Holiday Gift Ideas - books keep on giving: October through December Sale

Five Reasons to Give This Book to Employees, Friends and Family
(2 copies signed by the author for $15!!!)

Recently, my 12 year old son read Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes for the first time. He knew about the book, but on his own he took a copy out of my library and read it in a few hours (it is a short book). He told me in no uncertain terms that he liked the book and he knew several people at his school that should read it.

I've been told by many that it is the perfect airplane book - short (with cartoons!)

Bob Bly (Robert W Bly, world famous copywriter and author of over 75 books) wrote:

"There are few people who can write and speak with equal ease on highly specialized topics as well as broad, big-picture notions. Mark Amtower is one of them. He is best-known as America’s leading expert on marketing to government. In Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes, he widens his focus to dispense wisdom won from the school of hard knocks – common-sense advice and practical ideas that can help you achieve greater success in every important area of your life. Amtower’s wit and wisdom combined with Dave McCoy’s great cartoons make this is the perfect book for these tough times."

So here are five reasons to consider buying, reading and sharing this book:

1) As your children go off to college, or enter high school, it is important to send them with a reminder that character counts.

2) Inspiration helps people toward positive action. That is the core message in this book, complete with several personal anecdotes.

3) New Year's resolutions rarely stick. Why not give a book that shows the positive outcome of changes you choose and implement for yourself.

4) The book is short, sweet and to the point. The lessons are equally valid for teens to those who are retired; for men or women, boys or girls. These are lessons that can change lives for the good, and it is never too late to change.

5) The book is inexpensive. In today’s economy, that is huge.

Bonus Reason to Give this Book: All copies of the book will be signed by the author. A signed book is a wonderful gift for anyone.

Almost every person who has contacted me after reading the book has been moved to laughter, tears, or to evaluate where they are in their own lives.

I am having a 2-for-1 sale on Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes until the end of the year. $15 gets you 2 signed copies -that's a hard deal to beat!

Take a look - http://www.epiphanybook.com/ - for $15 you cannot go wrong!

Oct 15 BlogTalkRadio interview

I did a BlogTalk Radio interview with Massachusetts-based Nat Couropmitree on Thursday, Oct 15 on his show, The Prosperity Lighthouse. It is available at

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ProsperityLighthouse/2009/10/15/Living-Your-Passion-with-Mark-Amtower-amtower

We spend almost an hour disucssing the evolution of Why Epiphanies Never Occur to Couch Potatoes - why I wrote the speech that became the book, the "laws" that I live by, why we each need a constant in our lives, and more.

I had a good time and it was a good discussion.