Housing Works: Books for Aids Research
So as you all know I was in NYC last week for the Book Expo America Conference. I was so lucky to get into a tour of Scholastic (Thank you Book Blogger Con) and got to the office quite a bit early. Laura and I had quite a bit of time to kill and we happened upon this awesome book store and cafe. When asking more about the store I learned it was all donation ran books with money from sales going to aids research. So watch the video of me with the press representative and then look below for some printed information.
HousingWorks from Marco van Hylckama Vlieg on Vimeo.
You can donate books (by mail even) or volunteer. Visit housing works @ online or by visiting:
128 Crosby Street New York, NY 10012 (212)334-3324
Housing Works is the largest community-based AIDS service organization in the United States, as well as the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service organization. Since our founding in 1990, we have provided lifesaving services, such as housing, medical and mental health care, meals, job training, drug treatment, HIV prevention education, and social support to more than 20,000 homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS.
So visit!
IMM The first edition
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. This is the first time I am participating and I will be going around commenting after brunch.
An Open Letter to Self Pubbed Authors
Dear Self Pubbed Author,
It’s not that I hate you or your book, or even that I don’t want to review them here on my site. Because I do really I do. I know how hard you work to try to get the word out about your product, and I understand how hard it is to continually hear the words no over and over. However some of these no’s you are bringing on yourself.
If you read my review policy it clearly states that I do not accept e-books at this time, so do not email me asking me if I would like to have a pdf copy of your book. The answer is no. If you read my policy it tells you the genre we review here on bookalicio.us, which is YA fiction, even with some names of authors that are comparable. This is because these books are what the target audience at bookalicio.us expect to see. So when you send me a review request for your financial strategy manual, again the answer is no.
A couple of more things before I go. Please do not use Twitter/Facebook/Myspace or any other social media to ask me for reviews, that is to say hello and to let people know what you have going on as an author. I have an about page with a policy and an email address. Oh and don’t spam me, and you know how I know. It’s when I see “undisclosed recipients” instead of my email address there in that little box that says to in the email.
So please bring me your tired, your hungry, and your weary, YA fantasy and fiction self pubbed authors. The rest quit spamming my blog and the blogs of others. Take time to read the review policies and word will get out how awesome you are for doing that.
Thank you,
Pam van Hylckama Vlieg
Give a little back!
I do charity all year long, I absolutely love helping others that are less fortunate than myself and I found an amazing program to get rid of those books that are piling up around all of our houses. (Yes you, I see that tower of leaning books there, the one you pick up every 3 days.) So this holiday season lets all clean off those shelves of the books we won’t read again and even those ARC copies we have no clue what to do with and give them to a soldier who would love to have something to read in his or her downtime.
Soldiers Angels is an amazing program to send books (and bookmarks with them if ya got em) to soldiers fighting over seas in countries where it’s hard to find English language material to read. I have about 30 to send how about you?
The 10 books to read before you die meme
So I wanted to do a 10 Books To Read Before You Die meme, I have never hosted or really participated in meme’s before but I was thinking it might be kind of fun to read what we each think is the best ten books to read. So just grab the button from the code, write your post, and come back here to Mr. Linky and add your ten books. Easy peasy. I am going to put mine up later tonight here on the blog, this is ongoing for whenever anyone sees it and wants to add theirs just add your link. No time limits.
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