B&N Signing For "By What Is Sure To Follow"
Donald Burton, the author of the Hellgate Press title "By What Is Sure To Follow" will be signing his book at the Peoria, Arizona Barnes & Noble on Saturday, September 27, at 12:00 PM!
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Dr. Phil Interviews the Family and Friends of Those Affected by Invisible Killer, Carl �Charlie� Brandt
[New York, NY , February 28]- TitleTown Publishing is pleased to announce the book, Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask, will be discussed on "Dr. Phil" Thursday, March 6, 2014. The friends and family of serial killer Charlie Brandt and his victims will appear to speak about Brandt's gruesome crimes and the murder of Michelle Jones. Guests will include Michelle Jones’ mother Mary Lou, father Bill, and brother Sean, as well as Jim Graves, Brandt's former friend and ex-husband to Brandt's older sister Angela, and Debbie Wheeler and Peggy Moore, friends of Michelle Jones.
Charlie Brandt, now deceased, committed his first murder at the age of thirteen, killing his eight-month pregnant mother and attempting to kill his father and older sister, Angela. Taken into custody as a minor, Brandt was admitted into a mental institution for one year, but no specific diagnosis was made. When released, Brandt moved with his father and the family from Fort Wayne, IN to Florida to start a new life.
Brandt continued to murder young women while maintaining a semblance of a normal adult life. On September 13, 2004, he committed his final crime, taking the life of his wife Teri Brandt and her niece Michelle Jones. He then took his own life. In the ensuing investigation, Florida law enforcement was able to link Brandt to other unsolved homicides over a 20-year period, though the exact number of his victims is currently unknown.
Now, eight years after those two innocent lives were taken, Michelle Jones' family and friends are spearheading a three-part initiative called Michelle Lynn's Law. The initiative intends to keep the records of juvenile criminals in an expanded database and examine current existing laws to protect society. Michelle's father, Bill, has succeeded in passing Michelle Lynn's Law in Florida, making homicide records involving juveniles no longer sealed. The hope is that one day all states will pass Michelle Lynn's Law. The Jones family plan to speak about Brandt, but most importantly to spread awareness about invisible killers living among us.
For more information on the Michelle Lynn's Law Initiative, please visit the Michelle Lynn Jones Foundation at http://www.mlj-foundation.org/.
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FEBRUARY 4, 2014 PRESS RELEASE GLASS HOUSE PRESS, LLC.
Glass House Press is pleased and excited to announce STORYTIME, a biannual community party, going live April 1, 2014. The first StoryTime event will feature GH authors Mary Fan (Firedragon: A Flynn Nightsider Tale), PT McHugh (Broken Stone: A Stone Ends Adventure), and Linda Foster (Fallen Souls: A Realm of the Claimed Story), in their novella debuts.
To celebrate, Glass House will be hosting a Facebook party on April 1, with giveaways and contests. We’ll be doing a blog tour for the authors, sneak peeks of their upcoming novels, and a giveaway of three ARCs of A Rebel's Stone (PT McHugh, July 1, 2014). We'll also be doing the cover reveal for A Rebel's Stone and the cover reveal for Soul Bound (Linda Foster, February, 2015), as part of the festivities.
Glass House will throw a second StoryTime event on August 5, featuring some of our newest authors – JF Jenkins, George Ebey, Brooke Three Eagles, and Tash McAdam, with others to be announced.
"We're all really excited about this," says Glass House Editorial Director and Publisher, Carrie White-Parrish. "We've been dreaming about a community event for a long time, and novellas seems like the perfect opportunity to do it. It’s going to be a challenge, but we're ready!"
Publicity for the event will be handled through Glass House and Mark My Words Publicity.
All proceeds from the StoryTime events will be donated to SDDAS Spirit Fund, a nonprofit society dedicated to giving homeless animals the medical care they need. For more information, visit their website at http://www.sddac.com/donations.asp
Join us on Facebook and Twitter for more details, and stay up to date with our blog.
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Katie Beers Appears Live on “The View†Tuesday, February 11 for One-On-One with Barbara Walters Discussing Her Kidnapping Survival Story and Recovery
Denver, CO – February 6, 2014 -- Kidnapping survivor and author of NY Times Best Seller Buried Memories: My Story: A Vulnerable Girl and Her Story of Survival Katie Beers will be appearing live on “The View” on Tuesday, February 11 for a one-on-one interview with Barbara Walters. After twenty years of silence, Beers wrote Buried Memories revealing her life of sexual abuse and neglect before her infamous kidnapping which occurred 2 days before her tenth birthday, and her experience as she remained captive and locked in an underground box for 17 days while also being regularly sexually assaulted by her captor.
Beers shocking media headlining story was surprisingly the beginning of a renewed life for Beers as she emerged from her kidnapping ordeal with an opportunity to start afresh, end her tragic childhood life, get help and live with a loving foster family. Beers will openly share with Walters her disturbing memories during her kidnapping and childhood abuse, and her steps toward finding love and happiness in her marriage and as a mother.
For more information on Beers and Buried Memories, please contact Garson & Wright Public Relations, Inc.
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Midpoint Trade Books Begins Distributing Turn the Page Publishing
TURN THE PAGE PUBLISHING: Changing the World, One Page at a Time
Turn the Page Publishing represents new authors with new ideas and refreshing new books. An independent, traditional publishing company based in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Turn the Page Publishing strives to change people’s lives—one page at a time. Owner, Roseann S. Lentin, launched the company in 2011. The company launched six new books in 2012, and in 2013 Turn the Page published 16 new books.
Lentin selects her projects based not only on the quality of the story, but also on the authors’ backgrounds and experiences that compelled them to write. A thread of New Age Spirituality weaves through many Turn the Page books, like Furry Paw, Middle Claw, a novel based on a true story where cats pierce the veil of autism, or Angels Come in All Shapes & Sizes, a story about a rescue ranch in Colorado where the animals visit after they die.
About Turn the Page Publishing
Owner and President, Roseann S. Lentin, worked for 25 years as a Director of Administration for major, national law firms, where her writing and editing experience included an award-winning magazine published by the New York City Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators, and a book published in 2010 by the New York State Bar Association, Best Practices in Legal Management, for which she was Editor-in-Chief. Lentin published her first novel, Once Beneath the Stars, in 2011, and her second novel, The Whispering Hush, releases in 2014.
“In 2005, I heard the phrase, ‘Turn the page of your life.’ Those words planted the seed that grew into a publishing company. Words have the power to change a life story. That’s what we are creating at Turn the Page Publishing—the possibility of change—through books that expand the mind and offer readers the possibly to turn the page of their lives.”
—Roseann Lentin
Some of the top selling titles from Turn the Page Publishing include Bruce Springsteen In Focus 1980-2012, Photographs by Debra L. Rothenberg, Furry Paw, Middle Claw by Barry Jackson, Note to Self by Alison Nancye, Free to Be...Gluten Free! by Heather Spergel, and The Black Suitcase by Shannon Cervone. Both Free to Be...Gluten Free and The Black Suitcase won the Silver Mom’s Choice Award in 2013.
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Knox Robinson Publishing Announces New Partnership with Midpoint Trade Books
Founded in 2010 as a small, independent publishing house, Knox Robinson Publishing has rapidly evolved into an international publisher of exemplary historical fiction, historical romance and young adult and general fantasy with a growing roster of respected authors and an ever-expanding library of published works. Of course, with growth comes change.
The company is pleased to announce they've recently exited their distribution agreement with Bookmasters to form a new partnership with Midpoint Trade Books, a full service sales and distribution company. Founded in 1996 and based in New York City, Midpoint Trade Books represents 225 independent publishers across the US, UK, Canada and Australia. The company will begin distributing Knox Robinson's print and digital works in the U.S. and Canada effective immediately.
Pleased with the direction in which Knox Robinson Publishing is headed, Dana Celeste Robinson—founder and managing director—now has time to devote to additional passions. Robinson recently completed a PhD in Medieval History from the University of London, and she has accepted an adjunct professor of history position at The Citadel this fall. Robinson teaches a course entitled 'The History of Western Civilization to 1650' to upwards of ninety students.
Robinson expects to return to publishing full-time in 2014 when Knox Robinson changes its publishing schedule from two to three new titles every quarter to two to three new titles each month.
Over the past year, Knox Robinson has increased its list of authors from fifteen to thirty-six, including professors of history, art and English, and authors based in India, Japan and China. Knox Robinson currently has thirty books in print and is expected to release twenty-three new titles in 2014.
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Announcing "Indies First"- A Grassroots Movement started by Sherman Alexie
From Bookweb:
Fall is here and with it the launch of a grassroots movement called Indies First, spearheaded by Sherman Alexie. This movement emanated from a conversation a year ago between Betsy Burton of The King's English and Nancy Stauffer, Sherman Alexie's agent. It started with the question, "what can authors do to help the indies?" The answer was simple, but brilliant: Sherman wrote a letter to authors suggesting that they work in a bookstore on November 30, Small Business Saturday, and move their independent store's buy button to the top spot on their websites. His letter is the cornerstone and is meant to be used by the booksellers to recruit their favorite local authors. And so last week Betsy and I sent an email to small group of booksellers explaining the Indies First grassroots movement.
Our intent was to start slowly, but word spread quickly and so this week we will share the story in Bookselling This Week and Sherman will begin tweeting. Tomorrow we are launching a page on BookWeb.org for authors and booksellers to learn more and sign-up to participate. Sherman's letter is transcribed below.
The indie bookstore renaissance is getting stronger daily, and with this new movement as part of Small Business Saturday I bet Sherman's right when he says ".....the collective results could be mind-boggling (maybe even world-changing)."
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S H E R MA N A L E X I ESeptember 1, 2013
Hello, hello, you gorgeous book nerds,
Now is the time to be a superhero for independent bookstores. I want all of us (you and you and especially you) to spend an amazing day hand-selling books at your local independent bookstore on Small Business Saturday (that's the Saturday after Thanksgiving, November 30 this year, so you know it's a huge weekend for everyone who, you know, wants to make a living).
Here's the plan: We book nerds will become booksellers. We will make recommendations. We will practice nepotism and urge readers to buy multiple copies of our friends' books. Maybe you'll sign and sell books of your own in the process. I think the collective results could be mind-boggling (maybe even world-changing).
I was a bookseller-for-a-day at Seattle's Queen Anne Book Company when it reopened this past April. Janis Segress, one of the new co-owners, came up with this brilliant idea. What could be better than spending a day hanging out in your favorite hometown indie, handselling books you love to people who will love them too and signing a stack of your own? Why not give it a try? Let’s call it Indies First.
Grassroots is my favorite kind of movement, and anyway there’s not a lot of work involved in this one. Just pick a bookstore, talk to the owner (or answer the phone when they call you) and reach an agreement about how to spend your time that day. You’d also need to agree to place that store’s buy button in a prominent place on your website, above the Amazon button if you have one. After all, this is Indies First, not Indies Only, and it’s designed to include Indies in our world but not to exclude anyone else.
This is a great way to fight for independents—one that will actually help them. It’ll help you as well; the Indies I’ve talked to have told me that last year Small Business Saturday was one of their biggest days of the year, in some cases the biggest after the Saturday before Christmas—and that means your books will get a huge boost, wherever you choose to be.
The most important thing is that we’ll all be helping Independent bookstores, and God knows they’ve helped us over the years. So join the Indie First Movement and help your favorite independent bookstore. Help all indie bookstores. Reach out to them and join the movement. Indies First!
Yours in Independence,
Sherman Alexie, An Absolutely True Part-Time Indie
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Premier of The Waste Land Trailer
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Midpoint Trade Books Begins Distributing Mr. Food Test Kitchen
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Mr. Food Test Kitchen, a Florida-based cookbook publisher whose books offer recipes from the nationally syndicated Mr. Food cooking show.
“We feel that the Midpoint Team has what it takes to make our books accessible to all who want them,” says Steve Ginsburg, CEO of Mr. Food Brand. “By working in tandem, we will be able to reach more consumers to help them have as much fun in their kitchens as we do in our Test Kitchen.”
Their upcoming fall title is Mr. Food Test Kitchen Sinful Sweets & Tasty Treats, which will publish in October.
Since Ginsburg’s death in 2012, the Mr. Food show has continued to be aired in more than 120 markets and reach more than 3 million daily viewers nationwide. Howard J. Rosenthal has taken over as the on-air personality for the show.
Former butcher Arthur Ginsburg, better known as “Mr. Food,” became a national television personality and cookbook publisher after his popular series of 90-second, “Quick ‘n’ Easy” television segments was picked up by CBS Television Distribution (formerly King World) in 1982. Ginsburg is known for helping the everyday cook make mealtime as rewarding and satisfying as possible with easy-to-find ingredients, triple-tested recipes and no-nonsense products. Ginsburg was also among the first authors to sell his books on the QVC shopping network.
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Midpoint Trade Books Begins Distributing Children’s Book and App Publisher Digital Leaf
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Digital Leaf, a London-based children’s book and app publisher.
Founded in 2011, Digital Leaf’s original goal was to use digital technologies to make exciting children’s fiction that contributes positively to children’s entertainment and educational needs. In 2012, they began publishing in paperback format as well.
“Everyone at Digital Leaf is delighted that Midpoint Trade has agreed to handle its distribution,” says Digital Leaf publisher Dustin Brooks. “We are a brand new children's book and app publisher looking to produce innovative and exciting titles for today's children, books that thrill and inspire. We can't think of a better company than Midpoint with whom to be associated and are looking forward to a long and successful future together.”
Upcoming lead titles to be published in both e-book and print formats will include Oh, What a Tangle!, a modern fairy tale written by Anita Pouroulis and illustrated by Monika Filipina Trzpil;
Feed-'Em Fred: The Chef of Dread, a picture book for picky eaters written by Dustin Brooks and illustrated by Betty Le Bon; and Pancake Pandemonium, a rhyming story about the breakfast-food favorite, written by Anita Pouroulis and illustrated by Tom Bonson.
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