First Chapter Review: Titanic Affair by Amanda Grange

To commemorate the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Amanda Grange's Titanic Affair has been reissued in e-book format with a new cover. I didn't know that when I decided to download it, but I love the concept of easy reissues created by digital books.

TITLE:  Titanic Affair

AUTHOR:  Amanda Grange

BLURB:  Emilia Cavendish is given a first class ticket on board Titanic and sets out to start a new life with her godmother. The first few days aboard the world-famous 'unsinkable' liner are everything she hoped for as she enjoys the unaccustomed luxuries of the fabulous ship. She makes new friends amongst her fellow passengers - not least the darkly handsome, if somewhat overbearing, Carl Latimer. But when Titanic hits the iceberg, Emilia finds herself in danger from an old enemy on board, and as she struggles to escape him, Titanic starts to sink. . .

COVER:  If I hadn't discovered this is the reissue of a hardcover, I might not have thought as much about the cover art as I am. I love this new one, but it is vastly different from the original seen below.  The new cover adds a more feminine air and focuses on the main character, Emilia Cavendish, whereas the original capitalizes on the adventurous aspects of the storyline. Perhaps the original cover appealed to a larger audience than the new one. I'm thinking mostly women will be captured by the pale colors and delicate accents.

FIRST CHAPTER:  The opening of this book finds Emilia Cavendish packing for her journey and quickly escaping her apartment with the help of her landlady, Mrs. Wichwood. She is pursued by Mr. Barker, who is the hired henchman of the wealthy Mr. Montmerency. After giving Barker the slip, Emilia is thrilled for the Titanic to pull away from the dock, with her safe on board. Her troubles are far from over, however, when she runs into another wealthy man who is used to getting his way, Carl Latimer.

KEEP READING:  Absolutely. Grange has set up a suspense-filled story with this opening chapter. Smartly, she doesn't reveal why Emilia is being pursued yet, making the reader want to continue to the next chapter and hopefully find out. With this young woman, eager to start her new life, the author also helps to capture the excitement of the day when Titanic launched its maiden--and only--voyage. With the fate of the Titanic already known, the reader is impatient to discover how Emilia will deal with the ship hitting the iceberg. And since the blurb indicates that perhaps someone boarded the ship without Emilia's knowledge, she is certain this won't be a slow read. I know I can't wait to finish it.

File Size: 386 KB

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Language: English

ASIN: B007IJ1QUY

SRP: $4.99

I downloaded a free Kindle version of this book for my reading pleasure. I received no monetary compensation of any kind for this review.

Phyllis Zimbler Miller and Anatomy of an Information Product Launch

If you had a great idea today for an online information product – something for which you’ve identified a definite niche market – would you know the steps to take to get the product launched online? Steps such as the right software, shopping cart, copywriting, and online promotion needed?

If there’s a possible online information product in your future – or if you simply want to learn more about internet marketing – come along with National Internet Business Examiner Phyllis Zimbler Miller as she explains in detail the steps she took in a one-month pre-launch for an online information product.

Phyllis pulls back the curtain to reveal everything she knew and everything she had to learn to fulfill her goal. And after reading this ebook ANATOMY OF AN ONLINE PRODUCT LAUNCH, you’ll be able to use this accumulated knowledge for yourself.

Phyllis Zimbler Miller started Miller Mosaic, LLC to provide the services she wanted for herself for online marketing. The publication of Phyllis’ MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL in April 2008 launched Phyllis into internet marketing, including using social networking such as Twitter and Facebook to market her book.

Phyllis hired her daughter Yael K. Miller – now the chief technology officer for Miller Mosaic, LLC — and together they have created the internet marketing company Miller Mosaic, LLC that helps people promote their brand, book or business.

In April Phyllis became a National Internet Business Examiner at www.InternetBizBlogger.com, writing articles several times a week on effective internet businesses and internet marketing. Then in June, Phyllis wrote a month-long series on the steps of an information product launch in anticipation of the July 1st launch of the Miller Mosaic Internet Marketing Program.

This article series forms the basis of the just-released ebook ANATOMY OF AN INFORMATION PRODUCT LAUNCH: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE LAUNCH OF AN ONLINE INFORMATION PRODUCT. In this ebook Phyllis has shared the trials and triumphs of launching an online information product.

Phyllis has a B.A in journalism from Michigan State University and worked as a journalist for several years. She also studied advertising design at the Philadelphia College of Art before earning an M.B.A. at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and working in marketing and web design in Los Angeles.

You can visit her website at www.MillerMosaicLLC.com to learn more about the Miller Mosaic Internet Marketing Program and you can read her Examiner.com articles at www.InternetBizBlogger.com.

Here's an article by the author that she would like to share with our readers today:

No Need for Others to Reinvent the Wheel
by Phyllis Zimbler Miller

I'm a big believer in sharing what I've learned. It's not altruistic; it's just the way I'd like to be treated. Therefore I have to pay it forward.

And after months of my business partner (and younger daughter) Yael K. Miller and I studying various membership software solutions, etc., I realized that I could take the Examiner.com readers of my National Internet Business Examiner column (www.InternetBizBlogger.com) along with me on the step-by-step process we went through to get all the moving parts to work together for an information product launch.

Then when I started this series of articles on June 1st, I realized that, by the end of the month, there would be around 25 articles. But who wants to print out 25 separate articles to have an implementation blueprint?

That's when I decided to revise the articles a little and combine them into an eBook that could help others interested in launching their own online information products or just people who wanted to learn more about Internet marketing through the steps that Yael and I took.

Thus the ebook What You Should Know About the Launch of an Online Information Product (http://budurl.com/ebookproductlaunch) was born.

And, since I'd had such a great experience with Dorothy Thompson of PumpUpYourBookPromotion.com organizing my virtual book tour in June of 2008 for my novel Mrs. Lieutenant (www.mrslieutenant.com), it seemed a good idea to repeat the experience for the ebook.

So here I am on a virtual book tour this month, sharing my Internet marketing experiences with book authors and others who want to use the Internet to promote their brand, book or business.

At my company we have two mottos to which we try to always adhere:

Do NOT overwhelm people with Internet marketing information; instead provide easy-to-implement steps.

Do share how to make it as easy as possible for people to say yes to your brand, book or business.

Visit my company website at www.MillerMosaicLLC.com to learn what we do to help people effectively utilize Internet marketing for their brand, book or business.

Ed Green and and Voice Over Training Class

Today's guest blogger is Ed Green, the industry's leading voice-over talent. Here Ed will share with us some tricks of the trade that he has included in his eBook Voice Over Training Class.

I worked at the craft until I became a powerful talent in the voice over industry. For many years, I have been the voice of major sporting event projects, motion picture trailers, and television narrations, as well as the voice for the most familiar commercial and product advertisers in America. My commercials have currently passed the 30,000 mark, and are still climbing. This includes my best-known work as an audio personality for Fortune 500 Corporations - working on their national campaigns while creating a unique image for internal corporate projects and shareholder meetings.

Hosting the advertising industry's annual ANDY and CLIO awards ceremonies is usually a once-in-a-career honor for voice-over talent. I have been fortunate to have presented both - several times. Now, I've decided to pass on the insights, secrets, and methods that I've learned throughout my thirty years of success to a whole new generation of VO talent. So if you want to be a real VO pro...an in-demand voice over performer in all kinds of commercials and productions in today's growing broadcast, cable, and digital communications industry...It takes a little talent, a lot of drive...and the insider's know-how that I can teach.

It's a solid, easy-to-follow program. Working at your own pace you'll learn how to use a microphone, reading and pacing skills, how to audition and market yourself, my EMOTE method, and much, much more that you'll never learn anywhere else.

Some tips I've learned through the years:

1. Voice quality is only one aspect of success in becoming a voice-over professional. You also need to be able to take someone else's words (the script) and make them sound like your own credible, persuasive and motivating personal statement.

2. It can take years of perfecting your talent and skills, marketing yourself with or without an agent before you reach a higher level of success. Some will tell you luck is important. In my experience, trying harder and smarter yields more results. I have found the key to my success to be a "contagious enthusiasm" for the work.

3.Once you’re in the game you should practice every day to improve and master your craft. By listening to radio and TV spots for styles, nuances and sounds—things that get your attention and impress you—you’ll find things you can incorporate into your repertoire to broaden your capability and underscore your distinctiveness. So you can become one of those voices that producers and casting directors think of first.