Catching UP!

 Jack's News!

  by your Official Bookstore Cat, 

and Gossip Columnist.

Hi Folks,

Here we are, a day late. Sorry, we caught another virus, but  out tech friends got us all straightened out again and we have installed a new virus killer instead of depending on the one our ISP provides.

Author Terry L White sent the following reminder, to us:

Harriet Tubman Essay Contest deadline Has Been Changed !

NEW DEADLINE  March 1, 2017

So remind any students you know to get busy...

ALSO

Contributions are welcome 

to help with funding prizes for the 

Essay Contest Winners!

If you, your business or community organization can help fund the prizes,
Please Mail your contribution to:

Harriet Tubman Essay Contest
National Park Service
4068 Golden Hill Road
Church Creek, Maryland 21622

or contact:

Diane Miller, National Program Manager

Phone: 410-221-2290, x 1111
E-mail: diane_miller@nps.gov

Or

Terry Nield or Ellen Mousin
tubman.conference@gmail.com

And  if you want to learn more about Harriet Tubman, here are two books about her that are available at www.amaon.com in both paper and for Kindle:

Barbara Garro 

is still looking for  ideas to tie her new Poetry book 

to a 

Valentine's Day Promotion

Here's what she wrote to me, her favorite Bookstore Cat:

Dear Jack,

For my latest book "Love Bites," I am planning to do a Valentine's Day Gift Invitational and Suggestions would be appreciated.  Just ask them to e-mail me at Barbara_Garro@yahoo.com

Here are a few of my own ideas, but I sure would like some fresh ones from your readers.

1.  Want to know what works in dating and what does not work? Read the 102 poems in "Love Bites."

2.  Imagine being a fly on the wall throughout an entire romantic lifetime in 102 poems with all the boring parts taken out....

3.  Beginning with "Love is all there is here," Barbara Garro spent 33 years chronicling her love life in 102 poems of the most memorable experiences in her latest book "Love Bites," 2016 Cambridge Books ISBN 978-1-61386-390-9 $19.95, available at Smashwords E-Book and on Amazon infor Kindle & in Soft Cover.

Would love to hear which pitch you like or any suggestion for a pitch that is better than what you see here.

   Also we sure enjoyed a visit from one of our favorite authors this week. A. M. Foley who lives on beautiful Elliotts Island where even the feral cats are Siamese stopped in to see us an brought us a copy of her newest book.

We sure have been enjoying all her stories about the "Lost Atlantis of the Chesapeake,"and I unserstand she is already researching for her next one that will be about the Prohibition Era on the Chelsapeake. Those were sure some interesting times. I know because Arline mentioned them in passing when she wrote the book that commemorated her Dad's 90th Birthday.

    He sure was a great guy and I used to love to sit on his shoulder while we watched the Orioles play together. 

PLEASE don't YOU forget to send me news of any personal appearances, signings and so on... so I'll have some gossip to pass on next week. 

Just send an e-mail to arline@mail.com with 

 "News for Jack" 

 in the subject line, and

I'll make sure it shows up here for all the world to see!

DEADLINE CHANGE

Harriet Tubman Essay Contest 

Deadline MARCH 1, 2017 !

So remind any students you know to get busy...

2017 National Underground Railroad Conference

On the Edge of Freedom:
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands

2017 National Underground Railroad Conference
2017 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 1, 2017

The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) Program and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference will co-host a joint conference in 2017, in honor of the grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. The conference, "On the Edge of Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands," will be held in Cambridge, Maryland, May 18-21, 2017.

This conference will explore all aspects of the Underground Railroad in borderlands—both literal and figurative. For a more complete discussion of the theme, see the attached "Historical Context Statement." The Conference Program Committee welcomes proposals from a wide variety of scholars, community researchers, site stewards, educators, interpreters, and others interested in Underground Railroad history. Some ideas for presentation topics include, but are not limited to:

• Explore the contours of personal borderlands between black and white families in slave states that affected their understanding and accommodation of slavery and freedom
• How did knowledge and ability to negotiate and manipulate borderlands facilitate or obstruct escape?
• Who were the members of local communities who secretly crossed back and forth between local, regional, and national borderlands?
• How did trade, travel, and commerce facilitate the crossing of borderlands?
• Contrast black communities on opposite sides of borderlands
• How was the Underground Railroad different in the borderland regions, both in the North and South?
• What factors influenced the Underground Railroad, slavery, and freedom in borderlands?
• How did international borderland regions compare to internal (to the US) borderlands?
• How did the boundaries between freedom and enslavement affect relationships between enslaved and free blacks?
• Kidnappings and reverse Underground Railroad
• Creating and maintaining freedom and communities in borderlands
• Transnationalism and the Underground Railroad

---

Accepted presenters can expect to receive notification by February 15, 2017

For more information, please visit our website: www.nps.gov/ugrr or contact:

Diane Miller, National Program Manager
Network to Freedom
National Park Service
4068 Golden Hill Road
Church Creek, Maryland 21622
Phone: 410-221-2290, x 1111
E-mail: diane_miller@nps.gov

Or

Terry Nield or Ellen Mousin
tubman.conference@gmail.com

Help Barbara Garro Decide!

     BOY is my face RED! Barbara sent me this New Year's Day and I filed it, but didn't post it!

     SHAME on me, Barbara, and many apologies to you. Maybe I had just a tad too much catnip! 

I sure hope you get some responses to your request.

Hello Romance Readers and Happy New Year 2017! 

For my latest book "Love Bites," I am planning to do a Valentine's Day Gift Invitational and Suggestions would be appreciated.  Just e-mail me at Barbara_Garro@yahoo.com

Here are some highlights of what I have so far to pitch my book:

 Benefits for Readers:

1.  Want to know what works in dating and what does not work? Read the 102 poems in "Love Bites."

2.  Imagine being a fly on the wall throughout an entire romantic lifetime in 102 poems with all the boring parts taken out....

3.  Beginning with "Love is all there is here," Barbara Garro spent 33 years chronicling her love life in 102 poems of the most memorable experiences in her latest book "Love Bites," 2016 Cambridge Books ISBN 978-1-61386-390-9 $19.95, available at Smashwords E-Book and on Amazon infor Kindle & in Soft Cover.

Would love to hear which pitch you like or any suggestion for a pitch that is better than all you see here.

Thank you. Thank you very much and have a Happy New Year 2017!

John Gardiner Award!

The John Gardner Fiction Award by Administrators

The Binghamton Center for Writers has opened submissions for the John Gardner Fiction Award which will go to the strongest novel or collection of fiction published in 2016.
.

Prize: $1,000.00

Entry fee: FREE

Deadline: February 1, 2017

For more information, please visit their website.

.

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Catching UP!

 Jack's News!

  by your Official Bookstore Cat, 

and Gossip Columnist.

Hi Folks,

Author Terry L White sent the following reminder, to us:

Harriet Tubman Essay Contest deadline Jan. 31, 2017 !

So remind any students you know to get busy...

2017 National Underground Railroad Conference

On the Edge of Freedom:
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands2017 National Underground Railroad Conference
2017 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 31, 2017

The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) Program and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference will co-host a joint conference in 2017, in honor of the grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. The conference, "On the Edge of Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands," will be held in Cambridge, Maryland, May 18-21, 2017.

This conference will explore all aspects of the Underground Railroad in borderlands—both literal and figurative. For a more complete discussion of the theme, see the attached "Historical Context Statement." The Conference Program Committee welcomes proposals from a wide variety of scholars, community researchers, site stewards, educators, interpreters, and others interested in Underground Railroad history. Some ideas for presentation topics include, but are not limited to:

• Explore the contours of personal borderlands between black and white families in slave states that affected their understanding and accommodation of slavery and freedom
• How did knowledge and ability to negotiate and manipulate borderlands facilitate or obstruct escape?
• Who were the members of local communities who secretly crossed back and forth between local, regional, and national borderlands?
• How did trade, travel, and commerce facilitate the crossing of borderlands?
• Contrast black communities on opposite sides of borderlands
• How was the Underground Railroad different in the borderland regions, both in the North and South?
• What factors influenced the Underground Railroad, slavery, and freedom in borderlands?
• How did international borderland regions compare to internal (to the US) borderlands?
• How did the boundaries between freedom and enslavement affect relationships between enslaved and free blacks?
• Kidnappings and reverse Underground Railroad
• Creating and maintaining freedom and communities in borderlands
• Transnationalism and the Underground Railroad

---

Accepted presenters can expect to receive notification by February 15, 2017

For more information, please visit our website: www.nps.gov/ugrr or contact:

Diane Miller, National Program Manager
Network to Freedom
National Park Service
4068 Golden Hill Road
Church Creek, Maryland 21622
Phone: 410-221-2290, x 1111
E-mail: diane_miller@nps.gov

Or

Terry Nield or Ellen Mousin
tubman.conference@gmail.com

Also Payroll for the final quarter of 2016 is, Done, Done, Done!

And  if you want to learn more about Harriet Tubman, try this one.

or even this one

As for here at home, 

Payroll  is Done, Done, Done!

Paypal was done last week and the checks are in the mail. 

Now Arline can go to work on the corporate taxes and once she finishes that she may become less grumpy.  I swear she threw an aluminum pie plate toward the coffee table last night and it landed on its edge, bounced off, and chased my poor little baby sister all the way into the dining room!

PLEASE don't YOU forget to send me news of any personal appearances, signings and so on... so I'll have some gossip to pass on next week. 

Just send an e-mail to arline@mail.com with 

 "News for Jack" 

 in the subject line, and

I'll make sure it shows up here for all the world to see!

CATching UP!

 Jack's News!

  by your Official Bookstore Cat, 

and Gossip Columnist.

Hi Folks,

Oh, I made a funny..."CATching UP!" Hee, heee, hee...

Arline is working on the final payroll for 2016 and getting books off sale that need to come off sale. If you want your books to remain on sale, it might be a good idea to drop her an e-mail so they don't get removed by mistake. So far she has the following authors on her "Keeper list:"

Elan Mufti

Judy Johns Heathcote

Jennifer Kirsch

Barbara Garro

C.M. Albrecht

Jim Kincaid

Terry L. White

Robert Kanehl

Andy Nunez

Anna Dynowski

Elena D. Bowman

Joan Cannon

Ray Morand

Helen Chappell

Gilda Arruda

Evelyn Moll

Matthew Schoonover

Charlie Wilson

Bobbi Sinha-Morey

Roger was worrying with the car insurance and house insurance, but he took care of it yesterday, so me and my baby sister are safe for another year... Aaannnddd he's back to playing his favorite songs again instead of Hoiday tunes. I know all those well, so we're back to having fun...

PLEASE don't YOU forget to send me news of any personal appearances, signings and so on... so I'll have some gossip to pass on next week. 

Just send an e-mail to arline@mail.com with 

 "News for Jack" 

 in the subject line, and

I'll make sure it shows up here for all the world to see!