Hi there, meet Alyssa Montgomery. Alyssa is an author. She is also sixteen, or maybe she is seventeen now. Alyssa writes young adult stories for Quake!
Okay, at Echelon Press we have a little thing called Quake. It's our imprint for kids and young adults. We love it. Internally, we have a group called Team Quake. It's all the authors who write for Quake. It's where we get together and brainstorm and network and come up with brilliant ideas to get YOUR kids reading and enjoying it. It's also where we come up with ideas on what to post at Teen Seen, our Blog.
We try not to preach, we try not to lecture, we try to have fun (some more than others: meet Norm Cowie and Sam Morton)
Problem is, we don't do much but talk to you, the parents. Now, don't get me wrong, we love parents, they make the rules and decide what the kids can and cannot do. We want you involved, too. We need you to be involved, heck, your kids need you to be involved. But more than anything, we want to talk to you kids and have them talk to us! We need to know what they think and like and want in order for us to publish the books they will want to read. See what I mean?
So what the heck is this Blog post about? It's an invitation. We want you to join us at Teen Seen and we want you to bring your kids (ages 10 and up) We know some of you might have grown kids who would be interested, so bring them too. Please let your kids post and talk to us, it's what will make Quake the huge success it deserves to be.
What have we got to offer? We have fun, we do talk about important stuff, but we try to keep it interesting. Reading is so important to the kids and we don't want them to read just the stuff they HAVE to, we want them to actually enjoy reading. That's why we make our books as cool as possible.
Once you get to Teen Seen have your kids join our Birthday Book Bash. Click on the link to contact Quake and send the following info:
Child's name (first name only!)
Full birthday with year (must have been born after 1989)
e-mail address (this is used only for the BBB and nothing else-cross my heart)
On their birthday we will send your kid a FREE PDF eBook of their choice.
So, will you hop on over to follow us and bring your kids, too?
Okay, at Echelon Press we have a little thing called Quake. It's our imprint for kids and young adults. We love it. Internally, we have a group called Team Quake. It's all the authors who write for Quake. It's where we get together and brainstorm and network and come up with brilliant ideas to get YOUR kids reading and enjoying it. It's also where we come up with ideas on what to post at Teen Seen, our Blog.
We try not to preach, we try not to lecture, we try to have fun (some more than others: meet Norm Cowie and Sam Morton)
Problem is, we don't do much but talk to you, the parents. Now, don't get me wrong, we love parents, they make the rules and decide what the kids can and cannot do. We want you involved, too. We need you to be involved, heck, your kids need you to be involved. But more than anything, we want to talk to you kids and have them talk to us! We need to know what they think and like and want in order for us to publish the books they will want to read. See what I mean?
So what the heck is this Blog post about? It's an invitation. We want you to join us at Teen Seen and we want you to bring your kids (ages 10 and up) We know some of you might have grown kids who would be interested, so bring them too. Please let your kids post and talk to us, it's what will make Quake the huge success it deserves to be.
What have we got to offer? We have fun, we do talk about important stuff, but we try to keep it interesting. Reading is so important to the kids and we don't want them to read just the stuff they HAVE to, we want them to actually enjoy reading. That's why we make our books as cool as possible.
Once you get to Teen Seen have your kids join our Birthday Book Bash. Click on the link to contact Quake and send the following info:
Child's name (first name only!)
Full birthday with year (must have been born after 1989)
e-mail address (this is used only for the BBB and nothing else-cross my heart)
On their birthday we will send your kid a FREE PDF eBook of their choice.
So, will you hop on over to follow us and bring your kids, too?
4 Comments on Getting the Families Involved, last added: 4/19/2009
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Great, awesome blog, we need to do these kinds of promotional blogs more often.
That being said, Karen I like to guest post here if possible?
--Martin
http://martinbartloff.blogspot.com/
No, don't let the kids anywhere near here! We're crazy! We cannot be trusted with their young minds!
Bewerewolf, er, beware.
Norm
http://fangplace.blogspot.com
Who let the Norm out...?
L. Diane Wolfe
www.circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com
www.spunkonastick.net
www.thecircleoffriends.net
That sounds like a great idea to get the kids involved!
Alyssa
http://www.alyssamontgomery.com
http://amontgomery99.blogspot.com