Suze Orman/ J. Darroll Hall/ number one bestseller

Suze Orman/ J. Darroll Hall/ number one bestseller
Book world/ Financial times News flash: Author J. Darroll Hall’s Runaway hit and #1 bestseller moves Financial maven and best seller Suze Orman over to the curb as his “the little book that could” explodes 4,997 spots to capture the number one slot in Financial reads. his smash hit surges to number one bestseller In all financial sector reads… August 1st, 2009. The book has exploded to #1 Bestseller in just 38 days of catalog release… The fastest selling self-published book in Amazons History. Hall credits Buffett’s comments on the book, as the primary reason for the huge demand. Buffett’s Quote: The world's greatest investor Warren Buffett says that “he (Hall's book) can earn you 50% profits per year on one condition; you can't have more than a million dollars to invest!” The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing; “DOUBLE DOWN BOUNCE 1 (How to make huge profits in a volatile stock market”) Amazon… by J. Darroll Hall (Author

Benjamin Graham/ J. Darroll Hall/ Warren Buffett

Benjamin Graham/ J. Darroll Hall/ Warren Buffett
Book world/ Financial times News flash: Author J. Darroll Hall’s Runaway hit and #1 bestseller moves both Graham and Buffett’s books down the sales chart as his smash hit surges to number one best seller In all financial sector reads… August 1st, 2009. The book has surged to number one in just 38 days of catalog release… The fastest selling self-published book in Amazons History. Hall credits Buffett’s comments on the book, as the primary reason for the huge demand. Buffett’s Quote: The world's greatest investor Warren Buffett says that “he (Hall's book) can earn you 50% profits per year on one condition; you can't have more than a million dollars to invest!”
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing; “DOUBLE DOWN BOUNCE 1 (How to make huge profits in a volatile stock market”) Amazon… by J. Darroll Hall (Author)

Warren Buffett/ J. Darroll Hall / Double Down Bounce

WARREN BUFFETT'S COMMENTS SEND MY BOOK "DOUBLE DOWN BOUNCE; How to make huge profits in a volatile stock market" to #1 (number one) on his own website...
I'm still in shock here, my name and Warren Buffett's in the same financial news bulletin is nothing short of overwhelming, "still in denial." I finally tracked down the report by google query, J Darroll Hall/ Warren Buffett and have confirmed that Buffett's web site (http:​/​/​www.​intelligentinve​storclub.​com/​shop.​php?​c=​Books3&​n=​4682&​s=​sr&​p=​1&​x=​Mental_​Health), yesterday it was rumored to be # 3 and this morning I finally found it and it is today...
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER on Buffett's Intelligent investor club financial products site and Buffett has picked up my book to be sold on the site: via contract I signed with Amazon book distrubutions (Book surge) for My new company Fantasy Girl Book Publishing, (FBGP) (http:​/​/​www.​kokomofantasygi​rl.​com) and (http:​/​/​jdarrollhall.​blogspot.​com/​) That book was the first to be fast tracked by the new company, and with the assistance of "Put Johnny on it" dot com (http:​/​/​www.​putjohnnyonit.​com) used for layout/​graphics cover/ editing/​marketing.​
Amazon wont confirm for me but the first book published by FGBP shot to # 19 in 33 days on the catalog (possible record) and is now personally on Buffet's recommended reading for "Intelligent investor club" members. My e-mail and various sites I have are flooded and (talk about overwhelmed) I had trouble getting to my own site to blog today (too many hits). Here is the rub for me, that book was a test to see how fast a book could be done cover to cover and sell able on mass basis. 13 days first word to "for sale". 43 days later its a number one hit. Maybe some of you, should step out of the box as well and just do something wild and crazy, (through your ideas out to the public) you never know where it may take you. Still in a foggy cloud... J .....PS The attached song and video struck me on the head many months ago and it was so inspiring (had me in tears) that I played it every morning and sometimes all day to make me keep going, (drove my mother nuts) I hope this can be some inspiration for you as well, to go out, and push on with that dream that may lie inside all of you. I just feel so damn blessed right now, i want to share.... My humble thanks to all of you who helped me go on day after day, I love all of you to much to express in just "Words", I need to go blow my nose and dry my wet leaking eyes... Please watch the video...

Anyway

You can spend your whole life buildin'
Somethin' from nothin'
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway

You can chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway

(Chorus)
God is great, but sometimes life ain't good
When I pray it doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway

This world's gone crazy and it's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway
You can love someone with all your heart
For all the right reasons
And in a moment they can choose to walk away
Love 'em anyway

(Repeat Chorus)

You can pour your soul out singin'
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah sing it anyway

I sing
I dream
I love anyway

Trail of Tornadoes

whats next

June fourth blog 2009

I still sit here in a personal dilemma, where the hell to go next? I have eleven books written in various stages and unpublished; the obvious easy course of action would be to get one of those completed and up for sale as quickly as possible. The prequel to the Lollipop is “The Candyland” and sits with a built in audience of readers now that I have sold almost a hundred copies of that book series. I pull it up daily and do a few edits and find I just can’t get into it at6 this time.
I watch and listen to what is going on around all of us and feel I have something important to offer that is not a made up story of a guy vanquishing serial killers in the worst way possible. I also have been making much progress on “Black/light” but again it just doesn’t seem to ring my bell right now and I have a very difficult time staying with it as well.
As I see what is happening to everyone around me including my own children and grand-children, I just can’t get my mind away from the fact that the country I grew up in and knew so well is gone. My biggest dilemma is how in the hell I communicate that, especially to my own kids and what and how their lives will change as well. I can’t find a single person so far that is not affected by this current economy in one way or another.
The old rules of how we acquire success have changed so much; I fear they have no clue how to go about chasing the dreams they have. Their dreams are no different then the ones I had at their age, and I was able to realize to some degree great success for a very long time. A how-to book is very easy for me to write and create with my extensive experience and training in both business and money. I know how to make it and blow it just like everyone else by the way.
If my children try to do what I did in the same way I was able to achieve it they will fail miserable, the methods and avenues I had are closed off and I fear they will never return in the same way. Credit, assets, wealth and jobs have all changed in such a dramatic fashion, that the old rules and game plans are obsolete and need to be revamped across the board.
When I worked my first good job at nineteen and could save money at 10% interest in a conventional bank, I purchased my first new car and home without a co-signer. I was able to pull out an American express card and buy whatever I wanted (as long as I paid the bill in 30 days) and had three other credit cards to go along with that one.
Those are things my children will not be able to do in the current credit climate, and do they understand that? That is the question that bothers me daily and haunts my dreams. They will not live the dreams I was allowed to, if they do not change their thinking and game plan to fit today’s circumstances.
The changes we are going through are not going to be just a short term type of change. This is a generational shift that will take decades to come back to where it was for me, and it may never come back to the same way it was. If you think it will ask; a few of the house flippers who now sit in bankruptcy and mortgage default how soon they see it coming back.
The old ways of leveraging real estate are gone and aren’t coming back; even Donald Trump can’t find money for current or future projects as he openly stated recently on Larry King live. And if you know anything about economics, when the government sucks up capital like a Giant Hoover vacuum cleaner, good luck in getting in front of that line.
Those factors are exactly why I dropped my other book projects and began the “Wealth building 101” series. In that book I clearly explain how anyone who keeps money in a conventional bank today is using old methods and ideas that will no longer work in today’s climate. The current money market rate is 1.65 percent. Inflation is going to go thru the roof and money that does not receive gains is lost money and opportunity.
I suppose all I’m doing is trying to justify in my own mind why I should abandon fiction and stay with reality. I wrote “Double Down Bounce: How to make huge profits in a volatile stock market” out of sequence because an old friend now living in Florida wanted to view those specific principles. He as well wanted to entice me out of my comfort zone and go back to the strip club business in some fashion or another.
My advice to him was to save his money and go for the stock market, that was weeks ago and the DOW is now up 30 percent. When I recently spoke to him and asked if he took my advice he suddenly had a bunch of marbles in his mouth and suddenly couldn’t speak clearly anymore, I fear he did not take the advice. Since gold is up 12 bucks today (he is a gold merchant) I’m sure he is not hurting anyway. Gold however is up only a few percent, like three, and the stock market is straight up at a whopping thirty points.
In the book; I describe many ways to change habits and take advantage of new ways to keep, grow, and raise money, I did not however go as far as I wanted in the basic understanding of how the life we knew is gone. Nor was I able to give deep insight into how to navigate the new money streams that are all around us. We either learn how to dip into those streams or we will wind up renters, and low-end worker robots seeing our saving, equity and what’s left eaten up by the up coming inflationary cycle.
“How do you know that is what’s going to happen Mr. Smarty Pants?”
That’s an easy one to not only forecast but see happening right now, Gold up, Stocks up, Commodities futures are up, yet interest and money availability is flat as hell, if not dead as a mackerel. In a normal cycle like this (way back when) you could go borrow on a signature up to twenty grand. Interest you pay is way up yet the interest you earn has never been lower. Even collateralized loans rates are up with the exception of subsidized housing and auto loans. To get those you better have a 720 to 750 credit score.
The old market of sub-standard credit loans are no longer sellable to investors, which is why home builders and auto dealers are underwater and drowning, or going bankrupt. Anyone who doesn’t see this happening is in a dream state and under the anesthetic of the old market economy. If you don’t get that here it is plain and simple; the government sucked up half the GDP of the nation in less than six months. And yes they did it to save our collective asses.
Without the actions taken you would have had no insurance, banking (both mortgage and loan), and car companies left to send your money to. We not only looked into the financial abyss, we slide down the side of it and almost completely collapsed the capital markets around us worldwide. The old ways of how to live a good and prosperous life have changed forever.
Even if you get to keep your job for the time being, don’t for a moment think about raises, benefits, retirements and free health insurance like the old jobs offered. The capital markets shrank by a factor that is almost incalculable and the effects will remain with us for an entire generation. Don’t believe me? Look at a 5 year Dow chart and at the bottom check out the money that flooded out of the market in mid 2007, the informed rats rushing off the sinking Titanic. What were left was uninformed traders and profit takers keeping the blown up balloon in place, that lasted for about a year until the small amount of funds left could no longer withstand the inflated overblown prices.

I’m not sure if the above chart will show up or not until I post it. If you can’t read it here I’ll try to post it to my photos or my BlogSpot. Forget the retail stock prices above look at the volume of cash at the bottom, it fell off a cliff in mid 2007 the big money around the world bailed out five trillion dollars US were sucked out of the market in only a few days.
If you didn’t get out then, it was yours or your brokers own fault, Stevie Wonder could see that crash coming. There was at least 16 months of fair warning to get the hell out… From 14,000 all the way down to 6500, who could have known? Anyone who knew how to read a stock market chart knew. Just past 28 on the chart you can see the bottom fall out in trading money, but the remaining buyers keep bidding up stock prices, creating an artificial bubble. The bubble collapsed initially at 19 and then down past ACV (actual cash value) at the 06 mark near the end of the chart.
Now the Dow is back up to 8700 today and heading well toward its new benchmark of 9000 and it won’t stop there. How do I know this? The volume at the bottom is increasing everyday, but it still remains 3 trillion under where it was in mid 2007. At current volumes only a 9000 down can be sustained, if the volume continues to grow the top can re-chart new territory past the 9000 mark. If all this is too daunting, then you need to read my book “Double down bounce: How to make huge profits in a volatile stock market.
So I guess I’m off my fiction writing for awhile and on toward finishing the ten books in the “Wealth building 101” series and finish that project. Right now the financial health of my friends and family are far more important than silly made up serial killers, and how much I enjoy vanquishing them.
“I’m spent” Austin Powers…

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One common question asked by many writers is: "How long should my story be?"The simplest answer is: As long as it takes to tell the whole story.However, there are certain word lengths that editors prefer to see when submitting work.Here is an approximate guideline for story lengths.Micro-Fictionup to 100 wordsThis very abbreviated story is often difficult to write, and even harder to write well, but the markets for micro fiction are becoming increasingly popular in recent times. Publishers love them, as they take up almost no room and don't cost them their budgets. Pay rates are often low, but for so few words, the rate per word averages quite high.Flash Fiction100 - 1,000 wordsThis is the type of short-short story you would expect to find in a glossy magazine, often used to fill one page of quick romance (or quick humor, in men's mags) Very popular, quick and easy to write, and easier to sell!Short Story1,000 - 7,500 wordsThe 'regular' short story, usually found in periodicals or anthology collections. Most 'genre' zines will features works at this length.Novellette7,500 - 20,000 wordsOften a novellette-length work is difficult to sell to a publisher. It is considered too long for most publishers to insert comfortably into a magazine, yet too short for a novel. Generally, authors will piece together three or four novellette-length works into a compilation novel.Novella20,000 - 50,000 wordsAlthough most print publishers will balk at printing a novel this short, this is almost perfect for the electronic publishing market length. The online audience doesn't always have the time or the patience to sit through a 100,000 word novel. Alternatively, this is an acceptable length for a short work of non-fiction.Novel50,000 -110,000Most print publishers prefer a minimum word count of around 70,000 words for a first novel, and some even hesitate for any work shorter than 80,000. Yet any piece of fiction climbing over the 110,000 word mark also tends to give editors some pause. They need to be sure they can produce a product that won't over-extend their budget, but still be enticing enough to readers to be saleable. Imagine paying good money for a book less than a quarter-inch thick?Epics and SequelsOver 110,000 wordsIf your story extends too far over the 110,000 mark, perhaps consider where you could either condense the story to only include relevant details, or lengthen it to span out into a sequel, or perhaps even a trilogy. (Unless, of course, you're Stephen King - then it doesn't matter what length your manuscript is - a publisher is a little more lenient with an established author who has a well-established readership)Page CountsIn most cases, industry standard preferred length is 250 words per page... so a 400 page novel would be at about 100,000 words. If you want to see what size book is selling in your genre, take a look on the shelves. If the average length is 300 pages, you're looking at a 75,000 word manuscript (approximately)One reason it's harder for a new author to sell a 140,000 word manuscript is the size of the book. A 500+ page book is going to take up the space of almost two, 300 page books on the shelves. It's also going to cost more for the publishers to produce, so unless the author is well known, the book stores aren't going to stock that many copies of the 'door-stopper' novel as compared to the thinner novel.Remember, these word- and page-counts are only estimated guides. Use your own common sense, and, where possible, check the guidelines of the publication you intend to submit your work to. Most publishers accepting shorter works will post their maximum preferred lengths, and novels are generally considered on the strength of the story itself, not on how many words you have squeezed into each chapter.

Send questions, submissions and e-mails to Jdarrollhall@comcast.net I wish you good luck and good wishes for your writings.
JD

PS; My first book was 240,000 words @ 1157 pages of which the first 235 pages were hand written. I followed that with nine books @ 70k to 90,000 word concept novels. My first book I sell as an epic, a series, and as a sequel. This combination gives me seven sellable titles of which I now sell at least a book a day every single day. With my new contract with Amazon, if someone even just previews one of my books, I will receive ad commission for ever page viewed, so can you… Send me your content and you can as well… thank you…

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Looking for
Erotic; romance,mystery,thriller,suspense, action adventure only
Menage and multiple partners sharing romance
Mainstream romance only
Requirements for all 3 lines
Story must be well written and have an interesting story line, strong conflicts, and well-developed characters.
Romance must be a key aspect of the story.
MUST have a happily-ever-after ending for the main characters.
Specific erotic romance requirements
Sex scenes must be red-hot using explicit, adult sexual language and leaving little or nothing to the imagination.
What will catch our attention!
Really hot sex scenes!
Western and cowboys,vampire,space,urban and suburban!
Menage a trois: M/F/M and M/M/F
Menage a quatre: F/M/M/M
Multiple partners: one woman shared by several men
M/M and M/M/M
Western and cowboys!
Series
Closed for submission
No happily ever after for the main characters.General fiction. Poetry. Non-fiction.
Automatic rejection
Not accepting: bodily functions, pedophilia, necrophilia, or incest.
Word count requirements
15,000 to 200,000 words
Print (Print-on-Demand only)
For titles over 55,000 words.
Royalty percentage
90 % of received commission
Royalty payments
Quarterly. Paid 30 days after the end of each quarter (January 1 to March 31 paid on April 30th, April 1 to June 30 paid on July 30th, etc.).
Submission requirements
Manuscript must be polished and free of grammatical and spelling errors. Or we can assist or refer if need be.
What to submit
Please attach your complete manuscript as one document in WORD, or RTF format.
Don't send sample chapters or partial manuscript. Don't send inquiries without attaching the complete manuscript. Don't send only the synopsis without attaching the complete manuscript.
Simultaneous submissions
NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS
How to submit
IN THE BODY OF YOUR EMAIL: Include your book's title, the genre, total computer word count of the finished manuscript, your pen name (if you use one), your current email address, your physical mailing address, and your phone number. Optionally, include a short bio and the URL of your writing website if you have one. In 200 to 700 words (and no more than that), give a detailed but concise synopsis starting with a hook, an overview of the plot, information on your major characters, the major conflict and resolution, and the ending.
ATTACHMENT OF MANUSCRIPT: Please label the attached file as follows:
LAST NAME - Story Title - Total Manuscript Computer Word Count.
EMAIL SUBJECT LINE: Please include in your Subject field: Submission: Story Title. To bypass the Spam filter, please remember to start off the Subject field with the word Submission.

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ONE DOOR CLOSES A NEW ONE OPENS (READ FIRST)

A NEW DIRECTION
I suppose several events have culminated in my reaching the decision to change my life and direction and publish books. Even though I will still work on my writings daily, publishing will now be at the forefront of my endeavors. I have spent four years in the book business when in reality all I wanted to do was write a book and see if a publisher would pick it up. Oh how the publishing world has changed, the changes in the two years since I had a marketable storyline and plot is amazing in itself.
Entire cottage industries have sprung up to rip-off writers and scam them out of money with no intention of providing the services that authors are actually looking for. It is bait and switch at level that the worst used car dealers would admire and envy. In the last four years I have encountered all these scams. Many of these scams simple want to lock up the rights to your work in case lighting does strike and you wind up with a damn good book or book idea.
I was fortunate that my past business experience and background allowed me to read and understand the fine print and legal jargon, and not fall prey to these scams. In hindsight I wish I had kept these contracts, but I was so furious each time that I proudly sent them straight to the circular filing system in disgust.

So why become a publisher?

As a course of business to sell and promote my own works I have had to become one. If I’m going to invest so much time in publishing why not open up to other writers and authors, that is now exactly what I plan to do. Today I have signed a contact with Google; prior contracts exist with Amazon, Sony, Palm, Borders and Barnes and Noble (pending).

Google book search and Adsense are either up and running or in process on our websites and my hope are that all of it can be fully integrated by the end of May.

Why are you posting this notice?

Two web sites will be fully operational shortly. These sites will allow other interested authors, writers, or those who may want to publish a work and need guidance and assistance in their endeavors will have a platform from which to learn and publish their work for profit.

If I had a work product ready to publish how long would it take?

I can have you work published in twenty-four hours and royalties would begin to accumulate immediately.

How much do I pay for this service?

Nothing; we take an agency representation fee of ten percent but that is only on paid commission. You keep ninety percent. This is a complete flip-flop from traditional publishers; they take ninety percent and pay you ten percent.
What services can you help me with?

· EDITING
· REVISIONS
· BROAD RANGE REVIEWS AND MARKET PREVIEWS
· FREE ADVERTISING
· COVER GRAPHICS
· PUBLISHING SOFTWARE
· DTP/PDF,RTF, DOC.X CONVERSION PROCESS
· COPYRIGHT
· ISBN NUMBER
· LAYOUT TEMPLATES
· COLOR GRAPHICS INTERGRATION
· WEB, BLOG, AND SOCIAL NETWORK INTERGRATION
· PAID AD FEES WHEN SOMEONE READS OR VIEWS YOUR WORK
· PLACE YOUR WORK IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY NETWORK
· YOUR BOOK MAY SEARCHED AND PURCHASED GLOBABLY
· 24 HOUR ACCESS AND ASSISTANCE
· WEBHOSTING AND DEVELOPMENT
· SELL AND PROMOTE BOOKS ON YOUR WON SITE
· ACCEPT CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS
· CREATIVE CONSULTING
· BRAND DEVELOPMENT

What type of material are you primarily looking to publishing?

Any good and well crafted story or book idea, or new concept, my personal preference at this time is erotica, which is the fastest growing marketplace globally.

How long does my story need to be?

It must fit into standard marketable formats; i.e. short story, novella, novel, super novel. All sources of information and links will be available on our websites.
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