It's been quite an odyssey taking my parrot-welfare children's story, Here, There and Everywhere from eight typed sheets of paper to a 48-page hardcover book with 45 illustrations, in less than a year and becoming a publisher in the process!
Here, There and Everywhere is the first parrot-welfare children’s book written to educate children to parrot conservation and issues with parrots in captivity. The premise being, the better educated the consumer, the less suffering to parrots in the pet trade. The launch event on Sunday, December 16th was a huge success! Golden Globe award-winning actor, Beau Bridges, Emmy award-winning actor and co-star of NBC’s new drama, “Life,” Adam Arkin, and Grammy nominated hip hop artist, poet and social activist, Mystic, came to read. Bridges said it was a “privilege to read this great book”—music to an author’s ears I can tell you. This week (Christmas week) there will be pieces on both Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood about the event this coming week (on 12/25 and 26, respectively). You can see more about it at www.ParrotPress.org.
I’d like to believe 2008 can be the Year of the Parrot. Or as I say in the back of the book, “help save the planet one parrot at a time!”
Wishing you and yours the very best for the Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Mira
Author and… Publisher!
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