Amy Mah's Blog, page 24
December 7, 2012
A Shared Range

Book: A Shared Range
Series: Range - Book 1
Author: Andrew Grey
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M Romance
Rating: Mature
Stories from the Range: Book One
After a year in medical school, Dakota Holden returned home to take care of the family business full time and help his father cope with multiple sclerosis. Devoted to his family, Dakota allows himself just one week of vacation a year, which he spends in some exotic location having all the fun he can stand. On his last vacation, a cruise, Dakota struck up a friendship with Phillip Reardon, and it fills an important role in Dakota’s life. So when Phillip decides to take Dakota up on his invitation to visit the ranch, Dakota is happy to see him and meet his veterinarian friend, Wally Schumacher. Despite Wally’s inclination to help the wolves Dakota’s men shoot to protect the cattle, he and Dakota find they have a lot in common, including a fierce attraction. But they’ll have to decide if the Wyoming range is big enough for Dakota’s cattle, Wally’s wolves, and their love.

Book: A Troubled Range
Series: Range - Book 2
Author: Andrew Grey
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M Romance
Rating: Mature
Stories from the Range: Book Two
The neighboring Holden and Jessup ranches are anything but neighborly—Jefferson Holden and Kent Jessup loathe each other. But despite his father’s long-held grudge, Haven Jessup just can’t bring himself to hate, especially after Dakota Holden takes him in during a violent storm and Haven meets Dakota’s friend, Phillip Reardon.
Phillip accepts Haven for who he is, seeing through the mask Haven uses to hide his attraction to men, but their tentative and secret relationship will be under a huge amount of stress. Sabotaged fences, injured animals, unsavory plans, and Jessup family secrets will threaten Haven’s newfound happiness and his hopes of a future with Phillip.

Book: An Unsettled Range
Series: Range - Book 3
Author: Andrew Grey
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M Romance
Rating: Mature
Stories from the Range: Book Three
The last thing Liam Southard expects when he flees his abusive father is to be taken in by a couple of gay ranchers. Soon he has a new job and a new perspective on his sexuality, and his life starts to turn around. Then someone pulls a gun on him.
In Troy Gardener’s defense, the gun thing was a mistake. Between his marriage falling apart and living in his uncle's isolated hunting cabin, he's been a little edgy. He wants to make it up to Liam, and once he discovers how much they have in common, he wants even more. But with Liam's father popping in unexpectedly and a mining company threatening the ranch’s water supply, the only guarantee is that life is never going to be boring.

Book: A Foreign Range
Series: Range - Book 4
Author: Andrew Grey
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M Romance
Rating: Mature
Stories from the Range: Book Four
Country singer Willie Meadows is a fake. He’s never ridden a horse, and his “Western” gear comes from a boutique shop in LA. No wonder Wilson Edwards, the real man in those fake boots, is suffering creative block. Determined to connect with the music, Wilson buys a ranch in Wyoming to learn the country way of life, even if he has no intention of running the business. Then Steve Peterson shows up desperate, destitute, and hungry, having just escaped a gay deprogramming hospital run by his father’s cult.
Steve was supposed to train horses for the ranch’s former owner, but the job is gone along with his would-be employer. Luckily Wilson has a temporary solution: Steve can ranch-sit while Wilson does business in LA. But when he comes back, Wilson barely recognizes the place. There are trained horses in the paddock, and the ranch is in great shape. Suddenly he finds himself inspired not by the cowboy lifestyle but by Steve himself.
But the cult is still after Steve, and Wilson’s fear of scandal means he’s still in the closet. Coming out could kill Willie’s career—but denying his feelings for Steve could kill the only part of him that’s real.

Book: An Isolated Range
Series: Range - Book 5
Author: Andrew Grey
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M Romance
Rating: Mature
Stories from the Range: Book Five
Marty Green has two loves in life: horses and basketball. But suffering a stroke during his first college game throws a wrench in his plans. After months spent in the hospital, recuperating under the zealous care of his overprotective parents, Marty realizes he needs to be on his own, so when he’s offered a job at a ranch owned by his doctor's good friend, he takes it.
When veterinary assistant Quinn Knepper sees Marty for the first time, his heart nearly stops. He's smitten, and Marty appears interested though shy. There are just two problems: Quinn's father wants him to hide his sexuality from the world, and Marty’s Wyoming Senator father is a homophobe with no idea his son is gay—which Quinn learns when the senator proposes an amendment banning gay marriage.
Dealing with two unsupportive families is a heavy burden, but Quinn vows to make it work. Unfortunately, that may mean putting his life on hold while Marty overcomes his emotional isolation—unless, of course, Marty sacrifices his happiness to his father’s political ambition and ends the relationship before it gets started.
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Published on December 07, 2012 16:52
the Unfading Heiress (Soul Switch Trilogy) Walter Dinjos

"In a land where death transcends time and space, a Ghostly War is being raged
against the living. King Eldorman has the power to end this war, but he wants
justice for his beautiful murdered daughter Arengel.
However, Arengel's destiny lies once again with the living, when she falls in
love with Adel, a lowly Earmburgian. Finally the prophecy of The Man With The
Red Aureole will come to pass, but Arengel needs an earthly body to fulfill it.
The journey that Adel must take to help Arengel will not only test his strengths
to the limit but also that of his close friendship with Jeofren, a fellow
Earmburgian. It is a race against time through dark and magical landscapes, and
even when the task seems fruitless, Adel must see it through to the end.
The Unfading Heiress is ultimately a story of ghostly love, human greed,
friendship and honour set amid a raging war between the realm of the living and
the realm of the dead."
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Published on December 07, 2012 16:31
November 20, 2012
a vampire walks into a bar ..............

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vampire-Walks-Cassandra-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00A3SVOOU/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=ur2&qid=1352714605&sr=8-2&tag=trasthrtip-21
http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Walks-Cassandra-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00A3SVOOU/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1353324453&sr=1-1&keywords=tracey+sinclair
The
hunter just wanted to be left alone - one last drink before leaving London forever. Then the
vampire Laclos walked into the bar, and suddenly his night wasn't looking so
quiet after all...
There's a new hunter in the city and he'd targeting Cassandra Bick - the
vampire/human dating agency Dark Dates run by Cassandra Bick, who also happens to be the
woman that both Cain and Laclos love. These two fierce rivals must work
together to stop him before he drags London’s vampires into the
spotlight and destroys Cassandra’s life – that’s if they don’t kill each other
first.
Explore a darker side of London with this exciting
short story from author, Tracey Sinclair. The first novel in "The
Cassandra Bick Chronicles", "Dark Dates" is out now.
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Published on November 20, 2012 11:56
November 15, 2012
Dark Dates by Tracey Sinclair

BLURB: All Cassandra Bick wants is to be left to get on with doing her job. But when you’re a Sensitive whose business is running a dating agency for vampires, life is never going to be straightforward – especially when there’s a supernatural war brewing in London, a sexy new bloodsucker in town and your mysterious, homicidal and vampire hating ex-lover chooses this moment to reappear in your life…
Witty, sharp and entertaining, Dark Dates is a heady mix of vampires, witches and werewolves – with the occasional angel thrown in – and introduces Cassandra Bick, a likeable heroine destined to join the ranks of fantasy’s feistiest females.
UK link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Dates-Cassandra-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B007RH5PF4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1341315028&sr=1-1
US link: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Dates-Cassandra-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B007RH5PF4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341315140&sr=8-1&keywords=Tracey+sinclair
Blog : http://bodyofageekgoddess.blogspot.co.uk
Website: darkdates.org
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2oTPkW0v7M

BIO: Tracey Sinclair works as freelance copywriter, editor and legal
directories consultant. A
diverse and slightly wandering career has included writing factsheets for small
businesses, creating web content for law firms, subtitling film and TV and
editing one of the UK’s largest legal directories. A keen blogger, she regularly writes
for online theatre site Exeunt and science fiction site Unleash the Fanboy and
her blog Body of a Geek Goddess was shortlisted in the Cosmopolitan Blogger
Awards 2011. Her work has been published in a number of magazines and
anthologies and her short playBystanders was premiered in 2011 as part of the
CP Players New Writing Season at Baron’s Court Theatre, London. She has published two small press books (Doll and No Love is This, both Kennedy
& Boyd) and is now dipping a toe in the digital self-publishing world with
her new urban fantasy novel,Dark Dates.
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Published on November 15, 2012 16:10
November 11, 2012
Anime, Manga, and Amy Mah Vampire.
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Anime, Manga, and Amy Mah Vampire...lol
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While the earliest known Japanese animation dates to 1917, and many original Japanese animations were produced in the ensuing decades, the characteristic anime style developed in the 1960s—notably with the work of Osamu Tezuka—and became known outside Japan in the 1980s.
Anime, like manga, has a large audience in Japan and recognition throughout the world. Distributors can release anime via television broadcasts, directly to video, or theatrically, as well as online.
Both hand-drawn and computer-animated anime exist. It is used in television series, films, video, video games, commercials, and internet-based releases, and represents most, if not all, genres of fiction. As the market for anime increased in Japan, it also gained popularity in East and Southeast Asia. Anime is currently popular in many different regions around the world.
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Reply by mlle.deedee gauzot on Wednesday
Manga (漫画?) are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.[1] They have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.[2]
In Japan, people of all ages read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among others.[3] Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry,[4] representing a ¥406 billion market in Japan in 2007 (approximately$3.6 billion) and ¥420 billion ($5.5 billion) in 2009.[5] Manga have also gained a significant worldwide audience.[6] In Europe and the Middle East the market is worth $250 million.[7] In 2008, the U.S. and Canadian manga market was valued at $175 million. The markets in France and the United States are about the same size. Manga stories are typically printed in black-and-white,[8] although some full-color manga exist (e.g. Colorful ). In Japan, manga are usually serialized in large manga magazines, often containing many stories, each presented in a single episode to be continued in the next issue. If the series is successful, collected chapters may be republished in paperback books called tankōbon .[9] A manga artist ( mangaka in Japanese) typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company.[10] If a manga series is popular enough, it may be animated after or even during its run,[11] although sometimes manga are drawn centering on previously existing live-action or animated films[12] (e.g. Star Wars ).
Reply by mlle.deedee gauzot on Wednesday
The term manga (kanji: 漫画; hiragana: まんが; katakana: マンガ;

In order to read the entire article[s] or learn more about Anime and Manga just follow the link to:
Anime...Wiki
Manga...Wiki
Reply by mlle.deedee gauzot on Wednesday

[Note: Japanese people greet each other in many different ways depending on the time of day. Some greetings also differ depending on the relationship you have with the person you are greeting.
Now, with that being said, let me turn my attention to Amy Mah Vampire...]
[Information about Amy Mah Vampire:
Being A vampire sounds like it should be a cool thing to be as a teenage girl, like sleeping during the day and enjoying a night life with friends but no one warned Amy that it also meant having to suffer Teenage hormones for so long as she was stuck as a 16 year old vampire until her new vampire family would let her grow up, being a vampire was not as much fun as she had hoped and as to walking about wearing a see through nightdress with no underwear, well that was so not going to happen!
Fangsrule...
A very funny book about life as a teenage vampire, Amy Mah may be a vampire but at 16 she knows world is just out to get her and not just by people trying to stake her because she has better teeth than they do!
Arigatou or San kyuu
To learn more about Amy Mah Vampire, just follow the links:
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amymah-vampire-vampire book realm
vampire.com review Of-amymah-vampire

Published on November 11, 2012 15:51
November 6, 2012
Day Of The Dead With Usual Battalion Of Nudes
OK SO I WRITE AS A TEENAGE VAMPIRE
Dont you dare say that is odd
It is the rest of the world that is er....kinda oddddddddddddd
Take a look at this

Spencer Tunick Marks Mexico's Day Of The Dead With Usual Battalion Of Nudes (PICTURES)
Huffington Post UK | By Sara C Nelson Posted: 06/11/2012 15:32 GMT Updated: 06/11/2012 16:12 GMT
For an artist who deals solely in naked currency, Spencer Tunick managed to give hisDay of the Dead project an interesting twist - ghostly veils.
The Mexican holiday, known as El Día de los Muertos, is a yearly celebration that pays tribute to the memory of departed spirits.
Celebrated in Hispanic communities across the globe, the Catholic tradition harkens back to early Aztec practices of worshipping the goddess Mictecacihuatl, or the Lady of the Dead.

Spooky sights: Naked volunteers in diaphanous shrouds
Spencer Tunick's project saw 150 volunteers strip off and don the shrouds in the village of Los Senderos, Mexico.
The specifics of the holiday include making lavish altars, holding vigils and decorating cemeteries, often involving decadent images of death that take the form of painted skulls, costumed skeletons and vivid folk art.
And now lots of naked people.
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Now if you would like to keep your panties on try reading a
good book, mine!
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Published on November 06, 2012 16:57
I am so in the wrong job!
I am so in the wrong job!
You can get paid for this? perhaps I should give up writing ?
I dont see why people complain about what she is doing
lots of sleep and get paid for holding guys ...er... thats it?
ok so perhaps I would need to buy a pair of handcuffs to stop roving hands ........................... unless ...................... well you never know if he looked that good perhaps I would need them ...... cough .... cough .....but lets not go there.
Does any one remember the blog i did last year on the Singapore girl that got paid just to go out and have a meal with a guy nothing more ............. well apart from the fact she would would guarantee than she was not wearing panties on the paid for meal ............... no I dont know how she did that, perhaps she would show the waiter
Professional Hugging offered at a price
Spooning peacefully in a double bed, this pair could be any normal couple on a Sunday morning.
But revisit the scene an hour later and Jackie Samuel will be curled up in the arms of another man.
She's no scarlet woman however, for the 29-year-old is a professional cuddler.

Jackie Samuel snuggles up to a client in her large double bed
Samuel turned to snuggling with strangers to help pay for her studies and provide for her young son.
She can make £160 a day and cuddles with up to 30 men a week – including pensioners and war veterans.
However, her business "The Snuggery" has not gone unnoticed and her college has threatened to expel her – while others have called her a prostitute.
She said: “I think I was born knowing how to snuggle. Snuggling is healthy, spiritual and fun.
“I think clients come to me for all different kinds of reasons.

“Some of my older clients, their wives have passed away, and they just need someone to be with, like someone to experience touch with.
“Some of the younger clients are between relationships, some are in problematic relationships, and some people are just really curious and they come to just find out what it’s going to be like.”
Samuel advertises her services online and charges £35 an hour.
The cuddling can take place anywhere around her cottage in Rochester, New York, but most clients opt to use her large double bed.

Sex is not permitted, but sexual arousal is excused
They are banned from touching parts of her body covered by underwear, which she wears under pyjamas.
The business has done so well she has even hired another snuggling professional, Colleen.
Her apprentice has yet to take on a client by herself but has joined Jackie on two occasions in what they have termed a "double cuddle".
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Despite her strict rules on sexual activity, Jackie has received a barrage of emails and phone calls slamming her as a prostitute.
She added: “Some have said I am worse than a prostitute because they think snuggling is more intimate than sex.
“I’ve been told I’m monetising love.”

One of her repeat customers, who would only give his name as Tim, disagrees with her critics.
He said Jackie’s cuddles had helped him following a bad break-up and described the sessions as "meditative".
He even said he would continue to see her while in a relationship.
“There’s no cheating element, it’s not immoral,” he said.
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Published on November 06, 2012 04:16
November 4, 2012
Gantz manga is hot and sexy
Gantz
I loved anime and Gantz is
one of my favourite manga animes and I have just watched the real live movies
and wowwwwwwwwwww they are good
Remember to get them from the
USA as they have the dubbed versions and when you watch switch on signs at the start and so much of the plot is written in
Japanese and my Japanese reading is crap………….. and yes I forgot to do this and
had to play the end again with translations.
The Gantz manga is er kinda
er well a little or perhaps sometimes a lot sexy, a lot less in the anime and
not at all in the film, but as it is USA dubbed it could have been removed for American
audiences. Don’t get me wrong I love the movies but something is missing at
times and no I am not talking about the naked bodies, The manga is more er so much more lots more emotions are involved
I posted a review below and you can see the reviewer is not that keen, me? I say watch it you will love it in any format.





Like Johnny Ryan's Prison Pit , the main appeal of Hiroya Oku's Gantz may well be its repulsiveness. The story of two boys who die and then reawaken as part of a strange, brutal game that forces them to hunt aliens, Gantz is horrifically violent, filled to bursting with T&A, cluttered with astonishingly unlikeable characters, dotted with brief instances of astounding racism, and above all, gross, which is what makes it so interesting and compelling. You just have to see what depravity Oku is going to put into the series next, even as you're completely repulsed by it. A big budget live action version of the manga recently saw limited release here in the US before hitting wide release Japan. It it any good? Does it live up to the manga?
The short answer is "No, it isn't, and no, it really does not."
Gantz is about a dangerous game played by dead people, who are teleported to a nearly empty room at the moment of their death, none the worse for wear, and ordered to go out and kill an alien or two. To help with their mission, they're given sexy skintight black suits and high-tech weapons with unlimited ammunition by a flat black ball that sits in the middle of the room. This ball is known as "Gantz," and also displays their scores after the end of a mission.
Gantz is all about sex and violence, with a cast mostly composed of high schoolers and twenty-somethings killing, being killed, posing, and being stripped naked. It's a good hook for a series, and Oku's (more or less) realistic and heavily 3D-rendered style makes for some entertaining action scenes in the manga, published in America by Dark Horse Comics.

Gantz, the film, is part one of a two-part film series, with Gantz: Perfect Answer to follow in the Spring. While this kind of serial filmmaking usually results in individual movies that are deeply unsatisfying when viewed singly, Gantz is actually pretty okay in and of itself. Granted, there are a ton of questions left unanswered, but the first movie largely concerns itself with the emotional arc of protagonist Kei Kurono, played by Kazunari Ninomiya, as he goes from shiftless and disaffected college student to something approaching a hero. In those terms, the movie is mostly a success.
I say mostly because Kei's arc is believable, but unimpressive. He isn't as brave as Kato, the gentle but tough fellow played by Kenichi Matsuyama, but he isn't that bad a guy for all but maybe ten minutes of the movie, which makes his supposed heel turn later on about as believable as Evil Peter Parker in Spider-Man 3 -- it comes out of nowhere and doesn't really make sense. It feels more like a bad mood rather than a personality failure.
Visually, though, Gantz looks dead-on. Translating comics to the screen can be tough, particularly in terms of visuals, but Gantz nails it. The room where they all appear after death is perfectly empty, and slightly unsettling because of that. It's fortunate that Oku's T&A excesses were toned down, though, otherwise the costumes would have looked completely ridiculous. Instead, the outfits look goofy, but perfect at the same time.

The problem is everything else. The English dub was pretty poor, though nowhere near as bad as dubs used to be. The voice choices are appropriate, but the acting just feels listless and bland, not to mention the fact that it never picked between trying to match lip movements (and therefore suffering from wooden delivery) or being a little more open (which would result in visual incongruity). It splits the difference and ends up being annoying. I imagine that it will be better subtitled, but that wouldn't solve the biggest problem with Gantz, which is that the whole thing is just plain old watered down.
The manga is enthralling because it becomes so unbelievably offensive: The women are stupid, sex objects, or both. The cast is filled with cannon fodder. The deaths are straight out of exploitation movies. Kurono is a nigh-unrepentant douchebag and almost impossible to like or relate to. His girlfriend is drawn like a child and constantly infantilized. Kurono actually has sex with a not-very-disguised Lara Croft shortly after she appears in the series, just because, and of course that results in her falling in love with him.
Gantz is a mean, vile, and ugly little book that manages to be occasionally entertaining in spite of itself, and Gantz the film is a version of it created for mass audiences. All of the thorniness and ugliness has been stripped out and sanitized so that more people will like the characters, and the result is a relentlessly bland movie that plays it safe when it desperately needs to go wild. It's violent, sure, but never manages to actually make it to the superviolent level that Gantz needs to operate on.
As a side note, the women in the movie are leagues better than they are in the comic, but still basically suck. They do a lot of pointless pining and cracking under pressure. It's a step up from being constantly naked and quivering, but wow, it is still off-putting.
Without the ugliness, without the inexplicably enthralling grossness, Gantz is just another post-Matrix movie where people wear skintight suits and fight a hidden menace. It feels like a Power Rangers movie with the violence turned up to a hard PG-13 level and some very carefully obscured nudity slipped in. It's bland, and for a book like Gantz, bland is the worst kind of adaptation to have.

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Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/01/24/gantz-movie-review/#ixzz2BIiwqaIQ


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Published on November 04, 2012 16:14
November 1, 2012
"Fever in the Blood" a novella by: Rebecca L. Brown.


"Fever in the
Blood" a novella by: Rebecca L. Brown. When Gabriel manages to find a
vampire, he discovers that not all of the legends are true. Unlike the
creatures of myth, Ruth (and others like her) must drink the blood of other
vampires to survive - rather than sustaining the vampires human blood acts as a
drug, destroying an addicted vampire's self-control, their personality and
ultimately even their basic survival instincts.
Gabriel asks Ruth to turn him and Ruth is happy
to do so for reasons of her own; her previous apprentice, Michael, has become
addicted to human blood and following the death of his human girlfriend the
true extent of his addiction is revealed. Ruth realises that she must turn
Gabriel so that she does not starve. At the same time, she must decide what to
do with Michael, who has degenerated into a dangerously inhuman creature.
Based on the same premise as Thrall's Sacrifice
[printed in the Their Dark Masters anthology, which placed seventh in its
Predators & Editors poll], Fever in The Blood is a stand-alone
novella-length story which will be a part of the author's 'Blood Cravings'
universe.
Links where the book can be purchased:
http://www.amazon.com/Fever-in-the-Blood-ebook/dp/B009ZP5NHG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351762015&sr=8-1&keywords=9781301594634
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/250529
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Published on November 01, 2012 18:46
Authors of young adult fiction/nonfiction requesting books
FAO: AUTHORS .......... This looks a good Idea ............... My publisher has already sent a selection of Young Adult books off to them............ including mine! and wow will they be for a shock when they read my vampire books!
Greetings and Salutations!
I know the dreaded form letter…but wait give it a chance! It is for a really worthy cause!
I am the coordinator for Illumination Youth Arts, a free program for teens at United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA. We have several wonderful opportunities for our young people to become inspired and grow with the arts. Most of the youth we work with are from lower income families and cannot afford luxuries like books, art supplies, cameras and other items we provide. If you would like to know or see more about the program please visit our Facebook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/illuminationarts
UNC is in the process of converting space at our Westside Senior Center to a teen after school space. One of the projects is replacing the library room with teen friendly books. We currently have no funding for this project so we have had to be creative in filling our shelves.
I apologize for the form letter but in addition to limited resources I have limited time. This is the easiest way for me to contact the most people in the shortest amount of time. I also understand that not everyone I contact is going to respond or have materials to donate. But my philosophy is you never know until you ask. The whole nothing ventured, nothing gained approach.
I am writing to authors of young adult fiction/nonfiction requesting books. I have several options; select one, two or all. Here is what I am asking for:
1. A copy of your book or books for our library. Youth can borrow books from the library in the teen space.
2. Twelve copies of a book for the Bookworms Book Club. Youth involved with the club will receive their own copy to enjoy and keep. Autographs are welcome!
3. If you send books for the book club would you be willing to participate in a discussion with the youth after they read the book? This would take place over the phone or Skype. To them, you would be a celebrity!
4. Provide a digital copy of your book to be placed on computers in the youth lab. This will allow kids to read on computers or place a copy on the digital devices they may have.
5. Any book related swag you are willing to part with always welcome.
Any or all of the above options would be appreciated. You will help us in our quest to encourage literacy and ignite the imaginations of our youth! As we are a non-profit I can also provide you a letter acknowledging the donation for tax purposes.
You can send the book to:
April Holgate
UNC Illumination Youth Arts Coordinator
1004 Jackson Street, 3rd Floor
Scranton, PA 18504
For the digital copies you can either email them to my email aholgate@uncnepa.org or use the same email to find our account on Amazon and send the digital copy there as a gift. We have the kindle for PC set up on the computers in our computer lab so that is currently the easiest option. The three main formats the students use are PDF, MOBI and EPUB. Any of those will be fine.
Thank you so much in advance for your time and consideration.
April Holgate
Illumination Youth Arts Coordinator
United Neighborhood Centers NEPA
http://www.facebook.com/illumination.arts
Office - 570-961-1592 ext. 114


Greetings and Salutations!
I know the dreaded form letter…but wait give it a chance! It is for a really worthy cause!
I am the coordinator for Illumination Youth Arts, a free program for teens at United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA. We have several wonderful opportunities for our young people to become inspired and grow with the arts. Most of the youth we work with are from lower income families and cannot afford luxuries like books, art supplies, cameras and other items we provide. If you would like to know or see more about the program please visit our Facebook pagehttp://www.facebook.com/illuminationarts
UNC is in the process of converting space at our Westside Senior Center to a teen after school space. One of the projects is replacing the library room with teen friendly books. We currently have no funding for this project so we have had to be creative in filling our shelves.
I apologize for the form letter but in addition to limited resources I have limited time. This is the easiest way for me to contact the most people in the shortest amount of time. I also understand that not everyone I contact is going to respond or have materials to donate. But my philosophy is you never know until you ask. The whole nothing ventured, nothing gained approach.
I am writing to authors of young adult fiction/nonfiction requesting books. I have several options; select one, two or all. Here is what I am asking for:
1. A copy of your book or books for our library. Youth can borrow books from the library in the teen space.
2. Twelve copies of a book for the Bookworms Book Club. Youth involved with the club will receive their own copy to enjoy and keep. Autographs are welcome!
3. If you send books for the book club would you be willing to participate in a discussion with the youth after they read the book? This would take place over the phone or Skype. To them, you would be a celebrity!
4. Provide a digital copy of your book to be placed on computers in the youth lab. This will allow kids to read on computers or place a copy on the digital devices they may have.
5. Any book related swag you are willing to part with always welcome.
Any or all of the above options would be appreciated. You will help us in our quest to encourage literacy and ignite the imaginations of our youth! As we are a non-profit I can also provide you a letter acknowledging the donation for tax purposes.
You can send the book to:
April Holgate
UNC Illumination Youth Arts Coordinator
1004 Jackson Street, 3rd Floor
Scranton, PA 18504
For the digital copies you can either email them to my email aholgate@uncnepa.org or use the same email to find our account on Amazon and send the digital copy there as a gift. We have the kindle for PC set up on the computers in our computer lab so that is currently the easiest option. The three main formats the students use are PDF, MOBI and EPUB. Any of those will be fine.
Thank you so much in advance for your time and consideration.
April Holgate
Illumination Youth Arts Coordinator
United Neighborhood Centers NEPA
http://www.facebook.com/illumination.arts
Office - 570-961-1592 ext. 114

Published on November 01, 2012 18:14