Today only! @OpenRoadMedia is featuring Eleanor Roosevelt's THE MORAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY, a wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens, repped for the estate by Olswanger Literary/Liza Dawson Associates, in a $1.99 ebook promotion: https://t.co/g8zRfe7xPW
So nice to see OUT OF THIS WORLD: THE SURREAL ART OF LEONORA CARRINGTON by @MMarkel26 with art by Amanda Hall and ANYA'S SECRET SOCIETY by @znayberg in "A Mighty Girl's 2019 Books of the Year": https://t.co/pvGgqvcTu5
LOVING VS VIRGINIA by @PatriciaHPowell has been named a 2019-2020 Virginia Readers’ Choice by sponsors Virginia State Reading Association, Virginia Association of School Librarians, Virginia Library Association, and Library of Virginia Youth Services: https://t.co/dPhUaKLqTb
Thanks so much @getchipbot for sponsoring this week’s episode of #DataFemme featuring @outlandosmedia of @trylately! Everyone check out https://t.co/ZWSeLE6tEI to know how your customer service can be forever managed automatically. https://t.co/gS8pDejKpl
THE LAST CHERRY BLOSSOM author @klburkinshaw1 recently spoke at the UN program "From Hiroshima & Nagasaki to the New Normalcy of Nuclear War" and participated in "Meet the Author" at the UN Bookshop. The bookshop posted a video of the day's events: https://t.co/tYYBJLZXb7
If you wonder how kids really view authors, take a look at the young artist's drawing of COPYBOY and PAPERBOY Newbery Honor book author @VVawter during a video chat between Vince and the artist's Hickory Creek Middle School in Frankfort, Illinois: https://t.co/OzOJjBpSIi
Congratulations to Aiko Ikegami! Her wordless picture book HELLO, published by @CrestonBooks, has been named a Kirkus 2019 Best Picture Book of the Year by @KirkusReviews: https://t.co/7buSRPAAf4
Debut author-illustrator @SusanNovich sent along this "thank you" in her signature cut-paper style when she received her on-signing advance check for HELLO, HANUKKAH," coming next year from Kar Ben.
A new Olswanger Literary deal! AFTER THE SNOWFALL, a picture book by Rich Lo @Artclicker, set in North America about a fox’s journey to a stream and the animals it encounters, sold to Rick Rinehart of Muddy Boots, a Globe Pequot imprint.
ALL COLORS author-illustrator @amaliahoffman presented her new board book at the New Rochelle Public Library and the Larchmont Public Library, both in New York, where the kids loved the coloring pages!
Illustrator @iandmarsden just received an advanced copy of his graphic novel, MARVIN, an adaptation of the memoir of composer @MarvinHamlisch, due out in January. Ian says he is happy with the final result and very proud to be associated with the "brilliant Marvin Hamlisch."
NHK WORLD-JAPAN is the international service of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, which provides the latest information on Asia. This month NHK did a short post about THE LAST CHERRY BLOSSOM by @klburkinshaw1, "UN recommends book on A-bomb survivor": https://t.co/p8De7t0oEb
The Chris Beetles Gallery in London has just mounted the exhibition, "The British Art of Illustration 1865-2019," and one of the featured illustrators is Amanda Hall and her art for OUT OF THIS WORLD: THE SURREAL ART OF LEONORA CARRINGTON by @MMarkel26: https://t.co/0SuxprNxLF
Congratulations to Mary Jo Binker, who edited and wrote the Introduction to WHAT ARE WE FOR? THE WORDS AND IDEALS OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. Her essay "Today’s Problems demand Eleanor Roosevelt’s solutions" appears in The @WashingtonPost: https://t.co/0pvlXcqd7y
Jim Carroll's A SONG is one of the Star Tribune Media Company's "The Frozen Chosen," a group of Top 10 favorites chosen by the newspaper's critics to "keep you warm as winter begins." Click on "Picture Books": https://t.co/4FEIj9srHG
Author-illustrator @PaulaWallaceArt sent the Olswanger Literary gang a Thanksgiving greeting: "My gratitude is running over, a little like the galette in the oven right now." @DanaJSullivan didn't waste a minute. He thanked Paula for the new word and responded with the attached!
Thanks to @amaliahoffman, creator of the board book ALL COLORS, for sending this image of BRAVE GIRL: CLARA AND THE SHIRTWAIST MAKERS' STRIKE OF 1909 by @MMarkel26, on display in the bookstore at the Jewish Museum in New York.
It's always fun to see how author-illustrator @DanaJSullivan reacts to emails. Here's his response to the royalty statement for his picture book OUR FAMILY FARM, published by North Dakota Farmer's Union for its next generation of farmers:
On her blog "Gold from the Dust: Bringing Stories to Life," Darlene Beck-Jacobson is offering a Book Give-Away of ALL COLORS by @AmaliaHoffman: https://t.co/aAplo8Ic6e