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THE TRUE WORTH OF A POETRY CONTEST AWARD

Poetry is considered to be one of the most expressive forms of art in the world. Poetry allows a person to express their thoughts and feelings about an infinite number of things without directly mentioning the subject in question. This allows for every reader to take something personal away from the writing as they interpret it according to their own walk in life perspective. Many teachers and psychologists even recommend for their students and patients to express themselves through the art of poetry in order fully release their emotions.If you are a novice or professional poet then you are already aware of how powerful that poetry can be. However,But have you ever put your skill and craft to the test by taking part in poetry contest? There are literally hundreds of thousands of poetry contests throughout the world that you can enter in order to truly challenge yourself and your writing skills. Many of these challenges even offer a poetry contest award.Some poetry contest award challenges offer a simple paper award and recognition while others offer such poetry award benefits as financial compensationprize money or publicationbeing published. However, no matter the physicalactual ...

The sad news for the book publishing industry is that book store sales are down. One of the biggest book publishers have recently reported that their book store sales are down by a whopping 10%! This is all scary news for publishers and most of them have already started evasive action against this down turn in sales. Some publishing companies have already gone out of business while others have started cutting back on the number of books they publish. And even others have stopped accepting new book manuscripts altogether. But if you were considering self publishing your own book, don't be disheartened because all this news of lower book sales is great news for the self published author, or anyone thinking about self publishing. You see most self published authors never see their books available through book stores, unless customers order it. Some self published authors never expect to see their books sitting on book store shelves and have still become millionaire authors. The trend in book sales now is that more and more people are buying their books online. Online book stores will happily list self published books on their web sites because they don't ...

THE POWER OF BOOK REVIEWERS IN BOOK MARKETING

Writing, editing, and getting a book published is a lot of hard work, unfortunately it does not guarantee any tangible sales. In fact, most books published each year fail to sell more than a few dozen copies, creating a very competitive and cut throat book marketing industry. There are many ways people will tell you to market a book, however the most effective is usually attributed to book reviews. Custom book reviews not only provide an author with substantial buzz for a new book, it also lends the book a sense of credibility that would be otherwise void. There are certainly no shortage of great books on the market today, however only a small percentage of them have the necessary book reviews to urge people to take action. Next time you are on a book merchants website, have a look at a book that has no reader reviews and ask yourself if you buy this book? Chances are you would pass on buying this book in an effort to find a better, more reviewed book that people can give you some information on before buying it. The bottom line is that book reviewers ...

FAST & EASY AMAZON BOOK REVIEWS

Typically independent freelance book authors & self-publishers have a difficult time competing for "shelf-space" with the big book publishing companies on Amazon.com. We can all agree that Amazon has made self-publishing a viable income generator for self-published authors and publishers, but getting your book to show up high enough in the search results on Amazon is often far more difficult than actually writing the book was. The other big problem for authors and self-publishers is that even if a prospective book buyer finds your book on Amazon, they may be a bit timid about buying a book that no (or very few) people have been so inspired by, as to write a good review for it. This might be tough to swallow, but that's actually not the worst scenario. The worst scenario is that someone did take the time to write a review for your self-published book, but they gave it a one-star rating. I can tell you with no reservations whatsoever that having a negative review is far worse than having no reviews at all. No one knows the credentials of the person that gives your book a negative review on ...