tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77476545147515786052012-01-10T11:14:11.012-08:00Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean Series Editor: Joanne Gail Johnson - Caribbean "Tween" novellas - calls for submissions, meet the authors activities, book promotions.....Published children's author and Series Editor of Macmillan's Island Fiction "tween" novella serieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618340137864328241noreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7747654514751578605.post-62032287909051372552012-01-09T20:59:00.001-08:002012-01-09T20:59:52.287-08:00

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Island Fiction fans are showing up everywhere! This fan of Billy Elm's Delroy is in search of the Marog Kingdom. She may find herself  sitting too close to the river when she meets the mysterious River Mumma on the pages of the popular  tween novella. Watch out! Fan in search of Delroy by the river!   DELROY IN THE MAROG KINGDOM - Billy Elm "Delroy in the Magic Kingdom is worth more than one

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Island Fiction e-books available online! St. Francois Girls, Belmont We put everything on the menu for our children, except the treasures that  require at least a little effort, self respect and discipline.  Then we lambaste "Them" with the burden of every social ill. We hear ad nauseum about "The Youth Today" as though they are a separate specie, as though we adults and parents and leaders

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I've always believed that it is never too late for anything. If your ego rears up with resistance and complaints, and many a logical 'good reason to debunnk that concept - just meet George Dawson here....How can you NOT rethink such a self defeating stance after hearing his true story? His bestseller "Life is Good" is available on Amazon.com Above All, Write On! JJ

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  Maureen Marks-Mendonca, author of Island Fiction's Legend of the Swan Children is employing internet technology to full effect!  Guyanese born, Ontario-based, Maureen's story is a coming of age adventure involving the fulfillment of a prophecy and a secret society to boot. Published author and Trinidadian journalist Debbie Jacob touts Legend as one of her favorite Island Fiction reads and

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http://meaningfulbooks.blogspot.com/2011/03/3-nudges-with-new-york-times.html Keeping good company online is a great way to maximize your profile and marketing potential. Provide more useful content for your readers and you're likely to get more links, more hits and more exposure.One surefire way to do this is to post a book review or  interview with an  author in your genre. Select someone whose

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l24FuYVZ9E

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http://geoffreyphilp.blogspot.com/search/label/In%20My%20Own%20Words  In My Own Words...Joanne Gail Johnson “Nuff Respeck!”My Caribbean Children’s Books are “Self Organized Learning Environments”excerpt: "I heard it said that V.S. Naipaul, in a lecture at U.W.I. during his two million dollar, 2007 visit to Trinidad, responded to a question about Caribbean children’s literature by saying

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  @font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }strong { }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } BRAVO JC!A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF JOEY CLARKEA moving tribute service took place in Trinidad  on Saturday January 22nd 2011 at the Top of the Mount, Mount St. Benedict

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Now here's a great way to end the self publishing debate - submit your new or self-published manuscript. Vindication at this level will certainly mean sales and an open door to your next work. JJ https://www.createspace.com/abna Do you have an unpublished or self-published novel you know Amazon.com readers will love? Enter your novel in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for a chance to

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http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_133378976726591&id=133575523373603 I too recently self published even though I had an offer to publish PINK CARNIVAL I wanted to have creative control and fulfill a longer term vision for Meaningful Books in addition to the work I get published with Macmillan ( I have several children's books, readers and stories published by them). I do strongly

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http://www.bocaslitfest.com/index.html From their Home Page: The Bocas Lit Fest, based in Trinidad and Tobago, is an annual celebration of books, writing, and writers. Launching in April 2011, the Bocas Lit Fest is an exciting new addition to the Caribbean’s literary calendar. The centrepiece of the festival will be the award ceremony for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, a

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Excerpt: Reflections on the Life of Jan Wiener - Freedom Fighter and Friend by Gerald Hausman staythirstymedia.com "Jan Wiener's narrow escape from the Nazis, and later, several prison camps in Italy is the stuff movies are made of. Therefore, it's not surprising that his life story has been depicted in the award-winning documentary film, Fighter. Read more at staythirstymedia.com The

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See my featured author article at Sormag blog: click link on title of this article or -http://sormag.blogspot.com/search?q=Pink+Carnival KEEPING THE WORK ALIVE! The best "give" with which  an author can bless herself (sorry guys, this time the pronoun goes to us OK?smiles) is to work to keep her published book(s) in circulation.  When I got my first three contracts in children's books there was

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Here, in alphabetical order: THE CHALICE PROJECT - Lisa Allen Agostini "The Chalice Project  has a riveting storyline in a fast-paced plot filled with conflicts about respect for rules and people that every young reader can relate to in a novel." Debbie Jacob, Caribbean Beat DELROY IN THE MAROG KINGDOM - Billy Elm "Delroy in the Magic Kingdom is worth more than one read - it is exciting,

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The publisher has put your story in print, but it is still your job to sell it! Not what you wanted to hear, I know. How much better it is though to understand the reality of the business of books. The only magic behind the business of moving your books is marketing and that's up to you. Here are three specific things you can do online: 1. Create a platform - set up a website / blog / Face

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You're invited to see my Meaningful Books Blog with SUN TV KIDS You Tube channel content of my book trailers.

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jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100430/ent/ent1.html Now for Western Union to put some copies of Delroy and other Island Fiction titles into the hands of Jamaican children.....??!! Thanks for sharing all your great work Helen!

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http://www.stmaartenlibrary.org/joanne_gail_johnson_022010.htm  (if link doesn't click through, cut and paste into your browser)  Sending a 'post mortem' press release of my trip with photos, is a great way to say "Thank you", stay connected with contacts. The Philipsburg Jubilee Library posted it on their web site too - so this means more  exposure locally and an opportunity for more online

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http://www.thedailyherald.com/supplements/kids-herald/562-trinidadian-childrens-book-author-joanne-gail-johnson-visits-st-maarten-schools-.html Have you got an opportunity to travel for work or play? Then do some home work before you fly! A few emails and phone calls can connect you with libraries, new media and local book shops. One contact will help you network with another and so on. It is

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Last week I had the opportunity to combine some Island Fiction PR with a family vacation to the Bahamas. With the help of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) Regional Assistant, Rosemarie Johnson Clarke I was able to visit St. Andrew's Private School and present IF to  about 60 - 70 "tweens". Since then the demand was so persistent, the librarian ordered the series from  

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IF! author Lisa Allen-Agostini read from her book The Chalice Project at Cedar Grove Primary School, San Fernando, on October 26. Grades 3, 4 and 5 students lapped up the reading and her talk on creative writing and the importance of reading.

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If there are no readers in our region, for whom will we write? And by readers I mean people who love to read and who love books. By people I mean kids who grow into teens and then young adults who become consumers who buy and read books because of the pleasure they offer. Based on the last ten years as a children's book author in Trinidad, I am convinced there is as yet an unfulfilled hunger

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Teaming up with a local artist to render characters and scenes from his book, Island Fiction author Michael Holgate has created not only a promotional tool for print and online circulation, but he intends to print a limited edition for fan gifts. Equipping yourself in this way increases your appeal for media exposure. Sending a snazzy e-card/ post card with your request for an interview and a

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'Night Of The Indigo': Breaking new literary groundPublished: Sunday | October 25, 2009SUNDAY GLEANER - JamaicaKrista Henry, Staff Reporter Ian Allen/Staff PhotographerA Caribbean-based sci-fi novel may seem like a stretch of the imagination to most, but for dancer, choreographer, lecturer, singer, actor and now author, Michael Holgate, it has been a dream a long time in the making. After years

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1. Q: You are one of the most creative West Indians I have ever met. Do you seen any childhood links that may have attributed to your prolific expression? A: Thank you very much. My first reaction is to cower from such high praise, especially coming from you. The truth is however, that I love thinking of myself as Caribbean (West Indian) creative artist. Here, the word Caribbean is important

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(Click on link to see Maureen's interview with Allison on TIC Channel 4 in Trinidad)Q: One T&T reviewer, Debbie Jacob, likens your work to the magical realism of Wilson Harris, who is also Guyanese. Have you read him and has he influenced your style? A: In my early youth I read a couple of Wilson Harris' books and loved them, and later devoured Gabriel Garcia Marquez's. I am not conscious of any

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Guitarman, Bookman, Familyman...Gerald Hausman, Island Fiction author of Time Swimmer has written over 70 published books, thirty-something of which have received literary prizes and awards. Meet the MAN himself in this 7min piece - View, Rate, Share on YOU TUBE, then read Time Swimmer and pass it on!

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"Alex came to me in a dream..." says author of Legend of the Swan Children, Maureen Marks Mendonca about her main character, on Trinidad's CH 4 with Allison Hennessey.

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Below are comments from trainees of the Adolescent Development Programme, ADP (Apr. – Jul. 09) attached to the Chaguanas Regional/Hi-Tech. Centre, Servol -Mtima Abdul Ghany (tutor)(SPOILER ALERT- the statements that follow reveal vital story-ending plot info.)Escape from Silk Cotton Forest by Francis Escayg“The book was a very amazing and interesting book; I would recommend everybody read it.

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Island Fiction titles make Trinidad Guardian's Debbie Jacob's Top Ten fiction list for readers aged 9 to 14 starting from the number 6 spot and pushing the list to 11! Here's a peek - click on title link for full article.6. The Island Fiction Series—It’s difficult to single out one book from this series that includes The Chalice Project, Legend of the Swan Children, Escape from Silk Cotton Forest

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READ ALL ABOUT IT! Click on Macmillan's Caribbean Dream - Island Fiction featured in today's Publishing Perspectives, an international online newsletter and contributor to Publishers Weekly.

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READ ALL ABOUT IT! Click on for: How to Sell Island Fiction to Islanders

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http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/revHarris.htmlhttp://www.angelfire.com/wa2/margin/images/LOGO2000small.jpg

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http://www.swanislandhome.com/From Debbie Jacob, Trinidad Guardian columnist, published author of middle grade fiction "Legend of the St. Ann's Flood"(Macmillan), series editor of Macmillan's CXC English Literature Study Companions and librarian at the International School of Port-of Spain (ISPS):Joanne, I think you did a marvelous job of editing the Island Fiction series. I like each book for

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Corporate sponsorship is a great way to get your books into the hands of your reading fans. Venture Credit Union has a special relationship with SERVOL LIfe Centre in Chaguanas. When I visited Venture's Head Office with my "Bag of Books", I found there was enthusiasm to expose and enrich the Servol students to my work as a children's book author as a part of their Career Guidance program.

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Last Friday, 26th, June 2009, I was invited to facilitate a career guidance workshop at a SERVOL LIfe Centre in Chaguanas in Trinidad. SERVOL provides alternative education for our teens, teaching them a trade (welding etc) and helping with finding on the job training, apprenticeships etc.Island Fiction was a hit as before and Time Swimmer is so culturally relevant RIGHT NOW (see Ch. 1 Time

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http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php/Special:Search?search=Island+Fiction&fulltext=Search

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http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090525/ent/ent3.html

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 http://legacy.guardian.co.tt/archives/2008-12-16/features1.html

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http://guardian.co.tt/features/life/2009/01/31/folklore-book-targets-tweens

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http://guardian.co.tt/features/life/2008/12/17/making-papa-bois

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How to read aloud for and give advice to kids old enough to grow beards and bear children themselves?MY TOP THREE TIPS:1. BE REAL OR GO HOME:The teen mission is to sus out when the adult world is duping them out of their natural "innersense" of Justice and Truth. If you are unwilling to reveal yourself first, to risk rejection it's unlikely you'll get more from a teen audience than patience and

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At St. Francois Girls School in Belmont, Island Fiction seres editor, Joanne Johnson and Trinidadian authors Lisa Allen Agostini (The Chalice Project), and Francis Escayg (Escpae from Silk Cotton Forest) took the Reading Revolution to the tweens -and they loved it!Courtesy the school and with the support of principal and visionary Mrs. Pat Mc Intosh, each student receivedher own Island Fiction

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Island Fiction author, Michael Holgate plays the dread locked warrior Kundo from his first book Night of the Indigo in the book trailer now on You Tube:Gerald Hausman, Island Fiction author of Time Swimmer and published author of over seventy books says this about Indigo:Night of the Indigo is an excellent book for learning about self-realization -- that it's entirely possible to gain power while

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Book Trailers on YOU TUBE, Face Book community, author web sites and blogs, SKYPE school visits, media interviews local and international tours - IF! authors are putting themselves out there to meet their readers! VIEW, RATE, SHARE, LINK!

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Michael and Helen asked me to send some words for their first launch event in Jamaica for their Island Fiction titles: Night of the Indigo and Delroy and the Marog Kingdom ( respectively). Here is the speech I sent which was read by proxy:(With Trek-like reverence), Greetings from Trinidad, fellow fiction lovers. I hope you do not feel short changed on hearing the suggestion, but one could

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Time Swimmer author Gerald Haussman takes questions from fans at schools in North America via SKYPE which is fittingly hip for the Island Fiction "Tweens". But the heart to heart, face to face technology of meeting in person will never grow old."I presented the book at a school and the kids ran at the book table and bought all the copies we'd brought with us. A fifth grade girl came up to me

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"Last night I was dead center with the grandfather of Time Swimmer saying, 'Where are you going?' a great line for a child and fantastical yarn, and all this book literally swims by story and the language and even the type on the pages: a sort of oceanic syntax."American poet Bob Arnold, author of some 50 books, about Time Swimmer:

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HIGH TIDE for Time Swimmer!Waves of praise come in for Gerald's "Time Swimmer" from David Greenberg, US author of the crazy, now classic, picture book Slugs, which has been a bestseller since the 1980s. According to Gerald, David's a really tough critic. "I'm quite surprised he likes Time Swimmer this much. Was a wee bit afraid he might not go for it." I've just started your book, and

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They are finally here! Today I received the babies, the first fruit of two years invested - The first copies of the first four Island Fiction titles arrived by courier; (still awaiting Time Swimmer and Delroy and the Marog Kingdom). There is a deep quiet and sense of satisfaction rising in me as I enjoy holding them, thumbing and rereading the pages, caressing and smelling the new paper - yes,

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Island Fiction offers the kind of "I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE MOVIE!" Caribbean books that reluctant Tween readers love!WHAT IF! you could ride the Caribbean seas on the back of a turtle named Odysseus and out smart the gods with tall tales your Grandpa told you? Time Swimmer will take you there! WHAT IF! your best friend was a sly mongoose named Peenuts and your destiny was to save the Kingdom of

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