[NAGDU] Fw: OT: My First Published Work Is Out! / a small correction

Chaim B. Segal chaimsegal1968 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 18:33:16 UTC 2016


Hi All:

Apparently, I gave an ounce of incorrect information. Pardon the second OT post, but it is better to be correct.

Chaim



----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Leonore Dvorkin  <leonore at leonoredvorkin.com>
To: "Chaim B. Segal"  <chaimsegal1968 at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: OT: My First Published Work Is Out! / a small correction

>
>
> 3-11-16
> Denver, CO
> 
> Hello, Chaim.
> 
> If you wish, feel free to send this note to the people to whom you sent 
> your letter. -
> 
> That's a great letter, and thanks for sending it out.  We note that you 
> already have a few sales, and we wish you many more.
> 
> One correction:  CreateSpace is the self-publishing print branch of 
> Amazon. Therefore, they publish and sell only the paperback.
> 
> Amazon and Smashwords are the e-book publishers and the two main sellers 
> of the e-books.
> 
> The book is available in both print and e-book formats on amazon.com .  
> If it is not already available on Amazon worldwide, it will be: in 
> Canada, England, Germany, France, Japan, etc. The e-book is text to 
> speech enabled.
> 
> Here is the link to the book's listings on Amazon:
> http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Sayzeh+Song
> 
> The book is $9.50 in paperback and only $2.99 in e-book format.
> 
> There are multiple other sellers, especially of the e-book.  The Apple 
> iTunes store is one of them.
> 
> For a complete list of sellers and to easily read a sample of the book, 
> people can go to your website:
> http://www.dvorkin.com/chaimsegal/
> 
> New buying links will be added to your website as the book becomes 
> available in each new place.  There are already six buying outlets 
> listed there, giving people lots of ordering choices. But most of our 
> authors sell most of their books via Amazon and Smashwords.
> 
> With very best wishes,
> Leonore Dvorkin, Editor
> 
> E-mail:leonore at leonoredvorkin.com    
> Home 303.985.2327  (best number)  /  Cell 303.885.1728
> My websiteccwww.leonoredvorkin.com  (books, articles, language services, publishing help, and more)
> David's websiteccwww.dvorkin.com
> 
> On 3/11/2016 10:55 AM, Chaim B. Segal wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I am terribly backlogged on E-mail, due to the final push to get Part One of my five-part memoir out there. As of last Saturday, _the __SAYZEH __SONG  Part One has been released. Many thanks to Leonore and David Dvorkin of Denver, Colorado for their hard work in helping me with this project. I also wish to thank Bob Branco, and others who referred me on to Leonore.
> >
> > Though I do make mention of Yahtzee in the accompanying information, my story takes place during my early adolescence, when I was too young (and
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   probably not mature enough), to be a competent guide dog user. Unlike stories of other blind authors, this story takes a different tone, and my objective is to promote more awareness of the unknown beyond growing up as a blind person.
> >
> > I will give a brief synopsis, then invite you to check it out.
> >
> > I come from an extremely unique family setup. Neither my father or mother grew up fully observant of Judaism, but decided upon their marriage to take it on as they went along. Unlike most young couples who make that decision, they did so more-or-less on their own as our family developed, in an area where there was not such a strong Jewish presence. The first few chapters of Part One describe my family's inception.
> >
> > I am the youngest of four brothers. My older brother Moshe, who is one year and 10 months my senior, was born blind. Though doctors did not expect it to happen, I was also born blind. Fortunately, our parents were reasonably educated, and knew that if the right things happened, we had the potential to live respectable lives. However, due to our needs to live an observant Jewish lifestyle, it was necessary for us to move into the city proper of Dayton, Ohio. This would cause difficulty with my schooling, which will become apparent in the course of the story.
> >
> > Though I make no direct mention of this in the story, I battled with concentration and attention problems when I was younger. It comes out in the writing. Due to being somewhat overprotected, I had a number of misconceptions about a number of practical concepts.
> >
> > Essentially, part One sets the stage for the remaining four parts which follow. In the full story, I needed to transfer back to the Dayton City school system, after only one-and-a-half rather unproductive years in Dayton's one and only Jewish school. The switch back to public school brought a host of learning experiences-which I will say were not necessarily academic. I describe my first close relationship with someone from the opposite sex, my embracing popular music and broadening my interest in the various styles contained within it, and also describe some experiences with reverse discrimination.
> >
> > As Leonore has told me, I reveal a lot more about myself than most other people would. I won't refute that statement. I am doing so for a reason. As I say in the back cover, I think xenophobia is our country's worst problem. In publishing _the __SAYZEH __SONG, I want to spread awareness out there of what it is like to grow up blind, as well as give some unknowing people out there an idea of how strict observance of Judaism is not just a religion, but a lifestyle. So many people out there have ideas concerning others which are simply not true.
> >
> > For more information, you can visit my web site at the bottom of this message. The book is available for $2.99 in electronic format on Amazon, Smash Words, and Create Space. It is also available as a paperback for $8.99. I just got word from a buddy in Columbus last night that the book is also available as an iBook. It is also available on Kindle. I hope it will make it to Bookshare as well.
> >
> > As I am telling everybody else who has expressed interest, if you have questions on the  subject matter contained within, please don't hesitate to contact me and ask them.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > I will be sending more on-topic messages in after catching up on my behind E-mails.
> >       
> >
> > Have a great weekend!
> >
> > Chaim
> >
> > Chaim B. Segal
> > Contact Marketing Representative
> > Sinclair College
> > Dayton, Ohio
> >
> > Please check out my web site for more information regarding Part One of my first published work:
> > http://www.dvorkin.com/chaimsegal
> >
> > Every man, woman, every boy and girl,
> > Let your Love Light Shine, make a better world.
> > Daryl Hall & John Oates
> >
> > Sent from my Hinms Braille Sense U2 Mini
> >
> 

Chaim B. Segal
Contact Marketing Representative
Sinclair College
Dayton, Ohio

Please check out my web site for more information regarding Part One of my first published work:
http://www.dvorkin.com/chaimsegal

Every man, woman, every boy and girl, 
Let your Love Light Shine, make a better world.
Daryl Hall & John Oates

Sent from my Hinms Braille Sense U2 Mini 




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