Robin Jay - Brian Tracy - The Art of the Business Lunch - Front Book Cover Quotes

Brian Tracy - Author/Speaker

First Quote appears on front cover of Robin Jays The Art of the Business Lunch

I've updated the index link here for The Art of the Business Lunch by Robin Jay.

Unfortunately it doesn't update the "date" portion of that posting.
I just realized that!

I always try to post something interesting here on this blog.

I'm going to look up some info on Brian Tracy because he is the first author/speaker to appear on the front cover of her book.

I like to feature their work along with the author that I'm doing a book review on, especially if they have had something to do with the book.

As an Author you should offer to write a quote or a note for a new book coming into print.
Not only will people become familiar with your name but you can also gather readers for your blogs, youtube videos and books that you sell too.

It's really effective if in this case, Robin Jay would write a quote or chapter in one of Brian Tracy's books.

That way both of them benefit from this idea of mine.

Cheers!
Linda Randall
The Idea Girl Says
Idea Girl Consulting

http://www.squidoo.com/ideagirlconsulting

Blogsplash - Friends of Thaw - Author Fiona Robyn - Chapter One - Linda Randall - The Idea Girl

Meet Ruth. She doesn't know if she wants to carry on living or not, and she gives herself three months to decide. Her diary is my novel, Thaw, and you can read itfor FREE, beginning today. Why am I giving a novel away for free? Because I am a writer, and I want to share my characters and their stories with as many people as possible. And maybe, if you enjoy it, you might want to read more of my books. Become a follower of the blog page now. Follow onTwitter. Join the Facebook page. Forward this email to your novel-reading friends. Thank you. Over to Ruth. * These hands are ninety-three years old. They belong to Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. She was so frail that her grand-daughter had to carry her onto the set to take this photo. It's a close-up. Her emaciated arms emerge from the top corners of the photo and the background is black, maybe velvet, as if we're being protected from seeing the strings. One wrist rests on the other, and her fingers hang loose, close together, a pair of folded wings. And you can see her insides. The bones of her knuckles bulge out of the skin, which sags like plastic that has melted in the sun and is dripping off her, wrinkling and folding. Her veins look as though they're stuck to the outside of her hands. They're a colour that's difficult to describe: blue, but also silver, green; her blood runs through them, close to the surface. The book says she died shortly after they took this picture. Did she even get to see it? Maybe it was the last beautiful thing she left in the world. I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to carry on living. I'm giving myself three months of this journal to decide. You might think that sounds melodramatic, but I don't think I'm alone in wondering whether it's all worth it. I've seen the look in people's eyes. Stiff suits travelling to work, morning after morning, on the cramped and humid tube. Tarted-up girls and gangs of boys reeking of aftershave, reeling on the pavements on a Friday night, trying to mop up the dreariness of their week with one desperate, fake-happy night. I've heard the weary grief in my dad's voice. So where do I start with all this? What do you want to know about me? I'm Ruth White, thirty-two years old, going on a hundred. I live alone with no boyfriend and no cat in a tiny flat in central London. In fact, I had a non-relationship with a man at work, Dan, for seven years. I'm sitting in my bedroom-cum-living room right now, looking up every so often at the thin rain slanting across a flat grey sky. I work in a city hospital lab as a microbiologist. My dad is an accountant and lives with his sensible second wife Julie, in a sensible second home. Mother finished dying when I was fourteen, three years after her first diagnosis. What else? What else is there? Charlotte Marie Bradley Miller. I looked at her hands for twelve minutes. It was odd describing what I was seeing in words. Usually the picture just sits inside my head and I swish it around like tasting wine. I have huge books all over my flat - books you have to take in both hands to lift. I've had the photo habit for years. Mother bought me my first book, black and white landscapes by Ansel Adams. When she got really ill, I used to take it to bed with me and look at it for hours, concentrating on the huge trees, the still water, the never-ending skies. I suppose it helped me think about something other than what was happening. I learned to focus on one photo at a time rather than flicking from scene to scene in search of something to hold me. If I concentrate, then everything stands still. Although I use them to escape the world, I also think they bring me closer to it. I've still got that book. When I take it out, I handle the pages as though they might flake into dust. Mother used to write a journal. When I was small, I sat by her bed in the early mornings on a hard chair and looked at her face as her pen spat out sentences in short bursts. I imagined what she might have been writing about - princesses dressed in star-patterned silk, talking horses, adventures with pirates. More likely she was writing about what she was going to cook for dinner and how irritating Dad's snoring was. I've always wanted to write my own journal, and this is my chance. Maybe my last chance. The idea is that every night for three months, I'll take one of these heavy sheets of pure white paper, rough under my fingertips, and fill it up on both sides. If my suicide note is nearly a hundred pages long, then no-one can accuse me of not thinking it through. No-one can say, 'It makes no sense; she was a polite, cheerful girl, had everything to live for,' before adding that I did keep myself to myself. It'll all be here. I'm using a silver fountain pen with purple ink. A bit flamboyant for me, I know. I need these idiosyncratic rituals; they hold things in place. Like the way I make tea, squeezing the tea-bag three times, the exact amount of milk, seven stirs. My writing is small and neat; I'm striping the paper. I'm near the bottom of the page now. Only ninety-one more days to go before I'm allowed to make my decision. That's it for today. It's begun. Continue reading here. Follow on Twitter. Join the Facebook page. Help me spread the word and forward this email to your friends! Thank you x

---------------------- Warmest wishes, Fiona Robyn -------------- www.fionarobyn.com www.plantingwords.com

Nicole Jordan - To Tame a Dangerous Lord

Historical Romance Writer Nicole Jordan has a new book out called
To Tame A Dangerous Lord.

I'll be posting the book trailer and interviews on
The Idea Girl Says.

Mike Trinklein Author of Lost States

Watch the author's interview about his book Lost States.

Mike Trinklein shares some interesting stories about the US Government trying to buy Mexico?

Watch it on The Idea Girl Says.

59 seconds think a little change a lot - photo book cover richard wiseman- the idea girl says - linda randall writing

59 seconds think a little change a lot - photo book cover richard wiseman- the idea girl says - linda randall


I posted a video with author Richard Wiseman on The Idea Girl Says, with Harry Smith from CBS, talking about Shortcuts to a new attitude.


In 2010, you can make a difference in your life.


The things you don't like, change.


Follow your dreams.


List your goals.


And do whatever it takes to reach them!

Derek Cate - Timbaland - Apologize - The New Writers Handbook 2007 Part Five

Derek Cate - Timbaland - Apologize - The New Writers Handbook 2007 Part Five


I've uploaded all six videos onto Idea Girl Consulting You tube channel for your enjoyment.


Making a tribute to 60 authors was fun.


I've added as many as possible onto my Twitter and Facebook.


It's cool to read their blogs,you can learn so much from a published author, Literary Agent and 
Editors that work for different publishing companies.


I've featured Derek Cate's Cover of Timbaland - Apologize Acoustic on this video.


He's got a wicked voice and sound!


you can twitter the idea girl with your ideas for video features

Creating a Bio - Linda Randal - Authors Introduction to the World

Creating a bio was really hard for me.

I didn't know what to write, so in point form I went over my various achievements in my journey to become a published author.

I share my goals, dreams, visions and details about the manuscripts that I have written so far.

You can view Linda Randall - Bio on The Calamity Girl Word Press Site.

The Munroe Mansion Chapter One Revision

I've been working this week on revising my novel and I've written two new chapters and added 3 more characters.

In this story Duvall Marchand is a happy widow. He never really loved his wife, he just liked the money that she made for him.

His wife Blaise was a Fashion Designer that lived in Paris France, back in the early 1900's. She assumed that when she passed away that her fortunes would go to her nieces Lorraine and Elsa Picard.

Duvall informs her that everything is in his name, and it's his fortune and he refuses to share any of it with the girls when their Aunt and parents are tragically killed in a train accident.

Lorraine is desperate to find a way to support herself and her sister. She happens on a picture of Anthony Atkins in the Canada Gazette and formulates a plan to meet him, seduce him and have him marry her.

She writes to her Uncle Duvall requesting assistance and funds to travel to Canada. Her Uncle decides to take the girls sailing on his ship The White Star and intends to drop them off in Canada and never see them again.

However what the girls do not know is that he has a taste for young women...

That is the story line I'm working on :)

I've only posted the first six chapters of the book (my first rough draft) and when I finally am finished the story changes and is better every time I do this! :)

Some of the books in the Munroe Series just have loads of lovely pictures about my character and setting profiles :)

You can follow me as I write the books, develop the plots, setting and characters.

you can read more about The Munroe Series here...

You can read the first six chapters of The Munroe Mansion here... (story is subject to change soon!)

Get Website Traffic For Free

I've been surfing the internet looking for "Submit Url" for free.

Search Engines, Directories, Click Thru's, Link Referral are some of the site's that I've visited.

I find they do generate traffic for a few days then it drops back to normal!

I think it's best to write something really interesting and cool before you do this!

Try and stick to the topics that are listed in your website description and titles.

If Google see's that your the master of a certain topic, it will reach the front pages during a Google Search!

Also use a certain nickname on Facebook, Twitter, and all Social Networks.

I'm known as The Idea Girl or Idea Girl Consulting.

That way your fans can Google you and always find out what's going on!

I use Twitter, but I find that lately it's not posting my Word Press articles right away!

It can take a day or so, and I don't know if it's because I post late in the night as opposed to day time?

Not sure about that one!

If you have any tips on this, please visit my site Idea Girl Consulting Wordpress, and leave your URL with your comment! :)

Or link to my site, I get over 5,000 hits a week, and I'm sure Google will trace my site back to yours! :)

I'm in the Humor, Arts , Entertainment and Celebrity, Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, Harry Potter, Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, David Cook, American Idol, Musicians, Artists, Music, Movie Categories, so it's best if those types of sites link to mine! :)

The Munroe Series

I've been busy working on The Munroe Mansion manuscript, typing and editing the new beginning to the book - The Mansion on the Hill from The Munroe Series.

It's one-hundred times better than the original script that was posted. The characters are better developed and the story line is more intense.

It was fun writing about the grandparents and developing a whole new story. This book originally started in the year 2018 (the grandchildren) but then I stepped back to the late 1800's for fun.

This explains why The Mansion on the Hill has tragedies, and why it's haunted by ghosts.