Google Search - The Golden Pathway in the Top Ten

I am over the moon to share with you that The Golden Pathway hits the Top Ten in Google Search for underground railroad children's books and underground railroad children's ebooks...YIPPEE!

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The Golden Pathway #3, #4 and #7

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The Golden Pathway #8

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10. Slavery and the Making of America . Resources . Books for Kids
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Check out these books written for children and teens. Books For Elementary School Students AUNT HARRIET'S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN THE SKY by Faith Ringgold ...
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Take the time out to search the keywords for your book today and find out where it lands in the Google search engine.

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Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Award-winning Children's Author
The Golden Pathway ~ August 2010 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
http://guardianangelpublishing.com/pathway.htm

2011 Global eBook Award Nomination - The Golden Pathway and a word from founder Dan Poynter

M E D I A   R E L E A S E



CONTACT: Donna M. McDine, Children’s Author

Website: http://www.donnamcdine.com/

Email: donna@donnamcdine.com

Phone: 845-721-7802

For Immediate Release

DONNA McDINE’S CHILDREN’S BOOK, THE GOLDEN PATHWAY NOMINATED FOR A 2011 GLOBAL eBOOK AWARD

Tappan, New York – - Donna McDine’s children’s book, The Golden Pathway has been nominated for a 2011 Global eBook Award in the Children's Picture Books – Fiction category.

Journey along The Golden Pathway as McDine puts forth her unique mesmerizing voice where the depths of emotions spill forth from the pages and has you spell bound from the onset.

Synopsis
As one young boy struggles to come to terms with his father’s beliefs and actions towards slaves, he pulls from deep within his soul, courage and determination he never knew existed. Will David’s attempts to save Jenkins come to fruition or does David get caught red handed in defying his Pa?

About the Author
Donna McDine is an award-winning children's author, Honorable Mention in the 77th and two Honorable Mentions in the 78th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competitions and Preditors & Editors Readers Poll 2010 – Top Ten - Children’s Books category – The Golden Pathway.

Her stories, articles, and book reviews have been published in over 100 print and online publications. Her interest in American History resulted in writing and publishing The Golden Pathway. Donna has two more books under contract with Guardian Angel Publishing, The Hockey Agony and Powder Monkey. She writes, moms and is the Editor-in-Chief for Guardian Angel Kids and Publicist for the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club from her home in the historical hamlet Tappan, NY. McDine is a member of the SCBWI and Musing Our Children.

A word from Dan Poynter
"Everyone is talking about eBooks," said Dan Poynter, founder of the Global eBook Awards. "eBooks have reached the tipping point and are outselling books on paper in several categories. eBook are not replacing paper books; they are in addition to. The eReading devices such as the Kindle are increasing the amount of book reading."

Joseph Dowdy's insights: According to Joseph Dowdy, the Director of Awards, the category with the largest number of entries so far is Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Paranormal. The next largest number of entries are in Historical Literature, Autobiography/Memoirs, and Writing/Publishing Nonfiction. Dowdy observes that Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Paranormal is the hot topic this season. Many people are reading and writing in this area due to the phenomenal success of Amanda Hocking and her eBooks. At the recent San Francisco Writers Conference, this was the most popular genre.

The Awards have 79 categories in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, illustration, and multimedia. See http://awardsforebooks.com/categories/

The Global eBook winners will be honored at a star-studded ceremony on August 20, 2011 in Santa Barbara, California.

Visit The Golden Pathway at the Global eBook Awards: http://awardsforebooks.com/book-writing-contest/fiction-childrens-picture-books/the-golden-pathway to learn more about this fascinating passage through the Underground Railroad.

If you are so inclined, kindly vote for The Golden Pathway and leave a comment for Donna McDine http://awardsforebooks.com/book-writing-contest/fiction-childrens-picture-books/the-golden-pathway

Thank you.


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Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Award-winning Children's Author
The Golden Pathway ~ August 2010 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
http://guardianangelpublishing.com/pathway.htm

Westchester Reading Council Appearance a Hugh Success

For those of you who know me, it will come as to no surprise I arrived thirty minutes early for the Westchester Reading Council's end of the year annual dinner. Clara Kaplan, President of the Westchester Reading Council greeted me upon my arrival and we had the opportunity to chat for a bit and to get to know each other. And prior to member arrivals I setup my book display which included my media kit, book marks, postcards, and book trailer in the center of the display.

After a warm introduction by Clara Kaplan and Marcy Schickler, Treasurer of the Westchester Reading Council, I discussed my road to becoming a published children's book author and how important it is to teach our children about the Underground Railroad. Tying bullying into the theme. Bullying you may say? Consider this, the owners of slaves beat them into submission to suit their needs. Isn't the school bully on some level cruel like a slave owner? Seeking out an individual to tease and taunt and sometimes hit to make themselves feel superior? It's essential to instill in our children appreciation and tolerance of others and that it will not be tolerated on any level to be mean to others.

I also shared with the members that a teacher's guide covering Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science and Art activities is in the development stages at no additional cost to someone that purchases The Golden Pathway; and I would email or snail mail a copy to those that are interested. Every member in attendance expressed great interest in the teacher's guide and they all signed my guest book so that I can do so when available.

The Westchester Reading Council members are a delightful and welcoming group and the ease of conversation continued to flow with a Q&A session and then an open discussion on keeping our children interested in reading from the onset. Ideas and tips were exchanged. The hour prior to dinner flew and I completely forgot about showing The Golden Pathway book trailer and was elated to handout FREE cd's of the book trailer at the end of the evening.

To cap off the enveing, several teachers expressed interest in scheduling school visits for next fall and for Black History Month next February. Interest was piqued and the purchasing of books in hard cover, soft cover, and e-Book format flew off the tables. Yippee!

A heartfelt thank you to Marcy Schickler for arranging such a special evening!

Wishing you all a safe and happy summer!

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Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Award-winning Children's Author
The Golden Pathway ~ August 2010 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
http://guardianangelpublishing.com/pathway.htm

Children's author, Karen Coiffi-Ventrice visits The Golden Pathway

I am pleased to host author, ghostwriter, freelance writer, and 4RV Publishing Acquisition Editor Intern, Karen Coiffi-Ventrice to The Golden Pathway today. Phew...how does Karen wear so many hats effectively? Karen and I met early on in our writing careers at the Children's Writers' Coaching Club, where we both remain members. To watch her career explode into such a success is heartwarming indeed. Without further ado, I welcome Karen.

"Writing, Accounting, and Synergy"
By Karen Cioffi
In accounting, if you (the accountant or bookkeeper) are off even one penny, you have to search and work until that penny is found – all the income, expenses, assets, liabilities of a business must all sync at the end of every month, quarter, and year. You’re monthly trail balance sheet and the balance sheet, which reflects every penny in and out, must be perfect. There is also the reconciling the monthly bank statements.
The various data from every department, such as research and development, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll, must all be included in your trail balance sheet and balance sheet.
Writing, in some aspects is similar to accounting; each element of a story - theme, setting, plot, conflict, characters - must all work together to create an error free product at the end. In other words, they must meld together to create a coherent, engaging, and interesting article or book. The end piece must have proper grammar and the correct formatting. And, if something is amiss, the author needs to find the troublesome spots and correct them.

In both arenas, details are important, as is balance.

Suppose in accounting your accounts payable far exceeded your accounts receivable, or your liabilities far exceeded your assets. This would make for a dire situation, and one that would need correction.
Well, in writing, suppose you have wonderful characters, but they have no where to go; your story lacks an engaging plot and conflict. Or, maybe you have a great storyline, but your characters are flat, they have no dimension; these situations are also cause for alarm and need to be addressed.
In writing, it’s the combination of all the elements of writing that moves a story forward and creates a page-turning adventure or emotional tie to the reader. You may have a character driven story, or a plot driven story, but in both, you need all elements of the story to weave together, to create synergy.

Synergy is a great word. It means the combination, joined forces, or combined effects of individual elements which will create an end result that is greater than the sum of their individual effects or capabilities.

I actually like Wikipedia’s definition: “Synergy, in general, may be defined as two or more agents working together to produce a result not obtainable by any of the agents independently.”
This is what the elements of writing, joined together in just the right way, produces. Theme, setting, plot, conflict, and characters combine forces to go beyond their individual capabilities. The writing synergy process creates an end result that is not attainable by any of the elements independently.

Karen, terrific article thank you for sharing.
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Karen Cioffi is an author, ghostwriter, and freelance writer. For writing and marketing information visit Karen at http://karencioffiwritingandmarketing/, and sign up for her free newsletter: A Writer’s World. You’ll get 2 free e-books on writing and marketing in the process, and two more free e-books just for stopping by.

And, Karen will be having a July Book Tour featuring her new children’s middle grade fantasy book, Walking Through Walls, which is scheduled for release the beginning of July.

You can check out information about the tour at:

http://walkingthroughwalls-kcioffi.blogspot.com/

http://karencioffiwritingandmarketing.com/


Follow the Writers on the Move tour on Thursday, June 16 when Shelby Patrick hosts Carolyn Howard-Johnson - http://writershotspot.blogspot.com/.

Thank you for your time and interest.

Have a terrific day!

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Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Award-winning Children's Author
The Golden Pathway ~ August 2010 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
http://guardianangelpublishing.com/pathway.htm

Children's author, Donna McDine ~ guest speaker at Westchester Reading Council

Networking has proven to be instrumental in developing connections. On October 16, 2010 I attended the 15th Annaul Rockland Literacy Extravaganza at St. Thomas Aquinas College as a participant. In doing so, I had the honor of meeting teachers from across the Hudson Valley and Bergen County regions. Marcy Schickler was one of these teacher's and she recently contacted me to speak at the Westchester Reading Council's end of the year meeting on Tuesday, June 14th in Scarsdale, NY.

I have the honor of "presenting my road to publication" and to exchange ideas with attendees on how to keep reading as an instrumental part of our children's lives, especially during the summer months.

I am looking foward to sharing with you all the details next week.

Thank you and have a wonderful weekend.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Award-winning Children's Author
The Golden Pathway ~ August 2010 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
http://guardianangelpublishing.com/pathway.htm

Underground Railroad Children’s book, The Golden Pathway, NOW available on Kindle and iPad Kindle App

(Image from iPad Kindle App)



Just in time for family summer travel plans, Donna M. McDine’s children’s historical fiction book, The Golden Pathway, is NOW available on Kindle and Kindle iPad application. The illustrations are brilliantly vivid on the iPad Kindle application and will keep your children entertained and asking questions about the Underground Railroad during your travels and long after.

Visit Amazon and download The Golden Pathway eBook today:

 

(Image from Kindle)

Thank you for your time and interest.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Best wishes,
Donna M. McDine
Award-winning Children's Author
The Golden Pathway ~ August 2010 ~ Guardian Angel Publishing, Inc.
http://guardianangelpublishing.com/pathway.htm