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Midlife Happy Hour will Premiere at Regional PNBA Show

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Midlife Happy Hour – Our Reward for Surviving Careers, Kids, and Chaos ranked #54 in pre-sold editions on Amazon.com out of thousands of books in the mid-life category. The book, a sequel to the award-winning, bestselling Midlife Cabernet, will be officially released on October 4, 2016. Pre-orders can be made now to insure first delivery from Amazon. The book also will be available in local stores, including Rediscovered Books in Boise, online, and through national bookstores.

Officials from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association invited me to speak and premiere the new book at the tradeshow in Tacoma, Washington on Thursday, September 29. I’m leaving Thursday and promise not to embarrass the state or my family. On Friday, September 30, I’ll be speaking on an author/small publisher panel with Boise author AK Turner, Rediscovered Books owner Bruce DeLaney, and realtor/author Mike Turner, all from Boise. We’ll discuss methods of establishing positive relationships between writers, small publishers, bookstores, and the community.

The Boise area premiere party will be October 13 at Telaya Winery. A special edition red wine will be introduced using the cover of the book as the label on the bottle. The public is invited to attend and share laughter and libations.

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Here are the chapter titles for Midlife Happy Hour:

  1. Early Signs I Wasn’t Eligible for Sainthood
  2. The Great TV Blooper of Southern Idaho
  3. What if Arts Patrons Acted Like Sports Fans?
  4. The World Can Kiss Our Attitude
  5. Stay Relevant and Thirsty, My Friend
  6. Why Your Children Are Cute but Should Move Out
  7. My Feminine Mystique Sprung a Leak
  8. Reinventing the Wheel of Fortune
  9. Validation on a Volcano
  10. Mom, I Joined the Army
  11. Balancing Midlife Without Falling Over
  12. Blog Your Way to Fame and Shame
  13. My Fish Won’t Hump Your Leg
  14. Still Laughing in the Empty Nest
  15. Midlife Crisis of Confidence
  16. Coloring Outside the Lines
  17. The Joy of Traveling with (Grown) Children
  18. Tell Enchanting Stories to the Grandkids
  19. My Views from Behind the Podium
  20. What to Wear if You Must Get Dressed
  21. The Suffragist Ghosts of Susan and Alice
  22. Why Caregivers Drink
  23. How to Plan a Funeral
  24. Happy Hour, At Last!

Midlife Happy Hour is available at bookstores, including Rediscovered Books in Boise and Barnes & Noble. Find it online at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. E-Book versions are available at Kindle, Nook, IBooks, and Google Play. An audio book will be released soon.

 

 

Idaho Author to be Featured at PNBA Event

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The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association recently invited Idaho author Elaine Ambrose to be a featured author and introduce her new humorous book Midlife Happy Hour to help start the 2016 PNBA Tradeshow in Tacoma, Washington on September 29, 2016.

As a featured author, Ambrose will meet with the PNBA Board of Directors and booksellers from throughout the Northwest to sell books and discuss potential author events at their stores. Ambrose will be a guest of the tradeshow which runs from September 29 through October 2. PNBA Tradeshows and educational workshops are open only to book industry professionals, including booksellers, authors, exhibitors, publicists, librarians, and volunteers. The shows are not open to the general public.

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Elaine Ambrose is a #1 bestselling author of eight books. Her book Midlife Cabernet won two national humor awards, Publishers Weekly reviewed it as “laugh-out-loud funny!” and Foreword Reviews wrote that the book was “an argument for joy” similar to Erma Bombeck. Her nationally-recognized syndicated blog posts are published on several websites, and one humorous post was named as one of the most read posts in the history of The Huffington Post. 

In Midlife Happy Hour, Ambrose boldly writes her latest kiss-my-attitude book as a sassy sequel to Midlife Cabernet. Ambrose shares her festive life experiences and career-crushing anecdotes as she explains how to remain relevant after age 50, why grown children make great travel companions, and how to balance midlife without falling over. Ambrose notes that her feminine mystique sprung a leak after years of competing as a funny female in a serious male job market. Now the hard work is done, and she invites midlife women to join her for Happy Hour. The book, published by Brown Books Publishing, is available for pre-order and will be in book stores across the country in October.

The book premieres in Boise on October 13 at Telaya Winery. The winery will introduce a red wine that features the cover of the book as its front label. Elaine lives with her patient husband in Eagle, Idaho. Read about her books, blogs, and speaking events at www.elaineambrose.com.

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The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association  is a nonprofit trade association representing the interests of literacy, free speech and independent bookselling in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Members include: owners and managers of independent and chain bookstores; publishers; publishers’ sales representatives; distributors; authors; publicists; librarians; book reviewers; producers of sideline items; and other friends of the trade are represented as associate (non-voting) members.