tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41678662888734409632024-02-08T06:17:21.850-08:00From the FIBP Back OfficeMusings, writer's achievements and words of encouragement from the back office. Free Kindle Fire signup below!Pame Brennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02307996916163220815noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167866288873440963.post-29361444098877719342012-04-23T09:46:00.000-07:002012-04-23T09:46:30.439-07:00New Editor with Fantasy Island Book Publishing<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">EXCITING NEWS!!!! </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1388881171" href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1388881171" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 14px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Kathleen Barker</a>, author of Ednor Scardens,<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"> has agreed to be an editor with Fantasy Island Book Publishing! </span></span><br />
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Random drawing for the prizes will he held online on[AD1] Memorial day weekend Via Raffelcopter. Many other prizes will be given away during the event.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">_____</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Authors Joan Hazel and Danielle Raver will attend two book signing events in April. The first will be on April 21 at the Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery. On April 28 and 29, they will be at TroyFest.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Alabama Book Festival will be held in historic downtown Montgomery at Old Alabama Town from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As the state’s premier book festival, it is free and open to the public. TroyFest is held annually on the square in downtown Troy and is the city’s Annual Arts and Crafts Festival.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hazel and Raver will be available to sign and discuss their books, give readings and share their experiences. During the Book Festival, they will have a free drawing for exciting gifts and giveaways. There will be an area for children, complete with coloring pages based on the book characters.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both authors have been in the top 1% of sales on Amazon.com and have been No. 1 in their subject genre on several occasions. Their books have also been in the Amazon Hot 100.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hazel’s book, <em>The Last Guardian</em>, is a modern urban fantasy which tells the story of a woman who will sacrifice everything, perhaps even her life, to protect a race of shape shifters. <em>The Last Guardian</em> has been in the No. 1 slot for Fantasy and Futuristic Novels on Amazon.com.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reviewers have said of <em>The Last Guardian</em>:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>“Joan Hazel has the ability to entice you and capture your curiosity from the first chapter.”</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>“The heroes are sexy, funny and full of mischief.”</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>“Joan has written a novel that is up to par with other bestselling novels released in the last decade.”</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raver’s book, <em>Brother, Betrayed</em>, is a medieval fantasy weaving the tale of three brothers and their adventures through the world of Miscia. <em>Brother, Betrayed</em> has been in the No. 1 slot for Adventure and Family Saga on Amazon.com.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reviewers have said:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>“A thoroughly entertaining and though-provoking fantasy adventure”</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>“It is this detail and skill that elevates this beyond normal epic fantasy into something that would appeal to any reader, whatever their preferred genre.”</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>“Raver's prose is lyrical, and the tale is told as if by a bard or a chronicler.”</em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>The Last Guardian</em> and <em>Brother, Betrayed</em> were published by Fantasy Island Book Publishing, based in Indiana. Founded by J. Darroll Hall in 2006 and co-owned with Pamela Brennan, FIBP has released 64 novels, including 20 bestsellers in various genres from authors in seven different countries.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hazel and Raver have publishing contracts through FIBP not only for their current books, but for their next books as well. Release dates will be announced soon.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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Alison, Nicole Carson, Shaun Allan and Connie J Jasperson have come together and compiled stories that I will be reading to my grandchildren for years to come! This effort was one of the quickest efforts, from inception to publication, that we have seen. Alison's dedication and hard work on this is truly appreciated! Shaun also worked diligently to bring this to fruition.<br />
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It was exciting to see the input from this group and the commitment to make something so special happen. The final cover was a group effort in suggestions and ideas. And really?...you have to just LOVE those cute little toes!<br />
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We are blessed at Fantasy Island Book Publishing to have such amazing people!<br />
Thanks to everyone and Happy Holidays!Pame Brennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02307996916163220815noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167866288873440963.post-13256760515787452182011-11-28T08:25:00.000-08:002011-11-28T08:25:22.024-08:00Knowledge via ProximityMany, many, many years ago on Thanksgiving day, my then sister-in-law turned to me and said ‘We can’t make gravy. Please make the gravy for us.” If I EVER had a ‘Deer in the Headlights’ moment, this was one for me. At the speed of light, my thought process rolled through, ‘My <i>MOTHER</i> is THE gravy expert, I don’t know squat and what are you thinking asking ME to do this?’, ‘But, how hard can it be?’ then finally to, ‘I need to do this for them’. <br />
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Being from the Midwest, my mother could make wondrous gravy out of anything and everything. Gravy was a food group in my home growing up. However, I had NEVER made gravy in my life! I wasn’t a slouch in the kitchen and had worked as a cook at a diner, but my ‘tools’ were a griddle and deep fry baskets. I could flip a mean burger and fries that were to die for but gravy was foreign, untried. At that moment when my sister-in-law asked me to do this, I took on the challenge with some trepidation and blind confidence.<br />
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When dinner was served, my gravy was AWESOME. Apparently, I had spent enough hours just watching my mother to have absorbed gravy skills. It was not too salty, not too bland……….just right. There had NEVER been a teaching moment with my mother at the stove. I had apparently been around enough to know what to do and my proximity in the kitchen caused some of that knowledge to rub off.<br />
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This company is RIFE with gravy moments. We are surrounded by authors who have knowledge in so many areas. As we grow, that knowledge grows and is there for the ‘picking’ by all the others in this group. Each of our authors has a talent. That talent runs the gamut from technical skills to know-how in ‘turning a phrase’. <br />
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Embrace your own ‘gravy knowledge’ and share it with us. We will all be richer for it.Pame Brennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02307996916163220815noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4167866288873440963.post-15574409541491238292011-11-17T09:49:00.000-08:002011-11-17T09:49:29.854-08:00Alison DeLuca Book Signing at Barnes & Noble Tonight!We are so proud to announce that Alison DeLuca is having her first book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Howell, NJ tonight from 6 to 9pm. Stop by and pickup a signed copy of The Night Watchman Express. <br />
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Lanes Mill Marketplace<br />
4831 US Hwy 9<br />
Howell, NJ 07731Pame Brennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02307996916163220815noreply@blogger.com0