Books by Magdalena Ball

If you love to read, listen to music, attend concerts, go to restaurants, or have children, and can write, you can become a reviewer, and earn money while getting lots of free review material. If you've always wanted to be a reviewer, but didn't know where to start, The Art of Assessment is the best, and only guide you need. If you are already a reviewer, The Art of Assessment will help you hone your craft, discover new niches for your work, and venues for expanding your profession.

The Art of Assessment is a complete guide to the review process, from how to
write good reviews, how to use interviews to add depth to your reviews,
obtaining review copies, marketing your reviews, and plenty of examples and
references to help you become a working reviewer.

Welcome to the world of consumerism.

There are a lot of things to buy. Advertisers want your money. Authors want you
to read their books. Film-makers want you to see their films. Music publishers
want you to buy their CDs. The consumer needs reviews to help them choose where to spend their hard earned money. The advertiser need reviews to help the
consumer choose their products.

Everything for sale is open to review, and reviews are in hot demand. The
combination of free review material, and the opportunity to get paid for your
opinions has made reviewing a very sought after career option. However it isn't
as easy to write a good review as it looks. The Art of Assessment: How to Review
Anything addresses this market niche.

Testimonials/Reviews:

"Along the way, I've learned a lot about doing reviews, but I had to do it
pretty much on my own, since no matter where I looked, I couldn't seem to find a book about this field. When someone in one of the on-line writer's groups I
belong to mentioned Maggie's book, I sent off for it right away. Now, after
reading it, I only have one thing to say-- Maggie, where were you five years
ago?

If reviewing interests you, don't mess around like I did; buy this book and read
it cover to cover (uh... screen to screen? Whatever...). Maggie not only tells
it like it is, in chapters like "How to Write Reviews" and "How To Review
Anything" (in which she discusses books, concerts, CDs, and other products you
might not have thought about reviewing), she includes plenty of useful
resources, too. Some of them may not be useful to you unless you're also
Australian, as she is, but all in all this is one of most valuable niche
marketing books I've read in a long time."

Betty Winslow
http://www.absolutewrite.com/novels/art_of_assessment.htm

"The Art of Assessment is one book that every beginning or even seasoned
reviewer should have the chance to read...This is not a straight-line how-to
book. It is so much more. Ms. Ball goes into great detail and lists many
resources the reviewer can use on daily basis. She also lets us know that there
is a need for reviewers in just about everything, book, products, secret
shoppers, music, etc. There is a world out there for those who love to give
their opinions and some may even get paid to do this. I have been doing book
reviews for over a year now and thought I knew exactly what needed to be done
for a good review. The Art of Assessment has proved to me I still have a lot to
learn. If you are serious about wanting to be a good reviewer this is one book
you will be happy to read."

Kim Draper, Book Review Club

http://www.bookreviewclub.com/ebooks.html

"If I was a new reviewer, this would be a great self guide book that would help
me along the way, and I highly recommend this book to help writers."

Danielle Naibert, The Book Reviewer Site
http://www.thebookreviewersite.com/article1048.html

"The Art of Assessment doesn't just tell how to become a reviewer; it teaches
basic writing skills such as the revision process. Ball offers a wide variety of
review resources and organizes her material very well...The Art of Assessment's
aim is to teach how to review anything, and it does that. Ball's ideas are very
developed in that she covers what to review, how to review, and where to review.
She has covered all the areas which makes for a useful book...No potential book
reviewer should be without this book."

Niki Taylor, Write Book Reviews,
http://www.writebookreviews.com/article1002.html

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MOUNTAIN MIST PRODUCTIONS

is pleased to present

The Literary Lunch

Recipes for a

Hungry Mind

by Magdalena Ball

Writers have always understood hunger. Sensuous, creamy words stimulate our senses, whet our appetite. From Chaucer to Faulkner, this brief collection looks at some of the more delicious food references throughout the history of classic literature, and turns these into real, kitchen tested recipes which can be cooked up at home.

Read the prose or poetry, stimulate your senses and appetite, and then recreate the experience in an easy to make, original recipe based on the text. If you can't make your children read the classics, if you don't have time to read the full books yourself, or read them, loved them, but don't have time to re-read them, you can still experience Chaucer's Spicerye Sauce, John Lyly's plump fat leg of Mutton, Shakespearean fool's devilled eggs, Hemingway's chicken croquettes, or Magic Mountain Macaroon and butter-cream chocolate pie.

If you are a real literary fanatic, you might even torture everyone by quoting during meal time, Rumpole of the Bailey Fashion (you'd be surprised at how much they will retain). In any case, enjoy. Fine literature is a relaxed, bountiful, full body experience.

What's Inside:

Chaucer's Spicerye Sauce
Shakespearean Fool's Devilled Eggs
Dilsey's Mississippi Beaten Biscuits
John Lyly's Plump Fat Leg of Mutton
Hemingway's Chicken Croquettes with Cream Sauce
Ben Jonson's Lemon and Egg Stuffed Chicken
Magic Mountain Macaroon and Butter-cream Chocolate Pie
Wolff's Rich Sultana Bread
Molly Bloom's Sensuous Blancmange with Black Currant Jam
Keat's Spiced Danties
William Carlos Williams' Sweet, Cold Spiced Plums
Toomer's Sweet Harvest Oat Cakes
Proust's Madelines

Excerpt

For a free recipe, send an e-mail to literarylunch@sendfree.com

ABOUT MAGDALENA BALL

Magdalena Ball runs Preschool Entertainment, The Compulsive Reader, and is the author of two books, The Literary Lunch: Recipes for a Hungry Mind, and The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews, and essays have appeared in a wide range of on-line and print publications.

Magdalena Ball has been writing professionally for over 20 years. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from CCNY (New York) with a BA in English Literature. She also studied English literature and business at a postgraduate level at Oxford University in the UK and Charles Sturt University in Australia and has an MBA. A wordsmith of all-trades, her publication credits span short stories and flash fiction in magazines like Mocha Memoirs, For Me, fiction.4-writers, and Einkwell; poetry in literary journals like Harpweaver, Artemis, and many printed anthologies; reviews and interviews in journals like Imago, Coppertales, and Midwest Book Reviews; essays, writing, health and parenting articles in journals as diverse as Performance Poetry, Scriptorium, Inscriptions, Aribella, Parents, and Box Planet. She is the author of The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything, and The Literary Lunch: Recipes For a Hungry Mind, staff writer at E2K, http://www.netauthor.org/e2k, Editor-In-Chief of The Compulsive Reader and Preschool Entertainment web sites, is a manuscript assessor for Catchfire Press, a small publishing house, does technical writing and information management for Orica, a large multinational corporation, is mother to three young children, and is working on her first novel--not always in that order!

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