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This from my publisher’s (Magical Child Books) web site. They are giving away 4 books!
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Magical Child Books has turned two, and we are in the mood to celebrate.
Last month our first book ‘An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child,’ received the prestigious honor as a 2009 COVR Visionary Awards Finalist. As you can see, we have more than one reason to have a party!
You and all your friends are invited.
Usually when someone has a birthday, the people coming to the party bring the gifts. We’re turning the tables and flipping this custom on its head. We will give the gifts. You heard right. We are giving each of four lucky winners one of our four titles. That’s one ‘An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child,’ one ‘Aidan’s First Full Moon Circle,’ one ‘Watchers,’ and even one of our newest title, ‘Rabbit’s Song.’
You want a FREE book, don’t you? Well, yeah! Of course you do.
To celebrate Magical Child Book’s second birthday, we are holding a book give-away contest. It is easy to enter.
All you have to do to enter is post an announcement like this one on your blog. Include the youtube.com book trailer for ‘An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child’ in your post. Once you have posted the news on your blog, send us an email with the URL link and your real name. That’s it. You’re entered!
On August 11, 2009, we will announce the winner for each book. Winners will have 48 hours to claim their free book by emailing with their mailing address. If a book goes unclaimed, we’ll draw another name from all the entries. Help us spread the word. Post in your blog an announcement like this. Be sure to EMAIL contest (at) magicalchildbooks (dot) com your link and real name so we can put your name in the drawing.
You can link to this post so everyone knows how to make sure they are entered for a FREE BOOK!
And because we are in such a good mood, if you hurry and you have your blog post up by next Saturday, July 11, 2009, we’ll put you in for you an extra entry. Just for posting by Saturday.
Spread the word! Win a FREE book!
Please only post announcements in places that allow these kinds of posts, we don’t want anyone spamming in our name. Also, make sure to set the post to public so we can view it!
I am so excited I can barely breath.
I just found out my book “An Ordinary Girl, A Magical Child,” is a finalist in the 2009 COVR Visionary Awards.
All finalists and winners will be announced up on stage on June 27, 2009 in Denver Colorado during the INATS Banquet. Winners will be announced at the banquet. SQUEEEEEEEEEEE…..
I’ve been invited to be there to accept my award. I wish Denver was closer!
Oh my gosh! I can’t breath!
“Rabbit’s Song is an imaginative children’s book written in the style of a folktale…Vivid color illustrations (of a bright green rabbit, a red coyote, and their brown and deep blue avian friends) help draw young readers into this adventurous, magical fable.” – Midwest Book Review
I am beyond excited!!!
November update comes screeching under the wire
Posted by: Lyon
November 30th, 2008 >> Books, New Releases, Thoughts
Merry Hi Friends!
I don’t know about all of you, but my November has been quite full. In fact, it’s been so chock full it got away from me when I stopped to regroup. When I came up for air it was already the 24th!
The month started with my leap into trying to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. November is National Novel Writing Month. http://nanowrimo.org Thousands of aspiring (and published) authors from around the world drop everything to attempt writing a 50,000 word novel in a month. I didn’t make it this year, but my word count is double what I managed last year, so I am pretty pleased.
Next up, I was invited to be a guest speaker at the Annual Fall Conference of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Missouri chapter. I spoke about the process of creating art for picture books from start to finish. See below if you’d like to have me speak at your school, club, group or event. I hold workshops on the publishing process, as well as teaching Pagan centered crafts or workshops.
Right about the same time, I was given my first case as a Court Appointed Special Advocate. http://www.nationalcasa.org/ It’s a volunteer position, but a lot of work. I speak for a child in the foster care system to make sure his/her needs are met and that he/she is placed in a loving, safe and permanent home as soon as possible after being brought into care.
With the recent Thanksgiving holiday just past this week, it only seems fitting to thank each and everyone of you for supporting me in my dreams and career. Without your emails, comments and yes, book purchases, I could not continue to live my dream of writing and illustrating fun and entertaining books for children.
Yule is just around the corner, and many of us are tightening our belts until it hurts. Still, we do want to give gifts to our loved ones. Please consider adding one of my books to the list. Dollar for dollar books are a better investment than most other forms of entertainment. Do your part to help support your local
businesses and buy locally and through independent retailers and booksellers whenever you can. Magical Child Books has made locating your local independent book seller easy. At the bottom of each book’s web page (along side the link to amazon) is an buy Indy link. You click on the link and type in your zip code and the 5 closest book stores to you will be listed with all their contact information.
Below are all my books currently available on the publisher’s web site: http://magicalchildbooks.com, amazon and other online book stores or your favorite book seller.
AN ORDINARY GIRL, A MAGICAL CHILD
Written and illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
Magical Child Books — Trade Picture Book – Available NOW!!!
An Ordinary Girl follows Rabbit, a young Pagan child through the wheel of the Year. Readers follow along with her as she celebrates Wiccan holidays, rituals and spells.
AIDAN’S FIRST FULL MOON CIRCLE
Written and illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
Magical Child Books — Trade Picture Book – Available NOW!!!
An interactive picture book. With hidden pictures in the main story, children get to help a friendly squirrel gather acorns for the coming winter, all the while learning the basics of a Wiccan Full Moon gathering.
WATCHERS
Written and illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
Magical Child Books — Trade Picture Book – Available NOW!!!
Based on a poem by Kelley Magee, this book is a bedtime story filled with subtle Pagan symbols in the illustrations. The hero, Thomas, is worried about the eyes watching him in the dark. He hatches a plan to capture them only to find out what he fears is really there to protect him.
Due for release to booksellers in FEBRUARY 2009
RABBIT’S SONG
Written by S. J. Tucker and Trudy Herring; illustrated by W. Lyon Martin
Magical Child Books — Trade Picture Book
Is currently only available for purchase through the publisher’s web site. A limited number of autographed copies (S.J., Trudy and my signatures are all there for you!) are still available. Buy before December 13th to assure delivery in time for Yule gift giving. Plus, as a special bonus for people placing
pre-orders for Rabbit’s Song, you will receive a MP3 file of Trudy and SJ reading a special story available no where else.. This is a limited time offer and is only available for those placing pre-orders for the book. The MP3 file will be removed from the servers on February 14th, the official release date of the book.
At Magical Child Books you can see inside pages of the books, read reviews and even find teaching guides. You can even leave your own reviews in the publisher’s shopping cart if you want to share your own views on the books.
Freebies:
This month’s coloring page is “L” of the ABC’s of Lesser Know Goddesses. Leucothea is a sea Goddess known for fostering the baby Dionysus. Go to the group’s web site to download this and previous coloring pages. If your budding artist sends me their masterpiece after coloring it in, I’ll post it on my blog. (Please keep files under 1 MG please.) Remember the monthly coloring pages are archived at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/magicalchildnews/. Let me know if you have a favorite Goddess who you think will be a good addition to the pages. We are only half way through the alphabet, so any letters we haven’t covered (M-Z) are still open for suggestions.
Visits:
To invite me to speak at your school or event, learn more at
http://magicalchild.handcraftedpagan.com/workshops/ or email me at lyon@handcraftedpagan.com.
To view my current schedule of events, go to http://magicalchild.handcraftedpagan.com/bio/appearances/. NOTE: Due to my current involvement as a CASA, I am limiting appearances in 2009 and 2010.
Note:
Again, I appreciate your continued interest in the milestones in this amazing career of mine and hope you’ll invite your friends and family to learn more about my books and enjoy my free downloads by sending them to the links above. Of course, I don’t want to bug you, so if you’d rather not hear about these things, you can always unsubscribe. But I sure hope you’ll stick around to share
this exciting trip!
Bright Blessings,
Lyon
Children’s Book Writer & Illustrator
http://www.handcraftedpagan.com
A perfect gift for the little ones on your list
Posted by: Lyon
November 29th, 2008 >> Books, New Releases
I love getting emails from the readers of my books. It’s what makes this all worth while. Today, one of my newsletter members Magical Child News sent a request to update her email address and a short anecdote about how Watchers help her granddaughter deal with her fear of fairies. Notes like this make me and my husband go “awww.” Those little bits are just too cute
Oh! BTW! My 4-year-old granddaughter Mykayla is in love with your “Watchers.” In a weird twist, her mother painted her bedroom with fairies, and Myk freaked to the point of nightmares. She somehow became convinced that fairies were bad, and she was afraid of her room.
We read “Watchers,” talked about her fear, and she then became convinced that fairies and guardian angels are one in the same. I’m thinking that as misconceptions go, that’s one we can live with for awhile. Ha!Hugs,
Mari
If you’d like your own copy of Watchers, (or any of the other books) it’s available from the publisher (you can have it autographed!), amazon or your favorite local bookseller. Magical Child Books Store.
Mama Dragon aka Trudy Herring, the coauthor of our upcoming picture book “Rabbit’s Song” has graciously invited Trickster to use her livejournal page http://uglygrandmother.livejournal.com/ to record his diary of his search for animal representatives.
Read the story behind the story while you wait for your copy of the book to arrive.
This just in from Publisher’s Weekly:
As bedtime books go, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd (HarperCollins, 1947), remains one of the gold standards. But author/illustrator Michael Rex thought the classic tale could use a healthy dose of spookiness, so he set to creating Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody (Putnam). Apparently, plenty of parents and kids were ready to follow Rex down the parody path, because the book has hit bestseller lists and now has 100,000 copies in print, since its August publication.
Jumpstart’s Read for the Record is a campaign designed to bring attention to the importance of early education. By encouraging hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day, Jumpstart aims to break a world record and to make early education a national priority.
Children and adults will read together at events nationwide on October 2, in schools, libraries, stores, hotels, playgrounds, offices, and homes. This year’s book is Corduroy, by Don Freeman.
Proceeds from the sales of the book will benefit Jumpstart, a mentoring program that helps at-risk preschool children build vital literacy, social, and emotional skills. Jumpstart delivers a research-based, best practice curriculum to nearly 13,000 preschoolers in close to 70 communities across 20 states in America.
Learn more at http://www.readfortherecord.org
My new book, Rabbit’s Song has a book trailer. That awesome voice on the sound track you hear is one of the authors –S.J. Tucker.
I am truly excited about this project. It was so wonderful to be able to work with such talented and extraordinary ladies.
