VS Grenier ~ Award-Winning Author, Speaker & Podcaster

SFC Blog: Families Matter: Interview with Children's Author and Publisher VS ... : "Welcome award winning children's author and publisher VS Grenier here on the blog today. I want to thank you for being my guest here on..."

Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network has a new show: Families Matter with hosts VS Grenier and Kecia Burcham. The Families Matter show will air live once a month on the 3 rd Wednesday at 6pm EST. The idea of this new show on Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network is to have guests (adults or kids) share information to help empower children and their families . The first show on June 15, 2011 will be about bullying and how children and their families can deal with this ever growing problem. Host Kecia Burcham works as a middle school counselor and holds a masters degree in education/school counseling as well as being a certified trainer in the "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" curriculum. She is also a certified NLP life coach, business coach, master weight loss coach and social/emotional intelligence coach. Kecia is a published poet, author and songwriter. She has worked in the field of education/psychology for 20 years and has one grown daughter. Host VS Grenier is

Many writers and illustrators ask me, "Is it really important to have a book trailer for my upcoming book?" My answer is "YES!" Book and Event trailers are a lot like movie trailers. They catch viewer interest if done right. I don’t know if you have noticed, but many BIG publishing houses have discovered the importance of book trailers. They believe in them so much that you can catch them as television commercials. Something you didn’t see 20, 10 and even 5 years ago! Book and event trailers are fast becoming the future in marketing, promotions and school events. Similar to a movie trailer, a book trailer is a marketing tool to assist authors, illustrators and publishers in promoting their work by creating a viral marketing campaign online. You may even have noticed event trailers or home videos making it on the home pages of places such as Yahoo.com. Why is this? Because people are spending more and more time online, and they are looking for entertainment. Wh

Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network Show: Stories for Children with hosts VS Grenier, Kris Quinn Christopherson and Irene Roth will be chatting with author Margot Finke about her recent children’s books: “ Taconi and Claude – Double Trouble” a historical middle-grade adventure, “Horatio Humble Beats the Big D” a rhyming picture book about dyslexia, and “ Ruthie and the Hippo’s Fat Behind” a rhyming picture book about change. Margot Finke is an Aussie transplant who writes midgrade adventure fiction and rhyming picture books. Margot didn't begin serious writing until the day their youngest left for college. This late start drives her writing, and pushes her to work at it every day. Margot said, "I really envy those who began young, and managed to slip into writing mode between kid fights, diaper changes, household disasters, and outside jobs. You are my heroes!"   Her first books, a 7x book rhyming series, "Wild and Wonderful," offers fun facts about

Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network Show: Stories for Children with hosts VS Grenier, Kris Quinn Christopherson and Irene Roth will be chatting with author Margot Finke about her recent children’s books: “ Taconi and Claude – Double Trouble” a historical middle-grade adventure, “Horatio Humble Beats the Big D” a rhyming picture book about dyslexia, and “ Ruthie and the Hippo’s Fat Behind” a rhyming picture book about change. Margot Finke is an Aussie transplant who writes midgrade adventure fiction and rhyming picture books. Margot didn't begin serious writing until the day their youngest left for college. This late start drives her writing, and pushes her to work at it every day. Margot said, "I really envy those who began young, and managed to slip into writing mode between kid fights, diaper changes, household disasters, and outside jobs. You are my heroes!"  Her first books, a 7x book rhyming series, "Wild and Wonderful," offers fun facts about a

  The World of Ink Network: The Writing Mama show will talk about Books and Online Marketing with with Karen Cioffi. The Writing Mama Show TONIGHT, FRIDAY 10th, at 6pm EST at http://blogtalkradio.com/worldofinknetwork Karen Cioffi is the founder and manager of a marketing group, Writers on the Move, she has some experience with what works and doesn't work for touring and online marketing and will be sharing her views with hosts VS Grenier, Marsha Cook and J.D. Holiday along with you our audience. Along with the Writers on the Move experience, Karen has attend a number of marketing teleseminars and tries to apply what she learns to her own marketing strategies. Karen is also an author, ghostwriter and freelance writer and a member of the International Association of Professional Ghostwriters, the Professional Writers Alliance, and the National Association of Independent Writers and Editors. As always, The Writing Mama show can be listened to live at BlogTalkRadio.com

Wow, another award. I'm so honored of being given two blogging awards this week I want to thank a wonderful blogger, cyber-friend and World of Ink Tour Host, Susanne Drazic. Her blog PUTTING WORDS DOWN ON PAPER ( http://susannedrazic.blogspot.com/ ) not only shares great interviews and review, is loaded with information each week on the writing world. I truly hope you'll stop by her blog and maybe even follow Susanne. Thanks you so much Susanne for awarding my blog with the Stylish Blogger Award . I’ve had the pleasure of being interviewed by Susanne, and it's easy to understand why she received this award for her site, along with another recent award "The Irresistibly Sweet Blog" award. Now it is time to pay-it-forward and share this award with seven others. This is the tough part, so many great bloggers out there I wish I could name you all. But, seven it is; if you're not listed here, note you are in my heart. Oh, one other feature of the award

Join host Marsha Cook and her guest co-host Bennet Pomerantz as they welcome the very successful author William Maltese. William is the featured guest on A GOOD STORY IS A GOOD STORY on June 7, 9PM EST – 8PM – CST – 7PM – MT – 6PM- PST. Denise Spooner will have the phone lines and chat room open.to take calls for their very accomplished guest. William is an International best – selling author of close to 200 books. Not only does he write successful books he travels constantly which is why his books tell beautiful stories of beautiful places. He writes in all genres including erotica, sci – fi, mystery, thriller, romance, western and espionage, There’s not much than William hasn’t done in his life. He has been to France, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Australia and Chile and if that’s not enough he’s been almost everywhere in the USA. He is the author of cook books and his pride and joy WILLIAM MALTESE’S WINE TASTER’S DIARY. He has also done research on Gluten F

The Maggie Project: Margot Finke on Writing for Children : "It all began years ago, when teachers, family and friends praised the little stories I wrote. So I kept writing until I was eventually publ..."

Blog Talk Radio’s World of Ink Network Show: Stories for Children with hosts VS Grenier, Kris Quinn Christopherson and Irene Roth will be chatting about Grenier’s recent children’s book “Babysitting SugarPaw” a picture book about friendship and telling the truth. VS Grenier is an award-winning children’s author, founder & owner of Stories for Children Publishing, LLC ., award-winning editor-in-chief of Stories for Children Magazine  and chief editor for Halo Publishing, Int .; in addition, to running her own editorial and critique services.   In 2007 & 2008, VS Grenier was voted one of the Top Ten Editors in the Preditors and Editors Reader’s Poll, won 2nd place for her article on, “Yes, Virginia, There IS a Santa Claus” in the Preditors and Editors Reader’s Poll for Best Nonfiction of 2007, and won 7 th place for her article, “Dinosaur Tracks in My Backyard” in the Preditors and Editors Reader’s Poll for Best Nonfiction of 2008.   VS Grenier learned how to hone her wr