Reports from the publishing battlefrontUncategorized | Reports from the publishing battlefront http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish My Artobiography Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:32:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Copyright © Reports from the publishing battlefront 2010 tc@tinacollen.com (Reports from the publishing battlefront) tc@tinacollen.com (Reports from the publishing battlefront) http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Reports from the publishing battlefront http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish 144 144 My Artobiography Reports from the publishing battlefront Reports from the publishing battlefront tc@tinacollen.com no no Day 1 of my Virtual Book Tour http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/monday-jan-31-day-1-of-my-virtual-blog-tour/ http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/monday-jan-31-day-1-of-my-virtual-blog-tour/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:00:43 +0000 mary http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/?p=187 Join us on one of the stops and get a personally autographed memoir sent to you

Monday Jan 31 on the blog tour trail

Today we’re in Evergreen, Colorado for the day. Read Jim Ament’s review of Storm of the i: An Artobiography on his blog, http://www.jamesrament.com/ (Be sure to check out Jim’s other reviews as well.)

We invite you to take a few minutes during the day to drop by to say “hi” as I begin my tour of 10 blogs to promote Storm of the i. Each interview and review will be different, talking not just about the book, but what lead me to write it and the astonishing thing that happened in my life after I finished it.

We’ll also be giving away a personally autographed copy of Storm of the i for the “Most interesting answer” to this question:

Question background:
The inspiration for Storm of the i happened after a weeklong trip into the mountains several years ago. I walked in my front door, took off my jacket and hung it in the hall closet. On my way up the stairs to my bedroom, I passed a sculpture I’d made in my early twenties. It resided on a book shelf along the wall. I’d seen the piece thousands of times before—it had followed me to every apartment and house I’d ever lived in. This time, it stopped me in my tracks.  I could see, suddenly, that it was an archeological relic I’d been unable to decipher until that very moment. It was a message about me that I had placed there. Here’s how I describe that moment in the book: “There in front of me was the incarnation of longing. Though it has hands and feet, it has no eyes, no face, no internal organs. I could see that the figure has no self. Its insides are an empty space, a void—perhaps, waiting to be filled. And the piece was about me.”

Question:

Oftentimes the objects we hold onto contain cryptic clues that point towards something deeper about ourselves. Take a look around your house (or your room) at the things with which you have surrounded yourself.  Is there anything you are still hanging onto that seems to contain a hidden message for you? What do you think it is?

A personally autographed copy of Storm of the i will go to the person with the most intriguing answer. If you already have a copy (thank you), it would make a great present for one of your woman friends (or your mother or sister).
To purchase a personally autographed copy go to Storm of the i on the upper right side of this page. Include how you’d like the book signed in the comment box. Books are also available at Barnes & Noble, Borders and Amazon. If your favorite bookstore doesn’t have it on the shelf they can order it for you.

To see the complete schedule of the tour, click here

]]> http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/monday-jan-31-day-1-of-my-virtual-blog-tour/feed/ 4 What’s the difference between a baby elephant and Tina’s new book? http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/what-is-the-difference-between-a-baby-elephant-and-tinas-new-book/ http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/what-is-the-difference-between-a-baby-elephant-and-tinas-new-book/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 00:53:03 +0000 tinacollen http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/?p=60 A baby elephant takes 2 years to be birthed. Tina’s memoir took 5.

And now that the book has finally come out into the world, things are coming at me at a dizzying pace.  Storm of the i won the gold for both “Biography” and “Layout & Design” from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association for 2010. And I just got the news that the book is a finalist for a Benjamin Franklin award, the winner to be announced at a  gala in New York before BookExpo America (the big event of the year in the publishing world) which opens at the Javits Center in a few weeks. So Mark and I (my younger son and writing partner) are headed off to the big city.

I’ve been doing author events (Borders on the 29th Street Mall got the biggest crowd they’ve ever had at that store! I can’t believe it.) and I’ve been invited to do my multimedia presentation to 200-300 people in Denver this December! All this is pretty amazing to me but the emails I’ve been receiving from people that have had a chance to read the book … that’s what inspires me most.

I want to use this space to start a community of people interested in making their lives better by sharing their inner journey. The book is an opportunity to look within, a mirror. So let the conversation begin …

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