Author
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 This Month
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January 1, 2009
G.L. Giles, author of Days and Nights in Summerville, had the wonderful experience of interviewing author and celebrity interviewer Staci Layne Wilson. The interview will be included in the Winter Issue of MetaCreative Magazine.
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January 3, 2009
Michael Bacigalupi, author of No Fads Just Facts, will have a book signing at Borders in Baton Rouge, LA.
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January 3, 8, 10 & 17, 2009
Addison Gast, author of Extraction, will have a book signing at:
- Sam's Club 4958 San Marcos, TX on Jan. 3 from 3:00PM to 5:00PM
- Tye Preston Memorial Library Sattler, TX on Jan. 8 at 6:00PM to 9:00PM
- Hastings Book Store San Marcos, TX on Jan. 10 at 3:00PM
- Half Price Books San Marcos, TX on Jan. 17 at 3:00PM
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January 4, 2009
Fran Lewis, author of Bertha Speaks Out, will be speaking at a meeting of NCJW and their sisterhood at the EJC Center on Astor Avenue in the Bronx
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January 5, 2009
Jack Driscoll, author of Couch Potatoes Sprout, will have a book signing at Milano Senior Center, Melrose, MA at 10:00AM.
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January 7 & 28, 2009
Eleanor Welling, author of All Because of a Maidservant, will be addressing two senior groups to discuss her book on Jan. 7 & 28.
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January 9 & 10, 2009
Doris Washington, author of A Blessing, Caring & Sharing and Faith, Hope & Love, will have the the following engagements:
- Radio broadcast interview with the Love Broadcasting in Richmond, VA to promote her books and to share her experiences living with Autism on Jan. 9 at 7:00PM
- Book signing at Cokesbury Bookstore 3700 West End Drive Richmond, VA on Jan. 10 from 10:00AM to 12:00PM
- Book signing at Waldenbooks Virginia Center Commons 10101 Brook Road Glen Allen, VA on Jan. 10 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM
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January 20 & 30, 2009
Liz Cosline, author of Transcendental Sojourn, will have a radio appearance on the Live Your Purpose Show on Jan. 20 and on the Awakenings Show on Jan. 30.
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January 21, 2009
A.R. Bey, author of The Netherworld Of Kemet, will have a book signing at Barnes & Noble 102 Park Avenue Willow Grove, PA from 7:00PM to 9:00PM.
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January 27, 2009
James Hoddinott, author of When Eagles Dare to Fly, will have a book signing and reading at McNally-Robinson, Polo Park, Events Alcove, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada at 7:00PM.
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January 28, 2009
Kenneth Polcyn, author of Mistresses Among Us!, will have a book discussion and signing at the Cape Coral Yacht Club, Cape Coral, FL at 7:30PM.
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January 31, 2009
Annette Journet Jaco, author of Songs & Whispers, will have a book signing at Barnes & Noble in Lafayette, LA.
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 Book Signing
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Marlene Thornton
April 1, 2008 |
Marlene Thornton, author of Devil’s Conversation, will have an interview with native radio in Fredericton NB, Canada.
Alexander Molnar, Jr.
April 9, 2008
Al Molnar, author of Blood Cheaper Than Oil, will have a book signing in Palmerton, PA’s Library ( Palmerton Library, Delaware Ave.) from 6:30PM to 8:00PM.
Pam Strange
May 13, 2008
Pam Strange, author of The Only Way to Get to the Backyard is Through The House, will have a book signing at Santa Paula Library at 6:30PM.
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 On Tour
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Mary Fox
February 12-27, 2007 |
Mary Fox, author of recently released "Teach Me Thy Holy Will," went to La Paz, Honduras with the UP Friends of Honduras Mission team. |
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 Media
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Shawn Salzman
May 2, 2007 |
The promotional commercial for Shawn Salzman’s book, Order of the Wolf, debuted on YouTube. The commercial plays out like a movie trailer, using drifting text and still shots set to a haunting classical score.
Martin Coy
December 27, 2007
Martin Coy, author of Not All So Tall Tales, appeared in the Frederick County, MD GAZETTE entitled "Coy Story - Author Explores Human Behavior in New Book.? The story provided a charming look at his book and an interview with Martin concerning why he wrote it.
Janey Lee Caravallo
2007 & 2008
Janey Lee Caravallo, author of GILBERT C. Hurry Home I Just Want to Say I Love You…, has been featured in the following:
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November 14, 2007 issue of Santa Clara Weekly
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January 2008 issue of Women?s National Book Association (WNBA)
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March 4, 2008 issue of Missing Pieces Radio Show Episode 84
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May 2008 issue Spotlight on Recovery
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June 2008 issue of Canadian Federation of Poets Newsletter
Charles Walter Wooten
October 2007
Charles Walter
Wooten recently got some local publicity for his book, Letters from a Chinese
Angel, in two different publications, The Broomfield Enterprise, by Barb
Proeger; and, in the Rocky Mountain News, (YourHub/Broomfield print
edition).
Doris Washington
November 7, 2008
Doris Washington, author of A Blessing, Caring & Sharing and Faith, Hope & Love, will guest on the Love Broadcasting Radio Show Love Broadcasting Radio Show (www.lovebroadcasting.net), which will air in Richmond, VA at 7:00PM. She will be talking about her two books, her experiences as a mother who lives with autism, and how her son serves as her inspiration to write. The show will be inviting persons who live with autism to express their experiences living with autism
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 Speaking Engagement
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Sonia Pressman Fuentes
October 2009 |
Sonia will be a luncheon speaker at the October 2009 Third Annual Conference of the Florida Consortium for Women's and Gender Studies, followed by a Q&A.
TOPIC:
"The Women's Rights Movement: Where It's Been, Where It's At"
PLACE:
University of Tampa
401 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, Florida 33606-1490
CONTACT:
Judy A. Hayden, Ph.D.
Conference Organizer
Tel. (813) 257-3535
jhayden@ut.edu
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 Awards
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Albert Russo
2008 |
Albert Russo has three books, which qualified as finalists at the National Indie Excellence Awards in the Photography category.
City of Lovers- City of Wonder
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Body Glorious/Corps á corps
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New York at Heart/New York au Coeur
Gina Jones
2008
Gina E. Jones, author of Flying Between Heaven and Earth, was voted semi-finalist for Fiction & Literature in the New Age Fiction category by USA Book News.
For more information, go to www.FlyingBetweenHeavenAndEarth.com.
Lucy Cain
November 5, 6 & 7, 2007
Lucy Cain, author of Secure the Fort, is the recipient of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal Award for Best Anthology to be presented at the annual conference/banquet in Branson, MO.
Kevin Weeks
June 2007
Kevin M. Weeks, author of The Street Life Series: Is it Suicide or Murder?, was inducted as the Best New Urban Author of the Year 2006 for his novel. A voluntary Top Advisory Board of one hundred active members inducts The YOUnity Guild Award Winners of Excellence each year. He also won an award (Wild Card) in the New York Book Festival.
Jameela Alter
2007
Jameela Alter, author of On Clipped Wings, is a finalist in Foreword Magazine's eighth annual Book of the Year Awards in the Fiction-General category.
Judy Snider
2006
Judy K. Snider, author of Goldy’s Baby Socks, and her illustrator, Thomas McAteer, won The Cat Writer's Association award of excellence and the 2006 CWA Muse Award for best children's book.
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 Others
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Phyllis Ann Mariani
March 15, 2008 |
Phyllis Ann Mariani, author of And Baby Makes a Family, will be at an adoption conference sponsored by Adoption from the Heart.
Sonia Pressman Fuentes
June 9, 2008
The Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) will honor about 30 feminist lawyers, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sarah Weddington (the winning attorney in the famous Roe v. Wade case), who made significant contributions to women?s rights in the 1960s and ?70s. Sonia Pressman Fuentes, author of Eat First, is on the committee planning and also one of the honorees. This will be an all-day program held at the Harvard Club in New York City.
Sonia Pressman Fuentes
December 21, 2008
There will be a play reading of the play, called Let It Be Already, based on Sonia?s memoir at the historic theater of the Church of the Transfiguration, more often known as The Little Church Around the Corner, in New York City at 1 East 29 St. |
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