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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: This is a nonfiction book recommended for ages 9 and up. It features kids from the age of four to seventeen, as well as families.

Q: What is the book about?
A: What’s It Like, Living Green is a compilation of stories about green families, kids who are making a difference for the planet and various topics on conserving resources, reducing, and recycling.

The sections include: What’s It Like, Living Green? ; Reduce; Recycle; Reuse; Responsible for Our Earth; and Kids Teaching Kids, by the Way They Live.

You will find a leaping frog with the words:  Take a Green Leap! next to suggestions of things you can do to make a difference.

This book includes photos of the green kids and their families, as well as a delightful cover and illustrations by a seventeen-year-old girl from Australia.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I participated in the first Earth Day celebration, and now I am a mother and grandmother who wanted to bring kids together to make a difference for their planet.

Many of the people who came forward to participate in this project are not writers. I have written and published four books for children, including What’s It Like, Living Green? I was able to give a voice and a platform to those who are making a difference and bring their message to a generation who can really make a change.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: I spoke to a school librarian before publishing my book. I told her I was writing a book for kids, about living green.

She shook her head and said, “There are already so many books out there about living green.” I then told her I was having kids tell their stories about how they live and what they are doing in their communities.  She perked up and said, “I think that’s great. I have never seen a book like that.  You need to get that book out as soon as possible.”

Most of the books written on the subject of living green and earth awareness seem to be geared toward a younger audience or an adult audience. I have found very few for the age group for which this book is targeted.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: In What’s It Like, Living Green? Kids Teaching Kids, by the Way They Live, you’ll learn how other kids live green, along with tips as simple as putting on a sweater rather than turning up the heat.

You’ll see how kids like you can make a difference.  Read about a girl who learned how to drive with a car fueled by used cooking grease.

Learn about a boy in Canada who raised funds to build his first well to provide clean water for a whole village in Uganda, when he was only seven years old. He is now seventeen and the founder of the Ryan’s Well Foundation.

You will meet a girl from Florida who began a recycling business when she was five, and continued to build the business until she reached one hundred customers.  Now, joined by her younger sister, they use a portion of their earnings to benefit their community.

Learn about the students of St. Benedict’s School, in Illinois who have made commitments to a lifetime of environmental awareness.

You will learn simple ways to help the environment help others and even earn some money.

This book can be ordered through Amazon.com or through your local retailer.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Both adult and young adult.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Jenny Roberts yearns to escape her small hometown of Paris, Idaho and accomplish something remarkable in the world. She has many dreams but the only thing standing in her way is an unpleasant memory from her past, which haunted her since childhood. She must learn to forgive before she can choose which dream to follow. Meanwhile a legendary ten-foot grizzly by the name of Old Half Paw is seen in the area and its boldness has frightened the community.

Q: Why am I the best person to write this book?
A: This book is about dreams and the importance of following our dreams. I have given personal ancestral experiences to my characters in this family saga to add some reality to this historical fiction novel. I believe that real family experiences bring a story to life.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: It’s different because I’ve used my own family experiences in this book along with the legend of Old Ephraim, the ten-foot grizzly bear as a sub-plot.

This legendary ten-foot grizzly really existed in the southern Idaho region. After much research, I used every detail of this grizzly to add a little adventure to the story.

I blend romance, adventure, history, humor, and courage into this family saga, using emotion to bring my characters to life.

A reviewer wrote: “Jenny’s Dream tells a beautiful story that incorporates the value of loyalty, love, family and forgiveness into it. I also enjoyed how the author put real experiences, taken from her family and friends, into the plot. This is a great touch. Jenny’s Dream is a wholesome novel that will be enjoyed by family members of all ages who would enjoy a great historical romance. I think this series is destined to be a classic.”

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: Jenny is 20 years old and has three dreams. Her first dream is to accomplish something remarkable in the world.

She has read about the courageous women who forged their own paths and accomplished a lot in their lives. They were self-reliant, daring and determined women such as Susan B. Anthony who fought for Equal Rights, an important part of American history. This was Jenny’s Dream, to make a difference in the world. This is something I believe we all want to do in our lives… to make a difference!

Her second dream is to become a journalist. Writing is second nature to her ever since she was a child and this is her greatest desire. In fact, moving to Houston, Texas sounds quite intriguing to her.

Her third dream is to find a most wonderful, down to earth man to spend the rest of her life with: the man of her dreams! Little does she know that her kindred friend, Will Jones, has gradually fallen in love with her. She hasn’t known him very long but he instantly became a kindred spirit, someone she could talk to and express her inner most feelings. There is one thing standing in her way of focusing on these dreams. She must learn to forgive and put her past behind her. This story is about accomplishing one’s dreams and the miracle of forgiveness.

Jenny says, “Dreams are an important part of life, and without them, life would be so dull. If we can envision it, then I believe it can be accomplished.” Lucy Maud Montgomery touched me as a writer and I loved her books. She strongly believed in dreams. Montgomery once wrote: “While solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.” That’s how I feel. I believe that dreams are an important part of life.

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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: Young readers – with emphasis on Native American kids – although everyone can benefit from reading about these amazing people.

The Native Trailblazers Series profiles stellar role models who have raised the profile of indigenous culture in North America. This exciting work of non-fiction reminds readers of the extraordinary contributions of Native Americans to our country’s social fabric. Ages 9 to 16 years.

Q: What is the book about?
A: Profiles 10 outstanding American Indian leaders. Among those featured are:

* Larry Merculieff, who helped bring a once enslaved and oppressed Aleutian people to a position of power and self-sufficiency.

* Patrick Brazeau, the National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

* Raymond Cross, a Coyote Warrior who won a victory of compensation for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people.

* Members of the Golden Eagle Hotshots – a heroic group of firemen from California that fight forest fires all over the country.

* Lieutenant Mark Bowman, Choctaw, who puts his life on the line everyday as a Virginia Beach Police Officer.

* Stanley Vollant, an Aboriginal surgeon who fulfilled a 100 year old Innu tribe prophecy.

* Frank Abraham, an Ojibwe Chief whose wisdom and honesty enabled his tribe to rise from near financial failure.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I am a Native American photojournalist with a great sampling of people that I have met in my career.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: None really exist that I know about – and it is contemporary.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
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Vincent Schilling
Award-winning author of Native Athletes in Action and Native Men of Courage
Indian Country Today Correspondent  -  www.indiancountrytoday.com
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Question: Who is the intended audience?
Answer: The intended audience for the book is leaders within any size corporations, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and colleges/universities. Because many universities and colleges focus on management from a theoretical and philosophical perspective, rather than the leadership continuum as a process, the audience will now have a framework of understanding to gain from. The book will provide answers for those with the ever looming questions: Are you the leader you could be, should be, or ought to be? Are you knowledgeable of the leadership tools that you must have to reach the next level of success?

Q: What is the book about?
A: Ted Gee’s powerful, new ‘how to’ book is not more of the same. It is about changing the way you think and the outcomes you can expect in your business venture or corporate role.

Hope is something that everyone wants to happen. It does not mean that it will happen or that there are plans in place to ensure the success of a desired goal. The major responsibility of a leader is to transform hope or vision to a reality. Hope Is Not a Strategy will provide leaders with clarity of what they are responsible for in any business at every level, and the tools necessary for them to be successful.

All businesses have the same formula for success and that is strong leadership and effective processes while engaging the workforce. Whether it is a fast food restaurant, a manufacturing company, a service company, hospitals , school system, entrepreneurial effort, entertainment business, or governmental agency the formula is the same. Hope Is Not a Strategy will assist by providing the tools to transform hope to a reality.

Section One, LEADERSHIP is designed to help you to understand the roles of leaders at all levels of the leadership continuum and the responsibilities inherent with each level. In addition to defining what leadership is and what leaders do, we will also explore where they may come from.

In this section we will discuss Time In Grade pitfalls of leadership and other quick fixes for organizations such as the Silver Bullet that many leaders seek when finding root causes to problems and long term solutions are not the objective. At the end of this section we will look at the interdependencies of leadership and process.

Section Two, THE ORGANIZATIONAL JOURNEY is packed with information and tools essential for you as a leader that ensures you have a clearly defined direction for your organization and most importantly a plan of execution. We will explain vision, and mission, and show you how to create a holistic strategy for any organization. You will learn how to objectively examine the Current State of Business and to set up a Business Operating System utilizing such tools as Lean and Six Sigma. The After Action Review process and communication methods are taught in this section for leaders seeking a learning organization.

There is also an APPENDIX loaded with information to assist you with your journey to success as a leader.

Q: Why are you the best person to write this book?
A: I have a proven background of leadership, starting as a front line supervisor, and progressing to division president of multibillion dollar corporation, and Chief Operating Officer. I am also a process innovation expert utilizing such tools as lean and six sigma. I am currently president of Success Based Interventions a/k/a SBI, which helps organizations become the best that they can be, should be, oughta be, utilizing the principles of the book. Having a background stepped with practical experience of change, transformation and growth during these tough economic times provides credibility.

Q: How is this book different from other books on this topic?
A: This book provides actual prescriptions for complex business problems. It is a how to manual from someone that has practical experience instead of primarily theory and philosophy.

Q: Is there anything else we should know about this book?
A: It is a very easy read, and the transferrable knowledge from this book can be used by people of any industry. Industries may change, products may change, services may change, but the art of leadership, and the expertise of process will fit any industry. Hope Is Not A Strategy, simple solutions for doing business in the 21st century is a solution.