I created this promotional YouTube video for Carolyn CJ Jones, the author of Opening the Gates of the Heart. It's a sample from her lovely book. I hope you enjoy it: Opening the Gates. Please 'like' and share if you do!
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I was recently invited to guest blog for Joel Friedlander's exceptionally fine blog about an interview I conducted with someone from iSpeech, offering Text to Speech technology. They had expressed an interest in connecting with authors in Bay Area Independent Publishers Association, an organization on whose board I serve. I invite you to check it out and make comments here: Joel's blog
Another short poem by Gelett Burgess in Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants.
What a beautiful sentiment in this classic Romantic poem by William Wordswoth! Enjoy! And do share it with others who may just need a lift today.
Another short poem from Gelett Burgess' book of 1900 on politeness. Next podcast will be another Wordsworth favorite. Stay tuned! If you're enjoying these podcasts, please share them through social media or email, so your friends can enjoy them as well. I'm considering creating a CD/download collection of bedtime stories from the ol' days. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions for stories you'd [...]
Thanks to Linda Jay Geldens for her spotlight post at http://www.baipa.info/! (Only a minor correction that the daughter living in "Los Angeles" is actually in the SF Bay Area.) Next podcast coming soon! And a new Sneak Preview will also appear soon - the science fiction novel AsterIce by B.L. Bates. That audio will be ready in time for holiday gift-giving for your sci-fi friends. Have [...]
This dates back to 1900. Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants by Gelett Burgess. Very short - the second on Table Manners. I'd love to hear from listeners what table manners they were taught by their parents and what as parents they teach/have taught their kids. At my best friend's house we were to sit up straight and [...]
This dates back to 1900 - the page turn to the 20th century. I expect it must have been passed down to my mom from her mom, both of whom LOVED books and reading, based on the child's signature (my mom's) in pencil inside the cover. I remember this first poem from my childhood and delighting in it. The lengthy subtitle is: A Manual of Manners [...]
I used to read these stories from The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit as told by Julius Lester to my kids and the kids in our afterschool program. I believe that audiobooks carry on the oral storytelling tradition that is central to our understanding of who we are. Enjoy the voices of these characters so many of us have grown up [...]