Review: Kindle Income: How to Make a Living Writing Kindle Books; by Alex Foster

If you want to self-publish your own books for Kindle this little beginner's guide will help you get started.

Here you will find useful tips on finding potentially profitable ideas to write about.

The author encourages us to develop a system that will help us to write FAST and crank out one 10,000-word book per week. (I'm not sure the author actually does this himself – I can only find 7 or 8 books by Alex Foster on Amazon – but that is a quibble. Writing one book per week is an inspiring goal to shoot for even if we fall short.)

Once we do have a book to sell Foster reminds us that much of our success will come from having really good covers and descriptions and titles that will attract potential customers and use the key words readers are searching for. There are useful tips on finding good photos and making professional-looking covers.

For beginners, this book, gives tips on how to create tables of contents using different types of software. It also has sample disclaimers you can add to your book if you are writing about topics that could expose you to some legal liability.

When your book is finally ready to go Foster gives tips on pricing to maximize your profit and giving away free gifts to catch people's attention.

If a book doesn't sell, or if sales start to slow, the author has suggestions for freshening it up with, for example, new art or a new chapter.

One of my favorite lines in the book is "Commitment beats skill." Remember that when you start to feel discouraged or doubt your ability, and then get back to work!

If you want to be a successful author on Kindle I assume you will read many books to help you master the necessary skills. This little book should be one of them.

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[This is a useful little book for beginners hoping to self publish their own Kindle books through Amazon.]

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Copyright © 2018 by Joseph Wayne Gadway

How to Save Social Security in 2018

There is an emergency coming for millions of Americans and that's why we need Democrats in charge of the House of Representatives right now!

Here's the problem:
The big Trump tax bill was supposed to pay for itself. Remember?

Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin told us straight out, "Not only will this plan pay for itself, but it will pay down the debt."

Even months after the tax bill was passed the Director of the National Economic Council Larry Kudlow was still beating that drum when he declared the deficit "is coming down rapidly."

So... that turned out to be WRONG.

The deficit for 2018 has ballooned to $779 billion, a 17% increase over the previous year, and according to projections the deficit could go over $1 trillion for the next three years!

So the big tax bill did not reduce the deficit.
The deficit has actually increased.
The debt has increased.
We are digging ourselves deeper into the hole.

So what do we do now?

Senate Republican Leader McConnell helped push that big Trump tax bill through Congress and now he has a "plan" for dealing with the increasing debt: cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to reduce the deficit!

Trump and McConnell and their allies got the big tax bill passed, drove up the debt, and now talk about cutting the benefits many Americans rely on for retirement and medical expenses. We should NOT be happy with this.

The best chance of saving these programs is to put Democrats in charge of the House of Representatives right now! That will force the parties to compromise so we can avoid tax cuts that are too steep to be realistic (the Republican error) and also avoid benefits that are too generous to be affordable (the Democrat error).

If you love Republicans, fine. Vote for them every where else. But if you want to save Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid then put Democrats in charge of the House of Representatives right now so neither party will have enough power to destroy these vital programs.

You can watch McConnell's comments here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaAxcPCmBOc

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[This looks like an interesting book about the Trump / Russia collusion case. If you read it before I do please send me a review I can publish here.]

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