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June 6, 2013
Free Kindle Edition Get it while it's hot!
Our last Kindle Free Promo did so well, that we decided to do it again! This time for two full days. You heard it here first.
June 7th, and Saturday June 8th stop by Amazon.com to get a free Kindle copy of Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey.
Just our way of showing our appreciation for all the terrific reviews, support, and encouragement in the Goodreads world!
Remember : Tommorow , here's the link :
http://www.amazon.com/Denali-Skies-eb...
June 7th, and Saturday June 8th stop by Amazon.com to get a free Kindle copy of Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey.
Just our way of showing our appreciation for all the terrific reviews, support, and encouragement in the Goodreads world!
Remember : Tommorow , here's the link :
http://www.amazon.com/Denali-Skies-eb...
May 17, 2013
Saturday : The Book is Free
I wanted to post it here first . . . for my goodreads fans!
If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you will want to mark Saturday on your calendar. May the 18th, for one day only, you can get Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey for free on Amazon Kindle!
http://www.amazon.com/Denali-Skies-eb...
Just our way of saying thankyou to all those who have welcomed this little read with open arms, and open hearts! Have an amazing weekend.
If you haven't picked up a copy yet, you will want to mark Saturday on your calendar. May the 18th, for one day only, you can get Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey for free on Amazon Kindle!
http://www.amazon.com/Denali-Skies-eb...
Just our way of saying thankyou to all those who have welcomed this little read with open arms, and open hearts! Have an amazing weekend.
May 9, 2013
For reasons I do not know
For reasons I do not know, I felt compelled to switch my college major to social science. I should make what I'm trying to say more clear : After three years I knew I wanted to switch majors and get far away from Early Child Development. Why did I want to abandon my pursuit of ECD?
For one brutal reason. I did not want to join the ranks of those who exploit the industrialization of early childhood. Thats right, its a pretty label on an ugly thing. What exactly do early child developmental specialists do? Not much, kids usually don't recieve true intervention and resource support until they reach three, four, or five. This fact excludes or denies half the population regarded as the zero's, one's, and two year olds.
This group suffers silently often in cold, sterile environments reffered to as Daycares, which are really holding tanks. What happens in these holding tanks? A great deal of waiting and hoping. Anyways, I changed my major from ECD to Social Science for reasons I do not know. Social Science just sounded good, and promoted both a change and a challenge.
I didn't even fully grasp what exacty it was. It's the best major ever! If you write, you should drop your English major and shift over to Social Science.
Scientific applications and theories applied to cultural and behavioral data. Our history, our psychology, and our statistics are all balled up and stirred together. This changes the angles, merges the lines. Then we stand back and take a look at the whole thing. What we see makes one rethink everything they thought before.
For one brutal reason. I did not want to join the ranks of those who exploit the industrialization of early childhood. Thats right, its a pretty label on an ugly thing. What exactly do early child developmental specialists do? Not much, kids usually don't recieve true intervention and resource support until they reach three, four, or five. This fact excludes or denies half the population regarded as the zero's, one's, and two year olds.
This group suffers silently often in cold, sterile environments reffered to as Daycares, which are really holding tanks. What happens in these holding tanks? A great deal of waiting and hoping. Anyways, I changed my major from ECD to Social Science for reasons I do not know. Social Science just sounded good, and promoted both a change and a challenge.
I didn't even fully grasp what exacty it was. It's the best major ever! If you write, you should drop your English major and shift over to Social Science.
Scientific applications and theories applied to cultural and behavioral data. Our history, our psychology, and our statistics are all balled up and stirred together. This changes the angles, merges the lines. Then we stand back and take a look at the whole thing. What we see makes one rethink everything they thought before.
May 1, 2013
Giveaway Tidings!
What a fabulous giveaway. We had over six hundred entries - congratulations to the winners!
Now that all our April book promotions are complete and successful, I'm looking forward and focusing my energy to May.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions for May book promotions or projects, or even thoughts on Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey I love reader imput!
Watch for another book sample coming via blog in the near future.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Book Giveaway!
Happy Reading Goodreaders!
Now that all our April book promotions are complete and successful, I'm looking forward and focusing my energy to May.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions for May book promotions or projects, or even thoughts on Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey I love reader imput!
Watch for another book sample coming via blog in the near future.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Book Giveaway!
Happy Reading Goodreaders!
April 21, 2013
I'm so cold, and so tired.
I'm so cold, and so tired. I put my hands together to warm them. The chill in the air pricks and freezes, it torments my nerves. Paired with my exhaustion, the cold creeps in and I can feel it in my chest, and lungs, and down into my feet. It's this cold tired feeling that somehow makes me so deeply sad, I have a physical ache that penetrates right through me in a way that it chills my soul.
I think of myself. I can imagine myself so small and tired, outside waiting for a bus in the interior of Alaska, all alone in the darkness. This image I have of how I must look breaks my heart. What am I doing here? Why am I doing this to myself?
I think of myself. I can imagine myself so small and tired, outside waiting for a bus in the interior of Alaska, all alone in the darkness. This image I have of how I must look breaks my heart. What am I doing here? Why am I doing this to myself?
April 17, 2013
More from the book . . .
Even though I hadn’t quite understood, in a way I had uncovered a deep buried fantasy to trek the Alaskan landscape. This realization is stunning and hard to process really. In my young twenty two year old brain, I always concluded that to go to Alaska there would need to be some validated purpose. If I were a scientist, or a fisherman, or a photographer I would have a reason to go see Alaska. It had never crossed my mind that I could go to Alaska, simply to go. I am not smart, nor pretty, and not exceptional, and yet these are all conditional. I have chosen to be this way, and just as easily I can choose to be something else. A girl on her own, setting out, a lone traveler, independent and harboring fears worth losing sleep over. I feel absolutely drunk with the prospect of possibility. The afternoon was a steady blur of cake, coffee, a beer, some Advil for the headacheand an attempt at a nap, well wishes from aunt’s uncles and family friends. - Danielle Rohr Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey
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April 13, 2013
Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey
Saturday, August 24th 2002
He’s mine. He doesn’t know it yet.
I place my hands on his chest while staring intently into his eyes; he doesn’t pull away, as if I have challenged him.
The tight crowd squeezes in around us, this hides the fact that I have just walked up and pushed myself against this random man. Uninhibited, without any doubt, I lock eyes with him.
He’s doing his best to assess who, and what I’m doing. Only moments before I entered the bar, only to negotiate through the congested crowd, heading directly for him. All social rules and appropriate conduct melted away from my sincere and hungry expression. He is looking deep into my eyes, trying to make sense of this senseless event, and as he thinks his lips curl up at the corners “Was she on drugs?” “Do I know her?” startled and intrigued he tries to reason “Has she mistaken me for someone else”? I’m not on drugs. He doesn’t know me. I don’t think he is someone else. It doesn’t matter.
It’s him. I’ve never had a reaction to anyone like this before. Shy, awkward, and unpopular, this is not my standard behavior.
Under the pressure he cracks “Hi”. I answer sort of trance-like “Hi”. He tries again, almost laughing “I’m Ansell”. “Ansell, I’m Liz”.
What hold could this stranger have on me to persuade me to deviate from myself? Perhaps it is the soft caress of night which I have missed so dearly, or the threat of time closing in on me, desperate to take all that I can, before it’s gone.
He works on the river, he buys me a beer, and I can’t stop smiling.
Copyright © 2013 by Danielle Rohr
He’s mine. He doesn’t know it yet.
I place my hands on his chest while staring intently into his eyes; he doesn’t pull away, as if I have challenged him.
The tight crowd squeezes in around us, this hides the fact that I have just walked up and pushed myself against this random man. Uninhibited, without any doubt, I lock eyes with him.
He’s doing his best to assess who, and what I’m doing. Only moments before I entered the bar, only to negotiate through the congested crowd, heading directly for him. All social rules and appropriate conduct melted away from my sincere and hungry expression. He is looking deep into my eyes, trying to make sense of this senseless event, and as he thinks his lips curl up at the corners “Was she on drugs?” “Do I know her?” startled and intrigued he tries to reason “Has she mistaken me for someone else”? I’m not on drugs. He doesn’t know me. I don’t think he is someone else. It doesn’t matter.
It’s him. I’ve never had a reaction to anyone like this before. Shy, awkward, and unpopular, this is not my standard behavior.
Under the pressure he cracks “Hi”. I answer sort of trance-like “Hi”. He tries again, almost laughing “I’m Ansell”. “Ansell, I’m Liz”.
What hold could this stranger have on me to persuade me to deviate from myself? Perhaps it is the soft caress of night which I have missed so dearly, or the threat of time closing in on me, desperate to take all that I can, before it’s gone.
He works on the river, he buys me a beer, and I can’t stop smiling.
Copyright © 2013 by Danielle Rohr
April 11, 2013
This Weekend Only, Denali Skies is FREE!
I completely forgot!!!
For the next day or two, anyone with a Kindle can download Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey as an Amazon Promotion for FREE. If you have a Kindle, take advantage . . . its only available for a few more days! After this weekend its $3.99
via Amazon Kindle. http://www.amazon.com/Denali-Skies-eb...
For the next day or two, anyone with a Kindle can download Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey as an Amazon Promotion for FREE. If you have a Kindle, take advantage . . . its only available for a few more days! After this weekend its $3.99
via Amazon Kindle. http://www.amazon.com/Denali-Skies-eb...
Who Writes To Music?
I had a sound track I had built for my book, while writing it. These songs helped control my mood and keep the story consistant. Below was the writing process music list for Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey. Hoping there are those of similar taste out in Goodreads land!
Chris Isaak -Please
Eddie Vedder - Better Days
Matisyahu- Silence
The Beatles - In My Life
Hem - Half Acre
Michael Andrews - Mad World (for the final two chapters).
Jared Woods - The Hardest Part
U2 - With or Without You
Simon and Garfunkle - The Only Living Boy In New York
( I know, pretty nerdy ) but when writing, what works . . . . works.
Chris Isaak -Please
Eddie Vedder - Better Days
Matisyahu- Silence
The Beatles - In My Life
Hem - Half Acre
Michael Andrews - Mad World (for the final two chapters).
Jared Woods - The Hardest Part
U2 - With or Without You
Simon and Garfunkle - The Only Living Boy In New York
( I know, pretty nerdy ) but when writing, what works . . . . works.
April 10, 2013
The bold and brilliant Spring Light has laid ground for new fun.
Everyone forever associates Spring as a time for renewal, rebirth, and reivention. I can testify that this belief is alive and well in the Rohr household. Despite the lack of change with my very dedicated project of promoting my new book Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey, I am truly very faithful that it will find success and acceptance in this crazy literary industry. It seems books move through this mechanism in waves. Starting slowly, then building momentum, peaking with great esteem, until they finally come crashing down, dispersing among readers, reviews, and shelves at the local bookstores. I need to catch a wave.
My great comfort is that the book is steadily maintaining interest. Despite the fact its only a few people each day adding it, I am certain these small numbers will add up, and hopefully build and collect enough to create a wave!
My great comfort is that the book is steadily maintaining interest. Despite the fact its only a few people each day adding it, I am certain these small numbers will add up, and hopefully build and collect enough to create a wave!
