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Self-Publishing Book Review of the Week

Weekly Self-Published Book Review: The Job

Book reviews are a great way for self-publishing authors to gain exposure. After all, how can someone buy your book if he or she doesn’t know it exists? Paired with other elements of your book promotion strategy, requesting reviews is a great way to get people talking about what you’ve written.

When we read good reviews, we definitely like to share them. It gives the author a few (permanent) moments of fame and allows us to let the community know about a great book. Here’s this week’s book review by Midwest Book Review:

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The Job

Cramer Louis Jackson

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 9781432784584

 

It is often said that good things come in small packages and this certainly is the case with this read. In the beginning we meet Joe, a man on a mission. Joe is out of work, and despite all his attempts to find a job, he keeps failing. However, good fortune is about to smile upon him as he receives a mysterious email offering him an opportunity for work, but it is cloaked with mystery. Joe is hesitant at first, but his desperate situation pushes him to respond and from that moment on, his life will never be the same. Joe is thrust into a world he never dreamed truly existed and the job that he must undertake will bring him into a realm that even Science Fiction Writers could never pen, but for Joe it is real. Here he finds adventure, and true love. For Joe, his journey is just beginning.

I really enjoyed this read; it definitely was not a storyline that I had encountered before. The character Joe can easily be identified with in our world today, and you will find yourself smiling at the good fortune that has come his way. It is ‘out of this world’ adventure, well packaged in a warm storyline that draws you right in and keeps you reading until the end. Very well done, and I am pleased to recommend it.

Self-Publishing Book Review of the Week

Weekly Self-Published Book Review: Puppies and Poems

Book reviews are a great way for self-publishing authors to gain exposure. After all, how can someone buy your book if he or she doesn’t know it exists? Paired with other elements of your book promotion strategy, requesting reviews is a great way to get people talking about what you’ve written.

When we read good reviews, we definitely like to share them. It gives the author a few (permanent) moments of fame and allows us to let the community know about a great book. Here’s this week’s book review by Midwest Book Review:

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Puppies and Poems

Nancy Sack

Illustrator: Kaitlyn Fuchs

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 9781432784706

Poetry is just another way of telling a story and imparting solid values. “Puppies and Poems” is a collection of poetry from Nancy Sack, who presents a children’s picture book that embraces poetry as its storytelling method. Charming stories of friendship and festivities with full color illustrations from Kaitlyn Fuchs make “Puppies and Poems” a choice pick and very much recommended reading.

Self-Publishing Book Review of the Week

Weekly Self-Published Book Review: Coach Can Fitness Fun

Book reviews are a great way for self-publishing authors to gain exposure. After all, how can someone buy your book if he or she doesn’t know it exists? Paired with other elements of your book promotion strategy, requesting reviews is a great way to get people talking about what you’ve written.

When we read good reviews, we definitely like to share them. It gives the author a few (permanent) moments of fame and allows us to let the community know about a great book. Here’s this week’s book review by Midwest Book Review:

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Coach Can Fitness Fun

Mike Alexander

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 9781432742645

“Coach Can Fitness Fun” gives lots of tips to kids about how to live healthier lives by playing with friends and different sports that they can also find to be lots of fun to play. Some of the lessons are the importance of drinking water and eating vegetables and other foods as well as getting the proper amount of sleep. Parents of young children should read “Coach Can Fitness Fun’ as well to help reinforce the positive messages of the author.

Self-Publishing Book Review of the Week

Weekly Self-Published Book Review: The Last Buffalo

Book reviews are a great way for self-publishing authors to gain exposure. After all, how can someone buy your book if he or she doesn’t know it exists? Paired with other elements of your book promotion strategy, requesting reviews is a great way to get people talking about what you’ve written.

When we read good reviews, we definitely like to share them. It gives the author a few (permanent) moments of fame and allows us to let the community know about a great book. Here’s this week’s book review by Midwest Book Review:

 

The Last Buffalo

Ed Kienzle

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 9781478709442

“The Last Buffalo” by Ed Kienzle is a book about 12-year-old Wyman and his uncle Little Kettle on their adventure to save the buffalo. It all started when Wyman was born and Little Kettle proclaimed him keeper of the buffalo. He made sure that from the start Wyman loved the buffalo. When Wyman started getting dreams about a mysterious buffalo that he could not see, Little Kettle and Wyman set off to Yellowstone Park, a ten hour drive from where they live, to see if they can save the buffalo that have been getting shot when they cross the border. They also want to find the meaning of his dreams. Along the way he finds allies in the most unlikely of places. Will he be able to save the buffalo or will the ranchers get the best of him and kill the buffalo that cross the border of Yellowstone? Read and find out.
The characters were easy to relate to and enjoy. There were not too many or too few and each one had a distinct personality that was easy to like. My favorite character was Wyman who had trouble at school since everyone was bullying him because he was the keeper of the buffalo. He was adventurous and enjoyed nature. He also was nice and easy to be around.
I would recommend “The Last Buffalo” by Ed Kienzle to people who like adventure and action. I think all people young and old would like this book. I could not put this book down until I finished it. It was smoothly written and easy to follow, making it an easy read.

Self-Publishing Book Review of the Week

Weekly Self-Published Book Review: The Cult Worship and the Warriors

Book reviews are a great way for self-publishing authors to gain exposure. After all, how can someone buy your book if he or she doesn’t know it exists? Paired with other elements of your book promotion strategy, requesting reviews is a great way to get people talking about what you’ve written.

When we read good reviews, we definitely like to share them. It gives the author a few (permanent) moments of fame and allows us to let the community know about a great book. Here’s this week’s book review by Midwest Book Review:

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The Cult Worship and the Warriors

Maria Sanctissima Trinidad

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 9781432776534

Professional nurse and devout Christian Maria Sanctissima Trinidad shares a chilling true story (names are changed to protect those mentioned) in The Cult Worship and the Warriors, written partly as a warning to readers of all faiths against the insidious pull of cults that may mime Christian faith, but in practice put other gods before the one true God. Maria tells of her personal experiences of being drawn into a small cult led by “God’s chosen teacher” that called its members Warriors. Gradually, Maria came to understand that the abuse, bullying, and even life-threatening humiliations of the cult were against the will of God. The Cult Worship and the Warriors concludes with a cautionary description of distinguishing features of cult leaders – notably their magnetism, and the common prevalence of negative character disorders among them, even psychopathy – and an explanation of why people are lured to join exploitive cults. “To be informed is to live a life and prevent living and keeping up to a deceptive cult standard that is both an insult to human spirituality and human intelligence. It is degrading in the sense that freedom of worship is stalled and hampered by a sick psychopath with no regard to society’s norm and standards.” A strong cautionary tale, The Cult Worship and the Warriors is highly recommended.