HOW TO MARKET YOUR AUDIO BOOK

http://www.amazon.com/Return-Last-Shaman-Native-American/dp/B014TDJRSE/

1.) MAKE A SOUND CLOUD PAGE to showcase a few of your audio books like I did:

https://soundcloud.com/search/sounds?q=roland%20yeomans

Take a listen why don't you?

 There is a promoted book ahead of mine:

the price you pay for a free site.

2.) OFFER FREE AUDIO DOWNLOADS FOR HONEST REVIEWS:

 ACX will give you codes for free downloads.  Use them to create interest.

Just give me your email address, and I will send you the code for a free audio of RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN 

3.) REQUEST REVIEWS FROM SITES WHICH OFFER REVIEWS -

A simple Google search of “audio book reviewers” gave me:

1. http://audiobookreviewer.com/
2. http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/contact/
3. http://www.eargasmsaudiobookreviews.com/
4. http://audiobookjungle.com/about/review-policy/
5. http://audiobookjukebox.squarespace.com/solid-gold-reviewer-program/
6. http://audiothing.blogspot.com.au/

4.) CONNECT WITH AUDIO BOOK GROUPS

 Here are a few groups to get you started:

1. Audiobooks Goodreads Group
2. FREE Audiobook Giveaways! Facebook Group
3. Everything Audiobooks E.A.R.S Facebook Group
4. Audiobook Promos – For Authors & Readers of All Genres Facebook Group
5. Audiobook Blogs & Reviews Twitter List by Karen Commins

5.) FOR MORE TIPS:

check out: http://blog.acx.com/?s=marketing

I HOPE THIS HAS HELPED MY FELLOW AUDIO BOOK AUTHORS.

LISTEN TO WOLF HOWL AND THE SOUNDS OF THE END OF THE WORLD

http://www.amazon.com/Return-Last-Shaman-Native-American/dp/B014TDJRSE/

There is a smell of Time in the air.  What does Time smell like? Like dust and despair and ruin.

What does Time dying sound like?

 Like water running along the wall of a dark cave and frightened voices weeping and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids. Maybe if you listen closely to this audio book, you will even see Time. 

Time like snow drifting silently across a bleak landscape or like a silent film in a theater of the dead ... Time as 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down, down, down into nothing. 

Ten dollars will buy you a listening experience that will stay with you long after the last echoes of Wolf Howl's voice fade into the night.

THE LOVELY ELISE FALLSON

The lovely Elise Fallson wrote an equally lovely review for RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN

 

 http://elisefallson.blogspot.com/

Don't see it on its Amazon Page?

That is because Elise lives in France.  You have to go to Amazon's French Site:

http://www.amazon.fr/RETURN-LAST-SHAMAN-AMERICAN-English-ebook/dp/B00S7HOCVG/

Wondering what she said?  Here it is:

"I really enjoyed this read, it has the perfect blend of science fiction and Native American culture which is refreshing and perfectly executed. 

The story revolves around an unlikely band of characters who are set on a mission to save the world and they’ve got twenty minutes to do just that. 

Wolf Howl, Shadow, Abby, Nicola Tessla, and Mossad Agents must learn to work together, trust each other, and ultimately sacrifice everything in order to accomplish the mission. 

True to his writing style, Roland Yeoman crafts his story with his vivid imagination, poetic imagery, believable characters, sharp dialogue, and thought-provoking passages, all punctuated by bits of sarcasm, humor, and love." 

Today is the launch day for Alex Cavanaugh's DRAGON OF THE STARS.  Pick up a copy today!

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Stars-Alex-J-Cavanaugh-ebook/dp/B00S0DPUYU

ANOTHER 5 STAR REVIEW!

ANN BEST

http://annbest-jen.blogspot.com/

has written a beautiful review of RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S7HOCVG

FIVE STARS: AMAZING

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing February 22, 2015

By Ann Carbine Best

One reviewer says there's a lot of philosophical thought in this haunting novella that some readers might not like. 

I'm one reader who loves it. 

I kept underlining all the wonderful wisdom passages, such as, 

"And why are they dying? For one thing noise. 

Modern Man lived in a maelstrom of noise...Civilized man has forgotten what silence is." 

"Most people are unsettled by utter silence for it reminds them of darkness and death."

Throughout this tightly written, poetical novella, death does indeed hover. 

The underlying theme is that the white man's world is over. 

But does modern man (and woman) know this? 

Not according to Wolf Howl, aka Mr. Drew, his voice the main voice, in a cast of colorful characters, who comments philosophically about the nature of man and the world. 

"To be human is to be a tense death-foreseeing, conflicted animal....

Even if we did the impossible and saved Man, He would only end up destroying himself later," he says.

There's gloom and potential doom here. 

But humor is also a thread throughout the story, especially through the voice of Abby, my favorite female character. 

The shift to her viewpoint in one of the chapters is brilliantly executed; her voice, delightful.

From Abby: 

"Mr. Drew just didn't know I had no intention of killing those back-shouting Egyptians. I just wanted to scare the piss out of them....

I was getting bored seeing Shadow and Mr. Drew look all moon-eyed at each other. 

We had a world to save, and I figured we had twenty minutes left to do it."

How does Drew/Wolf Howl save it, he who said that "the purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things, and yet still rise"? 

The climax gave me chills, and still does as I think about it.

No spoilers, because I don't have the words to do it justice--

the lively dialogue, literary and mythological allusions, and pun on words to name a few of the elements in this amazing novella that has to be read, or heard, to appreciate the author's achievement.

Over three years ago I read The Bear with Two Shadows. 

Add to this The Return of the Last Shaman, and I am again "blown away" by the beauty of the author's prose and the complexity of his characters.

 I who have never read much fantasy or science fiction--haven't much liked it in the past--am now "hooked" on these genres, thanks to Roland Yeomans who deserves a wide audience for his stories that I can easily see translated to film.

I am now about to ride with an earlier Wolf Howl and Sam McCord in END OF DAYS....

THANK YOU, ANN!

ASHES OF WEDNESDAY

Ash Wednesday ...

the 40 days of fasting that last 46 days.  What?

The six Sundays in the period after Mardi Gras and before Easter are not counted since they are not fast days.

You learn something new every day, right?

The period of fasting is to parallel the 40 days of fasting Jesus spent in the desert being tempted by Satan.

But what about those ashes?

{Ash Wednesday by Carl Spitweg 

in Public Domain}

Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of blessing ashes made from Palm branches from the previous year's Palm Sunday.

Many adopt the practice of abstaining from something important to the individual during Lent.

I would nominate the ceaseless looking at the screen of your cell phone ... to only use your phone to make essential calls.

People might actually start seeing the world around them again and, you know, communicate to the person not six inches from them.

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REALITY IS AWKWARD.  

SCREENS ARE A WALL BETWEEN YOU 

AND THAT AWKWARD REALITY.

But the authentic life is composed of off-screen moments.

When most people spend more time looking at tiny screens than at the people and their surroundings, they have become blind to the world.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

LET THE WIND BLOW THROUGH YOU

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"Life's truest gift is wisdom,

And that is the one gift we must give back."

- Luke Winters

ONLY $4.86!!

Luke Winters has spent his whole life straddling two worlds, Lakota and White,

belonging in neither.

He isn't complaining.

He feels richer for the twin heritages and for the struggle to be an authentic human being.

He has learned to accept himself whether or not he is accepted by anyone else.

Enter the murky, dangerous world of a Native American Noir thriller with undercurrents of forbidden love.

A meld of a mature Romeo and Juliet and The Godfather

as seen through the eyes of a disgraced Lakota psychologist back in his home town.

The woman he has loved all his life has become the feared donna of the crime family which controls the state.

She has mastered all her enemies but one - the disease that is now killing her.

As she fights rival crime bosses sensing her weakness, can the psychologist save her from herself?

And at what cost to himself?

MYTH IS THE TRUTH IN THE LIE

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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,008 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #74 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > United States > Native American

 And that is with just THREE COPIES SOLD!

Imagine how high in the listings RETURN could go if you bought a copy? 

Just saying is all.

Mythology is not a lie.

Mythology is poetry reaching out with words and images 

to search out with our innermost being, 

seeking to touch the face of the Great Mystery, who is beyond words, beyond images.

whose Song breathed us into being.

The Truth of what Lies Beyond lies in a realm murky and timeless.  

Mythology pitches our minds past those boundaries of clumsy words and images

 to sense what cannot be conveyed with mere tongue or pen.

We need myths that will link the individual, not with his tribe, but with the whole planet ...

for Man is the sick animal who does not know what to do with himself.

Follow the path of myth and doors will open that you had not noticed were even there.