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Congratulations to our third and final finalist for the Outskirts Press 2023 Best Book of the Year award, Sarah Sebring Binder!
Her book is one of three finalists to be announced this week, vying for Outskirts Press’ highest literary honor. The first and second finalists were announced earlier this week.
Voting will begin on this blog (SelfPublishingNews.com) in a public poll starting tomorrow, Friday, September 15th, and will close promptly on Friday, September 22nd at 5:00 PM Mountain Time.
Everyone’s votes will help determine the winner of the $1,500 Grand Prize, along with a lot of bragging rights. So be sure to check out all the finalists and then vote for your favorite starting on Friday.
Allow us to introduce you to our third finalist…
The desert critters concoct a clever plan when Pack Rat’s wish is granted.
Book of the Year Finalist and EVVY Gold Medal Winner!
Every night, by the light of the moon, Pack Rat whispers to the glittering stars, “Star bright, star light, first star I see tonight, wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish I might find a treasure tonight!” When Pack Rat’s wish comes true and he finds a glittering, gorgeous star, he is ecstatic and takes it back to his desert palace. But oh no, Mrs. Binder is missing one earring—a very special glittering gold star, a gift from her husband. Cat helps in the search and then recruits the desert birds. “Meow, meow, have you seen a glittering star?” Roadrunner races here and there spreading the word. The doves coo and call a crowd. Cactus Wren twitters. Gila Woodpecker tat-a-tat-tats and knocks on Owl’s door. Red-Tailed Hawk squawks, “I know the rat who stole the star. Pack Rat dragged it to his nest, and now he’s taking his daily beauty rest.” Now Cat must concoct the purrfect plan, with the help of his desert backyard critters, to retrieve the glittering gold star.
About the Author – Sarah Sebring Binder
Sarah Sebring Binder has been an educator for more than 40 years, sharing her love of reading, writing, and storytelling. When not writing, she loves to garden, dance, fiddle, travel, and quilt.
About the Illustrator: Virgil Pedro makes his home in Arizona. He became interested in creating art when his daughter became an artist, and honed his skills by taking classes, attending workshops, and working in art studios. He and his wife enjoy spending time with family.
Congratulations to our second finalist for the Outskirts Press 2023 Best Book of the Year award, Carolle M. Dalley!
Her book is the second of three finalists to be announced this week, vying for Outskirts Press’ highest literary honor. The third finalist will be announced tomorrow.
Voting will begin on this blog (SelfPublishingNews.com) in a public poll starting this Friday, September 15th, and will close promptly on Friday, September 22nd at 5:00 PM Mountain Time.
Everyone’s votes will help determine the winner of the $1,500 Grand Prize, along with a lot of bragging rights. So be sure to come back throughout the week to meet all the finalists and then vote for your favorite starting on Friday.
Allow us to introduce you to our second finalist…
Technology enables a restructure of human thought that is generating a new version of humanity.
“A PARADIGM SHIFT” proposes that humanity is experiencing a transformation which can be seen in several areas of life including technology and psychology. While humans are using technology to perform tasks that steadily increase in complexity, technology is bringing about a restructure of the way humans think. Here is a sequence of events in the relationship between humans and technology:
When humans later interact with the digitized task, it brings about a restructuring of the way that humans think about that task.
The proliferation of human tasks being offloaded to technology enables an evolving restructure of human thought.
As technology digitizes increasingly complex tasks, the restructuring of human thought places Homo Sapiens on a path to generating a new version of humanity.
Trends in technology and psychology have a pervasive influence on the paradigm shift. Gartner Incorporated discerns a technological trend which goes from people becoming literate about technology, to technology becoming literate about people. Wolfgang Giegerich discerns a psychological trend that goes from consciousness growing by expansion, to consciousness growing by reorganization. “A PARADIGM SHIFT” argues that trends in technology and psychology underpin an overarching paradigm shift that is restructuring human thought, while putting Homo Sapiens on the cusp of generating a more complex version of humanity.
About the Author – Carolle M. Dalley
Carolle M. Dalley is a retired Information Technology professional, who pursues an interest in the relationship between technology and psychology. She is the author of “Psyche’s Response To Singularity”.
Congratulations to our first finalist for the Outskirts Press 2023 Best Book of the Year award, Marie-Paule Mahoney!
Her book is one of three finalists to be announced this week, vying for Outskirts Press’ highest literary honor. The second finalist will be announced tomorrow.
Voting will begin on this blog (SelfPublishingNews.com) in a public poll starting this Friday, September 15th, and will close promptly on Friday, September 22nd at 5:00 PM Mountain Time.
Everyone’s votes will help determine the winner of the $1,500 Grand Prize, along with a lot of bragging rights. So be sure to come back throughout the week to meet all the finalists and then vote for your favorite starting on Friday.
Allow us to introduce you to our first finalist…
An educational journey into the world of endangered orcas. Best Book of the Year Finalist and EVVY Gold Medal Winner!
Orcas Forever is the dramatized story of a true-life event. It opens a window into the hidden lives of the three Southern Resident orca pods that inhabit the waters called the Salish Sea between the northwest coast of the United States, and the southwest coast of Canada.
The story invites young readers to follow the orcas’ daily activities as they prepare to gather for a special celebration. They will learn about the sophisticated ways these orcas communicate, the importance of their strong family ties, and their unique culture playing out beneath the waves.
The Afterword highlights the threats that the nearly extinct orcas confront from human interference and how these threats are linked to some of our environmental problems.
Review: “An affecting and informative book about a remarkable set of aquatic mammals.” — Kirkus Reviews
About the Author – Marie-Paule Mahoney
Marie-Paule Mahoney was born and grew up in Brittany, France, and now lives in the foothills of New York State. She taught French at a Waldorf school and at the State University of New York. She wrote The French Connectionand is the co-author of En Français, both beginner courses for learning French.
When she retired from teaching, she took a greater interest in nature, wildlife and conservation. Her first book, Molly and Babou, was written with her husband, a veterinarian. She followed that up with Coco. The plight of the Southern Resident orcas inspired her to write Whale of Wonder and OrcasForever.
In teaching French and writing stories, she believes that both her passions are propelled by the same goal–to open windows to the world.
Every month, Outskirts Press reviews book sales to identify our bestselling authors! This impressive list showcases the wide range of genres and readership that our authors reach.
Here are the Outskirts Press Top 10 Bestsellers for the month of July. Click on the book cover for more information or to order.
Have you written a book that you’d like to publish?
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When you have a story—or history or cookbook or memoir—to share, you know that a big mental and emotional relief comes from just getting it out and onto paper. The life cycle of some stories stops right there.
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The year is 2020 and the people of the world are going through some of the most difficult times in history. Hospitals are full and every medical center in the world is overwhelmed by victims of the pandemic.
The world is fighting the Covid-19 and even Dr. Heed, The Eastman’s wife has contracted the disease and is quarantined. They decide to go to their Ranch in Spain for the duration. But, little did they know that there were people looking for easy money. And some of The Eastman’s old enemies were included, as were his old friends.
The most effective way to help people change is to understand how they adapt their behavior in childhood in response to the adults in their lives. That’s the premise on which Vann Joines, PhD, based his book Insight Out: The Six Personality Types That Hold the Key to Success in Your Life and Relationships. Once you understand the personality type that has been at your core since your youth, you can begin to put your best self forward and transform your relationships. After more than 50 years as a psychotherapist, Joines has written an in-depth yet accessible step-by-step guide to achieving personal change and developing the kinds of relationships you desire.
Do you feel forgotten? Forgotten by your family and friends? Your hometown or country? Maybe even by God or love? Author Justin Israel understands. After his military service in the US Air Force, he became a contractor working in Iraq and Afghanistan as a firefighter. Then he came back home yet these high-risk jobs took a toll, and Israel didn’t feel supported, personally or in the bigger picture. He suffered from PTSD, and watching society strain under political in-fighting didn’t help. What started as a coping strategy-writing about his experiences and feelings-has become a book, Penning Patience, that Israel hopes will help others remember that you have not been forgotten, no matter how dark it may seem because through the Lord, you too can overcome any tribulation.
Vietnam and shocks of the day commanded the headlines for a decade from the mid-sixties into the seventies. A few other things were going on as well; tectonic shifts of the American Landscape rumbled below. The characters in Nineveh find themselves neck deep in a whole lot of other. Set principally in the summers of ‘69 -‘71, with an epilogue set an indeterminate time after the conclusion of the main story, Nineveh portends the future by bringing the past back for a visit. Stylistically, the novel presents as late 20th Century American hewing to traditional conventions of structure. Dialogue is the preferred medium for bringing the characters and story to the reader. A large Nineteenth Century summer house on fictional Lake Nineveh is the principal setting, and the bucolic resort hamlets and one-factory towns are about to be subsumed by the wave of development bearing down on their way of life. Locals deliver large characters brimming with personality but disgruntled as thoroughly modern Babbits invade the environs. As new pharmacies of fun sprang up, those so inclined seized the moment. Erik Frinjuhr’s group of hale fellows better not met incline and indulge. Romps and parties and the emergent recreational drug market before Big Brother had lightened up are captured in sense-around prose and dialogue inviting vicarious participation. As usual, the young women are a step ahead in gaming the changing rules of the war of the sexes. Their varying strategic approaches to achieving romantic goals unfold with Machiavellian charm and weaponized caresses. Written in 1982 on a manual Smith Corona typewriter, the substance of the original manuscript has been maintained through periodic edits, the last of which brought the novel to publication in its present form. The author’s early childhood was spent in Minneapolis. He moved with his family to Lake Minnetonka west of the Twin Cities in the ‘60’s. The author attended and graduated from the public schools of Mound, Minnesota, and is a graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota Law School. He resides in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
