Marsha Casper Cook Guest on RRRadio-RFK: Stories for Children

Marsha Casper Cook Guest on RRRadio-RFK: Stories for Children –December 20th

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Marsha Casper Cook Guest on RRRadio-RFK: Stories for Children –December 20th

Come listen to Blog Talk Radio’s Robin Falls Kids show: Stories for Children as the hosts (VS Grenier, D.M. Cunningham, and Tiffany Strelitz Haber) chat with author and agent Marsha Casper Cook about her books, writing, the publishing industry and her experience during the World of Ink Author/Book Virtual Tour.

Marsha Casper Cook will also be sharing writing tips, andc trials and tribulations of the writer’s life.

The show will be live at 11am MST (10am PST, Noon Central and 1pm EST). You can tune in at the RRRadio’s site at

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio/2010/12/20/rfk-stories-for-children or you can listen/call in at (646) 595-4478. (Note: if you can’t make the show, you can listen on demand at the same link.)

In addition, Stories for Children Publishing will be touring Marsha Casper Cook’s children’s books all month long. You can find the World of Ink Author/Book Tour schedule at http://storiesforchildrenpublishing.com/MarshaCasperCook.aspx. Make sure to stop by and interact with the hosts and Marsha Casper Cook at the different stops by leaving a comment and/or question. We’ll all be checking in throughout the tour.

Marsha Casper Cook is the author of six published books and 11 feature-length screenplays, a literary agent with 15 years of experience and the host of a radio talk show about the business of writing and entertainment, “A Good Story is a Good Story,” on the Red River Radio network.

Not only will you have the opportunity to meet Cook, but this will be the perfect time to meet and learn about the hosts VS Grenier, D.M. Cunningham, and Tiffany Strelitz Haber, and their show on Blog Talk Radio-RFK: Stories for Children. You can learn about their exciting writing careers, along with Stories for Children Publishing and its many divisions.

To learn more about Marsha Casper Cook visit http://storiesforchildrenpublishing.com/MarshaCasperCook.aspx

Learn more about Stories for Children Publishing, LLC at: http://storiesforchildrenpublishing.com

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