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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Mary Greenwood an Exhibitor at the Melbourne Florida Book Fair for Authors


















Mary Greenwood will be exhibiting her books: How to Negotiate Like a Pro, How to Mediate Like a Pro and How to Interview Like a Pro at the Authors Book Fair in Melbourne, Florida.

Here are the specifics:


Saturday & Sunday, November 19 & 20, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Coincides with the Eau Gallie Art Festival

Eau Gallie Civic Center
1551 Highland Avenue
Melbourne, Florida 32935

In conjunction with Art Works:
Eau Gallie Fine Arts Festival






Mary Greenwood, Mediator, Attorney and Author of How To Negotiate LIke A Pro: 41 Rules for Resolving Disputes, Winner of six book awards, How to Mediate Like a Pro, winner of twelve book awards, and How to Interview Like a Pro, winner of eleven book awards. Email: howtointerview@aol.com; website www.marygreenwood.org

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Mary Greenwood is one of the New and Emerging Authors at the Dahlonega Literary Festival November 12-13







The Dahlonega Literary Festival would like to welcome our New and Emerging Authors for the 2011 Festival. Come check them out and support our authors! WE will be exhibiting our books on Saturday, November 12, at St. Lukes Catholic Church Parish from 9:00 to 6:00 and on Sunday November 13, at Hancock Park. Please stop by and say hello if you are in the area.

New and Emerging 2011

William Anderson, God’s Arm
Tori Bailey, Coming Home
Chuck Barrett, The Savannah Project
Kenn Bivins, Pious
Dyan Crawford, Christina and the Lazy Day Surprise
Shane Etter, Bottom Dwellers
Amber Evans, The Wrath
Robert Faulkender, Filtered by Time: A True Story of Success in Vietnam
Sharon and David Goodwill, The Chief Executive Survival Kit, Simple Foods for Complex People, Peter Geter and Friends
Jonathan Grant, Chain Gang Elementary; The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia
Mary Greenwood, How to Mediate Life a Pro: 42 Rules for Mediating Disputes; How to Interview Like a Pro: 43 Rules for Getting Your Next Job
Chad Hepler, Intervention: Anything But My Own Skin
Katandra Jackson, The Diary of a Bride to Be
Emory Jones, White County 10; Distant Voices: The Story of the Nacoochee Valley Indian Mound
Elizabeth Madson, Pieces of the Past; Tuffy; The Favor; The Contract
George W. Martin, I Will Give Them One More Shot”: Ramsey’s 1st Regiment Georgia Volunteers
Ashland Menshouse (Robert Thompson), The Last Seer and the Tomb of Enoch
Jeremy Owens, What is Life and Who Am I?
Angela Sasser, Angelic Visions
Melody Scott, Auraria Dead
Richard L. Stewart, Jr., The Amherst Protocol (Richard Lionel)
James R. Tuck, " He Stopped Loving Her Today," (short story in One Buck Horror anthology); Blood and Bullets, 2/2012
Luanne White, Thief of Innocence




Mary Greenwood, Mediator, Attorney and Author ofHow To Negotiate LIke A Pro: 41 Rules for Resolving Disputes, winner of six book awards; How to Mediate Like a Pro, winner of twelve book awards; email, How to Interview@aol.com; website: www.MaryGreenwood.org

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

How to Interview Like a Pro by Mary Greenwood is Finalist in Business/Career Category in USA Books News Book Awards












How to Interview Like a Pro; 43 Rules For Getting Your Next Job is a finalist in the Business/Career Category in the USA Book News Book Awards. This is the 11th book award for Mary Greenwood's latest book.

Here are the other ten book awards:
1. Winner, Reader Views Awards
2. Winner Pinnacle Achievement Awards
3. Winner, Indie Excellence Awards
4. Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards career category
5. Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards
6. Finalist, Eric Hoffer Awards
7. Honorable Mention DIY Book Festival
8. Honorable Mention Readers Favorite, business/finance category
9. Extra Mention, Millennium Puboishing Book Awards
10.Honorable Mention Mention, New York Book Festival


http://www.usabooknews.com/images/637_usabestbooks2011awards.jpg


Mary Greenwood, Mediator, Attorney and Author ofHow To Negotiate LIke A Pro: 41 Rules for Resolving Disputes, winner of six book awards; How to Mediate Like a Pro, winner of twelve book awards; email, How to Interview@aol.com; website: www.MaryGreenwood.org

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

My First Column on Book Awards for Writing Raw















It Is Nice to be Recognized

Like many things in life, my best book award was my first book award so my first column is about that experience. Future columns will be about individual awards and what to do when you get one.

When I won my first book award (Best "How To" Book, DIY Book Festival) for How to Negotiate Like a Pro, I was very excited and felt validated as a writer. I had been involved in the lonely art of writing a book with little feedback from others. I was not sure if it was a "good" book or not. I liked it and it really boosted my spirits to know that someone else liked it, too. I was thrilled that I could now write, "Mary Greenwood, award-winning author" on my marketing materials.

All the winners of the DIY (Do It Yourself) Book Festival Awards were invited to an awards banquet in October in Los Angeles, California. It was only a few weeks away and I could hardly afford it, but I said to myself, "Mary, you may never win another book award so you owe it to yourself to go." I made my airline and hotel reservation using frequent flyer miles. Since this was Hollywood, I thought I might get discovered just like all those famous actresses at Hollywood and Vine.

When I arrived at my hotel in the Hollywood Hills, it had no record of my reservation and even worse it was totally booked. I must have sounded desperate. "I am a writer and I am getting an award tonight and I really need a room." The desk clerk, who was also a budding writer, said that there were apartments above the hotel that they owned and that there was a vacancy.

He said that he would show me the apartment, which Jerry Bruckheimer used when he needed peace and quiet to write. I was thinking that if it was good enough for Jerry Bruckheimer, it would be good enough for me! The apartment was very sparse and a little dumpy, but it did have a killer view of the Hollywood Sign. I was wondering where exactly Jerry Bruckheimer wrote in this apartment and what he was working on. Of course, I said I would take it and forgot about the nice hotel room below.

I went to the Awards Ceremony and got my award; it was very nice to be recognized. However, It was a little anti-climactic because the highlight of my trip was the "fact" that I stayed in the same apartment as Jerry Bruckheimer. Since then I have had a nagging feeling that the desk clerk made up a story so I would take the apartment, but it could be true.

Whenever I see the closing credits of CSI, I ask myself whether he was working on the script for that or was it the Pirates of the Caribbean?




Mary Greenwood, Mediator, Attorney and Author of How To Negotiate Like A Pro: 41 Rules for Resolving Disputes, Winner of six book awards; How to Mediate Like a Pro, winner of twelve book awards; How to Interview Like a Pro, winner of ten book awards.
Email: howtointerview@aol.com; websites: www.howtointerviewlikeapro.org;
www.marygreenwood.org