Broken, We're Drowning In Indie Books - And That's A Good Thing by David Vinjamuri. He is so right. Highly paid, highly successful authors say, "A self-published author is not REALLY published."
I heard a very well known Christian author make that exact statement. The truth of the matter is, you could write a book equal to Gone With The Wind, but if a publisher is not looking for a book about the Civil War, it will not get published.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with believing in yourself. That is a reflection of wholeness, of solid mental health - not a sign of arrogance. Self-publishing is another way of expressing yourself. Have fun - create a book!

Cutting Edge Indi Book at $0.99

Many Indi authors are writing on the cutting edge and you haven't found them yet?! Have you ever wondered what goes on - day to day - for those serving in Afghanistan? Holding on to Sand - From the Interactive Journal of James Rapp has just been lowered to $0.99 on Amazon. Find out how James survived the loneliness and separation by daily F.B. posts with friends and family far and near.
The new price will appear on Amazon in a few hours.

Indi Authors/Indi Books

If you're stuck in the past, you might think that self-publishing means Vanity Press. And, Vanity Press publishers were for those authors who weren't "real" writers. That's not true any more!

Now, self-publishing is another avenue for new authors to get their wonderful stories out in a publishing environment that continues to shrink in size. We have all heard of Indi Film Produces and think they're great! Aren't they gifted and creative?! So are Indi Authors. If you want to be dazzled, try these wonderful eBooks from Amazon. Some have paperbacks as well. You will be amazed!

The Patent by Max Garwood and Joseph Chamberlain Henry
Cache a Predator by M. Weidenbenner
Open the Flood Gates - Welcoming Grief into our Season of Loss by Cheryl A. Cecil

That should give you a wide assortment of topics and writing styles. I know. They are among some of my writing friends. I'll tell you about other Indi Authors in future posts.

What do you think about the whole new independence of creative people, who aren't waiting for some large company to validate their creative writing? Jump in and meet some new authors. They are great!

Doris
Doris Gaines Rapp
Length of Days - The Age of Silence (second edition ready in eBook form and paperback soon)
Escape from the Belfry
Length of Days - Beyond the Valley (out later this year)

Exciting News

Exciting news! The second in my Length of Days, Christian/futuristic novels, Length of Days - Beyond the Valley, will be out later this year. Now! For only $0.99 catch up to Christiana before her next book comes out! The first in the trilogy, Length of Days -The Age of Silence (eBook), is now only $0.99 on Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D154606011&field-keywords=Length+of+Days+-+The+Age+of+Silence
You don't have an eReader. That's okay. Amazon has an app for that. You can read it right off your computer screen!
Thanks guys and have a great and blessed day!   Doris

I Wish You Sauerkraut and Spare Ribs

“Yuck!” That is the usual response from our kids to the sauerkraut we serve each New Years day. Oh, you don’t hear negative groans from my husband and me. We enjoy the new year’s lucky-food. The green cabbage,  altered and flavored with apples and brown sugar to make it uniquely festive, is paired with the forward-rooting and forward-thinking pig. Flavor and Wisdom are all smothered in the comfort food of mashed potatoes.

Today, don’t resolve to do something you will only beat yourself up over when you fail to follow through for all three-hundred sixty-five days. Instead, vow to live every day of the year, rather than choosing to die little deaths each time you waste an hour of precious life on sadness, anger, and self-recriminations.

For all of you who live to write and those of you who love to read, I wish you highly flavored, zesty books. Choose only the ones that propel you forward with uplifting and positive themes, which bring comfort and food for your soul. Have a blessed, full and Happy New Year!

Doris
Copyright 2014 Doris Gaines Rapp


Escape from the Belfry - www.archwaypublishing.com bookstore;   www.cokesbury.com; www.amazon.com;    www.barnesandnoble.com
Length of Days - The Age of Silence - www.dorisgainesrapp.com
Promote Yourself - an eBook available at www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com

NaNoWriMo is Finished!

Wahoo! I finished NaNoWriMo on November 20, 2013! The goal of the National Novel Writing Month is to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November. I finished on Wednesday and now have about 53,000+. We upload beginning Monday and through November 30. We, meaning all the other 905,000+ novelists from around the world.

Those who know me are not surprised that I'm a Rebel WriMo. Rather than working on one novel, I have completed one upper middle school level novel and am working on two others to complete my count.

Now I want to focus on the Holidays! Read my post on Sunday, November 24, to see what I am planning!

Doris
Copyright 2013 Doris Gaines Rapp

Kick the Words Down the Road

Some group of researchers or pollsters came up with a list of words or phrases people no longer wanted to hear in 2013. My problem is, they left off the most aggravating! Kick the can down the road. Have we all lost the ability to find new ways of saying things?

I really don't want to kick the can down the road any longer. If we don't come up with another term we will  only be kicking the can far into 2013. If we continue to kick the can, our  vocabulary will be severally limited. Oh gag!

Did you know that our vocabulary is the single best predictor of intelligence? So, for the benefit of those in Congress who have limited vocabulary and possibly limited intelli . . . let us move on.

I would like to propose several alternative phrases that can be used to mean the same thing:

1. punt the puke down the trough
2. drop kick the bowling ball down the lane
3. boot the bilge over the fence
4. jolt the junk to the next trunk
5. send Peter into Neverland
6. postpone the preposterous
7. send Grandma of a mystery trip
8. kick the can into infinity - (borrowing a few words from the trite expression for those who may become anxious over losing their security blanket of words)

You think of a few. Prove what we have all known: words are beautiful, if strung together with purposeful thread.

Doris
Copyright 2013 Doris Gaines Rapp