RMWS featured speaker:
Sharpening the Aging Mind
Methods, Tips & Tricks to Keep Your Mind Super Sharp
Othniel Seiden MD & Jane Bilett, PhD

Big Brother and the Holding Company
Bill Haley
Bill O'Reilly
Bismarck
Black Eyed Peas
Black Flag
Black Hills
Black Sabbath
Blind Faith
Blink
Blizzard entertainment
Blondie
Blue Cheer
Brandon Sanderson
Brian Ruckley
Britney Spears
Britpop
Brodie Foster Hubbard
Bruce & Terry
Bruce Springsteen
Bryan Adams
Buddy Holly
Budgie
Buffalo Springfield
Buldors gate

You can not solve a problem
with the same mind that created it!

~Albert Einstein

Bush
Cafe Tacuba
Caifanes
Calista Flockhart
Cameron Diaz
Camper Van Beethoven
Candy
Canned Heat
Capcom
Captain Beefheart
Car paint
Car wheels
Caramelos de Cianuro
Carl Perkins
Carlos Santana
Carol Berg
Carson Palmer
Cast of Desperate
Cast of The Sopranos
CCR
Combichrist
Dakotah
Dan Brown
Dan Simmons
Daniel Abraham

Money Making Idea...

Do you like your dentist? Did you have a good experience with the realtor that sold you your house? Call them up and ask if they pay a referral fee for new clients. Ask them if they belong to a networking club and if you could come visit it to see if it was for you. Go and learn from that experience. Then write down on a separate page in your notebook a list of professions who always need new clients. By those professions, write the names of the people you know who practice that profession. You have a great start at creating a passive income stream, because you don't do much except recommend people you already like to people you also already like. It is a win/win/win situation! Bonus!

EJ runs a publishing company and she pays $50 for every author who signs with her. Usually it is only her other authors who do this for her, but she is willing to pay this for anyone who successfully sends her an author she ultimately represents.

~Thornton and Craig,
Secrets to Creating Passive Income and
becoming financially free
a book to inspire others
to create multiple streams of income

another recommended book by EJ Thornton:
Advanced Book Marketing
- a publisher's secret to selling more books

Dantalion
Danzig
Dave "Baby" Cortez
Dave Chappelle
Dave Edmunds
Dave Gilmour
Dave Matthews Band
David Allan & the Arrows
David Beckham
David Bowie
David Letterman
Dead Kennedys
Dead Milkmen
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
Denzel Washington
Depeche Mode
Derek and the Dominos
Derek Jeter
Desorden Publico
Diane Sawyer
Dick Dale
Dungean seigh
Duran Duran
Echo & the Bunnymen

RMWS world premier book:
The Character of TRUE INTIMACY
Finding the Love of Your Life
by Gayla Wick

Featuring the real life love story of
The Bachelorette's Trista Sutter
and many other women!

Eddie Cochran
Eddie Van Halen
El Amor - Mexico
El Tri
Elder Scrolls
Electronic Arts
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley
Emeril Lagasse
Emma Bull
Energy Orchard
English to German Translation
Enrique Guzm n
Erasure
Eric Clapton
Eric Idle
Evanescence
Everon
Fabian
Fable
Fabulosos Cadillacs
Fargo
Front Line Assembly
Frontline Fuel of war

Writer's Summit Tip #6:

Write a sub-title for your book. Test it for usefulness. Does it tell people what to expect when they open the book? Can you tell if it is a novel or a biography, historical, current or futuristic? Can they tell the general topic of the book instantly? They need to be able to. You have about 2 seconds with a potential customer, when they take your book off the shelf and browse it. If they don't like it, they'll put it back within 2 seconds. Don't believe me? Go to your favorite bookstore and watch the customers.

See the case study about Promise of Whale Song if you want to understand where this tip came from.

Gail Martin
Gamer Gifts
Gifts for Gamers
God lives underwater
Goldfinger
Grand Theft Auto
Green Day
Greg Keyes
Grunge
Guild wars
Guillotina
Guitar Hero
Guns 'N Roses
Halle Berry
Halo
Hannah Montana
Hanoi Rocks
Hard Rock
Hardcore punk
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
Harry Nilsson
Harry Potter
Hayden Panettiere
Heart
Heavy metal

The procession was several blocks long. Most of the angels flew a protective circle around the cars. I rode near Glory. She was quiet. She was calm. She was a comfort to me. I put my arm around her and she sighed peacefully. I whispered in her ear. 'The Lord promised me that these angels would look after you. They've done a great job so far. I have no reason to doubt they'll do a great job from now on. I love you. I wish I could ease the pain of your missing me.'

'What were her choices, Martin?' Mother joined us.

'What do you mean?' I asked.

'You have to realize that her pain is her choice. The only way for her to avoid this pain right now, would be for her to have loved you with less than her full heart. But she did love you with her full heart - you know she did. If people choose to love in life, when they lose those whom they love, they will have pain. The only other choice is to avoid love, but that is to choose to live in pain. Let her mourn. It's her tribute to you and to your love. She wants to do it. She needs to do it. Soon, her peace will overcome her pain.' Mother's voice was so soothing for both me and Glory.

excerpt from Angel on Board by EJ Thornton
an angel book that is also a sensitive and
appropriate bereavement gift

Heidi Klum
Herman's Hermits
Heroes del Silencio
Hilary Duff
Hilary Swank
Hole
Hombres G
Hootie and the Blowfish
Hot Tuna
Howard Stern
Humble Pie
Husker Du
Ice Cream Maker
Ike Turner
Ilona Andrews
Imperative Reaction
Indie rock
Ipods
Iron Butterfly
Iron Maiden
Isaac Hayes and the Movement
J K Rowling
J Michael Straczynski
J. Gregory Keyes
J. V. Jones

Writer's Summit Tip #24:

NEVER ASK WHY...

your book was rejected for publication. The publisher won't tell you and it will drive you crazy if you try and second guess the reason.

Just know that a publisher will only accept a book for publication if it is EXACTLY the right fit for them at EXACTLY the right time. Everything else gets rejected.

Don't take it personally, it has nothing to do with you. It has to do with their bottom line.

One story, from an editor who felt bad about rejecting manuscripts without explaining goes like this:
"I was a young editor and I asked if I could write a note on the rejection slip so the author wouldn't feel bad about the reason I had to reject their manuscript. My boss said not to, but I did anyway. What I got back surprised me. Instead of making the authors feel better, sometimes I enraged them and they wrote back to me to tell me I was stupid not to see the merit of their work. Othertimes, they wrote back pleading with me to change my mind. In all cases, I opened up a conversation that was going to go nowhere. It always ended badly. I stopped writing to authors after the first few times. I wish authors could understand, it never was about them or the merits of their work, it only had to do with our current agenda.

Jack Scott
Jackie DeShannon
Jackie Wilson
Jaguares
James Brown and the JBs
James Hetfield
James Patterson
Janis Joplin
Japan
Jay Leno
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck Group
Jefferson Airplane
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Lopez
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Seinfeld
Jessica Alba
Jessica Simpson
Jethro Tull
Jim Butcher
Jim Carrey
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page

If you desert the trust
in times of adversity,
your faith is small!

~Dr. Ernest Holmes

Joan Osborne
Jodie Foster
Joe Jackson
Joe Satriani
Joe Wilson and The Sabers
John Grisham
John Scalzi
Kate Elliott
Led Zeppelin
Lee Aaron
Leonardo DiCaprio
Less
Lili Taylor
Limp Bizkit
Lindsay Lohan
Linkin Park
Little Feat
Living Colour
Lois McMaster Bujold
Los Amigos Invisibles
Los Angeles
Los Apson
Los Belmont
Los Brincos
Los Dug Dugs

Passive Income is not time dependent. Passive Income works for you, not the other way around. Passive Income will require some activity and attention, but the time involved will be minimal compared to the returns.

You get to determine how much time and when you spend it.

True Passive Income is something that you can walk away from and it still pays you. Passive income has the ability to multiply, without limit, the use of your time, effort and energy.

~Thornton and Craig,
Secrets to Creating Passive Income
and becoming financially free
a book to inspire others
to create multiple streams of income

Los Enanitos Verdes
Los Hitters
Los Hooligans
Los Jaivas
Los Lobos
Los Locos del Ritmo
Los Rebeldes del Rock
Los Yaki
Love
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Madchester
Mago de Oz
Manic Street Preachers
Mansun
Maria Sharapova
Maria V. Snyder
Marianne Faithfull
Mario Batali
Mark Knopfler
MASH
Matthew Broderick
Meat Loaf
Mel Brooks
Menswear
Metal

Money Making Idea...

Metallica
Michael Jordan
Michael Schumacher
Michelle Wie
Microsoft
Midnight Oil
Miguel Bose
Miguel Rios
Mike Nichols
Minor Threat
Minot
Minutemen
Moby Grape
Model Railroads
Molotov
Motley Crue
Motorhead
Moving Sidewalks
MP3 Players
Mr. Gasser and the Weirdos
Muhammad Ali
Music for
MxPx
My Chemical Romance
Nacha Pop

What we think, we become.

~Buddha

Nathan Lane
National Geographic
Neil Diamond
Neil Gaiman
Neuroticfish
Neverwinter nights
New Order
New Wave
New York Dolls
Nick Lowe
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Richie
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
NOFX
North Dakota
Nu metal
Oasis
Oblivion
Oprah Winfrey
Orbital
Ozzy Osbourne
Paint
Panda

Writer's Summit Tip #37:

Learn publishing from a publisher, not from some guy who heard about it from a friend or a published author who only knows his/her own experience. Learn the ins and outs of anything from a professional currently engaged in the practice of it. You will get the most up-to-date, revelant information from someone who is in the field.

Likewise, learn editing from an editor - not a critic. Learn illustrating from an illustrator. Learn the inside information about graphic arts from a graphic artist - and so on...

Pantera
Papa Roach
Paramore
Paris Hilton
Parliament Funkadelic
Pat Boone
Patricia Briggs
Patrick Rothfuss
Patti Smith
Paul Anka
Paul McCartney
Pavement
Pearl Jam
Pencils
Pennywise
Pens
Peter Jackson
Phil Mickelson
Phish
Pink Floyd
Pixies
PJ Harvey
Placebo
Planet Earth
Plates

He that is good for making excuses
is seldom good for anything else.

~Benjamin Franklin

The fullest life is impossible without an
immovable belief in a Living Law in
obedience to which the whole universe moves.

~Mohandas K. Ghandi

Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner
would not miss.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poison
Portable DvD player
Prep For SAT
Primus
Prince
Prince and the Revolution
Prism
Procol Harum
Progressive Metal
Progressive Rock
PS3
Psychedellic Rock
Punk Rock
Queen
Queens of the Stone Age
Queensryche
Quiet Riot
R.E.M.
Rachael Ray
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein
Rap Rock
Rapid City
Rappers

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Rata Blanca
Ray Romano
Rebecca Romjin
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reese Witherspoon
Regis Philbin
Renee Zellweger
Resorte
Revolting Cocks
Richie Valens
Rick Warren
Ricky Nelson
Robin Hobb
Rockpile
Rod Stewart
Rolling Stones
Ronaldinho
Ronnie Hawkins
Roxy Music
Roy Orbison
Rush
Rush Limbaugh
Rusted Root
Ryan Seacrest
Santana

"You don't have to
be good to start,
but you have to start
to be good."

~Joe Sabah
Author & Speaker

Sarah McLachlan
Scarlett Johansson
Science Fair Idea
Science Fiction Novels
Science Kit
Science Project Idea
Sci-Fi
Scorpions
Seabound
Seal
Sean (Diddy) Combs
Sebastian Rook
Sega
Sepultura
Serena Williams
Sex Pistols
Shaquille O'Neal
Sierra
Silverware
Simon Cowell
Simple Minds
Sinombre
Sioux Falls
Ska
Skin Games

Writer's Summit Tip #5:

Handle writer's block creatively...

Write something else or imagine one of your characters in an unusual situation (not in your book). Put them in a predicament where their true colors have to come out and imagine what they do. Put them in a life threatening situation or have an old love show up or a new enemy show up and see what you learn about them. Don't worry about writing it, just imagine it and get to know your character better. It will give you a fresh perspective.

This tip was given to my by Othniel J. Seiden, author of The Remnant and The Cartographer and 30 other books. He's known as Colorado's most prolific author. He knows how to get past writer's block! Thanks Otti!

Skye
Slash
Slayer
Sleater Kinney
Sly and the Family Stone
Smash
Soda Estereo
Sonic Youth
Soul Fly
Soundgarden
South Dakota
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Space Pen
Spice Girls
Spiders
Squeeze
Starcraft
Starting A Web Site
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Stereolab
Stereophonics
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
Steve Miller Band
Steve Vai

Back cover of book
Bobby's Story

After his parents lose everything - their jobs in the factory,
their beautiful country home with the white picket fence, and their dreams, Bobbyls family is forced
to leave all their family and friends behind.
They move into the city with high hopes of
finding jobs and starting over.

But for Bobby, the struggle is about acceptance,
not only from his new friends, but of his new circumstances.
He must reach inside himself to find the inner strength
necessary to make new friends, live in poverty and stand up to the big, red-haired bully.

excerpt from Bobby's Story,
Bullies beware the Power of One
from BooksToBelieveIn.com

Steven Erikson
Steven Hall
Steven Morrissey
Steven Spielberg
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Stone Temple Pilots
Sturgis
Sublime
Suede (band)
Sum 41
Superchunk
Suzanne Vega
Sweet
System of a Down
T. Rex
Tad Williams
Talking Heads
Television
Terry Reid
The Allman Brothers
The Animals
The Bangles
The Beach Boys
The Beastie Boys

Writing a book IS NOT
a "get rich QUICK scheme! It takes a plan, a system...
then getting rich is possible.

~EJ Thornton,
Advanced Book Marketing
a publisher's system for selling more books

The Beatles
The Bee Gees
The Bloodhound Gang
The Boomtown Rats
The Breeders
The Carpenters
The Cars
The Chantays
The Clash
The Cult
The Cure
The D4
The Damned
The Darkness
The Datsuns
The Dave Clark Five
The Doors
The Drifters
The E Street Band
The Eagles
The Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Prunes
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Faces
The Faint

Great spirits
have often encountered
violent opposition
from weak minds.

~Albert Einstein inventor, visionary

As soon as there is life
there is danger.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some things have to be believed
to be seen.

~Ralph Hodgson

The Fall
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Gears
The Grateful Dead
The Hollies
The Indigo Girls
The Jackson Five
The Jam
The Jeff Beck Group
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Kinks
The Knack
The Mau Mau's
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Misfits
The Modern Lovers
The Monkees
The Moody Blues
The Mooney Suzuki
The Nocturnes
The Oblivians
The Offspring
The O'Jays
The Olsen Twins
The Orb

Did you know...

There are three major milestones in the life of any book...

The first, of course, is to be written...
The second is to be published...
The third is to be read!!!

The true 'First Time Author's Curse'
is that most first time authors,
never plan past milestone number #2.

excerpt from The Basics of Profitable Publishing
by EJ Thornton
available through Books to Believe In

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
The Plasmatics
The Police
The Pretender
The Pretenders
The Pretty Blue Guns
The Ramones
The Replacements
The Rolling Stones
The Romantics
The Roots
The Scorpions
The Sex Pistols
The Shins
The Slits
The Small Faces
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
The Spiders From Mars
The Stone Roses
The Stooges
The Strokes
The Surfaris
The Talking Heads
The Tragically Hip

RMWS world premier book:
The Character of TRUE INTIMACY
Finding the Love of Your Life
by Gayla Wick

Featuring the real life love story of
The Bachelorette's Trista Sutter
and many other women!

The Vandals
The Velvet Underground
The Verve
The White Stripes
The Who
The Yardbirds
The Young Werewolves
Thievery Corporation
Thin Lizzy
Third Eye Blind
Threshold
Tiger Woods
Tin Lizzie
To Be Announced
Tom Brady
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Tom Morello
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Tom Waits
Tommy & The Tom Toms
Tommy James & the Shondells
Tool
Traffic
Transformers

Writer's Summit Tip #20:
Sell books!
Don't give them away!!!
(especially to family)"
They'll understand...

Don't be guilted into giving your books away just because someone knows you. The only exception to this rule is if you have listed them by name in the dedication or acknowledgements.

This simple rule helps you avoid hurt feelings, lost profits and stress inside a family.

Go ahead, blame your publisher, if someone doesn't 'get it'!!!

If you start offering a 'family discount,' you'll be amazed at certain people's definition of family. Your first print run needs to be sold so that you can make the sales numbers you need to make to get your second printing. If you give all your books away (or more than you can afford to, you'll find yourself feeling resentful about the whole process. Avoid this by making a hard and fast rule: If their name isn't printed on the inside of your book, they pay the price printed on the outside of your book.

Triana
Triumph
Trivium
Trolls
Turok
TV
Ty Pennington
Tyra Banks
U2
Ubisoft
UFO
Ultrasound
Underworld
Uriah Heep
Valentino Rossi
Van der Graaf Generator
Van Halen
Van Morrison & Them
Venus Williams
Victoria Beckham
Video Camra
Video games
Violent Femmes
Vnv Nation
War Hammer

RMWS featured information:
Rate Your Date Before You Mate
72 Handwriting Analysis Tips
by Kathi McKnight, Handwriting Expert
& speaker at the Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit

Warcraft 2
Warcraft 3
Web Hosting Business
Weezer
Wheel of Doom
White zombie
Whitesnake
Wii
Wilbert Harrison
Will Smith
Wishbone Ash
Wolfgang Puck
Wolfmother
World Coins
World of Warcraft
X (Australia)
X (US)
X-Box
Xbox 360
XTC
Yardbirds
Yes (band)
Zakk Wylde
Zapato 3
ZZ Top

By sustained effort, earnestness,
discipline and self-control,
let the wise man make for himself an island
which no flood can overwhelm.

Though he be ever so tired by repeated failure,
let him being his operations again and again;
for fortune greatly favors the man
who perseveres in his undertakings.

The Rocky Mountain Writer's Summit where Authors meet the people who can make their book dream a reality!

Last updated on: Monday, February 08, 2010

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RMWS featured speaker: Sharpening the Aging Mind Methods, Tips & Tricks to Keep Your Mind Super Sharp Othniel Seiden MD & Jane Bilett, PhD

RMWS world premier book: The Character of TRUE INTIMACY Finding the Love of Your Life by Gayla Wick Featuring the real life love story of The Bachelorette's Trista Sutter and many other women!

RMWS world premier book: The Character of TRUE INTIMACY Finding the Love of Your Life by Gayla Wick Featuring the real life love story of The Bachelorette's Trista Sutter and many other women!

RMWS featured speaker:
Sharpening the Aging Mind
Methods, Tips & Tricks to Keep Your Mind Super Sharp
Othniel Seiden MD & Jane Bilett, PhD

RMWS world premier book:
The Character of TRUE INTIMACY
Finding the Love of Your Life
by Gayla Wick

Featuring the real life love story of
The Bachelorette's Trista Sutter
and many other women!

RMWS world premier book:
The Character of TRUE INTIMACY
Finding the Love of Your Life
by Gayla Wick

Featuring the real life love story of
The Bachelorette's Trista Sutter
and many other women!