It’s out! It’s out!
The book that started as a whisper and became a dream is now reality. Here’s the email I sent friends this morning:
I am ecstatic and overwhelmed. I am also in a bit of shock. The book I ran through my brain several years ago is PUBLISHED!!!
The book is Luisa the Green Sea Turtle, a bilingual “read-to” book for 1st to 3rd graders (although my grandniece who just finished 1st grade can read much of it on her own.) It’s about Luisa who gets trapped, faces being turned into soup, but is set free.
It’s available on Amazon at this link:
Or, you can simply log onto Amazon, enter ‘emilie vardaman’ and get to the book that way.
If you have young ones in your life or are simply inclined to make a purchase, I’m asking folks to do so on Monday, July 2. If impossible, try to do so on the 3rd.
The idea is if a lot of people buy on the same day, the book goes, however briefly, to the top of the sales chart and then is closer to the top of a search page at Amazon. So if you’d like to make a purchase, please do it on July 2.
THANK YOU!!!
Luisa’s illustrator (my super duper fabulous #1 niece Jessie Stout) and I are so excited we’re having champagne! We’re 1700 miles apart but coordinating the champagne.
Emilie
Emilie Vardaman 
Congratulations and good luck!
Well, old post, but in playing with my website, it somehow got moved to today! Lots to learn yet, Tere!
Sitting in the cyber.. just outside the glass door a hen/chicken is darting back and forth… Sunshine streaming through the door, and beyond that is rain coming straght down as if someone just threw out the wash water (and a chicken fell with it?)…
When it stops I will go home, an hour before dark it is – and I think there is some blackberry ‘brandy’ at the house – or maybe I’ll buy a cervesa next door – and will burn a bit of palo santo when home, lift my token glass and join you!
Gracias, amiga!
Congratulations, Emily!!!! I am looking forward to buying your book! I know exactly who I will be sending it to…and she will love, love, love it!❤❤❤
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
Thank you so much! Unfortunately, Amazon has a glitch and you have to search for it by my name or it won’t show up. Or use the link in the blog. Again, thanks!