Brummet's Conscious Blog

WooHoo! Purple Snowflake Marketing - How To Make Your Book Stand Out In A Crowd is now available - and for only $10! Purchase your copy at: http://www.booklocker.com/books/2949.html Dave & Lillian are proud and excited to announce that the 2nd edition of Purple Snowflake Marketing - How to Make Your Book Stand Out in a Crowd is now available: www.booklocker.com - Our website ( www.brummet.ca ) will soon be updated to reflect the release of this new edition. Purple Snowflake Marketing - How to Make Your Book Stand Out in a Crowd is a reference guide for self-marketing authors who want to be noticed in a snowstorm of writers. With nineteen chapters and twenty-five appendices, this e-book is a means for authors to design an effective marketing plan and utilize frugal promotional tools with the click of their mouse. The e-book also offers over 900 resources that will accelerate your marketing efforts far beyond your peers. As a reassuring marketing plan guide, it contains ample...

-- Authors Read Radio Show -- Today on Authors Read we are featuring Robert Kimmel Smith - According to The Child Advocate, “Divorce is an intensely stressful experience for all children, regardless of age or developmental level; many children are inadequately prepared for the impending divorce by their parents.” The award-winning author takes a close look at this painful topic from a child’s perspective in his young adult novel The Squeaky Wheel. To hear the author read an excerpt from this book simply click on the hyper-links here in this post or look to the right to find the Authors Read radio show. *Airs live at 9 AM Pacific & will be archived for anyone to listen to, at anytime, for years to come. -- Positive Eco-News -- Interested in controlling the heat in your building, saving money & reducing your impact on the planet? Check out these great tips: Ecobank Aichi, a Japanese non-profit organization (NPO) based in the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi Prefecture, has publishe...

-- Conscious Discussions -- Conscious Discussions airs live today at 10 AM Pacific - Our discussion will focus on the Save the Frogs non-profit organization - founded by ecologist Dr. Kerry Kriger. Kerry holds a Ph.D in Environmental Science, and a Bachelor of Science a degree in Mechanical Engineering. His career included studies on endangered Hawaiian birds, human illness, teaching university courses and he has also written and edited several chapters for encyclopedias. Tri-lingual wildlife photographer Kerry Krigger is currently the Executive and Ecologist of Save the Frogs organization and we’ll be focusing on the work they do for amphibians. Follow the hyper-linked show title above or look to the right for a link to the Conscious Discussions radio show :) Find Dave & Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows & free resources & articles at www.brummet.ca

-- Quote of the Day -- The following quote was taken from an email I received from the Zero Waste San Diego group, which I am a member of: “ A 5-year survey of fulmars found in the North Sea region found that 95 percent of these seabirds contained plastic in their stomachs. Studies of the Northeast Atlantic plankton have found plastic in samples dating back to the 1960s, with a significant increase in abundance in time .” -- The Best Advice for Authors -- (Previously published article by Lillian Brummet) The best advice any author could receive is: Do your research. Whatever stage you are at, whatever you are facing – research it. Find out the details from other authors and research the person or business you hope to work with. Find out what their guidelines and policies are, make a note of the person you will be dealing with. Provide them with exact and complete information. Always research your market and query them in a professional manner before sending a finished product. Doing i...

Ok, ok I know that I am breaking my own rules & find myself in the office once again today ;) As a promise - or a pact with my husband - I am to take 3-4 days per month away from the office, I'm not even supposed to walk in the office door. Well, this month finds me breaking that promise... just a little. We had some internet issues over the last week that has given us intermittent service, so I've felt compelled to be in here a few hours a day - but only a few! I promise - lol !! *There is lots of time to enter this week's prize draw for a copy of Rick Glaze's fiction-memoir adventure novel: Middle Fork -- & -- a copy of Dawn Menge's children's book: Queen Vernita's Visitors (book one of a series for young children). Email LDBRUMMET@YAHOO.COM Oh, and Brummet's Monthly - my monthly newsletter - goes out this very weekend as well. If you are not yet on our mailing list simply email me to subscribe. To start today's blog let me share with yo...

-- Quote of the Day -- “… After beginning to meditate, it became very clear to me that I could stay on a psychological emotional realm forever, because the mind will constantly produce problems, thoughts that bother us and on and on and on. And the only way to get off that wheel is to learn how to contemplate and meditate and go within to our own inner wisdom. …Focusing on what does not work only reinforces the issue if it is a repetitive thought however if our negative belief is unconscious to us, that is - we don’t know what they are, it will cause us to repeat the action again and again and again. …You are not focusing on a negative belief you are digging up and discovering the unconscious beliefs. …Repetitive patterns are creating a negative reality. …If it is not working, then that means we are being run by our unconscious mind .” ~ Sheila Radha - May 21, ’09 Today's quote is excerpted from an conversation with Sheila Radha on the Conscious Discussions radio show about how we...

-- Quote of the Day -- “ Our 60 years of research show that organic farming is the single most significant and immediate step we can take to curtail the potentially devastating effects of global warming. ” ~ Timothy LaSalle, CEO of The Rodale Institute -- a non-profit scientific organization for soil & agriculture. -- Eco-Resource -- GreenPeople is helping to grow our green economy by making it easy for consumers to purchase eco-friendly goods and services. Check out our listing in GreenPeople at: http://www.greenpeople.org/listing/Drumit_Percussion_23502.cfm -- Eco-Events -- June 23-24 (Tuesday & Wednesday): 5th Annual Expanding Asia's Carbon Markets Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-24 June 2009 "...bring together leading international players to examine barriers and opportunities ...learn and do business, driving growth in developing markets." For info email: Laila.Manji@greenpowerconferences.com June 24-26 (Wednesday - Friday): Electronics ...