From me to you

       

If you need a speedy gift for someone, I have limited copies of Letters From Rapunzel at home that are available for signing and immediate shipping to you or your chosen reader.  $16 covers it all, including postage.  

I'll toss in one of my nifty red "Read * Write * Believe" pencils 

too.

Email me: email(at)saralewisholmes(dot)com  or use the link in the sidebar.

Gifts For Readers and Writers, Part V

You're giving books for the holidays, right? 

Yup, thought so.  But if you need something to accompany said books, consider these add-ons...

Annotation Bookmarks

Clip to a page, horizontally or vertically. 

Talk back to the author.

File the 3x5 card later. 

A necklace to wear while reading...

or writing.

A mini-poster. Consult daily.

Invisible Ink. I'm sure you'll find a use for it. 

And then, of course, wrap your books and everything else in gorgeous paper.

Wrapped in Type

Other ideas in this gift series here (but I can't guarantee all the old links are still current.)

Gifts for Readers and Writers-Part IV

Part IV in my (sometimes silly) series of gift ideas for readers and writers.



Limited edition Rat Fink pen (Aren't all writers ratting out something or someone---if only ourselves---when we put pen to page?)





8 days a week planners (Now that's handy. Why didn't I think of just adding an extra "someday" to my work week?)











Melting Snowmen cannister set. (Show, don't tell? Okay, I'm pushing it with this idea, but I wanted to show you these!)







Hyperbole is the BEST thing ever! T-shirt (Isn't it, though?)








Thanks to Velocity for the first three items, the Mental Floss store for the last one.

Good Gifts and Good Poems

Oh, wow. I am LATE posting today. I confess that I was consumed by two things, one important and bookish, the other not important and geeky.*

The important? A birthday present for my husband. He asked for a book of poetry, and I decided to vandalize (no, personalize!) the copy I'm giving him.

The book is Garrison Keillor's Good Poems, which is a compilation of poems from his daily public radio show, The Writer's Almanac. I went through the poems and wrote notes to my husband on many of the pages, pointing out lines I loved, or images that reminded me of something we'd done together or I want to do together one day.

I don't normally write in books, but this was fun. I can't wait to see what he thinks, and if he'll write notes back. The longer I love him, the harder it is to find him a worthy present!


*The not so important and geeky thing? Figuring out how to make those "email me" links work with Firefox and Gmail. If you want to know, the answer is: Firefox Plug-in: Better Gmail 2. I'm not kidding. It works. Now I can click on the Email Me button on my website, and email myself a fan letter. ;)

Gifts for Writers and Readers (Part Three)

I should have thought up a shiny bow of a name for these gift posts. As it stands, I can only present you with links for Part One and Part Two.

Stop with the puns. On to the shopping!

Smencils

Made of recycled newspaper. (You can see layers of newsprint when you sharpen them.) Plus, they have two of my favorite foods: rootbeer and popcorn. No custom scents, yet, but maybe if all the writers and readers beg together we can get Scent of a New Book. (If you want eau de old paperback, go here.)

Write No Evil Pens
Choose carefully who you give these to.
We don't want the world becoming ALL bunnies and rainbows.



Scroll Pen
For those who never have a pen and paper at the same time.
Me? I'm afraid I would lose both.

And lest this gift selection become all about writing and nothing about reading:

Post-It Page Flags
Because a folded-down page corner is sadly lacking in nuance.




If you like quiet while you read...




or if you don't....
(CD sales benefit the Chincoteague Library Building Fund)




60 minute recording of a vacuum cleaner

...or if you just need white noise
and the illusion that your housework
is magically getting done while you read.

Gifts for Writers and Readers

Bumper Sticker for the Wyoming Libraries Campaign

Place Card Signs from GraphicImage

Typewriter Key Snowflake Necklace



Calling Cards from SmallMeadow Press


Library Shelf Labels
I want mine to say:
Read Me First!
Read Me Again!
and
I'm Famous: Why Haven't You Read Me Yet?


One of a kind snowflake
Go on, go look!