Flamethrower at the Ready
Honored to have my article “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” about Angie Smibert’s Memento Nora Project and the need for flamethrowers in children’s book promotion in Hunger Mountain: The VCFA Journal of the Arts. Excerpt “Feeling a bit dystopic these days? On my worst days, I can go from reading the newspaper in the morning to reading a dystopian YA novel in the evening and find comfort only in my foresight—foresight that the world is simply headed along its forecasted fictional trajectory. Between those “end of the...
Read MoreRecycle the Dead
Events are tricky. How to make the event experiential enough that readers want to share the event and book with friends and how to give them something to easily share with those friends. With the launch party for Mercy: The Last New England Vampire we nailed it on both fronts by recycling the dead. We invited back the lovely and haunting Emily who played (the dead) Mercy in the book trailer to stand beside a reproduction of her gravestone. We then we dared readers from the mist and fog covered cemetery launch party to step beside Mercy for a rather grave photo. See...
Read MoreMercy: The Last New England Vampire (The Trailer!)
We are proud to release our latest Curious City produced trailer. Share...
Read MoreHeart Burn
We could not resist merging our client Sarah L. Thomson’s novel about the true 1892 exhumation and heart burning of an accused 19-year-old vampire with the popular tattoo graphic of a burning heart. Yes, the giveaway for this book IS a temporary tattoo. Thanks to illustrator/designer Marty Braun for this beauty. Where can you sink your fangs into one? At the launch party for Mercy: The Last New England Vampire (Islandport Press) on 10/1/11 in Portland, Maine or ask for one (or more if you are a librarian) to be mailed to you here. Share...
Read MoreChildren’s Lit Party for Marriage Equality
Author/illustrator Charlotte Agell, Author Maria Testa, Curious City, and Zero Station hosted an event for fellow children’s book creators, publishers, librarians, education advocates, and readers to learn more about the effort to win the freedom to marry for LGBTQ families in Maine in 2012. WHY CHILDREN’S LIT? Opponents to marriage equality continue to use the picture book King and King (a fairy tale about two princes falling in love) as an indication that children are being inappropriately and dangerously educated. Children’s books a danger to children? Is there a way...
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