I'm launching a Teen Development Book, Your Mailbox Is Full, on February 25th as a charity drive for Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation, and Kiwanis. We’re looking for strategic partners to join us in supporting today’s youth with the life-skills and leadership development skills they need. My partners and I are sending out over 1 million emails through our Joint Ventures and non-profit partners, so it would be great exposure for you and your brand. We would like to include you in our best-seller campaign. Below is more info on the campaign, in quick bullets.
As the launch date comes closer, I will send you the email copy you can use to send to your list.
Let me know if you're interested. My cell number is below.
Justin
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Justin Sachs
Author, Your Mailbox Is Full
Founder, Creating Possibilities Coaching Program
Founder, Peak Performance Lifestyles Foundation
JustinSachs@mac.com
Cell Phone: 1-760-822-1985 www.JustinSachsOnline.com
7 Need-to-Knows about this campaign:
1. This is the first teen development book campaign to incorporate a major online promotional event.
2. One million emails going out from nonprofits, sponsors, and JVs
3. Opportunity for you to feature your products or seminar as a giveaway in major Teen Development Campaign
4. Direct link to your seminar site or main webpage on the order confirmation page
5. You get a reciprocal solo email from me if you email in February (or any time before promotion closes Mar 15).
6. Sales benefit my favorite charities: Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership and Kiwanis.
7. Your Mailbox Is Full gives teenagers the life-skills and leadership development principles they need to be successful in school and throughout their lives. Visit JustinSachsOnline.com to learn more.
I was interested that you are supporting Youth Leadership and launching a Teen Development Book.
I'm not sure if this is relevant or not but I thought that it might interest you that I wrote a book at the age of 17, which has recently been published as an e-Book by the leading mental health publisher Chipmunkapublishing.
"The Madhouse of Love" is the first-hand account of a teenager's experiences in a psychiatric unit for adolescents and, as such, it is probably a first.
One of my reasons for publishing this was because I wanted to give young people more of a say.
Further details - and copies of the book can be found at:
I am so not ready for Christmas. I just realized I don't have much time either. One good thing is the DH is off Friday and possibly all next week, so I can give him a few chores to do, which may help some. I'm counting on him to put stamps and labels on the Christmas cards, and do a few things around the house to straighten it out some. Unfortunately, I'm the organizer in the family, so I can't expect too much on the getting-the- house ready front. That's pathetic, since I'm not very organized. (g)
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
For instance. Did I bother to ask my grandfather what it was like playing in the first night football game in America?
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
That's why I'm writing adventures I wanted my ancestors to have; adventures I can enjoy with them through the eyes and voice of my character, Gus.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
Mary Cunningham is the author of the award-winning 'Tween fantasy/mystery series, Cynthia’s Attic. She is proud to announce the release of book four, "The Magician's Castle," Dec 1, 2009. Her children's mystery series was inspired by a recurring dream about a mysterious attic. After realizing that the dream took place in the home of her childhood friend, Cynthia, the dreams stopped and the writing began.
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.
Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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