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Book: A Divided Forest
Author: Doris Chapin Bailey

Congratulations to Doris Chapin Bailey and her husband Roy on a full-page article that appeared in a recent Sitka Weekend. The story details the events leading up to the writing of this, her husband’s biography. Click on the image below for the full story.

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Book: The Last Viking
Author: Ron Dawson

We recently received this exciting email from author Ron Dawson

Hi Ben.
…I had a small scale ‘launch’ party in October 06. Almost immediately everyone who read it was saying it ‘would make a good film!’. Lo and behold early in 07 I was invited to pitch it as a film project to a film producers’ forum over here. In the interim three film companies expressed various levels of interest in Viking as a film project. One of these has changed policy and has dropped out but the other two, by request, are kept informed of progress for ‘possible involvement’. Anyway, after the pitch a film producer, Michael Ford, with a small company, Infinite Wisdom, and an award-winning scriptwriter, Simon Bovey, collared me in the bar to say they liked it and wanted to take it on. After several meetings, with something positive on the table, I agreed to sign a one-year film option contract which we would delay signing until the first anniverary of the Viking’s publication date, August 18, 2007 (see pic below)…

With that anniversary approaching the company’s loins are stirring and they are now ‘pitching’ for the necessary finance/backing, hence the ‘teaser’ artwork I sent to you. The landscape looks quite positive and they seem confident of raising the necessary funding.

So it’s fingers crossed but what I have learnt is that the film business moves very slowly until they are actually loading film into the cameras and, no matter what has gone on before, it’s only at that point should you start to believe that it might happen.

Whatever, it’s been more than interesting and fun for me (see pic below, I was invited to the relaunch of a restored DUKW, that’s me in the bobble cap, and I did a guest signing at the War and Piece Show).

Anyway that’s about it. What I am certain about is that not knowing anyone in the publishing world it’s unlikely that Viking would have been published and so if I hadn’t published via Trafford it’s absolutely certain that it would never have got this far towards becoming a film. ie no regrets!

Best wishes
Ron Dawson

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Book: Forever the Fat Kid: How I Survived Dysfunction, Depression and Life in the Theater
Author: Michael Boyd

Noel Ramirez recently wrote a great review on Michael Boyd’s Forever the Fat Kid, appearing in Out in Jersey (June-July 2008 issue). Please click on the image below for the full text. A second review found at R.A.W. Sistaz website can be read here.

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Book: Believing the Unbelievable: Surviving the Cruelty of the Christian Brothers Regime
Author: Benjamin Franklin

The Harp’s Sarah Hackett recently wrote a column on Benjamin Franklin’s Believing the Unbelievable, his story of abuse at the Glin Industrial School under the Christian Brothers regime. Please click on the link below for the full review.

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Book: More Moxie than Money: Three Women & One Company
Author: Bernice Davidson

Congratulations to British Columbia’s Bernice Davidson on the publication of her book detailing the 50-year history of her secretarial agency opened with two friends. The article below (click on it for more info) is from the North Shore Outlook.

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Book: One Man’s Israel
Author: Neville Teller

Neville Teller, 2006 MBE recipient for “services to broadcasting and to drama” received two recent write-ups. The first is from the Jewish Telegraph, and the second is from the Jewish News. Both discuss Mr. Teller and his work. Congratulations to Mr. Teller on successfully reaching one of his main target audiences! Click on the thumbnails below for more information.

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Book: Pregnancy Wishes & IVF Dreams: A Story & Lessons About Life, Love & Infertility
Author: Kelley R. Taylor

Congratulations to Virginia’s Kelley R. Taylor, whose book on infertility was a Women’s Issues Finalist for ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards.

Victoria Sutherland, founder and publisher of ForeWord magazine, hopes that the titles recognized as part of the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards program, which she says “affirm…that the best ideas in written form are coming from the independent press community,” will find a more expansive audience among the reading public.