Monday, December 16, 2013

new children's title for Christmas



Green Leaf, The Potawatomi Boy
Lisa J Lickel, illustrated by Brenda Hendricks




About the Book:

Green Leaf’s cousins are all older
than he and don’t like to play fair. He longs for a friend his own age he can
play with, explore and fish with. When he meets a Luxembourger boy, Henri,
Green Leaf is sure they could become friends, but Henri’s words are strange to
Green Leaf. How can they play and explore together?

Green Leaf’s mother says, “Friends learn to speak one another’s words.” But
will Green Leaf learn to say his friend’s words well enough to save Henri when
he falls into danger?


Kindle - on special sale during December 1- 16, $.99
Also available in print from online retailers or from your
favorite bookseller. $5.95

Ten years in the making, The First Children of Farmington
series of early reader books has finally reached book sellers. I spent two
years researching and writing this series. Several years after I worked with
other community historians to collect and record our early pioneer history, I
realized that we had quite a diverse ethnicity to Farmington, Wisconsin.
Although these stories are based on real people and real events, they are
representative of issues and struggles and joys families face every day
everywhere.  

The Potawatomi Boy is a character with a running thread
through all the books. When I first started out with the project I was taking
classes from the Christian Writers Guild. I set out to put together a series of
picture books and connected with a couple of different artists. I wrote the
text, but learned over several years that it’s harder to get the attention of a
publisher for children’s books than it is for adult books. I’d never considered
self-publishing, but through connections with my current illustrator and
publishing partner, Brenda Hendricks, and others at the John 316 Marketing
Network, learned a lot about not only self-publishing options, but how to
publish well. The second book in the series, The German Girl, is now available, as
well, about a curious young girl who becomes lost while searching for the
family cow, and the third book, The Saxon Boy, about a young boy who must learn
to accept a stepfather, may be out by Christmas. I was quite surprised and
pleased to have won a prestigious Jade Ring award for the Saxon Boy from the
Wisconsin Writers Association. The other three stories, The Yankee Boy, The
Irish Girl
and The French Girl, are planned for release in 2014.

The books include references, glossaries, and special
illustrations and a picture search. They are suitable for early to middle
grades, ages 7-9 or so.

Also
at Barnes
and Noble


From December 1 through
December 16, the John 3:16 Marketing Network is hosting a Christmas Book Launch
and The Potawatomi Boy is a
featured book. As part of the event, the Network is offering a $200 Amazon gift
certificate to one lucky winner. For a chance to win, go to
http://bit.ly/Christian_Books
and enter the Rafflecopter toward the bottom of the page.

About the Author:

Lisa Lickel is a Wisconsin writer who lives with her husband
in a hundred and sixty-year-old house built by a Great Lakes ship captain.
Surrounded by books and dragons, she writes inspiring fiction. Her published novels
include mystery and romance, all with a twist of grace. She has penned dozens
of feature newspaper stories, short stories, magazine articles and radio
theater. She is the editor in chief of Creative
Wisconsin
magazine. Lisa also is an avid book reviewer, a freelance editor,
a writing mentor, a hostess at Clash of the Titles.com, and enjoys blogging at
theBarnDoor.net and AuthorCulture.blogspot.com. She loves to encourage new
authors. Find more at LisaLickel.com.

1 comment:

Lisa Lickel said...

Thank you so much for hosting me, Jill.