Thursday, May 31, 2012
Author and Arctic explorer John Huston discusses his book 'Forward' at the Evanston Public Library Thursday. The book tells the story of his 2009 expedition to the North Pole.
Dragging a sled over Arctic ice on a 55-day expedition to the North Pole in 2009, explorer John Huston missed guacamole, eggs Benedict and his family. But back home in Evanston, when the phone’s ringing or he’s stuck in traffic, Huston misses the mental simplicity of an expedition. “I’m happy at home, but I’m a restless person in some ways,” says Huston, 35, who recently published Forward, a book about his expedition to the North Pole. “Every day I miss aspects of the expedition life and the wide open experience of living on an ice cap.” Huston and his partner, Tyler Fish, traveled to the North Pole unsupported, meaning they traveled on their own power, packing all the provisions they needed so they did not need to resupply. They became …
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Friday, March 9, 2012
The Evanston-Skokie writing team was inspired to finish their book by the story of a 4-year-old boy who died of epilepsy while they were writing it. Now they're donating part of the book's sales to a foundation set up in his name.
The story of how Chip Gilbertson and Gina Restivo came to write a children’s book together starts with a date. The two, both single parents, met through Match.com in 2008. While there was no long-term romance in store for them as a couple, they became close friends. And they learned that they had each thought about writing a children’s book since they were young. They decided to collaborate. Three years later, the two published their first book, Fly Danny, Fly, which received a Mom’s Choice Award last month. The book, about a boy and his (possibly) imaginary flying pig, seeks to inspire creativity in its readers. It also supports a nonprofit foundation set up in honor of a 4-year-old boy, who was Restivo’s neighbor, and died from Sudden …
Friday, December 16, 2011
One poem’s 5-step path from idea to electronic publication.
After reading this success story about ePublishing, it’s no surprise that eBooks are taking off in popularity – or that libraries now lend eReaders to those with an appetite for publishing’s newest medium. Last year, Santa Claus delivered a Kindle to my home. I stared that thing down with sheer disgust for the first few months. Why, I wondered, would anyone want to replace traditional books with a Kindle or a NOOK or an iPad? Anyone else notice that Kindle rhymes with swindle? That NOOK rhymes with crook? This is just a fad…isn’t it? Nope. We all know books can get lost, torn, and accidentally dropped into [insert horrible, wet places like toilets and mud puddles]; while eReaders have their own foibles (note the damaged screen in the photo…
Tammy Anzalone
2:37 pm on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Great job Chip have the info for you on the sandbar get it sent over soon Tammy Timeless Treasures Anna Maria fl more ›