BEAVER’S POND PRESS SUMMER BBQ

Each year in August, Beaver’s Pond Press has a
BBQ for their authors. I published my children’s / coffee table book, Real Norwegians Eat Lutefisk,
with them in 2009. They are a local self-publishing company, which is why I
chose to work with them, and the founder, Milt Adams turned out to be an old
Norwegian who fell in love with my book. They made the process easy to go from
finished manuscript to printed book. I chose to self-publish my book because it
was a niche book that would most likely appeal only to the Norwegian American
people in the Midwest. It has been successful and can be found in most of the
Scandinavian stores in the Midwest along with some independent book stores.
Considering it came out at the start of the recession, I think it has done
extremely well! I like going to the BBQ because it gives authors a chance to
meet with other authors to exchange marketing and promo ideas. And of course
the food is always tasty. This year it was a pleasure to meet Marilyn Jax who
worked as a government enforcement investigator and fraud examiner for many
years and just put out her second book, Road
to Omalos. Her first book, The
Find, received numerous awards. I chatted with Dara Beevas, who was the
editor for my book and now is the VP, about possibly putting out my second
book, Real Norwegians Eat Rommegrot,
in 2012. I have this book ready to go but have been waiting for the economy to
recover before taking the leap of faith again. It has been almost three years
though, so I think it may be time to take this next step in my Norwegian
Traditions Children’s series. This was the second Beaver’s Pond Press BBQ I was
able to attend and it was well worth my time because of the networking
opportunities it offered to me as one of their authors.