I love Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. There are so many great success stories about writers who didn't think they could be heard, get their foot in the door or ever have an audience for their work. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing opened that door for them and that door is open for you, too. Poppy J. Anderson is just one example of an Indie Author who stepped out of her comfort zone and published with Amazon Kindle Publishing and saw great success. YOU COULD BE NEXT! Why not you? Get on it. ~Tricia

The title looks a little deceptive, but it really is true. If you want to sell your books, start giving them away! Today, I started offering one of my e-books, Tears in a Bottle , for free through Amazon Kindle Direct. Within an hour, 35 books had been downloaded! For me, a small-scale indie author, that number is huge for an hour's worth of sales! KDP Select is one of the best tools any writer can use. It doesn't matter if you're a seasoned author or just getting started. Offering your books as a free download through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing's Select program is genius for selling books! Kudos for Amazon for coming up with such a program. Writers, take note. If you want to sell more books, start giving them away! You still get a cut and your name as an author gets a wider audience. It's a win/win plan. By the way, the photography on the cover of this e-book is also mine! Go for it! ~Tricia

Today, I'm reviewing a book for you and making the suggestion that you buy it. This book, Rainbows in the Storms , is by a friend of mine and it's the poignant story of a young wife and mother of four who faces the terminal illness and subsequent death of her beloved husband and father of her children. The author, Ann Asprey Erdmann, tells how each and every step of his illness affected her and their family as they journeyed through the storms that rolled over them again and again. I was privileged to be one of her first editors and, let me tell you, this young woman is the real deal. Any time I told her that the message of God's power in seeing them through was not coming out in her writing, she was willing to change it up until it told the story right. The story is heart-wrenching, yet filled with hope. This hope is only found through God and His saving grace through Jesus Christ. That is the author's clear message and clearly the message of her husband, even as h...