Book and Cover Reviews XI

The cover is sooo cute :)
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Martina Lans
August 27, 2009



I love the front picture with the glitter.. so cute!!!
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Natasa Mirkovic
August 27, 2009



I like the glitter.
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Robert Tjan
August 27, 2009



Looks great! Good luck Julie!
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Victor Andersson
August 27, 2009



Great Job! I love the title, the book is amazing!
Overall rating: 4.3
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 4.0
Summary: 4.0
Reviewed by Alexis Ramirez
August 27, 2009



Great cover design.
Overall rating: 3.7
Book Title: 4.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 2.0
Reviewed by Andrew Bartlett
August 27, 2009



Wonderful art on the cover. Wonderful author! Great job, Julie!! Best of luck to you.
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Elizabeth A. Popwell
August 26, 2009



Great.
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Daniel Salomonsson
August 26, 2009



The book is very creative!
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Hannah Caves
August 26, 2009



Awesome!
Overall rating: 5.0
Book Title: 5.0
Cover Design: 5.0
Summary: 5.0
Reviewed by Gustav Granath
August 26, 2009

Sunday, June 7th

Today, an opportunity to share the beauty of Alinda's story unfolded as I walked down State Street in my beloved Santa Barbara, California. After seeing three former students and listening how each of their current personal and professional lives are developing, I followed my daughter and her new husband into a bookstore. After browsing those hallow selves, I decided to ask one of the young associates working in a section of the store that sold fantasy books, if he thought they might be interested in the book my fellow teacher (who lives across the pond) and I had written. He was fascinated by the story and said he thought it deserved to be "pitched" to his manager.

After meeting with his manager, the following offer was given. As long as the book could be evaluated and judged as a "good read" and would not be under either a "vanity press or “print on demand," (which it is not as we also have begun our own publishing entity) they would offer us the chance to both sell it and promote it. If Oonagh and I wished, we could also do a reading and signing promotion.

It will be approximately three weeks until the audio book and printed book will be available for sale, gifts, or promotion (it take quite a while to build a life, a family, an education, and a book) in their "perfected" form. The new publishing website "Across the Pond" is being designed as we speak...When we dream...we think...When we put the magic ingredient in our work which is "love," our product will be beyond the ordinary...and beyond our own imagination or expectations.

Alinda of the Loch - The Story of Sleeping Beauty's Daughter

Oonagh (my Scottish friend and 4th Grade teacher in the U.K.) and I (American/German Marketing professor) began writing the story of Sleeping Beauty's Daughter, Alinda approximately two years ago (2007). Since the time we began writing our story we have together spent seven long weekends traveling "across the point" to finish it. Unbelievably, as of one week ago today, we did indeed complete it. Currently, the finshed manuscript is in the process of being proofread and "cleaned up."

Additionally, we have been talking with professional and amateur graphic artists who (with great passion) have joined our team . They are going modifiy or use as (base illustrations) many of the images from the Archival Art (public domain graphics) library, Those that we ultimately select will complement the story that has been written with the goal of inspiring and lifing up the young and young-at-heart.