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Top 10 Reasons to See the Barbie Movie

  1. It’s a star-studded cast. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, and more!
  2. It’s directed by Greta Gerwig. The acclaimed director of Lady Bird and Little Women brings her unique vision to the Barbie movie.
  3. It’s a feminist film. The Barbie movie celebrates female empowerment and challenges traditional gender roles.
  4. It’s a satire. The Barbie movie is a witty and subversive take on the iconic doll.
  5. It’s full of iconic fashion. Expect to see some amazing looks from Barbie and her friends.
  6. It’s a visual feast. The Barbie movie is sure to be a visually stunning film with its bright colors and dreamy settings.
  7. It’s a feel-good movie. The Barbie movie is a heartwarming and funny film that will leave you feeling uplifted.
  8. It’s a film for everyone. Whether you’re a fan of the Barbie brand or not, you’re sure to enjoy this film.
  9. It’s a film that will stay with you long after you’ve seen it. The Barbie movie is a film that will make you think about the world in a new way.
  10. It’s just plain fun. The Barbie movie is a fun and entertaining film that you won’t want to miss.

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Your Self-Publishing Questions Answered

My latest non-fiction guide to the world of independent publishing and marketing is out and available for free: Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered.

Are you ready to have all your questions answered? My latest book is available in paperback, Kindle e-Book, and audiobook formats from Amazon by clicking here, or you can get it completely free in this Publishing Kit from Outskirts Press.

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About the Book

Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered identifies the most common questions concerning self publication today and answers them clearly and concisely. What is the difference between “independent” self-publishing, “free” self-publishing, and “full-service” self-publishing? What should I title my book? How do I price my book? What is an ISBN and why is it important? How do I get book reviews on Amazon? These are just a small sample of the top 25 questions Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Semi-Finalist and self-publishing expert Brent Sampson has been asked over the years and now answers thoroughly and completely in this book.

About the Author

Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Semi-Finalist Brent Sampson is the award-winning and bestselling author of Sell Your Book on Amazon and The Book Marketing COACH. As the founder, president and chief marketing officer of Outskirts Press, Brent has helped writers from around the world experience the joy and satisfaction of bringing their high-quality, professional, and award-winning books into the marketplace. Learn more at OutskirtsPress.com.

About the Free Publishing Kit

Your complimentary Publishing Kit from Outskirts Press contains:

  • Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered
  • Publish Your Passion
  • 7 Tips to Self-Publish Like a Pro
  • Book shepherd one-sheet: Meet Your Publishing Consultant
  • Author success white paper: 7 Highly Effective Rules for the Perfect Book Title
  • Author guide: Author Photo & Biography Guide
  • Author tip sheet: The Top 7 Marketing Elements to Include in Your Book
  • Author guide: Which Book Format Should I Choose?
  • Author white paper: How to Price Your Book
  • Publishing white paper: Diving into Self-Publishing

About Outskirts Press

Since 2002, Outskirts Press has helped thousands of authors just like you develop, publish, and market thousands of high-quality, award-winning books featuring…

  • exceptional cover design
  • professional interior formatting
  • high-quality printing
  • award-winning publishing
  • worldwide distribution
  • and extensive book marketing services

Outskirts Press is the only A+ rated and #1-rated self-publishing company according to the Better Business Bureau and Top Consumer Reviews, respectively, because we deliver outstanding customer service, affordable pricing, and industry-leading royalties.

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Happy Halloween from Outskirts Press Self-Publishing Authors

Holidays represent a golden opportunity for self-published authors. Every day seems to have some sort of recognition attached to it (and it’s unrealistic to target all of them) but there are a few widely recognized holidays that opportunistic authors can leverage. One of them is Halloween.

Halloween is perfect for adult fiction in the horror, thriller, and crime categories.  It’s perfect for non-fiction in the true crime category. And it’s particularly important for children’s books about “spooky” elements like ghosts, goblins, and ghouls.

Halloween also represents the kick-off to the book-buying holiday season.  From now until Christmas, book purchases are at their peak.  What better way to get this exciting season started than by highlighting some wonderful Halloween books from the halls of Outskirts Press?

Fly to the Moon On A Witch’s Broom by Joe Cundiff

Halloween H2O by Carole Molchany

Little Sam and Little Riley’s Big Halloween Adventure by Ann Marie Duquette, Illustrated by Jacquelyn Hersom

Under the Halloween Moon by Brenna L. Moore

The Black Witch King by Jade Taylor

The Grey Witch and Other Stories by Diana Mitchell, With Illustrations by Susan Whiting

Zodiac Witches: Marbella the Eleventh Witch by Barbara A. Mastej

For more Halloween books, visit the bookstore at Outskirts Press.

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Self-Publishing Author T.D. Arkenberg wins the Best Book of the Year Award

The votes are in and the winner of the 2018 Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year Award goes to T.D. Arkenberg, author of Two Towers.

In his poignant memoir, Two Towers, T.D. Arkenberg navigates readers through a personal perfect storm. A resurgence of his father’s long-dormant cancer and chaos at his job in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks serve as the backdrop for a private struggle with a secret hidden for thirty-seven years. The story opens on Christmas Eve, 2001. Alone, he stands in his empty childhood home. Two months earlier, his father succumbed to cancer after a lengthy struggle. Five weeks after that painful loss, his mother’s unexpected death shattered his world. The double-barreled blast toppled his towers of strength and unconditional love at a time he was barely treading water. Only weeks before his parents’ deaths, his professional life descended into turmoil. Nineteen hijackers commandeered four commercial jets, unleashing unspeakable terror on US soil. Two towers collapsed into piles of twisted steel, a dusty grave for thousands of innocent souls. Friends don’t know how he survives. Neither does he, especially with the added burden of a dark secret. As his world starts to crumble, fate offers a lifeline.

T.D. Arkenberg’s memoir won 70% of the public vote on SelfPublishingNews.com to walk away with this prestigious award and its $1,500 Grand Prize. T.D. is already a multi-award winning writer with awards from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, and the Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY Awards, where he recently took home first place honors. Two Towers is his first memoir and his fourth book with Outskirts Press.

Congratulations! And well-deserved!

 

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Outskirts Press authors celebrate their EVVY Award wins!

Last Saturday night, the Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY Awards took place in Denver. It was a packed house and the event was sold out. Ward Lucas from 9News was the key-note speaker.

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Outskirts Press had 28 finalists for this year’s EVVYs, and I was present to accept awards on behalf of our authors who could not attend in person. But many of our authors were also in attendance, and it is always an extreme pleasure to meet them in person and congratulate them with a hug or handshake. 

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Katherine S. Egan was a First Place Award recipient for her amazing book Genetics Isn’t Everything.  Congratulations, Katherine! It was an honor getting to chat with you and your husband at the event!

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Certified fitness trainer,  ex-Marine, and marathon runner (in other words, he’s a total bad-ass — and quite a gentleman), John Timmerman, came in from Virginia to accept his 2nd-place award for his inspirational and motivational health/fitness book, Marathon and Half-Marathon Training, One Day a Week (It Can Be Done).

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The sweetest woman in the world, Dr. Jeanne Blanchet, accepted her Merit Award personally for her historical (and powerful) novel, Cursed. Congratulations, Jeanne! It was an honor meeting you.

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Award-winning author David D. Bernstein is not only a very tall fellow, but also a very charming one, and he took home a Merit Award for his fantastic and magical (literally) book titled The Portal. It’s his third book with Outskirts Press and the first in his “Cort Chronicles” series of juvenile fiction books. Congratulations, David!

Winning an EVVY Award is the first step toward winning the coveted annual Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year Award, and the $1500 Grand Prize that comes with it.  Are one of these authors going to be in the running? Tune in to the Self Publishing News blog to see ALL the 2018 EVVY winners and our announcement of the three Best Book of the Year finalists!

And if you want to be an award-winning author like Katherine, John, Jeanne, and David, check out the #1-rated self-publishing company (according to Top Consumer Reviews):  Outskirts Press.

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Congratulations to the Outskirts Press 2018 CIPA EVVY Award Finalists

The finalists for the 2018 EVVY Awards, sponsored and held by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association, have been announced. Outskirts Press is proud to announce that 28 of its authors are finalists. The Awards banquet takes place on Saturday, August 25th from 6pm-9pm, and all finalists are encouraged to attend (tickets can be purchased from the CIPA website). But if you are unable to attend, don’t worry – I’ll be accepting the award on your behalf and we will send it to you.

Congratulations to all of you!

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Self Publishing Award Winning Books 2018

Each year, Outskirts Press nominates a small percentage of the books published during the year for submission to the EVVY Awards. Since a nomination is the first step toward the Outskirts Press Best Book of the Year Award, the standards are high; we nominate, on average, just 2% of the books we publish each year-and these nominations represent the very best of our publications as determined by our executives and members of our production teams.

Outskirts Press official nominees and winners receive additional exposure for their books in featured Outskirts Press marketing channels, including our blog, social media networks, nationally distributed press releases and in our email newsletters. The finalists will be announced July 31, 2018, and award winners will be announced during an awards ceremony hosted by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association on August 25th in Denver.  I will be on hand to congratulate winners personally or accept their awards on their behalves if they are unable to attend.

To see this year’s Official Outskirts Press EVVY Award nominees, presented in no particular order, click here.

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Congratulations to the Colorado Book Awards Winners

On Saturday, June 2nd, I co-hosted the annual Colorado Humanities Colorado Book Awards, in Denver, Colorado.

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Here are the winners. Congratulations to them all!

Anthology
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind (Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University)

Children’s Literature
Can an Aardvark Bark? by Melissa Stewart, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Beach Lane Books, Simon & Schuster)

Creative Nonfiction
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom by Helen Thorpe (Scribner)

General Fiction
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel by Matthew Sullivan (Scribner)

General Nonfiction
Megafire: The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame by Michael Kodas (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

History
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture by Chip Colwell (The University of Chicago Press)

Juvenile Literature
The Last Panther by Todd Mitchell (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)

Literary Fiction
The Blue Hour by Laura Pritchett (Counterpoint Press)

Mystery
Dead Stop by Barbara Nickless (Thomas & Mercer, Amazon Publishing)

Pictorial
Once Upon a Time . . . The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film edited by Mary-Dailey Desmarais and Thomas Brent Smith (5 Continents Editions)

Poetry
Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy (Wesleyan University Press)

Science Fiction/Fantasy
A Borrowed Hell by L. D. Colter (Shirtsleeve Press)

Thriller
Trafficked: A Mex Anderson Novel by Peg Brantley (Bark Publishing)

Young Adult Fiction
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster)