A new book that profiles the landscape, history, folklore and people of Ireland’s largest but least known mountain ranges will officially be launched by Minister of Defense Tony Killeen T.D. this evening.
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SFC: Families Matter Blog - Daughter-in-Law Rules Contest
SFC: Families Matter Blog http://familiesmatter2us.blogspot.com is pleased to announce the Daughter-in-Law Rules contest in conjunction with The Daughter-In-Law Rules book, written by Sally Shields, an award-winning pianist, composer, speaker, author, radio personality, and, of course, daughter-in-law, has put together 101 “sure fire ways to manage (and make friends with) your MIL.”
This book isn’t only filled with practical advice, it’s also light-hearted and just plain funny. From dealing with “The Newly Wed” and “House and Home” to “Her Beloved Son” and “Before and After the Baby,” Sally has rules for any and all circumstances.
This book would make a great addition to any bridal shower gift and, with a little imagination, could even be incorporated into a bridal shower game.
Contest Rules:
In honor of all daughter-in-laws past, present and future, Families Matter is holding a “Tell Us Your Funniest/Worst/Most Memorable MIL Moment” in 500 words or fewer.
Contest is FREE to enter and runs from September 27 - October 11. Winner will receive a copy of The Daughter-in-Law Rules.
Email entries to: SFCcontests@StoriesForChildrenMagazine.org with “The Daughter-in-Law Contest” in the subject line.
Visit SFC: Families Matter – http://familiesmatter2us.blogspot.com on September 27 for Sandie Lee’s review of The Daughter-in-Law Rules.
Be sure to check out the entire current issue of SFC Magazine http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org for all the outstanding articles, stories, and featured guest interview.
Learn more about Stories for Children Magazine at: http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org
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Sep 21, 2009 –
The ABC Book Competition is a competition for authors and illustrators of children’s books. Summer K. Hall’s entry entitled “Bella Upside Down” made it to the final round of the nationwide competition.
Ms. Hall has been an educator for 14 years in Westminster School District. Ms. Hall says she entered this contest because she wanted to show her own daughter and her students that to love stories not only means to read them but to write them as well. Ms. Hall would love for all children to be given the opportunity to enjoy exploring their world in new and creative ways.
In “Bella Upside Down,” our protagonist is faced with a world where everything is always right side up, top to bottom, left to right and in a row. One day, she decides to make a change. Bella teaches children that it’s OK to take risks in their lives: to shake things up a little, even if in the end, they decide that things were OK just the way they were. Children need to be encouraged to experience the possibilities that await them.
“Bella Upside Down” is illustrated by Michelle Henninger. Ms. Henninger really enjoyed drawing the spunky, risk taking, Bella. “The greatest thing an illustrator can do is inspire a love of reading in children. Books can open up new worlds to children that they might otherwise have never known.”
Bella even has a blog you can visit with interviews with author and illustrator, recipes, and coloring pages and tote bag give-a-way for the kids at http://www.bellaupsidedown.blogspot.com
You may go to the ABC’s Children’s Picture Book Competition website to vote, once daily, beginning September 20 -October 4th. The author/illustrator team with the most votes will receive a publishing contract for their winning entry.
Please Vote at http://www.abcbookcompetition.org/5th_comp/bellaUpsideDo …
On the 8th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, so many people do not know or have forgotten about the crash of a World War II, B-25 Bomber that flew into the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
Fourteen people who died that day in 1945 doesn’t compare to the 2,948 who lost their lives including those in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Sixty four years has shrouded the memory of a day that’s been ignored and forgotten because of an Army Air Corps pilot who made an error in flight due to foggy weather.
The events that happened that day in 1945 have been written into a fictional novel by Michael K. Jones. He has written a 277 page book (The Coincidences of Kyle) that correlates with what happened on that not so infamous day. He has combined facts that develop into a story that’s filled with action, romance, and adventure included with a little touch of comedy.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is currently being built at the site where the two twin towers once stood. Currently an organization called Story Corps is conducting recorded interviews from anyone who has a story about a victim of the September 11 attacks, including the attack that occurred on February 26, 1993 which killed 6 people and injured 1,042. A recording booth is temporary located at lower Manhattan’s Foley Square. For information or to make appointments call: 212- 312-8788.
The bomber crash of the Empire State Building should be added to the memorial as a reminder that tall buildings which are designed to be safe; are not really safe as they seem.
Michael K. Jones
9650 Winding Way Lane
Jonesboro, Ga. 30238
ISBN: 978-0-557-03675-2
How to Sell Your Business
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Business owners looking to sell their business need information. This level of information is hard to find.
In the Book, authors Jay Kokora and Dona Kokora cover such topics as:
The book also includes all the forms and templates a seller will need.
Having marketed over 600 businesses for sale,
we understand the common questions and mistakes business owners make.
Norfolk, United Kindom – In Britain today, 160,000 marriages per year end in divorce. Those considering (or going through) a separation or divorce, need reliable, independent guidance to assist with the decision making process.
More than 66,000 divorcing couples involved 117,000 children under 16 in the trials and tribulations of their parents’ relationships breaking down, according to the latest figures from the National Statistics Office. Couples in their late twenties had the highest divorce rates of all age groups.
This divorce guide won’t solve marriage problems but will aid the understanding of the options and provide critical background information and knowledge so that potential divorcees can make informed decisions.
Written by Uli Doheny-Adams – former solicitor and family law expert, this book will help negotiate divorces and save money, time, and stress for many. The book leads the reader step-by-step through the divorce process, explaining legal terms in concise, easy to understand terms.
Divorce and Separation Today also suggests using an online legal service provider in conjunction with the book. Enter Net Lawman – a legal provider of document templates and forms – all those required for a DIY divorce. The divorce forms provided by Net Lawman come with completed examples as well as explanatory guidance notes, which allow divorcees to do it all online.
Divorce and Separation Today is not an emotional self-help book, nor does the author apportion blame. Inside, you will find a straightforward, matter-of-fact guide to the legal system and information on how to unravel marriage problems.
Divorce and Separation Today by Uli Doheny-Adams is published in hardback by DragonCub and costs £14.95.
DragonCub.com is a trading name of Where the World Meets Ltd., an English company operated by Andrew R. Taylor.
DragonCub.com stock a wide range of books, from science fiction, self help and academic reports. They encourage authors, especially self publishing authors to contact them with a view to putting their book for sale on the DragonCub.com website.
The DragonCub.com service is designed to fill a gap between on the one hand the mass of book websites currently on the Internet and the lack of real book websites that deal with every conceivable book type. DragonCub.com for example, publish not only the books you might find in a high street book shop but also those you won’t find – rare editions, academic reports and so on.
For more information visit http://www.dragoncub.com
Podding is the new way forward for writers and authors looking to go in to print but who can’t find a publisher.
‘Podding’ is teaming up with one of the new ‘print on demand’ (POD) publishers, like Dragoncub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index.php) who will show you how to make money selling your books online.
Dragoncub can take a manuscript, edit and format the content quickly and efficiently and have your book ready to print and ship as the orders flow on.
As an author, you will also have help marketing your book to reach the widest possible audience.
Podding makes financial sense for everyone in the publishing chain:
- Publishers save because print-on-demand removes overheads like advance royalties, the need for large print runs and storage that comes with traditional book publishing.
- Authors can keep a larger slice of the royalties and their rights to the content as a POD publisher only takes a percentage of the retail price to cover printing, marketing and distribution costs.
This does not mean every book submitted is published, but the POD business model allows the publisher to take more chances with books that may not stack up sales like the Harry Potter series, allowing more writers to reach readers.
Online book publishers also offer their authors a broad selling base, whether through the online Dragoncub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index.php) bookstore or online giants like Amazon. Publishers like Dragoncub can also access other distribution channels that can reach thousands of retailers like high street stores, libraries and other online merchants.
Dragoncub will publish a hard or soft cover edition of a book or short stories and the author sets the retail price and keeps 80% of the selling price, which is a far higher royalty than an author would generally earn from a traditional publisher.
For instance, if you decide to sell a hard back for £12.99, as the author you will collect £10.39 from each sale without having to repay any advance on royalties.
Dragoncub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index.php) sells books in more than 40 categories for children and adults and if you are a first-time or a published author, offers a fast and inexpensive way to put your book in front of your readers.
For press enquiries please contact:
Miriam Taylor
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Email: press@DragonCub.com
The Great Green Debate- A New Novel To Make You
Think!
ADE PAUL: THE WEATHER’S WRATH-O
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Dear Critique and Fellow Polluter,
May I call you friend?
I am writing this letter, as it is a very important issue, although rarely makes headline news for the right reasons. Unless the cute animal story, a huge ice shelf collapses, mudslides devastate a city, or hurricane wipes out a state, media are not interested in environmental news, unless in the specialist field. It’s a practical commerce, as headlines need shock to sell. Well sometimes, but there are not many surveys on the public about the type and quality of reported news. Climate change is subtle, but over time shows the instability of temperature differences created by the weather’s wrath. Only now are the media interested in the chaos and devastation caused, as shock sells, but the important issue surely is why? Why is this occurring? How bad is it really? Who is responsible for the cause, and who is most influential to make the changes?
Can you answer these? Is it the politicians, the public, no, it’s the corporate board that needs to compromise profit for ethics, but this is a paradox. As this is what people want to know to explain the incredibly complex interactions of the weather and climate influences. THE WEATHER’S WRATH by ADE PAUL is a highly entertaining fictional novel, and hopefully never fact, but there are notes and the sceptics debate that offer insight to why the confusion exists, between corporate profit and environmental compromise. My view is, even though there might not be a problem, although alot of scientific peer reviewed literature shows global warming is occurring, doing nothing is far more dangerous than changing the habits of a throw-away society. Logically, this does not make sense, as everything tangible is finite and we cannot simply endlessly “chuck stuff out”; but the marketing by large corporations influences our buying patterns amongst all the products and services to make a lazy society where life is made to be easy. Apathy abounds and we are all guilty of this, but this comes at a cost. Both fiscal, socially and environmentally, except the majority of us only see the fiscal implication. Our most important decision is usually how much money it costs. We are made more aware of our environmental responsibility through government and private promotions , but there are ingenius green solutions, no magic bullet, but everything helps.
WE AT WHAKA PUBLISHING HAVE JOINED THE FRAY.
PROTECTNG THE CLIMATE PROTECTS LIFE ©.
So what did you do today to help your environment?
Are you interested in providing a comment on our website about the book. CATEGORY: GREEN GLOBAL ADVENTURE/THRILLER?
Whaka Publishing, New Zealand
I am writing this letter, as it is a very important issue, although rarely makes headline news for the right reasons. Unless the cute animal story, a huge ice shelf collapses, mudslides devastate a city, or hurricane wipes out a state, media are not interested in environmental news, unless in the specialist field. It’s a practical commerce, as headlines need shock to sell. Well sometimes, but there are not many surveys on the public about the type and quality of reported news. Climate change is subtle, but over time shows the instability of temperature differences created by the weather’s wrath. Only now are the media interested in the chaos and devastation caused, as shock sells, but the important issue surely is why? Why is this occurring? How bad is it really? Who is responsible for the cause, and who is most influential to make the changes?
Can you answer these? Is it the politicians, the public, no, it’s the corporate board that needs to compromise profit for ethics, but this is a paradox. As this is what people want to know to explain the incredibly complex interactions of the weather and climate influences. THE WEATHER’S WRATH by ADE PAUL is a highly entertaining fictional novel, and hopefully never fact, but there are notes and the sceptics debate that offer insight to why the confusion exists, between corporate profit and environmental compromise. My view is, even though there might not be a problem, although alot of scientific peer reviewed literature shows global warming is occurring, doing nothing is far more dangerous than changing the habits of a throw-away society. Logically, this does not make sense, as everything tangible is finite and we cannot simply endlessly “chuck stuff out”; but the marketing by large corporations influences our buying patterns amongst all the products and services to make a lazy society where life is made to be easy. Apathy abounds and we are all guilty of this, but this comes at a cost. Both fiscal, socially and environmentally, except the majority of us only see the fiscal implication. Our most important decision is usually how much money it costs. We are made more aware of our environmental responsibility through government and private promotions , but there are ingenius green solutions, no magic bullet, but everything helps.
WE AT WHAKA PUBLISHING HAVE JOINED THE FRAY.
PROTECTNG THE CLIMATE PROTECTS LIFE ©.
So what did you do today to help your environment?
Are you interested in providing a comment on our website about the book. CATEGORY: GREEN GLOBAL ADVENTURE/THRILLER?
Whaka Publishing, New Zealand
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Unlikely combination: Author, Economist, Poet, Don Fabro, suggest that many of us living in this fast paced, electric age of computers, cell phones and instant everything have lost our work ethic. While our parents had the patience to save and wait to make important purchases, those in this age of instant everything want what we can’t afford: Houses, cars, clothes, and trips, all on credit. This creates an automatic society with little regard for the consequences of our actions.
In his book, The Corpocracy (Dolce Book Publishing) Fabro offers a practical solution to the worlds problems. Say’s Fabro, “To get out of this credit crisis, out of any recession, we have to create a stable, literate society with reasonable prices, and fixed interest rates for an extended period of time.”
To interview Don Fabro, contact Lifedreams Communications, Darlene Montgomery 416-696-1684 or lifedreams@idirect.com.
Show Points:
· Loss of personal Identity in a world built on “boxed” images
· How Our Electrical Age Contributes to the World’s Economic Downturn
· Is this the End of Work and Specialization?
· The Fall of the Nation States
· Healing our planet’s wounds?
· How we become God in the electric age
· The passing of print into the dawn of electric age
· Is print media responsible for global warning?
· The rise of the military elite
· Is this the fall of the west?
Excerpt:
In our new world of electric media,
There is a reassessment of values,
A resulting feeling of aimlessness
And the meaninglessness of life and human toil
Because of this disappearance of past goals
And ambitions of the previous age of print,
This clash of old and new environments,
Between phonetic print and electric speech,
Leads to anarchism and nihilism,
Whereby one gets a sense of nothingness
A pervasive depression sets in:
A belief that life has little to offer,
And of the continuousness
of the dreariness
The drabness of our ever-present daily lives.
About the Author:
Don Fabro, born in Toronto in 1966, began to write poetry years ago, when he realized how it can shed light on universal truths. His passion for economics and language earned him an honorary degree from York University.
The Corpocracy
Dolce Publishing
Available at Chapters and other fine bookstores
Soft cover 113 pages
The Don Bradman book Icons of world sport was released on the 15th October 2008. With the start of the Australian Cricket season next thursday, this book should generate a lot of interest. Check out www.thedonbradmanbook.com to receive a bonus vinyl record with the book purchase. It also features a beautiful acoustic never before released version of the 1930 classic “Our Don Bradman” by Australian guitar sensation Nigel Beetson. For more info check out www.thedonbradmanbook.com
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The website created by book-promotion for each author, has been produced to be fast and friendly, suitable for being used with social networking sites.
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The cover illustration and the incidental music for the podcast were both sourced from the Internet for free, with the permission of their creators.
“I approached several publishers with the manuscript, but because it didn’t fit their neat genre categories they didn’t know what to do with it. So I decided to publish it myself – something that has become much easier in just the past couple of years,” Reeves-McMillan says.
“It’s a tremendous time to be creative. There’s so much that you can do for little or no money that there just aren’t any excuses left for not putting your work out in the public arena. You can connect directly to your audience, without going through a gatekeeper like a big publisher or record label.”
City of Masks is a swashbuckling adventure in a setting like Shakespeare’s Italy – complete with twins – except that law and custom requires everyone to wear a mask and act in character with it at all times.
The action revolves around the innocent-minded envoy of a foreign power, sent to the City to get him safely out from underfoot. However, he soon becomes caught up in the intrigues of the city, including the activities of a mysterious serial killer.
City of Masks is available in printed form from Lulu, CreateSpace and Amazon.com, from C-Side Media and in audio podcast from Podiobooks.
CONTACT: Mike Reeves-McMillan
Skype ID: mikereevesmcmillan
masks@csidemedia.com
http://city-of-masks.blogspot.com