Uvi Poznansky's Blog, page 269
July 24, 2012
Paper Peacock
If you have been following my posts, you might have noticed that I have a feel, a deep appreciation for paper: its texture, pliability, and all the ways it allows you to use it, from writing to painting, from crumpling to origami and paper engineering. Here is a project I did together with Jess--the loveliest little five-years old girl you'll ever meet... Together, we googled images of peacocks online; she preferred the tail feathers to be hanging down behind, rather than spread out, so that was the way this paper peacock came into being.
On another day, we created wings for Jess, and a rose-shaped wand, the top of which can be seen down there, at bottom center of this image. The contemplative bird seems to ponder the meaning of the designs on the wings--but whether it came to any conclusions, it is hard to know.
If you haven't seen my other paper projects, click here for my Plucked Porcupine.
On another day, we created wings for Jess, and a rose-shaped wand, the top of which can be seen down there, at bottom center of this image. The contemplative bird seems to ponder the meaning of the designs on the wings--but whether it came to any conclusions, it is hard to know.
If you haven't seen my other paper projects, click here for my Plucked Porcupine.
July 23, 2012
Amazon Categories, Keywords and Tags
As a writer or publisher, you get to choose Categories, Keywords and Tags for your book. How do you do it? For example, if you have published a Kindle edition of your book, select the book from your author Bookshelf, select the action Edit Book Details, and under Target Your Book to Customers, you will find the Add Categories button and the Search Keywords field. As for Tags, anyone can add a tag on your Amazon book page by typing into the Your Tags field.
Categories:
How many? Up to two per book. How are they used? The categories you chose are listed at the bottom of your Amazon book page. In the past, Amazon allowed you to choose up to five of them, which is why some books have more than the allotted two. By choosing a category for your book, you are in fact choosing a browsing-path for readers, a path which consists of a hierarchy of sub-categories, indicating how your book can be searched and discovered. In the case of the paperback edition of my book, Apart From Love, I have just updated the categories as follows:Books > Literature & Fiction > Drama > United States
Books > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Contemporary Women
Keywords:
How many? Up to seven per book. How are they used? You can assign phrases, as they can be more than a single word. For example I used terms like love triangle, alzheimer's, family drama, father son relationship, mystery, forgiveness, guilt. Amazon uses these phrases in their search engine, in combination with words in your title, and your product description.
Tags: How many? No limit. How are they used? Tags are listed on a book’s product page under the heading Tag this product. They are designed by Amazon to help customers--in our case, readers--describe and find products. Anyone, not only the author, and not only the publisher, can add tags to a product page, and indicate that an existing tag is useful. Therefore, tags allow the book to be defined by your audience.
Hope this helps.
Categories:
How many? Up to two per book. How are they used? The categories you chose are listed at the bottom of your Amazon book page. In the past, Amazon allowed you to choose up to five of them, which is why some books have more than the allotted two. By choosing a category for your book, you are in fact choosing a browsing-path for readers, a path which consists of a hierarchy of sub-categories, indicating how your book can be searched and discovered. In the case of the paperback edition of my book, Apart From Love, I have just updated the categories as follows:Books > Literature & Fiction > Drama > United States
Books > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Contemporary Women
Keywords:
How many? Up to seven per book. How are they used? You can assign phrases, as they can be more than a single word. For example I used terms like love triangle, alzheimer's, family drama, father son relationship, mystery, forgiveness, guilt. Amazon uses these phrases in their search engine, in combination with words in your title, and your product description.
Tags: How many? No limit. How are they used? Tags are listed on a book’s product page under the heading Tag this product. They are designed by Amazon to help customers--in our case, readers--describe and find products. Anyone, not only the author, and not only the publisher, can add tags to a product page, and indicate that an existing tag is useful. Therefore, tags allow the book to be defined by your audience.
Hope this helps.
Sports and Life
Cameron Datzker is a veteran of sports talk radio for over 20 years. His background starts back as a play by play announcer calling both college football, and minor league baseball and hockey. He has spent his broadcasting days as a host for various radio stations in both New York and Chicago and Oklahoma City. Being a man of controversy he tells it like he sees it.
Cameron had the highest rated public access shows called, "it's a sports thing" which appeared on the Time Warner TV Network, this show featured various no name singers, dancers and performers as well as it featured belly dancers and celebrities in the community.
Not being a belly dancer, I am still very honored that Cameron asked me to come on his show, Sports and Life on LA Talk Radio. The show will air Friday night, July 27, 2012, at 8:00pm Pacific Standard Time. Later this week I will let you know how to call in the show, so you and I can engage in conversation. Stay tuned...
Memories Are Fragile
Damaskcat, a Top 50 Amazon Reviewer (ranks 19 in the UK) and participant in Vine Voice program, posted this 4-star review for Apart From Love:
"Ben returns home when he hears his father, Lenny, has suffered a bizarre accident at his wedding to Anita - his second wife. Ben has never really stuck at anything and he has been estranged from his father because he blames Lenny for his mother, Natasha, leaving them. The story is told by Ben and Anita - two completely different characters who speak with different voices. Often if you read a book with different narrators it is quite difficult to tell them apart but this isn't the situation with this book. Both voices are distinctive; the educated but not really adult Ben and the uneducated but self aware Anita.
Ben and Anita are attracted to one another even though Ben does not approve of his father's remarriage. How both Ben and Anita deal with the discovery that Natasha has Alzheimer's and Lenny is looking after her makes interesting and at times poignant and upsetting reading. Memories are fragile as Lenny says as he records conversations and attempts to turn them into a book.
I really warmed to Anita as a character. She tried to make sense of what to her was an alien world. She truly loves Lenny and wants to fit in with his world. She has common sense and an understanding of people which Ben seems to lack. I found Ben an annoying character and frequently wanted to shake him and tell him to pull himself together even though I could understand where he was coming from. Anita was at least trying to make something of her life, but Ben wasn't even trying - or that's how it came over to me.
I did enjoy this book and thought it made both sad and amusing reading and I laughed and cried while I was reading it. I thought the passages about Natasha and her illness were very well done. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to read something a little bit different from the normal run of fiction."
To read this review (among others) click here.
July 22, 2012
Dazed
"Later, when I wake up, it takes me a while to grasp where I am, and even longer to figure out that I’ve lost time, that time has passed. The last thing I remember is like, making breakfast for him—and now, somehow, it’s late afternoon.
I’m lying here on my side, with the bedside lamp shedding a dim light behind me. I can tell that his side of the bed is empty. Why am I here? How did I get here? Why am I so dazed, so confused?
Anita, in Apart From Love
This is a my watercolor painting (on non-absorbent paper, which allows for lovely water puddles to happen on the page)
I’m lying here on my side, with the bedside lamp shedding a dim light behind me. I can tell that his side of the bed is empty. Why am I here? How did I get here? Why am I so dazed, so confused?
Anita, in Apart From Love
This is a my watercolor painting (on non-absorbent paper, which allows for lovely water puddles to happen on the page)
July 18, 2012
Take a Listen
Uvi's too short, Poznansky--too long
So learn my name before the sound of the gong!
It's already too late, the interview has begun
With Patrick Walters and me, it's just too much fun
The host of Triangle Variety Radio, Patrick Walters, has interviewed me this Friday, July 20, 2012, at 8:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
This interview was just over one-hour, which gave me a great opportunity to talk about my writing and art at greater depth than my previous radio interviews. What's more, this interview format lends itself to a broader discussion--not only between Patrick and me, but above all, between you and me! It was my pleasure to respond to questions about my work and about the creative process, and I was overjoyed to talk to one of my very first readers, Angela Davis, who called in to talk to me.
You can listen to the show at Triangle Variety Radio.
Take a Listen: Interview at Triangle Variety Radio
Uvi's too short, Poznansky--too long
So learn my name before the sound of the gong!
It's already too late, the interview has begun
With Patrick Walters and me, it's just too much fun
The host of Triangle Variety Radio, Patrick Walters, has interviewed me this Friday, July 20, 2012, at 8:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
This interview was just over one-hour, which gave me a great opportunity to talk about my writing and art at greater depth than my previous radio interviews. What's more, this interview format lends itself to a broader discussion--not only between Patrick and me, but above all, between you and me! It was my pleasure to respond to questions about my work and about the creative process, and I was overjoyed to talk to one of my very first readers, Angela Davis, who called in to talk to me.
You can listen to the show at Triangle Variety Radio.
Call in, Talk to Me
The host of Triangle Variety Radio, Patrick Williams, will be interviewing me this Friday, July 20, 2012, at 8:00PM Eastern Standard Time.
This would be a full one-hour interview, which gives me a great opportunity to talk about my writing and art at greater depth than my previous radio interviews. What's more, this interview format lends itself to a broader discussion--not only between Patrick and me, but above all, between you and me! You are invited to call in. It will be my pleasure to respond to your questions about my work and about the creative process. If you have read Apart From Love and have lingering thoughts, or if you would like to learn about the story, please take advantage of this opportunity!
The call-in number is (949) 272-9578 Press #1.
You can listen to the show at Triangle Variety Radio.
This would be a full one-hour interview, which gives me a great opportunity to talk about my writing and art at greater depth than my previous radio interviews. What's more, this interview format lends itself to a broader discussion--not only between Patrick and me, but above all, between you and me! You are invited to call in. It will be my pleasure to respond to your questions about my work and about the creative process. If you have read Apart From Love and have lingering thoughts, or if you would like to learn about the story, please take advantage of this opportunity!
The call-in number is (949) 272-9578 Press #1.
You can listen to the show at Triangle Variety Radio.
A Finely Crafted Debut Novel
Marcia Quinn Noren, the talented author of the non-fiction book Joan of Arc, the Mystic Legacy, has just posted a beautiful 5-star review of Apart From Love on Amazon. In it, she says:
"This debut novel's characters are still with me, locked down in Jungian psychoanalysis. Uvi Poznansky's writing penetrates the subconscious, where dreams are ignited and poets find words.
As Anita and Ben reveal their innermost thoughts, the lives of Lenny and Natasha, linked tightly with theirs like the ropes in a Celtic knot, become increasingly vivid. This complex family of secret keepers triggered an avalanche of emotions in my mind and heart. Reading the book felt more like standing before a fine painting, worthy of being hung by itself on a museum wall, so that its detail can be taken in without distraction.
Highly recommended, especially for those whose tastes lean toward innovative literary fiction."
"This debut novel's characters are still with me, locked down in Jungian psychoanalysis. Uvi Poznansky's writing penetrates the subconscious, where dreams are ignited and poets find words.
As Anita and Ben reveal their innermost thoughts, the lives of Lenny and Natasha, linked tightly with theirs like the ropes in a Celtic knot, become increasingly vivid. This complex family of secret keepers triggered an avalanche of emotions in my mind and heart. Reading the book felt more like standing before a fine painting, worthy of being hung by itself on a museum wall, so that its detail can be taken in without distraction.
Highly recommended, especially for those whose tastes lean toward innovative literary fiction."
New 5 Star Review: "A Finely Crafted Debut Novel"
Marcia Quinn Noren, the talented author of the non-fiction book Joan of Arc, the Mystic Legacy, has just posted a beautiful 5-star review of Apart From Love on Amazon. In it, she says:
"This debut novel's characters are still with me, locked down in Jungian psychoanalysis. Uvi Poznansky's writing penetrates the subconscious, where dreams are ignited and poets find words.
As Anita and Ben reveal their innermost thoughts, the lives of Lenny and Natasha, linked tightly with theirs like the ropes in a Celtic knot, become increasingly vivid. This complex family of secret keepers triggered an avalanche of emotions in my mind and heart. Reading the book felt more like standing before a fine painting, worthy of being hung by itself on a museum wall, so that its detail can be taken in without distraction.
Highly recommended, especially for those whose tastes lean toward innovative literary fiction."
"This debut novel's characters are still with me, locked down in Jungian psychoanalysis. Uvi Poznansky's writing penetrates the subconscious, where dreams are ignited and poets find words.
As Anita and Ben reveal their innermost thoughts, the lives of Lenny and Natasha, linked tightly with theirs like the ropes in a Celtic knot, become increasingly vivid. This complex family of secret keepers triggered an avalanche of emotions in my mind and heart. Reading the book felt more like standing before a fine painting, worthy of being hung by itself on a museum wall, so that its detail can be taken in without distraction.
Highly recommended, especially for those whose tastes lean toward innovative literary fiction."
