A pause for applause
May 27, 2008 | 8:42 pm
May 27, 2008
A break here from my weekly blog to talk about the book behind it.
“Open Your Heart with Gardens” recently garnered kudos from the publishing industry. The Midwest Book Review, one of the prestigious reviewing organizations, released this commentary:
“Growing your own garden, raising the plants to maturity and then enjoying the spoils of your long, hard, arduous labors can create quite the sense of accomplishment in you — it can almost be explained as enlightening. ‘Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life Through Love of Plants’ is here to help those who seek this sense of accomplishment and enlightenment achieve those very feelings using the hobby of gardening. Promoting tips on how you can benefit from gardens emotionally even if it isn’t your own, the unusual quirks of gardening, and the other benefits the garden can promote for its’ gardeners. ‘Open Your Heart with Gardens: Mastering Life Through Love of Plants’ is highly recommended for both self-help and gardening community library collections, and for any amateur gardener hoping to get something intangible yet invaluable out of their gardens.”
Wow! Thanks, guys!
On the heels of this review, the Indie Book Awards announced their 2008 results — and OYHG was a finalist in both the Home/Garden and Nature/Environment categories!
(Fellow Dreamtime authors also fared well: Shawn Rohrbach won the Fitness/Sports/Recreation category, and finaled in Motivational, with “Open Your Heart with Bicycling,” while Janice Phelps Williams also doubled-finaled, in Animals/Pets and Inspiration, with “Open Your Heart with Pets.”)
Per the IBA website (http://www.indiebookawards.com): “The Indie Book Awards was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 70 different categories, for the year, and is presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (www.IBPPG.com) in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of Allen O’Shea Literary Agency.
Big score for DreamTime, having 3 of its authors place or win in 5 categories! Remember that DreamTime is only two-and-change years old.
For myself, over on the magazine side: my profile of novelist Archer Mayor will appear in the August issue of The Writer magazine. Mayor is the author of the esteemed Joe Gunther police procedural series set in Vermont. I recommend his books to anyone who enjoys high-quality fiction, especially mysteries with a literary texture.
Next week, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
–Carolyn
Posted by: Uncategorized, Pets, pet books, bicycling books, writing books, Something completely different, Publishing, Opening the heart, gardens, gardening, yard, plants, cultivation — Carolyn Haley
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Snowy Self Discovery
December 14, 2006 | 12:07 pm
As we find ourselves in the holiday season of the year, many of us experience the first snowfalls, think about the upcoming winter, and share the joys of home and hearth with those we love. For me, it’s also the time of year when my ski legs are really beginning to accelerate my own learning, the snow is getting better all the time, I’m reconnecting with friends I see mostly during ski season, and I’m finalizing plans for the various extended trips that I’ll take this year.
What about you?
Today I am deep in the middle of my coaching and consulting life, visiting a client in a midwestern town. But, after the storm earlier this month, there is a lot of snow on the ground, and I feel the tug of the slopes even in the midst of my conversations here. We talk about how the snow changes character over time as it slowly melts, and I have helped a friend consider the approaches necessary to ski in snow that has been tempered by 50 degree temperatures.
I’ve also been writing. You see, I’m the author of the upcoming DreamTime Publishing book “Open Your Heart With Skiing”. This book will be a great compliment to Lisa Marie Mercer’s “Open Your Heart With Winter Fitness,” and will provide an opportunity for you to consider whether skiing is a metaphor for life or life is a metaphor for skiing. Or, perhaps both simultaneously. So right now I am putting my thoughts to paper. Well, actually, to keyboard and screen. Thinking about how skiing wraps itself around skiers. Considering the life lessons that can come from it. Reflecting on the wisdom that I have gleaned from those who have coached and mentored me.
How about you? What are you doing this holiday season? Have you skied yet? When will you?
Let’s go!
Posted by: Uncategorized — Stephen Hultquist
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Principaled Profits — Business Ethics That Make Sense
November 6, 2006 | 11:09 pm
“Join the Business Ethics Pledge - Ten Years to Change the World, One Signature at a Time (please tell your friends), http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org.”
I saw this signature line on Shel Horowitz’s posts (see www.frugalmarketing.com for great books on general business marketing and his newest book, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers) on the publishing groups I belong to, as well as on his individual emails. I was always intrigued, but I just today took a few moments to check out his website.
As it turns out, the business ethics pledge is as good as it sounds. Embracing the principal of abundance, it states:
I pledge allegiance, in my heart and soul, to the concepts of honesty, integrity, and quality in business. I recognize that the cornerstone of success is treating all stakeholders fairly, with compassion, and with a commitment to service. Working from abundance, I recognize that even my competitors can become important allies. I will not tolerate crooked practices in my business, from co-workers, direct or indirect reports, supervisors, managers, suppliers, or anyone else—and if I encounter such practices, I will refuse to go along with them and report them to appropriate authorities within and outside the company. I pledge to support the “triple bottom line” of environmental, social, and financial responsibility. And I pledge to participate in a serious effort to focus the business community on these principles, by sharing this message with at least 100 other business leaders.
So, please take a moment to check out his website and pass the word along. http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org. The site promises not to sell your contact information, and this is one place you know they’ll keep their word.
Posted by: Uncategorized — Meg
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