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Lucinda Clark is the founder of P.R.A. Publishing. She has worked with visual artists and authors on the promotion and marketing of their creative works for the past nineteen years. She wrote her first volume of “View from the Middle of the Road, where the greenest grass grows” in 2004. She has published 8 other titles by other authors since then. She currently resides in Martinez, Georgia with her husband Robert and their two children. She is the publisher of four “View from the Middle of the Road” volumes, and one of the poets included in the second volume.

Daniel Y. Harris, M.Div, is the author of “Unio Mystica” (Cross-Cultural Communications Press, 2009), “Hyperlinks of Anxiety” (Pudding House Press, 2010) and co-author, with Adam Shechter, of “Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue” (Cervena Barva Press, 2010). He is the associate editor of “The Blue Jew Yorker.” He was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Among his credits are: “The Pedestal Magazine,” “Exquisite Corpse,” “In Posse Review,” “European Judaism,” “SoMa Literary Review,” “Mad Hatters’ Review,” “Poetry Salzburg Review,” “Wheelhouse Magazine,” “Moria, Ygdrasil,” “Wilderness House Literary Review,” “Poetry Magazine.com,” “Denver Quarterly,” “Convergence,” “Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture” and “The Other Voices International Project.” Among his art exhibitions credits are: The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, Market Street Gallery, The Euphrat Museum, and The Center for Visual Arts.

Synopsis: View from the Middle of the Road IV is the fourth edition of the series. Contributors(all male) represent four voices from as far away as South Africa to the US shores both east and west. These poems share their views on life, love, loss, religion and the changes that time and society have on their point of view. The poems are funny, sad, tribute oriented and thought provoking.

Topics of conversation:

• How poets are chosen to be published
  
• Pathway to Dreams - sensitivity of male poets
• Poetry readings by Daniel Y. Harris
  
• Deeper meaning behind the art of poetry
• Creating intimate relationships between poet and reader
  

Listen to interview with Lucinda Clark & Daniel Y. Harris

Experts share their secrets
Authors Access is a joint project of Loving Healing Press and Reader Views. Each week we bring insightful interviews from people around the world who can help you get your work published, and if already published, noticed! The forum is geared for writers, both published and unpublished. Your hosts are Victor R. Volkman, owner/publisher of Loving Healing Press and Irene Watson, Managing Editor of Reader Views. See the lineup for future presentations and listen to previous podcasts.

On Feb 4th 2010 Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with web media and book publicist expert Jamie Saloff on common pitfalls of author/book websites and simple, easy, and inexpensive ways to get more conversions from your web hits into book sales.  Jamie is the site owner for www.PolkaDotBanner.com – an author-helping-author website designed to help authors gain visibility for their books. She also maintains several other sites she built and designed, including the site for Pennwriters, a regional multi-genre writer’s organization, where she is the Web Committee Chair.  In this wide-ranging discussion, some key talking points included:

• What are the high real estate values and high productivity areas of your website?
• How does art direct the eye and how can I use it to my advantage?
• Why are color and “lighting” important?
• How is reading a website different from reading a magazine or book?
• How does my website reflect who I am and why it is important?
• How to use multi-media and flash cost effectively?
• What other things can I offer or talk about besides the book, the book, the book…?

On a daily basis, Rev. Jamie L. Sailoff utilizes many facets of creation and design as an: author, web designer, book design and publishing consultant, jewelry designer, and art enthusiast For over a decade, Jamie has been a book designer and DIY publishing consultant (www.PODBookDesigns.com) for countless author-publishers, particularly professionals who are navigating the waters of self-publishing for the first time..Jamie is the author of Transformational Healing: Five Surprisingly Simple Keys Designed to Redirect Your Life Toward Wellness, Purpose, and Prosperity. She has also authored two other books, including The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Cowan Pottery, which she co-authored with her husband, Tim. Her other book, The Publishing Center, was based on her years of work heading an all-volunteer elementary school writing center, which produced on average, 1000 student-written books per year.

Listen to Jamie Saloff - Six Rules That Will Kick-Start Your Book Website into Full Gear

Next show: Authors Access will interview Ernest Dempsey - Success as a Full-time Paid Blogger