Amazon.com Is a
Publisher, Too!
Award-winning
Poet's Co-Authored Chapbook Published
As An Amazon
Short
Who would have paired poetry with the bookselling giant, Amazon?
Since Jeff Bezos's online conglomerate entered the publishing field
with a concept they called Shorts, authors everywhere have been
thrilled to have their promotional power behind them. Recently they
accepted a book of poetry co-authored by award-winning poets,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball.
She
Wore Emerald Then
was conceived by the pair as an alternative to the sugary greeting
cards usually available for mothers in card shops. Amazon Shorts are
only 49 cents, can be sent to a recipient instantly at no additional
cost, and are far more inclusive that the casual card or momento.
All kinds of writing is available, from short stories to how-to
pieces. Ball, an Australian poet, says "Chapbooks have been a
tradition among poets for centuries. Mother's Day is on the way and
the electronic aspect of the Amazon Short program made Shorts an
ideal way for Carolyn and me to collaborate once again ."
This
will be Howard-Johnson's second Short. The first is The Great
First Impression Book Proposal: Everything You Need To Sell Your
Book in 20 Minutes or Less. Her chapbook Tracings was
honored for excellence by the Military Writers Society of America
and named to Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads. She is the author
of several other award-winning books. She is also an instructor for
the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.
Magdalena Ball is the author of the novel Sleep Before Evening,
which has received unanimous 5-star reviews for its linguistic
beauty and the intensity of its plot. She is also the author of an
award-winning poetry chapbook Quark Soup, and a nonfiction
book The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything. Her
website The Compulsive Reader,
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html, has become a benchmark for
high quality online literary criticism, and has been growing
steadily in the eight years since its launch.
The
two collaborated last year on a book of what Howard-Johnson calls "unsyrupy"
poetry for Valentines Day. It is available at
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/cherishedpulse.htm
Artwork for She Wore Emerald Then is by May Lattanzio. She is
a freelance writer/photographer, Amazon Shorts author (Paradise
and The Last Striper, with more to come) and author of
Waltz on the Wild Side -- An Animal Lover's Journal and
contributor to Native West's anthology Least Loved Beasts of the
Really Wild West - A Tribute".
Learn more about Magdalena Ball at
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/images/MediaRoom.htm
Learn More about Carolyn Howard-Johnson at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com
Fomd
a catalog of Lattanzio's writing at
http://maylattanzio.blogspot.com and her photographs at
http://www.jpgmag.com/people/may or
http://www.thelensflare.com/u_may.php.
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