Thursday, January 28, 2010

2010 Winners - Allbooks Review Editor's Choice

Winners 2010 Allbooks Review Editor’s Choice

Shirley A. Roe, Managing Editor of Allbooks Review would like to announce the winners for the 2010 Allbooks Review Editor's Choice Award. From the hundreds of books we receive each year, a few outshine the rest; Allbooks Review likes to show our appreciation of their excellence. www.allbookreviews.com


Mystery
Suicidal Tendencies
Garry Patrick

Memoir
Son of my Soul
Debra Shiveley Welch

Health
City of Gardens Health
P. Schnerch

Inspiration
Shattered Reality Inspiration
Kimberly Cheryl

Fiction
For God and Country Fiction
Daniel Reyes

Sci-Fi
Beyond Those Distant Stars
John B. Rosenman

History
Shipwreck of a Nation
Peter Nennhaus

Writing
The Step-By-Step Guide to Self-Publishing for Profit!
Pinheiro and Nick Russell


Congratulations to all of our winners. We have chosen the 8 overall best books from our list of various genres, rather than one from each genre. Books can be purchased on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and various bookstores.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Books In Sync Recognizes Author Cindy Tuttle


Cindy’s Vision:
My vision is to tell of my gratitude to God and how God is alive today, just as He has been in the past and will be in the future. How God has helped everyone at different points in their life and to be aware of the truth about ourselves, with love and gratitude to God. I welcome you as, Beloved Brothers and Sisters of Jesus. I organize and facilitate one-day retreats. I offer two options. One is called Dancing with God, where we do simple movements to various songs as prayers. We also do meditative prayers, and sharing of our faith. I can adapt this retreat to any season. The second option is Joyful Surrender. In this retreat we focus on 3 stages of growing in faith. We try and look at ourselves truthfully, but with love, and how it can lead to a deeper faith. These are currently one-day retreats, but can easily be expanded to two days.

I have worked with people with severe disabilities for over 30 years. They have taught me much about God and the important things of life. I have a degree in Human Services, and I am certified by the State as an Activity Director. I have been fortunate enough to host a cable television show and have been interviewed on television twice. I will be in a documentary on mental health that will be coming out soon. I have developed (with the help of my spiritual advisor) a way to live a vowed life, which has been blessed by the Catholic Church. Most importantly, I have a joy that cannot be repressed. I seem to have this strong desire to share the joy of God, through many avenues. They include writing, singing, dancing, retreats, and being a lector at Church. Thank you so much for letting me share my journey with you. I am humbled by your support. Thanks be to God!

Joyful Surrender by Cindy Tuttle
I wrote this book with the desire to share my love of God, and to provide some support for others who have the same desire. This book attempts to provide a new and creative way to live a vowed life. This path was helped by prayer, my spiritual director and a doctor in psychiatry. Most importantly, by the people with disabilities I have met along the way. I struggled with the idea of writing a book about myself, wondering if that was self-promotion or ego. I came to realize that my motivation was to tell how wonderful God is and what God has done for me. In the book I mention how I realized I was a beloved daughter of God. I also realized everyone is a beloved son or daughter of God, so I offer this book humbly and with much respect for every reader.

Joyful Surrender Book Review:
Joyful Surrender is a very well written memoir about a woman who spent years of her life in search of fulfilling her Spiritual Quest. Her Quest was one initiated through her own innate desire to commit to God. Cindy Tuttle shares with her readers her Spiritual Journey and what seemed to be an exhausting and almost never ending road to what she felt to be her natural path in her life. This book reaches out to its readers through inspirational and Spiritual focus which offers a new and creative way to live what Cindy Tuttle calls, "A Vowed Life"
Highly recommends, JOYFUL SURRENDER to all educators and people young and old as a true Spiritual resource book and most of all a bright light that will guide you through all of the negative elements that continuously work to blind your Spirituality throughout your life!
Joyful Surrender Review by Womensselfesteem.com

Book Details:
Paperback: 48 pages
Publisher: Publish America
July 28, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606103164
ISBN-13: 978-1606103166

Print Price: $16.95

Purchase Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Joyful-Surrender-Cindy-Tuttle/dp/1606103164/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220296187&sr=1-1

Website (s):
www.authorsen/cindytuttle.com
www.cindytuttletheauthor.com

E-mail:
cindytuttle08@comcast.net

Please Visit Cindy Tuttle’s Webpage On Books In Sync:
http://www.booksinsync.com/authordirectory/tuttlecindy.html

Submitted by Theodocia McLean
Owner of Books In Sync
Website: http://www.booksinsync.com
Submission Date: January 27, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Books In Sync Recognizes Author Linda Fossen


Author Linda M. Fossen Comes To ‘Books In Sync’ As A Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse. She shares with us her experience and her freedom from the oppression as she names her abuser openly in her book.

About The Author:
On the day that I was born my father refused to come to the hospital with my mother because there was a boxing match on television that he had waited all year to see. This was a telling sign of things to come in my life. Whereas the rest of my siblings all seemed able to deal with the emotional absence of my father - I simply could not. I just craved my father’s love and attention and it seemed I would do anything to get it. This longing for my daddy created in me an enormously deep wound that simply would not heal. was to find out later that my father would be missing at all the most important times in my life.

At the age of three my father introduced me to sexual abuse; although at the time, I did not know the meaning of the words, nor could I even spell them. I thought that all little girls played these same games with their fathers. The abuse started out so innocently – first as fondling and then gradually progressed to more perversion and abuse. The abuse started before our family became Christians and sadly was to continue for many years afterwards. My father went on to become a preacher. Being in a preacher’s family, I had no way of telling anyone about the shame that began to gnaw at my heart. I felt so damaged and unworthy and I did not know how to deal with these feelings. I remember as a little girl looking at the pictures of Jesus with children on His knee and wishing so much that I could be one of them. But I thought that Jesus hated me. After all, I had prayed for years for Him to come and rescue me. I heard that He could walk on the water and I just knew that one day He would walk into my bedroom and take me away from the abuse. When that did not happen, I felt completely betrayed by God. I began to stuff my feelings and bury them in the dark recesses of my heart. The abuse finally ended after I was twelve. What once was love for my father turned to hatred and then complete rage.

I spent most of my life trying to love God but always feeling such ambivalence in my heart towards Him. I just could not understand how God had allowed the abuse to continue after I had prayed so many years for it to end. My father used his position of being a preacher to make sure that I kept silent. I just had no means to ever tell my secret and the burden it put on my young heart was very profound. I became an over-achiever, obsessive-compulsive and a very Type-A kind of person. I just could not relax because when I did the memories of my abuse would come flooding over me. I did not want to deal with these memories and kept stuffing my feelings back inside, hoping somehow that I could “run away” from my pain. On the outside, I looked like "the girl who had it all together" but inside I was silently crying. I began to loathe myself and turned to eating disorders, approval addiction and cutting to try to deal with the pain.

It was not until I had a severe neck injury that ended my 23-year career that I slowly came to the end of myself and had to face my abuse or die. There was no other choices. I was completely shattered emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. It was then that I began on a journey towards my wholeness and freedom. I am now 50 years old and have found such joy and peace in my life for the very first time. I have forgiven my father and there is not a single cell in my body that hates him anymore.

I never intended to write a book. I became an author quite by “accident”. In the depths of my pain, I began to journal and what came out was not in diary format but in story form. I was puzzled by this but continued to write as a means of finding peace for myself. After I found my freedom, I simply could not keep it to myself. As I began to share my freedom with others, I was appalled to discover that I was not alone. There were so many others that I knew who were still suffering in their silence. I could not keep this freedom to myself. I want to let the whole world know that there is a way out of this pain and His wonderful name is Jesus.

Featuring: Out of the Miry Clay: Freedom From Childhood Sexual Abuse by Linda M. Fossen

"I was three years old and I thought that all little girls played these same games with their fathers. Thus began my introduction to sexual abuse - although at the time, I did not know the meaning of the words, nor could I even spell them. My father sexually abused me for ten years, both before and after he became a preacher. Naturally this completely polluted my concept of God, father, love and trust. This really is a story about the carnage that sexual abuse leaves in the heart of every child. It is my story of being a preacher’s daughter in search of a loving Heavenly Father who would give me the courage to forgive and trust again. A Heavenly Father so unlike my earthly father that the difference would literally baffle me for years."

Details:
199 pages
Book Print Price: $9.95
Book Purchase Link:
http://lindafossen.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=35

Book Review:
"Out of the Miry Clay" is an understatement of what Linda Fossen came out of. This is an enthralling book that opens up the eyes to those around us in need, especially in the church. This book will help uncover many hurts and set people free. It is amazing what God can do, when we let him. This book will help you and others get free from the hurt of the past." JOAN HUNTER, President/Founder of Joan Hunter Ministries; Author of "Healing the Heart and Healing the Whole Man"

"I was so happy to get your book in my hands. I started reading in the car (I never read in the car) and I read it all the way back home - about an hour drive. We got home and I had to keep reading. I read the entire book!! What a ministering tool you have written for those of us with scars from dealing with many guarded emotions and pain. I do understand your heart and was so encouraged and blessed by reading the events of your life and the victory over the horrendous invasion of your mind and body. I pray this book sells millions!! (a reader)

Author’s Webpage On Book In Sync:
http://www.booksinsync.com/authordirectory/fossenlinda.html

Submitted by Theodocia McLean
Owner of Books In Sync
Website: http://www.booksinsync.com
Submission Date: January 26, 2010

Monday, January 25, 2010

Quick Re-Cap Of What Authors Get With A Books In Sync Annual Subscription:

Authors Get A Full Author's Page That Hosts:
Book Covers, Full Book Description, Book Trailers, Book Reviews, Book Excerpts, Author’s Headshot Jpeg, Author Spotlight Interview, Special Books In Sync Press Release, Book Purchase Links and Author’s Contact Information.

Book(s) are placed in the Reader's Café by genre and Book Trailer(s) are placed in the Video Theater by genre.

The Author’s Book Cover & Headshot Jpeg is displayed on the Books In Sync Home Page.

Author’s get a special Book In Sync Press Release which we place on thirteen online locations along with a Book Cover & Trailer. Next we send your Books In Sync Press Release to an online E-Zine for approval and posting.

Books In Sync goes out and beats the online bushes for Reader to bring to the site. Recently we started two Reader Related Contests.

Our newsletter has over 3,000 readers and it is growing every month. We host four Author Related Contests and one Fun Pet Contest.

If an author subscribes for the second year and so on.....we post their headshot jpeg and book cover jpeg back on the Home Page, revise your Books In Sync Press Release and do another online Promotional Blitz.

Best Of All You Get The Books In Sync Name Behind You!

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

7 FREE Contests At Book In Sync!


Books In Sync Has A Book Cover Contest Beginning Again On February 1st And It Is Open To All Authors!

Our Book Trailer Recognition Contest Is Just Beginning And It Is Open To All Authors!

It Is Time To Vote For The Poetry Contest & Short Story Contest Submissions And This Contest Is Open To All Authors.

We Have A New Fun Pet Corner Contest To Enter And It Is Open To All Authors!

New Author's Page 'Visitor's Choice Contest' Is Open To All Books In Sync Authors!

New Avid Reader’s Club Is Open To All Readers!

Theodocia McLean
Books In Sync
http://www.booksinsync.com

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Encouragement

Photo by Geni White

Feeling kind of ugly?


Rejections can do that to you.

I've added an encouragement page on my site. Though dedicated to writers, anyone can find inspiration in the quotes and the links.

Rejection is a part of life--like it or not--everyone has to deal with it at one time or another.
Hoping this page will help get the sting out of rejection.

Click HERE for link on tips on how to deal with rejection.


Don't let rejections make you feel ugly

Books in Sync partners up with Cold Coffee Book Store & Magazine

A new partnership has been established between Books In Sync and Cold Coffee. This will bring many advantages to authors on Books In Sync.

First Immediate Advantage: Exposure with your own page at Cold Coffee; plus extra visibility on the Books In Sync page on Cold Coffee with your own BIS press release, putting the Books In Sync Name to work for you.

Second Immediate Advantage: Winners (going forward) of the Book Cover, Book Trailer, Poetry & Short Story Contest at Books In Sync will get an exclusive write up in the Cold Coffee Magazine and receive a hard copy (courtesy of Cold Coffee Owner – David Price) of the magazine for your coffee table.

Third Advantage (down the line): Access to a writers' agent who recruits for traditional publishers. More information will be forthcoming.
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visit BIS or contact Theodocia McLean.
http://www.booksinsync.com
theodociam@booksinsync.com
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Happy New Year!
We Expect Great Things In 2010!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

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