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Publishing Trials
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Publishing Trials

All things done decently and in order…

Last month was a lot like playing Scrabble, or Dominos. Here’s my progress report for August, and my goals for September. The stumbling block for August was distribution. Trying to find the best way to distribute the book and have control over the retail price is difficult and complicated - and not available to all publishers - especially small ones like mine.

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Young Adult Non-Fiction Review
Book Review Kathy Perry Book Review Kathy Perry

Young Adult Non-Fiction Review

Code Talker

by Joseph Bruchac

A young adult non-fiction novel, I checked this title out because I was very interested in the important work they did with codes in WWII and especially liked it because it was a first-person account from the Navajo, Joseph Bruchac. He addresses us as “grandchildren” and gives insight into what life was like for the Navajos in general, which I found fascinating. As a boy of 14, his journey begins at school and two years later he was in the military. (A year too soon, actually.)

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Changing Genres?
Kathy Perry Kathy Perry

Changing Genres?

Emeline ~ A Journey has experienced major changes this month. Here are 12 of them:

  1. Received awesome review from The Wishing Shelf. (click button below to read it)

  2. What I thought was a middle-grade novel became a young adult (teen or tween) novel.

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