Books:
Freelancing for Newspapers, 176 pages, Quill Driver Books, ISBN: 978-1884956-68-3. It's here! All the wisdom from my online class and more in one handy volume. Chapters include finding markets, developing ideas, pitching, writing and publishing, and the business side of freelancing. Lots of handy references and exercises to get you started or reinvigorate your inner writer. Available at most online and brick-and-mortar bookstores. List price is $14.95, but you can buy it cheaper at Amazon.com.
Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California, 256 pages, photographs. Blue Hydrangea Productions. ISBN: 978-1892076359.
Immigrants, their daughters and granddaughters tell the stories of their life in California as Portuguese Americans, talking about work, marriage, religion, homesickness, and how they struggled to reconcile their old-country ways with their new American lives. Read excerpt.
PRICE: $18.95 + $2 shipping & handling.
Slightly imperfect copies available for $10 total. E-mail me at suelick@charter.net if interested.
Azorean Dreams, fiction, 440 pages. iuniverse.com. ISBN: 0-595-12752-5.
Chelsea Faust is a stubborn American newspaper reporter who knows nothing about her Portuguese roots until she meets Simao Freitas and falls in love. Despite their mutual attraction, their romance appears to be doomed as Simao battles memories of a painful loss while Chelsea pursues a news story headlong into a situation that could cost her life. Read excerpt.
Regular PRICE: $20.95 + $2 shipping & handling.
Cup of Comfort for Families Touched by Alzheimer's, 336 pages, Adams Media, ISBN: 1-59869-651-3.
I have a story, "Respite from the Storm," in this edition of the popular series. Alzheimer's is a sad disease, but these are not sad stories. All are intended to enlighten and lift the spirits.
There are lots of ways to put words between covers. This straightforward booklet tells how to make it happen, from producing do-it-yourself books to publishing via Print on Demand to having a big-name publisher buy your book. Read excerpt.
$5.00 + .75 shipping & handling
Seeking the Story Grandpa Never Told, Blue Hydrangea Productions. The quest for the story of my grandfather, Albert Avina, took us to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where we explored the Portuguese world he never told us about. This illustrated booklet tells the story of our journey.
$4.95 + .75 shipping & handling
You can purchase my books from me directly online, through the links to their publishers, or by mailing checks to Sue Lick, P.O. Box 745, South Beach, OR 97366.
Contact me at this address also for information about classes, talks and editing services.
