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January 11, 2015
Simone Da Costa to Launch "I Am Beautiful: When I Look at Me, I See..." at Toronto Urban Book Expo
TORONTO, ON (December 2014) - Canadian writer Simone Da Costa will be launching her young adult non-fiction title I Am Beautiful: When I Look at Me, I See... at Kya Publishing's Toronto Urban Book Expo, taking place on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at the Toronto Public Library's Malvern Branch from 12:00pm to 4:00pm.
This inspirational book, created for middle school aged Black girls, aims to empower and liberate them to believe that they are beautiful, despite society's notion of what "beauty" is.
"In an era where the popular idealistic images of beauty are based on the western world's realism of beauty, it illustrates that beauty begins with knowing who you are, believing it, and accepting yourself as you are," said Simone.
A writer, author, and publisher, Simone Da Costa has published a devotional day planner Remember to Pray, a 2013 Day Planner, as well as two children's books: A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book About Animals from A to Z, and her recently published book Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm.
Readers of all ages are welcome to come and celebrate the launch of I Am Beautiful: When I Look at Me, I See... at the Toronto Urban Book Expo; this event is free of charge.
For more information about Simone Da Costa, please visit http://www.simonedacosta.com. For additional details about the Toronto Urban Book Expo, please visit http://www.kyapublishing.com.
Posted by Kya Publishing at 1:22 PM
Labels: Book Launch, Canadian Authors, Simone Da Costa, Toronto Urban Book Expo
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This inspirational book, created for middle school aged Black girls, aims to empower and liberate them to believe that they are beautiful, despite society's notion of what "beauty" is.
"In an era where the popular idealistic images of beauty are based on the western world's realism of beauty, it illustrates that beauty begins with knowing who you are, believing it, and accepting yourself as you are," said Simone.
A writer, author, and publisher, Simone Da Costa has published a devotional day planner Remember to Pray, a 2013 Day Planner, as well as two children's books: A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book About Animals from A to Z, and her recently published book Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm.
Readers of all ages are welcome to come and celebrate the launch of I Am Beautiful: When I Look at Me, I See... at the Toronto Urban Book Expo; this event is free of charge.
For more information about Simone Da Costa, please visit http://www.simonedacosta.com. For additional details about the Toronto Urban Book Expo, please visit http://www.kyapublishing.com.
Posted by Kya Publishing at 1:22 PM
Labels: Book Launch, Canadian Authors, Simone Da Costa, Toronto Urban Book Expo
http://kyapublishing.blogspot.ca/2014...
December 7, 2014
Re-release of Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm
Before the formal release date of Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm, interested buyers can now purchase the book on the Tate Publishing website- see link below.https://www.tatepublishing.com/bookst...
August 20, 2014
eBook
NOW ON SALE!
Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm now available in eBook on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Emily-Roses-Day...
Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm now available in eBook on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Emily-Roses-Day...
August 5, 2014
Congratulations!
Winners of Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm book giveaway.
Jennifer
Dee
Joelene
Laureen
Megan
Julie
Lindsay
Jennifer
Dee
Joelene
Laureen
Megan
Julie
Lindsay
July 22, 2014
On Sale!
Colouring and Activity Book: Based on 'A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book About Animals from A to Z' is currently on sale for $6.99 plus shipping and handling.
For more information on how to purchase, please visit: http://simonedacosta.com/?p=3761
or visit Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Colouring-Activ...
Thank you!
For more information on how to purchase, please visit: http://simonedacosta.com/?p=3761
or visit Amazon at:
http://www.amazon.com/Colouring-Activ...
Thank you!
July 10, 2014
Here is your chance to 'Ask the Author'
Would you like to ask me a question about my latest children's book, 'Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm' or about writing? If so, I will be answering questions this week on Goodreads, as apart of the book giveaway. So, join in on the fun and send me your question(s).
Giveaway
The book giveaway for 'Emily-Rose's Day at the Farm' will start on July 7 and will run for three weeks. A supply of 7 books will be given to the selected winners at the end of the giveaway on July 31, 2014 at Goodreads' discretion.
Thank you in advance for your interest in this book giveaway, good luck!
Thank you in advance for your interest in this book giveaway, good luck!
May 15, 2014
Blog Talk Radio Show Called "Stories from Unknown Authors"
My interview on Stories from Unknown Authors" hosted by award winning children's author Renee Hand.
Have a listen...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/storiesf...
Have a listen...
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/storiesf...
Article on Society's Obsession with Beauty
There is a lot of pressure in society to look beautiful. It seems that being beautiful today is based on our outer appearance as opposed to the beauty of our hearts. With all the beauty ads, flawless airbrushed models in magazines, beautiful celebrities who have been primed, probed, Botox-inflated and filled with 20 units of ReJuveDerme (Juvéderm) or more to look drop-dead gorgeous, it’s nearly impossible to retreat from the pressure to look beautiful. Have we all bought into this misconception or scam because we think it promises better economic opportunities, happiness, a wealthy husband or wife, fame, success or freedom? If so, where did this all come from?
What happened to the days of old when we were largely influenced by people of good character and charisma; someone of substance, kind-heartedness and wit? Is that not important anymore? Has beauty become like a thief in the night that snatches our innocence, our inner being, our inner beauty and replaces it with a sea full of lies: vain, judgmental, self-absorbed, conceited, arrogant, egotistical and narcissistic attitudes? I ask these questions because each and every day the obsession with wanting to look beautiful has completely taken over our lives and our thought processes. We see it manifest daily on TV shows like Skin Deep, Vanity Insanity and the great influx of popular reality shows.
It would be dishonest of me to say that it has not influenced my thinking in some part or parcel—how could it not? We live in a world with this magical make-believe craze to always have a picture-perfect image when we should be advocating a societal notion to have a picture-perfect character, thus loving ourselves despite our flaws and imperfections. Now, don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with wanting to look beautiful or even enhancing your features in some way if this is what makes you truly happy and if you are truly doing it for yourself and not to appease others. However, there is a problem when you become obsessed, allowing vanity to take over your entire life.
When I look around, I see beauty in many different things: people, animals, places and objects, and I appreciate the comeliness of their characteristics. The loveliness of different cultures, races, ethnicity and the many multi-cultural blends and mixes. I often think to myself that it is the dissimilarities within an individual, person or race of people that make us who we are and I value these differences. Whether born of African, Aboriginal, European, Asian or South Asian ancestry, beauty in each heritage is what we as a society should try to embrace and welcome as opposed to promoting an ideal image of what being beautiful should be.
We’ve all heard the old adage, “beauty is only skin deep”—but is it really? This notion of inner beauty is light years away from the well-rehearsed beauty image of today which is based on the typical features of the elite, the favoured, those of European decent with Caucasian attributes such as blonde hair and blues eyes while all else are deemed as unattractive or described as having “exotic features.” Spreading such contagious propaganda permits a standard of beauty that causes resentment and dissatisfaction when not achieved and when individuals do not fit the ideal societal beauty image some are often ostracized within their communities. So I ask who is to stop this make-believe perception?
Well, I’ll tell you who…everyone is held partly accountable. We live in this society, we make up society, we are society, it starts with us. As such, it is our duty to instill in our children during their fundamental years how important it is to love themselves and be comfortable in their own skin. Educating them about the different cultures, races and ethnicities that make us all different with beautiful features instead of focusing on what others believe is beautiful. We are all beautiful no matter what anyone says, no matter what society feeds us. It is up to each individual person to decide what will be ingested into the spirit and what he or she will believe as a result of that ingestion.
http://thecaribbeancurrent.com/societ...
- Simone Da Costa
What happened to the days of old when we were largely influenced by people of good character and charisma; someone of substance, kind-heartedness and wit? Is that not important anymore? Has beauty become like a thief in the night that snatches our innocence, our inner being, our inner beauty and replaces it with a sea full of lies: vain, judgmental, self-absorbed, conceited, arrogant, egotistical and narcissistic attitudes? I ask these questions because each and every day the obsession with wanting to look beautiful has completely taken over our lives and our thought processes. We see it manifest daily on TV shows like Skin Deep, Vanity Insanity and the great influx of popular reality shows.
It would be dishonest of me to say that it has not influenced my thinking in some part or parcel—how could it not? We live in a world with this magical make-believe craze to always have a picture-perfect image when we should be advocating a societal notion to have a picture-perfect character, thus loving ourselves despite our flaws and imperfections. Now, don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with wanting to look beautiful or even enhancing your features in some way if this is what makes you truly happy and if you are truly doing it for yourself and not to appease others. However, there is a problem when you become obsessed, allowing vanity to take over your entire life.
When I look around, I see beauty in many different things: people, animals, places and objects, and I appreciate the comeliness of their characteristics. The loveliness of different cultures, races, ethnicity and the many multi-cultural blends and mixes. I often think to myself that it is the dissimilarities within an individual, person or race of people that make us who we are and I value these differences. Whether born of African, Aboriginal, European, Asian or South Asian ancestry, beauty in each heritage is what we as a society should try to embrace and welcome as opposed to promoting an ideal image of what being beautiful should be.
We’ve all heard the old adage, “beauty is only skin deep”—but is it really? This notion of inner beauty is light years away from the well-rehearsed beauty image of today which is based on the typical features of the elite, the favoured, those of European decent with Caucasian attributes such as blonde hair and blues eyes while all else are deemed as unattractive or described as having “exotic features.” Spreading such contagious propaganda permits a standard of beauty that causes resentment and dissatisfaction when not achieved and when individuals do not fit the ideal societal beauty image some are often ostracized within their communities. So I ask who is to stop this make-believe perception?
Well, I’ll tell you who…everyone is held partly accountable. We live in this society, we make up society, we are society, it starts with us. As such, it is our duty to instill in our children during their fundamental years how important it is to love themselves and be comfortable in their own skin. Educating them about the different cultures, races and ethnicities that make us all different with beautiful features instead of focusing on what others believe is beautiful. We are all beautiful no matter what anyone says, no matter what society feeds us. It is up to each individual person to decide what will be ingested into the spirit and what he or she will believe as a result of that ingestion.
http://thecaribbeancurrent.com/societ...
- Simone Da Costa
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