Simon Kolz

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July, 2013

The Official "Parenting" Cheesecake Recipe

Whoever writes all those fancy cookbooks has never been a parent. To begin with, the pages are never spill-proof, almost guaranteeing that somewhere in the middle of mixing ingredients, a spill will cover the remaining two ingredients listed. This means that parents must learn to improvise.

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What Do You Know About Belize?

Today Norm Goldman, Editor sketchandtravel.comand bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as a guest Joshua Berman,co-author of Moon Handbooks Belize. Joshua is an expert on traveling in Belize, and recently chose this tiny Central American country for his own honeymoon; he has also lived in and written extensively about Nicaragua and Honduras.

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Top 10 Tips for Book Titles that Sell Well

A clever title is great if it is clear, but a clear title is always preferable. The best? A clear and clever title. A shorter title is better than a longer one. Your reader will spend only four seconds on the cover. While some long titles have succeeded, usually the shorter, the better.

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Author Spotlight: David Conlin McLeod

David Conlin McLeod will soon release his fourth book, the prequel to the Dragon’s Tear Chronicle that began with Dancing With The Moon. David has also published Two Past Twilight and The Audition. I’m a reviewer and fan of David’s books, Two Past Twilight, http://www.myshelf.com/horror/04/twopasttwilight.htm, Dancing With The Moon, http://www.myshelf.com/horror/03/dancingwiththemoon.htm, and The Audition.

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Where's Me Pot of Gold and Lucky Charms?

We already know this from our history books. If you want to make money today, you must first look back in time to the first time in history that a large portion of our country all tried to get rich at the same time in the same place. The first discovery of gold was at […]

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