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Announcing the Annual Black Book Fair in Celebration of Black History Month
Author: Joseph Oddo
For Immediate Release. Please announce the following not-for-profit event:
In Celebration of Black History Month, The Caribbean Community Resource Centre will present the “Annual Black Book Fair” on Wednesday, February 6th, from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm at Toronto’s City Hall, at 100 Queen Street West.
This Annual Event features Writers, Publishers, Storytellers, Booksellers, Spoken-word Artists, Emerging Writers, Workshops, and more. Many activities will be available for adults and youth alike. Teachers are encouraged to bring students. Parents should bring children. All are welcome; the event is free to the public.
Thank you for your help in spreading the word! For booth space or more information on this event, call Nicholas Austin at (647) 892-1159.
Other Details:
– The Annual Black Book Fair creates a unique opportunity to share educational and learning materials in an innovative and experiential way with the community at large. The Event is provides students with role models for self-efficiency, and exposure to career options including entrepreneurialism, writing, publishing and other creative pursuits & endeavors from and by people of diverse backgrounds. The experience will increase self-respect, self-esteem and expand self-awareness and success.
– Ms. Jo Lena Johnson, International Speaker & Trainer, will kick-off the event –and then conduct an 11 am workshop for educators, teachers and librarians focused on encouraging self-esteem, success and engagement among children of color.
– At 6 pm Ms. Johnson will conduct an exciting, interactive workshop for parents and children to provide tools for communication, inspiration and ways to create quality time during day-to-day family activities. She has conducted training sessions and keynotes throughout the US, the UK and Canada for over 51,000 adult and student participants – www.absolutegood.com.
– Featured Writers Include: Writer/Actor DIRK Mc LEAN – The CBC has produced The House On Hermitage Road which Dirk adapted from his Trinidadian childhood memoir of the same title. The script was published in the anthology, Canadian Mosaic II, by Simon & Pierre. His plays for young audiences, which have toured elementary schools in Ontario, include Shall We Call A Teacher? and The Real McCoy (with Amah Harris and Itah Sadu). He is the children’s author of Steel Drums and Ice Skates (Groundwood Books, Toronto) and Play Mas’! A Carnival ABC (Tundra Books, Toronto & New York).
– Dr. Rosemary Sadlier is an outstanding author and the well-respected President of the Ontario Black History Society. Sadlier has written four books including Leading the Way: Black Women in Canada, Mary Ann Shadd: Publisher, Editor, Teacher, Lawyer, Suffragette and Tubman: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Her Life in the United States and Canada. Her best selling book, The Kids Book of Black Canadian History (2003) was nominated for Silver Birch Award, the Hackmatack Award, the Red Cedar Award and other international awards and was ranked number one in children’s literature by the Quill and Quire in October 2003.
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Hi there.
GenForum has about 50,000 specific forums for genealogy, including “Ethiopia” and “African-American”.
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That’s a really tough question!
Here are some of my candidates:
“Infinite Jest”
“The Magic Mountain”
“War and Peace”
“Atlas Shrugged”
However it appears that the winner is Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust, though I believe that is published in many different volumes and so is kind of up for debate.
Those are to keep track of the printing history. You can have a first edition but a seventh printing– the edition means the book as a whole, so if you make a change then it becomes a different edition (second, revised, whatever) but if you just run out of copies and more of the same book without changes, it becomes a first edition, second printing.
Different publishers do this different ways: some just use 1 2 3 4 etc. and remove a number when a reprint is done, but others do the line as you have it and remove numbers that way.
The name of the book, which is rather offputtingly esoteric, refers to a scene … Recently having watched Natasha dancing in Bondarchuks epic ‘War and Peace’, … This is a cultural history of Russia over the past three centuries. … normally apply to a history book! Published on 13 Dec 2006 by studenttraveller …
Publishing is the industry concerned with the production of literature or information — the activity of making information available for public view. In some cases, authors may be their own publishers.
Traditionally, the term refers to the distribution of printed works such as books and newspapers. With the advent of digital information systems and the Internet, the scope of publishing has expanded to include websites, blogs, and the like.
As a business, publishing includes the development, marketing, production, and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books, literary works, musical works, software, other works dealing with information.
You’ll want to search for children’s publishers. For example, you said it was similar to “Holes,” so starting with whomever published “Holes” would be a good bet. If you know any other similar books, check out their publishers as well. If you can’t find any good bets, grab yourself a copy of Writer’s Markets 2009. It’s a huge, heavy tome you can purchase at major bookstores. It lists all the publishers and magazines and e-zines and ‘zines and anthologies and what-have-yous that you can submit to for the year.
CHINA DUH?
The Valley of the Dolls.
You might want to self-publish your book. Many authors nowadays turn to self-publishing for many good reasons. It allows full creative control of your book; you retain ownership rights and you can cater to your target readers. You also get to control the number of books you want to have printed. Usually, your POD publisher only prints your book depending on demand. This way, you wont end up with a garage full of unsold books.
In regards to marketing, several self-publishing companies offer marketing services to help get your book out.
Keep in mind that you will have to pay when you self-publish, but this tradeoff can be far below the gains that you will be expecting.
For more information on self-publishing:
http://selfpublishingjourney.wordpress.com/
The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book to be mass produced on a printing press using movable type.
What is the history of publishing magazines/books/etc.?
Does anyone know the history behind publishing magazines, books, etc.?
What are the publisher’s notes found usually at the beginning of a book?
Usually, on Page 2 or 4 of a book, you get details of the books publishing history, like the name and address of the publisher, date of issue, etc.
One often finds a row of even- and odd numbers, like 8 6 4 2 0 1 3 5 7 9. What do these numbers mean?
Publishing a history book and doing a documentary….?
I am doing research on Ethiopian people (whose ancestors left Ethiopia or HOA —Horn of Africa) between the years or 1600 A.D. to the present, who voluntarily departed for Europe and the USA .
I have located 5 families across the USA who left Ethiopia in the mid 17th century. And i have found a few others in Europe as well.
But I would like to do a documentary on it, and publish it in a history book. Our families’ stories should be included in history books too.
So if you know any one, whose lineage/ family tree matches up with this description, please fill me in.
YOU could be on our documentary IF you have FACTS, and physical proof of claims.
Thanks!
What was the first published book in world history?
What is the longest book ever written in *modern* publishing history–within the last 100 years?
Where are most US History books published?
I am doing some research for this paper and I was wondering where most, if not all, of the US History books are published.
Another Question: If US History books are published in a variety of states, which state(s) do they usually go to for historical verification?
Who to go to for publishing my book?
I am writing a book on the First World War, it’s a fictionary history book, it follows a similar structure to the book Holes by Louis Sacher and I expect people from about the age of ten to fifteen to read it, it’s about a boy’s adventures before the war and how it links to things that happen during the war. However I don’t know how to get it published and which kind of publishers you think would be interested in publishing it, can you give me some ideas
I’m a new author – which publishing company would give me the best shot at publishing my book?
It is a book about women and WWII history. I figure a small publishing company maybe in the South would be a place to start, but I have no idea.
What is the name of a recently published book on the cultural history of Russia?
I’m looking for a book title. The book is I think recently published (in paperback) in the UK. It’s a cultural history of Russia, I think written either by a Russian or someone with a Russian-sounding name. The introduction to the book speaks about how big a star worldwide Tolstoy was when he died. I just can’t remember the title. It was a book similar in content to “Natascha’s Dance”, but slimmer.
Thank you kindly for any help.
What was the very first book ever published in history?