Also my new page at www.Facebook.com/AwakenYourPower is active.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Awaken Your Power! Available Now!
My book, Awaken Your Power is now available at Awaken Your Power!: The Secret of Life Revealed--How Your Thoughts Create Your Reality is available now at BalboaPress.com and Amazon.com.
I'm still ironing out some marketing issues but it appears that the book is ready for sale.
Due to the rush to buy this book, Amazon is currently out of stock of the paperback copies but Balboa Press had them in stock.
Kindle Version
BalboaPress.com and Amazon.com both have Kindle versions ready for purchase. The cost is $9.99. Balboa has the price incorrectly listed at $3.99 and is in the process of changing it. I had the opportunity to purchase the Kindle version and see that in order for it to be in a large enough font to be readable it distorts with the formatting of some of the titles. Other than having the formatting look a little unprofessional at times it does not hinder the experience when reading the book. I am in the process of talking it over with the publisher, Balboa Press, but if I have to choose, I will choose a readable font with out of alignment titles vs perfect formatting with text that is too small to read. I hope the reader will understand.
I am quickly learning that there are many phases to writing a book. Planning to write the book, writing the book, editing the book, publishing the book, and marketing the book. Each phase is full of challenges and obstacles. Even though it is challenging, it is also very interesting to learn and a great overall life experience.
If and when I decide to write another book, I will be much better prepared and able to be infinitely more efficient.
Here is a quick link to buy directly from Amazon.
-Joe Rapisarda
www.JoeRapisarda.com
Kindle Version
BalboaPress.com and Amazon.com both have Kindle versions ready for purchase. The cost is $9.99. Balboa has the price incorrectly listed at $3.99 and is in the process of changing it. I had the opportunity to purchase the Kindle version and see that in order for it to be in a large enough font to be readable it distorts with the formatting of some of the titles. Other than having the formatting look a little unprofessional at times it does not hinder the experience when reading the book. I am in the process of talking it over with the publisher, Balboa Press, but if I have to choose, I will choose a readable font with out of alignment titles vs perfect formatting with text that is too small to read. I hope the reader will understand.
I am quickly learning that there are many phases to writing a book. Planning to write the book, writing the book, editing the book, publishing the book, and marketing the book. Each phase is full of challenges and obstacles. Even though it is challenging, it is also very interesting to learn and a great overall life experience.
If and when I decide to write another book, I will be much better prepared and able to be infinitely more efficient.
Here is a quick link to buy directly from Amazon.
-Joe Rapisarda
www.JoeRapisarda.com
Friday, November 11, 2011
Awaken Your Power! - Book Update.
As many of you may have heard or seen on my web page, my new book, Awaken Your Power! is now available for sale! I would like to say though, that I am still ironing out some marketing issues with BalboaPress.com and Amazon.com. For example, BalboaPress has some misinformation in its information about the book and the incorrect pricing of the kindle edition. Amazon.com is offering the book, but only the kindle is appears to be ready. The paperback edition does not have a picture on its profile when a regular search is done. Obviously, this is a frustrating for me, but I guess it is all part of the learning process. I know sooner or later everything will be as I want it. So when all of the issues have been corrected I will be having a virtual book launch as well as an physical book signing date. I'll keep you posted on that. In the mean time I was able to find this corrected link on Amazon. So if you don't want to wait and decide you want to buy the book now, I believe you can buy it here at Amazon.com.
Sincerely,
Joe Rapisarda
www.JoeRapisarda.com
Sincerely,
Joe Rapisarda
www.JoeRapisarda.com
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Awaken Your Power! - The Road to Getting Published and Accomplishing Goals.
Finally, my book Awaken Your Power! is almost ready to be published. I just sent in the final proofs (galleys) signing off all corrective changes on the book. This means that it is ready for productions. They publisher (Balboa Press) will now send me a hard copy to my house in the next 1-3 weeks. Once I sign off on the final product sent to me, the book will be ready for purchase at http://www.amazon.com/ or at http://www.joerapisarda.com/.
I can't tell you how pleased I am to have this long-term goal finally be coming to a completion. I started writing this book in 2008, but due to my busy work schedule, I never had enough time to consistently make progress writing. In 2010, I took a leave from work to write this book full time. Since then I've been living, eating, and breathing this book. Since this is my first book, I had the pleasure of learning every step of the book writing process while I was also trying to do those steps. This made for some really long detours but ultimately were very good learning experiences.
One day I was discouraged at the lack of progress I was making when I saw a show on TV that talked about a rich developer in the early 1800's that wanted to build a shipping lane canal from the Lake Erie in Great Lakes to New York City. It was to be called The Erie Canal. He dreamed of the great commerce and new towns on the canal that would be supported by this shipping canal. Many people told him that he was crazy, and that he would never complete such a monumental task. He ignored them and became more determined than ever to complete his goal of building this canal system even if he had to do it will shear willpower! Along the way he ran into a major roadblocks. In the way of the canal was a mountain of solid rock. Once again people told him that he should give up. Instead he saw it as a challenge and again found a way around this problem, if I remember correctly, by experimenting with dynamite to blast a path through the mountain. Also he had an elevation problem of 660 ft from Hudson to Lake Erie. To overcome this obstacle he inserted a system of over 50 locks that allowed boats to be raised and lowered to meet the increase in elevation needed for transportation to continue to flow (Today this is widely know to be used in the Panama Canal.). My point in telling this story is that the vision of this man became a reality because he was focused on finding a way to succeed at his vision. I'm sure his method was not the most efficient but nonetheless his willpower allowed him to plow through all obstacles until his vision was a reality.
I used this example I saw on TV, to guide me on my mission to write this book. I'm sure that my path was not the most efficient but each detour was a great learning experience about the writing industry and I felt brought me one step closer to my goal of being a published author.
Now that my goal is almost a reality I can say that writing this book was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life, but it was also one the most liberating and rewarding thing I've ever done as well. So I recommend to anyone who has a book inside of them waiting to be published or just a "lifetime to-do list item" that they haven't gotten around to doing yet, to make it a priority in your life and find a way to make it a reality. That could mean writing a book; it could mean going skydiving; it could mean traveling to South America.
Life is meant to be lived. I've found that it's okay to get older as long as the fun and exciting times in life are still in front of you. If you don't know what you want to do, read my book, Awaken Your Power, for some inspiration. Here to you and the accomplishment in your life!
Positive Thinking,
Joe Rapisarda
http://www.joerapisarda.com/
www.twitter.com/@JoeRapisarda
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joerapisarda
I can't tell you how pleased I am to have this long-term goal finally be coming to a completion. I started writing this book in 2008, but due to my busy work schedule, I never had enough time to consistently make progress writing. In 2010, I took a leave from work to write this book full time. Since then I've been living, eating, and breathing this book. Since this is my first book, I had the pleasure of learning every step of the book writing process while I was also trying to do those steps. This made for some really long detours but ultimately were very good learning experiences.
One day I was discouraged at the lack of progress I was making when I saw a show on TV that talked about a rich developer in the early 1800's that wanted to build a shipping lane canal from the Lake Erie in Great Lakes to New York City. It was to be called The Erie Canal. He dreamed of the great commerce and new towns on the canal that would be supported by this shipping canal. Many people told him that he was crazy, and that he would never complete such a monumental task. He ignored them and became more determined than ever to complete his goal of building this canal system even if he had to do it will shear willpower! Along the way he ran into a major roadblocks. In the way of the canal was a mountain of solid rock. Once again people told him that he should give up. Instead he saw it as a challenge and again found a way around this problem, if I remember correctly, by experimenting with dynamite to blast a path through the mountain. Also he had an elevation problem of 660 ft from Hudson to Lake Erie. To overcome this obstacle he inserted a system of over 50 locks that allowed boats to be raised and lowered to meet the increase in elevation needed for transportation to continue to flow (Today this is widely know to be used in the Panama Canal.). My point in telling this story is that the vision of this man became a reality because he was focused on finding a way to succeed at his vision. I'm sure his method was not the most efficient but nonetheless his willpower allowed him to plow through all obstacles until his vision was a reality.
I used this example I saw on TV, to guide me on my mission to write this book. I'm sure that my path was not the most efficient but each detour was a great learning experience about the writing industry and I felt brought me one step closer to my goal of being a published author.
Now that my goal is almost a reality I can say that writing this book was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life, but it was also one the most liberating and rewarding thing I've ever done as well. So I recommend to anyone who has a book inside of them waiting to be published or just a "lifetime to-do list item" that they haven't gotten around to doing yet, to make it a priority in your life and find a way to make it a reality. That could mean writing a book; it could mean going skydiving; it could mean traveling to South America.
Life is meant to be lived. I've found that it's okay to get older as long as the fun and exciting times in life are still in front of you. If you don't know what you want to do, read my book, Awaken Your Power, for some inspiration. Here to you and the accomplishment in your life!
Positive Thinking,
Joe Rapisarda
http://www.joerapisarda.com/
www.twitter.com/@JoeRapisarda
http://www.linkedin.com/in/joerapisarda
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