Thanks for the help

I just want to thank everyone who has taken time to give me their thoughts and good wishes as I launched Shadow Soldiers. Let me ask your continued support for this project and try to come to the Town Book Store in Westfield, NJ on 10 March at 2 PM. The Town Book Store's owner Anne Laird has been kind enough to offer me the opportunity to put copies of the book in her store and be there on that Saturday to meet with her customers. Thanks again, everyone.

Here's a note I received today: Hi Mr. Bushby, I'm happy to confirm that I received a copy of your new book, _Shadow Soldiers_, for inclusion in the Rutgers University Libraries' 2012 Celebration of Recently Published Faculty Authors exhibition. Thank you so much for your support of this major Libraries activity! I hope you can join us for the exhibition opening, on Wednesday March 21st starting at 5:00 pm, in the Atrium on the lower level of Alexander Library. You can RSVP by sending a reply to this message. Please take care and thanks again. Harry Glazer Communications Director Rutgers University Libraries 732.932.7505 ex. 303 hglazer@rulmail.rutgers.edu

Reaching out

I have been reading articles on how fast some self-published authors have hit it big with sales of their books. Not being one who wishes to be left behind, I have begun to adopt their tactics. One of them, is of course, this blog. The most important, it seems is to embrace the social networks, something new for guys like me in their 60's, but a natural for my kids. Last weekend, my son Geoff called me to tell me a great idea. "Why don't you put up a page on Facebook for Shadow Soldiers?" Well, that seemed a natural thing to do since I have been touting the book for some time there. He said then he could 'like' it and have his friends do so as well. That is just what these other authors have done. Since I have a fairly small group of 'friends' on Facebook I have to rely on my kids' networks to get the word out. The thing is for ninety-nine cents a reader can download my book to their Kindle or other app. If they like what they read its a bargain, if not they haven't spent the cost of a Starbuck's. So, if you read this and want to support an independent writer go to Facebook and 'like' my book. Better yet, go to Amazon.com first and buy the book and write a review and'like' the book on Facebook