Our American Schools!

If you have read my blog -- you know I am passionate about raising my children bilingual. I feel it is a HUGE advantage (regardless of the languages). Now that my son is going to school (yes, a private school to get him socialized and following structure outside of the home environment), I can't get him to talk to me in Spanish anymore. It is such a shame that our schools DON'T offer any other languages at such an early age -- the age their minds are most capable of learning and retaining it! Don't get me wrong, speaking English is the priority however as I said the minds of children are so capable of learning multiple languages with little effort. It also helps to create more synapses in their brains! I guess I expect too much considering our education system in this country needs far more help than just considering the introduction of other languages! What a real SHAME. Hoping we can make positive improvements in the years to come. I/We just have to do what we can in our homes to expose our children to other languages and build a strong foundation. My book is a good practicing tool www.kaylindanord.com.

Interesting buyers!

I never imagined that most of my internet sales would be coming from buyers from Mexico over the U.S. Looks like there is more interest for Mexicans to learn English rather than the other way around. I think that is awesome just surprising is all. The book can help both ways afterall so just found it to be quite interesting. Never keep yourself in a box for sometimes the best rewards come from unexpected or unplanned avenues :-) Gracias Mexicanos por comprar este libro. Ojala que les ayude y que les guste. Dios los bendiga. Reminder (have to keep plugging it of course) the book can be researched here www.kaylindanord.com.

Unique Christmas Gift for Children!

Don't miss out on giving your child(s) or grandchild(s) a wonderful educational gift for the holidays. Tim and Kim;Tim y Kim.....a highly rated bilingual children's with each page containing great illustrations accompanied by text in English and Mexican Spanish. Go to http://www.kaylindanord.com/ to buy one now!

Unique book promotion opportunity!

"The Book Pick" Contest!
Enter to be our BB Club House Book Pick
Open to ALL authors! (Even self published)
We are seeking America’s greatest undiscovered books that our book clubs will LOVE! So we want to know about all the books that maybe aren't getting on Oprah's or the Best Seller list, but SHOULD BE! We want to help YOU get the word out to book clubs about YOUR book! We have over 2000 members and 350 clubs (and growing) in our community and we are looking for the next, best story to share with readers.
So take the chance. Enter RIGHT NOW, because our readers are waiting!
Next happening in the contest:
Submissions are accepted NOW through November 16th
(Must be postmarked by Nov. 16th, 2009)

http://www.bookbundlz.com/bookpickentry.aspx

Excellent Resource Link

If you are looking for resources available for bilingual children, here is a great link loaded with information to sort through. Please share comments if you use any of them please.

http://www.ivanmoody.co.uk/bilingualism.htm

Anyone know of other resource lists to share? Let me know.

A twist in my blog..........

For my current followers, I know my blog is geared towards bilingual and book publishing themes and I will not stray too much from that I promise. However, I was told that the use of blogs to form a circle of online "friends" or like people is what makes them most effective. Well, here is something I just need to share in hopes of healing through sharing. On Monday, while out of town celebrating our 12yr anniversary, I miscarried our second child at 10wks. This is my fist miscarriage and it hit hard. I have had some time to put things more into perspective and to simply accept that it just wasn't meant to be. I look at my 2yr old son and it helps me appreicate what I have as well as to remind me that it is possible..........just wasn't this time. Anyone of you have advice or been through this? My apologies if this isn't what you expected from my blog.

Good advice I am following

A friend forwarded me this link http://mashable.com/2009/05/08/twitter-authors/ and it contained some great advice -- I can't just focus on my book and not offer other info that can help others. I am switching gears. Being so new at this, sometimes the focus is lost but I am back on track. For anyone intersted, I spent close to a year doing research regarding self-publishing or not. I found someone to help me on Elance (www.elance.com) - Michael McGuire. He is like my coach or agent in that he helped me find a publisher and helps me with marketing which is the hardest part of selling books. Michael then introduced me to GMBooks who published my book at a very affordable price. The commission split is also so reasonable -- just means the hard work is in marketing. If you are not willing to put the effort in marketing yourself -- don't bother self-publishing. You'll waste your money. Hope this helps :-)