Comments on Gail’s Christmas Memories

These are from fellow writers on the eHow site where Gail writes how-to articles.

on 2/8/2009 This is enchanting! I was there with you, munching the buttery popcorn and sliding the cranberries onto the string . . . I just love the way you recount the simpler times of days gone by. Thank you for sharing. Five well deserved stars! *****

Mandica said

on 12/13/2008 I loved this article. The glimpse of your life in those days was so interesting and wonderful. What a contrast to the commercial holiday of today . . .

slphilbrick said

on 9/6/2008 Very vivid description ! Beautiful !

Susanh said

on 9/2/2008 This article is so precious and wonderful. My brother and I made paper chains every year for our tree. We would put them on the tree and our mantel. I echo JMKnudson when I say, “Please keep writing!”

Anne Wanchic said

on 9/1/2008 What beautiful memories you have. I will be adopting some of your traditions this Christmas season.

JMKnudson said

on 8/29/2008 You have a beautiful way of taking a reader into a story. Please keep writing!

Topic Guides

My Flint Hills Childhood covers a variety of topics and now these are featured on the Squidoo website.  They include individual lenses on pet badgers, feed sack dresses, collecting aprons, the Flint Hills, an old-fashioned Thanksgiving, an old-fashioned Halloween and an old-fashioned Christmas. The lens (webpage) that pulls it all together is Gail Martin – A Lensograpy. Take a look at these topic guides and put comments on them so we see how you like them.

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Don't miss this fun event on Saturday, November 7 !!

November 7 – Book Signing

If you missed the book launch for My Flint Hills Childhood at the Kansas Oil Museum, you have another chance to meet the author.

Who: Gail Lee Martin

What: Book Signing and Bookstore Christmas Open House

When: Saturday, November 7, starting at 1 pm

Where:  Jackrabbit Hollow Bookstore at 113 N. Walnut in Peabody, KS

For more information call:  620-983-2600

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Very Successful Book Launch!

The Kansas Oil Museum had a capacity crowd for the Meet the Author. Forty-five to fifty-five people squeezed into the meeting room to munch cookies, drink punch and greet the authors. Tonda Alvarez and her daughters catered the refreshments and Lilah Weber from Texas handled the book sale table.

The authors (Gail Lee Martin, Ervin Grant, Carol J. Garriott, and Cynthia Jo Ross) each gave a brief talk about their book and read an excerpt. The audience then surrounded the sale table to purchase copies for autographing. A photographer from the El Dorado Times captured the event for the newspaper. Martin’s daughter, Virginia Allain from Florida, taped the author talks and plans to post them on You Tube soon.

Gail was surprised to see cousins and second cousins who traveled from Missouri and parts of Kansas for the event. Also attending was an old school chum that she hadn’t seen in 75 years. They had attended grade school together.

Book Now Available in Paperback!

Gail Martin’s book, My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing Up in 1930s Kansas is just out in an affordable paperback version. All the pictures are black and white, but that fits fine since photos from that period are that way anyway.

Added to the book is a Table of Contents and at the end a section called More About The Author. Since it’s in size 12 font, the paperback version ends up being 187 pages long and easier for older eyes to read. Best of all, it’s online price is a budget-friendly $10.95 plus whatever the postage is to your area.

Preview and order your copy now at Blurb’s online bookstore and you should have it in your hands in just a few weeks.

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Gail Martin’s First Book

 The cover for My Flint Hills Childhood 

 

Here’s the book description:
A childhood on the Kansas prairies in the 1930s springs vividly to life in the detailed memories of Gail Martin. Her simple accounts of long ago school days, celebrations and family life are a treasure. Travel back in time to life in the Flint Hills during the Great Depression and the time leading up to World War II.
The memories include her father’s work in the oil field, trips to town in the family’s Model A, raising her pet badger, fishing on the Cottonwood River, and wearing dresses made from feed sack material.

Preview the first fifteen pages online, of My Flint Hills Childhood by Gail Lee Martin at Blurb, where it’s available in hardback or paperback.