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June 11, 2012
Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand Trivia Q&A - Chapter 13
Q: What does ASAYGT stand for?
A: As soon as you get this.
Q: Who is Grubner Trowel?
A: He is one of Moon-shoes’ seven little helpers.
Q: What is the door number of Market Square?
A: Tenth door on the right.
Q: What day of the week did Ethan tell Irvin, that only on that day could a human be shown around Market Square?
A: Friday.
June 10, 2012
Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand Trivia Q&A - Chapter 12
Q: What two forms of travel did the Poseidon team take?
A: Book travel and bubble port travel.
Q: What species is Fin Drenchler, his wife, Lyn, and son, Gil?
A: Hydromorphs, shape-shifters of the sea.
Q: Name six of Gil’s shape bubble tricks.
A: Seahorses, fish, birds, whales, mermaids, and hearts.
Q: Which ocean is Brooke Troutland in charge of?
A: Pacific Ocean.
Q: Where have they tracked the kraken to?
A: The Mariana Trench.
Q: What was the Seakeepers secret that was told to Ryvias Ravenwood?
A: The blood of a hydromorph is transmorphic.
Q: In addition to Newt Dripmore, who are the other two missing hydromorphs?
A: Sal and Sil Finley, husband and wife.
Q: How long does Fin’s talk with Ethan last?
A: Fifteen minutes.
June 9, 2012
Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand Trivia Q&A - Chapter 11
Q: What was Fin Drenchler paranoid about?
A: That the Grimleavers might be listening in on the Caretakers activities.
Q: Who was on the team selected to travel to Poseidon?
A: Daavic, Brianna, Alexander, Haley, and Ethan.
June 8, 2012
Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand Trivia Q&A - Chapter 10
Q: What was the one more thing Daavic wanted to show Ethan and Haley before leaving the Moongarden?
A: The secret wishing well.
Q: What were the initials embedded into each side of the rock found at the stone ruins in the Moongarden?
A: The initials “D” and “V”
June 7, 2012
BookExpo America (BEA) Conference Wrap Up
International Tradeshow, Manhattan, New York
SAN JOSE, California - June 08, 2012 - Fox Hunt Publishing Group extends thanks today to the 2012 BookExpo America (BEA) Conference attendees. Publishing’s biggest annual conference has come to a close. There seemed to be a new optimism in the much-beleaguered industry. Maybe it’s because e-books are finally looking like a value-add, not a terrifying pirate ship. Maybe it’s because Jimmy Fallon made some good jokes.
Book publishing may be an industry under siege, but you could not tell that from theJavitsConvention Center, where the annual BEA extravaganza got underway in earnest early Tuesday morning. “I’ve been coming to this thing for 25 years, and this is the most crowded first day I can remember,” said David Rosenthal, head of Penguin’s Blue Rider Press imprint.
The Expo is traditionally not open to the public, but publishers use it to drum up interest in their upcoming fall and winter books. And there were a few more parties than there were during some of the worst years of the recession. Penguin staged its at the famed Algonquin Hotel, and Knopf/Doubleday was going toCognacon Broadway. Harper Collins headed downtown to The Park onIower Tenth Avenue. A lot of the activity was off the floor, although one rights editor complained that a lot of the British publishers seemed to be staying home this year.
Random House, the nation’s biggest publisher, wasn’t spending much more money at the Expo than it did in the past. It has maintained only a modest presence for the past several years.
Simon and Schuster also seemed to have a smaller booth this year.
“Publishers realize they need the show,” said Jim Milliot, the editorial director of Publishers Weekly, “but they want to spend as little as possible on booths.”
Nielsen Bookscan said that unit sales in the retail outlets that it tracked were down about 8.9 percent in 2011 compared with a year earlier. Print adult fiction, normally the most robust, tumbled 17.7 percent last year, to 160 million units sold.
What’s Javits like?
Inside, theJavitsCenteris like an airport with no scheduled departures and much more carpeting. There is not quite enough oxygen. At other times it seems a lot less like being in an airport and instead being on a plane. If you have been in or around the book industry in some professional capacity, its filled with everyone you have ever met in a professional capacity. So it’s sort of like a high school reunion on a plane for the publishing industry.
BEA tried a new day when it opened up the convention to members of the public; tickets were $45. It seems like a good idea, but it’s an awkward fit: the business model has always been that publishers sell to bookstores, and then bookstores sell to readers. Letting in consumer ticket buyers, who were dubbed “power readers,” was something of a mixed success.
Here are some of the highlights:
The BEA, the leading North American publishing event brings you what’s new and what’s next in book publishing, digital publishing, etc. The three-day convention, attended by tens of thousands of booksellers, publishers, writers and librarians, ended Thursday.
The number of traditionally published print books rose 6% in 2011, to 347,178, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday morning by R.R. Bowker. For the first time, this year, Bowker combined self-published titles with books from mainstream houses in the traditional column and the increase in output was led by self-published books, Bowker said. The number of print books published by traditional houses was about flat in the year. (The number of all self-published titles released by Bowker at the UPublishU conference on Sunday was 211,269, which includes print and e-books.)
In Wednesday’s presentation, “Understanding the Children’s Book Consumer in the Digital Age,” Kelly Gallagher, v-p of Publishing Workflow Solutions, R.R. Bowker, offered some good news for children’s booksellers. While e-books accounted for 24% of books purchased between April 2011 and 2012, e-book sales for kids up to age 12 is considerably smaller, closer to 5%. It is a different story for young adult, now at 14%. But based on a succession of surveys of parents of children up to age 12, conducted in October 2010, October 2011, and April 2012, Gallagher predicts continued slow growth for digital books for young children.
60% of purchases for children at independent bookstores are impulse buys. By contrast 48% of Amazon purchases are planned. As Gallagher pointed out, that means that indies continue to be a place of discovery and can build on that to grow sales. They could also add more higher-priced items based on another setoff questions in the survey, indicating that consumers are willing to pay more than they do at indies. According to the surveys, the average price point for a purchase at an independent bookstore is $8.80. The figure jumps to $10.30 at Amazon and $11.20 at large chains.
Thursday’s BEA authors breakfast in New York City started out sedately enough, but with actress Kristie Alley as emcee and comedian Jimmy Fallon rocking the house, Alley kept the laughs and curses coming after she took to the podium to talk about her memoir about her relationships with the male species, The Art of Men: I Prefer Mine Al dente (Atria, Nov.).
“I’m honored to be here, because I’m not from this world,” Alley said, “I’m standing in front of the movie stars and rock stars of the literary universe.” Admitting that she came from a family of non-readers, Alley described in detail her evolving relationship with books over the years with self-deprecating anecdotes that endeared her to the audience.
If Alley and Fallon weren’t enough, Dan Rather and Jim Kelly commanded just as big of audiences during the Thursday show.
THE EYES OF THE DESERT SAND
book one in the Chrysalis Chronicles series!
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* “Wolfe brings fantasy and fun to the first in his Chrysalis Chronicles. A tale of pure imagination, it brings readers to unknown worlds as its wondrous characters come to life. The author has written an adventure that is exciting and charming. A truly fantastic debut.” -- Amy Lignor, New York’s RT Book Reviews Magazine, February 2012 issue, 4-1/2 Stars and a Top Pick!
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Edwin Wolfe Does It Again! 5 Stars for Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand
"Give the book a 5 out of 5, I can not find the proper words to explain how much I enjoyed reading this book every second of it. The cover of the book will make you wonder what it is actually about but the content is just mind blowing. Love how the author uses so many different fantasy characters for this book and just love this quote: Many of the human worlds greatest authors have gotten their material from the stories of taletaddlers, Could you possibly believe stories as inspiring as the Harry Potter novels were written solely by a human? No human could create such a masterpiece without the seeds of a taletaddler. (maybe its true we never know :)))
Love how the level of fantasy of this book is so expanded, so many amazing fantasy books have been published but this one exceeds all of them. I was literally fighting with my sister over this book after skimming through it about who will read the book first. Each character is unique and the whole book it will introduce you to each of them in such a creative way that will guide you from page to page seeing each character, feeling like you are apart of the book.
What I can say is thank you for writing this amazing book, it made me feel like I was in a world of fantasty and I did not want to come back from there." --Luana, Goodreads and Amazon reviewer and blogger
Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand Trivia Q&A - Chapter 9
Q: What are the door numbers for the Moongarden?
A: Doors twenty-one and twenty-two on the right.
Q: What does the smell of ozone always precede in the Moongarden?
A: The dance of the trembling nomads!
Q: What was the name of the fruit Haley nearly ate in the Moongarden that would have turned her into stone?
A: The fruit of the petrified wood berry vine.
Q: What was the one more thing Daavic wanted to show Ethan and Haley before leaving the Moongarden?
A: The secret wishing well.
Q: What were the initials embedded into each side of the rock found at the stone ruins in the Moongarden?
A: The initials “D” and “V”
June 6, 2012
Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand Trivia Q&A - Chapter 8
Q: What did the fireball Albert shot out from the end of his tail transform into?
A: A flaming red bird called a fire-jay.
Q: What did the fireball Newton shot out from the end of his tail transform into?
A: A swarm of horned blugoats.
Q: What did the fireball Linus shot out from the end of his tail transform into?
A: A greenie meanie.
Q: Who were the six instigators teasing pepper?
A: Caden Stanley, Malik, Blair Trabblemore, and RGB.
Q: What are the names of Blair’s parents?
A: Roman and Silvia Trabblemore.
Q: Why were the Trabblemore’s removed as headmasters of the Caretakers?
A: Roman’s father, Gaylord, disgraced the privilege of his position.
Q: What is the form of communication Pepper uses?
A: He can communicate by manipulating the crystals within his body.
June 5, 2012
4 STARS for Chrysalis Chronicles - The Eyes of the Desert Sand!
"Edwin Wolfe has a wonderful imagination that has created the first book in the Chrysalis Chronicles. The Eyes of the Desert Sand is full of many creatures, both we've heard of before and some made up! This story takes you to magical wells, odd riddles, and a cast of characters that are bound to make an impression. My two favorite ideas in the book is the book traveling and the paintings. I don't want to give anything away, but those two things held the most interest to me. Ethan is a 13 year old boy who has no idea who he can trust and what things his parents might be hiding. This book is a good set-up for the rest of the following books and will leave readers awaiting the next book to find out more!" --Sally Hannoush, Goodreads reviewer
Wolfe Visits George and Betsy Fox's Neighborhood in NYC
Edwin Wolfe and his publisher, Lori Moeszinger, visit NYC's upper east side neighborhood where characters George, Betsy and Ethan Fox reside in his Chrysalis Chronicles series debut novel, The Eyes of the Desert Sand. Specifically, the neighborhood looks over Central Park surrounded by magnificent sky scrappers as far as the eyes can see.
Home sweet home ;-)
