Sullivan Street Press Announces Lynda’s Page Blog Posts–Giving Voice To Living With Ovarian Cancer
Sullivan Street Press in conjunction with the Ovarian Cancer Hope Organization (OChO), has launched a new blog post for the members of this unique group to tell their stories and share their experiences. The first entries have been posted (http://www.sullivanstpress.com/lyndas-page/blog). Over the coming weeks and months, more posts with a multiplicity of opinions about what life is like living with ovarian cancer will be posted on the website.
“It’s a privilege to work with these feisty women to raise money for the Foundation for Women’s Cancer.”
Deborah Emin, author of Scags at 18
(PRWEB) April 04, 2012
Sullivan Street Press has also become a partner with OChO in raising money for the Foundation for Women’s Cancer. For each copy of Scags at 18 sold in an e-book format, a portion of the sale will be given to the Foundation. No special code or password is required. All sales effect the amount of money that SSP gives to the Foundation in collaboration with OChO.
When Sullivan Street Press announced this new partnership, Karen Carlson, Executive Director of the Foundation for Women’s Cancer had this to say:
“The Foundation for Women’s Cancer is very pleased and honored to have been selected by Sullivan Street Press as the designated charity for a percentage of the proceeds from Scags 18. On behalf the women we serve, we thank you.”
(For those interested in fund raising, please email Sharon Krinsky, Director of Philanthropy, or phone her at 312-580-1165.)
“While working with a group of women who have cancer and are involved in their own struggles to survive and thrive may not seem like the most practical way to get the word out about this new title from SSP,” the publisher said, “We welcome this feisty group of women helping us promote our book while also helping us to raise money with them. It’s a privilege to be involved with OChO.”
The premise of the Scags Series, of which Scags at 18 is one of four volumes, is how women grow and mature, awaken, to finding themselves and what it is they are meant to do. In many ways, the women of OChO, while never choosing ovarian cancer, have shown an amazing ability to give back. Their fund raising prowess is evidenced not just in the partnership with Sullivan Street Press but by their collaboration with Bakers Square restaurants at events that raised over $13,000 in the past year.
About the Publisher:
Sullivan Street Press, Inc. is a green e-publisher whose mission is to change the publishing paradigm. For both environmental and financial reasons, the press advocates for the new digital changes that will affect the book business and the book lover. Sullivan Street Press disseminates timely information about these changing aspects of the publishing business here
The publisher’s blog is at http://www.sullivanstpress.com
The publisher’s facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress
Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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Sullivan Street Press Announces Launch Of Lynda’s Page, A New Campaign To Raise Money And Awareness Of Ovarian Cancer
Sullivan Street Press, leading Green E-Publisher, is launching a new page on their website to help raise awareness of the deadliest of all gynecological cancers–ovarian cancer. Donations from all sales of the e-book, Scags at 18, will be made to the Foundation for Women’s Cancer.
“Read the books. You won’t be sorry you did! I give a glowing recommendation to the books.” – A. Craven
(PRWEB) February 29, 2012
Lynda’s Page is the newest page on the Sullivan Street Press website. Lynda and some of her friends will be blogging to share their experiences of living with ovarian cancer.
As Lynda said when we offered her and her group this opportunity to tell their story:
“I’m hoping visitors (to the site) will know we are “real.” Our story is not made-up and all rosy. We are not conceived in some author’s mind; we are the real deal. Ours is the story of women living with the deadliest form of gynecological cancer, fighting for life, dignity, respect and to blaze a trail for others. It is a story about losing 3 friends in 18 weeks to ovarian cancer but not giving up hope for ourselves. It is the story of one member, me, and to another extent my friend Carole’s, determination to raise the bar on awareness and advocacy.”
It is from this gritty awareness of life with ovarian cancer that Lynda and her friends speak. The new platform will allow them to not just blog about their experiences but to interact with those living with or knowing those living with ovarian cancer.
Lynda and her friends have been actively involved in fund raising and advocacy work for 18 months, in partnership with the Foundation for Women’s Cancer and Bakers Square. The group is known as OCHO–Ovarian Cancer Hope Organization. Their momentum has been building and Sullivan Street Press will now add its marketing weight to this work in progress.
No special codes or passwords will be required for purchasing the e-book and benefiting the Foundation for Women’s Cancer. All sales will reflect Sullivan Street Press’ commitment to raising money. Initially, SSP will donate $1.00 per copy but as the sales goals are reached, more money will be donated to the Foundation. The price of Scags at 18 is $12.95.
In keeping with the publisher’s mission to lead the way as a green e-publisher, Sullivan Street Press’ website and Facebook page are the only places where Scags at 18 can be purchased.
About the Publisher
Sullivan Street Press, Inc. is a green e-publisher whose mission is to change the publishing paradigm. For both environmental and financial reasons, the press advocates for how the new digital changes will affect the book business and the book lover. Sullivan Street Press disseminates timely information about these changing aspects of the publishing business.
The publisher’s blog is at http://www.sullivanstpress.com
The publisher’s facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress
Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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Sullivan Street Press, Leading Green E-Publisher, Launches New Website to Announce New Business Model for E-Publishing
As a leading publisher of e-books and a supporter of the green way forward in e-publishing, Sullivan Street Press hired Steve Rypka of GreenDreamWeb to create its new website.
(PRWEB) February 14, 2012
GreenDream Web provides environmentally-responsible web design and hosting services. All aspects of the company, from the design studio to the server facilities, are carbon-neutral and zero-energy, utilizing solar and wind power. Steve Rypka, GreenDreamWeb’s owner and designer says, “I think it’s a good idea to live on the planet as if we intend to stay.”
With the launch of the new website, Sullivan Street Press teamed up with Steve Rypka in order to stay on track with its mission to be environmentally friendly.
As the publisher, Deborah Emin says, “The new site allows us to make our books more available to a wider range of buyers. By providing a greater amount of information for the book buyer on all aspects of the ereader, from how they were developed, to the range of them available, to technical help on using them, we can offer more than even the sellers of ereading devices do now.”
Sullivan Street Press continues its green e-publisher commitment by providing readers with the fullest range of opportunities that exist today for participating in the new world of book publishing. One of the major overhauls on the site was to create a place where in real time all the Twitter feeds and Facebook postings that are gathered each day by SSP could be seen at once. Thus the “News You Can Use” feature of the site allows for an RSS feed for the book lover who wants to know what is happening in the world of books but doesn’t have the time to discover this for him or herself. In addition, the frequent blog postings are also included in this home page mix of news, views, book reviews, guest blogs and reports on what the future of publishing will be.
Publisher Emin says this about the usefulness of the new site: “SSP has always seen itself as having two missions, as we state, ‘to change the publishing paradigm’ and to sell books. With this new site, we are confident we can now do both.”
About the Publisher
Sullivan Street Press, Inc. is a green e-publisher whose mission is to change the publishing paradigm. For both environmental and financial reasons, we all need to be aware of how the new digital changes will affect the book business and the book lover. Sullivan Street Press disseminates timely information about these changing aspects of the publishing business.
For a review copy or for author interviews of our titles, please contact the publisher.
The publisher’s blog is at http://www.sullivanstpress.com
The publisher’s facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress.
Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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Sullivan Street Press Announces New Book Launch, Scags at 18, About Boomers for the OWS Moment
The leading e-publisher, Sullivan Street Press, is proud to announce the launch of Scags at 18 on December 1, 2011. Scags at 18 tells the eponymous’ hero’s story of her first semester at an elite college in Vermont during the final days of the turbulent 1960s. Arriving fresh-faced from Skokie, IL, Scags learns the major lessons of this pivotal time–sex and love, politics and feminism, literature and life with some rock ‘n’ roll thrown in.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 29, 2011
The second volume of the Scags Series is now available. Scags at 18 tells the story of her first semester in College in the fall of 1969. Three historical events from that fall shape Scag’s experiences:
- October 1–the US release of the Beatles’ album, “Abbey Road”
- November 15–the anti-war march in DC that didn’t stop the Vietnam War or Nixon from watching football
- December 1–the first draft lottery based on the birthdays of all draft-eligible men
These three major historical events form the structure of this novel and show us what it was like for Scags, a young woman from Skokie, IL (a mostly Jewish enclave in the northern suburbs of Chicago) to arrive for the first time in at an elite school in Vermont. Having won a full scholarship to the unnamed College, Scags is painfully aware of how poor she is (e.g., one of her dorm mates drives a Bentley to classes).
The opportunity though to be at such a school and to make something meaningful out of her life leads her to experiment in several ways: to find a boyfriend and from that to learn what love is. To discover the power of feminism, specifically by reading Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.”
It’s during her trip to DC to participate for the first time in an anti-war march that Scags experiences more than she could have imagined. She drops acid for the first and last time but during her “trip” she confronts the overlap between the political and the spiritual. While her life isn’t immediately changed by this, it’s now easier for Scags to understand who she is and what it is she wants and doesn’t want to do with her life.
The harrowing end to the novel isn’t one many readers will expect. Yet it puts into perspective the consequences of all that the 1960s excited in the young.
Scags at 18 is part of a 4-volume series that shows the awakenings of a woman to life. Rather than composed as a typical “coming of age” novel, these 4 separate parts of Scags’s life represent the different elements that make up a woman’s total character. Each volume is told in a different first-person voice. Scags at 18 is written as a diary.
About the Author
Deborah Emin, the author, is a writer, blogger and political junkie. She has hosted a reading series for her Queens neighborhood (the REZ Reading Series), been a campaign blogger for Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign. And she has taught writing to over 1000 students, several of whom went on to become successful writers.
About the Publisher
Sullivan Street Press, Inc. is an ebook-only publisher for both financial and environmental reasons. Sullivan Street Press also disseminates timely information about the changing nature of the publishing business.
For a review copy or for author interviews, please contact the publisher.
The author’s blog is at http://www.deborahemin.com.
The publisher’s facebook page is at http://www.facebook.com/sullivanstpress.
Twitter: @sullivanstpress
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