Mother's Day Book Launch & Reading for My Mother Taught Me collection!
May 7th @ 2pm
Legacy at Clover Blossom
100 McAuley Drive, Rochester, NY 14610
Books will be available for purchase and signing by local contributors, including:
Ron Bailey
Krista Gleason
Karen Hockenberry
M.J. Iuppa
Karla Linn Merrifield
Jerri Lynn Sparks
Holly Strickland
Kay Vukosic
Sueann Wells
Celebrate the moms in your life and take home a copy of this and Sueann Wells' other edited collections of motherhood-themed writings by local authors. Gift packages available to make the mothers in your life inspired this year! Hope to see you there!
Email RochesterNYEditor@yahoo.com with any questions
My Mother Taught Me is now available on Amazon in print and eBook. Other distribution channels in progress, but meanwhile, YAY! Get your copy now. Free shipping for Prime peeps! Let's celebrate our maternal lessons. Great works by a variety of authors and photographers from around the country!
Also ~ Mark your calendar for Sunday, May 7th @ 2pm at Legacy at Clover Blossom for our Launch Party/Reading! Join us as we celebrate our mothers' lessons!
Copies of all Sueann Wells' edited collections will be available for sale at that event, cash and carry. The motherhood-themed collections make great gifts for the special mother or mother-to-be in your life. Package discounts and Gift-bagging will be available.
This book features the following contributors: Ron Bailey, Heidi Banser, Susan Baruch, Emery Campbell, Laila Suleiman Dahan, Nadine General, Krista Gleason, Christine Green, Karen Hockenberry, M.J. Iuppa, Karla Linn Merrifield, Jerri Lynn Sparks, Holly Strickland, Cyndalynn Tilley, Sue Vogt, Katelynn Vukosic, Kay Vukosic, Aaron, Kayla, and Sueann Wells
A special thank you to reviewers Christine Green, of the 585 Magazine, and Lisa Carley Hotaling, of The Narrow Pass!Also ~ Mark your calendar for Sunday, May 7th @ 2pm at Legacy at Clover Blossom for our Launch Party/Reading! Join us as we celebrate our mothers' lessons!
Copies of all Sueann Wells' edited collections will be available for sale at that event, cash and carry. The motherhood-themed collections make great gifts for the special mother or mother-to-be in your life. Package discounts and Gift-bagging will be available.
My Mother Taught Me Reviews ~ Anthology set to be released soon
My Mother Taught Me examines motherhood in all its complexities and nuances. In this
delightful volume of poetry and prose you can find mothers who were present and
mothers who were absent, mothers who laughed every day and mothers who cried
more often than not, mothers who raised their children all on their own and
mothers who had a partner by their side. The pages are alive with the diverse
mothers who gave each contributor their advice, love, and life-lessons. A great
gift for the new mother or for Mother’s Day, My Mother Taught Me, is a
lovely tribute to the women who raised us.
~ Christine Green, Literary Arts Columnist, christinejgreen.com
As
our nation struggles to find its way in an increasingly divided political and
cultural climate, perhaps the healing of our country doesn’t begin with simply
listening to those with whom we disagree or trying to understand different
points of view. We all know how good this sounds in theory and just how
difficult it is in practice. Instead, it is my growing belief that it is
mothers who can bring us together. As mothers, we are united in our wish for
the best for our kids, for being good examples, for pinning our hopes on a
future that offers opportunities for happiness and peace.
Sueann Wells has
brought together a collection of narratives, in prose, poetry, and photography
that remind us of the maternal thread that both tethered us to this earth when
we were born and cut us loose into an uncertain adulthood. In My Mother Taught Me,
Wells deftly weaves together disparate strands, of struggle with an alcoholic
mother, of resilience learned from a working mother, of the caution to trust
carefully and not with blind acceptance, to create a cohesive narrative made
all the stronger and all the richer for its diversity.
Anthologies that both
venerate and interrogate the maternal experience serve to bring us closer
together. Sueann Wells has not only bound us together through powerful maternal
narratives, she has reminded us that perhaps our best hope for an empowered
future rests not with shared narratives but with an appreciation that for some,
a walk in the woods may open up even the most closed among us; for others, the
refusal to settle for an unripe melon may just be the start of finding one’s
conviction.
~ Lisa
Carley Hotaling, Editor, The Narrow Pass
Book Packages Available
No matter what traditions you and yours keep, the books I have written and/or edited make fabulous gifts to those you cherish most! I have the following volumes available for purchase. I accept Cash, PayPal, (or Check from my connections). Signed inscriptions available. Gift wrapping is available for your convenience as well. Send me an email or message me with your order.
The first five editions are available individually at the prices listed, or ANY 3 for $30!
~ Add a homemade lavender eye pillow and gift packaging with local delivery for only an additional $10 (What a glorious gift for a new mom or a veteran mom!) ~
Mother Muse (2008, many authors, edited by Sueann Wells, purple cover) ~ Lulu ~ $12
Motherly Musings (2010, many authors, edited by Sueann Wells, pink cover) ~ Unlimited Publishing ~ $15
Awake Before Dawn (2009, FootHills Publishing, my original poetry on motherhood) ~ $14
Seasons of Life (2015, Lulu, my original poetry, a year's worth of linked cinquains) ~ $12
Midnight Summons (2007, FootHills Publishing, my debut chapbook on a variety of topics) ~ $10
Again, the above five editions are available a la carte at the prices listed, or ANY 3 for $30!
Free delivery within a 5 mile radius of 14472, or $10/shipping w/in US for unlimited copies.
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Also available are copies of the following children's books
$15 for one book, or $25 for two books, mix and match
Stone Soup ~ Suburban Style (2015, Lulu, my debut children's book with an anti-bullying take on the traditional folktale).
Dinosaur Parade (2016, Lulu, my edited, illustrated, published copy of Karen Hockenberry's debut children's book).
Again, Free delivery within a 5 mile radius of 14472, or $10/shipping w/in US for unlimited copies.
Email me at RochesterNYEditor (at) yahoo.com to order copies!
The first five editions are available individually at the prices listed, or ANY 3 for $30!
~ Add a homemade lavender eye pillow and gift packaging with local delivery for only an additional $10 (What a glorious gift for a new mom or a veteran mom!) ~
Mother Muse (2008, many authors, edited by Sueann Wells, purple cover) ~ Lulu ~ $12
Motherly Musings (2010, many authors, edited by Sueann Wells, pink cover) ~ Unlimited Publishing ~ $15
Awake Before Dawn (2009, FootHills Publishing, my original poetry on motherhood) ~ $14
Seasons of Life (2015, Lulu, my original poetry, a year's worth of linked cinquains) ~ $12
Midnight Summons (2007, FootHills Publishing, my debut chapbook on a variety of topics) ~ $10
Free delivery within a 5 mile radius of 14472, or $10/shipping w/in US for unlimited copies.
~~~
Also available are copies of the following children's books
$15 for one book, or $25 for two books, mix and match
Stone Soup ~ Suburban Style (2015, Lulu, my debut children's book with an anti-bullying take on the traditional folktale).
Dinosaur Parade (2016, Lulu, my edited, illustrated, published copy of Karen Hockenberry's debut children's book).
Again, Free delivery within a 5 mile radius of 14472, or $10/shipping w/in US for unlimited copies.
Email me at RochesterNYEditor (at) yahoo.com to order copies!
Motherly Musings no longer available through the publisher / Amazon
Hey there, y'all!
Happy Mother's Day weekend to you, first and foremost. I hope you all spend quality time with the important people in your lives, and take at least a moment for yourself and to reflect on what a journey (albeit rollercoaster journey at times!) you have been on.
Secondly, I must report here that Motherly Musings is no longer available through the publisher / on Amazon, due to low sales and too much paperwork on the publisher's end. However, yours truly has a stockpile. :-) Please contact me directly at motherhood2009 at yahoo.com to order copies directly. I have 20 copies left of this now-limited edition collection. $15/each, bulk discounts and shipping available for anyone more than 10 miles from my home. Please email what you need and I'll hook you up.
** Contributors and Potential contributors, I would also like to note that I have a specific-themed sequel cooking right now, and would love to open it up to submissions as soon as some of my stockpile of Motherly Musings and Mother Muse have been sold. It is hard to rationalize starting a new compilation project when I have not recouped my costs from the last one. (I make nothing on these work of heart collections!) I have several projects waiting in my heart and hope to make them realities, but if you all could please help me out selling the remaining 20 copies of each Mother Muse and Motherly Musings, I would so very much appreciate it! They make fabulous gifts for any mother or mother-to-be in your life! I accept cash, check, and PayPal at this time.
Happy Mother's Day weekend to you, first and foremost. I hope you all spend quality time with the important people in your lives, and take at least a moment for yourself and to reflect on what a journey (albeit rollercoaster journey at times!) you have been on.
Secondly, I must report here that Motherly Musings is no longer available through the publisher / on Amazon, due to low sales and too much paperwork on the publisher's end. However, yours truly has a stockpile. :-) Please contact me directly at motherhood2009 at yahoo.com to order copies directly. I have 20 copies left of this now-limited edition collection. $15/each, bulk discounts and shipping available for anyone more than 10 miles from my home. Please email what you need and I'll hook you up.
** Contributors and Potential contributors, I would also like to note that I have a specific-themed sequel cooking right now, and would love to open it up to submissions as soon as some of my stockpile of Motherly Musings and Mother Muse have been sold. It is hard to rationalize starting a new compilation project when I have not recouped my costs from the last one. (I make nothing on these work of heart collections!) I have several projects waiting in my heart and hope to make them realities, but if you all could please help me out selling the remaining 20 copies of each Mother Muse and Motherly Musings, I would so very much appreciate it! They make fabulous gifts for any mother or mother-to-be in your life! I accept cash, check, and PayPal at this time.
August 11 Book Signing & Reading
Please join Motherly Musings authors at Lift Bridge Book Shop on August 11 at 2pm for a reading and book signing! Spread the word!
Mother's Day Reading & Book Signing
Please join Lift Bridge Book Shop and contributors from Motherly Musings for a ...
Mother's Day Reading & Book Signing
Featuring work by Caurie Putnum, Christine Green, & Robin Flanigan
When: Saturday May 5th, 2012
Where: Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St., Brockport, NY
Time: 11:30 am
For more info email chrissygreenny (at) gmail.com or motherhood2009 (at) yahoo.com