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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I am both an author and publisher. I am a partner in BurgYoung Publishing LLC located in Denver Colorado. We have seven books in print. I have five books on the market and my partner has two books out. We pride ourselves in publishing Books that Impact Lives.
- Do You Have A Website?
- Our website is http://www.hcourtyoung.com.
- About Me:
- I am a geologist who has worked in the development of private and public water supply systems. I have also worked as a consultant in water system security and environmental cleanup, including a superfund cleanup site. I financed, developed and operated a small scale hydroelectric generation site selling electricity to the local utility.
Of all the things that I have done in my life, writing and publishing books is one of the most thrilling. Leaving a part of myself to my children and the world is one good way of making a difference.
H. Court Young
Author and Publisher
Promoting awareness through the written word
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://waterauthor.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- Beyond Oil, The View from Hubert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Twilight in the Desert by Matthew R. Simmons
The Long Emergency by James Kunstler
The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
Gulch of Gold by Caroline Bancroft
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Barnes & Noble, Denver West, Lakewood Colorado, where I worked and have tea every morning
Many of the small bookstores in Colorado that carry my books including Mountain Books, Conifer, Colorado, Grubstake Bookstore, Central City, Colorado and Buckskin Bookstore, Ouray, Colorado.
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As an author, publisher, speaker and geologist, it is my goal to promote awareness through the written word. My books about water rights, water supply and the potential threat of terrorism to our water infrastructure are intended to inform and prepare the general public about these issues. My latest book about a small mine that was reopened by my father after World War II connects three generations together.
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Dalliance questions for book clubs and terms for readers by Diana Burg
Diana Burg, author of Dalliance, has developed a series of questions designed for book clubs and a list of terms she used in researching this very special pre-civil war novel. These questions and terms will add to your understanding after reading this historical novel. Dalliance is based on the true story of a divorce trial which kept the United States on the "edge of its seat" before and even during the civil war.
Dalliance, by Diana Burg, is based on… Continue
Dalliance, by Diana Burg, is based on… Continue
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 9:50pm —
Why You Need a Global Business Model Using Social Media
Social media websites are a modern phenomenon. They have become a force in global marketing. Two sites, www.twitter.com and www.ning.com, are part of this revolution. They form an easy to implement, and use business model which you can use to market and sell your product or service.
There are three reasons to use the Twitter and Ning business model to promote and sell your product or service:
Inexpensive to setup – This model is completely free to setup and use.
Quick and easy… Continue
There are three reasons to use the Twitter and Ning business model to promote and sell your product or service:
Inexpensive to setup – This model is completely free to setup and use.
Quick and easy… Continue
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 6:00pm —
The Concept of Social Media
Social media websites evolved from ideas developed in the mid 1990s. Classmate.com introduced the idea of friends on the internet in 1995. People organized and formed ad hoc discussion groups, which became blogs. In less than 10 years the number of blogs on the internet exploded into the hundreds of millions. People with similar ideas, communicating on the internet, are the basis for social networks and social media websites.
Social media is all about people sharing opinions and comments. Accor… Continue
Social media is all about people sharing opinions and comments. Accor… Continue
Posted on June 7, 2009 at 7:27pm —
The Art of Writing an eBook revised and updated for 2009 …
I just finished updating and revising The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, for 2009.
Discover how to use your knowledge and experience to:
+ Make additional income
+ Tell your story
+ Educate others
The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, will give you basic tools to help you discover what you are passionate about and how to start writing blogs, journals,… Continue
Discover how to use your knowledge and experience to:
+ Make additional income
+ Tell your story
+ Educate others
The Art of Writing an eBook, Use Your Experience and Knowledge to Enrich Yourself and Others, will give you basic tools to help you discover what you are passionate about and how to start writing blogs, journals,… Continue
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 5:25pm —
New Twitter Applications
There are many new twitter applications each week. Two that I found that are very interesting are:
Twitbabble-Upload pictures, schedule tweets and view replys
Monitter-real time, live twitter monitor with a free live embed widget
It seems that the Twitter Revolution is just beginning. Discover the secrets of building your own profitable global business with my new ebook entitled Secrets of Builiding a Profitable Business Using Twitter and Ning.
One of my readers purchased this e… Continue
Twitbabble-Upload pictures, schedule tweets and view replys
Monitter-real time, live twitter monitor with a free live embed widget
It seems that the Twitter Revolution is just beginning. Discover the secrets of building your own profitable global business with my new ebook entitled Secrets of Builiding a Profitable Business Using Twitter and Ning.
One of my readers purchased this e… Continue
Posted on May 11, 2009 at 5:18pm —
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Slides, Anyone?
I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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H. Court Young
Promoting awareness through the written word
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Promoting awareness through the written word
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