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The pedigree of the Canadian Horse goes back to the early part of the 1600’s. Originally a gift to New France from the Sun King, Louis X1V, the horse was known for its remarkable strength, endurance and hooves of steel. Habitants of Old Quebec called him, “The Little Horse of Iron”.

I first became enamoured with The Canadian Horse some years ago when I saw them on show at an agricultural exhibition. At the time I knew nothing of its history or its near extinction and revival. Then a friend urged me to read “The Little Iron Horse”, the story of The Canadian Horse. It’s a must read, she said, so I picked up a copy of the book and found the story of Canada’s National Horse as intriguing and fascinating as my friend had intimated.

The author Lawrence Scanlon, known for his national best seller, “Wild About Horses”, chronicles the glorious and rocky past of Canada’s heritage breed. The “little iron horse” was used for ploughing, riding, pulling logs, pulling a carriage and a host of other chores. Owners would often race the horses traveling home after a church service. Because of his strength the little horse of iron was used in the various wars over the centuries at home, in the U.S.A and across the waters. For decades he was cross-bred to develop a taller horse and to provide stamina for other breeds.

The pure blood line became almost extinct with only a few hundred pedigreed horses accounted for by the mid-late 20th century. It was then that the key supporters of the valiant horse rallied to re-establish the breed and for him to become Canada’s National Horse by parliamentary decree April 23, 2002.

The story of the Canadian is enriched by the personal account of Lawrence Scanlon’s experience with a sturdy Canadian bay gelding called Saroma Dark Fire Dali. Scanlon, age fifty at the time, although not new to the horse world, was green as a trainer and Dali was a green, vibrant 5 year old.

Interwoven with the history of the Canadian is a warm and sometimes humourous accounting of his training of Dali over a one and a half year period. With professional trainers and coaches at his side Scanlon goes through disciplined ground training, schooling and riding and eventually builds trust with Dali. Green horse and green rider become one. In “the Little Iron Horse” we get the perfect melding of the story of the breed and the personal odyssey of Dali, which brings it all to life.

Watch for Canada’s National Horse in an agricultural show and pick up a copy of the book, “The Little Horse of Iron ,” by Lawrence Scanlon. You’re in for a good read.

Walter Paetkau has had a lifelong love of horses. He currenly operates a horse rescue agency, CircleF, in the Fraser Valley just outside of Vancouver, BC. A selection of his, along with other equestrian articles, can be viewed at Moraine Adventure Books.com, an independent source of Adventure Travel and Outdoor Recreation resources.

Using ebooks are a very important factor in viral marketing because they contain key specific information on a readers niche. When a customer searches on google they are looking for targeted information and what better giving them multiple facents of information with the same niche.

There are three reasons why viral e-book marketing will snowball your advertising efforts…

1. Customers are much more likely to find the information they are looking for in a targeted information driven e-book, thus creating more sales.

2. Visitors may find the book extremely useful and decide to rebrand the e-book and give it to their subscribers. This creates a multilevel commission potential.

3. Search engines will start to pick the book and you will start accumulating a wave of new sales and subscribers.

As you can see this is an excellent way to increase sales, subscribers, and referrals without lifting a finger. Welcome to the power of Viral Marketing.

There are plenty of e-book out there to choose from for your niche. You can make a search on google and look for a rebrandable e-book in your area of expertise.
Some good ways to maximize your viral marketing potential with these types of e-books is go give them away for subscribing to your newsletter for instance.

Since I am in the traffic exchange industry I have one particular e-book that I haved used to reach outstanding results. I have been able to create a large traffic flow from safelists, traffic exchanges, and banner exchanges and obtain a steady flow of income.

Author: Corey Morehouse
http://freewebbizsolutions.com

Starting an Online business today is pretty easy and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune, unfortunately being easy to start doesn’t guarantee of success. Not to scare you off, but you need to know. It is a fact that approximately 85% of new businesses are doomed to failure in the first couple of years, for one reason or another.

Knowledge is power!

I know, you hear that all the time, but it is so true. If Online business owners would invest the time it takes to learn a skill along with the time require to learn how to operate an online business they would stay out of the 85% of failed business attempts.

How does one solve this problem? Are you ready for this…

eBooks with reseller rights / resale rights / reprint rights, what ever you know them by they are the solution. To be really successful with them you really should take the time to read them and learn from them. Put that knowledge to good use and you will find that you can learn and earn.

There is a key that has to be use to gain power from knowledge and that key is ‘ACTION’. If you don’t take action you will never gain any ground and without profit you won’t last long. So don’t make the mistake of buying eBooks with resale rights and expect them to sell themselves.

eBooks with reseller rights is an excellent way to learn from experts, which makes applying these skills that much easier, because these ebooks lay it right out there for you. All you have to do is read, learn and take action.

Have I use the word ‘ACTION’ enough yet, are you getting my point? Knowledge + ACTION = Power.

Almost anything people buy comes down to benefits, because people have a ‘What’s in it for me?’ mindset. So it stands to reason that if you were to read these eBooks you would find the benefits and then you could share them with interested people, your target group.

Pick the Minds of the Masters and you will eventually become a master also and at that point you can start writing your own eBooks with resale rights. There are thousands of eBooks online that can be resold for profit. It is your job to find the information products that you are comfortable or willing to learn and then get the benefits those products provide in front of your prospects.

People today are starved for information and they are willing to pay to get the information they want. So what better way to earn a living online than to provide starving readings with digital food that has resale rights so that you can earn over and over on the same products.

There are eBooks with reseller rights on just about any topic you can imagine, and some are not the best, so you need to choose your products wisely. That is where a little bit of research goes a long ways. Like all the way to the bank.

The first step would to purchase an information product, preferably an eBook with resell rights, that will teach you the skills required to operate a successful Online business. This will save you months, even years of trial and error tactics, that destroy so many start up businesses.

Yes, you could go to the Library and sign out books on business startups but when you are done reading and learning the books have to go back to the Library. Not so with eBook with resale rights. You learn from them and you earn from them by reselling them.

Research your target group for each of the eBooks that you want to resell and give them exactly what they are looking for. What does this group type in a search engine text box to find what you want to sell them. This is where you get that great return on investment if you read the products because you will be able to tell your prospects all the benefits this product provides.

Get into the mind of your best prospect. How do your prospects find things?

It bears repeating…

There are eBooks with resale rights on just about every conceivable subject, all you have to do is find them for your target group and you will earn profit from them.

If you are like me you have hobbies and interests so put them to good use. Find products to resell that you are already an expert or at least knowledgable about. It makes it so much easier to find your target group when you are one of them.

You may be saying that so many are doing that now that the market is flooded. Well yes and no. There are a lot of people doing but they are not doing it right and therefore make no money at it.

You see people have a tendency to rush into things without proper preparation and that spells disaster. Instead of jumping in with your eyes closed, take the time to do it right and you can earn multiple streams of income from the many eBooks you will purchase, read and resell.

IMPORTANT!! Don’t just use the sales page that comes with each product. Instead learn the product for yourself and modify the sales page or create your own sales page from your perspective. Use the keywords that your best prospect would use to find what they want and make it personal, people like that.

What are the benefits you received from reading that eBook you just purchased? Right an article or review explaining the benefits and then get that article or review published and placed in front of the eyes of your best prospects.

Use the benefits and keywords to feed the search engine spider so you get a good placement on the search engine results page (SERP).

That is how you produce unlimited streams of income.

eBooks with full reseller rights is a win-win-win situation. You benefited the one that sold you the book, you benefited from the content, and you can benefit others by selling it to them.

Do Not Over Look eBooks With Reseller Rights

James Mann
http://www.ebooks-with-reseller-rights.com/index.html

James Mann has been a computer and software consultant since 1987. After 17 years as a computer instructor James decided to leave the classroom for the Online world where he continues to teach others.

James is also a webmaster and creates and maintains websites for his clients.

Why write an eBook?

You want ongoing, lifelong multiple streams of income. You want to raise your credibility and trust ratings with clients or customers. You want to get your message out so the world can be a better place.

You want to spend only a little time on it. (Would you be willing to spend 4 hours a week?) You want to get it out fast (Would 4-8 weeks be OK?) You want to market for a low-cost investment. And, for some of you, you are ready to be innovative and even take a small risk to get your eBook read by hundreds of thousands, rather than hundreds!

Where are you now?

You have an idea for your eBook; you have a lot of ideas! Take a moment and decide which one you are most passionate about now and will be for the next year or two. Focus on one great idea, where you know what the audience needs or wants– your solutions to their problem.

Or, do you have your eBook well on its way, but aren’t finished. You need advice on how to get it done, what’s needed to publish (not much!), and how to distribute it to pull continuous monthly sales that can be 1/3 to 1/2 your income?

Who Should Write an eBook?

• If you want to share your unique message world-wide to help people create a better life.

• If you are ready to invest a little to reap a great deal.

• If you are a business person who want to expand your business and be a leader in your field.

• If you are willing to move much faster than traditional publishing to sell faster, more, and create more cash flow for marketing.

What do I Need to Know Before I write this eBook?

1. To help make your eBook successful apply the essential “Seven Hot-Selling Points.” These include title, table of contents, thesis, “60 second tell and sell,” one preferred audience, introduction and the back cover.

Why? Every part of your book can be a sales tool. When you include the above “hot-selling points” you will have a roadmap to guide you to writing a focused, organized, compelling book that you will only have to edit a few times.

2. You also need to know how to write a focused, organized, chapter each time. Think format. Each chapter should have approximately the same number of pages if it is a self-help book. Each book chapter may need an introduction, an opening few questions or shocking facts to hook the reader to keep reading, a few stories or analogies to illustrate your how-to’s, and an ending that may be a summary, questions to ponder, or action steps to take.

Designing every chapter and knowing your essential “hot-selling points” are your eBook’s 24/7 sales team and a beacon that brings out your best: writing a compelling, easy to read, inspiring and informational eBook that hundreds of thousands of buyers will want.

About The Author

Judy Cullins: 20-year author, speaker, book coach

Helps entrepreneurs manifest their book and web dreams

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Take on board any, single, one of the following statements that I’ve extracted from Chapter 2 in “Advanced Formula for Total Success” by Dr. Robert Anthony and “live in” the conscious awareness and belief of that statement, then be assured that…yourselves, your lives, your actions and the results that you produce will be forever transformed.

So here they are:

“We need to be aware that … no amount of willpower, effort, determination or commitment will cause us to be any other way … we’re always going to act the way we see ourselves” [p.17]

“It’s not an ego trip to affirm your own perfection. It’s an ego trip not to affirm your own perfection” [p.19]

“Even though you may have built your personality through imitation, you’re not a fraud. No one else has ever put together the exact same combination that you have” [p.20]

“You must be able to stand before the entire world and make no excuse for yourself” [p.21]

“Make a decision to give up all resentment right now” [p.23]

“If you had a friend who treated you like you treat yourself, or talked to you the way that you talk to yourself, and broke commitments to you the way that you break commitments to yourself, do you think you’d keep him as a friend?” [p.25]

“You don’t have to have permission from others to change your life” [p.26]

“To experience your own magnificence requires that you separate ‘what you have’ and ‘what you do’ from ‘who you are’” [p.27]

“Happiness exists when the mind is not removed from itself, when it remains in the present time zone, and when it declines to contrast itself with other times or conditions” [p.29]

“You are spiritually whole, complete and perfect, and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about yourself” [p.29]

Take particular note of:

“You must be able to stand before the entire world and make no excuse for yourself.” This one takes some vigilance and practice. I imagine that it always will.

Even that is simply just another belief. We can replace that in a moment, right?

Note: The latest version of this book by Dr. Robert Anthony is titled “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want” and can be found at Amazon.com

©Thea Westra is an international life coach who resides in Perth, Western Australia. She is editor and publisher of a free, monthly newsletter at http://www.forwardsteps.com.au Thea also publishes a few blogs, visit here http://inspiration-daily.blogspot.com/ for directional links to each.

The quickest way the write you own eBooks is by using the expert interview process. What I mean by this is, approaching some experts in the field your writing the book on and asking them to agree to do an interview.

If you approach these experts correctly, they will provide you with expert responses to all your questions. You will find these experts by checking search engines or related niche forums.

The easiest way to contact these experts, is by email with a list of questions. Before you submit questions or contact your expert, do your research on him/her. You need to approach these experts correctly therefore you need to consider the following points.

Keep your questions short and too the point: You will turn the person off if you are asking long winded questions, long questions lead to long answers and you don’t want your expert to spend too much time.

Give a good introduction of yourself at the start of the email. You will have a better chance of reply because the respondent can evaluate you.

Take care of spelling and grammar: One spelling/grammar mistake could destroy your chances of getting the interview.

Have a deadline: You must have a deadline. This will help you plan your writing better and it will force your respondent to reply quicker.

Object of the interview: You must let the respondent know what the interview is for. For example is it for an ebook to resell or a free bonus to give away.

Appreciate the respondent: Let the expert know that you are a fan of his/her business or website etc. This helps get a much more positive response.

Something in return: The responder has to get something in return. He/She is not going to give time to do the interview for nothing. An example of an offer would usually consist of offering to share the profits of the ebook.

So believe me when I say this, if you approach these experts correctly you could get a huge volume of feedback and enough material to combine a best selling eboook

David Hennebery is the owner and creator of a very successful ebook called ebookprofitmaker. He is regarded as an expert in eBook marketing and selling. To contact him email support@ebookprofitmaker.com. Receive 35% off my ebook for reading this article www.ebookprofitmaker.com/articleoffer.html

Why do some prayers seem to be answered while others not?
“The secret of prayer lies beyond the words of praise, the incantations, and the rhythmic chants to the `powers that be.”

We are only using a small part of the “equation” of prayer and those elements that we are missing are emotion, thought, and feeling; it is these elements that when properly aligned are the formula for creation.

In the 4th century, the Nicean Council excluded twenty-two ancient writings from the Biblical canon because they either felt that they were redundant, or that the writings should be preserved for scholars or the mystery schools, thus the science of prayer has been lost to the Western world for 2500 years.

The first part of the book discusses the various prophecies foretold by the North American Hopi, the Maya, Nostradamus, and Isaiah, as well as prophets like Edgar Cayce, who forecast devastation and upheaval of the earth in the days of the prophecies, which is Now. Braden sites several cases of miracles over the years that changed the course of events and may be the result of group prayer or mass consciousness. If the prophecies are fulfilled, we are on an inevitable path to destruction, and Braden feels we may be able to reverse this path if we use the science of prayer as a collective consciousness, to choose a different future.

Braden pulls together hard science, theories, and earth events, to support his viewpoint for the need for mass consciousness and prayer, and I feel that this book is singularly headed in one direction, that is the call for action to change the predetermined path that we are presently on.

It is thought that the imbalances imposed upon the earth are mirrored as conditions within our bodies like diseases such as cancer, and similarly the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are mirrors of a great change in the human consciousness.

Braden discusses the mirror theory of quantum physics and suggests that if alternate realities exist simultaneously, prayer is the secret key allowing us to choose the reality that we want to experience. It is our thought and feeling, every moment, which determines the reality that we experience, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously.

This book reminds me of James Redfield’s, The Celestine Prophecy, where much the same concept of mass consciousness and prayer was introduced in a fictional adventure.

To compliment Gregg Braden’s research I would recommend reading “You’ll See It When You Believe It”, Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Cindy DeJager is a freelance writer living in Calgary, AB Canada. She writes book reviews on a casual basis. For more information on her book review service or articles email dejagerc@telus.net

According to some sources, it is estimated that the Information
industry is going to be worth over $7.8 billion over the next 3
years.

If you could tap into just 0.0000001% of that $7.8 billion, you
could rake in $78,000!

Isn’t that a good enough reason to create your own information
laden ebook?

If it isn’t, here are 10 more great reasons to create your own
ebook:

1) If you create an ebook that solves peoples problems, you will
feel great knowing that you are helping a few, possible thousands
of people improve their lives.

2) A well written and presented ebook will bring you notoriety,
prestige and even fame! People will respect your opinions and
want to read more of your work.

3) You don’t need to carry any inventory or have delivery costs.
Your work can be instantly downloaded by your buyers.

4) You do not have to work hard to please an ever increasingly
picky editor.

Traditional publishers will require your work to be 110% before
they will even consider publishing it. This takes time and money.
Publish it yourself and you only have your readers to please.

5) It’s easy and fun. With the software tools available today,
creating an ebook is simple, all you need to do is provide the
words and pictures to fill it!

6) Ebooks are a great way of advertising products or services. In
context advertising could be your ticket to high earnings with
your own products or through affiliate programs.

7) If you own a website, and people like what they read in your
ebook, they will come to your site to find out more.

It costs next to nothing!

9) People are willing to pay for information that entertains them
or solves a problem that has plagued their lives, or better
still, solves a problem in an entertaining way!

10) You keep all the profits! What better reason is there than
that?

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Newton’s Third Law of Motions states that “For ever action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Michael Cale’s latest novel, As the Darkness Deepens, is an interesting study in this universal law as it relates to the forces of good and evil. While this is a common storyline, Cale’s strong characterization and the powerful climax give an otherwise trite subject substance to formulate a solid story.

We first meet the unassuming Christopher Jones walking his seven-year-old daughter, Sally, to school. After hugs and a kiss, Christopher sends his child across the street, when suddenly a careening car slams into Sally, mortally wounding her. In the terror of the moment, Christopher draws upon a mysterious power to heal his daughter, saving her life. This act of love creates an equal and opposite reaction that literally births the story’s primary antagonist.

Christopher discovers a renewed sense of self and direction. He transforms from a soft-spoken pushover to a man filled with the need to use his new power for the good of humanity. Eventually, word of his powers spread, and he attracts hundreds and thousands of the hopeless, the infirm, and the insane. Christopher becomes nothing more than a pinball, bouncing off those who want to help to those wanting to take advantage and back again.

Cale, whose 2001 novel, The Room of Shrunken Souls, was an Eppie Finalist, knows how to construct a solid story. Here he does a satisfactory job of blending the good and evil in greedy entertainment executives, religious cults, and the Catholic Church. When all three of these groups collide in the dramatic finale, the reader is given a powerful overview of the morale fallacies harbored in day-to-day dogma. Effectively using the dingy backdrop of south Los Angeles, he builds an array of vivid character that overflow from the 150 page novel.

Despite several annoying dialogue tics and a sometimes sloppy narrative style, Cales nails the characters and setting. I would recommend As the Darkness Deepens to readers as a study in the evil side of morality bringing destruction to good.

Published by LTDBooks
ISBN: 1-55316-138-6
150 Pages
$14.95 Hardback, $5.00 eBook
http://www.ltdbooks.com

Jason Sizemore is the publisher of Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, a quarterly magazine of dark science fiction, interviews, book reviews, and essays. You can read more about Jason and his writing at http://members.iglou.com/jasonb/index.html. Apex Digest has its own website at http://www.apexdigest.com

Author: Annie Rogers
ISBN: 0977018318

With A Circle of Dreams Annie Rogers continues the saga of the Demontagne-Diamant families for what turns out to be a showdown between the world of the dead, the spirit of Anne-Cecile Diamant, who lived in St. Lucia over two hundred years ago, and the world of the living, the cross-cultured descendents of her lost son Philippe.

Our narrative picks up where the author’s debut novel, A Dream Across Time left off. The story opens with Andre and Jamie Demontagne on their way home from Martinique with their new born son, Philippe. During the car ride to their Jumeaux Estate in St. Lucia, Jamie becomes terribly upset when she hears the crying and moaning of a woman in the wind, bringing back memories of an unpleasant past experience when she was lost in the forest pursuing a woman’s cry.

The couple manages to arrive home safe and sound and are greeted by their four-year old twin daughters, Yvie and Lissa, as well as a close family friend and employee, Bertille, who over the years has played a very important and significant role in their lives. We are reminded, if you did not read the first novel, that it was Bertille who came to Jamie’s rescue, when she was lost in the forest, and it was also this same woman who had become a constant bastion of support.

When Bertille learns that Philippe had been named after Anne-Cecile Diamant’s lost son, her instant response is: “Choosing the name of that lost child tempts the spirits.” Even Philippe’s grandmother, Clarisse, feels the same way, although this does prevent her from giving her grandson a two- hundred year old handmade laced yellowed linen baby’s cap that now hangs over his crib. Jamie, on seeing the baby’s cap, experiences an unexplained feeling that she can’t quite put her finger on, all of which sets the stage for the remainder of the novel.

Woven into the plot are Lissa’s mystical and extraordinary powers that are used to protect her brother, Philippe. He is haunted by spirits who whirl around and pull on him; however, it is his sister Lissa who is able to pull him back from these anxious ghosts and his unpredictable and scary episodes which cause him to lose touch with reality. Her powers extend to her ability to live in the spiritual world, to see around the corners of the future and to fly in her dreams.It also has enabled her to see a ghostlike figure of a sad woman dressed in a long dress crying out for help and begging her to find her lost son.

One of the principal strengths of this novel is the facility with time, as the authors smoothly weave family history into the narrative. Another is the way in which suspense is built up with curiosity and delay. Readers really want to know what will happen to Philippe, and the authors do not allow the answer to emerge until our interest has been heightened. All of this makes for some very heady and at times chilling reading!

Norm Goldman is editor of the book reviewing and author interviewing site http://www.bookpleasures.com and the travel site http://www.sketchandtravel.com

Bookpleasures is a global Internet book reviewing and author interviewing village. Reviewers come from all over the globe and review all genre. There are over 6500 sites that link to Bookpleasures and many of the reviews are listed within the first 3 pages of the Google Search Engine.

Norm also offers his own personalized express review service where you can have a quick review within 15 business days from the receipt of your book. To learn more about this service go to bookpleasures.com

Norm is ranked among the top 1000 Amazon reviewers and he contributes his reviews to several other Internet sites.

In addition, Norm and his artist wife Lily meld words with art focusing on romantic and wedding destinations, inns, and other hospitality properties. You can read Norm’s travel articles and view Lily’s art work that is always for sale at sketchandtravel.com