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Brisingr - the third book in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini is scheduled for release in September. Rumors abound as to what exactly will happen in the second sequel to the bestselling Eragon.
Random House (the publisher) has released the second official spoiler for Brisingr, in which Chirstopher Paolini gives out some until now unreleased knowledge. Also a small excerpt of the book has been released earlier.
Brisingr is a high fantasy novel that has been preceded by two bestselling novels, Eragon and Eldest. Therefore the hopes are very high that it will be another international success. Inheritance Cycle has a lot of eager fans awaiting for the release of the third and fourth books.
May 23rd, 2008
First Love’s Philosophy
by Percy B. ShelleyThe mountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another’s being mingle;–
Why not I with thine?
See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdained it’s brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;–
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
What Love’s Philosophy Means To Me…
These kinds of short romantic love poems capture the magical time when love’s promise is just outside our reach. We are falling in love and nothing feels better and gives more hope!
I love to read ” Love’s Philosophy” out loud, and hear my own voice in which I can inject feelings and emotions — it seems to bring the poem to life!
It brings two worlds together - my experience and love of nature and the dawn of new love in my heart.
It takes me away to the thousands of miles I have hiked over alpine meadows, paddled torrent rivers and sailed over open seas. How many countless stary nights have I slept under? What thanks can I give to the moonbeams lighting my way on midnight runs through the Teton mountains?
When I read ” Love’s Philosophy” I know that Shelly is thanking God for me!
To see this union and mingle of all things in the eyes of my beloved, to feel her warmth and loving gaze is something that ” Love’s Philosophy” is point to.
I can not help, but take delight in such a union I feel as though I am joined with the spirit that flows through all things.
This is the gift of living with love. Peace and harmony. I call it happiness. To share it with someone you love is abolute divine. The keep it sacred and cherished is called humanity.
Romantic love poems are timeless, and transcend cultural barriers. They are like sunsets and sunrises.
They can be read over and over and still the magic lives in even greater glory.
It does not matter if you enjoy reading or writing poems of love, just enjoy them and share the joy!
Warm Regards
Erik Kampe
Love & Romance Editor, PWSH
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May 6th, 2008
The third book of the Inheritance Cycle, Brisingr, will be published on September 20th 2008. The fourth book is still unnamed.
The series was drafted as a trilogy, but in 2007 Paolini announced that it would have four books instead. According to him, Brisingr would have grown too large otherwise. The series was also renamed Inheritance Cycle from Inheritance Trilogy.
The word ‘brisingr’ means ‘fire’ in the ancient language of the elves and has been borrowed from old Norse language. It was the first word of magic that Eragon learned from his mentor Brom in the first novel.
A spoiler for Brisingr has also been released.
April 5th, 2008
The first book of Inheritance Cycle, Eragon, was published in 2002. Paolini started writing it after he graduated high school only fifteen years old. After it was republished in 2003 by Knopf, it became a bestseller with worldwide readership.
The book begins the story of Eragon (the title character) in the fantasy realm of Alagaësia. The book was widely criticized as drawing on both Lord of the Realms and Star Wars, but is nevertheless widely considered a great book by a talented author.
The third book of the series is yet unpublished, but will be published on September 20th under the name Brisingr.
March 30th, 2008
To everything there is rhyme and reason
So your thinking, why ebooks?
First of all lets explain what an ebook is. An ebook is a downloadable, electronic digital version of information or a book. These digital versions are also sometimes referred to as etexts. The etext versions are usually text versions.
An ebook can come in several formats. The two most popular formats are listed below
• PDF An ebook that is in PDF format created with Adobe Acrobat and readable using Adobe Acrobat Reader available free of charge from Adobe. The format There are also a few other software products that can create PDF files as well. PDF Creator is a good example of software that can be used for digital format distribution.
• Executable There are many compiler that can create ebooks in executable format using text or html pages. Just like a webpage it can show the images and text properly formatted leaving a professional looking ebook with links.
Now the answer to the question “Why Ebooks?”
What are the advantages to ebooks?
• The text within the ebook can be searched by using keywords
• Loss is limited if a backup copy is kept, especially in cases of physical disaster.
• Does not require much space for storage. Compilations of ebooks are usually small in size, depending on how much content you have, of course.
• Ebooks are inexpensive to create. There are many software creators that can be purchased for $30 or less.
What are some of the disadvantages?
Some formats of ebooks do not run on all computer systems. Especially the executable files. They sometimes may not run on Mac systems.
Many ebook authors prevent copying and printing of material contained within the ebook due to theft of material. There are people who plagerize.
It is sometime difficult to find the downloaded ebook file on a computer hard drive.
Use of a computer to read these ebooks for a prolonged amount of time can be harmful to the eyes.
There are many people who have made a fortune in selling ebooks online. Even though there are disadvantages the demand for digital versions of books is very high.
Many ebooks have been created and sold with resell rights, allowing you to pocket 100% of the money.
Now you’re thinking how can I do this?
The best way to start is to find ebooks with resell rights. In this way you can earn and learn at the same time. Read the ebooks yourself to get information on how to market, how to setup a website, how to build traffic and much more.
Make it easy for me. Tell me where the ebooks are.
One of the largest sources of ebooks on many subjects is GoldenStarEbooks.net
It contains ebooks on business, cooking, self-help and much more.
Packages are the way to go though for more ebooks and low start-up.
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March 2nd, 2008
Bright colored sheets just inside the sturdy book cover certainly set the mood for this excellent book geared for children between the ages of 4 and 8.
The main character is a young boy who is desperately fretting over the class reaction to his strange family. He dreads the day the children in his classroom are due to present their portrayals of their families. Much to his delight, he realizes his family is not so strange after all. Parents and teachers will certainly find the yoga-loving dad with orange polka-dotted socks is sure to get the giggles rolling. The impressive illustrations hold attention to the page.
As youth, we are often fascinated by other family’s doors and what lays beyond them. When we discover that all the quirks and differences reside in everyone’s family, it makes it easier to accept our families and our place in them. This is a valuable life skill that would certainly help to ground little people at this age.
Educators and caretakers may find this book useful in social and family studies.
Children are encouraged to personalize the book on the first page and create a list of their family and their personality traits on the last page - thus making this book more interactive.”
ISBN#: 0974430722
Author: Kristin Joy Humes
Illustrations: Loel Barr
Publisher: Merry Lane Press
~ Lillian Brummet - Book Reviewer - Co-author of the book Trash Talk, a guide for anyone concerned about his or her impact on the environment - Author of Towards Understanding, a collection of poetry. (www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit)
January 13th, 2008
In The 4-Hour Work Week Tim Ferris shares his story about traveling among those who live in worlds currently beyond our imagination. He will show you how to make it happen. He will show you the code and how you can duplicate it.
Outsourcing, you have heard it. Why not go for it big time? This could be the biggest business trend of this century? Starting with outsourcing your low-end tasks and when you are finished you have outsourced your whole life.
In this book you are getting the real story. The story involving the people called the “New Rich.” What is the uncommon set of rules that these millionaires follow?
How you as an employee can make the escape and travel the world.
Lifestyle design is about creating luxury lifestyles with the two keywords; time and mobility.
The 4-Hour Work Week explains what a lifestyle entrepreneur is and why you should want to become one. It teaches you how to kill your job and design a life, the 80/20 rule and how it increases productivity, how to replace your dreams with goals, and more. Listeners can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.
July 3rd, 2007
There are a number of things that I don’t like about ebooks or written books that talk to people regarding technology. There are too many assumptions made about the people that are reading the publications.
For the most part the authors and publishers are under an albeit false impression that everyone is a techno-wiz and that we all live and breathe every verse of every tech manual ever devised.
What they fail to realize in this country especially is that the reading level for the populus is decreasing at an ever rapid rate. We in tech (I have been guilty of this as well) are not educating our audience. We’re preaching to them instead of helping them understand what it is that we are trying to sell them or provide to them.
Now while dumbing things down is not helpful either, adding some additional education to the prose is preferred as a solution to the problem which confronts us. How do we explain rocket-science in such a way that someone who’s not Werner Von Braun can actually understand it and put the shields up so that the Klingon’s don’t screw us from our seats once again and drop us onto some forbidden planet.
Authors…do something simple as add a glossary of terms for your readers. Educate them so that they respect you and laud you and tell all their friends to purchase your tomes. Not so that they despise you and send you packing the next time you come to town.
That’s my .02 on this subject for this day.
Michael Murdock, CEO, www.DocMurdock.com
Former Pixar Macintosh Systems Engineer Credited in Toy Story 1995
June 1st, 2007
What if I told you that you could build your own home without having to worry about purchasing the blueprints, the materials, hiring a contractor and, more importantly, with little to no money required. The home would be virtually free! Would you accept my offer? I thought so! Now, what if I told you that I could show you how to build an online business, virtually free, producing and marketing your very own product. That’s right, it would be your very own product. Would you accept my offer? If so, keep reading.
In our daily quest for information on how to start our own home-based online business, we are bombarded with information overload. You become overwhelmed and concerned as to whether are not you are going to get what you pay for, or if the information purchased is really what you need. Often times, the programs are overpriced and the person offering the program has not established himself/herself as an online business success. But, guess what? It can be done without all the hype, all the money, and it is relatively simple and FREE.
Here is what you’ll need:
* A computer
* Internet
* Microsoft Word
* Workspace
* Made up mind
Believe it or not, you can create an informational product such as an e-book in as little as 7 days or less. Grab a pen and pad, start generating your ideas (something you know well and that you’re good at), and just start writing. Don’t stop and don’t worry about grammatical errors, not right now, anyway. Once you have your ideas on paper, find a friend to edit your content. After the editing is done, your e-book is basically complete. With the completion of the book, you can start strategizing on ways to make it make money for you over and over again. You don’t have to concern yourself with shipping, inventory or the sorts. You will literally make money while you sleep. The more you do this, the easier it becomes. You will see that creating an e-book can be as easy as 1,2,3! Don’t wait another minute!
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May 28th, 2007
Title: Protect Your E-books Files!
Perkins Failsafe System for Protecting Your Fame and Fortune
Three years ago I was giving my first E-book keynote speech before the Arizona Book Publishing Association, when one of the esteemed publisher members asked me a very pointed question.
“What happens if someone steals your file and sells it or gives it away all over the Internet?”
Until I was asked that question I thought I was Sutter striking gold in California.
“How do you keep people from stealing your work?”
Beads of perspiration formed on my face and hands. I had cottonmouth. This is a bad dream. Why didn’t I think of this before?
My mind immediately regressed to conversations with other professional speakers relating horrifying incidents where they discovered their “signature story” was being retold.
I thought about the many times I heard professional speakers telling Dr. Charles Jarvis’s special Little Bird story without giving credit to Dr. Jarvis
I wondered how much easier it would be to take the Little Bird story as a file formatted in a common program like Microsoft Word for windows and then spread it to many thousands or even millions of people through e-mail.
Do you think that can happen? I think so.
Over the last 3 years many companies have become involved in creating encryption techniques that protect your e-book files from theft.
However, none of the encryption techniques are fail-safe. In fact many times when you download an encrypted book, the files are so huge and difficult to open that you end up canceling your order.
I was recently giving a teleseminar and an attendee asked a most common question.
The question was, “how to I keep someone from stealing my -e-book?
I decided to answer the attendee’s question with a question.
Why do you care if they steal your e-book?
She replied” Because I will lose money.”
That is when the light bulb went off in my brain. Companies that are spending all that money and putting in all that effort to encrypt e-books are throwing their money away. They are protecting people from opening e-books which really isn’t’ the major concern.
The problem is protecting the authors from the potential loss of fame and fortune.
Telling Dr. Jarvis’s Little Bird Story without his citation isn’t’ the problem. The problem is in the potential loss of Dr. Jarvis’s fame and fortune due to telling his story.
The loss of your e-book files represents a potential loss of your fame and fortune.
You lose no inventory if someone steals a digital file. Once you complete an e-book and post it on-line you automatically have 6 Billion copies in print. You have enough inventory for every man, woman and child on earth.
If one person reads your e-book and does not pay for it you may have one fan. If 100,000 people read it for free you may have a 100,000 fans.
A question I have is can you earn more money and have more fame with one fan or with 100,000 fans?
Over the last few weeks I have successfully completed the best e-book encryption system ever devised and it is yours absolutely free.
This Encryption system will allow virtually anyone to open and read your e-books, and yet this system will protect your fame and fortune.
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—The Perkins E-book Fame and Fortune Encryption System—Version 4.1
PEFAFES
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Components of the Perkins E-book fame and fortune encryption system:
PEFAFES
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1. You need an e-book. An e-book can be 5 page or 500 pages long. You are the expert in your field. You get to call the shots on e-book size.
You will advertise how to purchase additional copies of your e-book as well as how to purchase the Infoproduct mentioned later.
2. You need a tasty article. This article will be related to your e-book. The purpose of the article is to entice the reader to purchase your e-book. (Component #1)
The web address where article readers may find and purchase your e-book will be included.
3. You need an Infoproduct. An Infoproduct is an expansion of the article or extra information you forgot to include in your e-book. If your Infoproduct is exactly the same content as your article you may want to add special examples or additional Internet resources where web visitors may receive more information. Include many of the free resources on your own website. You will advertise your e-book price and your infoproduct price in the infoproduct text.
Here is your free copy of the revolutionary PEFAFES system.
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Example of the Encryption System
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For this example assume you are a public speaker who talks on the topic of “How to Win At Gambling”
You have a website titled ” Vegas-Gambling.com”
The title of your e-book is: 101 Winning Poker Strategies” Price $9.95
Create an article that you will post to major websites on the Internet. You will offer your article free to webmasters in return for a link to the description page of your book located on your website or a website that fulfills your e-book orders.
Title this article “3 Ways to Win at Poker.”
Let’s say your e-book title is: “101 Winning Poker Strategies” Price 9.95
Your book is loaded with references about you, your contact information and hot links to places on your website for more information about gambling and it includes references to your other e-books, consulting services and detailed contact information.
After you create your article “3 Ways to Win At Poker” with the usual 4 line author bi-line at the bottom of the page, create another file based on the article titled “3 Great Ways to Win At Poker.” Make sure you list resources, references and links over to your website or to more product pages and more information about you.
This file will be called your “infoproduct” or information product.
If you are lazy and just want to use the exact same file as you used as your free article, that is okay as well.
Once you understand how the encryption system works, you will understand how beneficial it is to allow people to purchase your articles.
Assign a price of $3.95 to your Infoproduct.
Now for a summary of what you have so far.
1. Article…used to market your e-book that you give away for FREE
2. E-book …which is your basic product. You will charge $9.95 each
3. Infoproduct that you advertise in your e-book selling for $3.95
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Now here is the good stuff and this is why I make sure I format in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF. I also keep all of my files smaller than 500 kilobytes in size to allow delivery via e-mail without the use of Zip files or other confusing helper programs.
My newest products are all text files that are small in size and can be read on any computer without any special software requirements.
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You now have your encryption system in place
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Picture this…At the current time, you are watching a 2-hour hockey game.
While you are watching TV an Internet surfer, Jack Sprat, locates your website article.
(1) Jack Sprat reads the article about your 3 gambling tips and thinks it’s great.
(2) He goes to your website and purchases your e-book for $9.95
(3) He loves it so much that he sends it to his whole “Gamblers Anonymous” data base with over one million strong. This takes place in the time span of one hour! Jack Sprat knows nothing about copyright laws. He is just so happy to share your expertise with his friends!
Over one million e-mail recipients receive the attachment but only 10% or 100,000 people read about your tips. The other 90% just hit the delete key on their computers. They are afraid of opening any e-mail attachments.
Over 100,000 read your e-book for free and 10% or 10,000 readers are so moved that they decide to click on over to your website and purchase your “Infoproduct” for only $3.95 each.
(Remember that your infoproduct is your free article with a price tag on it.
Your gross sales for one hour’s work = $39509.95
(1) 0 X 100,000 = $0.00 Your E-book Sales
(2) $9.95 X 1= $9.95 Jack Sprat’s E-book sale
(3) $3.95 X 10,000= $39509.95 Infoproduct sales
You made $39509.95 in one hour. Since your E-book ordering system is on automatic pilot, you never talked to a single customer or took product out of your inventory.
You are halfway done with the hockey game and haven’t even turned on your computer.
You also have 100,000 People talking about you at this very minute.
Are you excited yet?
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Your fame and fortune encryption system continues on…
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Remember those 10,000 people who paid $3.95 for the special report after reading your e-book for free?
One person out of that group, Sylvia Wiss is the only dishonest person out of the 10,000 . She purchased the special report for $3.95 and decides to send your $3.95 special report to one million of her friends. She sends it to the “National Association for the Preservation of Gambling” …one million strong. Sylvia too, is Internet savvy and blasts out your Infoproduct to a million people in only one hour.
Like in the above example only 10% of the group or 100,000 read it. The rest consider it Spam or e-mail that should be deleted. 10% of that group or 10,000 love your Infoproduct. They love it so much that they purchase your featured e-book that was advertised in the Infoproduct that was just stolen. Remember your “101 Winning Poker Strategies” Price 9.95?
Sylvia’s efforts have resulted in 10,000 E-books, selling at $9.95 each, which equal $99,500 plus the original $3.95 sale of the Infoproduct to Sylvia Wiss.
Congratulations to your top salespeople!
Jack Sprat ’s efforts created $39,509.95 in total sales. The total time elapsed is only one hour.
Sylvia Wiss brought you $99,503.95 in a time frame of one hour
Your total sales for the day: $139,013.90 The total time that expired during this process is just two hours
I wonder how much money you will have earned in the next 40 hours?
There is one more question I will leave with you to think over. At what point do you contact an attorney and ask about copyright violations by Jack and Sylvia?
While you are thinking that over, I am going to see if there is anything else I can watch on television.
My E-book Fame and Fortune Encryption System is still operating.
Good luck.
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About the Author
Wayne Perkins is the best selling author of “A Cheap and Easy Guide to Self-publishing E-books” and presents teleseminars on how to sell information on-line.
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May 19th, 2007
