From Cheerios Cookbook, a BEARY GOOD MIX, 5 minutes prep time, 8 servings 1/2 cup each 240 calories.

• 2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios cereal
• 2 cups teddy-bear shaped graham snacks
• 1 cup honey roasted peanuts
• 1/2 cup raisins

1. Pour all ingredients into a half-gallon plastic bag or 2-quart container.
2. Seal the bag and shake, or stir and cover the container.

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 WATCH FOR SPACEHIVE, A  HONEY OF A BOOK, ON KINDLE SELECT www.Amazon.com to be released on AUGUST 10th!

There are many very talented Indie people around, including authors, publishers, designers, artists, musicians. I've met a lot and I try to encourage all of them.

• The publisher of DISCOVERY-An Anthology of Poetry, Authors for a Cause, is Indie and consists of a father and daughter team who have a vision of helping children learn to read. 

• Imajin Books is an Indie publisher awesome in its scope of promotion and knowledge of the book industry and writing, mainly due to its founder, Cheryl Tardif. They will be releasing my first novel, SpaceHive, on August 10, 2012 on Amazon.com.

• Diamond Heart Press is a mother/daughter publishing company in California who are publishing our young reader's book Benjamin and Rumblechum in April 2013. They have a dream, and they are stainless in their pursuit of perfection and purity.

• An Indie band I've discovered to my delight plays from Vancouver, Canada. They're called Sons of Granville. A duo who plays on a fiddle and acoustic guitar. I bought their CD and I want to mention them in a positive light when I can as they're a young band, just starting up, and I think they're very good. I sat with their drummer/manager on a Greyhound bus going to Vancouver. He was a very polite and very talented young man who took the time to explain to an older woman, as I am, technologies I wasn't familiar with, was patient and pleasant, and I'm happy to promote their band, which is billed as classical/rock. Very energetic and amazing instrumental music. 

 

• Amazing and wonderful authors, publishers, musicians, and graphic artists with a vision and independence, entrepreneurs, beautiful and moving like the wind, and they're not going to go away. They will give rise to a spring of their own tomorrow. The seeds have been planted, they are nourishing their futures, they are springing up from the grassroots of their democratic heritage. I might be here to see it flower.

• This is the generation and the face of the future.

 

Discovery-An Anthology of Poetry has sold 65 copies so far today and is 4th on Amazon bestseller list, with more hours in the day to come.

I'm hoping this will continue over the course of the next few weeks and jump start the sales.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the launch and downloaded the book. Please consider leaving a short review on Amazon if you have the book.

Note you don't have to have a Kindle to read it. Apps are available for your PC or mobile device.

I'm having postcards made up. What do you think? Do they need tweeking?

I saved myself $$$ by designing them myself. I'll get them printed at Staples. About 100 at a time, I think, in case I want to tweek them again.

Alison Bruce, crime writer extraordinaire, does graphic design work. You might want to get in touch with her if you need postcards, business cards, bookmarks or templates of any kind. She's also an author of note.

I designed this postcard. The format is a bit wonky here but it fits on a regular postcard and the title is centered.

Would you be interested if you found it in your mailbox?

Discovery-An Anthology of Poetry by Kenna McKinnon Available in ebook on Amazon.com E-mail: kennam@shaw.ca www.facebook.com/KennaMcKinnonAuthor Follow on Twitter: @KennaMcKinnon http://kennamckinnon.blogspot.ca			"Her words speak to my heart in a simple way....to others, they may take on a different meaning. They speak of hardships, trials, and events in life that have been overcome by faith and strength of character."

FREE BOOK LAUNCH on my Discovery-An Anthology of Poetry Facebook launch page! Get a FREE Download of my poetry book, enter a contest for a $10 amazon.com gift certificate (no purchase necessary), see Beatnik Betty (me) read excerpts from the book, have a virtual bistro party.

The book is available on Amazon.com in Kindle Select. You can read it on your PC or Mac, and there are free apps for your cell and tablet, too, if you don't have a Kindle reader.

Come to the virtual party and have fun. Interact with the author, comment on the book, and get your FREE ebook here.

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The most amazing young woman athlete has written a book about her life. I met Shellie Blum on Twitter and out of curiosity looked at her website.

She's done on water skis what Sheryl Crowe did to music. Perhaps I should say, what Leonard Bernstein did to music.

Shellie is the only female freestyle water ski ramp jumper in the world. She was raised in an athletic and beautiful family, and from an early age demonstrated extraordinary abilities. Shellie needs an agent/publisher for her amazing book. It would make a great movie. Contact information is on her website.  

A week from Thursday there will be a FREE BOOK LAUNCH on Facebook of poetry starting at midnight PST on July 26th.

You're invited to the virtual party with...

• FREE contest with one $10 Amazon.com gift card to give away to the best answer (what made you smile today?). NOTHING TO BUY.
• FREE downloads of DISCOVERY-An Anthology of Poetry ALL DAY.
• A VIRTUAL COFFEEHOUSE right from the 1950s with BEATNIKS, POETRY READINGS NEVER HEARD BEFORE, virtual BLACK COFFEE, virtual RED WINE, virtual TAPAS, CHECKERS, CHESS, JAZZ AND DANCING.
• REVIEWS, 'LIKES' AND FEEDBACK OPTIONAL BUT APPRECIATED.
• FUN TWEETS all day.
• Check out FACEBOOK for more information as the day of the quarter moon approaches.
• COOL INFORMATION about the phases of the moon, changing fashions in poetry and clothing, types of coffee that keep poets awake and their readers asleep, ANECDOTES AND LITTLE KNOWN FACTS about the author, Michigan (home of my publishers), and Canada (home of the author).
• The virtual party will be featured on FACEBOOK.
• This FREE LAUNCH is co-sponsored by my Indie publishers, Authors for a Cause, from Michigan, USA.

Don't miss it - you are all invited. Some of you will receive email invitations. Sorry, I spilled virtual coffee on my address list (poets will do that). But EVERYONE will get a personal invitation! Here it is!

26 July 2012 MIDNIGHT TO 11:59 p.m.