Just when you think selling books couldn’t get any harder, along comes the wonderful news that Amazon is using its hefty muscle to force POD publishers to use BookSurge (which it owns) to print their print-on-demand (POD) books else risk having the Buy button for their authors’ books turned off. Sure, you can still purchase…
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Now on AuthorNation!
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve joined AuthorNation, a place for authors, writers, poets, and their readers. I’ve already received a warm welcome from community members, and I like what it offers. But it’s more than just a place to promote Lifeliner. It’s well designed and set up to read new stuff easily, and, for…
A Good Review
Lifeliner recently garnered praise in a review by Ernest Dempsey. First posted on Babelation, the review appears on Book Corner, along with links to my book trailer and website. Dempsey starts his review, “One thing a good inspirational book achieves is making its readers realize the worth of life and the state of living just…
Best Biography in Reader Views 2007 Annual Literary Awards
Well, I’m stunned. You can wave a hand in front of my eyes, and they won’t see it. They’re still trying to absorb the e-mail announcing that I have placed as a finalist in the Reader Views Awards Program for 2007. Lifeliner won first place in the Biography category. Wow! I wrote a book considered…
A Book Trailer is Made
Finally, finally I have a book trailer made! I had heard about these from somewhere and had thought, “What a good idea!” For those who want to get the quick and dirty about what Lifeliner is about, a video is the ideal method. I’d intended to try and do it myself, but eventually had to…
Toronto Book Signing: Come One, Come All!
You’re Invited! Shireen Jeejeebhoy, author of LIFELINER: The Judy Taylor Story, will be at Mela Café 7A Yorkville Avenue, Toronto, ON 416-916-0619 Tuesday, February 26th 4:00 to 6:00 PM Mela’s famous yummy nibbles will be served. Stop by and say hello! LIFELINER was awarded Editor’s Choice and Publisher’s Choice and recently featured in Reuters!
And The American Midwest Notices Lifeliner Too!
A television station out on the plains of the United States picked up a review of Lifeliner and published it on its website. I’m amazed — as in, just-not-taking-it-in-very-quickly-as-it’s-so-unexpected, in a good way — that a station in Omaha, a city in the US, not Canada, has decided to showcase a review on my book!
Lifeliner Receives National Attention!!!
I may not be getting a dozen roses today, but Reuters gave me something better: national attention!
Olive Jeejeebhoy in the News!
“For more than a quarter century, Olive Jeejeebhoy has helped bring Christmas toys to Toronto’s needy girls and boys.” Jack Boland of The Toronto Sun did a story on the Scott Mission’s Christmas Toy Store, the one my mother, Olive Jeejeebhoy, has been organizing and growing for 28 years. She won an Ontario award a…