Reports from the battlefront http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish Self-Publishing My Artobiography: Fri, 07 May 2010 01:42:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What’s the difference between a baby elephant and Tina’s new book? http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/2010/05/06/what-is-the-difference-between-a-baby-elephant-and-tinas-new-book/ http://www.tinacollen.com/bookselfpublish/2010/05/06/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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It’s available in the Boulder Bookstore (they are our staunch supporters and will take orders online and ship anywhere), on Amazon or at Art Review Press.

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