Honoring a Woman with a New Book

In honor of the birth anniversary of my sister, Lorraine Parent, I am announcing the paperback release of my new book:

Why choose today? Because Lorraine drew the COVER ART!  Yes, my amazingly talented sister gave me permission to use this drawing and I wanted to celebrate her gift as well as the gift of her life at the same time. Thanks Sis!

 A Haiku Perspective 2018 is a year of my life, presented through poetic observations. While it’s not your mother’s Haiku, each poem is laid out a traditional haiku format of 17 syllables spread out over 3 lines. Even if the poem is longer than 3 lines, it still maintains the 5-7-5 syllable line count for every 3 lines.

Those who have already seen this book, tell me they laughed, they cried and they went back and read certain pages over again just because. It makes me feel good to know that what I felt translated to the words and that the emotion with which each piece was created was relatable.

 What more could a poet ask for??  Head over to my Author Central Page and buy my book!  (gee, I guess I didn’t put that in the form of a question, sorry)  Seriously, this is my 12 self-published book and I am thrilled to add it to the family!

We invite to come by for cake and ice cream (chocolate of course) And we invite you to pick up your very own copy of A Haiku Perspective 2018

 

Books Make Great Gifts

Well, here it is…

CYBER MONDAY

and that means that millions of us will be scouring the internet looking for goodies for everyone on our holiday gifting lists.

I have a terrific suggestion!

Come on now, every one of us knows someone who enjoys reading.  What a fabulous way of showing you care, by giving the gifts of

ENTERTAINMENT 

ENLIGHTENMENT 

ENCOURAGEMENT

all wrapped up in a package they will enjoy opening again and again!

Whether you (or they) prefer paperback or Kindle, there are gifts a plenty waiting for you at my:

Amazon Author Central Page

Thank you for the support of not only my books, but literacy as well.  Because books DO make great gifts and everyone deserves a great gift! 

 

Birthday Wishes

As most of you don’t know (and why would you????) My birthday is exactly one month from today!  #GoMe

Year after year, people ask me, what it is that I would like for my birthday?  Of course I know they are referring to a gift of some sort and that is so sweet of them to want to do something nice for me to commemorate the occasion. So, this year, I have decided to take to guess work out of it by simply making my wishes known here and now…

I WANT REVIEWS FOR MY BOOKS! 

That’s right.  You can rest assured, I will be delighted, they will surely be the right size AND I will not be exchanging them for something in the kitchen ware department.

For those who already have one (or more) of my books, this is an easy enough gift to provide.  Simply visit  My Author Central Page

where you can click on the book icon and leave the cheery, enthusiastic, and encouraging review!

 For those who have yet to avail themselves of my expansive selection of books (insert visual here)

That same link will allow you to purchase said book (s) and then you can return to leave a REVIEW!  (see what I did there)

Of course, I am going to be making things a bit easier for everyone to enjoy this process as much as I will enjoy seeing the reviews growing. Every Wednesday, beginning September 27th and with the final book deal appearing ON MY BIRTHDAY, October 25th, I shall be offering a Kindle Countdown Deal on a different book. Each book will be available for one full week, at .99.

Be sure to check back here, every Wednesday for the special that week AND then scoot over to Amazon to fill your cart!  Of course you are welcome to purchase the paperback or Kindle versions of any and all of my 9 books, I’d be crushing hard on your forever, for that…  And naturally, a REVIEW would be the sprinkle on the cake of my celebration!

My Author Central Page

Oh, and for YOU who are cheeky enough to inquire as to “how old are you?”  You can buy and review two different books, thank you very much! 

 Thank you, in advance, for helping me celebrate. It’s always nice to remind my folks that all their hard work was not in vain.

 

A Treat to Celebrate National Read a Book Day – A Cover Reveal

Why didn’t the skeleton like the Jack-O’ Lantern? No bones about it! 

Yeah, well that’s what you get for allowing me to write Halloween jokes, okay!! I’d like to think my haiku is a bit better. I’ll just bet that if I combined haiku and Halloween, I’d stand a chance of hearing some screams.

of laughter, of course, or maybe a ghoulish grin or two? 

In honor of National Read a Book Day, I present for your approval… the COVER REVEAL of my next book!

Thank  you to Chris Graham for the amazing 3D version of my cover!  If you contact him, perhaps he can scare something up for your books…  http://www.thestoryreadingapeblog.com

This is a “Halloween story in words and pictures” of how the “creatures of the fright” occupy their time leading up to their big night. Naturally, when the pressure is on, they do a ‘fang-up’ job of tricking the little beggars into believing that their bark is worse than their bite.

Each year, the “Mistress of Halloween” (they say, she’s a dead ringer for my sister, Lorraine) proves herself worthy of the title of Diva of Decorating and transforms our front yard into sea of spooky. The little ones have been to known to stop smack in their tracks when greeted by snakes slithering on their path but it’s the life size rubber rats, with gnarly fangs that really give them pause. You would think with the disembodied heads hanging around, they wouldn’t stand a ghost of a chance of getting near the candy but we run out every year. Of candy, not kids…

Watch for the forthcoming announcement of BooKu, Halloween haiku coming to life soon on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats.

http://www.amazon.com/author/annetterochelleaben