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10 Key Points to Getting Great Book Blurbs

5/28/2020

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One does not often consider book blurbs, but they’re a key element to selling your book. They inform prospective readers why your book is worth looking at and will often clue them in as to your book’s contents. But how does one go about getting that all-important blurb? 

1. Know what you need. What is a book blurb?  A celebrity-written endorsement of your book about three to eight lines on the back.
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2. Decide who you will approach. Pick several authors or individuals who have some relation to the subject of your book. It helps if you know the person, or a friend knows the person. Contacting the person is probably the most difficult part of the process. Allowing them to have enough time is critical. Offer to allow at least three months for them to read your book and write the testimonial.

3. Send a nice small package. It should include a cover letter, a synopsis and press release about the book, sample endorsements, and the book itself.

4. Write a thorough cover letter. The cover letter should tell what the book is about and how they might benefit from having their blurb on the back of the book, on your book's website, etc. And of course, tell how it would help you.
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5. Include a synopsis of the book. Short, sweet and full of the best of your book.  Remember, the key here is short, so succinctness is extremely important.
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6. Insert a generic press release for a book event. Whether it’s the book release party or a signing, include an event so the person writing the blurb knows you’re planning to market the book to live audiences.

7. Write and include a page of sample endorsements. Provide at least three, ideally five, that the celebrity can pick, that will fit the style of the person you are asking.

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8. Why include the book? Would you write a testimonial about a product that you hadn't seen? Most other people won't either.
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9. Send your package early. Call six months before publication to ensure the correct address and to ascertain if your target celebrity is interested in providing endorsements/review blurbs. Send the complete package at least three months before publication.

10. Why is it important? When you see the cover of the book, you pick it up and turn it over to see what others say. Nearly everyone wants to know what others say about a book that they are considering reading. You and your book gain credibility from an expert in your field supporting your book.
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Nancy E. Randolph operates Just Write Books LLC offering consulting and coaching to writers.  With over 50 years of writing experience and two decades in the publishing industry working with dozens of writers, Randolph has learned how to produce a manuscript that is ready for publication. Randolph uses that knowledge to help writers and authors reach their publishing goals. An active community member along with two others she founded and serves as a member of the board of Save Our Swinging Bridge.Org to ensure the maintenance of the historic Roebling-designed and -built bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick.  
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10 surprisingly manageable steps to put together your memoir

5/21/2020

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Nearly everyone has a book that others say, “You should write that.” Many of us have a story we would like to memorialize about a family member still living or deceased. Sometimes we have a trove of photos, letters, and paraphernalia that seems overwhelming. We’ve put together ten steps to help you.
1. Determine why you want to write the book. Is it for your family or do you think this book will sell to a greater circle of friends and acquaintances? On the other hand, do you think people who are neither your relatives or friends will be interested in your story? Regardless of the answer, the same approach will be used to produce the first rough draft of your autobiography. Your answer to “why” may be used as your introduction.

2. Begin by gathering your materials. That includes photos, journals, letters to and from you, newspaper articles, clippings from magazines, baby books (if one of your parents was nice enough to do this), school writing projects, souvenirs, yearbooks, email messages, blog posts and anything else that you might have written or might have been written about you. I suggest that you have a box in which to put everything.
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Put together a collection of images and photographs to tie the memoir together.
3. Make a timeline of your life. Since it is a timeline, keep it simple and chronological. Include all important events—marriage, graduations, certificates, birth(s) of children, travel, death of loved ones, jobs, promotions, volunteer work, membership organizations’ events, household moves. You get the picture. A printout of the timeline could be placed in a three-ring binder.
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4. Look at your timeline and start writing the things that easily come to pen or keyboard. Name the incident, event, and write it into your timeline, showing that you have it. Add the file name and location.
5. Create a schedule for writing. Write for 30-60 minutes once a day, three times a week or every weekday. Whatever you schedule—stick with it and write. Just write. Continue to write your memories, aided by your collected materials until it becomes difficult.

6. When it becomes difficult, connect with a friend, family member, or acquaintance who may be able to fill in gaps of memory or knowledge. They may have more information about other family members who are deceased, events that happened when you were too young to remember, or enhance your memories with another view. Write those events/memories. Keep notes of the names of people who gave you more info and link it to the info given. File these new writings and keep the timeline up to date with location and file names.
7. Put all your writings into one document in your timeline order. You now have your very rough draft.
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8. Before you begin polishing your rough draft, work with someone unfamiliar to your story. Print out a hard copy for your reader. The reader will read your rough manuscript (don’t have them fix the typos now—you may delete part of the story or rewrite much of this anyway). The reader’s job is to write questions in the margin. Who is this? Why was this event significant? Where were you? All the questions to which you know the answer but have forgotten to write in your closeness to the story. I suggest that you have three readers using three separate clean manuscript copies. You then take all comments and put them onto one draft. Some authors might use a clean draft on which to write all notes and questions. On the other hand, one of your reader’s drafts may have the most significant edits and questions—I would use one and add the other comments to it.
9. With that marked-up draft, begin filling in the blanks. Continue with your writing schedule until you have a completed rough draft of your book.

10. Now is the time to get someone to edit. You need to ensure that everything is spelled correctly and the facts are as true as you know. The editor will also see when transitions are missing and will either prepare suggestions or notes for you regarding what needs to fixed. Notes such as “needs transition,” “you haven’t introduced this person to your readers” or “time sequence seems off.” Fix those and then prepare for another round of edits. 
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Brian Barlow took nearly a decade to write his memoir Only One Child.
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Nancy E. Randolph operates Just Write Books LLC offering consulting and coaching to writers.  With over 50 years of writing experience and two decades in the publishing industry working with dozens of writers, Randolph has learned how to produce a manuscript that is ready for publication. Randolph uses that knowledge to help writers and authors reach their publishing goals. An active community member along with two others she founded and serves as a member of the board of Save Our Swinging Bridge.Org to ensure the maintenance of the historic Roebling-designed and -built bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick.  
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10 Easy Things You Should Do  to Prepare Your Manuscript for Page Layout

4/30/2020

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    ​I’ve been working on a manuscript for two days, just cleaning up the copy, removing multiple tabs, excessive spaces, and de-capitalizing all-caps to make this manuscript workable. As I entered the second day of editing, I found myself wondering, how could that be? The author edited, proofed, and edited the work a second time. Why did I need to go over it again?
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    ​Because the author took it upon himself to format the script in MS Word in order to make it look better. While it might have looked better to him, within the unprinted formatting lies a hundred  manuscript mines, ready to detonate when put into another publishing program, blowing the whole thing to smithereens and  sending the format of the manuscript into chaos. 

  And while your publisher is perfectly capable of performing the following tasks, a few ways you can make your job and your publisher’s job easier is to take care of a few things in your document.​
1. Remove all double spaces after sentence-ending punctuation. A leftover practice from the days of typewriters and monospace fonts, this method of formatting has been rendered unnecessary. In fact, it’s often detrimental, with double spaces leaving ragged-looking spacing when using properly-spaced fonts. 

2. Spell out your numbers in non-technical text. All numbers under 100 should be spelled out. If you’re describing forty-eight of something, it’s forty-eight, not 48. Larger numbers get spelled out when rounded or approximations, with some exceptions. Just Write Books uses the Chicago Manual of Style for direction on numbers.

3. Remove all the -st, -th, and -nd suffixes after numbers in a sequence. As people read, they’ll naturally add these sounds as needed in the document. Although in British writing, these letters are printed, this is not written out in American English. 

4. Remove super and subscripts, except for footnote superscripts. These will be properly formatted during the typesetting process. 

5. Spell out all abbreviations and acronyms. Avoid confusing your reader with these unknowns. If you mention something the first time (with the abbreviation or acronym in parentheses), you can then use an acronym for it in subsequent uses. For the sake of clarity, don’t refer to something by its abbreviation or acronym the first time. 
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6. Don’t use jargon. When writing about an industry that uses specific terminology, it’s up to you to explain inside jargon or lingo or find other, more common terms that serve the same purpose. 

7. Remove extraneous formatting. Remove all tabs, multiple spaces and other unnecessary formatting from your document. These will be handled in the typesetting phase. ​
8. Use automatic page numbering. Using the page numbering function instead of adding page numbers manually helps with the editing and typesetting process.

9. Be consistent with how you handle the names of states.
Whether you abbreviate state names or spell them out, do it consistently throughout the entire document. If you spell out Connecticut the first time, don’t use CT later. Yes, spelling out Mississippi every time is kind of a pain, but if you do it the first time, do it every time. 

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10. Separate your document into chapters. Come up with good spots to break up your work, and try to keep their lengths somewhat consistent. You can use simple numbers or you can name your chapters, but it’s key to have a plan to follow. ​

All in all, it’s consistency and a lack of excessive formatting that will help your publisher streamline the editing process, and help you get published sooner. Follow these steps, and you’re sure to make your life, and the life of your publisher, much easier. 

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Just Write Books LLC, offers publishing consulting and coaching for writers.  JWB uses its proprietary High Point Publishing System with state-of-the-art technology mixed with old-fashioned writing, editing, publishing, and marketing skills to help writers become authors and authors reach their publishing goals. ​

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10 Simple questions to help you determine if your Book is worth publishing.

4/23/2020

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Welcome to the brand-new Just Write Books! As we take our first steps on our new journey together, let's talk about the ways we're ready to help you get your work into the world.

Let's start at the beginning. I hear it's a very good place to start. 

And as the world seems to slow to a crawl due to the global pandemic we’ve found ourselves thrust into, we hope that you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy, and finding what you need to navigate these trying times. And it’s into these trying times, when we’re isolated in our homes, that we’re looking for ways to keep busy and be productive with our time. To which, you might be thinking… why don’t I finish that book I’ve always been meaning to write? And here at Just Write Books, we’re here to tell you, yes, you most certainly can. 
​In our new capacity offering writing consulting services, we’re here to help you get your book written, edited, published, and read by the audience that wants to hear what you have to say. Through the High Point Publishing System, we help writers hone their voice, sharpen their talents, focus their skills, and achieve their writing goals. 

​The first step in that process is a simple one, and that is to find out if your book is worth publishing in the first place. Because writing is a process not for the faint of heart; it requires a considerable time commitment and a large degree of patience. So, before you set out on your journey of publication, you should ask yourself: Is my book worth publishing? 
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“I will be forever grateful to you, Nancy, for believing in me and supporting my writing.”
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     ―Norma Salway, retired first-grade teacher and author of I’m Just a Kid You Know, Touched by a Hummingbird and The Attic & ME.
That’s the backbone of our questionnaire, which can be found here. As you fill this out, you’ll break down the basics of your book, getting into the meat of who wants to read it, why they want to read it, what subjects your book discusses, and start the process of finding the best way for it to reach its intended audience. 
Once we receive your answers, we can begin a conversation about the best way you can achieve your writing goals, using the information you’ve provided. From there we can discuss editing and publishing, although that’s a few steps down the line. 
Take the Questionnaire
So, to all aspiring writers, welcome! We’re looking forward to receiving your works and we’ll talk with you soon! 

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The Transformation of Just Write Books

4/9/2020

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    ​For fifteen years, Just Write Books has been proud to bring Maine stories from Maine authors to the world. From Tom Seymour bringing us along with him on tours through the Maine woods and waters, to the history of our home state’s cities, all the way to fantastical stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror told from Maine’s artistic students, Just Write Books has brought a variety of tales from Maine to the page for you to enjoy. 
    ​Now, sadly, Just Write Books will, beginning today, no longer operate as a publisher of books. While our love of Maine, its residents, and its stories have not abated, and the author’s stories have their markets, and people who want to read those stories, we have made the decision that we can find better ways for them to get their stories out into the world. 

    To that end, we’re working diligently to find new homes for all our authors, and for those of you who still wish to follow them, we will be posting information about where to find them here, so keep an eye out. Be they through other publishers or publishing houses, or making the transition to digital publishing through Amazon, our stories will still be available. 
    Just Write Books will continue to help new authors achieve their publishing goals using the High Point Publishing System, which we've developed over five decades. We will help authors finish their outstanding projects, market their work, and ensure that their books reach the right audiences. 

   This is not goodbye. Just Write Books will not be shutting its doors. Instead, our business is transforming into our next iteration. Many of you know that we becan as Just Write Communications in 1990. In 2005, we morphed into publishing and now into offering publishing consultation and coaching for writers.
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Over the years, we've worked with some truly spectacular writers and had the privilege of helping them tell their tales and teach us so much.

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As for Nancy E. Randolph, the creator of all this, she will not be idle. On top of consulting and coaching, she’ll also get busy finishing her own books.
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Oh, and don't worry about Ben. Even if he's working from home, he'll always have plenty to do around the office.
      If the last fifteen years have taught us anything, it’s that this wonderful state of Maine is full to bursting with incredible stories, and that incredible people like you want to read them. So even though Just Write Books is reaching its end as a publisher, our work never ends, the stories told through our publications will find new life in new places, and our authors’ works will continue on.  ​
    ​So, thank you all for an amazing fifteen years. Thank you for buying our books, for reading our tales, for sharing in the life and creativity that Maine has to offer.
    ​As a thank you for all your patronage and support these last fifteen years, we’re offering 50% off all of our remaining books. Everything in our store is half off. And since we won’t be ordering any more books, this is your last chance to pick up your favorite books from our website, for yourself or as gifts. 

As for what come next, be sure to watch this space! There's much more on the way, and we're going to start by sharing with you how to utilize our consulting and coaching services in another week's blog post! 
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So join us next week, and let's raise our mugs together to a new challenge and new writing adventures! 
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Enjoy Spring in Maine with guidance from Tom Seymour

3/5/2020

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​    Ever since 2008, Tom Seymour has been among Just Write Books’ most prolific writers, penning no fewer than five books under the Just Write banner, and while they span a wide range of topics and formats, they all come back to the theme of Maine’s wilderness, since Tom is an avid naturalist. He also writes for numerous columns and keeps up his own blog on his website, tomseymourmaine.com, and conducts wild plant seminars and field trips, teaching about Maine’s native flora. 
    ​Maine’s flora is among the numerous subjects Tom wrote about in Hidden World Revealed: Musings of a Maine Naturalist, which we published in 2008. In his first publication with Just Write Books, Tom compiled numerous posts he’d written for his blog Wild Plants and Wooly Bears, discussing interactions with his animal neighbors and exploring subjects such as plants, seasonal changes, and reflections on Maine rural life. 
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    Flora would be the sole subject of Tom’s second book, Wild Plants of Maine: A Useful Guide. In its pages you will find thorough documentation of Maine’s various kinds of plant life, describing all manner of plants that can be safely eaten and including plenty of recipes for their preparation. Currently in its third edition, Tom has since added to the book with the addition of numerous new plants and recipes. 
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    ​Of course, while using Wild Plants of Maine to discover new plants to eat and how to prepare them, one might feel the desire to document their foraging, to which we turn to Tom Seymour’s Forager’s Notebook. More than a simple empty notebook in which to record what one finds in the wilderness, the Forager’s Notebook includes tips at the footnote of each page. In addition, each month is prefaced with a small anecdote about the season, some helpful information about a particular plant, and a small illustration, ensuring that Tom Seymour’s Forager’s Notebook is a helpful resource in its own right. 
    ​Tom would turn the subject from flora to fauna in his next book, Getting Your Big Fish: Trolling Maine Waters, which, incidentally, was the first book we published where Tom himself graced the cover. Full of tips and techniques on catching big trout in smaller waters, Getting Your Big Fish shares the secrets of finding your big catch in the most unassuming of places. 

    This brings us to Tom’s most recent book, Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters. From common Maine wildlife like loons and moose, to the more obscure, such as green frogs and cormorants, Tom has spent much time trekking through Maine’s wilderness encountering all stripes of wildlife, and in Wild Critters of Maine, shares a plethora of stories about them. From the hare to the muskrat, from mammals to birds to even amphibians and insects, Tom discusses his time spent observing Maine’s animal life and their quirks and habits, doling out education and entertainment in equal measure. 
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    Across all these titles, the most common threads in Tom’s writing are his lively, accessible storytelling and his love of Maine’s outdoors. Whether he writes about its plants or its animals, be he reminiscing about his favorite encounters with gray squirrels or taking time to educate readers about how to prepare wild elderberries, Tom’s unique voice and love of our home state shine through, making any and all of his books a joy to flip through. 
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Check out our selection of Tom Seymour's books
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Behind the Books- A New Face in the office

2/6/2020

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Good afternoon, all.
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If you've been keeping track of Just Write Books' news feeds, you may have noticed an uptick in social media engagement- photos, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blog posts, that sort of thing.

​ That would be my doing. My name's Ben, and I've been handling Just Write Books' social media since September of 2019. That's the bulk of what I've been doing, but strictly speaking, I'm Nancy Randolph's assistant. That means I've done about a hundred different things since I've started here, from whipping up social media copy to blog posting to scheduling to editing to actual copying to photography. I took pictures of mountain lions on this job! How cool is that?! 
As for me, I get up to all kinds of stuff. I got involved with Nancy through my talents in writing and art, when the Merrymeeting Adult Ed class on narrative arts got together to write a bunch of stories to be published as the anthology Maine After Twilight. I submitted two pieces of art and a sci-fi horror short story.

​I thought it turned out pretty good, and Nancy liked it, and you can check out the book here. As of this writing, I'm working on more sci-fi, a space western this time. Writing science fiction is really my primary drive, but that's not my only trick. 
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I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil, and for the last eight years or so I've been building costumes based on characters from comic books, video games, and Star Wars. More recently, I've turned my visual design eye to fashion, making jackets and basing outfits on pop culture characters. 

​Needless to say, I keep busy. 

You might be asking, what’s working for Nancy like? It’s been a fascinating experience. Aside from the wide range of tasks I’ve done since starting here, it’s great working a job where I get to flex my creative muscles, even if it’s not the way I always intend. Between the writing and photography and all the different projects I’m always on my toes, and Nancy is a fascinating person to work for. ​
Plus, the view’s not bad.
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Review: George Smith looks at wild critters of maine

2/6/2020

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Here at Just Write Books, we love reviews. Getting opinions on our books from people who know their stuff stimulates engagement and helps our writers in their future endeavors. When we get a review as glowing as the one Wild Critters of Maine got from George Smith, writer of all things Maine outdoors, it's a nice reminder that we're in the right business. George, former executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, writes for numerous outlets, including his own website, georgesmithmaine.com, and centralmaine.com, where you'll find this review. 
So writes George, "Tom starts with our mammals, from moose to rabbits and gray squirrels. The next section is about fowl, including turkeys, ducks, and lots of other birds. Then he moves on to fish, from brook trout and bass to crayfish. And then Tom surprised me with a section on crawly things from June bugs to dragonflies. I had no idea he knew so much about bugs! And he actually has a section on his favorite insects."
"Tom Seymour knows more about Maine wildlife than anyone in our state, and his new book, 'Wild Critters of Maine: Everyday Encounters,' published by Just Write Books in Topsham, is a real treasure of both information about our wild critters and very entertaining stories about Tom’s encounters with them."
But Wild Critters of Maine isn't the only book penned by Tom in George's library. "One that my wife Linda and I both enjoyed, and continue to use, is “Wild Plants of Maine.” Subtitled “A Useful Guide,” it certainly is. We’ve been amazed at how many edible plants can be found in the Maine woods and elsewhere, from goose tongue greens, which we harvested along the ocean in Lubec and Campobello, to chanterelle mushrooms. One day in August, up to camp, we picked nine large bags full of chanterelles. Yummy!" 

Opinions are always welcome, and kind words are always heartening to read, but when those words are from someone educated on the subject at hand, it's all the better. 
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Let Tom Seymour be your guide to the Wild Critters of Maine

1/30/2020

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For the outdoorsy individual, for curious children, or the student looking to learn about the animals that can be found everywhere from right outside the doorstep to deep in the wilderness, your search ends here. With the latest publication from the pen of Maine author Tom Seymour- Wild Critters of Maine, readers will learn all about the wildlife that populates the state of Maine. 

​There are dozens of kinds of animals, insects, and birds in Maine’s outdoors. Some of them are common enough that any Mainer could identify them: loons, moose, black bears, great blue herons. Others are lesser-known, such as sora birds, green frogs, cormorants. As Maine Guide Tom Seymour treks year-round through the woods and fields of Maine, he gets to see all these creatures and has learned much about them. Now he’s sharing that knowledge in his new book Wild Critters of Maine.​
With the same lively, informal storytelling as his previous books, including Wild Plants of Maine, Seymour introduces and describes the characteristics of many of Maine’s treasured animals. From the white-tailed deer foraging in the snow to feast on saplings to the red-winged blackbird indicating when the brown trout are coming to the surface--each of the critters is given plenty of space to show their best colors.

​Loons are practically a staple of Maine’s lakes and ponds. Late at night and early in the morning, you can hear their calls ring out across the water, and when the sun is out, you can see them fishing--as Tom has, when relates a tale of a time when one nabbed a better white perch than he had on his line.

​Although more often heard than seen, bobcats populate nearly every part of Maine. In the pages of Wild Critters of Maine, Seymour relays his stories of the few rare sightings of these elusive animals--including his encounters with them while hunting, when the dogs he hunted with chased them down. 
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Moose are massive creatures, much more so than most people realize. An adult bull moose is capable of utterly demolishing shrubs and bushes as it rubs the velvet off its new antlers, leaving a small tornado scene that instills a sense of cautionary fear in smaller animals. Ticks are the exception, and in large enough numbers, they can kill a moose from dehydration and blood loss.

​To learn all about these creatures and more, track down a copy of Wild Critters of Maine at your local bookseller, jstwrite.com, or your favorite online retailer. 
​Tom Seymour has been a registered Master Maine Guide for decades. He leads foraging plant walks in various locations. On occasion, he may also be persuaded to talk at events about not only plants but fish and other animals, as well. He plays several kinds of Celtic pipes, writes for different news columns, and keeps himself busy gardening, fishing, and enjoying the rest of Maine’s outdoors. 
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Dave Small, photographer, has taken pictures for Bangor Daily News, U.S. Fish and Wildlife brochures, and signs in wildlife management areas, to name a few. His photos are for "conservation and education and are free for those uses". Visit his website, photosbychance.zenfolio.com, for more.
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Just write books presents writing award for maine nonfiction

11/22/2019

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The ability to write a story is a unique skill, and Maine has a long history of being the home of many a writer. To seek new talent and give a platform to Maine authors, the Topsham Public Library hosts its annual competition, Joy of the Pen, bringing together local writers and celebrating Maine stories. Just Write Books sponsors the Maine-related Nonfiction Award, and the winners were selected by Nancy Randolph.
PictureEmma Gibbon, Topsham Library, presents awards to Mike Giggey (Honorable Mention) and Robin Hansen (First Place).
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​The winner for 2019 was Robin Hanson for her short story “Eternally Green”, a tale of a quest for a campsite. It was chosen for “a great story, clear characters, and an O. Henry ending,” This year’s Honorable Mention went to Mike Giggey for his short story “The Budding Outdoorsman,” about a fishing expedition he shared with his grandson, which is “a story that tugs the heart then delivers an environmental message.”

Robin Hansen has worked as a journalist and written about knitting, but pens stories and poems when deeply moved. Her articles and stories have appeared in regional and national publications from Yankee Magazine to Family Fun and Saturday Evening Post. 

Mike Giggey is a semi-retired environmental engineer with Wright-Pierce of Topsham, former chair of the Topsham Planning Board, and life-long advocate for Maine and its water resources.
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    An active community member she co-­chaired the rehabilitation effort of the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge and guided the planning and creation of two riverside parks at each end. Along with two others she founded and serves as a member of the board of Save Our Swinging Bridge.Org to ensure the maintenance of the historic Roebling designed and built bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick.

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Nancy E. Randolph, JWB owner, markets my titles on a wide scale. She also sets up book signings. I find it infinitely more enjoyable and rewarding to work with this Maine-based publisher than to deal with national publishers from out-of-state.
Finally, JWB does not publish just any aspiring author. Randolph is very selective, accepting only material that she is convinced will sell. I highly recommend JWB to any author. 
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