IS YOUR CHOCOLATE SAFE? How about Your Toys?

Barcodes aren't just for books you know.

Something we all need to know - a note in Cynthia Sterling's excellent newsletter today.

The whole world is scared of Chinese made goods. Let me tell you how you can differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China...the first 3 digits of barcode690, 691, and 692 are MADE IN CHINA. - 471 is Made in Taiwan .

This is our right to know, but the government and related departments never educate the public, therefore we have to RESCUE ourselves.
Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products "made in china", so they don't show in which country it is made.
However, you may now refer to the barcode, remember if the first 3 digits is 690-692 then it is made in China .
00 ~ 09 USA & CANADA
30 ~ 37 FRANCE
40 ~ 44 GERMANY
49 - JAPAN
50 - UK

GREAT NEWS!!

The Capricorn Goat has a publication offer from Publish America where I published Tung Umolomo. If you haven't checked out that South African Adventure story yet - get thee over to my website and check it out -- I'm giving away a free copy of it. Contest news will be on the website.

As for me, January Flannel - she is celebrating the thrill of being the star of Capricorn Goat and finally getting her story to the page and the public. Keep an eye out here for her story and the publishing game how it goes.

Right now I'm doing final edits and polish to send the best manuscript I can send to Publish America for edits and publication.
January

January has a contest for you--

If you're an author, if you have an ebook - here is a great contest for you to enter.
Good Luck
January

Time Sensitive material:

Of interest to authors who are published electronically. Please distribute to your membership

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EPPIE Contest in Full Swing to Highlight Excellence in ePublishing

Worldwide–September 16, 2008—EPIC, the Electronically Published Internet Connection, proudly announces the annual EPPIE contest. This is the premier contest in the book industry that celebrates the outstanding achievements of electronic books by authors and publishers. The EPPIE Awards have been given annually since the first EPIC conference to recognize outstanding achievement in ePublishing. The contest deadline for entries is October 4, 2008 at Midnight CST.

Categories are judged by volunteers, the largest percentage of which are members of EPIC, an organization consisting of electronically published authors and industry professionals. Guest judges, all of whom are either published authors or publishing professionals, are used only as deemed necessary by the EPPIE Chair/Committee.

The First Round Judging delivers our EPPIE Finalists, whose works are forwarded to a second panel of judges before the winners of our thirty categories are selected. Winners from each judged category are announced at the EPIC conference's gala award ceremony, taking place at the annual EPICon Convention, taking place March 5-8, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

EPIC is also the proud sponsor of the QUASAR/ARIANA Awards for excellence in graphic cover art for eBooks.

For contest guidelines, please visit http://www.epicauthors.com/eppierules2009.html

Electronically Published Internet Connection
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A is for Attitude

A is for Attitude

Sometimes survival is a matter of attitude. I read something once that said basically, your altitude is determined by your attitude. That can mean a lot of different things.

If you think you can do a thing, for instance, it may very well surprise you to find out that you actually can accomplish that which you wish to do. Henry Ford is often quoted as saying that with the added —if you think you can’t, you’re right.

Once our choices are clear to the universe it seems things start moving in our favor. I would never have imagined I would ever be a single parent raising a daughter—that thought never entered my mind in my teen years or even later when I met Mr. Right.

But here I am with Taylor, an already nearly grown woman herself. I could have given her up for adoption when I found myself alone and pregnant. I loved her father, I was old enough to raise her responsibly and even if I hadn’t been. I loved this precious little life the minute I knew, and when I held her the first time—I never doubted my choice one iota.

My attitude toward life changed right then and there. I just knew, whatever life demanded of me—I could do.

Life is like that, faith in yourself and the right attitude are more then enough to see you through. Trust yourself.

Love

January

It's Here, it's published, it's ready to buy

January's author Billie A Williams has a new book released today - join in the celebration get your copy early and read what all the excitement is about.

The Ghost Music of Vaudeville

by Billie A Williams

ISBN 978-1-59705-310-5 (electronic)

978-1-59705-728-8 (print)

April 1, 2008

CONTACT: Billie A Williams

P O Box 134

Amberg, WI 54102

billie@billiewilliams.com

Wings ePress, Inc

www.wings-press.com

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

Stepping center stage to entertain you ….

None other then –

In this day and age of razing landmarks to make way for High Rise Apartments or concrete parking ramps there is little left of the old world. When it comes to entertainment, the environment changes even faster. The Ghost Music of Vaudeville is about a troupe of actors, actresses and musicians who were part of the vaudeville stage at one time. The theatre sits in disrepair, and a greedy land developer is out for revenge. Part of that revenge is to demolish every Keith Theatre in the United States.

Charlie Wolfe, reporter for the Ironwood Daily Globe, Tommy Forester, teenager and champion for the down trodden, and Piano Man, (aka Rudy Poncigrau) who used to play for the vaudeville acts, the black and white movies, and more all have other ideas.

Will one last performance bring out enough support to stop the bulldozers before Damien Callistrari and his henchmen extract the revenge he seeks? Roberto Callistrari is going against his father’s wishes when he begins to fall for Charlie Wolfe –with his ties to Hollywood and Broadway he entices Bette Midler to bring her creativity and personality to help bring the Keith Theatre back from the edge. Together will they be enough to save this Keith Theatre and those lives so intrinsically entwined with the Ghost Music of Vaudeville that still haunts the walls and stage of this Keith Theatre in Ironwood, Michigan.

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I'm Not there yet? But I'm Hoping

Jordan Dane is a writer friend of mine--She has an amazing
 shot at a once in a life time career.Come along with us
and lets see how she does it.

We’ve certainly had some great comments during each stop of the
 Virtual Book Tour for Jordan Dane.

Why was she chosen to be our first vic … I mean featured author?
Because she has a very professional website.  
Because she has a very professional blog.  
Because she has a presence on MySpace and other networking
 sites around the ‘Net.
Because she attends every writer’s conference she can
possibly get to to network with successful writers,
 editors, agents.
Because she promotes herself as a professional writer.

She isn’t resting on her laurels after having sold SIX books
to Avon HarperCollins before the first one hit print.

If you’re like me and wannabe like Jordan, take a look
at how you’re promoting yourself. Does your website look
like a novice put it together  Do you remember to blog
more than once a month  Do you network with other writers?

Or do you do like too many very good should-be-published
 writers… and hunker down in the corner pretending that
you’ve done everything you can and the publishing world and all
its agents are against you?

Think about that as you visit the next stops on
The Writer’s Chatroom’ “Show—Not Tell” virtual
book tour featuring debut author Jordan Dane.

Jordan and Avon HarperCollins are offering
opportunities to win great prizes all along the tour.  

Next up:

March 19 Cricket Sawyer

at http://www.Cricketshearth.blogspot.com

March 22 Diana Castilleja

at http://dianacastilleja.blogspot.com

Give yourself every advantage to learn from this marketing

dynamo—who just happens to also be a very good writer—

and read the interviews and comments at previous stops:

Billie Williams at http://printedwords.blogspot.com

Linda J. Hutchinson at http://reviewhutch.blogspot.com

Kim Richards at http://kim-richards.livejournal.com/

Lisa Haselton at http://lisahaselton.tripod.com/reviewsandinterviews/

And don’t forget to come to the “Launch P-A-R-T-Y!” on March 30^th! There are prizes galore!