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May 28, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-29
Eating potato pancakes at Ben's Kosher Deli & Restaurant on West 38th. Need carbs in order to go set up the Peace Hill Press booth at BEA. #
Photos from the first day of BEA: http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/publicity/from-the-floor-of-bookexpoamerica-day-1/ #
Day Two at BookExpoAmerica: http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/publicity/from-the-floor-of-bookexpoamerica-day-2/ #
Gate agent at LGA: "The lavatory on this aircraft is nonfunctional. Please use facilities at gate before boarding." Not a good sign. #
Life expectancy of a French manicure in New York: 7 days (with care). On a Charles City farm: Approximately 7.25 hours. Ask me how I know. #
I want to go running. I want to go running. I want to go running. Nope, that's not working. #
Coated myself with three different chemicals to get through my morning run unbitten and unburnt. Ah, summer in Virginia. #
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May 25, 2011
From the floor of BookExpoAmerica, Day #2
Today's my last day here; the show goes on for one more day, but I'll be leaving the booth in capable PHP hands and heading home. There hasn't been a lot of writing going on. I think most writers find that peripheral activities (travelling, speaking, publicity, emails, blogging, etc.) very quickly capture center stage, while the writing itself is happy to slide off into the wings. Making a living as a writer involves a constant struggle to push the noisy happy peripheral activities back offstage, where they belong, and drag the shrinking-violet star back into the spotlight.
Here are a few more scenes from this second day of noisy peripheral activity.
The Guinness World Records people adding a little happiness to the show floor:
A couple of valiant publicists putting their best feet forward:
One of the many nut-job vendors around the edge of the hall:
The Librarian Lounge:
And the charmingly-named "Autograph Chutes" that channel fans towards the signing table.
This year's show is definitely busier and more upbeat than last year's. Now it just remains to be seen whether all the conversations we've been having with librarians, booksellers, columnists, reporters, and foreign publishers…actually translate into book sales.
May 24, 2011
From the floor of BookExpoAmerica, Day #1
We're here at the Peace Hill Press booth at BookExpoAmerica, the big national trade publishing show that happens every May–usually in New York, occasionally in other cities. Here's our booth (Pattie, my executive assistant, and Mollie, our Peace Hill Press marketing coordinator):
and Moll with me.
Hundreds of publishers at this, as usual: here's Scholastic,
and a couple of booths at the International Pavilion.
And here's my favorite part of BookExpo: authors desperately trying to make their books stand out from the vast sea of titles.
More photos tomorrow…
May 21, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-22
DH's 1st-class birthday-present flight to SF CANCELLED by United. Rebooked us on later flight, coach. No explanations, no refund. Appalling. #
Will never, never, never fly United again. (Would like to point out that tickets were Continental when I bought them.) #
No thanks to United, we are HERE…and it is truly lovely. Now taking deep breaths. Good Napa Valley air in, bad airplane air out. #
3-hour lunch w/old friends from seminary. Unbelievably affirming to discover you've been travelling same general direction in past 20 years. #
Today's Pete's actual fiftieth birthday. Planning a trip along Route 1 up to Bodega Bay. And the sun is out! #
Changed plans mid-drive today: Rte 1 to Santa Cruz, saw giant redwoods at Big Basin state park, came back through Santa Cruz mountain range. #
Went and took pictures of the French Laundry today like a desperate food groupie. #
Harold Camping might have been onto something. I think the apocalypse is beginning at the United terminal in San Francisco. #
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May 14, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-15
Cleaning half an inch of pollen off the wraparound porch. <><>> #
New post at Well-Trained Mind blog: http://welltrainedmind.com/reflections-on-education/disappearing-words-part-iv-what-do-we-do-about-it #
Email from UVA: Tuition payments for Fall 2011 will begin in June. Um…payments for Spring 2011 just ended in April. Ah, May, I love you. #
Is "sledge" an example of onomatopoeia? What do you think? #
Very late lunch at Lord Hardwicke's in Charlottesville. Feel it isn't really necessary for teenage waitress to keep calling me "hon." #
I just made the best cake batter ever. (Preparations for dh's 50th birthday party now ramping up!) #
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May 11, 2011
Conclusion of my Disappearing Words series
If you haven't been following my Disappearing Words series over at the Well-Trained Mind blog, head over there now for the conclusion (and be sure to read Parts I, II, and III first).
May 7, 2011
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-08
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This kind of reminds me of a scene from ANOTHER epic: http://www.bricktestament.com/david_vs_saul/saul_decapitated_sons_killed/1s31_12.html #
New series at The Well-Trained Mind blog: Is the book dying? (Does it matter?) http://www.welltrainedmind.com/reflections-on-education/ #
Many, many possums out on the roads of Charles City tonight. Most still alive. #
Just bought Virginia rainbow trout, freshwater prawns, Thai basil, and leeks at the Williamsburg farmer's market. Good dinner tonight! #
Found the perfect table in front of Aromas to do some difficult editing work….perfect until two teenaged boys with ukeles show up. #
Working at one of the tables on Merchant's Square in Williamsburg. Prom-goers in taffeta and bow-ties parading by. #
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May 6, 2011
New writing and grammar books…check out our new poster/ad!
Thanks to the Peace Hill Press team (that would be Justin and Mollie) who came up with THIS brilliant ad for my upcoming middle-grade writing and grammar books and the accompanying creative writing manual.
I suggested the headline. As you can probably tell, I have taught three boys to write.
May 5, 2011
May 4, 2011
Two additional speaking dates…Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and Ontario, California
In case you're in one of these places and want to come hear me talk about reading, writing, and other fascinating stuff, I'm adding two dates to my 2011 speaking calendar.
June 24-25th was originally the date of a convention that lost its venue. A couple of other educators and I have teamed up to do an education-oriented weekend at a smaller meeting-place in Valley Forge. The workshops are all focused on academic subjects, and you don't have to be a home educator to attend. Here's the schedule (click on the conference title for home page and registration online):
VALLEY FORGE HOMESCHOOL CONVOCATION 2011
Schedule of Speakers
FRIDAY June 24th
8.00 – 9.00
Susan Wise Bauer: The Well-Prepared High School Student
Laurel M. Dodge: Nature Study For The Young Family
9:15 – 10.00
Michael Clay Thompson: Four-level Analysis: An Introduction to the MCT Grammar Method
10.00 – 10:45
COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 11:45
SWB: A Plan for Teaching Writing: High School
Shelagh Gallagher: Concept Development for Elementary and Middle School
11:45 – 1:00
LUNCH
1.00 – 2:00
MCT: Stem-based Vocabulary: The MCT Vocabulary Strategies
2:15 – 3:15
SWB: How to Read a Book (With Apologies to Adler)
3:15 – 4 .00
COFFEE BREAK
3:45 – 4:45
MCT: Why Poetics Is Core Content for Language Arts
EVENING: INFORMAL INFORMATION SHARING
SATURDAY June 25th
8:00 – 9:00
MCT: Formal Academic Writing: First Things First
9:15 – 10:15
SWB: Homeschooling the Real Child
10:15 – 10:45
COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 11:45
MCT: An Introduction to the New MCT Literature Series
11:45 – 1:00
LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00
SWB: What is Literary Analysis? How and When do I Teach It?
2.15– 3:15
MCT: Implementing the MCT Curriculum
3:15 – 3:45
COFFEE BREAK
3:45 – 4:45
SWB: A Plan for Teaching Writing: Elementary and Middle School
Shelagh Gallagher: Problem-Based Learning for High School Students
I'll also be speaking at the California Homeschool Network expo in Ontario on July 22-23. Their conference page is here, but they don't have an updated schedule yet; I'll post when they do.
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