Last week Terry and I had a lot of fun recording Luke's Legacy's audio version. It should be ready for purchase or download in a month or two.
In case you didn't realize, there is free audio download instructions on the very last page of Elk's Resolve and Luke's Legacy. That is a great value.
Be sure to get your copy. You guys have been very suportive and encouraging to both of us.
I want you to read the interview I did with Elaine Smith.
1. What is your name and the title of your book(s)?
"Ridin' Around - Taillights in Chrome, 8-Tracks on Wheels" and ebook "The Perfect Place?"
2. What is one thing you think your readers would like to know about you?
That I'm a real person. Down to earth, not fancified-just a regluar gal.
3. When did you know that you wanted to become a writer? Years ago. Just within the past three years has there been time, inclination and available brain cells to devote to writing.
4. What are your strong points in your writing style or methods?
Humor and description
5. Are you a reader? yes
6. What are you reading right now?
Shiny Water by Anna Salter
7. Do you have another book that you are working on and hasn't been submitted for publication?
Tell about it. A story based on a true crime where a small town young man was caught in a whirlwind of drugs and money and faced with making "The Wrong Move" which may adversely affect his life, as well as others' lives.Crimes such as murder, kidnapping and mutilation are horrific. Making "The Wrong Move" can be deadly.
8. What are your biggest obstacles to writing and how do you overcome them?
Finding quiet in my home and my mind. Yoga and meditation help tremendously. A walk with the dog also allows me time with myself; my thoughts are more easily sorted and prioritized.
9. Please put a description of each of your books here.
Ridin' Around:
Through the stories of the hilarious escapades—and sometimes heartbreaking experiences—of a group of college-age friends, Ridin' Around: Taillights in Chrome, 8-Tracks on Wheels will take you back to the world of small-town America in 1980. The music, the cars, and all the pleasures of a simpler time—like Saturday nights spent just cruising up and down “the drag”—are the backdrop to this funny and nostalgic story of guys and gals living it up. Hang on and ride along for the pranks, the brushes with the law, and the zany adventures!
Author Elaine Fields Smith, drawing on real-life experiences, vividly captures the joy and the pain of young adulthood…and how the friendships that help us get through it can last a lifetime.
The Perfect Place?
Come to a Spiritual Place Where Endless Knowledge Can Be Acquired Just By Being There. The Perfect Place is a supernatural plane of existence where knowledge is literally in the air. The place truly seems perfect—with no evil or need—only the pursuit of learning. What question would you ask Plato given the chance? Could one find the answer to a crucial inquiry from the sage words of Benjamin Franklin? What would Dr. Seuss say about the 21 century? Would Alexander Graham Bell like cell phone texting? Katie and her three spirit guides enthusiastically explore this Perfect Place of Knowledge. They encounter important and obscure historical figures in their search for answers. Actually talking with legendary people is a wonder Katie is amazed to experience. The spirit companions—loved ones from Katie's own past—have extraordinary powers, whisking her through a supernatural portal to experience the Place of Knowledge. But time is running out for the Place due to the flaw Katie has stumbled upon. Only one person or spirit will be chosen to determine the fate of the Perfect Place. Who will it be? Take an inspirational journey to an amazing place—a Perfect Place. Or is it?
10. How can readers contact you or purchase your books? Please put your website or blog here.www.blazingstarbooks.com
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Book discussion questions for both book clubs and home school/schoole age children are available for free at my website.
For new chapters
"Between the Books" go to http://elainelittau.com/ and click on the tab.
I plan to write a new chapter per week (If possible)
First Chapter of Nan's Journey (free)
First 6 Chapters of book #5 (rough copy) Gertie's Grace (Renamed: "The Eyes of a Stranger")
I have a few open dates if you would like to contact me to set something up.
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Interview with Carol Schultz, author of In The Trenches- Financial Survival During Times of Hardship
January 2011
Can you believe that it is already January? If you are like me, you have been looking over the past year and evaluating the things you have done. No matter how careful you are, some things just are not productive. I know that I have done my share of wasting time on the internet "marketing" my books. Although some of it was real marketing, I did lose track of time.
I know there are a few things that I plan to manage better this year. Have you made any decisions along these lines?
1- Manage my time better.
2-Manage my money better.
3-Manage my business things better.
4- Manage my house better.
In the "time" section I have on the top of my list to spend more time with the Lord. Next to put my family and friends above the other time stealers.
As far as money management goes, I plan to re-read the book featured here this week. The author has become a great friend to me. I want you to read this interview I did with Carol Schultz.
1. What is your name and the title of your book(s)? In The Trenches – Financial Survival During Times of Hardship by Carol Schultz.
2. What is one thing you think your readers would like to know about you? In the 80’s I had a nice home, good job, and everything seemed to be moving in the direction of being able to fulfill the American Dream. My father became terminally ill and in the process of trying to take care of him I left my job and ultimately we lost everything. Our family ended up in an uninhabitable home with no running water, heating system, or money. Day after day we had the challenge of how to pull things back together from this place and I constantly cried out to God. “Why?” “Why have You allowed this to happen to me?” He showed me that what had happened to me personally would come upon the nation within my lifetime. As I learned those things I needed to experience I would then be able to share them with others when the time was right.
I began writing In The Trenches in 2002. The first draft set in a drawer for a couple years and periodically I would pull it out and refine and add to the manuscript. The book was written for the chronically low income or those who had recently gone through financial difficulty brought on by job loss, floods, divorce, illness, or over extending their debt. In a visit to my doctor’s office I found a children’s book and liked the illustrations and found that the illustrator lived only 30 minutes away from me. I contacted Cindy and discussed the project with her and her drawings are now part of the book.
Again the book sat. I submitted to a few publishers and was turned down and told that personal finances was not a good selling subject. I turned to self-publishing options but many charged more than I could afford. In the beginning of 2009 I was chomping at the bit and asking the Lord “Now?, Now?” Step by step I was able to finally bring the manuscript into book form and it was published by Createspace.com in October 2009. Of course, in 2009 the personal financial books and blogs began to dominate the market as people began to tighten their belts, pay down debts, and embrace the frugal lifestyle.
The time is now for In The Trenches and the need is so great that I am indeed thankful for the many others who participate in providing specific advice, blogs, and books. Some initially believed that the economic crisis would be over quickly but I have always thought it would take five years from the time we hit the low point. Once we are able to recover from this I believe the next challenge will be that the Social Security system will be insolvent or greatly reduced. Many have made no other plans for retirement and have had large amounts of their funds wiped out in the Wall Street dip.
The good news is that we have the opportunity to rebuild the nations economy one family at a time. Gone is the false charade of wealth brought on by credit-based consumerism. There is a verse that talks about the house on the sand and the house on the rock. The population has just seen what building on the sand will do and we now have the opportunity to build on strong Biblical based principles. Christians and nonChristians alike will benefit from the process. It is a difficult and exciting time we live in.
3. When did you know that you wanted to become a writer? I never specifically decided I wanted to be a writer. I just write all the time. My jobs have had much opportunity to develop skills in procedural documentation and I have always maintained my spiral notebooks where I have written my own thoughts, plans, and goals daily. Writing helps me to practice what I want to say.
4. What are your strong points in your writing style or methods? Simplifying complex subjects.
5. Are you a reader? I have read much since I was a child. It seems to be in our family gene pool because all the members of my family have loved our books and loved discussing what we have learned.
6. What are you reading right now? I am reading some finance books and mostly my granddaughters collection of scholastic books which cover subjects such as the holocaust, biography of Rosa Parks, and the queens who were beheaded after king Henry VIII.
7. Do you have another book that you are working on and haven’t been submitted for publication? Tell about it. I have another book percolating in my head but am keeping very busy with In The Trenches and the blog so don’t know when I will actually sit down and start a new project.
8. What are your biggest obstacles to writing and how do you overcome them? My biggest obstacle right now is this old slow computer that takes forever to get things done with. Right now I’m at the whining, complaining, and praying stage.
9. Please put a description of each of your books here. (back matter is ok) “Are you In The Trenches? Feeling like your financial future needs an overhaul or the choices of the past are now catching up with you? Have you lost your job, home, or relationship and it's time to start over? Or, do you just want some tips for how to record and budget your money more efficiently? In The Trenches, Financial Survival During Times of Hardship is for the millions of Americans that are starting over or just looking for a new way of doing things. The book contains stories, budgeting charts, and ideas…”
“This book is not about despair, it is about hope. It is about the sunshine and rainbows that come after the storms of life.”
10. How can readers contact you or purchase your books? Please put your website or blog here. The people for whom In The Trenches was written do not have the money to purchase the book. I am currently developing a marketing strategy to meet this need. I will use the blog and facebook to keep people up to date. I seek the Lord’s leading in these things each day. I am merely planting the seed, it will be up to Him to make it grow. The blog address is http://inthetrenches2009.blogspot.comor you may write to me directly at inthetrenches@live.com
Can you believe that it is already January? If you are like me, you have been looking over the past year and evaluating the things you have done. No matter how careful you are, some things just are not productive. I know that I have done my share of wasting time on the internet "marketing" my books. Although some of it was real marketing, I did lose track of time.
I know there are a few things that I plan to manage better this year. Have you made any decisions along these lines?
1- Manage my time better.
2-Manage my money better.
3-Manage my business things better.
4- Manage my house better.
In the "time" section I have on the top of my list to spend more time with the Lord. Next to put my family and friends above the other time stealers.
As far as money management goes, I plan to re-read the book featured here this week. The author has become a great friend to me. I want you to read this interview I did with Carol Schultz.
1. What is your name and the title of your book(s)? In The Trenches – Financial Survival During Times of Hardship by Carol Schultz.
2. What is one thing you think your readers would like to know about you? In the 80’s I had a nice home, good job, and everything seemed to be moving in the direction of being able to fulfill the American Dream. My father became terminally ill and in the process of trying to take care of him I left my job and ultimately we lost everything. Our family ended up in an uninhabitable home with no running water, heating system, or money. Day after day we had the challenge of how to pull things back together from this place and I constantly cried out to God. “Why?” “Why have You allowed this to happen to me?” He showed me that what had happened to me personally would come upon the nation within my lifetime. As I learned those things I needed to experience I would then be able to share them with others when the time was right.
I began writing In The Trenches in 2002. The first draft set in a drawer for a couple years and periodically I would pull it out and refine and add to the manuscript. The book was written for the chronically low income or those who had recently gone through financial difficulty brought on by job loss, floods, divorce, illness, or over extending their debt. In a visit to my doctor’s office I found a children’s book and liked the illustrations and found that the illustrator lived only 30 minutes away from me. I contacted Cindy and discussed the project with her and her drawings are now part of the book.
Again the book sat. I submitted to a few publishers and was turned down and told that personal finances was not a good selling subject. I turned to self-publishing options but many charged more than I could afford. In the beginning of 2009 I was chomping at the bit and asking the Lord “Now?, Now?” Step by step I was able to finally bring the manuscript into book form and it was published by Createspace.com in October 2009. Of course, in 2009 the personal financial books and blogs began to dominate the market as people began to tighten their belts, pay down debts, and embrace the frugal lifestyle.
The time is now for In The Trenches and the need is so great that I am indeed thankful for the many others who participate in providing specific advice, blogs, and books. Some initially believed that the economic crisis would be over quickly but I have always thought it would take five years from the time we hit the low point. Once we are able to recover from this I believe the next challenge will be that the Social Security system will be insolvent or greatly reduced. Many have made no other plans for retirement and have had large amounts of their funds wiped out in the Wall Street dip.
The good news is that we have the opportunity to rebuild the nations economy one family at a time. Gone is the false charade of wealth brought on by credit-based consumerism. There is a verse that talks about the house on the sand and the house on the rock. The population has just seen what building on the sand will do and we now have the opportunity to build on strong Biblical based principles. Christians and nonChristians alike will benefit from the process. It is a difficult and exciting time we live in.
3. When did you know that you wanted to become a writer? I never specifically decided I wanted to be a writer. I just write all the time. My jobs have had much opportunity to develop skills in procedural documentation and I have always maintained my spiral notebooks where I have written my own thoughts, plans, and goals daily. Writing helps me to practice what I want to say.
4. What are your strong points in your writing style or methods? Simplifying complex subjects.
5. Are you a reader? I have read much since I was a child. It seems to be in our family gene pool because all the members of my family have loved our books and loved discussing what we have learned.
6. What are you reading right now? I am reading some finance books and mostly my granddaughters collection of scholastic books which cover subjects such as the holocaust, biography of Rosa Parks, and the queens who were beheaded after king Henry VIII.
7. Do you have another book that you are working on and haven’t been submitted for publication? Tell about it. I have another book percolating in my head but am keeping very busy with In The Trenches and the blog so don’t know when I will actually sit down and start a new project.
8. What are your biggest obstacles to writing and how do you overcome them? My biggest obstacle right now is this old slow computer that takes forever to get things done with. Right now I’m at the whining, complaining, and praying stage.
9. Please put a description of each of your books here. (back matter is ok) “Are you In The Trenches? Feeling like your financial future needs an overhaul or the choices of the past are now catching up with you? Have you lost your job, home, or relationship and it's time to start over? Or, do you just want some tips for how to record and budget your money more efficiently? In The Trenches, Financial Survival During Times of Hardship is for the millions of Americans that are starting over or just looking for a new way of doing things. The book contains stories, budgeting charts, and ideas…”
“This book is not about despair, it is about hope. It is about the sunshine and rainbows that come after the storms of life.”
10. How can readers contact you or purchase your books? Please put your website or blog here. The people for whom In The Trenches was written do not have the money to purchase the book. I am currently developing a marketing strategy to meet this need. I will use the blog and facebook to keep people up to date. I seek the Lord’s leading in these things each day. I am merely planting the seed, it will be up to Him to make it grow. The blog address is http://inthetrenches2009.blogspot.comor you may write to me directly at inthetrenches@live.com