The Featured Author Contest
We will award the June contest winner on May 30th.
The Contest will re-start on June 1st!
Each month the IAN member with the most visits (hits) to their IAN member page will be named The Featured Author Contest Winner!
The winner's profile and books will be posted and featured at over 15 websites!
The author and his/her books will be featured on the IAN home page for one month!
Plus posts published at: American Chronicle Broowaha Online News Ezine Articles published at: Articlesbase.com Amazines.com GoArticles.com Press Releases posted at: FPR Press ReleasePrLog.com iNewswire.com PR News.com PRHWY.com PressIndex.com Plus theses Featured Author Listings The Featured Author at The Avid Reader's Cafe The Featured Author in the IAN Newsletter The Featured Author at the IAN blog The Featured Author at Reader's Choice Books The Featured IAN Authors pages in The IAN bookstore Plus posts at these Book networks Book Marketing Network Book Town Book Blogs |
American Chronicle
The American Chronicle is a family of 21 online news magazines including California Chronicle, Los Angeles Chronicle and World Sentinel. Together these sites see over 11 million visitors annually.
BrooWaha News
An online newspaper with a significant following.
FPR
FDR is a website providing press release distribution service founded in 2001 by Maxo Group, aims to helping small, medium or large sized enterprises to optimize their online marketing strategies. It has grown into one of the leading website in press release industry.
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The Featured Author Contest
Guidelines and Rules
We started this contest as a way to attract book buying readers to the site. This is not a “vote in” or a popularity contest. We expect all those who participate to act responsibly and honorably. Our goal is to sell books and to increase exposure for all members.
Please advertise your IAN page by inviting all who see your post ot tweet to stop by and check your page. ie “Check out my IAN author page at….” or “Visit me and the other talented authors at IAN….”
Please do not to ask your friends for "hits" to your IAN page. Please do not announce you are in a contest. This can cause enthusiastic, over-zealous friends to multi-click your page. Multi clicking can send several dozen or even several hundred hits to your page in a short time. Unfortunately this is not true traffic. This is cheating! This practice will NOT be tolerated. If we suspect multi-clicking or any other unfair practice you will be disqualified and your IAN member page will be deleted.
What can you do to increase traffic?
Our website hit count software can differentiate between self clicks, multi clicking and unique visitors! :)
We started this contest as a way to attract book buying readers to the site. This is not a “vote in” or a popularity contest. We expect all those who participate to act responsibly and honorably. Our goal is to sell books and to increase exposure for all members.
Please advertise your IAN page by inviting all who see your post ot tweet to stop by and check your page. ie “Check out my IAN author page at….” or “Visit me and the other talented authors at IAN….”
Please do not to ask your friends for "hits" to your IAN page. Please do not announce you are in a contest. This can cause enthusiastic, over-zealous friends to multi-click your page. Multi clicking can send several dozen or even several hundred hits to your page in a short time. Unfortunately this is not true traffic. This is cheating! This practice will NOT be tolerated. If we suspect multi-clicking or any other unfair practice you will be disqualified and your IAN member page will be deleted.
What can you do to increase traffic?
- Tweet your IAN page everyday. Use #tags for your genres
- Link your IAN page to your facebook page. (copy paste your IAN URL to your FB wall)
- Add links to your IAN page on your personal website and blog. (banners are available)
- Tweet other member authors and ask them to tweet your page.
Our website hit count software can differentiate between self clicks, multi clicking and unique visitors! :)
2012 Featured Author Contest Winners
Paul Anthony (January 2o12)
PAUL ANTHONY has written a number of fictional novels and a collection of poetry which appear in Print, Amazon Kindle, Apple ipad, and PDF download format. Apart from being a Goodreads author, he is also an Amazon author and a 'smashwords' author appearing in multiple download formats. In the past he has been published by a Vanity House and a Traditional Publishing House. He is currently an independent self publishing author with a store front on the 'Lulu' website. He has written both television and film scripts either on his own, or with the award winning screenwriter, Nick Gordon. Paul Anthony is the pseudonym of a man born in Southport, Lancashire.
When not writing, Paul Anthony enjoys reading a wide range of works, reviewing same, and playing guitar badly. He also enjoys running, kettlebells, athletics, keeping fit, dining out and dining in, keeping Koi carp, and following politics, economics and social sciences. He is married and has three adult children and five grandchildren. Visit Paul Anthony
The Independent Author Network would like to thank Paul for his hard work in promoting his IAN member page and IAN in general. He received a 15 post Publicity Package including press releases, blog stops and Ezine Articles. His IAN page recorded over 3500 hits for December.
Lisa Taylor (February 2012)
Lisa Taylor has been writing since she was only nine years old. Moving around the country as a child, books were her constant friend and learning new things was her favorite pass time.
At eighteen years old, Lisa was accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She graduated in May of 2010 with a degree in physics. During her time in the military she traveled all over the world. Unfortunately, she was soon medically discharged from the military, and after a short time at graduate school, she began to publish her writing.
Her debut novel, The Hour of Tiamat and the poetry anthology Book of Dreams and Nightmares are currently for sale. She also publishes an action series of short stories for Kindle, the Shana Black series. She lives in Kentucky with her sister and two beautiful Border Collies, and she is currently writing the first book of her upcoming fantasy trilogy The Crystal Chronicles. Visit
Lisa Taylor
The Independent Author Network would like to thank Lisa for her hard work in promoting her IAN member page and IAN in general. She received a 15 post Publicity Package including press releases, blog stops and Ezine Articles. Her IAN page recorded over 6000 hits for January.
At eighteen years old, Lisa was accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. She graduated in May of 2010 with a degree in physics. During her time in the military she traveled all over the world. Unfortunately, she was soon medically discharged from the military, and after a short time at graduate school, she began to publish her writing.
Her debut novel, The Hour of Tiamat and the poetry anthology Book of Dreams and Nightmares are currently for sale. She also publishes an action series of short stories for Kindle, the Shana Black series. She lives in Kentucky with her sister and two beautiful Border Collies, and she is currently writing the first book of her upcoming fantasy trilogy The Crystal Chronicles. Visit
Lisa Taylor
The Independent Author Network would like to thank Lisa for her hard work in promoting her IAN member page and IAN in general. She received a 15 post Publicity Package including press releases, blog stops and Ezine Articles. Her IAN page recorded over 6000 hits for January.
Kenneth Hoss (March 2012)
Writer, computer nut, and Texas Rangers fan. I have been living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for most of my life, with the exception of my time in the military from the early '70's to the late '80's. Mild mannered Information Systems tech by day, avid reader and writer by night.
Kenneth Hoss
The Independent Author Network would like to thank Kenneth for his hard work in promoting his IAN member page and IAN in general. He received a 15 post Publicity Package including press releases, blog stops and Ezine Articles. His IAN page recorded over 3550 hits for February.
2011 Featured Author Contest Winners
John L. Betcher (January 2011 Winner!)
His book on volleyball coaching philosophies entitled THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF VOLLEYBALL COACHING, Insights From the Trenches, has been selling nationwide and is currently available at Amazon.com.
Mr. Betcher has also published a series of "Beck" suspense/thriller novels. The first two are THE 19TH ELEMENT, a James Becker Thriller and THE MISSING ELEMENT, A James Becker Mystery. His latest release is A Higher Court, One Man's Search for the Truth of God's Existence. Elizabeth Wilder (February 2011 winner)
Elizabeth Egerton Wilder’s debut novel, The Spruce Gum Box, a novel of historical fiction, began with her fascination with Maine’s Aroostook River and its early pioneers, and evolved over several years through research and daydreaming. While she mused, characters and story lines began to flourish and take on lives of their own. As she puts it, “I knew how the story would start and how it would end, but had no idea what would happen in between.”
Throughout the process, the author drew upon stories and people from her childhood, research on her husband's family in northern Maine along with her varied background in a number of artistic endeavors. She has a BA in Art and Education and has worked as a teacher, designer, colorist, small business owner, photographer and artist. She is also a published poet and believes that bits and pieces of it all, combined with raising her family and her innate appreciation of nature, were all the ingredients needed to fulfill her lifelong goal of writing a book. At seventy-two years young, she achieved her goal and is working on a sequel. Native of New England, Elizabeth (Betty) now lives in Eastern PA with Cal, her husband of over 51 years, and her cat Smokey. IAN Member Page M. R. Mathias (March 2011 winner)
The jewel you see glowing in the ring in my authors photo isn't really a jewel at all. It is the crystallized tear of a real dragon. In my novel "The Royal Dragoneers" you might find the moment where this wonderfully magical tear drop fell from a green dragons eye. It hardened on its way down to land in a mess of troll corpses that the dragon was laying on.
My grandfather died before I was born, but the ring was given to me by my mother, after my grandmother recently died. My grandfather had apparently won it in a poker game near the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma sometime in the early 1900's. It has been a boon, the magic of the teardrop, for it brought you here to me didn't it? Now treat yourself to something fantastic and try out the free sample of one of my novels. I hope you enjoy the journey. It will be spectacular. IAN Member Page L. Carroll (April 2011 winner)
Before pursuing what seemed to be a shelved dream of becoming an author, L. Carroll worked in corporate management and training, first in the field of retail home décor, and then for a small book chain. It took being surrounded by books day in and day out for her to finally realize that her passion for writing had been squelched long enough, and so the world of Lor Mandela was born.
With four young adult children and one pre-teen of her own, she's had a wealth of inspiration for her characters; her writing is strongly influenced by her own parent/child experiences.Currently, she resides in Eagle Mountain, Utah with her husband, Chuck, and their five children. IAN Member Page Jeannie Walker (May 2011 winner)
Jeannie Walker is a freelance writer and award winning songwriter. She studied creative writing in New York and Connecticut and is a member of the International Association of Writers. She is an avid reader of mystery novels and the ex-wife of a murdered man. She resides in Texas.
IAN Member Page Sharon Cupp Pennington (June 2011 Winner)
Sharon Cupp Pennington’s short stories have appeared in numerous online and print venues, with anthology contributions to The Rocking Chair Reader in the Coming Home edition (2004) and Family Gatherings (2005), A Cup of Comfort for Weddings: Something Old, Something New (2007), and Good Old Days Magazine (March, 2007). Her debut novel, Hoodoo Money, was released in May 2008 and the sequel, Mangroves and Monsters, in November 2009. She resides in Texas with her husband, Wayne, where she is currently working on her third novel in this series. |
Franki deMerle (July 2011 Winner)
Franki deMerle was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her name is on the Wall of Tolerance at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. She is a founding member of the Build the Dream Foundation, building a memorial to Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr in Washington, DC. She is a former professional musician and a retired civilian employee of the United States Army. Her hobbies include yoga, gardening, knitting, and, of course, music. As well as poetry and novels, she has also written music and songs.
IAN Member Page Larry Enright (August Winner)
Larry Enright (1949- ) was born to Irish Catholic first‐generation immigrants and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After college, he moved to the Philadelphia area where for the past 40 years he has filled his life with many careers including teacher, musician, computer programmer, researcher, and writer. He has written three novels. "Four Years from Home" (2010) is his first published work.
IAN Member Page Carole Sutton(September winner)
Reared in the county of Devon in England, my earliest memory is of the Exeter blitz in 1942. I married an Exeter man in 1960, and we reared our three children in Cornwall. We built our own sailing boats and sailed the English Channel visiting many ports on the French coast on our holidays. We moved to the warmer climes of Perth in Western Australia in 1981, and took up a small retail business.
My real passion became crime fiction. My first novel ‘Ferryman’ was short-listed for the Dundee International Book Prize 2007. Published by YouWriteOn.com it is enjoying excellent reviews. My second crime fiction novel, ‘And the Devil Laughed,’ published by New Generation publishing was short listed for the Genre Fiction Award by New Holland Publishers 2007. My third novel, Blood Opal, was released October 2010. I am currently working on novel #4 IAN Member Page Nicholas A. Rose (October 2011 winner)
Nicholas A. Rose has been an avid reader for most of his life and a writer for almost as long. He is the author of the ilvenworld novels and novellas.
He enjoys anything to do with the sea, the outdoors and mountains, all of which he finds inspirational, and the rather more sedentary pastimes of chess, photography, real ale, reading and, of course, writing. IAN Member Page Joe Vizanko (November 2011)
Joe Vizanko (1966 to ?) Born in Dodgeville Wisconsin but grew up on the West Coast, An Engineer in California's Silicon Valley, A veteran of the armed services and now an aspiring writer.
Joe Vizanko Lori L. Otto (December 2011)
After an exhilarating, collaborative writing project, Lori L. Otto had an idea for an original novel. The characters and their rich stories would keep her awake at night, and even with barely any sleep, she felt more alert and alive than she had in years. Her days off were spent in cafés, sandwich shops and bookstores, feverishly trying to get all of the details out of her head and onto paper.
In the spring of 2009, after a few months of writing, Lori decided to tweak one chapter from the novel-in-progress and enter it as a short story in the 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, where she was awarded Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category. A year later, she completed a series of three novels, with the hopes of one day having them published. She is currently working on her next series and a screenplay! Lori L. Otto |
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