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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Ted Saves the World Blog Tour and $25 Amazon gift card Giveaway!

Ted Saves the World: A Novella

A possessed cheerleader. A cursed gang of criminals. Mysterious telekinetic powers. An angry ex-girlfriend in gym class? One second, sophomore in high school Ted endures his first breakup in his favorite place in town. The next, a mysterious blue light turns him into a worldwide superhero sensation for taking down a posse of grisly murderers. As his views on YouTube increase and his friend Dhiraj tries to capitalize on the marketing potential, his dangers increase as well when a presumed-dead cheerleader begins taking a personal interest. Can Ted survive his first week as a superhero in the public eye? This novella is the first taste in a series of full-length novels about the adventures of Ted Finley and Erica LaPlante. 


Available for just $0.99 on:
Amazon 
Barnes and Noble
Smashwords

I'm happy to welcome Ted Saves the World author Bryan Cohen here today with a guest post as part of the Ted Saves the World Blog Tour.

Writing in the Shadow
By Bryan Cohen

As an avid reader in my youth, it made sense for me to become an English major in college. I loved the classics and I gobbled them up, especially over the summer. I once won a reading challenge at my local library and I think the gap between first and second place was something like 30 books. I was a machine. But I was also brought up to think these books I read were extremely complex and difficult to write. This is one of the reasons I never really considered being a writer because I believed I'd never reach the heights of an F. Scott Fitzgerald or even an R.L. Stein (loved Goosebumps as a kid).

Early on in college, I discovered a love for the theatre as well and added a Dramatic Art major to my degree plan. Possibly a result of not having been exposed to as many famous playwrights as I had classic writers, I quickly found enjoyment writing scenes and sketches in my spare time. During my sophomore year, I held a small reading for a short play I wrote about a couple visiting the grave of one of their deceased former spouses. It didn't win a Tony or anything, but the fact that I put it up and it wasn't a complete disaster made me think this play writing thing wasn't so hard.

I wrote plays and scripts for nearly a decade before I attempted to publish any fiction. I'm not sure what finally clued me in that fiction writing had a major thing in common with playwriting: by writing it and putting it out there, you are already far ahead of all the people who are too afraid to show their writing to a single soul.

Personally, I think that a lot of people might like or love my first fiction book, Ted Saves the World: A Novella, but it's a fact that more people will like it than if I'd never let it leave my computer. All writers are writing in the shadows of the amazing authors that came and published before us. We can't help but be compared to these authors, it's just a way of life. But if we let the fear of "potentially not being as good as them" stop us from writing, then we may never get to reach our full potential as creative artists.
I'm pleased to have kicked fear's butt long enough to get Ted Saves the World out to all of you. Whether or not you love it, I'm proud of my work and I hope to bring you similarly entertaining fare for the rest of my writing career. Who knows, maybe I'll even be successful enough to cast my own shadow.

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Thanks Bryan!

Giveaway:


Bryan Cohen is giving away four $25 Amazon gift cards, one for each week of his month long blog tour. To enter, simply comment with your e-mail address (feel free to substitute @ with (at) or other tricks to stop spammers from getting it). Bryan will draw the four names at the end of the tour, picking one entrant at random from each week’s set of blog posts. Entries will be counted through Monday, August 15th, 2011. Enter on as many sites as you want, follow the tour at Build Creative Writing Ideas. If Ted reaches the Top 100 on Amazon at any point during the tour, a fifth $25 card will be added to the giveaway.

Biography:
Bryan Cohen is a writer, actor and comedian from Dresher, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 with degrees in English and Dramatic Art and a minor in Creative Writing. He has written seven books including 1,000 Creative Writing Prompts: Ideas for Blogs, Scripts, Stories and More and 500 Writing Prompts for Kids: First Grade through Fifth Grade.


Contact Bryan through:
http://bryancohen.com
Build Creative Writing Ideas site
Twitter

*Be sure to stop by YA Book Lover Blog tomorrow for the next stop on the Ted Saves the World Blog Tour
*Ted Saves the World Tour Schedule

55 comments:

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  2. Thanks for the giveaway!
    daniellesaunders1984(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  4. Wow this book sounds amazing. Looking forward to reading it.
    Thanks for a chance to win.
    Donna

    Email: bookpassion11(at)gmail(dot)com

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  5. Definitely count me in :-) !

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  6. WOOT WOOT!! Awesome giveaway for an AMAZ-ING book (that I REALLY want to read)..Thanks so much for hosting it! (:

    *Hugs!!*

    ~Harpreet
    xoxo

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  7. Great contest! And the book sounds awesome. All the best, Bryan!

    kprwrite at hotmail dot com

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  8. Sounds like a great book! I will have to pick up a copy!

    Thanks!
    Katie
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  9. Sounds very quirky and fun. Best of luck with its success.

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  10. oh cool!

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  11. Count me in:)

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  12. Thank you so much love blog tours! Thank you so much for sharing and for the great giveaway!
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  13. Thanks for this amazing giveaway! I would love to win!

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  14. Great post. Sounds like a fun book.

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  15. Aw, thanks everybody for the kind words :).

    Glad you liked the post and even GLADDER you entered into the giveaway! Can't wait to give away some gift cards!

    And thank you the most, Karen for being a part of my blog tour. Woo hoo!

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  16. Hello Bryan!
    Wow, and I thought my teenage years were bad. Although there were a few kids that would pass as possessed or demonic. Congrats on the new release!

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  17. The book sounds interesting. I'm into the whole superhero/power thing and a bit of Undead Cheerleader never hurt anyone. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  18. Hi Bryan -- thanks for bringing the story into the light! It will be a good thing all around :)

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  19. Doesn't this book sound like a hoot! Thank you for sharing today.

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  20. This book sounds good! Thank you for the giveaway!
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  21. Count me in! :) hense1kk@cmich.edu

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  22. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  23. It doesn't get any better, I love gift cards.
    Thanks for the chance to win.

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  24. thx so much!

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  25. Glad to see that Carolina can produce writers with imagination.--Sorry, NCSU moma here so have to get in a jab. Seriously, though sounds like my type of story. Off to download to my Kindle. Good luck on your book tour and hope to see your name pop up frequently on the blogs!


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  26. Way to show you have some guts and get your book out there, you never know where it will lead you! Good luck with it, I think it sounds great!

    Thanks for a chance to win !
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  27. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  28. This novella sounds so fun and the premise reminds me of the movie Kick Ass. I'm going to grab this from Amazon now!

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  29. What an interesting book! Sounds fun and fascinating. Thanks for the giveaway! :)

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  30. Sounds great!

    Vivien
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  31. To be turned into a superhero must be...intriguing. Thank you for the great giveaway! I'll have to mark this as a to-read :) edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom

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  32. The fact that you are proud of "Ted Saves the World" and ready to shout it out to the world is wonderful.

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  33. Fingers crossed! I will win!

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  34. I'd love to win!
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  35. I'd love to play please.

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  36. This book sounds like something I would really like! And something else I really like is Amazon GCs! Thanks for a great giveaway:)
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  37. This sounds like it is going to be a fun new series!

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  38. the book looks interesting!

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  39. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  40. What a generous giveaway! Thank you!

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  41. This book looks AMAZING. I'll definitely be checking it out!

    Thank you so much for the giveaway (:

    ~Susan*

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  42. Sounds like an interesting read.

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  43. Congratulations to Bryan! That hard work is paying off!
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  44. Thanks for this amazing giveaway - I would love to win!

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  45. I am learning so much sallyawolf@gamil.com

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  46. Good luck with your tour and please enter me.
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  48. Very generous giveaway! Best of luck with your blog tour!
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  49. Thank you for the great giveaway, this is so nice of you! edysicecreamlover18@gmailDOTcom

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  50. Woo sounds wicked cool!

    Thanks for the giveaway too.

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  51. "maybe I'll even be successful enough to cast my own shadow." well said, Bryan, and cheers to that end !

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  52. and once again,
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  53. THANK YOU FOR ENTERING!

    THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED.

    the winners are:

    Reviews By Abby
    Tweety B99
    Dead Tossed Waves
    Abby Dillon 16

    Bryan is having ANOTHER giveaway for those who already commented if his book hits #100 in Kindle sales.

    DETAILS:

    I am going to do a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card on Friday, August 19th if the book gets into the Top 100 at any point between now and the end of the day on Friday (I will check frequently).

    Yes, that means one of you will win a $100 Amazon gift card if it sells like hotcakes. Since all the entries are in, the only way to improve the chances of winning a $100 gift card is to buy the book and to spread the word to all your friends and family!

    Here is the "Ted Saves the World" sales page:
    http://www.amazon.com/Ted-Saves-World-Novella-ebook/dp/B0058EUSCI

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