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The Face of A World Without Color
The time has come to reveal the hidden, to unveil the covered and show what I kept secret.
My first indie book is coming out soon!
Yes, it is true. Finally and at last I can publicly say that, even though I didn't decide about its release date yet. It will be anytime between end of June and beginning of August (or maybe even later or outside that period of time). However, it is time now for me to present you my official book cover.
I love it eternally! I have fallen in love with the photo of my friend cuddling his cat the very moment I saw it on his Twitter feed and I am so happy it now adorns my book. This is the perfect image for my story, my complete opening and revealing of the best and worst days of my life. My deepest emotions and hardest tribulations when I lost my favorite creature and didn't know whether I should carry on living without Marcel or stop with my life a few hours or days after our family veterinarian put him to sleep and took him away from us.
Writing A World Without Color was my way of surviving, a true story I wrote in three days while memories, scars and wounds were still fresh and burning. This story I had to tell, I had no option, I couldn't do it otherwise and bury it in me. Soon it will be in front of you should you wish to read it.
Many people worked on this with me and I will say a few words about them in my future blog posts. But since I am showing you its beautiful face here, its cover which warms my heart and gives my life a certain sense of completion of something very important and dear, I will mention two people, two names only: Zach Singh and Mario Kožar.
Zach Singh, my buddy from New York and Columbus, Ohio is a nice and talented young photographer who loves cats as much as I do - if not even more - and was so kind and ready to provide me this photo for my book cover when I came with my proposal about this project to him (I can never thank you enough, Zach!).
Mario Kožar from MKM Media is my designer who lives on the relation Rome-Zagreb and he gave my book such a sparkling and professional shine. Thank you, Mario, for having so much patience with me and understanding for all my demands for promotional ads I will be posting in days and weeks and months to come.
I only hope my readers will like at least half as much what I wrote as I like what you both did to give such a beautiful new life to my story. With this cover you gave a face to its soul.
I’d ask everyone who is reading this to please be so kind and generous and give your vote of confidence to Zach and Mario if you like their creation. Later you will judge me and my writing, but now I ask you to follow, like, retweet and share them because their talent deserves that.
Always share what you love with those who appreciate it because there is no greater joy than that.
Thank you!
Check the Photos to see the book cover or click here.
Bernard Jan
www.bernardjan.com
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Bernard Jan
My first indie book is coming out soon!
Yes, it is true. Finally and at last I can publicly say that, even though I didn't decide about its release date yet. It will be anytime between end of June and beginning of August (or maybe even later or outside that period of time). However, it is time now for me to present you my official book cover.
I love it eternally! I have fallen in love with the photo of my friend cuddling his cat the very moment I saw it on his Twitter feed and I am so happy it now adorns my book. This is the perfect image for my story, my complete opening and revealing of the best and worst days of my life. My deepest emotions and hardest tribulations when I lost my favorite creature and didn't know whether I should carry on living without Marcel or stop with my life a few hours or days after our family veterinarian put him to sleep and took him away from us.
Writing A World Without Color was my way of surviving, a true story I wrote in three days while memories, scars and wounds were still fresh and burning. This story I had to tell, I had no option, I couldn't do it otherwise and bury it in me. Soon it will be in front of you should you wish to read it.
Many people worked on this with me and I will say a few words about them in my future blog posts. But since I am showing you its beautiful face here, its cover which warms my heart and gives my life a certain sense of completion of something very important and dear, I will mention two people, two names only: Zach Singh and Mario Kožar.
Zach Singh, my buddy from New York and Columbus, Ohio is a nice and talented young photographer who loves cats as much as I do - if not even more - and was so kind and ready to provide me this photo for my book cover when I came with my proposal about this project to him (I can never thank you enough, Zach!).
Mario Kožar from MKM Media is my designer who lives on the relation Rome-Zagreb and he gave my book such a sparkling and professional shine. Thank you, Mario, for having so much patience with me and understanding for all my demands for promotional ads I will be posting in days and weeks and months to come.
I only hope my readers will like at least half as much what I wrote as I like what you both did to give such a beautiful new life to my story. With this cover you gave a face to its soul.
I’d ask everyone who is reading this to please be so kind and generous and give your vote of confidence to Zach and Mario if you like their creation. Later you will judge me and my writing, but now I ask you to follow, like, retweet and share them because their talent deserves that.
Always share what you love with those who appreciate it because there is no greater joy than that.
Thank you!
Check the Photos to see the book cover or click here.
Bernard Jan
www.bernardjan.com
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Bernard Jan
I'm Coming Out, will You Support Me?
July 1, 2017 is approaching fast, it's almost here!
Which means the pre-order deadline for my e-book A World Without Color on Amazon is closing to its end! Which means, those are the last days when you can pre-order it if you still did not do that. Which means you will finally get your pre-ordered copy and will be able to read it and hopefully enjoy it!
So cool!
But this is not the end, not yet. This is where I need you more than ever. The future and fate of every book and its author depend on you, our faithful reader. Your role is much more important that you think!
It is you who will keep A World Without Color alive. If you want to help me, an author and the publisher, and my first indie book, please read and follow these three easy and simple steps.
If you purchase a copy of my e-book today, you will help enormously with its Amazon rankings. Now it is roller coasting up and down but with enough purchased copies it can improve its ranking and maybe even attracts press, general interest and new readers!
When you read a book, don't just close your reading app but please leave a review. Positive reviews at this early stage are crucial for exposing the book to the new readers, and Amazon will love them too! You don't have to write a one-page review like I do, haha! Two or three encouraging sentences of an honest review will take only a few minutes of your daily schedule but are important recommendation to others to take notice of A World Without Color too.
That being done, please do that one last step and share it with others. Your friends, family members, people you care about or strangers you want to impress. Word of mouth, though sometimes underestimated, still does miracles. If you are not much of a talker, just copy-paste the link to my book on Amazon and add a brief comment above it. Or share the link to my press release on my website. (I will post it on my blog too once both my e-book and paperback are available for purchase.)
I would ask those of you who still prefer to hold a printed copy in their hands instead of reading from a device for a little more patience. My paperback will also be available for purchase in July if everything goes as planned and then you will get to read it. That doesn't mean, though, you cannot spread the word about it now, because time is valuable and each day counts!
Thank you for your kind support and happy reading!
Bernard Jan
www.bernardjan.com
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Bernard Jan
Which means the pre-order deadline for my e-book A World Without Color on Amazon is closing to its end! Which means, those are the last days when you can pre-order it if you still did not do that. Which means you will finally get your pre-ordered copy and will be able to read it and hopefully enjoy it!
So cool!
But this is not the end, not yet. This is where I need you more than ever. The future and fate of every book and its author depend on you, our faithful reader. Your role is much more important that you think!
It is you who will keep A World Without Color alive. If you want to help me, an author and the publisher, and my first indie book, please read and follow these three easy and simple steps.
If you purchase a copy of my e-book today, you will help enormously with its Amazon rankings. Now it is roller coasting up and down but with enough purchased copies it can improve its ranking and maybe even attracts press, general interest and new readers!
When you read a book, don't just close your reading app but please leave a review. Positive reviews at this early stage are crucial for exposing the book to the new readers, and Amazon will love them too! You don't have to write a one-page review like I do, haha! Two or three encouraging sentences of an honest review will take only a few minutes of your daily schedule but are important recommendation to others to take notice of A World Without Color too.
That being done, please do that one last step and share it with others. Your friends, family members, people you care about or strangers you want to impress. Word of mouth, though sometimes underestimated, still does miracles. If you are not much of a talker, just copy-paste the link to my book on Amazon and add a brief comment above it. Or share the link to my press release on my website. (I will post it on my blog too once both my e-book and paperback are available for purchase.)
I would ask those of you who still prefer to hold a printed copy in their hands instead of reading from a device for a little more patience. My paperback will also be available for purchase in July if everything goes as planned and then you will get to read it. That doesn't mean, though, you cannot spread the word about it now, because time is valuable and each day counts!
Thank you for your kind support and happy reading!
Bernard Jan
www.bernardjan.com
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Bernard Jan
Today is the Day!
Today is the day! My first ever indie e-book A World Without Color is released and available for purchase on Amazon! If you are a member of Amazon KDP Select program, you can even read it for free! If you are not, be among the first ones who will get it at a symbolic price of $1.99!
Please don't forget the golden rule and dream of every indie author: Buy Me. Read Me. Review Me. Share Me. Befriend Me.
Thank you for waiting so long, for buying and reading my book, for reviewing it and spreading the word about it with everyone you can think of!
Today is the day when I share(d) the intimate and still unhealed part of me with you, my dear friend and faithful reader. This is HUGE, this is the moment I cannot and will not forget. I hope, neither will you.
There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it. This is why I worked so hard in the past few months on my story A World Without Color so I could share it with you here at Amazon.
Bernard Jan
www.bernardjan.com
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Please don't forget the golden rule and dream of every indie author: Buy Me. Read Me. Review Me. Share Me. Befriend Me.
Thank you for waiting so long, for buying and reading my book, for reviewing it and spreading the word about it with everyone you can think of!
Today is the day when I share(d) the intimate and still unhealed part of me with you, my dear friend and faithful reader. This is HUGE, this is the moment I cannot and will not forget. I hope, neither will you.
There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it. This is why I worked so hard in the past few months on my story A World Without Color so I could share it with you here at Amazon.
Bernard Jan
www.bernardjan.com
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My Book Trailer!
Mario Kožar from MKM Media is the man behind the great cover of my book A World Without Color, designed with the photo by the young fashion, lifestyle and portrait photographer Zach Singh.
Beside the cover, which collects only praises and sympathies, Mario also did and edited the A World Without Color book trailer! You can see both versions—B&W and blue edition—hosted on my YouTube channel. Feel free to like and share them and subscribe to my YouTube channel!
For more information about Mario's graphic and design, video editing and web design visit his website www.mkm-media.it or connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.
Please visit Amazon to purchase and review A World Without Color as paperback or e-book. Subscribers to Kindle Unlimited can read it for free! It is an honest, emotional and powerful true story that won't leave you indifferent.
If you like it, kindly vote for my novella A World Without Color in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards contest by following this link and browsing to page 6/16 to the category Memoir.
The faith of every book and author depends on their readers. I thank you for supporting me.
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
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Bernard Jan
Beside the cover, which collects only praises and sympathies, Mario also did and edited the A World Without Color book trailer! You can see both versions—B&W and blue edition—hosted on my YouTube channel. Feel free to like and share them and subscribe to my YouTube channel!
For more information about Mario's graphic and design, video editing and web design visit his website www.mkm-media.it or connect with him on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.
Please visit Amazon to purchase and review A World Without Color as paperback or e-book. Subscribers to Kindle Unlimited can read it for free! It is an honest, emotional and powerful true story that won't leave you indifferent.
If you like it, kindly vote for my novella A World Without Color in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards contest by following this link and browsing to page 6/16 to the category Memoir.
The faith of every book and author depends on their readers. I thank you for supporting me.
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
Join my mailing list, subscribe to blog Muse!
Bernard Jan
The Voting Goes On!
When I told you that my book A World Without Color was nominated for the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards I didn't know over 1,000 authors signed up for the contest! That is a huge number! Winning in such a strong competition is like winning a lottery three times instead of one but that doesn't prevent us from taking part in that contest and having fun!
If you think the true story of the last three days I spent with my cat Marcel deserves to compete for this title, vote for it! Those of you who already read it have posted great reviews on Amazon and Goodreads (we will talk about those reviews at another time) but now, please, give it your vote too.
Readers have already voted 21,424 times in just the first 2 months for their favorite nominated books and this number will sky-rocket by the end of the voting on December 10. Will your vote be among them as well?
Please follow this link to browse to page 6/16 to the category Memoir and vote for A World Without Color. Thank you!
In another contest, my book cover has passed the first round voting for the 2017 AUTHORSdb Cover Contest and has entered the semi-finals!
Everyone praises A World Without Color cover and has very well accepted it! If you like it, don't wait any longer, please cast your vote here now for the 2017 AUTHORSdb Cover Contest! Thanks!
#PrayForNewYork
In the series of attacks on towns and their residents all over the western world, the people of New York City and Manhattan are its last target and victims. My thoughts, support and love go to everyone in my beloved town, especially to those who suffered and lost someone yesterday.
As I said 16 years ago, I say it now again: New York, I love you more than ever!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
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Bernard Jan
If you think the true story of the last three days I spent with my cat Marcel deserves to compete for this title, vote for it! Those of you who already read it have posted great reviews on Amazon and Goodreads (we will talk about those reviews at another time) but now, please, give it your vote too.
Readers have already voted 21,424 times in just the first 2 months for their favorite nominated books and this number will sky-rocket by the end of the voting on December 10. Will your vote be among them as well?
Please follow this link to browse to page 6/16 to the category Memoir and vote for A World Without Color. Thank you!
In another contest, my book cover has passed the first round voting for the 2017 AUTHORSdb Cover Contest and has entered the semi-finals!
Everyone praises A World Without Color cover and has very well accepted it! If you like it, don't wait any longer, please cast your vote here now for the 2017 AUTHORSdb Cover Contest! Thanks!
#PrayForNewYork
In the series of attacks on towns and their residents all over the western world, the people of New York City and Manhattan are its last target and victims. My thoughts, support and love go to everyone in my beloved town, especially to those who suffered and lost someone yesterday.
As I said 16 years ago, I say it now again: New York, I love you more than ever!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
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Bernard Jan
Gold!
After winning the 2nd place in AllAuthor contest Cover of the month August and the 3rd place in Author Shout one-week contest Cover Wars, A World Without Color cover won the 1st place as the cover of the year in a Literary Fiction category of AUTHORSdb contest!
Getting this gold is overwhelming: a great honor, a reward, thrill, happiness, joy, elation, confusion, disbelief, gratitude, humbleness!
I am grateful beyond words to my book cover designer Mario Kožar from MKM Media and the photographer and owner of the awesome selfie with his cat Oswald, Zach Singh, and to all of you who voted for my book cover! My thanks and respect because your votes are this victory too!
As much winning the gold in the AUTHORSdb book cover contest is fantastic and a great honor, there is not plenty of time to celebrate. My novella A World Without Color is still nominated in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards contest! If you want to cast a vote for it as your choice of the book of the year, please go to page 6/16 to the category Memoir by following this link and click a vote for A World Without Color. Thank you!
My true story is more than just a pretty face (or cover!) so do a little something for you and give yourself a tnice and inexpensive pre-holiday gif. Or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited if you prefer that. Great feedback and many positive reviews speak in favor of it. So why wouldn't you be one of its readers and fans as well who wrote their honest reviews on Amazon and Goodreads? That'd be cool, don't you agree?
Once more my appreciation and gratitude for your love and kind support! This is huge for a first-time indie author of another native tongue like me who pushes his limits to produce and deliver you a book you will love, cherish, feel, read and reread, and remember.
Thank you for sharing what you love with those who appreciate it. You have my love and devotion!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
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Bernard Jan
Getting this gold is overwhelming: a great honor, a reward, thrill, happiness, joy, elation, confusion, disbelief, gratitude, humbleness!
I am grateful beyond words to my book cover designer Mario Kožar from MKM Media and the photographer and owner of the awesome selfie with his cat Oswald, Zach Singh, and to all of you who voted for my book cover! My thanks and respect because your votes are this victory too!
As much winning the gold in the AUTHORSdb book cover contest is fantastic and a great honor, there is not plenty of time to celebrate. My novella A World Without Color is still nominated in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards contest! If you want to cast a vote for it as your choice of the book of the year, please go to page 6/16 to the category Memoir by following this link and click a vote for A World Without Color. Thank you!
My true story is more than just a pretty face (or cover!) so do a little something for you and give yourself a tnice and inexpensive pre-holiday gif. Or read it for free on Kindle Unlimited if you prefer that. Great feedback and many positive reviews speak in favor of it. So why wouldn't you be one of its readers and fans as well who wrote their honest reviews on Amazon and Goodreads? That'd be cool, don't you agree?
Once more my appreciation and gratitude for your love and kind support! This is huge for a first-time indie author of another native tongue like me who pushes his limits to produce and deliver you a book you will love, cherish, feel, read and reread, and remember.
Thank you for sharing what you love with those who appreciate it. You have my love and devotion!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Join my mailing list, subscribe to blog Muse!
Bernard Jan
Your Last Votes For This Year
December 10 is so near, almost here, and with it your last chance to vote for your book of the year. If you like my novella, A World Without Color true story of the last three days with my cat Marcel, give it your vote of confidence and improve its rating!
Just follow these simple steps: by clicking here in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards contest go to page 6/16 to the category Memoir and cast your vote for A World Without Color. Since it is rather simple and doesn't require email registration, you can also invite your friends to do the same! Thanks!
A World Without Color is also a great gift for everyone who has / had a cat or any other companion animal or for everyone who has ever felt deeply. So when you are thinking about buying a present for your loved ones or even yourself (why not?!) remember A World Without Color. It will warm your heart in cold and long winter days.
A World Without Color is available as paperback and e-book on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Thank you and my very best wishes to everyone!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
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Bernard Jan
Just follow these simple steps: by clicking here in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards contest go to page 6/16 to the category Memoir and cast your vote for A World Without Color. Since it is rather simple and doesn't require email registration, you can also invite your friends to do the same! Thanks!
A World Without Color is also a great gift for everyone who has / had a cat or any other companion animal or for everyone who has ever felt deeply. So when you are thinking about buying a present for your loved ones or even yourself (why not?!) remember A World Without Color. It will warm your heart in cold and long winter days.
A World Without Color is available as paperback and e-book on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Thank you and my very best wishes to everyone!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
Join my mailing list, subscribe to blog Muse!
Bernard Jan
Marcel and Oswald
The original idea for writing this post was to say thanks and reflect with a few figures on the launch and the journey of my book A World Without Color in 2017. That I will do as planned, but first I must let you know about something that happened on the last day of 2017.
With deep regret and sadness in my heart I have to tell you that Oswald, the beautiful cat from the cover of my book, has passed away. I learned that in the early afternoon hours of December 31st, 2017 and spilled many tears that day.
Zach Singh, a New York-based photographer, and his cat Oswald brought the story of my beloved cat Marcel to life. Marcel had passed away on April 19, 2006 and left me heartbroken. Last year I brought him back to life again by publishing his story in English so I could share it with all of you.
Oswald and Zach are the two great guys on the photo of my book cover who gave the prettiest face and character to my book. I am eternally grateful to Zach for letting me use it. My joy was honest, true and profound as much as is my sadness now at losing Oswald. Oswald is no longer with his beloved family. Instead, together with Marcel, while he keeps on living in my book and in the hearts of those who loved and still love him.
Thanks to Oswald, Marcel and my love for him are alive for you too, and thanks to Marcel and his story, Oswald will live as long as my book lives. And that, my dear readers, depends on you and me.
Thanks to you and only you, A World Without Color had a good start last year.
I published it as e-book on July 1 and as paperback on September 13, 2017.
Its two awesome trailers (B/W and the blue edition) produced by Mario Kožar MKM Media, who also designed the great book cover, were released on October 29, 2017.
A World Without Color was one of the nominees in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards in the Memoir category for the book of the year and also took part in four book cover contests.
My book cover was reviewed by The Book Designer in the e-Book Cover Design Awards for July 2017 while thanks to you it won the 3rd place in Cover Wars in Author Shout one-week contest, the 2nd place in the AllAuthor Cover of the month August contest and gold or the 1st place in the Literary Fiction category of AUTHORSdb contest! Thank you all for your votes!
You supported it in the Anniversary Giveaway on the Animal Bliss blog when two lucky winners out of 320 entries got my e-book!
Those of you who bought it or read it for free with Kindle Unlimited rewarded A World Without Color with great and touching reviews: 24 reviews on Amazon, 6 reviews on Amazon UK and 27 reviews and 36 ratings on Goodreads!
For that I am thankful to you, my fellow readers, authors and dear supporters! Thank you for accepting my book so well, thank you for reading and reviewing it and for spreading the message all over the Internet and your social network platforms!
There is one thing I learned from the past and my first six months as an indie author. Indie authors are not competitors, they are friends and supporters (at least those I know). We are encouragement to each other and that's the nicest thing about self-publishing and being an indie. Together with our faithful readers and honest reviewers, we are one body that lives and breathes for good books. And that is fantastic!
My sincere gratitude goes to each and every one of you for giving a chance to my true story of the last three days I spent with my cat Marcel. Thank you for accepting and loving it, thank you for shedding tears with me.
If they were alive, both Marcel and Oswald would purr their gratitude to you, dancing with their tails up around your legs or jumping into your lap for a cuddle or the feels-so-good scratching behind their ears and under their chins.
Although they are gone and no longer with us, you can still try to do that with the power of your imagination and with cuddles through the lines and pages of A World Without Color.
I thank you for your continuous support to A World Without Color in the new year and hopefully years to come and to my new books and other projects.
Have a fantastic year full of great books, love each other and love and care for your and other animals!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
Join my mailing list, subscribe to blog Muse!
Bernard Jan
With deep regret and sadness in my heart I have to tell you that Oswald, the beautiful cat from the cover of my book, has passed away. I learned that in the early afternoon hours of December 31st, 2017 and spilled many tears that day.
Zach Singh, a New York-based photographer, and his cat Oswald brought the story of my beloved cat Marcel to life. Marcel had passed away on April 19, 2006 and left me heartbroken. Last year I brought him back to life again by publishing his story in English so I could share it with all of you.
Oswald and Zach are the two great guys on the photo of my book cover who gave the prettiest face and character to my book. I am eternally grateful to Zach for letting me use it. My joy was honest, true and profound as much as is my sadness now at losing Oswald. Oswald is no longer with his beloved family. Instead, together with Marcel, while he keeps on living in my book and in the hearts of those who loved and still love him.
Thanks to Oswald, Marcel and my love for him are alive for you too, and thanks to Marcel and his story, Oswald will live as long as my book lives. And that, my dear readers, depends on you and me.
Thanks to you and only you, A World Without Color had a good start last year.
I published it as e-book on July 1 and as paperback on September 13, 2017.
Its two awesome trailers (B/W and the blue edition) produced by Mario Kožar MKM Media, who also designed the great book cover, were released on October 29, 2017.
A World Without Color was one of the nominees in the TCK Publishing 2017 Readers Choice Awards in the Memoir category for the book of the year and also took part in four book cover contests.
My book cover was reviewed by The Book Designer in the e-Book Cover Design Awards for July 2017 while thanks to you it won the 3rd place in Cover Wars in Author Shout one-week contest, the 2nd place in the AllAuthor Cover of the month August contest and gold or the 1st place in the Literary Fiction category of AUTHORSdb contest! Thank you all for your votes!
You supported it in the Anniversary Giveaway on the Animal Bliss blog when two lucky winners out of 320 entries got my e-book!
Those of you who bought it or read it for free with Kindle Unlimited rewarded A World Without Color with great and touching reviews: 24 reviews on Amazon, 6 reviews on Amazon UK and 27 reviews and 36 ratings on Goodreads!
For that I am thankful to you, my fellow readers, authors and dear supporters! Thank you for accepting my book so well, thank you for reading and reviewing it and for spreading the message all over the Internet and your social network platforms!
There is one thing I learned from the past and my first six months as an indie author. Indie authors are not competitors, they are friends and supporters (at least those I know). We are encouragement to each other and that's the nicest thing about self-publishing and being an indie. Together with our faithful readers and honest reviewers, we are one body that lives and breathes for good books. And that is fantastic!
My sincere gratitude goes to each and every one of you for giving a chance to my true story of the last three days I spent with my cat Marcel. Thank you for accepting and loving it, thank you for shedding tears with me.
If they were alive, both Marcel and Oswald would purr their gratitude to you, dancing with their tails up around your legs or jumping into your lap for a cuddle or the feels-so-good scratching behind their ears and under their chins.
Although they are gone and no longer with us, you can still try to do that with the power of your imagination and with cuddles through the lines and pages of A World Without Color.
I thank you for your continuous support to A World Without Color in the new year and hopefully years to come and to my new books and other projects.
Have a fantastic year full of great books, love each other and love and care for your and other animals!
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
Cover photo by Zach Singh; Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
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Bernard Jan
Download My Book for Free!
This is a onetime opportunity! Five days of free download of my book!
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 12:00 AM PDT to Sunday, March 25, 2018, 11:59 PM PDT
Remember those dates, don't miss the opportunity to get A World Without Color, the true story of the last three days with my cat, at no cost for you!
On March 27, 2018 I am pulling my book out of KDP Select so it won't be available as free read on Amazon anymore. This is why this opportunity is the perfect time for you to get your ebook for free and read (and review it too) at your own time and pace.
Even if you don't get A World Without Color for free during those five days from March 21 to March 25, it won't be the end of the world, for you will be able to get it at a discount price. But more about it... later.
Good luck on my book hunt from March 21 to March 25, hope you will enjoy reading it! And don't forget, honest reviews are welcome and appreciated. :)
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
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Cover photo by Zach Singh, Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
Bernard Jan
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 12:00 AM PDT to Sunday, March 25, 2018, 11:59 PM PDT
Remember those dates, don't miss the opportunity to get A World Without Color, the true story of the last three days with my cat, at no cost for you!
On March 27, 2018 I am pulling my book out of KDP Select so it won't be available as free read on Amazon anymore. This is why this opportunity is the perfect time for you to get your ebook for free and read (and review it too) at your own time and pace.
Even if you don't get A World Without Color for free during those five days from March 21 to March 25, it won't be the end of the world, for you will be able to get it at a discount price. But more about it... later.
Good luck on my book hunt from March 21 to March 25, hope you will enjoy reading it! And don't forget, honest reviews are welcome and appreciated. :)
BJ
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Cover photo by Zach Singh, Cover design by Mario Kožar MKM Media
Bernard Jan
The World According to Bob: A Book Review
Svijet prema Bobu by James BowenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
As someone who was saved by my cat Marcel, which I described in my novella A World Without Color, I can say there is not a single thing I did not like about The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-wise Cat. Just as in its prequel A Street Cat Named Bob: The Amazing True Story of One Man and His Cat, Bob made me smile, laugh and cry. There were so many familiar things in his behavior I saw and recognized in Marcel. Marcel was my world and losing him was an emotional and intellectual apocalypse.
I am grateful to author James Bowen for sharing his touching and difficult life story and for evoking my fondest and saddest memories. I am grateful to him for portraying Bob as someone extraordinary, smart, intelligent and cunning, the most loyal, compassionate and best friend possible.
Animals are the purest souls on this planet and if we let them touch our hearts, we will feel and experience something no other human can give us. I am saying this not only as someone who has a soft spot for cats and is a one hundred percent cat person, but as someone who has been there and lived it.
Bob, you have my love and admiration. Stay awesome as you are.
BJ
www.bernardjan.com
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