admin on February 18th, 2010

The digital future is here. From printed book to PDF copy, onto to e-book sales and now digital applications of books are making their way onto the iPhone/iTouch. With buzz words like Amazon’s “Kindle”, and “Sony Reader”, electronic readers are circulating throughout the net and in homes. Now we are being introduced to the iPad. [...]

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dailywriter on September 17th, 2009

One of the most exciting moments for me as an author is when I am doing a signing at a bookstore, and parents make the effort to ensure that I am introduced to their children. We take a few minutes to talk about my being an author, what I wrote and I talk about writing [...]

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dailywriter on March 24th, 2009

Can a self published author charge for author visits? This is a question I have asked myself after several school and library readings, when I’ve taken up at least an hour or two of my time and haven’t sold a single book. When I first published Little Blue Penguin, my children’s book for ages 2 [...]

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ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation has an exciting new reading event that kids will love – the Family Literacy Day (FLD) World Record Attempt. On Friday, January 23 and/or Saturday January 24, as a kick-off to Family Literacy Day, schools, libraries, community centres, Oxford Learning [...]

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