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November 8, 2005
Chicago
Sun-Times Living Section, June 8, 2005 ~ NEW IN BREW ·
Well, we've heard of wine massages, but now comes a special four-ounce glycerin
soap made with wine from Everything Shea Aromatic Creations based in Los Angeles.
The wine soap also contains shea nut butter, which has been added as a moisturizer.
"We have variety of wine soaps and they all contain real wine -- Merlot,
sangria and Cabernet," said Lisa Maliga, the company's bath and body
products designer. "The wine actually increases the lather. Plus, it
just smells good, especially if you let the wine breathe -- you'll get a fruity
aroma."
The multi-colored soaps are priced at $6.95 each. A special gift package --
Valentine Wine Soap
-- comes in a gift bag with three soaps. It's priced at $24.95. The soaps
are available online at www.everythingshea.com
Written by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Celeste Busk
NEW! Diary of a Hollywood Nobody is a novel about a character who moves out to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter.
I'm A Little Bit Published! Read the latest news about how to NOT get published! PublishAmerica Scams Thousands of Authors. Read the quotes from those who have been scammed and those who wisely stayed away. Read about the 5 Reasons To Avoid PublishAmerica.
Want to help those who have been involved in the tsunami? If so, visit the Buddhism page and learn how! Read Monks On Ice! a true story about ice skating Tibetan Buddhist monks!
Authors, Readers, Curious People -- read more about Atlanta Nights by Travis Tea, the book PublishAmerica accepted without ever bothering to read!!! Now the Los Angeles Times has gotten into the act with this terrific article entitled Please Publish This Dud!
Reporter Tara Buck of The Frederick News-Post wrote an article entitled PublishAmerica: A Friendly Biz, Or An Author's Nightmare? PublishAmerica is discussed in great detail by writer Paula Span of the Washington Post.
In the November 22, 2004 issue of Publisher's Weekly, staff writer Steven Zeitchik wrote the article, Authors' Allege Publisher Deception. I spoke to Kerry Slattery general manager of an independent bookstore in Los Angeles, Skylight Books, and she revealed why she doesn't stock Publish America titles. "It’s unlikely we’d carry any of their books. The primary reasons are the no return policy, the fact that the books are unlikely to be edited, and that PublishAmerica is a vanity press – it’s not really a publisher."
At Lisa's Library of Writing's Newslog, you can read some writings about various states of the publishing industry, including PublishAmerica at ePublishing 3. The name of the article is Publish Anything: The Saga of a PublishAmerica Author. If you are a new writer, it's very important that you read this article so that you won't have your work stolen for 7 years. If you have published with this company, and you want to get out of your contract, please refer to the information at the bottom of the ePublishing 3 page. If you were doubting that PA is a fraudulent publisher, then this article about PA is a Traditional ePublisher might make you more aware of their devious tactics in luring you to their website. And here's the newest article entitled PublishAmerica Is Really PrintAmerica.
Mini
SoapCakes are here! Now you can promote your business or give this imaginative
personalized Mini SoapCake as a gift. Approximately 7-8 ounces of
fragrant glycerin soap in each Mini SoapCake! Containing high quality 22%
plant glycerin that is used in all my other soaps, and made with natural African
shea butter, each SoapCake is color coordinated and scented with cosmetic-grade
fragrances and pure essential oils. Available in 11 realistic flavors. Mini
SoapCakes are gift-wrapped on a glass plate and come with a personalized gift
card. SoapCakes are handcrafted and currently take UP
TO 4 BUSINESS DAYS for your order to be packaged and shipped.
Looking for a way to get your birthday shopping done on time? For a variety of ideas, please read Make Gift Baskets For Fun & Profit and see how fun this can be! Valentine Wine Glycerin Soap is an elixir for the body and heart! Each handcrafted soap bar contains real merlot wine and is available in both the Queen of Hearts and the King of Hearts! And to read about an obsession with aromas, check out Confessions of a Fragrance Fanatic.
Lisa's Library of Writing received the Preditors & Editors' Author's Site of Excellence Award! If you're a writer, you're encouraged to visit the P&E site which lists plenty of places to get your works published both online and offline, how to find an agent or publisher, get a review, avoid scams, and much more.
Also at Lisa's Library of Writing -- free articles for you to read here or publish on your site. To add to your site's content, all you have to do is include my byline and a link back to my site. Currently, there are articles about ePublishing, herbs, ice skating, web site design, self-help, and some soap and bath & body recipes. Visit the nonfiction articles page for more information.
Got a new web site? Need some promo tips? OK, here it is: Promote Your Web Site Tips for Successful Free Search Engine & Directory Listings. This article contains 50 links.
Melt & Pour Glycerin Soapcrafting – What You Need to Know If you've ever thought of crafting melt & pour glycerin soap, make sure to read this article.
Do you have sore, chapped or dry lips? Handmade from scratch Luxurious
Shea Butter Lip Balm is now available! To your left is a
closeup of this shea butter filled, enhanced with moisturizing meadowfoam
and sesame seed oil lip balm. Now you can choose from 20 Available
in 20 lip smacking flavors, including Apples 'n Cinnamon, Cinnamon and Green
Apple. Watch for an AMAZING new all natural coffee lip balm coming real soon!
"I
began using the Orange Luxurious Lip Balm a few months ago and find the more
I use it the more I like it!" Carole L. Millet, Topanga, California
Writers, are you looking for a "novel" way to promote your book?
Here's an innovative way to do so with custom made SoapCakes. Do you have
a business to promote? A special event? Anniversary or Bridal Shower? A housewarming,
fundraiser, valuable employee to recognize? Whatever the occasion, you can
have the SoapCake to make it even more memorable and special.
SoapCakes are handcrafted expressly for YOU. They are available Unwrapped, which means you cut and wrap each piece according to your preferences, or in the Supreme version, which includes cutting, wrapping and custom made color labels. Please visit Everything Shea's SoapCakes page to see what's new as more flavors have been added this winter.
The Everything Shea site is affiliated with PayPal. However, you don't have to register with them to use a major credit card. The shopping cart has been installed. Please feel free to visit Everything Shea Aromatic Creations and shop for some unusual shea-filled soaps.
Always check the Monthly Specials page and see what's happening. It can actually change by the week as I constantly add and change what's for sale! You can get some fantastic deals and completely unique fragrance blends this way.
I adore blending scents and working with various fragrance and essential oils. Currently, I have over 275 different fragrance and essential oils in stock -- and plan on ordering more in the near future. While I have standards such as sandalwood, orange, coconut, lavender and a divine vanilla blend, chances are slim that you'll find some of my unique blends even on the 'net.
![Yuzu [Japanese Grapefruit] Glycerin Soap](_notes/yuzusoap.JPG)
Yuzu [Japanese Grapefruit] Soap
As always, I'm continually trying new fragrances, essential oils, natural additives, and colorants. Got a sample of Yuzu [Japanese grapefruit] and it's definitely launched itself into my scent of the day! If you like a citrusy aroma, you'll absolutely adore yuzu. This is now going to be offered along with my premium collection of soaps. It's also a perfect unisex fragrance and is colored a lively yellow and orange color -- like the fruit itself. In Japan, yuzu is considered a delicacy. To learn more about this soap, click on the above photo.
Would you like to make your own bath & body recipes? If so, visit my Crafts & Recipes page to learn how to make soap, or the easiest recipe in the world for a foot powder to leave your feet smelling fresh and clean.
Want to use natural products on your pets? My Animal Approval page shows you how healthy this is and here you can read about my cat Sunshine and her way of testing natural body products.
It seems that people who own websites think they can take information and
slap it up on their sites, not even bothering to give me author credit! A
couple of years ago I wrote an article and it was later put into my bath &
body products book [which went out of print in June '03]. http://www.sweetscentsoap.com/products/index.html?loadfile=catalog5_0.html
I was surfing the 'net, looking for some online seller of clay, my usual source
was out of the kind I wanted, to add to soap, when I came across a very familiar
looking article -- mine! The entire article was copied verbatim, the only
thing changed was my nam; it was conspicuously absent. It seems as though
the owner of the site, Mr. David George, had wanted people to believe he had
written it himself. This was discovered in July. I sent him two e-mails which
were promptly returned as undeliverable. I called his company several times
and received no answer, not even a voicemail system or answering machine.
I sent him a fax, then mailed him a letter. No response. As of today, the
article remains on his site sans my name. It's apparently been up there since
'01. I wonder how many extra hits my site would have received had Mr. George
had the decency to add my link? Or how many copies of my book would have been
sold as a result of the article?
UPDATE: I clicked the above
link and didn't see my article. Then I attempted to log onto the site's main
page and there was nothing there. Looks like this story has come to an end.
However, I hope this serves as a warning to those who write articles and design
websites -- copyright infringement is a crime and is not to be taken lightly.
Why should someone's hard work get stolen in the click of a mouse?
My skating book, "It's Never Too Late To Figure Skate!" is no longer available. However, if you're looking for some articles about ice skating to just read or add to your website, go here to find the growing list.
It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that the "world's biggest eBook site" is now the world's smallest as it doesn't exist. Visit my ePublishing page to read about that fiasco.
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