Danielle Rohr's Blog - Posts Tagged "alaska"

I truly, from the bottom of my little heart wish upon every star in the sky that someone will notice my book. Read my book and hopefully think . . . "I enjoyed reading this".

My book will soon be available on the Barnes and Noble website. This is very encouraging. They have the book, but for now it reads : not available.I predict it will read "available" in the near future!
Thanks to all wonderful boys and girls who have recently purchased a copy of Denali Skies , A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey. I sincerely appreciate you and wish I could genuinely reach out and give each one of you a big "Denali Style" hug!

Not only is Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey Listed with Barnes and Nobles, they are offering it on sale for $7.65 which is 36% off the $12.00 list price!
In addition to this super deal, BnN offers free shipping on this item.

No excuses . . . its time to buy your copy of Denali Skies!

I read my very first book royalty report today and I have to say "what a thrill". The numbers were far from impressive, but just to have some book sells is the best thing ever! Thank you fine supporters of the indie book authors.

I think I might throw my book at the window, the one that sits just to the right of my kitchen sink. I'm going to throw it with all my power so that it breaks through, and flies out into the frozen air that saturates this snowscaped climate. I'm going to throw it hard into the glass so that I can hear the sound of my story breaking through, shattering the boundaries that divide the inside and the out.
I'm going to do it, only because I'm curious and want to listen to the sound it might make. Books crashing through windows, crashing through spaces, and making changes.
Crash,Scrape,Bang,tinkles . . . then a cool open silence. So satisfying.

I am so hopped up on red vines right now. I have several Spring book promotions going on this month that I'm so fired up for! I also love suggestions, if anyone has any thoughts they might want to send my way! Next week I'm offering a Kindle Version of my book half off, I'll post the details as they are realized. I also am working on building an audience of "Likes" on the facebook page. When I reach one hundred "likes" I'm giving away books and Godiva chocolate!
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Everyone forever associates Spring as a time for renewal, rebirth, and reivention. I can testify that this belief is alive and well in the Rohr household. Despite the lack of change with my very dedicated project of promoting my new book Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey, I am truly very faithful that it will find success and acceptance in this crazy literary industry. It seems books move through this mechanism in waves. Starting slowly, then building momentum, peaking with great esteem, until they finally come crashing down, dispersing among readers, reviews, and shelves at the local bookstores. I need to catch a wave.
My great comfort is that the book is steadily maintaining interest. Despite the fact its only a few people each day adding it, I am certain these small numbers will add up, and hopefully build and collect enough to create a wave!

I completely forgot!!!
For the next day or two, anyone with a Kindle can download Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey as an Amazon Promotion for FREE. If you have a Kindle, take advantage . . . its only available for a few more days! After this weekend its $3.99
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Saturday, August 24th 2002



He’s mine. He doesn’t know it yet.
I place my hands on his chest while staring intently into his eyes; he doesn’t pull away, as if I have challenged him.
The tight crowd squeezes in around us, this hides the fact that I have just walked up and pushed myself against this random man. Uninhibited, without any doubt, I lock eyes with him.
He’s doing his best to assess who, and what I’m doing. Only moments before I entered the bar, only to negotiate through the congested crowd, heading directly for him. All social rules and appropriate conduct melted away from my sincere and hungry expression. He is looking deep into my eyes, trying to make sense of this senseless event, and as he thinks his lips curl up at the corners “Was she on drugs?” “Do I know her?” startled and intrigued he tries to reason “Has she mistaken me for someone else”? I’m not on drugs. He doesn’t know me. I don’t think he is someone else. It doesn’t matter.
It’s him. I’ve never had a reaction to anyone like this before. Shy, awkward, and unpopular, this is not my standard behavior.
Under the pressure he cracks “Hi”. I answer sort of trance-like “Hi”. He tries again, almost laughing “I’m Ansell”. “Ansell, I’m Liz”.
What hold could this stranger have on me to persuade me to deviate from myself? Perhaps it is the soft caress of night which I have missed so dearly, or the threat of time closing in on me, desperate to take all that I can, before it’s gone.
He works on the river, he buys me a beer, and I can’t stop smiling.

Copyright © 2013 by Danielle Rohr

Even though I hadn’t quite understood, in a way I had uncovered a deep buried fantasy to trek the Alaskan landscape. This realization is stunning and hard to process really. In my young twenty two year old brain, I always concluded that to go to Alaska there would need to be some validated purpose. If I were a scientist, or a fisherman, or a photographer I would have a reason to go see Alaska. It had never crossed my mind that I could go to Alaska, simply to go. I am not smart, nor pretty, and not exceptional, and yet these are all conditional. I have chosen to be this way, and just as easily I can choose to be something else. A girl on her own, setting out, a lone traveler, independent and harboring fears worth losing sleep over. I feel absolutely drunk with the prospect of possibility. The afternoon was a steady blur of cake, coffee, a beer, some Advil for the headacheand an attempt at a nap, well wishes from aunt’s uncles and family friends. - Danielle Rohr Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey



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