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FORWARD TO OTHER READERS AND WRITERS VISIT OUR WEBSITE: HTTP://MOTOWNWRITERS.COM Check out Events Hosted By The Essence of Motown Writers Alliance & Motown Writers Network http://www.eventbrite.com/rss/user_list_events/18647626 If you have trouble accessing any links or titles, please go directly to our blog @ http://motownwriters.blogspot.com Poetry~ You Are Beautiful by Rosalind Y. Tompkins Posted: 31 May 2010 09:12 PM PDT http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rosalindytompkins/2010/06/01/beautiful-women-series-jada-collinsSEE EVENTS BY ESSENCE OF MOTOWN LITERARY NETWORK | Click Here!Visit our website for featured authors! The Last Ten Days have been incredible! Check out videos, photos and the new P Magazine! Posted: 31 May 2010 03:20 PM PDT Whew, a lot has been going on lately! I wanted to recap all the exciting things that has been going on in the world of Pam Perry, Fabulous PR Coach! . The National Black Book Festival It was in Houston and met authors from all other the country. I was part of a panel discussion on Book Promotion Today (using social media, of course). See the photos from this event and some videos June 5 FREE WORKSHOP Author Seminar - Ministry Marketing Solutions Presents...... and featuring authors Kim Brook/Ty Adams IN DETROIT! Posted: 31 May 2010 10:25 AM PDT Speaker – Ms. Pam Perry , PR Coach & Social Media Expert Plus best-selling authors: Kim Brooks and Ty Adams (signing books and discussing their writing careers) Date: Saturday, June 5 from 1 to 3 pm Dicksons Bible & Bookstore 13743 Woodward Ave. Topic  How to Build Your Author Platform  to have Massive Sales once the book is released! Will discuss in this FREE seminar: 1.  How Michigan Literary Radio Show 6/2: Diamonds and Mommies | JOIN US! 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June 5 FREE WORKSHOP Author Seminar - Ministry Marketing Solutions Presents...... and featuring authors Kim Brook/Ty Adams IN DETROIT! Michigan Literary Radio Show 6/2: Diamonds and Mommies | JOIN US! AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Deborah K. Frontiera, author of Living on Sisu A Marketing Expert /LULU Webinar University Partnership with free classes EVENT: KIDS READ COMIC CONVENTION @ DEARBORN PUBLIC LIBRARY JUNE 13TH Miss Mary Mack from Chelsea District Library Mark Twain Elementary in Detroit wins library makeover SCHOLARSHIP ESSAY CONTEST OFFERED TO YOUNG WOMEN Novi Public Library Newsletter Michigan Women's Media: It's a launch! | Plus Author, Cindy LaFerle RT @mashable HOW TO: Target Social Media Influencers to Boost Traffic and Sales Book Club Forming in Midtown Detroit Black Water Rising by Attica Locke Saturday, June 19th from 2-4 p.m. Adversity the Road to Advantage...with Author Ken Brown How do you promote your book without drowning in frustration? You engage a professional Book PR Coach If you have trouble accessing any links or titles, please go directly to our blog @ http://motownwriters.blogspot.com AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: Deborah K. Frontiera, author of Living on Sisu May 31, 2010 — sylviahubbard1 | Edit Book Title and ISBN: Living on Sisu: The 1913 Union Copper Strike Tragedy 978-0-9820278-5-1 Author Name: Deborah K. Frontiera Author's Website www.authorsden.com/deborahkfrontiera 100 word Synopsis To twelve-year-old Emma Niemi, life may be hard, but it is basically good. She has finished sixth grade and is nearly a young lady. Her father pushes tram cars full of copper ore in a Calumet and Hecla Mine and has saved almost enough money to buy land for a farm. In the summer of 1913, Emma's life, and the lives of everyone in the region, will be changed forever by a violent strike against the mining companies in Houghton and Keweenaw Counties in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A friend whose father is not on strike will be forbidden to talk to her. Another will die in the terrible Italian Hall Tragedy on Christmas Eve. Only the character trait the Finnish people call "sisu" will help her and others in the region live through this terrible tragedy. Genre of book: historical fiction for grades 4-8 and up How do you come up with story ideas and characters? I grew up in The Copper Country hearing the "myths" of the Italian Hall Tragedy. My father taught at MTU and ran a bottle gas business. My grandfather, who grew up in the area and received a degree from The Michigan College of Mines (one of MTU's former names) was a mining engineer who, although not involved in any side of the strike, returned to the area a year or so later. I had friends of Finnish descent whose families farmed the Trap Rock Valley. The idea of doing a story of "The Strike" from a young person's point of view came to me the summer I attended the premier of the opera, Children of the Keweenaw, at the restored Calumet Theater. Discovering that, while there are many non-fiction books for adults on this subject, there was little to nothing still in print for young people on this important part of Michigan history took the project from "idea" to reality. "Emma" is a compilation of several real people's experiences. Three years of research, two years of writing, several years of rejection later, I finally found a publisher willing to take a chance on it. Its "partner", Copper Country Chronicler: The Best of J. W. Nara (coffee table book of historical photographs) grew out of discovering that most of the photos I wanted to use in Living on Sisu were Nara photos. MTU archives and the photographer's grandson, Dr. Robert Nara, worked with me to complete that project. 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