Fabulous, Joy. Thank so much for spreading the word about my book Collaborative Stage Directing. Where does your daughter teach? I taught theatre for 23 years - acting, directing and intro to theatre primarily. What a small world!
Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published (June 2023, New World Library) by Estelle Erasmus a magazine editor, NYU Writing Professor (2023 Teaching Excellence Award recipient) and award-winning journalist, is chock-full of examples, resources, and exercises, and easy-to-apply advice on how to mine your life for ideas; craft essays; build a narrative arc; pitch editors; locate data; find, vet, and interview experts; and self-editing techniques that will guarantee results. Top editors have recommended this book which has a "Buy this Book" review from Publishers Weekly and Midwest Book Reviews. The Book also won a 2023 Zibby Award and was named the "Best Book for the Writer". https://estelleserasmus.com/books/writing-that-gets-noticed/
Hi Estelle! This book sounds AWESOME! I think I need to see it pronto. My WriteDay subscription box is always on the hunt for new writing craft books. Please get hold of me. Thanks for sharing. Happy holidays!
Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2019) is perfect for drama students, veteran directors, and any lover of theatre. This fresh approach to the foundation of stage directing - the communication and leadership skills - is quite unique. Filled with vignettes that demonstrate key concepts throughout, the book also includes three short plays that can to be used as practical application exercises.
UNBROKEN CHAINS sets forth the harrowing stories of human trafficking survivors and grounds their accounts in the long history of US indentured servitude, looking to its iterations in chattel slavery, Chinese contract labor, and prison labor. In this groundbreaking investigation of American trafficking, Ditmore unveils the unnerving reality that forced labor permeates many industries beyond sex work: in almost every aspect of consumption, people who create our everyday necessities are working amid inescapable exploitation, often without pay. The book ends with practical advice for people who want to help end human trafficking.
Unbroken Chains tells these workers’ stories: They are nannies for New York City’s diplomatic elites and door-to-door magazine salespeople in the American South. A trafficked person may have harvested your produce, sewn your clothes, or cleaned your apartment lobby. Ditmore offers readers an illuminating window on the world of forced labor, which exists within our own, and a road map for participating in its destruction.
I love your Books By My Friends newsletter, and have learned about writers I might not have heard of otherwise! Thank you!
Hi Melissa! Thanks for sharing this book with us. Sounds absolutely fascinating and very important subject to consider. Best wishes for success. Also thank you for the kind words about BBMF. Trying to be a good literary citizen however I can. Happy holidays!
My first book, HOW TO GET ON PODCASTS, will be available January 17, 2024 from McGraw Hill. It's currently available for pre-orders everywhere! I have purchase links on my website! https://michelleglogovac.com/how-to-get-on-podcasts/
Description: How to leverage podcast guesting to elevate yourself as a thought leader, generate more revenue, and promote your business―all for little to no cost.
The explosion of social media, AI-enabled online advertising, and the overall cacophony of the internet has made it harder than ever to connect a message with an audience. One of the most powerful emerging tools for cutting through that noise is being a guest on podcasts, or “podcast guesting.”
Michelle Glogovac, aka The Podcast Matchmaker™, knows the impact podcast guesting has on business and brand growth. She helps entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, activists, experts, and authors promote themselves, their businesses, organizations, stories, and expertise via podcast interviews. In How to Get on Podcasts, she teaches you how to:
● Create unique speaking topics without being generic
● Define your ideal audience
● Design branded media kits
● Establish your expertise and knowledge
● Share yourself freely without resorting to sales tactics
● Tell compelling stories
● Repurpose your interviews into evergreen marketing content
● Turn every interview into a valuable business opportunity
There are more than two-million podcasts, out of which 500,000 host expert guests―a huge opportunity for leveraging a free and robust marketing tool―if you have the know-how.
With How to Get on Podcasts, you have everything you need to increase business, boost your career and brand, and elevate your thought leadership potential.
Make Every Move a Meditation - Available wherever fine books are sold!
What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation?
In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows us fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine.
Inside you’ll learn to:
* Turn exercise into a meditation tool.
* Make any activity a mindful practice.
* Enjoy the benefits of meditation while getting fit.
If you like meditation books and best sellers such as Think Like a Monk, Practicing Mindfulness, or Breath, you’ll love Make Every Move a Meditation.
Hey Nita! Thanks for sharing your book info. The first time I read the info, I put this one on my wish list. It sounds right in my wheelhouse. Happy holidays!
Muay Thai kickboxing and exercise book was published by Paladin Press in 2002. The publisher folded in 2017 but the book is available now through Jobber House 🙂
Muay Thai Kickboxing: The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning, Training, and Fighting https://a.co/d/hU4mwYn
Hey Chad! Thanks for sharing you book info. It sounds awesome. I don't know what Muay Thai kickboxing is compared to the what we do in aerobics class. What's the difference?
Hi and happy Holidays!!! Thanks for the great question. When I operated a kickboxing school in the 90s the kickboxing aerobics was a very welcome part of the zeitgeist!! It brought people in the door who probably wouldn't otherwise have known about it.
Mostly whats happening in the aerobics class is that it takes the techniques and modifies them, taking the exercise part of it and toning down the combat parts 😊
Muay Thai/Thai boxing is a specific type of boxing from Thailand that uses the hands, feet, shins, elbows and knees as weapons. There are rituals associated with it in Thailand, and the style was adopted by the Dutch, in particular over the years and used in kickboxing and mixed martial arts.
You’ll see the specific type of leg kick today even in pro wrestling, since mixed martial arts has become influential and uses a lot of the Thai techniques.
There weren’t many books on it at the turn of the last century, only one from 1987. I pitched the publisher of that book and added sections on weight training and general exercise to the book - making it a two in one concept that might have broader appeal.
It’s had a long shelf life, and there are now lots of books on the sport, but it’s nice to have been among the first 😊
Thanks for this great substack and blog, what a great way to discover new books!
At the age of forty-nine, Laurie Woodford rents out her house, packs her belongings into two suitcases, and leaves her life in upstate New York to relocate to Seoul, South Korea. What begins as an opportunity to teach college English in Asia evolves into a nomadic adventure.
Laurie spoon-feeds orphans in Ethiopia, performs 108 bows at a Buddhist mountain temple, walks shelter dogs in Peru, milks goats in Fuerteventura, and gets lost in Mexico, all the while navigating dating at midlife.
After four years of traveling, Laurie’s return “home” becomes an unexpected adventure of its own when she ends up in Arkansas and meets Bruce, a bird-loving, bearded Quaker and then struggles to reconcile her need for freedom with her longing to feel settled.
Fabulous, Joy. Thank so much for spreading the word about my book Collaborative Stage Directing. Where does your daughter teach? I taught theatre for 23 years - acting, directing and intro to theatre primarily. What a small world!
She teaches in a small, private college in Ohio:)
Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published (June 2023, New World Library) by Estelle Erasmus a magazine editor, NYU Writing Professor (2023 Teaching Excellence Award recipient) and award-winning journalist, is chock-full of examples, resources, and exercises, and easy-to-apply advice on how to mine your life for ideas; craft essays; build a narrative arc; pitch editors; locate data; find, vet, and interview experts; and self-editing techniques that will guarantee results. Top editors have recommended this book which has a "Buy this Book" review from Publishers Weekly and Midwest Book Reviews. The Book also won a 2023 Zibby Award and was named the "Best Book for the Writer". https://estelleserasmus.com/books/writing-that-gets-noticed/
Hi Estelle! This book sounds AWESOME! I think I need to see it pronto. My WriteDay subscription box is always on the hunt for new writing craft books. Please get hold of me. Thanks for sharing. Happy holidays!
Hi. I’m a member of Author’s Guild. I can message you there.
I will watch for it! Thanks!
I messaged you on AG. Did you see it?
I did and I emailed you that day. did you see it? :)
I didn’t. I will check AG again.
Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2019) is perfect for drama students, veteran directors, and any lover of theatre. This fresh approach to the foundation of stage directing - the communication and leadership skills - is quite unique. Filled with vignettes that demonstrate key concepts throughout, the book also includes three short plays that can to be used as practical application exercises.
https://www.routledge.com/Collaborative-Stage-Directing-A-Guide-to-Creating-and-Managing-a-Positive/Burgess/p/book/9780367086190
Hi Jean! I didn't know about your theatre publication. This is awesome. My daughter is a college theatre professor. I'm sharing this with her!
Happy holidays!
Untethered tells the story of growing up with a mentally ill, alcoholic father and the
experience of raising a mentally ill daughter. It follows the author's journey through
multiple miscarriages and the “untethering” of minds, relationships and pregnancies.
Untethered is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit through the author's
unravelling.
https://www.amazon.com/Untethered-Deborah-L-Staunton/dp/B0C7KPR4CR/ref=sr_1_15?crid=3U5ZGTLXUBF7F&keywords=untethered&qid=1702654547&sprefix=untethered%2Caps%2C219&sr=8-15
Thanks for sharing this info about your book, Deborah! Sounds like a powerful read.
Love the "resilience of the human spirit" concept.
Happy holidays!
My latest book, UNBROKEN CHAINS (Beacon Press), will come out in paperback in April.
https://www.beacon.org/cw_contributorinfo.aspx?ContribID=13771&Name=Melissa+Hope+Ditmore
UNBROKEN CHAINS sets forth the harrowing stories of human trafficking survivors and grounds their accounts in the long history of US indentured servitude, looking to its iterations in chattel slavery, Chinese contract labor, and prison labor. In this groundbreaking investigation of American trafficking, Ditmore unveils the unnerving reality that forced labor permeates many industries beyond sex work: in almost every aspect of consumption, people who create our everyday necessities are working amid inescapable exploitation, often without pay. The book ends with practical advice for people who want to help end human trafficking.
Unbroken Chains tells these workers’ stories: They are nannies for New York City’s diplomatic elites and door-to-door magazine salespeople in the American South. A trafficked person may have harvested your produce, sewn your clothes, or cleaned your apartment lobby. Ditmore offers readers an illuminating window on the world of forced labor, which exists within our own, and a road map for participating in its destruction.
I love your Books By My Friends newsletter, and have learned about writers I might not have heard of otherwise! Thank you!
Hi Melissa! Thanks for sharing this book with us. Sounds absolutely fascinating and very important subject to consider. Best wishes for success. Also thank you for the kind words about BBMF. Trying to be a good literary citizen however I can. Happy holidays!
My first book, HOW TO GET ON PODCASTS, will be available January 17, 2024 from McGraw Hill. It's currently available for pre-orders everywhere! I have purchase links on my website! https://michelleglogovac.com/how-to-get-on-podcasts/
Description: How to leverage podcast guesting to elevate yourself as a thought leader, generate more revenue, and promote your business―all for little to no cost.
The explosion of social media, AI-enabled online advertising, and the overall cacophony of the internet has made it harder than ever to connect a message with an audience. One of the most powerful emerging tools for cutting through that noise is being a guest on podcasts, or “podcast guesting.”
Michelle Glogovac, aka The Podcast Matchmaker™, knows the impact podcast guesting has on business and brand growth. She helps entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, activists, experts, and authors promote themselves, their businesses, organizations, stories, and expertise via podcast interviews. In How to Get on Podcasts, she teaches you how to:
● Create unique speaking topics without being generic
● Define your ideal audience
● Design branded media kits
● Establish your expertise and knowledge
● Share yourself freely without resorting to sales tactics
● Tell compelling stories
● Repurpose your interviews into evergreen marketing content
● Turn every interview into a valuable business opportunity
There are more than two-million podcasts, out of which 500,000 host expert guests―a huge opportunity for leveraging a free and robust marketing tool―if you have the know-how.
With How to Get on Podcasts, you have everything you need to increase business, boost your career and brand, and elevate your thought leadership potential.
Hi Michelle! Thanks for sharing your awesome book info. You just extended my book wish list! Happy holidays!
Thank you so much, Joy!!! Happy holidays to you too!
Make Every Move a Meditation - Available wherever fine books are sold!
What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation?
In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows us fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine.
Inside you’ll learn to:
* Turn exercise into a meditation tool.
* Make any activity a mindful practice.
* Enjoy the benefits of meditation while getting fit.
If you like meditation books and best sellers such as Think Like a Monk, Practicing Mindfulness, or Breath, you’ll love Make Every Move a Meditation.
https://amzn.to/3GD1QBP
Hey Nita! Thanks for sharing your book info. The first time I read the info, I put this one on my wish list. It sounds right in my wheelhouse. Happy holidays!
Thanks for the opportunity to share the info and to learn about other books. Hope you enjoy.
Muay Thai kickboxing and exercise book was published by Paladin Press in 2002. The publisher folded in 2017 but the book is available now through Jobber House 🙂
Muay Thai Kickboxing: The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning, Training, and Fighting https://a.co/d/hU4mwYn
Hey Chad! Thanks for sharing you book info. It sounds awesome. I don't know what Muay Thai kickboxing is compared to the what we do in aerobics class. What's the difference?
Happy holidays!
Hi and happy Holidays!!! Thanks for the great question. When I operated a kickboxing school in the 90s the kickboxing aerobics was a very welcome part of the zeitgeist!! It brought people in the door who probably wouldn't otherwise have known about it.
Mostly whats happening in the aerobics class is that it takes the techniques and modifies them, taking the exercise part of it and toning down the combat parts 😊
Muay Thai/Thai boxing is a specific type of boxing from Thailand that uses the hands, feet, shins, elbows and knees as weapons. There are rituals associated with it in Thailand, and the style was adopted by the Dutch, in particular over the years and used in kickboxing and mixed martial arts.
You’ll see the specific type of leg kick today even in pro wrestling, since mixed martial arts has become influential and uses a lot of the Thai techniques.
There weren’t many books on it at the turn of the last century, only one from 1987. I pitched the publisher of that book and added sections on weight training and general exercise to the book - making it a two in one concept that might have broader appeal.
It’s had a long shelf life, and there are now lots of books on the sport, but it’s nice to have been among the first 😊
Thanks for this great substack and blog, what a great way to discover new books!
You just blew my mind, Chad! Awesome. No wonder the publisher took you on. You know your stuff. Congrats on the book!
My travel memoir, Unsettled, will be published by Unsolicited Press on January 2, 2024. It's available for pre-order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unsettled-Laurie-Woodford/dp/1956692851
Description:
At the age of forty-nine, Laurie Woodford rents out her house, packs her belongings into two suitcases, and leaves her life in upstate New York to relocate to Seoul, South Korea. What begins as an opportunity to teach college English in Asia evolves into a nomadic adventure.
Laurie spoon-feeds orphans in Ethiopia, performs 108 bows at a Buddhist mountain temple, walks shelter dogs in Peru, milks goats in Fuerteventura, and gets lost in Mexico, all the while navigating dating at midlife.
After four years of traveling, Laurie’s return “home” becomes an unexpected adventure of its own when she ends up in Arkansas and meets Bruce, a bird-loving, bearded Quaker and then struggles to reconcile her need for freedom with her longing to feel settled.
Hi Laurie! Thanks for sharing your book info. A sneak peek no less in pre-order mode. Awesome.
Happy holidays!
Happy Holidays to you, Joy!