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The darkest evening of the year, by Dean Koontz

Written on June 26, 2009 by william swafford in Bestsellers, Book Review, Books, Favorite Authors

This was a very well writing book by Dean Koontz. He doesn’t let his fans down. If you are a dog lover and love suspense novels, than you will love this book. Uses rescued Golden Retrievers as charcters in his book. He captures their personalities in everyone, but the book just wasn’t about the dogs,…

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Playing for Pizza

Written on June 24, 2009 by william swafford in Bestsellers, Book Review, Books, Favorite Authors

This is a very good book by John Grisham. It’s not a murder or thriller novel, but it kept me wanting to read. He gets out of his way of putting a lot of legal stuff in his books and made it about football and kept it there. This book was very easy to visual…

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My life Through Poetry

Written on June 23, 2009 by william swafford in Book Review, Books, Favorite Authors, Writing

This is a new poetry book by William Swafford. It’s loaded down with sixty of his own personal poems. Its great for those around his hometown, because the poet took pictures of the community and put in the book. His poems range from lost of family members, relationships, self doubt, and all different life issues….

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Mound Hill Cemetery by William Swafford

Written on June 23, 2009 by william swafford in Book Review, Books, Favorite Authors, Favorite Books

This is the newest book from the author William Swafford. This was he best work to date and readers won’t be disappointed. It’s a wild and edgy approached to working at a cemetery. The setting is actually taking from the real Mound Hill in Eaton, Ohio, and Swafford unleashes his imagination in his own hometown….

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The Winter King Book Review

Written on February 5, 2009 by william swafford in Book Review

This is a good book about Author and the druid Merlin. The book is from the point of view of a warrior that was oath bond to Author. The warrior was actually poor and was taking care of by Merlin. He struggled to be a great warrior and earn the respect of Author. At first…

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a bad agent

Written on January 30, 2009 by william swafford in Getting Published

I am a struggling author, struggling to get my work out there. I thought that I had found a way through an agent. I just found out that they are con-artist, which I had a feeling to begin with. This company is online under the name of Writer’s Literary agency. They are curtainly under an…

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How hard it is to promote a book

Written on January 13, 2009 by william swafford in Self Publishing

It is very hard to promote a book and get sales. I have been trying everything that I can and I keep hitting deadend after deadend. I can’t even get my author website going, which is www.williamswafford.com. I have been trying its hard when there is so many scams out there. Everything seems to cost…

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Joint-venture contract

Written on January 13, 2009 by william swafford in Self Publishing

So far I like this a lot more than self publishing. They seem to care abouth things more and have the same goals. It does take money but it is cheaper than self publishing. It is about five hundred dollars cheaper than anyone else. They have done a lot better job on the cover then…

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double check

Written on January 12, 2009 by william swafford in Self Publishing, Tips

Always check your work as much as possible. All authors know that it is expensive to get things edited on your own. Using you spell and grammer check on the word processor is a good resource to use. Then reread as much as possible. Then print up your work and go over it with a…

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Is it hard to get publish?

Written on January 11, 2009 by william swafford in Getting Published

One of the hardest things about getting published, is getting the right information. It is so hard to find the right people to help you out. Everyone tells me that I shouldn’t have to pay for publishing and things, but I always do. The internet is full of dead ends when looking for the right…

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