Wade Hilton was born in Jamaica, but grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. He was schooled at Loyola College where he actually began to write, and for fun. He has since then written a series of eleven books, out of joy, as he likes to put it, because it wasn't until 1985 that he managed to publish his first book Success For All. It was then that Hilton, influenced by Napoleon Hill, started preaching the law of success through a positive mental attitude, plain to see throughout all his books, especially Goddess of the Arawaks. There is one thinking stuff that permeates the universe and it's working through us, using us to express its power to create. We are all tied to it and should thrive to let every human being become aware of the joys and good things it wants for us--all of us. Hilton believes that books are the best way to accomplish this, and has since then being promoting reading. Everybody must read at least ten books a year.
The first opportunity I had to get my books out to the public was through the Kindle Store. I’m extremely grateful to them for this. I uploaded the first eight of them one by one to the Digital Text Platform at Amazon.com thinking that they wouldn’t sell because they weren’t physical books but ebooks. I had no idea what I was in for, that pretty soon the ebook format would take over, would be causing a revolution in books as we know them. Because of this, I went in pursuit of publication and managed to get four of them out and again with the help of Amazon I set them up on a website sponsored by them. I was now in possession of two sites, one for the ebook formats and the other for the physical books.
Right after the web page at the Kindle Store came out I noticed that the Hilton Hotels landed on the site as a sponsored link. I had no idea what was going on at the time and thought that they were there because of the common last name I share with them. But all of a sudden I realized that this was a great opportunity for me because more and more hotels began to appear on my page opening up the doors of the hotel business to me. And although I was not getting a penny off them, Amazon was and they were the ones who were giving me the sites even if it were for a low price, $29.00 per year I think it was at the time, making the hotel business become an important part of my online endeavor.
Happy to know now that I had two sites up and running, I began to concentrate on marketing the books through a series of social networks, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Posterous, Google Bookmarks, etc. Slowly they began to sell, ebooks more than the physical ones, although I noticed that Goddess of the Arawaks, which up to this day, is at the head of both lists, when suddenly my wife, Sara, came up with up with two great ideas. The first one was to splice in some sex scenes and create a new version of the book, the one that was to become the unabridged version. To my surprise this version began to sell more than the original one although I was a bit scared that the public would be associating the sex scenes with pornography. However, that was not the case for I began to get favorable comments praising the book for its erotic connotation.
The second idea from my wife had to do with cooking seeing that the protagonists in the book had a restaurant and food was essential to the entire story. Suddenly cuisine, and not only the Jamaican cooking seeing that the book has as its principal settings Negril, Montego Bay and Ocho Rios, but also the Mexican one knowing that my wife is Mexican, became an important factor. Beverages also jumped into the picture and again Jamaica and Mexico were at the helm, showing off all kinds of rums and tequilas, making a lot of advertisers flock to my pages.
