By Shannon Yarbrough on January 31, 2009
Our birthday is March 1st, and you’re invited. But we’re the ones giving the gifts away!
Posted in Announcements, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged birthday bash, free books, free magazines, lulu author, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 6, 2009
Bathroom duty has been the subject of many books, mostly targeted toward children. Some of my favorites are The Gas We Pass and Everyone Poops. But just search the word “poop” at Amazon and you’ll find books for adults as well. Dan Marvin’s book, Briefs for the Reading Room, is one such book, but don’t worry. It’s not about what’s in the bowl, but instead is a book designed to give you something to read while waiting for the end result.
Posted in Anthology, Dan Marvin, Dan's Briefs, Experimental/Narrative, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged briefs for the reading room, Dan Marvin, flash fiction, Lulu, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, POD, print on demand, short stories, toilet humor |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on January 1, 2009
Opening the cover of Motherless Child – stories from a life is like arriving at Sarah’s home, where she welcomes you with that special brand of southern hospitality, invites you to sit down for a spell and have a nice tall drink of ice tea while she tells you stories from her past. Reading this book brought back memories from my own childhood of sitting in my grandmother’s parlor and having her tell us stories of life from yesteryear, while gently rocking back and forth in her rocking chair. I could almost hear the creak of the floorboards as her chair went back and forth over that well worn track.
Posted in Biography/Memoir, LK Gardner-Griffie | Tagged adoption, family, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, memories, motherless child, POD, print on demand, sarah weathersby, self published |
By Shannon Yarbrough on December 16, 2008
I’ve always been a fan of giving books as gifts during the holidays. An “orphan tree” at work, where you pick paper ornaments off the tree displaying a list of items wanted by a child in a local orphanage or care facility and purchase the items as a donation, has given me the opportunity to buy books for a child in need for about the past four years at work. Luckily, my niece also likes to read and books are often on her wish list as well. I say this because my most recent Lulu find, a book called Max & Huber by Dale Kilgore, would make the perfect gift for a young reader.
Posted in Childrens, Educational, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged children's word book, childrens books, dale kilgore, kids books, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, max & huber, max and huber, spelling books, spelling books for kids, word books, words and spelling |
By Shannon Yarbrough on December 6, 2008
Sheyenne Sheridan’s book, Simple Rhyming, immediately appealed to me because of my love for poetry. One of my first projects with Lulu was a collection of my own poetry spanning all the way back to grade school. Sheridan’s collection is a nice array of subjects, mostly school related, with rhyming meters that are indeed simple and sing song and would be easy for children to learn.
Posted in Childrens, Poetry, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged books for kids, children's poetry, kids books, kids literature, kids poems, Lulu, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, poems for kids, sheyenne sheridan, simple rhyming, tween reading |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on December 1, 2008
I first ran across Will and the Soaring Seed while reading some posts on the Lulu Promote Your Book Forum. I was not actually looking for books to review, but doing some research prior to drafting a post promoting the Where in the World is Misfit McCabe? project, which is featured here on the Lulu Book Review under the WITW is MMC tab. As I was reading through the multitude of posts plugging authors’ work, I read a post by author and illustrator Devin Boone and his description captured me enough to click the link to take a look at the children’s book he was promoting. I was glad that I did.
Posted in Childrens, LK Gardner-Griffie | Tagged books for kids, children's book, children's POD book, devin boone, kids books, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, POD, self published kids books, will and the soaring seed, young readers |
By Shannon Yarbrough on November 15, 2008
There’s a door to a room in the back of my mind where I store thoughts and bits of information – historical, current events, song lyrics, words and their definitions, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, movie scenes, lines from a book, pieces of conversation, etc. – determined to use them in a book one day. I have a huge respect for the historical fiction genre and for authors who are inspired by pieces of history and creative enough to put them into fictional context. Years ago I came across articles on a steamboat accident that happened at the end of the Civil War and killed almost as many people as the Titanic tragedy did many years later, but it was clouded over in the news by the assassination of Lincoln. I’m still determined to work it into a novel some day. For now, it sits in that far away room.
Posted in Historical, Horror/Supernatural, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged 1746, Battle of Culloden, culloden tales, historical fiction, Jacobite, Jacobite uprising, james mccormack, Lulu, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, POD, print on demand |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on November 9, 2008
As a band member in high school every year I would attend band camp. While there are several memories that stand out in my mind from that time, the one thing that I could count on, aside from the inter-school rivalries that flourished, was that at least one night during the week long camp an argument would errupt over which religious denomination was better, Catholic or Protestant. Of course, at band camp the discussion usually included a third denomination of Mormonism thrown in just to keep the discussion lively. When I started reading More Than Dust in the Wind, these discussions came flooding back to me in full force, to the point where I could almost smell the camp fire as it slowly burned down to embers. These heated discussions would invariably take place at night and were usually ended abruptly by the playing of taps, which signaled it was time to go to our cabins.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Sports | Tagged donald james parker, Lulu, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, more than dust in the wind, POD, print on demand |
By Shannon Yarbrough on October 27, 2008
We’ve had a hauntingly good time this month, have we not? Not only have we covered a nice selection of Lulu books from the horror and supernatural genre, but we also added a new reviewer to the team. LK Gardner-Griffie is a fabulous writer focusing on young adult literature, and we are looking forward to what her fresh new voice has to bring in the upcoming months.
Posted in Horror/Supernatural, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged banshee angel of judgement, billy young, ghost story, haunted cottage, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, witch story |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on October 10, 2008
Let’s go back in time to the hey-day of radio when stories were read on a weekly basis and the family gathered around the radio to wait for the next installment. Or when newspapers or magazines published novels a chapter at a time. The speculation of what would happen next would be discussed with the anticipation mounting as you waited for the story to continue. Author L. Lee Lowe has brought this concept back with her young adult fantasy novel, Mortal Ghost, by publishing it one chapter at a time via blog. She then published the book in installments via podcast and as an e-book, and then finally as a POD with Lulu.
Posted in Horror/Supernatural, LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged l. lee lowe, Lulu, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, mortal ghost, supernatural |
