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Did you know that Throne of Grace is FREE

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through all retailers?

Happy Valentine's Day!

If you get a copy, please let me know what you think. Leave a review here or where you download it - even a few words with a rating is wonderful. Help this series reach new readers, especially as book three, Treasure of Hope, will be available this fall. I am working on it now, and I can't wait to share the third and final Davenport story with you -

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for those of you who have asked, Josie and Arthur's baby will arrive, and will of course, have a name. I might just have a contest where readers can guess his or her name to win a set of all three books, signed, in paperback.

I just came up with that now - but it sounds fun, doesn't it? You all know how I love to give things away so why not?

Stay tuned for details closer to Treasure of Hope's release date (October).

Thank you for reading!

How?

Easy as following authors on Amazon, that's how! I am guessing that you already follow me (and if you don't, now is the time to do it!), so just do the same for the listed authors, and you'll be entered. Sharing gets you more entries as well. This way you find some new books, get updates, and possibly win the grand prize.

Enter here:
http://bit.ly/2FQlpJZ

Have you entered yet? There is a week or so left to go!

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Good morning!

Helen Vivienne Fletcher has a new YA title & is having a fun contest over on Facebook to win a copy.

For a chance to win Underwater, stop over (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...) and post your best underwater photo in the comments. Have fun and good luck!

Those of you who attended my birthday party on Facebook last year know that I love to give things away, especially on my birthday. Don't miss it this year - I have books from a variety of authors to send out, as well as other items related to my own books.

You can RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/40242...

These are just a few of the prizes I've posted so far - more will appear leading up to the party so you can see what will be up for grabs!

Good morning!

I am giving away a paperback of one of my books (winner's choice) over in the Navigating Indieworld Facebook group today only. Stop by to enter: https://bit.ly/2m86qys

(you'll need to join the group)

YES this is an international giveaway (all my giveaways are).

In honor of milkshakes (one of the most perfect foods), I should give away a #signedpaperback of one of my books - the one with a character who loves peanut butter milkshakes. Name the book & character FTW.

(I've posted this on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, with no winner yet!)

Thank you to YA Interrobang for this great giveaway opportunity!

FIVE paperbacks of The Competition are up for grabs! For more details: http://www.yainterrobang.com/the-comp...

The Little Gate-Crasher

Mace Bugen might have been an achondroplastic dwarf, 43 inches tall with an average size head and torso set on small, twisted legs—but that didn’t mean he was an idiot or a pushover. In truth, he was smarter than most; over the years, he learned to effectively turn what society in those days called a handicap into a powerful tool he could use to his advantage.
“When I was a kid,” he once said, “I’d ask myself, Why is that guy on the football team? Why can’t I be on the team? Why didn’t God give me the height so I could be the hero?”
“Then at some point I figured it out: I gotta do something special to let ’em know I’m me.”
In The Little Gate Crasher: The Life And Photos Of Mace Bugen, I remember my amazing great-Uncle Mace Bugen through his journey as a first-generation Jewish-American kid in working class Philipsburg, NJ to becoming the first celebrity selfie-artist—way ahead of his time.
Featuring vintage photos of Mace with his exploits, The Little Gate Crasher captures three decades of American pop culture, seen through the unique lens of Mace and his gate-crashing exploits.
Underneath his antics, we meet a complex man who continually defies others expectations and meets life on his own terms. Mace becomes a successful businessman and devoted son to his aging parents. But in his gate-crashing antics, we best get to see Mace’s unique combination of guile, cunning and sense of entitlement, which he used to engineer photos of himself with some of the biggest celebrities of his day. If people were going to stare at him all of his life, he would give them something to see.
The Little Gate Crasher features over 50 vintage photos of Mace with celebrities, athletes and politicians, including Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Muhammed Ali, Richard Nixon, Jane Russel, Joe DiMaggio and more.



Amazon US – https://www.amazon.com/Little-Gate-Cr...
Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Gate-...



Author Bio – Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer is an experienced educator, author and speaker. At Jewish Learning Venture, she works as Director of Whole Community Inclusion and leads disability awareness programs for the Philadelphia Jewish community. Her most recent book The Little Gate Crasher, a memoir of her Great-Uncle, who overcame society’s prejudices about dwarfism to lead a remarkable life, was one of the national book selections for 2017 Jewish Disability Awareness & Inclusion Month. Gabby writes for and edits The New York Jewish Week’s The New Normal: Blogging Disability and is also a featured Philly parenting blogger for WHYY’s newsworks. Gabby holds a B.F.A. in theatre and creative writing from Emerson College and an M.A. in Jewish Studies from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.



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www.gabriellekaplanmayer.com
@gabkaplanmayer
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Giveaway to Win a paperback copy of The Little Gate-Crasher (Open to US & Canada only)
*Terms and Conditions –USA / Canada entries welcome. Please enter using the Rafflecopter box below. The winner will be selected at random via Rafflecopter from all valid entries and will be notified by Twitter and/or email. If no response is received within 7 days then I reserve the right to select an alternative winner. Open to all entrants aged 18 or over. Any personal data given as part of the competition entry is used for this purpose only and will not be shared with third parties, with the exception of the winners’ information. This will passed to the giveaway organiser and used only for fulfilment of the prize, after which time I will delete the data. I am not responsible for despatch or delivery of the prize.
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Author Interview:

1. What is your latest book about?

My latest book is “The Little Gate-Crasher,” a memoir of my amazing Great-Uncle Mace Bugen. When my Great-Uncle Moishe “Mace” Bugen was born in 1915, it became quickly apparent to my great-grandparents Sarah and Jakie that something was different with their fourth child. Mace had a normal size head and limbs but his skeleton was curved and there was a hump on his back. He was diagnosed as a dwarf and ultimately grew to be 43 inches tall.
In those days, parents were instructed to send away children with any kind of disability--but my great-Grandparents would never dream of treating Mace any differently from his siblings. He worked in the family grocery store, went to school, became Bar Mitzvah. Mace was raised with the confidence that he could do and become whatever he wanted—despite society’s prejudices against people of small stature and his own mobility challenges.
My Great-Grandmother expected Mace to become a success and he never disappointed his mother. Besides becoming a real estate tycoon and a leader in the Jewish community, Mace was known for an unusual hobby—over 30 years, he would overcome the limitations of his size to stage photos of himself with some of the biggest celebrities, athletes and politicians of his day. Mace was frequently seen on RKO newsreels and was even named by gossip columnist Walter Winchell as the “little gate crasher.”
In The Little Gate-Crasher, I capture the life lessons from Mace’s grand adventures: his unstoppable spirit that shows there’s value in every person and his courage to face whatever obstacles life sends your way.


2. What inspired you to write it?

My Grandmother Minerva, my Great-Uncle Mace’s older sister, was a wonderful storyteller and told me many stories about her childhood as I was growing up—she had grown up in a completely different circumstance, as a daughter of immigrants who had recently come to America and who worked hard in their grocery store to make a living. It was the Great depression and every penny counted. My Grandma shared many stories about her brother Mace and how impressed she was by his ability to not pity himself for being a dwarf and to not think less of himself—even though others teased or jeered at him.

When my Grandmother died, Mace’s photo album with his amazing celebrity photos was passed down to my Mom. My family and I would look at it and marvel as the unique history Mace created of pop culture from the mid-40s to the mid-70s—he had “celebrity selfies” with Ella Fitzgerald, Joe DiMaggio, Nixon, Ali—all of the famous athletes, politicians and entertainers of the era.

As I looked at the photos, I thought of Mace’s story and wondered not only how did he manage to get these photos considering his limited mobility—but why? What did these photos mean to him and what we can learn from there? A great story emerged—of a confidant man given a significant challenge who viewed himself as no less than anyone else, despite the message that society continually gave him.


3. How long did it take you to research and write “The Little Gate-Crasher”?

It took me about a year from when I began to completion of the final draft. I was really blessed to have an amazing editor Mike Sager, who also wrote the forward to the book and was an enormous help in shaping the story.

4. What’s it been like to promote your book?

It’s been really fun! I love to be out talking about the book and hearing people’s reactions to Mace’s story. I’m working on a total of 18 big book events in 2018 and also do smaller events for book groups. I Skype or facetime in to book discussion groups right in people’s living rooms all over the world from my home in Philadelphia. It’s so much fun—and costs no fee to the book group.

5. How can people purchase the book and get in touch with you?

The Little Gate-Crasher is available on amazon and I love to connect with readers on twitter (@gabkaplanmayer) and facebook. You can also reach me via my website www.gabriellekaplanmayer.com

A few more days are left for you to enter to win a signed paperback of The Competition, along with a pretty notebook and pen.

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I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend - I am working on final edits for Treasure of Hope and can't wait to share the Cliff Walk Courtships finale with you all at the end of October!