How to Promote YOUR book on Amazon discussion

My goal with interviews is to make them relevant to the author specifically and fun/interesting to do and to read. What I want is to put something together that will encourage readers to get to know you as an author and as a person without asking you to just spit out a bunch of random facts about yourself.

This is very much a collaborative thing, just a few questions, and if I give you a topic/question that you don't like or have trouble answering, I'll just give you another one.

Kevis Hendrickson was kind enough to be my guinea pig and you can see probably as hard as any of the topics will get. He asked for a really tough combination, but you can pick just one or two types of topics depending on what you personally enjoy as far as writing goes.

You can see what kinds of topics I offer right now on my blog page. Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to do an interview!

Interview me any time.

Dr. Sabri Bebawi, author "God on Trial" http://www.amazon.com/God-Trial-A-Sho...

Dr. Sabri wrote: "Interview me any time.

Dr. Sabri Bebawi, author "God on Trial" http://www.amazon.com/God-Trial-A-Sho..."

Sure, just send me an email when you get the chance. There are a few different types of topics. Just pick the one you'd like to do.

Hello J.J

I could not locate your e-mail address. Mine is sabri@sabri.org. Please send me yours.

Sabri

Dr. Sabri wrote: "Hello J.J

I could not locate your e-mail address. Mine is sabri@sabri.org. Please send me yours.

Sabri"

Ah, I didn't realize I left my email out on that page. I added it in. My email is jaxybobaxy@gmail.com.

Five Stars no less, Daniel

Work of which One Ought Be Proud, February 20, 2014

By Sabri Bebawi "Sabri Bebawi"
(Long Beach, CA)

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This review is from: Alien Birthright (Kindle Edition)

What a classic Mr. Sinclair has created here. A universal tale of the
struggle between good and evil, but is presented in such creativity that
depicted the depth of his inner thoughts and beautiful mind. His ability
of creating a displacement of time and space along with the dynamic and
engaging characters he portrays. Sinclair depicted uncanny ability to
combine the imaginative with the unreal. This is a mind-challenging
anecdote that is recommended for serious readers who travel places and see
the unseen with the creator.

One thing I envy, not in a bad way, Mr. Sinclair is his extraordinary
talent for writing a truly engaging dialogue that, I, the reader, was
physically present. It is a refreshing change from the wave of unnatural
dialogues we experience in badly made films.

Congratulations, Daniel, on your successful project. I look forward to
reading more of your work.

Dr. Sabri Bebawi

An Interview with Novelist Sabri Bebawi
http://fantasticindieauthors.wordpres...

Dr. Sabri:
Good interview: By the way,I'm also a socialist humanist. P. S. I hope you get many more interviews.
Best regards,
Daniel

Thank you, Daniel, so much.

Sabri

I have published an unusual nature book, The Spirits of Birds, Bears, Butterflies and All Those Other Wild Creatures on Amazon, CreateSpace and Kindle. My book has a potentially wide audience because it deals with critical and interesting national and state nature and environmental issues as well as stories about Connecticut and out-of-state characters experiencing unique interaction with wild creatures. How can I get an interview?

12th and April 13th I'll be at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to promote the book.

Authorhouse: http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Prod...

http://www.therabbitculture.com/


"No condition of indigence or poverty justifies the abandonment of a child. As far as my own experience is concerned I am sure that a child would rather die of starvation or get to know that his parents are in prison, but they did not abandoned him.

If genocide is a crime against humanity, the abandonment of a child is much more, it calls into question the first ethical principle for our survival: a mother who abandons a child. Animals do not do that, or do so only if the little ones are naturally self-sufficient by birth.

It is an everlasting torture and I am sure that my son is wondering – in his own confusion – why he did not get what many people were granted."......

Thanks ,

Ciao

Antonio

I'm always available for interviews and tours and stuff. Count me in! :)

Me too! I'll send you a p.m.

I am available for interviews as well. Dennie Williams The Spirits of Birds, Bears, Butterflies and All Those Other Wild Creatures

J.J. My e-mails to jaxybobaxy@gmail.com are being returned. Has your inbox been overloaded?

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Interviewer: Christina Hamlett
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Q: So tell us what your new book – and hopefully the first of many! – is all about.
A: This is a book of true to life nature tales emphasizing animal and bird interaction and communications with humans. The tales start with a short poem about Chickadees and end with a poetic tour through the Costa Rican jungle. The book opens with a prologue relating how I became fascinated with animals and birds through family influences and experiences. Then, in an introduction, it explains the significance of interactions and spiritual communications among birds, animals and other creatures with humans. Finally, it starts with the first of sixteen true stories or descriptive chapters of interesting interaction among people and birds and animals.
One of the critical issues facing the world today is the vital obligation to preserve and protect the environment. As a result of the momentum of destruction of nature world-wide, it will take generations, if ever, to repair all the damage. Hopefully the erosion, already generations old, will not continue at its present pace. But, whatever happens, children, teenagers and adults need to educate themselves as much as possible to the very soul of nature. This book and its short stories are a small and humble effort at catching the attention of as many readers as possible to the need to appreciate wildlife and the actuality that wild creatures can and do communicate their vital needs to people around them, even if they don’t listen or observe the many attempted interactive approaches to them by the non-human world.
Once people, at as early an age as possible, become educated to the needs of wild life, the less destructive they will be toward nature during their lifetimes, and perhaps they will even become devoted to help the causes of all living beings including those humans other than themselves. If the skill to appreciate nature and interact with wild creatures is honed at an early age, it becomes almost impossible not to take up or support environmental protection causes as one grows older.
Q: If there were a single quote in the book that summed up its takeaway value, what would it be?
A: “As kind as people are to animals, birds, fish and other living creatures, they have to think more about those creatures’ innate desires for freedom and independence. Above all, humans need empathy toward wild animals, birds and all other untamed critters. If more of them expressed it, nature could flourish in wider areas worldwide and man-made pollution disasters might decrease in kind. Can you imagine poisoning, torturing or intentionally running over a rabbit, squirrel or roadside crow? I can’t! Then how do corporations operated by people endlessly pollute the air, water and earth where wildlife lives?”
Q: And yet these practices not only continue to exist but also escalate. Are we sowing the seeds of our own destruction in our disregard for the planet and its non-human inhabitants?
A: Even as I was writing this book, my own concern for wildlife has grown so much that sometimes I have a very hard time reading, watching or listening to its incredible destruction during wide spread forest fires, hurricanes, oil spills, munitions explosions in war and after war or every day pollution of the air by nuclear plants, factories or just plain exhaust from hundreds of cars I pass by with my own car every week. And, yet for all of my working life I was a news reporter writing hundreds of stories of environmental disasters including investigative human health tales involving the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The environmental decimation of those wars, particularly from radiation dust caused by depleted uranium munitions, will impact on nature, wild creatures and humans in the Middle East for untold numbers of years. Radiation is hard if not impossible to eradicate and some say its hazards can last billions of years. And yet it seems news reports about its repercussions as well as the health effects of depleted uranium contamination and other huge environmental disasters focus on harm to people but not wild creatures, the earth or the oceans.
Q: Is there any bright spot we can draw to?
A: The nature tales in this book look largely upon the positive side of the relationships among people and wild creatures. They are lively, poetic and funny stories all with a focus on interaction, not always friendly, among people and birds and animals. Some of them involve my own experiences at all ages.
In order to put those stories and the book in perspective, I open up with my own family background, not as an ego trip, but to show how I very gradually became a kind of minor league nature fanatic. On the other hand, however, the first short story, “Blueberries, Butterflies and The Pig,” explains, how only at a late age, as a so called senior citizen, I finally realized there exists a spiritual, fascinating and inspiring interaction among humans and wild creatures, in this case butterflies, and people. Of course, that only occurs if the person already has a sensitive and regular appreciation of wild creatures. After some weeks of thinking about these butterfly experiences, it occurred to me that I and some close friends had a reservoir of experiences interacting with birds and animals.
Just as inspiring still was doing some extensive research on communications among humans and wild creatures and discovering it was not just my imagination. My thinking wasn’t craziness, it related to the real world! That research is part of the introduction to the short stories and is necessary to create credibility with the reader.
Q: So what inspired you to roll up your sleeves and put pen to paper…or fingers to the keyboard?
A: I was picking blueberries one beautiful, sunny day in a patch 10 or 12 miles from home, when a butterfly suddenly landed on my out stretched hand. I began showing it first to my wife then to several other pickers before I saw two young children, a boy and a girl, just outside the patch laughing and rolling down a grassy hill. Loudly, I asked them if they would like to see my pet butterfly and warned the boy to stop running toward me, as his curiosity overwhelmed him. He rushed on next to me and scared the butterfly 30 or 40 feet into the air.
“See what I told you!? You scared my pet butterfly away,” I exclaimed. But a second later, the boy exclaimed, “No, it’s on your ear!” I told the boy he must be mistaken. Then, suddenly, my wife appeared from out of the patch and said, I thought with sarcasm, “Yes, it’s on your ear.”
So I walked carefully over to the blueberry selling shack and asked the sales lady if she could see my butterfly. She confirmed its presence and quickly warned me that her two friendly dogs were approaching. Sure enough, one of them scared the butterfly up into the sky and away forever. Two days later, I was shocked when I remembered that about ten years earlier I had experienced another wild butterfly episode in Barnard, Vermont. There on a porch near a pond on a beautiful day, a local character took me by surprise and started telling me a wild tale. As he did, two white butterflies began flying just over his head with their flights matching the excitement of his tale. They did so until he finished and then quickly disappeared into the sky and over the pond.
Q: Would we be right to assume that you’re an animal lover?
A: Yes!
Q: When do you recall first taking such an interest in creatures of the wild?
A: I have followed the flights and eating habits of all sorts of birds on my feeders ever since I was a little boy. I loved seeing moose and bears in the forests of Canada and the Wild West.
Q: Did you work from a formal outline or did you allow the content to just flow from consciousness once you started to write?
A: In writing the book, I composed each story soon after it was told to me. Then I sent a copy to those being interviewed to make sure it was accurate. Then, I organized the investigation of the reality of interaction and communications among wild creatures and people. Next, I felt I needed to explain to the readers about my own life and family experiences as they related to my love of wild critters.
Q: How much research was involved in pulling all of the elements together?
A: My research on the Internet about interactions among people and all sorts of animals, birds and fish went on for months. Of particular help in proving the book’s thesis was the Internet’s YouTube which has dozens of videos showing wild creatures communicating and interacting with all sorts of people.
Q: Was it your style to do all of the research first or to start writing and do the research as you went along?
A: I did this research before I wrote the book to prove the existence of these extraordinary relationships among humans and the wild creatures of all sorts.
Q: By profession, you’re an investigative reporter. How different are the experiences of investigative reporting and the nuts and bolts of being an author of a book?
A: My investigative reporting for almost five decades was instrumental in writing the book because credibility, particularly involving this rare subject, is essential. Since the book involves short stories, the ability to write them was not that much different from checking out, interviewing and writing a news story.
Q: Who do you see as the book’s target demographic?
A: I believe the book is intriguing for most lovers of nature, but it is particularly inspiring for young adults because they need to learn that wild creatures can and do interact and communicate with people; and once they do, they may have more respect for preserving the environment, not only for themselves and other people, but for birds, bees, bears, butterflies and other beautiful wild critters.
Q: What impact did the development and writing of this book have on your own life? Do you feel that you see things differently now than you did before?
A: This nature book increased my appreciation of wild creatures tenfold because I had not the slightest idea that they had this people-inspiring capability to be so spiritual and friendly. As a result, I now often have trouble even thinking about swatting an annoying insect!
Q: What is the most amazing interaction you have ever heard about between humans and wild creatures?
A: I believe the most amazing interaction ever was the one shown on 60 Minutes in which Anderson Cooper followed “The Sharkman” into the ocean without being in a cage below South Africa and played a simple game of letting white sharks, the most dangerous of those creatures, bump them with their noses. After a couple of bumps, The Sharkman grabbed one of the shark’s fins and took a short ride. This is all on film!
Q: Why is it important to realize that wild creatures indeed interact and communicate in their own manners with humans?
A: As I hinted earlier, it is critical for humans to realize the communication skills of wild creatures because it makes them think that all environments need to be preserved, not only for us, but for animals, birds, fish and insects.
Q: How did you go about proving to yourself and, ultimately, to your future readers that these dynamics are critical to understand?
A: The content of the nature book itself deals with stories that prove this reality, and that is why I think the younger the reader, the better. So it was my investigation, leading up to the writing, that convinced me of the truth of what I was to compose. Th

I am available for interviews , email : acapaldo@katamail.com

Antony http://www.therabbitculture.com/

Thanks Anthony! I am at denniew@optonline.net. I will email you. Best, Dennie

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Hi Dennie, I'd be interested in an interview too. I have two books, a romantic travel mystery, Missing in Egypt and one for horse lovers, Winston - A Horse's Tale.

I am available for interviews. I am an award winning communications expert and my first novel, Pictures of You, is a YA novel that is written as a ghost story, but more than that, deals with the subjects of loss and grief, autism, and sexual identity...all within a social media realm. Here's a description:

A story of a haunting. Of a memory that lingers. Of voices that hide in the shadows.

Living your life on video is fine, as long as you’ve got complete control. But what if one day you wake up and discover videos you didn’t know existed have gone public? That’s what happens to self-professed video geek, Ashes16, whose real-world past begins to haunt her when a strange video pops up on her YouTube account. Others soon follow, bringing back vivid memories of her older brother's grisly death and forcing Ashes to relive over and over again a nightmare scene she witnessed first-hand. Are they messages from her dead brother, asking her to uncover dark family secrets some people want to keep hidden? And what happens when Ashes finally starts to understand the meaning behind the messages? That’s the chilling secret behind Pictures of You.

Here's a link to the book and my bio:

http://www.amazon.com/Pictures-You-TJ...

Thanks,
Ted Mitchell
(Aka TJ Alexian)

wishes everyone an A1 St. Pat's day. St. Pat's day is a reoccurring day in the book and sets the real Am-multicultural scene

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Ted,
I don't do book interviews. I was asking for one for my own book. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Best
Dennie

I don't do book interviews. I was asking for one for my own book. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Best
Dennie