Bestselling Author, Ventriloquist, & Humorist
By Elaine Ambrose, G. Anderson, R. Hatch, L. Long
Looking for your lost libido? Read just one poem a day from this fabulous book!
Daily Erotica – 366 Poems of Passion was written by four women who met at a writer’s group in Eagle, Idaho. Their poems are to be read out loud, one for every day of the year, and shared with a true love.
Sample Poem:
November 23
Your whispers of love
sing in my ears
and turn to sweet music
that moves my soul
and joins the tempo of our hearts
to beat as one.
“There are many books written for serious golfers. This is not one of them.”
– Laura Witvoet, LPGA Director of Instruction
This gift book received a national humor award from Foreword Magazine. The anecdotes prove that the author writes better than she golfs.
The Red Tease was written by Elaine Ambrose, owner of Mill Park Publishing.
The book is available from Mill Park Publishing for $5.00 (plus Idaho Sales Tax), and on Amazon.com.
By Elaine Ambrose
The young and the young at heart will be touched and delighted with this unique collection of eight original bedtime stories created to inspire children to wonder about characters, places, and adventures. Lyrical language, captivating scenes, and gentle messages provide a safe and soothing message at the end of the day. Because there is ony one illlustration per story, children can use their imaginations to complete the details.
Gators & Taters has received the following honors:
The book is available for $9.95 (plus Idaho sales tax) from Mill Park Publishing.
By Elaine Ambrose
A bilingual color and story book that has been approved by the Idaho State Board of Education for the state-wide curriculum. Hop on the Magic Potato and learn fun and interesting facts about Idaho as he flies around the state! The easy-to-read story includes side-by-side English and Spanish versions that cover days of the week, colors, and numbers.
The Magic Potato was written by Elaine Ambrose, translated by Emily Nielsen, and illustrated by Heidi Winchel.
The book is available for $3.00 from Mill Park Publishing.
By Elaine Ambrose
This book provides a delightful romp through the adventures and growing pains of a young girl in southern Idaho during the 1960s. Set against the backdrop of a volatile potato harvest, the story tells of waiting for water, waiting for maturity, and waiting for answers to some of life’s toughest questions.
My first blog post for Midlife Cabernet was published in February of 2008 when I was a youngster in my fifties. Since then, I have repeatedly lost and regained the weight of a piano, divorced and remarried, moved twice, authored or published ten books, attended both my children’s joyful marriages and then held their darling baby girls, supervised the building of a mountain cabin, admitted my mother into a nursing home, and enjoyed enough red wine to preserve me for another twenty years.
This blog was the constant activity through all the chaos and commotion. My first topics were about how to survive the empty nest and described the powerful realization that I would live longer without my children than with them. (This may bring some relief to beleaguered moms of toddlers.) Subsequent blogs covered the raw realities of menopause, body failures, eldercare, and old, old friends. Looking back, Midlife Cabernet is a private journal that I happened to share on the World Wide Web.
So, why not make it a book? Voila! Midlife Cabernet – Love, Life & Laughter after Fifty will premiere in April. It’s a combination of my published blogs and new material, previously unseen by human eyes. Chapters include “Midlife Dating and Mating,” “The Proper Care and Coddling of Curmudgeons,” and “A Time to Laugh, a Time to Get a Weapon.”
If you write a blog (and you should), here’s how you can turn it into a self-published book:
Write well and regularly about topics that interest a target audience.
Save all your published essays into word documents and divide them by categories. For example, I organized all my blogs about grandchildren into an entire chapter titled “Grandkids as Speed Bumps.”
Add 50% new material.
Set a budget. For about $3,500 you can pay for design, editing, printing, and shipping for 100 copies of a 230-page book that contains 60,000 words. Be sure to price the book to cover your costs. Profit is nice, too.
Study online resources and talk to published authors to learn how to self-publish a book. If you want bookstores to consider carrying your book, obtain an ISBN number.
Work with a professional graphic designer to create a dynamite cover and design the interior text. If you’re also doing an e-book, a different configuration is necessary.
Hire a professional editor or two and enlist a few of your literate friends to proofread the copy. My final copy went through four edits and revisions.
Choose an online publishing company. I have used Lulu, BookMasters, and CreateSpace. I prefer CreateSpace. Study their website for instructions. Upload the cover and text, order a proof copy, make any changes, and then order the books.
When the box of books arrives, open it carefully and then relish the moment you first hold your precious creation. This euphoria lasts only a few moments until you realize that the books will languish in your garage until you sell them. Marketing and promotion is just as important as the production. Again, learn from a variety of resources about how to arrange book signing events, obtain reviews, promote through social media, and basically become a book peddler. Remember that your friends and relatives will only buy so many copies before they stop taking your calls.
Finally, enjoy the process of writing a book. There is an enormous feeling of accomplishment when you walk into the local bookstore and see your title on the shelf. You may or may not obtain fame or fortune from your work, but take comfort in knowing you did it. Then go home and start writing your next masterpiece.
