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WRITING A BOOK?
You’ll want to read all of these reallly helpful articles:

• Thou Shalt Finish Your Manuscript
• Good First Impressions Create Successful Self-Publishers
• Top Tips for Getting Great Reviews
• Creating an Effective Business Plan
• Take Your Book on Tour from the Comfort of Your Couch
• Successful Interviewing for Successful Book Promotion
• A Beginner’s Guide to Market Segmentation
• Going for Gold: Navigating the Hurdles of Book Award Submissions
• Get to the Top of the Pile: Submitting an Effective Query Letter
• Are You Making Waves on the World Wide Web?
• Brand Yourself: Building Your Book Marketing Efforts on a Promise
• 10 Ways to Share Free Content Online to Improve Your Book’s Sale Opportunities
Links to each article on this page: Get it all HERE. I’ll be interviewing BookSurge’s Brian Jud next week! Stay tuned!

FUNERAL GIFT
This starts out pretty scary–what will she say if she isn’t going to say the nice stuff? This may be an ad, but it sure is powerfully moving. Watch it HERE.

PIANO IMPROVISATION AT TED 2004
Jennifer Lin, just a teenager at the time, shows how she improvises on the piano at TED 2004. Goldie Hawn gives her 5 notes–and the order in which to play them. Watch how Jennifer takes these 5 notes and turns them into a amazingly beautiful experience. I love these TED videos! Watch this one HERE.

ONE OF THE BEST ONLINE MAGS
This is a short, online page-turner. It’s one of the most beautifully designed magazines I’ve ever see. Plan to spend some time–the links tot he phtographers’ pages are live, and they are good photographers. HERE.

EVER SEEN AN ELEPHANT BEING BORN?
Whew! Never draemed I’d see this! Watch it live right HERE!

GIANT JELLYFISH SINK JAPANESE FISHING BOAT! WHOA!
It’s science fiction come true -

A 10-ton fishing boat has been sunk by giant jellyfish off the coast of Japan.

The trawler capsized as its crew tried to haul on board a catch full of huge Nomura’s jellyfish. Oops! Read more HERE. Sure glad I wasn’t on that boat!

KILIMANJARO SNOWS GO AWAY W/IN 20 YEARS?
The snows capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, are shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in 20 years, most likely due to global warming, a US study says. The ice sheet that capped Kilimanjaro in 1912 was 85 per cent smaller by 2007, and since 2000 the existing ice sheet has shrunk by 26 per cent, the paleoclimatologists said. Read more HERE.

HOW CAN ANYONE BE SO CLUELESS?
“Dude, Where’s My Car? In April 2009, Jeff Sabold, the owner of a luxury auto dealership in Texas, called 911 to report that he was “scared and lost” and had parked his 2000 Ferrari on unfamiliar train tracks after making a wrong turn. “Tell me what you saw on your way to nowhere,” the dispatcher suggests. “Railroad tracks and some woods,” Sabold helpfully replies. This meeting of minds was interrupted by Sabold’s offhand follow-up: “There’s a train coming, I’m going to get killed.” ” Watch this–I could hardly beieve my ears when he even said his name! I’d be so embarrassed I’d want to bury myself for at least ten years…HERE.

ACCORDIAN? REALLY?
Mark Frauenfelder
“Enjoy Вивальди “времена года” Лето-3часть, the Russian boy accordion genius. It’s all in the head shake. Once you get that down, the rest is easy….”
This is simply astounding. Who’d ever think you could play an accordian like this? Watch this incredible boy playing HERE.

THE COUNTERFEITERS
“The film tells the story of Sally Sorowitsch, a master counterfeiter who is imprisoned at the start of the war, and who curries favor in Auschwitz with his painting and drawing. Sorowitsch is rescued from Auschwitz and sent to run Operation Bernhard, amid captive bankers, artists and printers from Germany and Russia. Sorowitsch is a likable anti-hero, honorable but self-interested, the perfect pivot for the story to revolve around.

“The Counterfeiters is an emotionally complex–and often horrifying–film about the prisoners’ dilemma (literally and figuratively). A superbly acted and scripted cast of characters play out their intense moral conundrums: supporting the Nazis by printing currency for them; saving their lives while outside their compounds others are dying; and other situations in which solidarity and self interest lock horns, with no easy answers….”
Read more HERE.

A 7-PATTY HAMBURGER? YOU’RE KIDDING, RIGHT?
Wrong. Check this out. Grossness at its best: Burger King Gives Japan a Seven-Patty Challenge
By Coco Masters / Tokyo

“Burger King has not exactly lived up to its name in Japan.

It has only 15 stores nationwide, compared to McDonald’s roughly 3,750. But there’s no denying that Burger King now offers the biggest burger in town.

This month, the American fast food chain, in a oddball marketing tie-up with Microsoft, launched the Windows 7 Whopper, a 5-inch (12 cm) tower of meat stacked with seven beef patties and weighing nearly a kilogram — more if slathered with ketchup. The magnitude of meat has evidently….” Talk about pathetic market plays. Read more HERE.

AND TALK ABOUT TASTELESS ADS…
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MY BEST RESOURCES FOR MARKETING YOUR BIZ:
Check out the whole page of great resources I just posted on this site. Click HERE, or just go to Resources at the top of the right hand column. Make sure you bookmark the page for future reference.

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