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Volume 6, Issue 1, June 2011

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ANTHOLOGIES

HEXED ? Ilona Andrews, Yasmine Galenorn, Allyson James, Jeanne C. Stein ? Jennifer ? Paranormal/Urban Fantasy

THREE SINFUL WISHES ? R.G. Alexander ? Jennifer ? Erotic

CONTEMPORARY FICTION

THE SUMMER WE CAME TO LIFE ? Deborah Cloyed ? Marilyn

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

A COURTESAN?S GUIDE TO GETTING YOUR MAN ? Celeste Bradley and Susan Donovan - Marilyn
LOVE UNDER A DARK SKY ? Shellie Foltz ? Jennifer

MAKE MINE A BAD BOY ? Katie Lane ? Patti

MONEY SHOT ? Susan Sey ? Jennifer

FANTASY

HIT LIST ? Laurell K. Hamilton ? Anita Blake, Book 20 ? Kathy

HISTORICAL ROMANCE

JUST LIKE HEAVEN ? Julia Quinn - Jane

RIPE FOR PLEASURE ? Isobel Carr ? The League of Second Sons, Book 1 ? Carolyn

WALKIN? ON CLOUDS ? Carolyn Brown ? An Angels and Outlaws Novel ? Jani

PARANORMAL ROMANCE

AWAKEN THE HIGHLAND WARRIOR ? Anita Clenney ? Amanda

BURNING SKIES ? Caris Roane ? The Guardians of Ascension, Book 2 ? Lenore

FORGOTTEN SEA ? Virginia Kantra ? The Children of the Sea, Book 5 ? Marilyn

FROSTBOUND ? Sharon Ashwood ? The Dark Forgotten, Book 4 ? A Perfect 10 ? Marilyn

NIGHTFALL ? Ellen Connor ? Dark Age Dawning, Book 1 ? Lenore

SINFUL MAGIC ? Jennifer Lyon ? Wing Slayer Hunters, Book 4 ? A Perfect 10 ? Lenore

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE

TRACE OF FEVER ? Lori Foster ? Men Who Walk The Edge of Honor, Book 2 ? Carolyn

SERIES ROMANCE

RECKLESS PLEASURE ? Tori Carrington ? The Pleasure Seekers, Book 1 ? Patti ? HB #617

SHOULD?VE BEEN A COWBOY ? Vicki Lewis Thompson ? Sons of Chance, Book 4 ? Patti ? HB #618

THE DADDY CATCH ? Leigh Duncan ? Miniseries: Fatherhood ? Jennifer ? HAR

THE SECRET DESIRES OF A GOVERNESS ? Tiffany Clare - Jani

SUSPENSE

BITE CLUB ? Rachael Caine ? Morganville Vampires, Book 10 - Kathy - Paranormal

JUNE PRIZE BOOKS:

JUST LIKE HEAVEN - Julia Quinn

THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE - Stephanie Sloane

THE SINS OF VISCOUNT SUTHERLAND - Samantha James

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BLOOD OF THE WICKED - Karina Cooper

HUNT THE MOON - Karen Chance

MAGIC SLAYS - Ilona Andrews

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Fast Ways To Earn Money In Niche Marketing

Are you searching for a new online business such as niche marketing? One essential must is to narrow down your focus when trying to make money online. If you are unfamiliar with the term "niche marketing", it is narrowing a general category to a particular topic. Niche marketing involves narrowing down topics like pets, down to something specific like dogs. Or narrowing it down even more: poodles.

Creating one little website may not result in the thousands of dollars you wish, but think of creating multiple websites based on tight niches. Once you grasp that the internet is being surfed by a multitude of people looking for very narrowed topics, you will start to see how the money comes in.

The first thing you will do is to find the first niche by researching keywords. As you initiate your research, wordtracker is a valuable tool for finding keywords. Look for a KEI of at least 10. Jackpot! That's what you should hear if your KEI is over 400.

Content of your website is what you'll work on next. Writing articles can be done by you directly or you may choose to take available content and re-write it or even pay someone to write articles related to your website. The bio box at the end of articles you use need to be cited. A treasure chest full of available articles can be found on numerous article directories. Under Google Search or any other engine, type in "article directories" to find available articles on any topic. The articles that you compose will be based upon a keyword or phrase.

You are now ready to register a domain name. something like yoursitename.com. The closer your domain name is to your website's niche the better. You will also need web hosting so you will have a home for your website.

Now you will need to consider how your website will develop income. Your website can generate monthly income in a variety of ways.

Consider available products that use affiliate programs or even Google AdSense. Your site will not be accepted by Google if it lacks real content. You will want to eliminate any areas that continue to remain under construction.

When choosing an affiliate product, be sure that the product is in relationship to your website's niche. The traffic you develop is looking specifically for information about your topic. If you are looking for a product related to your niche, visit ClickBank.com where you can find an abundance of affiliate products.

Adding a product to advertise on your site is another way to develop income. E-books scripted about your topic is one such product. PayPal can be added to a sales page to accept all payments that are made.

The final step is to get traffic coming to your website. Finding ways to optimize your keyword or phrases is very important. Remember that using keywords as part of your articles will be very important for your site. Search engines love keywords that are sprinkled through the article's title, heading, first paragraph, and body.

Your website will be rewarded with targeted traffic when you write a assortment of articles and use a variety of article directories. I believe this is one of the best free traffic generators there is.

If you want another outstanding way to build visitors to your site, check out blogging. Most c-panel servers have Fantastico which installs Word Press with just a few steps. Updating anything on your blog results in a "ping" to the pinging service. These updates and "pings" allows your site to be spidered through many engines very quickly, giving you lots of targeted traffic.

Ron Jones has been in the internet business world for over 10 years. Teaching others how to become successful online with very little money out of pocket. To visit Ron Jones check out Home Business Idea Visit Ron Jones' website at Ways To Earn Money Fast for helpful tips and information on becoming successful at building an online business.

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Using Home Loan Equity the Smart Way

Once you build up enough home loan equity, you will be able to take some of that equity out as cash in the form of a home equity loan. Equity is the difference between what the house is worth and what is still owed on it. For example, if the house it worth $200,000 and has been paid down to where only $150,000 is owed on it, the equity is $50,000. Normally, lenders will be very happy to give you a loan on that amount.

These loans are popular, and homeowners use them frequently. They are almost guaranteed because the house is used as collateral. The loan can be used for anything that pleases you including renovations, buying other property, or a new car. A good use of the money is to pay off other loans, especially credit card debt. Considering that the interest rate for this type of loan will likely be much lower than that of a credit card, it is wise to use the home loan equity to pay the cards off.

You can get an equity loan from a number of financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, and other finance companies. When you have cash built up in your home, you may have some bargaining power as far as interest rates and other fees. The finance companies are likely more desperate to have you as a customer than you are to have them as a creditor. Make sure that you shop around to find the most accommodating loan company that you can.

Using your home loan equity to improve your life or pay for things you need is very convenient. However, you have to be wise about it. You need to be careful because this will put an extra mortgage lien on your property, and if you default, you may lose the house. In addition, make sure that you are willing to give up the equity in your home. If you take out a big enough loan, you will be right back to square one and owe the entire amount for the home, plus interest and fees.

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Court dogs provide calm for traumatized witnesses (AP)

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. ? A 15-year-old girl had special help when she took the witness stand Monday at the trial for the man accused of sexually assaulting her for four years.

Rose, an 11-year-old golden retriever whose regular job is helping provide therapy in schools for troubled children, was there at her side, helping to calm a child who experts said is otherwise incapable of talking about her traumatic ordeal.

It's an unprecedented arrangement in New York and now gaining acceptance elsewhere. Pioneered by a Seattle prosecutor in 2003, courthouse dogs are participating in trials in at least 10 states, often over the objections of defense lawyers who worry that the dogs generate extra sympathy for victims and witnesses.

During a little more than an hour on the stand, Rose was mostly invisible Monday. When the girl was asked to point out the man who is charged with raping her for four years starting at the age of 10, the dog poked her muzzle up and the girl stroked it. When she was asked to go into graphic detail about the rapes, she looked down and patted the dog.

Dutchess County Judge Stephen Greller had rejected a defense argument that Rose's presence might prejudice the jury. Greller said he relied in part on an earlier New York case involving a "comfort item," a teddy bear held by a child witness in an early 1990s sex-crime trial.

Before the girl and jurors were brought in, a handler led Rose to the witness box, where she was placed mostly out of view under the supervision of the judge. When jurors returned, Greller introduced the witness and told the panel she was with a companion animal, but that they shouldn't draw any conclusion from that or allow sympathy to sway them.

The girl gave mostly short answers, steadily reaching down with one hand on the lead and one hand on Rose. The jury of seven women and five men gave no indication they even noticed the dog.

The girl, dressed in a dark top and pants, her dark hair in braids, pursed or bit her lips as she responded to questions, nervously draining a small white cup of water while cross-examination began. At one point, under questioning from the defense lawyer, she took a deep breath, looked down and appeared to whisper to Rose.

Ellen O'Neill-Stephens, a prosecutor in Seattle who founded the organization Courthouse Dogs, has championed dogs helping witnesses. She said they are "an incredible tool" for helping calm victims "reliving the trauma as they're describing what happened to them."

Their use gained traction after a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a defendant's right to confront an accuser threw into doubt the legality of allowing victims to testify remotely by two-way video or other means to avoid the stressful environment of the courtroom.

"Now you had kids right up there in the face of the person who did this to them," O'Neill-Stephens said.

"We had an occasion in our courthouse where a child just froze," she said, describing a witness scared by the presence of a defendant's relatives. "All it took was playing with the dog to tell the judge he was afraid of them."

The relatives were ordered out of court.

O'Neill-Stephens lists 18 jurisdictions in Washington, Idaho, California, Texas, Missouri, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Hawaii and New Mexico with courthouse dog programs.

Rose was trained by Dale Picard, founder of Educated Canines Assisting with Disabilities. The animal works in the organization's vocational education program at six alternative schools near New York City for children with emotional, behavioral and learning problems.

The animal is trained to work with victims of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatized and special needs children, veterans at VA hospitals and others. She has been trained to sense anxiety and to try to reduce stress by nuzzling a person or seeking to be petted.

Studies show that such interactions have a strong calming effect, including lowering blood pressure, said David Crenshaw, a clinical psychologist at the facility where the girl is living.

Before the girl took the stand, defense lawyer David Martin repeated his objections.

Martin, the public defender representing 36-year-old Victor Tohom, has objected not only to the potential that Rose would generate prejudicial empathy among jurors, but the fact there is no law in New York allowing the dog to accompany her. He said Greller's decision allowing the dog will be part of any appeal if Tohom is convicted on the charge of predatory sexual assault against a child.

Greller asked Martin to suggest special instructions he should give jurors before they deliberate, something O'Neill-Stephens said is vital to avoiding issues on appeal.

Senior Assistant District Attorney Kristine Hawlk, the prosecutor who filed the motion to allow Rosie in court, said she couldn't discuss the case.

To date, there has been no case law from an appeals court on the practice, O'Neill-Stephens said, but "some defense attorneys successfully object to the presence of the dog and the judge doesn't want to go out on a limb."

She said defense lawyers in her jurisdiction have generally stopped objecting. Some even use the dogs to advantage, petting them as they cross-examine a witness, perhaps softening jurors' views of them as interrogators.

"The dogs are for everybody in the criminal justice system," O'Neill-Stephens said.

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US Army abandons 'impractical' black beret

The beret will go back to being worn by a few select units only

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The US Army says it is getting rid of the black woollen berets worn by its soldiers after many of them complained it was too impractical to wear.

One soldier told the US Army Times it was like wearing a "wet sock" on his head.

A US army spokesman said the beret, which was introduced 10 years ago, would be replaced by a patrol cap and worn by soldiers in the field.

The change will apply to more than a million soldiers in the United States.

It will also bring a cost benefit - the patrol cap comes in at almost half the price.

Units that have long worn berets as a mark of distinction, such as army special forces, Rangers and Airborne, will not be affected.

"I hate wearing a wet sock on my head," Chief Warrant Officer Mark Vino, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, told the Army Times.

US Army spokesman Col Tom Collins told Agence France-Presse: "[The beret] does not have a visor and doesn't shield the sun, doesn't absorb sweat well."

But the beret will remain standard headgear for soldiers when they wear their dress uniform for more formal events.

Col Collins also told AFP that from July dress uniform would replace camouflage for soldiers serving in the Pentagon.

Combat uniforms were adopted for all armed services personnel to reflect the war footing following the 9/11 attacks.

This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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