She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood was a USA Book News finalist for poetry and honored by the Military Writers Society of America. The idea is that these little books of about 35 pages can be popped into a greeting-card sized envelope or send as greeting cards by e-mail.

Kristin Johnson, screenwriter and founder of the Warrior Poets Project says, “[Both] poets continue to write poems that don’t sound either like banal Hallmark cards or the bitter-at-dysfunctional-family jeremiads that habitually torture MFA writing workshop participants.”

She Wore Emerald Then is available as both an e-chapbook and paperback and is illustrated with tender photographs by May Lattanzio. As it happens, it was released the week of the death of Carolyn’s mother—a fitting tribute. It is available as a free e-book from April 27 to April 30, just in time for Mother’s Day.

Targeted Age Group:
18 to 105

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What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Not everyone agree, but I believe authors should be the joy of writing first. Fame and fortune–if it follows at all–will be more likely to follow the path created by love.

Author Bio:
The coauthors of this chapbook are both award-winning poets and authors. Magdalena Ball runs the respected review Web site and newsletter, The Compulsive Reader (http://CompulsiveReader.com/html) and has written several full books of poetry and several literary novels including Black Cow and When She Sleeps.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers (http://howtodoitfrugally.com) and has been given several coveted awards including Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment given by members of the California Legislature, the Irwin Award, USA Book News awards, a Readers View award, and the Diamond Award in Art and Culture given by Glendale California Libary and Arts and Culture Commission. She is also listed as a poet in Poets & Writers magazine. She was also named to Women Who Make Life Happen by the Pasadena Weekly for her literary activism.

Though they live hemispheres apart, the two women work on their chapbooks using the wonders of the Web.

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This collection of ecologically oriented poems traverses a wide terrain, moving from the loss of species to the beauty of the natural world, from drought to the exploration of alternative planets. It’s an exhilarating collection that breaks boundaries and leads the reader deep into the personal heart of perception. Released by award winning poets Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball to celebrate Earth Day, this is a collection of poetry that weaves the personal with the universal.
“Sublime Planet begins with Carolyn Howard Johnson’s love poems to the living world, rapturous poems, expansive in spirit yet precise in detail: ‘An impossible moth,/dark eye at its center, opaque//helicopter blades buzz and blur… .’ In Magdalena Ball’s darker meditations, hurt and thirst have entered the world facilitated, in part, by the machinations of civilization. While Howard-Johnson’s poems praise, Ball’s seem to sound a low warning. I recommend Sublime Planet particularly to those individuals who reside on the planet.” ~ Suzanne Lummis, UCLA poetry instructor and LA’s unique contribution to the poetry world

Proceeds from Sublime Planet go to World Wildlife Fund
Photography by Ann Howley
To hear Magdalena read the title poem: http://magdalenaball.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SublimePlanet.mp3

Targeted Age Group:
Anyone over 6th grade who loves poetry.

How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
Well, it’s easier to slide a poem into a busy schedule than a novel, which we also both write. (-:

What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
Persistence is very important. Read, read, read. More about the craft and more about marketing which you will need to do if you want to get YOUR book read. Of course, I’d love you to start with my Frugal Book Promoter, http://budurl.com/FrugalBookPromo. (-:

Author Bio:
Magdalena Ball

Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews, and articles have appeared in a wide number of printed anthologies and journals, and have won local and international awards for poetry and fiction.

Magdalena holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from CCNY (New York), an MBA from Charles Sturt University (NSW, Australia), and has studied literature on a postgraduate level at Oxford University (UK). She lives in on a rural property in New South Wales with her husband and three children. She is also the author of two critically acclaimed novels Sleep Before Evening and Black Cow, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and two poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup as well as coauthoring the Celebration Series of chapbooks.

Her website is magdalenaball.com. Visit The Compulsive Reader at compulsivereader.com

Carolyn Howard-Johnson

Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, won three. She has been an instructor for UCLA Extension world-renown Writers’ Program for nearly a decade and her book The Frugal Book Promoter, now in its second edition, was named USA Book News’ Best Professional Book, and was given the Irwin Award. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series, The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is also a multi award winner. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader’s Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers’ Society of America’s Award of Excellence. She is the recipient of the California Legislature’s Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award, and her community’s Character and Ethics Committee awarded her work promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly’s list of 14 “San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen.” She is on the respected Poets & Writers roster of poets.

Her website is HowToDoItFrugally.com .
She blogs writers resources at Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Websites pick sharingwithwriters.blogspot.com.

About the Photographer

Ann Howley came to photography through her love for travel. She photographs nature, landscape, and travel and has adventured on all seven continents in search of her images. She has trekked on the Inca Trail, to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, to Mount Everest base camp, and walked 500 miles along the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. She has been up close and personal with penguins in Antarctica, polar bears in Canada, and mountain gorillas in Uganda. Ann received a Culture and Arts Honorable Mention from Smithsonian Magazine and has been featured twice in the Member Showcase of North American Nature Photography Association. Her photography was included in Suenos/Yume—Fifty Years of the Art of Dora De Larios which won for Best In Show Book Design by the American Advertising Federation.

Ann was graduated from University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and practiced as a Certified Public Accountant before moving on to explore photography full time. She is studying graphic and web design at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension. She has designed a perpetual calendar based on her nature images. Her greeting cards and calendar are available at etsy.com/shop/AnnHowleyPhotography and matted and frame prints are available through gallery shows and can be individually ordered by contacting her at ann@annhowley.com .
Learn more at annhowley.com

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Maggie and I are two authors from two hemispheres who inspire one another to write! She’s an Aussie and I’m from California. We decided to start the Celebration Series of chapbooks because we love poetry and seems to click in many other ways, too, like the love of nature. Sublime Planet is the first full-sized book in the series. Proceeds from it go to the World Wildlife Fund.

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