The Time of Giving

I had a plan to give on my special day but I was not sure what I was going to do.

On my golden birthday, my husband posted this for the first time on his Facebook wall. It surprised me. While I was very tired on my birthday, it gave me smile on my face. I was happy while I could not handle my feeling of how very tired I was. It reminded me with my plan, so I had an idea: this would be the right time I would realize my plan. 

So, what I would give? I decided to choose three persons who gave responses to his post above. They had celebrated my special day online with my husband. Congratulations: Chrestela Setyadi, Mini Harrington, and Yohanes Sulistiyono!  

I had sent my recent published book (Exploring My Ideas) to each of them as a gift to celebrate my life. 

Thank you everyone who were not lucky at that time. I only had three copies of my book for giveaway. Thank you to celebrate my golden birthday with my husband online.(*)



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Book "Exploring My Ideas" will Attend CLA Conference Exhibit

This year Exploring My Ideas will have a chance to participate in California Library Association (CLA) Conference Exhibit that will be held on Thursday-Saturday, October 24-26, 2019 at Convention Center, Pasadena, California. National Association of Book Entrepreneurs (NABE) will bring Exploring My Ideas along with other book participants.

The schedule of book show is listed below:

• Thursday, October 24: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
• Friday, October 25: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Saturday, October 26: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Exploring My Ideas

Publication Date: June 6, 2018

Available to purchase: Xlibris, Amazon, BN, and Kobo

Trade Paperback: 978-1-9845-1842-2
Trade Hardback: 978-1-9845-1841-5
E-book: 978-1-9845-1843-9

* Buy directly from its author via PayPal (Free S+H for USA customers)

Book Total

1 Book $15.99 USD

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Book Exploring My Ideas will Attend 2019 PNBA Tradeshow

2019 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) Tradeshow will be held on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, October 6,7, 8 at the Red Lion on the River, Portland, OR. This event is open only to book industry professionals and are not open to the general public.

In this event North American of Book Entrepreneurs (NABE) will bring book Exploring My Ideas for book show along with other book participants. To see PNBA 2019 Fall Show Exhibitor's List, you can visit this link. NABE will be on the Table 78 along with other 120 exhibitors. To see 2019 Complete Show Program, you can visit this link.

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Xlibris Publishing Author Fida Abbott's Exploring My Ideas Won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Summer 2019

Self-published Book Bagged Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner for Summer 2019 for Short Stories

Coatesville, PA-USA, August 29, 2019 -- (Abbottsbooks) -- National Association of Book Entrepreneur (NABE) announced the winners of the Summer 2019 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards and self-published author Fida Abbott from Xlibris Publishing bagged recognition on her book, Exploring My Ideas. Under the category of Short Stories, Exploring My Ideas has joined the roster of the Summer 2019 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards that has been given for more than 35 years now. Fida Abbott's self-published book was one of those that were honored by NABE to some of the finest independently-published books in a wide variety of different fields in sixty categories including Children's Interest, Business, Novel, Memoir, Self-Help, Health, How-To, Cooking, and many more.

Designed to fire up readers’ interest, Exploring My Ideas provides a perspective that is enlightening and inspiring and occasionally challenging to the readers’ perspective as they travel along the path toward understanding what makes them all tick in the way they do. Abbott uses her talent to teach readers about publishing short stories while adding their own story about how they got to the point of being published.  Ten short stories about psychology, crime, relationship, family, horror, and others, and author commentaries from a multicultural population is a somewhat unique approach to this type of project that only adds insight to the efforts of readers who will benefit from the lessons learned. Exploring My Ideas is an ideal book for those who love literary collection and all writers who write as a hobby or a necessity, especially for beginning-aspiring writers.

About The Author

Fida Abbott is an award-winning author. Her book, Enthusiasm, received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award from the National Association of Book Entrepreneurs in 2010. She was a 2011 winner of 50 Great Writers You Should be Reading, presented by The Author Show.

She was born and raised in Indonesia. With her husband and daughter, they live in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where she expresses herself in her writings in English and Indonesian.

She is the director of an online writing course, www.pelatihanmenulis.com, as well as KabarIndonesia, an online Indonesian news, based on the citizen reporter, and a certified Defense Language Instructor for Bahasa Indonesia, serving USAF.

About Xlibris Publisher

Xlibris Publisher was founded in 1997 and, as the leading publishing services provider for authors, has helped to publish more than 30,000 titles. Xlibris is based in Bloomington, IN and provides authors with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, custom leather-bound, and full-color formats. 

For a complete list of winners and links to all the award winning books, please visit http://www.bookmarketingprofits.com/PinnacleAwardsSummer2019.html

Published by Fida Abbott

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EXPLORING MY IDEAS: The First Round of the Survey Results

Source: Google

Book is not for everyone! If you like reading short stories or literary fiction or a beginner who has passion to read, learn, write, and publish your short stories, my book Exploring My Ideas is right for you. 

If you have read this book, I would like to invite you to take a short survey that contains only two questions:

1. What is your favorite/most like short story from ten short stories in the book of Exploring My Ideas?

2. What is your reason?

Please, send your answers via message on my Author Page, The Enthusiasm Saga on facebook or via Contact Form on Abbotsbooks.com

The participants and their answers will remind private and won't be published. Only the whole results will be published on August 2020 in celebrating two years of Exploring My Ideas. As same as the first round, there will be a special gift for a lucky winner for the second round. The first special gift for the first round had been sent in June 2019. The participant's name and city/state remind private, too.

The survey results for the first round:

The Rent House: 50%

A Dream: 25%

Mistakes: 10%

Kleptomania?: 10%

Where is My Mom?: 5%

I value your support for a self-published author like me. Thank you.

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Win a Customized Product from Vistaprint by Participating a Short Survey

Have you read Exploring My Ideas? If you haven't read it yet and are interested to read it, you can buy it from online stores (Xlibris, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Kobo, etc) or directly from its author by sending her a message. You can also borrow it from local libraries in Coatesville and West Chester.

Exploring My Ideas is available in several versions: paperback, hardcover, and eBook.

Please, participate in a short survey if you have read Exploring My Ideas. By participating in this short survey, you are eligible to win a product from Vistaprint. If there will more participants than what we expect, the author Fida Abbott would love to give something special for another winner. Besides a chance to win something special, you will help/support Fida as the author of this book to improve her next writing projects or enhance the inputs to write better and more quality in the contents or theme of her future books.

SHORT SURVEY

1. Due on May 25, 2019 at 24.00 EST.
2. Please, answer two questions:
    a. What the short story you like most in the book of Exploring My Ideas?
    b. What is the reason you like that short story?
3. Please, send your answers via message on Fida's book page or fill out the Contact Form provided
    on this blog (middle-right).
4. Your name and answers won't be published. Only the final result will be published on this blog
    and Fida's personal blog: percentage of the likes of the short story titles.


INTERESTING OPPORTUNITY

To support this event, Fida gives an opportunity to giveaway Exploring My Ideas in eBook version to two lucky persons. If you are an author, professional, entrepreneur, college student, or business persons, feel free to contact her to get this chance. In order to support them back, Fida will hold a special interview with each of them to promote their product, service, etc. and it will be published on this blog. Please, contact her before April 15, 2019.

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Amazon Giveaway

If you like reading, I would like to invite you to participate in my event: Amazon Giveaways. Get Exploring My Ideas for Kindle Edition for free. Do not worry if you don't have Kindle because you can still read it on your any devices including your own computer screen by downloading Kindle App. It's easy and fast. To get the free Kindle App, just enter your phone number or email address. You will get a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Download to your computer:

Mac

Windows 8, 8 RT and Modern UI

Windows 8 desktop, Windows 7, XP & Vista

Kindle Cloud Reader:

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See this AmazonGiveaway for a chance to win: Exploring My Ideas (Kindle Edition). NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends the earlier of Mar 14, 2019 11:59 PM PDT, or when all prizes are claimed. See Official Rules.

Giveaway Summary:

Link: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/ffd5119cfc6f7735 Duration: Mar 7, 2019 1:37 PM PST - Mar 14, 2019 11:59 PM PDT Prize: Exploring My Ideas (Kindle Edition) Number of Prizes: 4

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A Nice Statement from a Reader in Malaysia

Authors like appreciations from their readers. It will give them more enthusiastic and energy to be more creative to write. Appreciation can be a comment, a review, or an input. It can be formal or non formal. 
Three days ago I got a nice comment/statement from a reader in Malaysia. She wrote it on facebook along with this picture. She made me smile. Thank you, Viviana.


NEW YEAR, NEW BOOK!
What a better way to celebrate a new year by reading a new book! I am honored to give a book review for my long-time friend, Fida Abbott. We have been virtual friends since 2010, knowing her from her blog, I guess our friendship lasts long because we share similarities of being an immigrant, a housewife, love Internet and writing and value personal growth. Amid our busy life with family and work, we pursue our passion.
I was never a fan of fiction books. I prefer reading non-fiction books related to my work to gain information or knowledge. Fida encouraged me to read her short-stories. Her stories are sweet, amusing and juicy. Therefore I placed small mandarin oranges along with her book. Every short story is like a small orange which is sweet, fragrant, juicy and easy to digest. I enjoy reading her short stories like savoring fresh fruits.
What I learnt from reading her book:
- the message is memorable when it's conveyed in a story. There's wisdom in every short story.
- everyone is possible to create their own stories from everyday life events and observation and it doesn't have to be your story. It's amazing to see that Fida used the 3rd person to craft the stories.
- Tips, step-by-step guide and resources for those who aspire to write stories for fun or profits.
- Reading stories is good for right brain as they evoke sensation and emotion.
The book is available at amazon
https://amzn.to/2H0igYW
Read the book reviews here or you can leave a review.
https://www.xlibris.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-001178525
Her official website, http://www.abbottsbooks.com/
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