Got some great news today…
Most Barnes & Nobles stores are going to be carrying WAIW. This is really cool on so many levels. Now whenever someone asks me, “Where can I buy your book?” I don’t have to say “I dunno.”
It’ll be great sending them some place other than a website. While shopping online is convenient, it’s not nearly as much of an experience as strolling through a bookstore’s shelves.
I predict that the first time, if not every time, I find my book on the shelf in a store, I’ll be majorly geeking out….
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Keren Gottfried a student journalist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, is reporting on an interesting ethical dilemma on campus. The school’s book store is selling T-shirts for $10. Six of those dollars will go to fight cancer. That’s a great cause, few would argue, right? Wrong!
A group of students is questioning where the shirts came from and under what conditions they were made. Great questions, right? Right! The fabric was made in the USA, sent to Honduras where it was sewn, shipped back to the USA, printed, and eventually found their way into Wilfrid Laurier’s bookstore. Can all of that traveling be done for $4, some of which is profit? Maybe, but the labor expenses need to…
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Moonrat of EditorialAss is raffling off editorial services to raise money for a friend diagnosed with cancer. You can win advice on everything from a query letter to a full manuscript review. The deadline is tonight at 8pm so you better sign up soon if you’re interested….
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Two-and-a-half years ago, no more than 60 some posts into what is sure to be a lifetime of blogging (yes, this is a cry for help), I posted a rather mundane tid bit about Hummels. Since then, the occasional Hummel-o-phile (that’s what we’ll call them, sounds nicer than weirdos) stumbled upon the post and asked me for advice and then berated me when I did not get back in touch with them in under four hours:
Posted by Anonymous…
this web site is ??? i have had no response to my question, i don’t think you have anyone inquire about anything here since 2006, so i’ll move on, thanks for nothing
Thanks for nothing! And that means a lot from a person who has actually received a hummel as…
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I grew up outside of Union City, Ohio, a town one-quarter the size of Wasilla, Alaska, where Sarah Palin hails from. My high school was literally in the middle of a corn field. Once a year we had a drive-your-tractor-to-school day. I speak with enough twang that people often think I must be from the South. Heck, I wrote a book that featured 13 “fellas.”
As I watched the VP debate last week, I saw a little of myself and my neighbors in the way Palin spoke. Whether or not that I value being spoke to in a way that I can identify with or not is not important here. Let’s just say that when I talk in public I usually turn down…
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A UK site, The Grocer, reports on a recent survey with some interesting findings (I saw this first on Impacct Limited):
– 92% of consumers are willing to pay extra for a product perceived to be ethical
– 76% said they would choose products benefiting people rather than the planet.
– 65% of shoppers are prepared to pay an extra 10p (approximately US $174,762) or more, according to the report by market researchers Feel.
But before we put the British consumer on too high of a pedestal…
– 66% thought economic issues such as price and quality were most important, 23% said their priority was social issues and just 10% first considered green issues.
There’s nothing wrong with consumers putting price and quality first – granted, I would have liked…
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The USDA will soon require country-of-origin labels to be included on more of the food we buy at the grocery.
As someone who is more than a little OCD about country-of-origin labels, this excites and frightens me at the same time.
I’m excited that the grocery store is about to get a little more interesting, geographically speaking. But I’m frightened because I already spend more time than I should, jumping from wrack of clothes to wrack of clothes at department stores. Now, I’ll be doing this at the grocery, too….
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I wrote a short piece over at the BootsnAll Travel Network highlighting a few of the great reads that members have contributed.
If you don’t read it, you should have your passport revoked. Seriously, I’ve been in touch with the State Department and they are considering have this consequence included in the Bailout Bill.
Also, the piece reveals how you can get your hands on the first chapter of WAIW? for the cost of one email….
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