WANT TO GET BACK AT TELEMARKETERS??

SICK AND TIRED OF THOSE ANNOYING PHONE CALLS? Ever want to get back at those marketers that seem to know when you're eating dinner or in the middle of a great show? See what Steve Ostrow has to say-you just might be able to turn the tables!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Telemarketers have been a pain in the general public’s behind for decades. Thanks to their interrupting us day and night, the telephone has been transformed from a convenience, into a source of annoyance and frustration.

How To Sue A Telemarketer: A Manual For Restoring Peace On Earth One Phone Call At A Time is a tongue-in-cheek manual that shows the average citizen how they can fight back against a telemarketer by taking them to small-claims court. Half humorous and half how-to, the book combines comedy with savvy information about the legal system and step-by-step instructions on how consumers can take telemarketers to task.

About the Author: STEVE OSTROW

Born in New York City, Steve Ostrow did his undergraduate studies at The State University of New York, Buffalo. After backpacking throughout Europe for a year, he landed in Southern California where he graduated with honors from The Pepperdine University School of Law.

Since then, the courtroom has proven a natural setting for Steve’s East Coast wise-guy style. For the past 30 years, he has worked as a business and real estate attorney, combining his comic wit with a non-traditional law practice that helps clients assess both the emotional costs of legal matters and the financial and business implications.

A former trial lawyer, Ostrow has served as a small claims judge in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties, received his license as a real estate broker, worked as a real estate investor and facilitated over 200 clients (both lenders and borrowers) through the foreclosure process, advising them on all aspects of the procedure.

“My job is to help clients understand their choices,” says Ostrow. “What I do that other lawyers don’t is point out the bigger picture, which involves certain emotions. People often have such a sense of failure around foreclosure, but I assist clients in seeing that the outcome matters less than how they go through the process. Ultimately they need to do what will serve their life the best, while avoiding a war with lenders and unforeseen legal battles.”

In addition to his work as an attorney, Steve has served on the board of the Solana Beach Chamber of Commerce, Toastmasters, Canine Companions for Independence, and Eveoke Dance Theater. He has even worked as a celebrity impersonator based on the television character Kramer, played by actor Michael Richards on the famed Seinfeld television show.

A graduate from the Rick Stevens School of Improvisation in San Diego, and an award- winning Toastmaster, Steve has achieved success in the celebrity look-alike and improvisational worlds. In his first year of improvisational comedy, International Celebrity Images presented him with the prestigious Reel Award for Big Mouth Comedy for his Kramer impersonations. He has performed at conventions across the globe and made appearances on the Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

In his capacity as both a lawyer and a celebrity impersonator, Steve has been interviewed by The San Diego Union, The San Diego Weekly Reader, Duke Magazine in Australia, the Long Beach Telegram, and Las Vegas Magazine.

Never one to quit while he was ahead, Steve’s latest adventure is as the author of the new book How To Sue A Telemarketer: A Manual For Restoring Peace On Earth One Phone Call At A Time.

“I wrote this book for all the good, kind and ordinary people of the world who simply want to have a quiet dinner, or a beer and watch a basketball game, without getting interrupted by someone who doesn’t give a damn about them,” says Ostrow.

To date, Steve has successfully sued, or settled won and collected over 10 judgments against telemarketers.

Today, Steve works out of his law office in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, where he manages to blend a lifestyle of being both a comic and a top-notch lawyer — all while living the California dream, in his fashionable collection of aloha wear.

For more information: 

http://howtosueatelemarketer.com

BUY NOW:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Sue-Telemarketer-Stephen-Ostrow/dp/0615338178/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281574816&sr=1-1

WIDOW'S WALK RELEASE

JUST RELEASED BY ATTMPRESS, WIDOW'S WALK BY KENNETH WEENE!

About Widow's Walk

Widow’s Walk is a story of faith and its effects on already flawed characters. Set in Boston in the 1980s, it is the story of Mary Flanagan and her children, Sean and Kathleen. Mary’s husband, Sean, Sr., died at the wheel of his M.T.A. bus. Her son, Sean, Jr. is a quadriplegic, injured on his way to a brothel in Vietnam; Kathleen, divorced and unable to have children, works and lives at a hospice that primarily serves AIDS patients; there she lives a mechanistically faithful life, but one devoid of belief. This unhappy family structure is erected on the bedrock stoicism of Mary’s Irish Catholicism. It is that faith which is tested, changed, and strangely reaffirmed over the course of the tale.



Two events upend Mary’s world. The first is her friend, Lois’s, move to Florida . The second is Sean’s decision to seek rehabilitation in a center in Minnesota – a decision initiated by Jem, a home health aide whose own life reflects a faith of care and service.



Mary finds herself looking for new meaning and direction in her life. In the process she meets two unexpected people, Arnie Berger, a college professor, an agnostic or perhaps deistic Jew, and love interest, and Pat Michaels, a minister, whose view of a joyous faith is much at odds with Mary’s rigid theology. She also moves into a housing share and becomes friends with Amelia Callaghan, the misanthropic house owner.



Sean’s life, too, is dramatically changed because he falls in love with and marries one of the aides at the rehab center. He returns to Boston married, employed and expecting their first child.



Given the remarkable changes in her mother’s and brother’s lives and influenced by Max, one of her dying patients and a man whose story and faith are powerful and unique, Kathleen also seeks love. She meets Danny, a young man tied to his overprotective mother and unable to deal with his own feelings of inadequacy.



Sadly, Kathleen and Danny’s relationship ends in disaster, rape, and abuse. Danny flees. In her own way, Kathleen does too; she becomes catatonic and dependant.



Mary unable to come to terms with her sense of guilt and responsibility towards her daughter – is powerless to keep those feelings from coming between her and Arnie.

In the end, Mary can not live with her unhappiness and dies of “the pain of her soul,” a diagnosis provided by the caregiver, Jem, who had originally encouraged Sean to make his momentous move. Mary’s death creates a strange psychological space in which Kathleen takes on her mother’s place in the world.



About the Author:

Kenneth married his wife Roz in 1968 and went to U. of Iowa for a year, from which Roz graduated. He transferred to the Institute of Advance Psychological Studies at Adelphi University , Long Island , NY . He completed a PhD in psychology and worked as a psychologist from 1970 until 2001. During part of that time he worked for The Counseling Service of The Long Island Council of Churches. Despite his great interest in religion, he did not seek ordination until 2002. Why? Because he had been raised Jewish and only started really thinking about his own faith as an adult. He saw no advantage in upsetting his parents by seeking ministerial ordination.



He started writing, primarily poetry, in the 1980s. Regarding Widow's Walk, Weene says, "Stepping away from full-time work was the best decision I ever made. Writing this story has given me tremendous personal satisfaction, and it has shown me an avenue for expression I will always treasure."

KEN WILL SOON BE ON A BLOG TOUR.


Themes, Topics and Perspective Audience for Widow's Walk

There are a number of the themes and topics included in Widow's Walk. These include:

* Role of faith in life
* Possibility of love
* Meaning of life and of love



If you would be interested in interviewing Kenneth during his tour, or highlight him or his book in some other way including a review, feel free to contact – virtualblogtours@yahoo.com.

PRAISE FOR HAIKU SMILES

THE FOLLOWING IS THE LATEST BOOK REVIEW FOR "HAIKU SMILES"(ATTMPRESS) BY AWARD WINNING AUTHOR, NANCY LEE SHRADER.


At 157 pages, Nancy Lee Shrader’s Haiku Smiles makes for excellent reading because it succeeds in presenting haiku according to the way the ancient haiku poets meant them to be: galaxies of meaning packed in the space of a raindrop.

Haiku Smiles will delight readers in search of poetic entertainment that touches on so many topics and themes: brief 5-7-5 syllabic encounters that satisfy like lengthy visits offered by much longer poetry.

Nancy Lee Shrader’s pen is a mighty one! Obviously an attentive student of poetry, she has honed her craft insightfully well as indicated by the poems in this collection. Brilliantly observant, she has translated her awe of the world around her into the lines of her haiku with which readers can relate with their own wonder about nature’s beauty and power. With strong word choice and vivid imagery, Nancy is able to capture a sliver of the natural and preserve the moment in the form of a haiku. No easy task!

Here are two haiku from Haiku Smiles:

“Crimson”

Dances in crimson

Roses blush in the garden

Embarrassing spring

“Caustic”

Caustic rivers run

Deceitful rocks hide below

Corroding the shore

As a published poet myself, a conductor of poetry workshops, and a longtime judge of poetry contests, I can with much pleasure and assurance recommend Haiku Smiles to anyone in search of uplifting poetry. As expressed in Nancy Lee Shrader’s own words from her haiku “Kettles and Conversation”: “Dreams are voiced here.”

Salvatore Buttaci
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"A HITCH IN TWILIGHT" Just Released

A Hitch In Twilight 20: Tales of Warped Imagination

By Vic Fortezza


20 short stories in the tradition of The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock. Dreams, Nightmares, schemes, past lives, war, high-rolling and mayhem...tales that will have you on the edge of your seat.

About the author:

Vic Fortezza was born in Brooklyn in 1950to Sicilian immigrants. He has had 37 short stories published in small press magazines worldwide. He contributes articles to buzzle.com. He has two novels in print, Close to the Edge, and Adjustments. You may spot him on the streets of New York, hawking his work. Website:http://vicfortezza.homestead.com/

"WHERE YOU ARE" Just Released

Where You Are- By Michael Burns


"I can't take it anymore. Love, L" writes Paul Embry's wife of less than a year on the envelope of an electric bill. Thus begins the late summer and fall of Paul Embry's discontent as he struggles to come to grips with the ambivalence he feels about his marriage that this act offish young wife generates in him. In phone conversations with her,later, Paul learns that she has fled to San Francisco, California; he comes to discover that her motive is to catalyze a change in their lives, to induce him to pull up roots from the town where he was born and lived all his life, to begin a new life in a new city, far from the stultifying influence of the depressed New Hampshire mill town where they had married and were living.


About the author:

Michael Burns was born in St. Johnsbury,Vermont. His family moved to New Hampshire in 1950 where he attended high school, graduating in 1957. He deferred entrance to college to serve in the U.S. Navy for four years, seeing duty in Southeast Asia in the early days of the Vietnam War. After mustering out of the Navy,Burns returned to New Hampshire where he met and married his wife, and matriculated at the University of New Hampshire.



Encouraged by his freshman English teacher, Burns first became interested in writing fiction in 1963. He continued writing after being inspired by the late Thomas Williams, National Book Award-winning author and mentor to many young writers, among them John Irving.



In 1971, Burns joined the faculty of St. Paul's School, a college preparatory boarding school in Concord, New Hampshire. He retired from that school in 2004 after 33 years of teaching chemistry, life science,and creative writing. At present, Burns is living with his wife in rural New Hampshire where he is at work on his fourth novel. Gemini,his first novel, was published by Poncha Press in 2001. Where You Are is Burns' second novel.

BOOK PROMO 201

Are you ready to learn more about Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Stumble and other elements of social media? Do you need more information to make the most of these new and popular social media sites? Then Book Promo 201 is the book for you. Award winning author, Nikki Leigh shares a wealth of information that she developed with over 16 years of promotional experience and it is written in an easy to understand and conversational style. She helps you understand how to develop your own brand and then takes you through a variety of ways to use that brand on the most popular social media sites. To help you dig deeper, she provides review questions at the end of each chapter. If you are looking for a publisher or if you are already a published author – you will find a wealth of information in this book. Over 1000 website links put a wealth of resources at your fingertips and can save you endless hours of research as you utilize the many free and inexpensive promotional options on the internet.
David Hancock, Founder - Morgan James Publishing - The Entrepreneurial Publisher

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Nikki Leigh’s latest book, Book Promo 201 brings together the ‘best of the best” in book marketing. If you want to be an author, or already have books in print, this book should be a permanent fixture by your computer. From Web 2.0 to blog tours, branding, on-line promotion, social networking, internet radio, trailers viral marketing and tons more, this book shows you how and where to market your book. It will be a constant reference for both novices and pros.

Philip F. Harris, ALL THINGS THAT MATTER PRESS

Book Promo 201 is the second book in the Promo 101 series. In Book Promo 101 I wanted to help people lay a great foundation for their promotional efforts, help you learn what promotion is, develop the marketing mindset and we talked about many traditional forms of promotion. If you aren't familiar with the content, the table of contents is posted here - http://www.nikkileigh.com/book_promo_101.htm. (Reviews are posted here.)

Book Promo 201 started out one way, and was a very different book when I finished the manuscript in November 2008. It took me a full year to get the book just the way I wanted it, but I think you will agree it was worth the wait. I also realize that the Web 2.0 technology changes a bit every day, so I'll post updated information on this blog - http://promo101articles.blogspot.com. You will find about 100 promotional articles and tips there and I'll add to them as needed. Of course, I'll twitter about the new posts at .

The manuscript is about the same length as Book Promo 101, so the ebook should be over 400 pages and the print book should be over 200 pages (the book will be 8 x 10). The manuscript is with my publisher, but we don't have the final layout yet - and everyone will hear about it when its ready :) The book is packed with detailed, easy to understand information and packed with over a thousand resources.

I've kept the contents of Book Promo 201 under wraps and part of the reason was because it kept changing, but I'm happy with the contents and am ready to share it. The full table of contents with all the subheadings is about 6 pages long, so I'll just share the chapter titles here.

Book Promo 201 - Table of Contents

Introduction to Online Book Promotion

Part One - Prepare to Use the Internet to Promote Your Books

Chapter One – Online Promotion Basics

Chapter Two – Identify Your Target Market and Create A Brand

Chapter Three – Financial and Personal Benefits to Promoting on the Internet

Chapter Four – What is This Thing Called Web 2.0?

Chapter Five - Viral Marketing – What Is It and How Can It Help Me

Part Two - Social Sites: Where to Find Them & How to Use Them

Chapter Six - Social Opportunities Online

Chapter Seven – Large Social Site Options

Chapter Eight - Social Sites That Focus on Books and Authors

Chapter Nine - Social Bookmarking

Part Three - Use Blogs for Promotion

Chapter Ten - A Blog Is a Necessity

Chapter Eleven – Are Blogs Useful for Promotion

Chapter Twelve – Use a Virtual Blog Tour to Promote Your Book

Part Four - Use Audio and Video Multi Media to Promote

Chapter Thirteen - Book Trailers – What Are They and How Can You Use The

Chapter Fourteen - Creating a Book Trailer

Chapter Fifteen– Internet Radio Shows and Podcasting

Appendix A - Online Forums

Appendix B - Sites That Charge to Promote Books

Appendix C - Author Interview Opportunities

Appendix D –Blog Resources

Appendix E - Sites to Post Book Trailers

Appendix F – Radio Shows for Author Interviews

Appendix G – Google Products to Use in Promotion

Appendix H - Book Prom 201 Participants

NIKKI'S WORK IS SUPERIOR AND WE KIGHLY RECOMMEND HER BOOKS AND TOURS TO ALL AUTHORS!

TRANSCENDENCE

Our latest release in our line growing line of spiritual/self-help books, TRANSCENDENCE by Gabriel Horn and Amy Krout-Horn is a journey for the soul.

Transcendence is a mesmerizing book of magical realism seamlessly woven with threads of primal wisdom. It will reacquaint readers with the profound beauty of our mother planet, while turning their mind's eye to rarely realized realms of possibility.

About the author:
Gabriel Horn (White Deer of Autumn) is an award-winning author and professor of literature and creative writing, as well as an activist for the spiritual rights of indigenous people, and an outspoken defender of the natural world
Amy Krout-Horn (Last Word Woman) has resided in two worlds; the world of the sighted and the world of the blind. She has been a writer in both of them.

“The Native American spirituality of Transcendence is brilliantly played out in a series of vignettes as crisp and clear as sunlight on the ocean. Horn and Krout-Horn tell stories beyond a single time or place. Rich with exquisite dream imagery, these narratives evoke pain at environmental and cultural losses at the same time that their finely tuned story telling makes the reader turn the page, hungry for more. Transcendence is a feast of story telling, nourishment for any audience with a taste for truth and beauty, as well as the imagination or inclination to follow the Mystery. From the blasé brutality of the mall to the passionate breath of an orca goddess, Transcendence delivers what the title promises; these are myths to unlock the real. This text reads with the elegance and harmony of orature combined with a complex layering of sensual detail. These are dream journeys to salve the soul.”

-Francis Auld Ph. D. Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County

This title is now on our web site,
and should be on Amazon shortly.
Please visit our site and check out THE POWER OF STILLPOINT, JESUS TAUGHT IT: TOO..., COLLECTED MESSAGES and more!

NEW RELEASE-ABE F. MARCH

ALL THINGS THAT MATTER PRESS is proud to announce the latest release for Abe F. March, JOURNEY INTO THE PAST. This is Abe's second book with ATTMP. His first book, “They Plotted Revenge Against America” has received great reviews.

When fate decrees that the paths of a vacationing American architect and a retired German businessman cross, the soul-mates embark on a journey through time that takes them into the past, a journey triggered by a series of mysterious, hidden love notes written centuries before. Would this be the lifetime their love would finally be allowed?

ALL THINGS THAT MATTER PRESS GOES TO EUROPE!

We are proud to announce that ATTMPress has just signed a contract with Amazon Germany (Amazon.de). This means that ATTMPRESS books will soon be available, by around June 1st, throughout Europe and the U.K.

We want to offer a special thank you to Abe March, our German-based ATTMPress author, who did an incredible amount of leg work getting the right contact person in Europe and opening doors that will benefit all ATTMPRESS authors. Thanks, Abe!

You will soon be seeing items like this on Amazon.de:

Ihre Suche nach "jesus taught it, too: the early roots of the law of attraction" ergab in der Kategorie Bücher keine Treffer.
Produktbeschreibungen
Kurzbeschreibung
When the words of Jesus are interpreted out of context they can be used to justify many contradictory concepts. However, when they are examined as a "stream of thought," we see the truth. In JESUS TAUGHT IT, TOO: THE EARLY ROOTS OF THE LAW OF ATTRACTION, Philip Harris examines over seventy quotes from the Master and shows that, contrary to recent claims and "revelations," the Law of Attraction has not been a secret at all. Instead, it has has been there for all to see for over two thousand years. Discover the truth. Read JESUS TAUGHT IT TOO and return to the love, prosperity, and power that Jesus himself promised.

Obviously the Amazon.uk listings will be totally in English but it will be great to have our author's titles available throughout the EU.

LATEST RELEASES FROM ATTMPRESS

We will list all of our books on this site as well as links to our author web sites. In the meantime, we would like to begin the list of books that are currently available through ATTMPress. Our latest releases are HUMAN TRIAL, by TIMOTHY N. STELLY, SR and THE PROFILE by Gregory Victor Babic.

HUMAN TRIAL-What happens when all that remains of the world is fear, distrust and desperation?
Daron Turner is the leader of a ragtag collection of small town Americans who've managed to survive a thermal war waged by intergalactic attackers. The survivors have gathered together in a sporting goods store, where they not only endure the heat, but ward off marauders, rabid animals and overcome their own fears and in-fighting.
Aliens hope to manufacture a new race that becomes acclimated to earth's environment. With time running out, Daron and his cohorts must force a confrontation, as the fate of mankind rests in their hands.

THE PROFILE-Danielle McCormack, student at Middlewood High School, wants to be a journalist. However, she could not possibly have anticipated, when Dean Lawrence Polking, head of HRL Enterprises, internationally-renowned retailing magnate and hated Destroyer of the Middlewood Old Town Mall, attended the Annual Awards night at her school as the Honored Guest Speaker and returning 'Favorite Son", that her life would be thrown into turmoil and everything she thought she knew about the man and his dream would have to be re-evaluated. ? How could she have known that everything she thought she knew about herself and her place in the world would come to mean nothing against truths and realities she could never have anticipated?

Both titles are now available from Amazon.com, Mobipocket, Kindle Editions and from the ATTMPress E-Store in paperback. The reviews are great and both books address issues that are relevant to today's society.