Literacy Needs Your Votes
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010When my son held on to my book, Sending You Sammy, for the first time at 2 and a half months I was astonished! I immediately shared the picture with family and friends and knew when I discovered a photo contest where a newborn can be on the cover of a Canadian magazine I had [...]
Christmas Book Shopping for Your Child
Saturday, December 5th, 2009With so many books on the shelves for children how do you know which one is the right one for your own child? I have a newborn and have been given many books already (people know I’m a fan of reading) and have found some “classics” to be books I don’t want to read a [...]
EBook Sales Help Literacy
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Thanks to the sales I’ve had recently for my Fill in the Blank Letters EBook, Adult Dyslexia EBook, Sending You Sammy and Brain Tales books I’ve been able to donate to World Literacy of Canada.
Help me. a children’s book author, keep on giving and give back literacy to your own family.
World Literacy of Canada
Friday, July 17th, 2009When deciding what charity to support in the cause of literacy I Googled literacy of Canada and found the World Literacy of Canada. Intrigued by their cause and their promotion of the importance of literacy in this country as well as those around the world I knew what I had to do.
From today forward $1 [...]
Sending You Sammy Ebook
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Can’t wait to receive this great book? Not in Moncton to buy it at the stores? Don’t worry! My publisher, ProSpec Industries Inc, has made this available for download for an incredible deal. Only $4.97 CAD you can own the eBook version of Sending You Sammy to be able to read to your child within [...]
Sarah Butland Goes to the Zoo
Thursday, May 21st, 2009On Sunday May 24, 2009 - bring your kids, your sunscreen, your spirit and make sure you stretch because the Magnetic Hill Zoo is holding a fundraiser to bring the tigers back to Moncton and I will be there!
I am donating $5 from each Sending You Sammy book sale at the zoo to the Tomar-the-Tiger [...]
My Marketing Adventures, Thus Far
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009I’ve decided to keep a blog about my attempts (successes and failures) of marketing both Sending You Sammy and Brain Tales - Volume One and welcome suggestions from any visitor who wants to assist.
Press/ Media
I was featured on Rogers First Local where my efforts at helping literacy and childhood obesity were seen by viewers in [...]
Sending You Sammy Searchable on Chapters Website?
Friday, March 20th, 2009I’m baffled at the sudden success of finding Sending You Sammy on Chapters.Indigo.ca and in shock at the turn of events. Although Brain Tales - Volume One is not available yet I have to think that it should be soon.
I will update as I find out more.
Updates and Why I Haven’t Been Around
Thursday, March 5th, 2009A couple of weeks ago I decided to take up curling to encourage my husband to get back into it and I unfortunately quickly had an accident and cracked my elbow when I fell. This was quite uncomfortable and did not allow me to write anything at all, let alone update this site.
Now I’m back [...]
Greatly Disappointed in Chapters/ Indigo
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Although I posted earlier regarding how excited I was about my books becoming available through the Canadian book retailer Chapters it has finally been brought to my attention that this is not happening. After many months of my persistently checking on this site and emailing the company I have finally received word that, due to [...]
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