Friday, December 30, 2011

Cheryl's Cookbook is Being Given Away in a Drawing on America's Grandma Website

America's Grandma Kay Swatkowski has a drawing giveaway for Cheryl's new cookbook if you leave a recipe on Kay's site - http://www.americangrandma.com/2011/12/29/soups-on-cookbook-giveaway/
Leave a recipe as a comment to win...
 (This is a great marketing tool that Kay Swatkowski is using.  Good job Kay.  Kay is my good friend and writing student.  Look around on her blog!
- http://www.americangrandma.com/2011/12/29/soups-on-cookbook-giveaway/

Tweeting is a Good Way to Get Ones Sea Legs in Social Media

What does it mean to get ones sea legs?  It's an idiom that means to become accustomed to a ship moving at sea, to become accustomed to something in general
 I heard someone say don't trust someone without a Twitter account. 
Now that is extreme! Don't you think?  
But, tweeting is a great connector and social media marketing tool that I love.
Don't get me wrong tweeting is and of itself is a worthy social media tool, but it can lead to other social media.  My point is that Twitter is the easier thing to do and learn on. 
And, it's a great discipline to have to think of saying something in a short amount of words.  Practice makes shorter in writing on Twitter.

A Tweet is like a book except shorter..
http://twitter.com/bobmoeller
http://twitter.com/marriagemiracle
http://twitter.com/momlaughs
https://twitter.com/twoslowcookers
Writing advice:  It's a lot easier to start with tweeting instead of blogging, until you get your sea legs.  What does it mean to get ones sea legs?  It's an idiom that means to become accustomed to a ship moving at sea, to become accustomed to something in general
 

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Some Background on My Soon-To-Be- Released Book

Creative Slow Cooker Meals finally answers the proverbial question, "What's for dinner?  Using two slow cookers to make dinner gave me back my life and it can do the same for you.  This plan is just perfect for a frazzled mom with no time in her day.  It also works for my single friends that just want to cook once a week. So, whether you are a career woman, stay at home mom, home school mom, retired or out playing tennis; your dinner dilemma is now solved.
                                 With this crowd, Mama Moeller needs a brilliant plan.

There are lots of Midwest recipes in my soon to be released cookbook because I am hopelessly Midwestern, but, I also feature chapters such as gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian, vegan, international cuisine, super simple, and breakfast.  Some of my chapters solve your real life problems such as recipes to make from the groceries you bring home from warehouse shopping trips or local farmer's markets.  I also give you recipes of what to make if your kitchen seems to have a revolving door with family members coming in and out all day.    

I not only give you a variety of perfect recipes, but I also plan your entire dinner menu for each day.  I'm a wife, mom of six, grandmother, sister, daughter, granddaughter, cousin, niece, aunt, and friend just like you.  I can't make more time in my day; it just doesn't exist.  But, I can use Creative Slow-Cooker Meals to solve my dinner dilemma early in the day, every day.

I feel really smart, like I have beat the system when my complete dinner is cooking in two crock pots in the morning or at least by noon.  Here's one easy "inside secret tip" for slow cooker meals prep.   I suggest setting up your two slow cookers at breakfast or lunch so you can clean up the counters as you do the breakfast dishes or lunch dishes.

Creative Slow Cooker Meals is a new kind of cookbook because it's a new positive attitude toward planning meals. I teach you to use two Crock pots to easily create easy, economical, healthy, homemade dinners.  You will be saving money and helping the environment because this doable dinner prep plan using slow cookers uses less electricity than if you were preparing dinner in a traditional oven. 

Don’t worry about your dinner always being reduced to a mushy stew. Crock pots are not just for soup or stew anymore.  Each of the more than 250 recipes has been personally cooked in my kitchen and taste-tested at my large dinner table. My family loves the results, so join them as you dig into:
  • Harvest-time Halibut Chowder
  • Salmon and Gingered Carrots
  • Mediterranean Rice Pilaf
  • Indian Chicken Curry
  • Apricot-Pistachio Bread
  • Shrimp Creole
  • Rhubarb Crisp
... and many more!  Click here to pre-order on paperback spiral or kindle

Get a two sample recipes from each chapter here.

Please leave, as a comment, your favorite crock pot recipe and share the love.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Should You Co-author a Book with Someone Else?

If you need someone else to write your book with you in order for you to be able to write it, then switch topics so you can write on something that you do know about.

Usually writing a book with someone else is like sharing a toothbrush with them.  That is only something I would do only with my husband (not sure if Bob knows that I have done that a time or two. ha ha)

I wrote Baby Saves Christmas with my incredible oldest daughter, Melissa Moeller Briggs.  It was a mother daughter duo and we had fun.  Buy now on Kindle for 99 cents 









Gather round the Kindle and read tonight a sweet Christmas story with delight.  Click here















Books I wrote with Bob while sharing his toothbrush...

Books I wrote with Bob and hopefully more to be written. Click here

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

A Place for Your to Submit Articles - Check it out!

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Who can be a ChurchMag author?

You! We are always interested in original contributions that add value to our community and have not been published anywhere else. ChurchMag is insanely-interested in exploring how the Church, ministries, and non-profits use technology to effectively fulfill their mission to the world. If you have some writing skills, maybe you can help!  Click here

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Four Tips to Grow Your Blog

So you’ve taken the first step and started your own blog. Great! But the work doesn’t stop there. If you want to create a blog that starts paying, you need to make sure you grow your readership. And with stacks of blogs out there, it’s important you know what you’re getting yourself in to… so read on to discover our top tips to help grow your blog.  Read More Click Here

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We are excited about a possible upcoming book contract

Bob and I are here's praying that we will be getting a book contract soon.  What a blessed way to end 2011 and start 2012.  We are very excited about it.  Praise God.

Friday, December 2, 2011

This Christmas... Give Jesus

The Search for Our Advent Calendar: 

We went in search of an Advent Calendar for our family devotions this month.  Little did we know we were on almost an uphill search something akin to the geographical exploration of Dr. Livingston in southern and central Africa in the mid 1880s.  We could only find advent calendars with windows that opened to chocolate reindeer, red and green gummy worms, and Bart Simpson. 

Dr. Livingston believed the Nile River source was in the wrong spot.  But, many other things he was right about.  Regardless of the good he did with his map making, his heart eventually changed to an eternal perspective.  Dr. Livingston's life changed and he began to see his exploration for the purpose not of making maps, but making disciples. It was when he went on his Zambezi expedition that his spirit turned from the good to the Best. 

Not that we don't like chocolate and gummy worms, but we wanted an Advent calendar where every window opened to Scripture and then finally on December 24th to Jesus!

Our long expedition ended when we finally found several possibilities at Christian bookstores, Hallmark Stores, and Hallmark brands at Walgreens (including one that also featured chocolate pieces).

Go out today and find your's.  Then, thank the stores that carry Christian Advent calendars and buy several extras for friends and family.

This Christmas... Give Jesus

Free or Nearly Free Holiday Gifts Frugal Frugal Frugal

Help! Mom's Stuck on Spin Cycle and four of the Moellers' other Kindle books are only $0.99 cents.  If you don't have a Kindle Reader you can get a free app on your PC or iphone.  Also, you can gift someone a gift card on amazon.com for as low as $0.99 and they will email it for free to your recipient.  So, then your friend or family member can use it to buy anything on Kindle or Amazon, including the Moeller's Kindle books.  So, even $1 could buy a Kindle book and $4 could buy 4 Kindle books. Click here

Everyone is a mom or has had a mom, so this Kindle book of Cheryl's comedy is sure to make  everyone laugh. Click here

                                               Click here for Moeller's $0.99 cents Kindle books

                                           Click here for Moeller's $0.99 cents Kindle books

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Free or Nearly Free Holiday Gifts Frugal Frugal Frugal

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This Christmas.... Give Jesus

This Christmas... Give Jesus.
As Advent begins... We shall deeply miss this year not receiving our advent calendar from our friend and seminary professor/mentor Dr. Harold Burgess.  He was a great writer and speaker.  
They always sent their Christmas greeting at the end of November with an advent calendar.
This year we approach advent with expectation and waiting that we will see Dr. B again in heaven some day. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kentucky/obituary.aspx?n=harold-william-burgess&pid=149815274 
This Christmas... Give Jesus.