Featured Author: Mary
English
It’s not too late to find just the right gift for your
stargazing friends or one that matches their astrological make-up. With our
enquiring minds, books are made for the astrologers or Astro-curious on your
shopping list.
Of course, I would love for everyone to buy copies of
The
Crystal Ball for friends who would appreciate a literary eggnog, mixing humorous
mystery with astrology, flower essences, longevity and a New Year’s Eve party
(talk about timely). And we’ve had some past fun here
shopping
by people’s Chiron signs.
There are a couple of my colleagues who have fantastic
offerings that would be great gifts under anyone’s tree. I’m starting in this
post with Mary English, whose How to Soothe
a Virgo is featured in the Radical Virgo sidebar.
Mary’s Books
Virgo is just one of the twelve signs featured in her
complete series, and they’re available in various formats. These Astro-gems are
best displayed on Mary’s
Amazon author page.
These titles are available in paperback in Kindle, and other eReader versions.
They offer to show you
how to:
- Survive a Pisces
- Cheer Up a Capricorn (just in time for your
favorite Goat’s birthday, too)
- Soothe a Virgo
- Love a Libra
- Win the Trust of a Scorpio
- Bond with an Aquarius
- Listen to a Gemini
- Appreciate an Aries
- Satisfy a Taurus
- Care for a Cancer
- Lavish a Leo
- Believe in a Sagittarius
As you can tell from this delightful title round-up, you may
want to gift your friends the book(s) for their significant other as much or
more than their own sign’s guidebook—though, on days I can’t stand myself (and
don’t we all have them?), How to Soothe a
Virgo would surely be an invaluable reference, all kidding aside.
Excerpts from Mary’s
Books
Want to know more about Mary’s books and writing style?
Donna Cunningham has excerpted several of them on her
Sky Writer blog and was kind
enough to share the links with us. Here are some posts from the series,
starting with the sign we’ll be entering just before Christmas:
How Do You Wrap an
eBook?
As a purveyor of eBooks myself, I have pondered this
question as electronic reading has become increasingly popular. Even with all
the eco- and other practical reasons for avoiding paper and tangible goods,
it’s still fun to have something under the tree to unwrap or goodies in your
stocking by the mantle to discover.
The easiest way to gift books available on Amazon, B&N,
iTunes, etc. would be to give a gift
card from that retailer in a red, green or other holidayesque envelope. You
could include a printout of this or other articles with suggested Astro-reads.
An alternative: Type up in fancy script an Astro-Bibliography and email the
original with the live links after your recipient sees what his or her gift is
going to be from “the envelope, please.”
Similarly, you might print up the description of an eBook
you want to gift a friend or relative on fine paper, pulling from their Amazon
or other electronic sales channel, and folding it in a fancy envelope. Or you
can make a card of it, if you’ve got the software and graphic skills. I like to
borrow the cover art, print it out on cardstock, with a box in one corner that
says, Your eBook Is on Its Way—or something to that effect. I put standard 8.5
x 11 sized “card” into a two-pocket folder in a holiday color, or when I can
find one, a colored version of a manila envelope.
The last idea works best for PDF eBooks. I still sell many
of them, as does Donna Cunningham. Speaking of Donna, she’s got a new book that
will be of great interest to Radical Readers, and we’ll be featuring it this
month, too.
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Mary English was born in London and educated in Switzerland at the
American International School of Zurich. She comes from a large family and is
one of 5 children. Mary has been writing since she was 13 when her sister Lucy
(a published author of fiction) gave her a diary for her birthday. Mary lives
in Bath, UK with her husband, son, and her black cat.
She sees clients
face-to-face and writes personal Birth Charts for visitors to her website. It
was these consultations that inspired her to write about the Sun Signs to help
her clients understand their motivations and learn about their Astrology
profiles. Mary is a member of the Society of Authors, The Astrological
Association of Great Britain and The Association for Astrological Networking.
Visit her website http://www.maryenglish.com/.
