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Thursday, July 9, 2009
The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide Climbs to #311 in Kindle Store!
As of 1 pm ET Thursday, July 9, The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide to the Greatest Financial Crisis of the Century: Understanding and Surviving the Domino Depression is #311 in Amazon's Kindle Store, #1 in several important category bestseller lists, and #4 on the "Movers and Shakers" list that measures the velocity of Amazon Sales Ranking jumps by comparing a book's position with where it was 24 hours ago.Thanks to the many Kindle owners who have been downloading my book! Whenever a new book comes out there is that moment of doubt when you wonder if anyone will even notice it, let alone buy it. There are way too many great books that just collect dust. I am so grateful that I have built up a connection with a few readers who have enjoyed what I have written before enough to take a chance on this one.
Would you like to help with a blurb for my bestselling new book on the financial crisis?
Earlier this week I published the Kindle edition of a book on which I have been devoting a great deal of time and energy over the past few months, The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide to the Greatest Financial Crisis of the Century: Understanding and Surviving the Domino Depression. Here's a link to its Amazon page.
It's not a book for the CNBC talking heads, and it may not even be a book for Paul Krugman or Ben Bernanke. It's a book for people who've been working hard, feel like we've been thrown to the curb in this financial crisis, and and want simple answers to some very basic questions: How did we get here, how much worse is it going to get, and what can we do to protect ourselves, our families, and our future?
If you believe there's a need for a book with this kind of commonsense approach to these worrying times, I would like to invite you to take a few moments to participate with me as I try to re-make the usual process of marketing a nonfiction book. Between now and the time when the paperback edition of my book is published late this month, I am inviting people who really know what is going on in this financial crisis -- working people, labor and community organizers, seniors, teachers, librarians, people who run small businesses and nonprofits, young people trying to figure out how they are going to pay for their education or start a career, and others who have already lost a great deal through no fault of their own -- to join with me in spreading the word about The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide.
Okay, if Bernanke, Krugman, Jim Kramer, and Stephen King all want to send in blurbs, I might be able to use them. But I would really like to have a couple of lines from you, if you feel like sharing your comments publicly.
I've posted some sample chapters of the book, along with the Table of Contents, on Facebook just to make it easy for you to see what it's all about.
If you would like to share a comment or "blurb" with me directly, you can enter a comment here or, better yet, email me at hppress@gmail.com.
If you include your name, any brief identifying info, and a snail-mail address and I include your comment in (or on the cover of) the paperback edition of the book (scheduled for July 31 release), I promise to send you a free signed copy of the paperback! (In response to a question from Donna, let me suggest that it would be helpful to have comments, blurbs, and reviews by Monday, July 15).
Such comments could become back cover blurbs, comments on the book's web page, or readers' comments in the front matter of the paperback edition. I would also welcome a brief review on Amazon or, if you have one, on your own blog. If you would like to write an Amazon review, short and sweet would be wonderful, and you will find a link right under the title information at the top of the book's Amazon page: http://bit.ly/4BXrG
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this note, and -- if I may be so optimistic as to presume -- for your interest in helping me get the word out about a book that I believe can help to make a difference in the daily lives of many hardworking people.
Thanks for your interest in The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide.To read or find out more about this book, email hppress@gmail.com
For more information, see the The Worried Citizen's Survival Blog at http://worriedcitizens.blogspot.com/
Copyright © July 2009, Stephen Windwalker and Harvard Perspectives Press.
If you believe there's a need for a book with this kind of commonsense approach to these worrying times, I would like to invite you to take a few moments to participate with me as I try to re-make the usual process of marketing a nonfiction book. Between now and the time when the paperback edition of my book is published late this month, I am inviting people who really know what is going on in this financial crisis -- working people, labor and community organizers, seniors, teachers, librarians, people who run small businesses and nonprofits, young people trying to figure out how they are going to pay for their education or start a career, and others who have already lost a great deal through no fault of their own -- to join with me in spreading the word about The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide.
Okay, if Bernanke, Krugman, Jim Kramer, and Stephen King all want to send in blurbs, I might be able to use them. But I would really like to have a couple of lines from you, if you feel like sharing your comments publicly.
I've posted some sample chapters of the book, along with the Table of Contents, on Facebook just to make it easy for you to see what it's all about.
If you would like to share a comment or "blurb" with me directly, you can enter a comment here or, better yet, email me at hppress@gmail.com.
If you include your name, any brief identifying info, and a snail-mail address and I include your comment in (or on the cover of) the paperback edition of the book (scheduled for July 31 release), I promise to send you a free signed copy of the paperback! (In response to a question from Donna, let me suggest that it would be helpful to have comments, blurbs, and reviews by Monday, July 15).
Such comments could become back cover blurbs, comments on the book's web page, or readers' comments in the front matter of the paperback edition. I would also welcome a brief review on Amazon or, if you have one, on your own blog. If you would like to write an Amazon review, short and sweet would be wonderful, and you will find a link right under the title information at the top of the book's Amazon page: http://bit.ly/4BXrG
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this note, and -- if I may be so optimistic as to presume -- for your interest in helping me get the word out about a book that I believe can help to make a difference in the daily lives of many hardworking people.
Thanks for your interest in The Worried Citizen's Little Survival Guide.To read or find out more about this book, email hppress@gmail.com
For more information, see the The Worried Citizen's Survival Blog at http://worriedcitizens.blo
Copyright © July 2009, Stephen Windwalker and Harvard Perspectives Press.
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