Showing posts with label MELISSA STUDDARD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MELISSA STUDDARD. Show all posts

Friday, August 2, 2013

Six Weeks to Yehidah, Chapter 4

Move over, C.S. Lewis; Melissa Studdard is here! Annalise of the Verdant Hills is one of the most delightful protagonists to skip through the pages of literature since Dorothy landed in Oz. Join Annalise and her two walking, talking wondersheep as they travel to ever more outlandish places and meet outrageous and enlightening folk on their journey to discover interconnectedness in a seemingly disconnected world. Discover with them how just one person can be the start of the change we all strive for. A book for all ages, for all time: wonderful, wacky, and bursting with truth! Six Weeks to Yehidah, Melissa Studdard's delightful debut novel, is one of the more metaphysical children's stories you will ever read. Bridging imaginary worlds of talking sheep, cloud kingdoms, magic labyrinths and spirit guides, "Yehida" comes to life in a kaleidoscopic array of color, sound and light. Listeners young and old alike will be transported via the sentient observations of main character Annalise as she experiences the transcendental metamorphosis of spiritual awareness.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

IBAW Winner: Six Weeks to Yehidah

USA BOOK NEWS ANNOUNCES
WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF
THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
 
Mainstream & Independent Titles Score Top Honors in
the 4th Annual International Book Awards
 
 
LOS ANGELES  –  USA Book News announced the winners and finalists of THE 2013 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (IBA) on May 20, 2013. Over 300 winners and finalists were announced in over 80 categories. Awards were presented for titles published in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
 
Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year’s contest yielded over 1000 entries from authors and publishers around the world, which were then narrowed down to the final results.
 
Award Winning Titles Include:
 
 Children's Fiction            

Winner
Six Weeks to Yehidah by Melissa Studdard          
All Things That Matter Press       
978-0984651702
 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

PINNACLE BOOK AWARD

Melissa Studdard's SIX WEEKS TO YEHIDAH  from ALL THINGS THAT MATTER PRESS!

Move over, C.S. Lewis; Melissa Studdard is here! Annalise of the Verdant Hills is one of the most delightful protagonists to skip through the pages of literature since Dorothy landed in Oz. Join Annalise and her two walking, talking wondersheep as they travel to ever more outlandish places and meet outrageous and enlightening folk on their journey to discover interconnectedness in a seemingly disconnected world. Discover with them how just one person can be the start of the change we all strive for. A book for all ages, for all time: wonderful, wacky, and bursting with truth!

 http://www.amazon.com/Six-Weeks-Yehidah-Melissa-Studdard/dp/0984651705/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346888474&sr=1-1&keywords=SIX+WEEKS+TO+YEHIDA

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

MY YEHIDAH-THE JOURNAL

THE JOURNAL COMPANION TO THE BESTSELLING:

SIX WEEKS TO YEHIDAH 

A Journal into the Story of You

Authored by Melissa Studdard
Illustrated by Cheryl Kelley

Bursting at the seams with joy and truth, My Yehidah leads you through one of the most important adventures you can take: the journey to the center of your very own self.

Filled with writing and drawing prompts and beautiful illustrations to color, this book is the perfect jump start for meaningful, creative exploration for people of all ages.

My Yehidah is great as a standalone, but for even more fun, explore it alongside the bestselling, award-winning novel, Six Weeks to Yehidah.

About the author:
Melissa Studdard is a community college professor, a book reviewer at-large, a magazine editor, the host of a radio program, and the author of the bestselling novel, Six Weeks to Yehidah. Her stories, poems, essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals. She currently lives in Texas with her daughter and their four cats.
For more information, please visit www.melissastuddard.com.
Cheryl Kelley is a professional artist with a focus on photorealism.
As a painter, she is represented by major galleries in New York, San Francisco
and Houston. She lives in California with her husband, two children, four dogs, four goats, two cats and three geese.
Please visit cherylkelley.com for more information.
AVAILABLE FROM http://allthingsthatmatterpress.com and from other outlets soon!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Celebrating Inspirational Words & Perennial Wisdom

Rumi Poetry Club

This Month’s Feature: Six Weeks to Yehidah

A ten-year-old girl, Annalise of the Verdant Hills, falls asleep and wakes up in a wonderland (actually in the sky) where she embarks on a journey with her two sheep, Mabel and Mimi. A search party is sent to find Annalise, and Annalise, in turn, is trying to find out why she is where she is. As the novel’s central character, Annalise remains charming throughout the story: Inquisitive, fond of outdoors and adventure, and at ease to talk with animals. To know the rest of the story, it is best to read Six Weeks to Yehidah by Melissa Studdard.
This is Studdard’s first novel which happens to be in the genre of children fantasy, in the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy in the Land of Oz. And like these books, Six Week to Yehidah will be loved and read by adults as well partly because it contains spiritual allegory. Take for instance the word Yehidah: In Hebrew it means “oneness.” Isn’t that we are all seeking in the wonderland of our own life? Therefore, Annalise is an archetype of the wonder child in all humans, although this story gives a shape and color to it.
Melissa Studdard, MFA, has taught at several colleges and currently teaches creative writing at Lone Star College in Houston; she is also a contributing editor for both Tiferet Journal and The Criterion, and a book reviewer for The National Poetry Review. She lives in Texas with her teenage daughter Rosalind to whom the book has been dedicated. (A poem in the story is actually Rosalind’s contribution.)
The idea to write Six Weeks to Yehida came during a critique-writing group when the participants were asked to write a short fairy tale. Studdard’s assignment ended up in this novel of nineteen chapters. The book offers a delightful story for all ages to read.
For more information visit:
www.melissastuddard.com
www.allthingsthatmatterpress.com

- Rumi Poetry Club
www.rumipoetryclub.com

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

A NEW CLASSIC

REVIEW BY SANDY COHEN found at:
http://sandy-cohen.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-classic.html



What should we expect from a classic children’s tale? Imaginary gardens with real toads in them? An enchanting story told with wisdom and great charm? One you can read aloud to your own precocious, nearly-perfect child, then read again yourself for the adult insights and delights it reveals and the places of enchantment that it takes you to? Choose all of the above and enter into the plausible and implausible wise and whimsical, alluring world Professor Studdard has created for you in Six Weeks to Yehidah. It’s a story destined to be an adolescent-adult classic. Enter this wonderful world of the almost perfectly mannered Miss. Annalise of the Verdant Hills in this tale of wonder and delight. Take a child with you or be one yourself as you travel through the real imaginary places of clouds and seascapes and great truths. Your only regret will be that the story ends, though, of course, in it’s ending is it’s beginning, and the promise that one can begin again. Learning universal truths has never so much fun.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Six Weeks to Yehidah-DEBUTS AT TOP 1%

Yehidah debuts on Amazon at 123K!



Authored by Melissa Studdard

Move over, C.S. Lewis; Melissa Studdard is here!
Annalise of the Verdant Hills is one of the most delightful protagonists to skip through the pages of literature since Dorothy landed in Oz.
Join Annalise and her two walking, talking wondersheep as they travel to ever more outlandish places and meet outrageous and enlightening folk on their journey to discover interconnectedness in a seemingly disconnected world.
Discover with them how just one person can be the start of the change we all strive for.
A book for all ages, for all time: wonderful, wacky, and bursting with truth!

About the author:

Melissa Studdard is a professor, a book reviewer at-large, a contributing editor, as well as the host of a radio interview program. Her writings have appeared in dozens of magazines and journals. She currently lives in Texas with her daughter and
their four cats.
For more information, please visit
www.melissastuddard.com, or
www.sixweekstoyehidah.com.