<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Good evening Writers in approximately one month we will be meeting on Zoom for our Writers Division May Book club meeting. At each Book club meeting held approximately every three months we discover one of our members Books. Please join us if you have interest in the division and you are not a member or join us if you are a member. We welcome all. Below our links to the books that we will be reading in May. Our featured author in May will be Marinella Ortiz our second vice president. I will send out the Zoom link closer to the time of the meeting.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Begin forwarded message:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Marinela Ortiz<br><b>Date:</b> April 5, 2025 at 8:52:07\u202fAM CDT<br><b>To:</b> Shelly Alongi <qobells@icloud.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re:test I need your book links for Rosethorn\u2019s of love so that I can send them out for the May 15 Book club meeting</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Here is the Amazon link: <a href="https://a.co/d/7SQT5vQ" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">https://a.co/d/7SQT5vQ</a><div><br></div><div>Audible: <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C8W5ZVRQ?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp">https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C8W5ZVRQ?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apple: <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/rose-thorns-of-love-another-backwards-fairy-tale/id1693680735">https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/rose-thorns-of-love-another-backwards-fairy-tale/id1693680735</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 5, 2025, at 4:40\u202fAM, Shelly Alongi <<span>qobells@icloud.com</span>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<span><span>Draft2digital.com</span> is fairly simple to use. When you go onto the website sign up for an account and you can read all about what they require to publish a book. Mainly you provide them with a word document or RTF file with headings in it such as chapters and anything you want set out in a particular style. It\u2019s not a resource for them to edit your work. You need to edit it and make sure you have the best possible manuscript. All you do is upload the document and then any cover art you want. They will format the book by the document you provide them so that it is ready for publication. The main thing you need to do is be sure that it is top notch, but there\u2019s no special fonts or points. You have to provide them. They have an entire discussion about how to do it and it\u2019s fair straightforward. They have a lot of helpful resources. They even have a customer service line. I think that\u2019s the site that Allan is going to use for publication. My book should be out pretty soon. I\u2019m hoping by the end of this month. Dwill distribute it to Amazon and other sites, but they will do the formatting for you. I guess they\u2019re not going to do Kindle anymore because Amazon isn\u2019t accepting those files anymore. You have two choices with digital now you can use digital and print. Can have an e-book and you can have a print book.</span><br><span>Shelley, Queen of Bells Out!</span><br><span>President, NFB Writers\u2019 Division </span><br><span>Editor Slate and Style </span><br><span>Find my independetly published books at Apple Books, Amazon and Barns and Noble </span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Apr 5, 2025, at 12:18\u202fAM, Marinela Ortiz <<span>mariwritercat85@gmail.com</span>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>\ufeffSure thing, just let me know how I could be a good judge for the contest. Is my first time doing this ever since I join the division. I am glad that I am getting a chance to do it.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have a quick question for you When it comes to publishing with gratitude digital do you have to convert or have your books converted into different formats as in did you have to do different things to your manuscript? I had to go through so much with trying to get published with Ingram right now and even has a pay somebody we get my book formatted for the E pub version. I\u2019m just wondering since I\u2019m not sure if Graham Park is going to be worth it at the moment. That\u2019s my thought right now. Thanks! I meant Ingram Spark, sorry dictation is being a little bit stupid right now and it\u2019s already late at night.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent from my iPhone</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" __apple_fixed_attribute="true"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>On Apr 4, 2025, at 9:15\u202fPM, Shelly Alongi <<span>qobells@icloud.com</span>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>\ufeffHi Marinella, in addition to needing the book links, I am happy to let you know that you are the fiction judge. There isn\u2019t much fiction right now, but there will be at least two items. I know that for sure. The contest <span>ends on April 30</span> so I should get those to you Shortly after that we may end up with more but to my knowledge right now we have two entries if you want me to send you some rules, I wrote out for my fiction judge last year I can do that. Let me know what you think.</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Shelley, Queen of Bells Out!</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>President, NFB Writers\u2019 Division</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Editor Slate and Style</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>See my self published books at Apple Books, Amazon and Barns and Noble</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>