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September 2, 2008
Maureen Woods, author of Promise to Love Me, will have a book signing at Penticton Walmart.
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September 6, 2008
E. Gloria Stewart Jones, author of Penllyn Village: Lest We Forget, will have a book signing at Penllyn Park, Gwynedd and Preshing Avenues, Penllyn, PA.
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September 6, 13 & 20, 2008
Doris Washington, author of A Blessing, Caring & Sharing and Faith, Hope & Love, will have a book signing at:
- Borders Express 11200 Lake Line Mall, Suite A-3 Cedar Park, TX on Sept. 6 from 1:00PM to 3:00pm
- Borders Express 11713 Fair Oaks Mall Fairfax, VA on Sept. 13 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM
- Borders Express West Field Shopping Town Center Wheaton, MD on Sept. 20 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM
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September 13, 2008
Liz Cosline, author of Transcendental Sojourn, will have a book signing at Borders in Concord, NH from 12:00PM to 4:00PM.
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September 14, 2008
Fran Lewis, author of My Name is Bertha, has a speaking engagement for Women’s American Ort at the Khal Adath Yeshurn Temple on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx at 12:00PM.
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September 16 & 23, 2008
Marcus Jones, author of Everyone Has a Story, This is Mine, will have a discussion and book signing at Avalon Branch, 8148 S. Stony Island Ave., Chicago, IL on Sept. 16 from 4:00PM to 6:00PM. Another discussion and book signing will take place at West Englewood Branch, 1745 W. 63rd St., Chicago, IL on Sept. 23 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM.
For more information, call (312) 747-5234 or (312) 747-3481.
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September 19, 2008
Chad Bonadonna, author of Good Grief, will have a book reading and signing at The Art of Compassion. This silent auction and reception will be held at the Phoebus Art Gallery, Hampton, VA from 6:00PM to 9:00PM. During the event, donors can specify funds for any combination of the following programs: Hospice General Fund, Kidz n' Grief and Mikey’s Camp.
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September 20, 2008
Evon Davison, author of The Truth About Angela, will have a book signing at Fort Gillem Army Post Exchange in Forrest Park, GA.
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September 20, 2008
Jeneen Hunter, author of Little Miss Big Girl, will have a book release fundraising party at Riccardo’s by the Bridge, Astoria, Queens, NY. This fundraiser will benefit children in foster care. For more information, email jeneenhunter@msn.com.
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September 25, 2008
Allene Joyce, author of Ghost Dancer and Seasons of the Heart, will have a book signing at the Clinton Library and Clinton Senior Center, Clinton, WI. For more information, email tomjoy9@comcast.net.
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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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Sonia Pressman Fuentes
October 24-27, 2008 |
Sonia Pressman Fuentes, author of Eat First, will be speaking at the 12th Annual
Conference of the International Association of Yiddish Clubs (IAYC), at the
Marriott Hotel, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA, on the topic, “My Yidishe Tate-Mame” (“My Jewish Mother and Father”). A Q&A and book signing will follow. |
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 Awards
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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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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.
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