REVIEW OF THE LAST ASBESTOS TOWN

 Although my novel (1st Edition) was published in 2020, I have only recently found Lisa Hill’s review on her website ANZ LitLovers. Written on 18th February, 2024, it is a fortuitous find for any author. At the time she also kindly reviewed The Ozone Cafe and said she purchased the Asbestos e-book. Thank you, Lisa!REVIEW by Lisa Hill @ ANZLitLoversRight on cue, I was part-way...

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Bounty: Prose Poetry

PROSE POETRY + PHOTOGRAPHY: This collection of prose poetry will surprise, astound, delight, tell a story, and provide you with an effortless read. Along with images, the poetry is created so that you can enjoy little blocks of prose that act like word pictures. The objects / subjects in the poetry are mostly given a narrative voice rather than written from a personal perspective. Moreover,...

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2nd Edition: The Ozone Cafe -SUPER DEAL @ ,99 cents for a Limited Time Only

FOLLOW ME ON MY AUTHOR PAGE, view all my books of fiction and poetry and where you will find the SUPER DEAL.   AUTHOR PROFILE: Helen HagemannThe Personal Story behind The Ozone Café I'd like to reveal a little of the setting of my 2nd novel The Ozone Café.  The literary world often states for writers, “write what you know”. I have used my hometown in the setting of the novel,...

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THE OZONE CAFE - Available now on Kindle Unlimited

I hope this doesn't sound like an advertisement for Amazon, (some people view them negatively) but my take on this company is that they are by far more professional when it comes to helping Indi authors. I haven’t yet looked into Smashwords or Ingram Spark who offer a similar service, but the fact that (at the moment)with Amazon it’s free, and Kindle Unlimited...

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3 Uploaded Books to Kindle

I have recently uploaded three print books to Amazon Kindle. I may not get big sales for 2 that are poetry books, namely of Arc & Shadow and Evangelyne & other poems, but hopefully my novel The Ozone Cafe might do well. Fingers crossed. I just have to keep promoting my work, ep. like writing blog posts. In this one I am sharing the processes that I took on how to upload to KDP Amazon...

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The Ozone Café - 2nd novel & Unboxing Books

 The Ozone Cafe - Unboxing BooksI have recently tried (once again) to create a reasonable book video of “unboxing books”. Not only have I spent a lot of time, and tried to edit out BLACK COCKATOOS (yes, loud rasping from them in a neighbour’s olive tree) in my first attempt, I also discovered that WORDPRESS made it difficult to upload in media, (haha although problem solved). In a recent...

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The Personal Story behind The Ozone Café

The novel's setting is my hometown Ettalong Beach. I have included in the narrative certain landmarks, the historical cafe itself, the waterways are known as Broken Bay with Lion Island, Anderson's Boatshed, the bay's channel, oysters, prawning and fishing in the area. The book's timeline is the fifties & sixties when the author (also my characters) enjoyed the music of the times. View this post on Instagram A post shared by...

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