Unique Christmas Gift for Children!

Don't miss out on giving your child(s) or grandchild(s) a wonderful educational gift for the holidays. Tim and Kim;Tim y Kim.....a highly rated bilingual children's with each page containing great illustrations accompanied by text in English and Mexican Spanish. Go to http://www.kaylindanord.com/ to buy one now!

Unique book promotion opportunity!

"The Book Pick" Contest!
Enter to be our BB Club House Book Pick
Open to ALL authors! (Even self published)
We are seeking America’s greatest undiscovered books that our book clubs will LOVE! So we want to know about all the books that maybe aren't getting on Oprah's or the Best Seller list, but SHOULD BE! We want to help YOU get the word out to book clubs about YOUR book! We have over 2000 members and 350 clubs (and growing) in our community and we are looking for the next, best story to share with readers.
So take the chance. Enter RIGHT NOW, because our readers are waiting!
Next happening in the contest:
Submissions are accepted NOW through November 16th
(Must be postmarked by Nov. 16th, 2009)

http://www.bookbundlz.com/bookpickentry.aspx

Excellent Resource Link

If you are looking for resources available for bilingual children, here is a great link loaded with information to sort through. Please share comments if you use any of them please.

http://www.ivanmoody.co.uk/bilingualism.htm

Anyone know of other resource lists to share? Let me know.

A twist in my blog..........

For my current followers, I know my blog is geared towards bilingual and book publishing themes and I will not stray too much from that I promise. However, I was told that the use of blogs to form a circle of online "friends" or like people is what makes them most effective. Well, here is something I just need to share in hopes of healing through sharing. On Monday, while out of town celebrating our 12yr anniversary, I miscarried our second child at 10wks. This is my fist miscarriage and it hit hard. I have had some time to put things more into perspective and to simply accept that it just wasn't meant to be. I look at my 2yr old son and it helps me appreicate what I have as well as to remind me that it is possible..........just wasn't this time. Anyone of you have advice or been through this? My apologies if this isn't what you expected from my blog.

Good advice I am following

A friend forwarded me this link http://mashable.com/2009/05/08/twitter-authors/ and it contained some great advice -- I can't just focus on my book and not offer other info that can help others. I am switching gears. Being so new at this, sometimes the focus is lost but I am back on track. For anyone intersted, I spent close to a year doing research regarding self-publishing or not. I found someone to help me on Elance (www.elance.com) - Michael McGuire. He is like my coach or agent in that he helped me find a publisher and helps me with marketing which is the hardest part of selling books. Michael then introduced me to GMBooks who published my book at a very affordable price. The commission split is also so reasonable -- just means the hard work is in marketing. If you are not willing to put the effort in marketing yourself -- don't bother self-publishing. You'll waste your money. Hope this helps :-)

Need help publishing a book?

I am willing to help anyone that is looking for some guidance when it comes to self-publishing a book. There are many options out there so it can be overwhelming -- I have done it and can at least help with the pros/cons I experienced as well as provide some leads at no cost. Just ask!

Other blogs on my book

Here is an archived blog on my book. Thank you Josh for the posting. He has a great blog site about raising bilingual children. Check it out. Let me know if you have seen any others. http://mybilingualkid.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html