Lulu Author Spotlight

If you do a google search on the author's name including the word lulu you'll find the spotlight for unknown maybe mediocre writers like me, you can even omit the word lulu and my spotlight will be in the search results.

An author / artist like Ron Miller is another matter, the Lulu Spotlight is lost in the thicket of his website, other results, and so on.

The Lulu Dot Com Author's Spotlight will be of value to those authors / artists who don't have a crap-ton of name recognition, for those authors / artists who do have some name recognition hang it up on the 'Spotlight' showing up.

Pointless depends on your perspective.

Larika,

The term 'unknown maybe mediocre writers' refers to the perception held by too many people that an unknown author likely isn't publishing work worth reading. I've read some work [some rivaling Tolstoy in length and quality of work] that was better than what most large outlets offer, so the point is you can't always judge an author by name recognition.

The image of the arrival station at Konzentrationslager Auschwitz does get one's attention. [Perhaps after the last few minutes of Their Graces distracting me with demands I can finish the derailed train of thought.]

Simply put an Epub is an Ebook, though there are a few different formats.

One way unknown writers can gain some name-recognition is reviews and ratings. For ratings you might want to place a variant of the following lines on the author bio page or preface in your books: I'm always interested in what the reader thinks about my work. Please rate this title as you feel it merits, whether good, bad, or indifferent. I thank you for taking the time, and other readers will as well.

One more consideration, I incorporate themes I find of import within my novels. I also charge for my work because most moderns don't value free so much. You might consider if you price your work similarly to what Traditional Publishers charge for equivalent work then people will tend to leave that rating more often. Nothing gets a reader to consider a book to have value than having to pay for the privilege of reading it.

Personally I'm not concerned with garnering fame or fortune [I've handily escaped both in my lifetime], but those two recommendations might help you expand your readership.

Now, back to riding herd on my replacements lest the three of them launch an invasion of England and demand total surrender from Elizabeth Alexandra Marie. They are cute, but resolute.

I read an article two or four years ago that touched on free downloads versus paid downloads. One thing mentioned is that there are a number of people who download every free title they can in order to talk about their extensive library. The long and short is that while there are people who read what they download, there are just as many if not more who don't.

The Holocaust is one of many horrific episodes in human history and likely to be repeated at some future point in time.

At any rate with my luck I'll become better known as an author once I'm in an urn.

Consider, the people who gain the most from the way things are today generally don't want history taught to the children of lower economic status. In part it's a matter of what young don't know they can't use to effect change for the better, while also in part to gloss over the rapacious nature of exploiting the many to enable the few.

You can trace the seeds of The Holocaust to old European balance of power political alliances, religious dogma, as well as xenophobia.

History repeats not because it must or is inevitable, but because it's hard to remember the lessons that were never actually taught in any meaningful way.

My banphrionsa and prionsa may have to swallow a certain amount of what is deemed 'history' by public curricula, but I've been around enough to know how to provide them with more accurate texts that paint a more honest picture, warts and all.

I forget which writer said it, but as best I can recall the statement was that most members of today's surviving noble and royal families wouldn't sit down at the table with the people who started their lines because the reality of those forebearers would be in direct contrast to the romanticized version of how virtuous they were. Basically the truth about the past can be hard to accept.

My daughters and son will be exposed to the realities of the past, it's up to them to derive their truths from the reality of what happened rather than the sanitized version too many people would like to think happened.

With any luck my replacements will accept serving the societies they're embedded in rather than donning a bullseye by trying to lead. Better to survive a coming storm than to have it sweep you away.

Great poem BlueAndGold.