Shaindel Beers's Blog - Posts tagged "beers"

In honor of my book's half birthday, I'm giving away 6 copies--one for each month my book has been out! Deadline to enter is June 29th, my book's half birthday! Please look for A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers and enter the give-away!

This is an urgent message from Chris Hamilton-Emery, the Director of Salt Publishing. Thanks, Shaindel

Saving Salt Publishing: Just One BookShare
Today at 7:56am
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we've £4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot apply through Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt's operations. Spring sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and despite April's much improved trading, the past twelve months has left us with a budget deficit of over £55,000. It's proving to be a very big hole and we're having to take some drastic measures to save our business.

Here's how you can help us to save Salt and all our work with hundreds of authors around the world.

JUST ONE BOOK

1. Please buy just one book, right now. We don't mind from where, you can buy it from us or from Amazon, your local shop or megastore, online or offline. If you buy just one book now, you'll help to save Salt. Timing is absolutely everything here. We need cash now to stay afloat. If you love literature, help keep it alive. All it takes is just one book sale. Go to our online store and help us keep going.

2. Share this note on your profile. Tell your friends. If we can spread the word about our cash crisis, we can hopefully find more sales and save our literary publishing. Remember it's just one book, that's all it takes to save us. Please do it now.

With my best wishes to everyone
Chris
Director
Salt Publishing
http://www.saltpublishing.com

Thank you all for riding along "On the Hood of a Cutlass Supreme" virtual book tour.

Here's my final stop, where Kate Evans of "Being and Writing" interviews me: http://tinyurl.com/oyoqu3

Enjoy!
Shaindel

Hello, All,

I hope you enjoy my interview, conducted by Robert Lee Brewer:

http://blog.writersdigest.com/poeticasid...

Take care,
Shaindel

Ken Ronkowitz explores the nature of confessional poetry, including some of my poems:

http://poetsonline.blogspot.com/

Here's an excerpt of Aleathia Drehmer's review of A Brief History of Time at Gently Read Literature:

A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers reveals her tensions at the duplicity of her life which finds her sometimes stuck back on the Midwestern farm of her childhood, still struggling to shed the air of baled hay and sweat from her existence, to the cold and calculated marks left by the city she always longed to be in. The temptation and memories of home, no matter how bittersweet, are never fully released by Shaindel.

This is Shaindel Beers’ first full length collection of poetry and Salt Publishing could not have done a better job in its presentation. The high gloss cover depicts the essence of the prairie with fields and a windmill all encased by barbed wire. There is blue sky for miles and the edges of the book are faintly branded with a repeated Art Nouveau design. The title is done in a beautiful script that invokes the feeling that a feather quill was used. All of these visual cues set the tone for the reader before they even open the book that their journey will lead them to distant, but familiar lands with surprises tucked into the periphery.

Read the whole review here: http://tinyurl.com/mw7g8p
A Brief History of Time

I'm honored to announce that one of my poems is at BestAmericanPoetry.com right now.

Here's a link:

http://tinyurl.com/l6aqke

Take care and have a great summer!

Shaindel

http://nikperring.blogspot.com/2009/07/s... Beers|2798132|Shaindel Beers|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1232919567p2/2798132.jpg]A Brief History of TimeNik Perring

I hope you enjoy it!

http://nikperring.blogspot.com/2009/07/s...

Take care,
Shaindel

A Brief History of Time

Shaindel Beers

Nik Perring

Oregon Public Radio's Emily Harris and Dave Miller interview me about my new book, being a writer, and being a college instructor of writing:

http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/no...

I hope you enjoy it!
Shaindel