What Did You Do This Week, Gail? Jan. 30 Edition

Goal 1. Adhere to Goals and Objectives. Well, yes.

Goal 2. Generate New Work Through End of April--Adult Work. First objective only, totally focusing on final draft of Becoming Greg and Emma.

Goal 4. Make More Than 33 (last year's number) Submissions Of  Completed Work Throughout The Year  Picked up a couple of books to use in a marketing statement for a submission I'm planning.

Goal 6. Support And Promote Diverse Literature, Diverse Culture

• Began Black History Month objective with  a Bass Reeves post. Promoted to Twitter, Google+, and a Facebook community

• Diverse tweets and retweets this week (thanks to Jen Robinson for this idea): 

• 29 Black Picture Books for Black History Month, Or Any Month http://hereweeread.com/2016/01/29-black-picture-books-black-history-month-month.html via @

• The Children's War: Two Refugee Stories: The Journey by Francesca Sann... http://thechildrenswar.blogspot.com/2017/01/two-refugee-stories-journey-by.html?spref=tw
• Review of ICE BEAR - "This book is, in the end, less about the polar bear than about us." - ecolitbooks.com/2017/01/ice-be… @UWAPress
• Books for a Better World #bookaday Donation Pledge https://www.slideshare.net/secret/9v5YPVauyhodv7 
• Whisper of the Woods by D.G. Driver review at Finding Wonderland http://writingya.blogspot.com/2017/01/happy-multicultural-childrens-book-day.html?spref=t

Goal 7. Community Building/General Marketing/Branding

I'm running late today, so I'll just quickly say that I posted the February CCLC and promoted it, distributed the newsletter edition, and did two other blog posts and distributed them.