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Bright lights, big cities
Busy days. (Note to self: why is “busy” spelled this way but sounds like “bizzy”?) I know, I’m addicted to busy, but life is full and there’s always a lot to do. Indulge me, will you? April and May were full of Tongues of Angels adventures, because Indie-Visible released the novel as a 10-year anniversary edition, and I was all over the place online, in several blog-carnations. It was good. It was busy, but it was good. That firmly under way, I turned to finishing off the second of the volumes of collected diaries, and all the proofing, indexing and final approvals needed. All to good ends, friends, because the second installment of the…
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New Fabulousness to Report
Catching up here at blog-central with some announcements and news and previews and hints at future nonsense… 1) The Doris Diaries is doing beautifully. So beautifully that we won two awards in the past week. In the past day, actually. Yesterday, Monday, May 6, I got news from two separate book contests that I’ve Got Some Lovin’ to Do did very well. Not quite the winner, but close. Which is better than the proverbial poke in the eye, no? The San Francisco Book Festival gave IGSLTD an honorable mention in Biography! And I also received this email: “Your book has been named a Finalist in the Memoir category of the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.” 2. So far so good! I also…
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Enter for Free Copy of Tongues of Angels!
Goodreads Book Giveaway Tongues of Angels by Julia Park Tracey Giveaway ends May 31, 2013. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
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New (Excellent) Review Posted for I’ve Got Some Lovin’ to Do!
BWW Reviews: Party Lines and Party Dresses – A Look at New Work from Julia Park Tracey by Karen Biscopink “I’m beginning to rebel. I crave adventures. I want to live. Not merely exist.” So writes Doris Bailey, a fifteen-year-old diarist living in 1920s America. Editor Julia Park Tracey has compiled a portion of her great-aunt’s journals in her newest book, “I’ve Got Some Lovin’ To Do: The Diaries of a Roaring Twenties Teen.” Doris’s documentation of her teenage years does not, in terms of the above, go on to disappoint: rebellion, adventure, late-night rendezvous and borrowed (sometimes wrecked) vehicles. Tracey has painstakingly transcribed her ancestor’s passionate recountings from a…
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Getting ready for Tongues of Angels
I have just one more event in April, and that’s a Doris event at the Alameda Library (see sidebar for calendar info!). But in my hands I hold the proofs to the new edition of Tongues of Angels, and that means the new edition is just days away from uploading to Amazon. Days, like 10 days, not like 2 days. But days, not weeks or months. Days. That makes me glad. Watch this space for more news, soon.
