Stephani Maari Booker's Blog, page 10
February 28, 2019
Cultural Etiquette paperback now for sale everywhere!
Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned is finally available as a paperback, and it's for sale on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online retailers. You can even go to an old-fashioned bricks-and-mortar bookstore and order the book if you're hardcore about supporting your local bookseller.
It feels so good to finally get my late, great friend and fellow writer Amoja Three Rivers's landmark booklet back in print as an ebook and paperback, plus it's now widely available to purchase wherever books are sold.
The Amazon link for the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Etiqu...
Barnes and Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cult...
Lulu, the platform I used to publish the paperback:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/amoja-three-...
It feels so good to finally get my late, great friend and fellow writer Amoja Three Rivers's landmark booklet back in print as an ebook and paperback, plus it's now widely available to purchase wherever books are sold.
The Amazon link for the book:
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Etiqu...
Barnes and Noble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cult...
Lulu, the platform I used to publish the paperback:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/amoja-three-...
February 12, 2019
Secret Insurrection now on sale at Amazon!
The paperback edition of my science fiction booklet Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time is now on sale at Amazon. This is the first time the booklet has been available in any form on Amazon. The ebook has been available on Barnes and Noble online, Smashwords, Apple Books and other vendors since last August.
For the masses of book lovers who prefer to purchase through Amazon, here's the link to the book on their site:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Insurre...
The paperback is also available on Barnes and Noble online and Lulu.com:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secr...
http://www.lulu.com/shop/stephani-maa...
For the masses of book lovers who prefer to purchase through Amazon, here's the link to the book on their site:
https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Insurre...
The paperback is also available on Barnes and Noble online and Lulu.com:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secr...
http://www.lulu.com/shop/stephani-maa...
December 24, 2018
Cultural Etiquette on sale Xmas through Kwanzaa
Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned will be on sale at Smashwords from Christmas through the end of Kwanzaa (Dec. 25 -- Jan. 1). The ebook version of the anti-oppression booklet written by the late Amoja Three Rivers will be $2.50, 50 percent off its regular price, as part of Smashwords' site-wide book sale.
As publisher of Cultural Etiquette, I'm still working on getting a print version finalized. Proceeds from the ebook sales are going toward print book expenses and then to charity once that's done:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
As publisher of Cultural Etiquette, I'm still working on getting a print version finalized. Proceeds from the ebook sales are going toward print book expenses and then to charity once that's done:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Secret Insurrection is free for the holidays!
My science fiction novel sampler Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time will be free on Smashwords from Christmas through the end of Kwanzaa (Dec. 25 -- Jan. 1) as part of Smashwords' site-wide book sale.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
If you download the ebook for free and decide you like it so much that you want to pay the author good money for her work, here's an opportunity to do that: Secret Insurrection is now also available as a print book.
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback...
Happy Holidays, everyone!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
If you download the ebook for free and decide you like it so much that you want to pay the author good money for her work, here's an opportunity to do that: Secret Insurrection is now also available as a print book.
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback...
Happy Holidays, everyone!
October 11, 2018
"Cultural Etiquette" guest blogging for National Coming Out Day
"Corey's Book Corner," the book blog of Corey Alexander, a.k.a. writer Xan West, has published another guest post written by me. This time, I wrote the story behind my becoming the publisher of the new ebook edition of the late, great Amoja Three Rivers' pioneering anti-oppression booklet Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned. There's also a few quotes from the book and a little history of it and Amoja Three Rivers.
Once again, I thank Corey Alexander for being so generous with giving me space on his blog. Corey thought of this post as a good way to celebrate National Coming Out Day since "Cultural Etiquette" was written by a lesbian feminist/womanist writer of color and was a mainstay in lesbian/feminist bookstores for decades:
https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.co...
Once again, I thank Corey Alexander for being so generous with giving me space on his blog. Corey thought of this post as a good way to celebrate National Coming Out Day since "Cultural Etiquette" was written by a lesbian feminist/womanist writer of color and was a mainstay in lesbian/feminist bookstores for decades:
https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.co...
September 28, 2018
"Secret Insurrection" guest post on fellow writer's blog
Corey Alexander, a queer non-binary writer and educator on disability and sexuality who writes queer kink erotica under the pen name Xan West, has graciously given me space on their blog "Corey's Book Corner" for a guest post about my book Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.
In the blog post, I write about how Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl helped inspire me to write my novel as a tale of clones as "house slaves of the future."
Corey's primary reading and writing interests are erotica, romance and trans/non-binary literature across genres, so I'm grateful that they invited me to do a guest post on their blog:
https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.co...
In the blog post, I write about how Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl helped inspire me to write my novel as a tale of clones as "house slaves of the future."
Corey's primary reading and writing interests are erotica, romance and trans/non-binary literature across genres, so I'm grateful that they invited me to do a guest post on their blog:
https://coreysbookcorner.wordpress.co...
August 13, 2018
"Cultural Etiquette": My friend's great book is back in print
I had the luck and the privilege of being a friend of Amoja Three Rivers, the author of Cultural Etiquette: a Guide for the Well-Intentioned. Amoja published and sold the book the old-fashioned way: paying a printer to make hard copies and then selling it out of her home.
In December 2015, Amoja died after a sudden and brief illness. Afterward, her next-of-kin found papers in her home designating me and another friend of hers as custodians of her writings. Together, Amoja's next-of-kin and I fulfilled orders of Amoja's book with the last copies she had in her home.
Today, I'm proud to announce that the book is back in print as an ebook. It's immediately available on Smashwords and should soon be available on Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple iBooks and public library services like OverDrive. It's been a long and painful process with a lot of learning, but now Amoja Three Rivers' pioneering work is available to the world again.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
In December 2015, Amoja died after a sudden and brief illness. Afterward, her next-of-kin found papers in her home designating me and another friend of hers as custodians of her writings. Together, Amoja's next-of-kin and I fulfilled orders of Amoja's book with the last copies she had in her home.
Today, I'm proud to announce that the book is back in print as an ebook. It's immediately available on Smashwords and should soon be available on Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple iBooks and public library services like OverDrive. It's been a long and painful process with a lot of learning, but now Amoja Three Rivers' pioneering work is available to the world again.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
August 8, 2018
My poem reprinted for an online journal's annual print issue
Last year, Serendipity, an online journal published by the Black Lesbian Literary Collective and edited by S. (Stephanie) Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle, published two poems of mine. Now one of those poems, "Someplace beautiful," will be featured in Serendipity's annual print issue.
I'm so honored to have my poem chosen for publication twice by Serendipity, and I'm delighted that a fellow Minnesota writer I know, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, also has work in this journal's special issue.
Here's more information about Serendipity's annual print issue:
http://serendipitylitmag.org/currenti...
I'm so honored to have my poem chosen for publication twice by Serendipity, and I'm delighted that a fellow Minnesota writer I know, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, also has work in this journal's special issue.
Here's more information about Serendipity's annual print issue:
http://serendipitylitmag.org/currenti...
August 3, 2018
My first ebook as an author!
In 2016, I self-published a booklet with two self-contained, previously published excerpts from my sci-fi novel manuscript Secret Insurrection so I would have something to sell whenever I did public readings. Now I have taken the plunge and published an ebook version of that booklet, Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.
It's immediately available on Smashwords and should soon be available on Nook, Kobo, Apple iBooks and online public library services like OverDrive.
Formatting an ebook so it's good enough to be distributed by Smashwords to other retailers is not easy. Smashwords Style Guide by Mark Coker is intimidating to read, but I followed it to the letter and got it all done all by myself, even down to creating the cover. Now I feel a lot more confident in being a micro-publisher.
It's immediately available on Smashwords and should soon be available on Nook, Kobo, Apple iBooks and online public library services like OverDrive.
Formatting an ebook so it's good enough to be distributed by Smashwords to other retailers is not easy. Smashwords Style Guide by Mark Coker is intimidating to read, but I followed it to the letter and got it all done all by myself, even down to creating the cover. Now I feel a lot more confident in being a micro-publisher.
June 27, 2018
Travel journal publishes my "Postcard"
Wanderlust, an online travel journal edited by Sarah Leamy, has published my wife's photo of me on the shore of Gorée Island in Dakar, Senegal along with my accompanying poem as part of its "Postcards" series.
We were in Senegal in late January -- early February this year. It was my first overseas trip, and Gorée Island in particular is one of the few places in West Africa where the Maafa, the atrocity of the global African slave trade, is commemorated and architectural remnants of it preserved. This photo was taken not long after I had visited Maison des Esclaves, or the House of Slaves, which left me in tears.
By the way, my poem in the "postcard" is an absolutely true story! I will be mailing a PDF printout of the web page to my aunt :-D
https://wanderlust-journal.com/2018/0...
We were in Senegal in late January -- early February this year. It was my first overseas trip, and Gorée Island in particular is one of the few places in West Africa where the Maafa, the atrocity of the global African slave trade, is commemorated and architectural remnants of it preserved. This photo was taken not long after I had visited Maison des Esclaves, or the House of Slaves, which left me in tears.
By the way, my poem in the "postcard" is an absolutely true story! I will be mailing a PDF printout of the web page to my aunt :-D
https://wanderlust-journal.com/2018/0...
