New reviews for The Card - A Van Stone Novel

I'm pretty psyched about the most most recent reviews on Amazon. In the past few weeks, two 5 star reviews, one 4 star review and one 1 star review have appeared. Hey, I don't pull any punches, if someone doesn't like the book, that's their prerogative. You'll get a kick out of the one star.

Here they are straight from  Amazon - The Card - A Van Stone Novel.

Yahoo Contributor Network Inaugural Post

I recently got hooked up with the Yahoo! Contributor Network and had my first article picked up by Yahoo! Voices.

You can check it out: The Influence of Social Media in Healthcare. It was published today in Yahoo! Voices. 

You can check out my Yahoo! Contributor Network homepage here, where you can find all the articles that get published in the future. 

Stop by and "fan" or subscribe, I'd really appreciate it. Every page view to my articles helps me out! Thanks for your support.
 

An Analysis of Best Practices for Social Media Marketing

My brain on research

I attended a webinar a while back that provided some interesting stats. The data came from one of the leaders in social media marketing, Hubspot. The results provided some surprises, both with what did happen and what didn’t happen.

I think there are some takeaways that we can implement in our own social media marketing.

Vancouver Workshop Leads Writers Down the Wrong Path

This needs to be read, especially by our friends in the Great White North. The BC Federation of Writers needs to get their act together or they will be losing a lot of quality authors.

Martin Crosbie has a list of credentials including two published books with the first one selling almost 30,000 ebook copies and became a bestseller on Amazon. He speaks at writer’s groups about self-publishing and he's been mentioned in Publisher’s Weekly and Forbes online. Amazon even called him one of their success stories of 2012. And, in Canada, the Globe and Mail did a full page story on him last year.

Here's what they won't print ... 

This post can be found on Indies Unlimited at http://www.indiesunlimited.com/2013/04/02/the-blog-nobody-wanted-to-publish-except-indies-unlimited/

Helping You Stay a #1 Bestselling Author on Amazon … or … Part II of Helping you become a #1 Bestselling Author

A year ago, I wrote about Amazon categories in this space. It has gone on to be one of my most viewed posts over the past year. A recent conversation has led me to resurrect the post. If you didn’t see it, you can find it here.

To summarize that article, I laid out a step-by-step procedure to develop the best category for your book on Amazon that will help it show up on the bestseller lists. You have control over that process. It takes a little bit of time and research, but, in the end, it will help you become more recognizable and (I hope) sell more books.

Helping Libraries and Schools in the Northeast that were Devastated by Hurricane Sandy

I recently took part in a very cool charity movement. Author K.S. Brooks established the group Indie Authors for Hurricane Sandy. After the tragedy of Hurricane Sandy, many libraries lost all resources. More than 70 independent authors and publishers from around the world have come together to donate fiction and non-fiction books and eBooks to those public libraries and schools in need. 

"This is a way to give back to these communities, and let them know that they have not been forgotten," said project founder and author K.S. Brooks, a native New Yorker now living in Washington State.

Having gone through several hurricanes, including the biggie, Hurricane Andrew in Miami, I know what it's like to pick up the pieces following a storm of this magnitude. I was looking for a way to get involved and this was the perfect solution. 

My novel, The Card, has been shipped to library systems and school districts throughout New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to help restore the content of those facilities. With baseball season right around the corner, teens in the Northeast can forget about the tragedy and get lost in an adventure with Van Stone.

This project is ongoing, for more information you can visit http://www.ksbrooks.com/AuthorsforHurricaneSandyLibraries.htm







Look for the sequel to The Card, by Jim Devitt , coming in 2013!

Recently, Beckers ASC Review - Practical Business, Legal and Clinical Guidance for Ambulatory Surgery Centers published the article Five Steps to Better Billing at ASCs. I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Laura Miller and interviewed for this story. You can find it here.

Becker's ASC Review features general business, legal and clinical guidance on topics including joint-ventures, development and expansion, and regulatory and compliance issues; as well as analysis and insight for specialties including bariatrics, orthopedics/spine, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, pain management, ophthalmology, ENT and anesthesiology. Each of the nine annual issues of the publication reaches a qualified audience of more than 25,000 key business decision-holders, including surgeons, medical directors, directors of surgery, ASC administrators and others involved in the rapidly growing field of outpatient surgery. Further, every ASC in the nation receives Becker's ASC Review.

A Big thank you to Beckers ASC Review for the opportunity to contribute to their publication.