Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett’s blog supports women writing their memoirs. They just gave me a wonderful compliment by announcing that they have chosen Riehlife as one of their five top picks for the Superior Scribbler Award. Here’s how they described Riehlife: Janet Riehl — an artist in the best and broadest sense of the…
Week Eight July 20-24 This is the next-to-last week of the Sightlines blog tour. Watch the featured video with guest Greg McNey (see full story), an expert on licensing and copyrighting. Comment on the video and win a chance for a free copy of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” 20 Bookland…
Three years ago I was one of Yvonne Perry’s Writers in the Sky podcasts shortly after the publication of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary.” Today Yvonne and I chat again on her podcast about “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” showing the miles we’ve traveled since then. This was recorded in the hospital…
FREE AUDIO BOOK! Leave a comment on this week’s featured video and become eligible for winning a free copy of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Janet will run a raffle using random numbers among the comments. Wow! Two posts up this Monday June 29th…and a podcast this Friday, July 3rd. Week…
VIDEO 1 Title: Sightlines blog tour video #1: Getting Ready to Go–Nashville Launch Dinner Description:Ready to go. Janet gets ready for Sightlines audio book launch party in Nashville, Tennessee with Suzy Bogguss—Nashville music star—as special guest. Length:2:33 minutes. Videographer:Ria Sharon Riehlife Link: http://www.riehlife.com/2009/05/27/sightlines-blog-tour-video-1sightlines-blog-tour-video-1/ VIDEO 2 Title: Sightlines Blog Tour Video #2: Studio Tour & Working…
JUNE Week One 1 Velda Brotherton on “On Being a Writer” includes Janet Riehl as part of her stories woven in time. Velda and I are both members of Women Writing the West 2 Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler welcome Janet to Women’s Memoir where everyone has a story to tell. Guest post on the…
The last step in producing an audio book is to celebrate! That’s what my Nashville Production team did with me at the Sportsman Bar and Grille this week. It looks like a theme park version of those grand old WPA (Works Progress Administration) lodges in the great parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite. The food was…
Last May we began the long journey of making our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Here’s the post from that time describing my drive down from St. Louis the Nashville. A year later, it’s still a long drive in the country (albeit on freeways) and a pretty one, to…
A year ago we started the journey of making “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Music and Song.” It was a long-held dream of mine since “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” came out in 2006 to make an audio with music to go along with the book. I happened almost by chance when I decided to…
A Family Love Story in Poetry & Music Hey! SF Book Festival just awarded an honorable mention to “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry & Music” in the audio/spoken word category! Come snuggle into the comfort of this quilt of poetry and music rooted in the Midwest heartland. The story-poems stitch together the lives…