Tag: American History

Promoting Your Books

by sarahsbookreflections, posted in Uncategorized

All writers, but especially those of us who publish our own books, are always looking for inexpensive but effective ways to promote them. So I thought I’d give Mike Briggs of Central Valley Talk a try. I was quite pleased with the outcome, which you can view through this link:

Here is the link for getting on his program. https://centralvalleytalk.com/showinformation.html

Once you apply to be on his show, you will be given the details on what information to send and how to send it. The interview connection is through Zoom, but I don’t know if there is another option if you don’t have Zoom. You may send images of your book covers and a few other relevant images, but there is a limit of ten photos.

Doing the interview is free, but if you want to send it out to your readers and others, you’ll have to spend some money. I chose the $45 version, but I expect you get much more for the $100 version.

I would be happy to do more interviews when my next book, Bad Hair Day, is ready later this year. Thanks for reading my blog. I hope life is treating you well. Happy writing to you. Sarah.

A Special Book for Us All

by sarahsbookreflections, posted in Children's Book Reviews, Non-fiction

You Call This Democracy?

Elizabeth Rusch

The subtitle of this thought-provoking book is “How to Fix Our Government and Deliver Power to the People”. Whatever your political bent this book will make you think carefully about how our system of government works and whether things could or should be changed to make it better. For instance, should we continue to have an Electoral College decide who wins a presidential race? Or should we go with just the popular vote? Would that leave the smaller states without a vote. Hope about the way we hold primaries? Do the states that hold primaries later in the election cycle without a say? Should we lower the voting age to 16 or 17? The book is full of statistics and graphs and other visuals. The various gradations of grey on the maps will be, hopefully, better defined in the final copy of the book. It’s a bit hard to discern the various gradations of gray in this advance reading copy. Take your time reading this book and be prepared to research some of her statements.  It’s the kind of book that the reader will want to tell friends and others about. It’s especially important for young people and people applying for citizenship to read, but everyone else would benefit from reading it.

BIBLIO: March 2020, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ages 10+, $9.99.

REVIEWER: Sarah Maury Swan

FORMAT: Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9780358387428