We need to find a name for the Prairie-Dog Prince.
Enter the competition by suggesting a suitable name for this important character in the book, and if your name is chosen, we’ll send you a poster of the book signed by award-winning illustrator Carolyn Digby Conahan.
The winning name will be used for the prince in a forthcoming project.
Just send an email with “Prairie-Dog Prince Name” as the subject line to be eligible.
A nice little question and answer session with Pamela Smith Hill, author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life is available by clicking on this link.
The Prairie-Dog Prince by Eva Katharine Gibson, illustrated by Carolyn Digby Conahan has been named a double-award winner by The Mom’s Choice Awards. Check out the official press release from the awards body for full details.
Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman
So, the Press has had a Twitter account for some time now, but I’ve never really used it as it seemed a little too “in the moment” for us. However, I had some interesting twitter-based conversations last week and it seemed more and more relevant.
As a result, we’re moving twitter further up our priorities list and we’ll be putting out any relevant updates on that social site, just the same those we already do on Facebook, and our website and our blogs. Those same conversations also appeared to warrant us moving into more social media on the web, so we’ll begin to analyse what is going to work best for us and we’ll see you there.
Our great location has afforded some good traffic at the booth. Managed to meet with a lot of nice people and have learned that the book industry seems to be more healthy than many of the official prognoses. The gist of it is that the non-traditional booksellers, people like museums, tourist stops, gift shops, etc., are selling a lot of regional books, which of course is exactly what we want to hear.
While our booth is great for traffic, it is also a sun trap. Huge glass windows facing south east have been soaking up the unseasonal hot sun and pounding it on to my back. Thankfully, I managed to concoct some screens from our banners and have managed to survive the hot (but most welcome) conditions!
Truly a live blog. Right now I’m sitting in the prime location at the South Dakota Tourism Conference in Pierre. The tables are set up for displaying our books and we’re hoping to get a lot of traffic from tourism industry people who might wish to use/purchase our books for their various enterprises. Looking for a good 2 days here. I’ll post a few times over that period to give you a flavour of the conference.
Just in case you haven’t seen the short trailer for Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends, then it is now available on Google Video and book-trailers.net, as well as our main website.
Pamela Smith Hill’s Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life has made it into another list of best books of 2008. Check out the link to find out more.
If you are interested in learning more about Marshall Damgaard, author of The South Dakota State Capitol: The First Century, either visit sdshspress.com or Google Video to watch an interview he recently recorded at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre.
