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HOT!!! WE MADE FRONT PAGE NEWS COVERAGE ON 11/22/06...READ IT BELOW!
Say it with 'Feelings'
Solace of library after loss of parents buoyed first novel
 Mike Maple/The Commercial Appeal Easing her mourning after the death of her parents, the library ''was here for me.
It was the one place I could have my little refuge," says Tempie King. She read excerpts and signed copies of her novel, "Feelings,"
at the Bullfrog Corner Bookworms monthly meeting at the M.R. Dye Public Library in Horn Lake on Tuesday.
By Wayne Risher
Contact
November 22, 2006
The Horn Lake library was Tempie King's refuge when she needed a quiet place and a computer to finish a novel she began
more than a decade ago.
She was getting over the death of both parents within one month when she faced the unfinished business of her book.
Her home and computer had been damaged by the wind storm of 2003, known as Hurricane Elvis.
"It was this library where I was able to come and finish 'Feelings,'" said King, 52, a DeSoto County
resident who grew up in Lakeview Gardens north of the Tennessee line.
"I found solace in my writing and I found solace in coming to this library. It was here for me.
It was the one place I could have my little refuge."
The author visited with the M.R. Dye Public Library's Bullfrog Corner Bookworms book club Tuesday and basked in the success
of her first novel, "Feelings."
"Feelings" was published in January by PublishAmerica. It's the story of Manerva R. Jones, a Southern character dedicated
to fighting injustice.
The fictional account is based on King's own life, which has been split between Memphis and the South and her adopted
home of Chicago.
"She's bolder than I could ever be," King said of the heroine.
In her writing, King goes by the pen name Tempie, which was inspired by the influence of Oprah Winfrey.
King once modeled Oprah fashions, a moment captured in a photo on the back cover of "Feelings."
King said, "What the picture didn't show was that Oprah's people were waiting to get the clothes back when I came off
the runway."
As her own agent, publicist and promoter, King settled on the first-name-only moniker.
"If she can go by her first name and Cher and Madonna can, so can I."
King graduated from the former Geeter High School in Memphis the last year it was a county school. She was the first
of five children in her family to get a college education, receiving a bachelor's in premedicine from LeMoyne-Owen College.
She was lead phlebotomist at Baptist Memorial Hospital before moving north. She was heading a medical lab when her aging
parents became gravely ill and she decided to come home to help care for them.
King said she always kept diaries, journals and notes to herself, and she started trying to make a short story out of
them in the 1980s. She had a book and everything but an ending by 1995, but she never finished it.
"If you knew me, it's about my whole life," King said.
"Manerva actually came alive once I started writing her story. She took the story and kind of maneuvered a little different
from my outline."
The appearance at the Horn Lake library was part of a tour that has taken King to book stores across Memphis and the
Mid-South.
Welcoming her were Carson Culver of the M. R. Dye Library, Sue Procter, Phil Brown, Annie Ruth Brown, Judy Kuntz and
Barbara Adams.
Judith LeVault, a newcomer to Southaven, dropped by to hear King talk about the book. LeVault said she checked out a
copy from the library, but she hadn't begun reading it yet.
King has a second novel in the works. She would reveal few details except that it will include some characters from "Feelings."
She's also busy planning a move to England, where she has a romantic interest -- a journalist and writer whom she met
in book publishing circles.
"We're madly in love," she said.
It's also a longtime dream of hers to live in England. "That is my ultimate."
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News...Articles...Interviews
AUTHOR NEWS
Feelings UP IN
LIGHTS FOR THE 6th time on Publishers main website 11/28/06 (Publish America)
Tempie King Featured on Front Page of Major Mid-Southern Newspaper
Tempie King, the author of Feelings, made front-page news in the November 22, 2006
edition of The Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Commercial Appeal serves Memphis, as well as 71 counties in Tennessee,
Arkansas and Mississippi.
Read Less...
Author Invited to participate In the Community's Black History Celebration!
11/28/2006, 9:44:58
AM |
At a successful Library, "Book Talk/Book Signing Event" at the Horn Lake Library on 11/21/06, the author
was invited by the Arts & Cultural Director to participate in the Community's Black History Celebration for February,
2007.
Additionally, the author was told if she was in England and unable to attend something would be worked out for
her to still be involved and her book, Feelings would still be promoted at the Black History Celebration.
The Arts
& Cultural Director also is the Roving Reporter of the First Regional Libraries which span five Mississippi Counties having
thirteen Libraries. She wrote a Press Release of the event and all and purchased an autographed copy of Feelings.
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Say it with 'Feelings'
11/28/2006, 9:44:16 AM |
Say it with 'Feelings'
Solace of library after loss of parents buoyed first novel
Mike Maple/The Commercial
Appeal
Easing her mourning after the death of her parents, the library ''was here for me. It was the one place I could
have my little refuge," says Tempie King. She read excerpts and signed copies of her novel, "Feelings," at the Bullfrog Corner
Bookworms monthly meeting at the M.R. Dye Public Library in Horn Lake on Tuesday.
By Wayne Risher
Contact
November
22, 2006
The Horn Lake library was Tempie King's refuge when she needed a quiet place and a computer to finish a novel
she began more than a decade ago.
She was getting over the death of both parents within one month when she faced the
unfinished business of her book.
Her home and computer had been damaged by the wind storm of 2003, known as Hurricane
Elvis.
"It was this library where I was able to come and finish 'Feelings,'" said King, 52, a DeSoto County resident who
grew up in Lakeview Gardens north of the Tennessee line.
"I found solace in my writing and I found solace in coming
to this library. It was here for me. It was the one place I could have my little refuge."
The author visited with
the M.R. Dye Public Library's Bullfrog Corner Bookworms book club Tuesday and basked in the success of her first novel, "Feelings."
"Feelings" was published in January by PublishAmerica. It's the story of Manerva R. Jones, a Southern character dedicated
to fighting injustice.
The fictional account is based on King's own life, which has been split between Memphis and
the South and her adopted home of Chicago.
"She's bolder than I could ever be," King said of the heroine.
In
her writing, King goes by the pen name Tempie, which was inspired by the influence of Oprah Winfrey.
King once modeled
Oprah fashions, a moment captured in a photo on the back cover of "Feelings."
King said, "What the picture didn't
show was that Oprah's people were waiting to get the clothes back when I came off the runway."
As her own agent, publicist
and promoter, King settled on the first-name-only moniker.
"If she can go by her first name and Cher and Madonna can,
so can I."
King graduated from the former Geeter High School in Memphis the last year it was a county school. She
was the first of five children in her family to get a college education, receiving a bachelor's in premedicine from LeMoyne-Owen
College.
She was lead phlebotomist at Baptist Memorial Hospital before moving north. She was heading a medical lab
when her aging parents became gravely ill and she decided to come home to help care for them.
King said she always
kept diaries, journals and notes to herself, and she started trying to make a short story out of them in the 1980s. She had
a book and everything but an ending by 1995, but she never finished it.
"If you knew me, it's about my whole life,"
King said.
"Manerva actually came alive once I started writing her story. She took the story and kind of maneuvered
a little different from my outline."
The appearance at the Horn Lake library was part of a tour that has taken King
to book stores across Memphis and the Mid-South.
Welcoming her were Carson Culver of the M. R. Dye Library, Sue Procter,
Phil Brown, Annie Ruth Brown, Judy Kuntz and Barbara Adams.
Judith LeVault, a newcomer to Southaven, dropped by to
hear King talk about the book. LeVault said she checked out a copy from the library, but she hadn't begun reading it yet.
King has a second novel in the works. She would reveal few details except that it will include some characters from
"Feelings."
She's also busy planning a move to England, where she has a romantic interest -- a journalist and writer
whom she met in book publishing circles.
"We're madly in love," she said.
It's also a longtime dream of hers
to live in England. "That is my ultimate."
Her Web site is at www.tempieauthor.com.
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ON PUBLISH AMERICA'S MAIN
WEBSITE PAGE
Feelings Up IN
LIGHTS WITH PA!
(for the 5th time 10/17/06)
Feelings Selected as Weekly "Book Nibbler" from Book Entree'
Tempie's book, Feelings, has been selected as Book Entree's newly-launched "Book
Nibbler" for the week of October 23-27, 2006 in the mainstream fiction category.
The
book will be featured online for one week, as a nationwide means of advertisement to a targeted group of selective readers
new and old in the same genre, thus serving as a way to sell more books to impulsive book buyers across the nation.
Barnes & Noble in The Mall of Turtle Creek of Jonesboro,
AR will be hosting a book signing for Tempie's Feelings on October 28, 2006 from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.
M.R. Davis Public Library of Southaven, MS will be hosting
a book signing for Tempie's Feelings on October 21, 2006 from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM as part of the annual Fall Fest.
MR DYE Public Library of Horn Lake, MS will be hosting a book
signing for Tempie's Feelings on October 17, 2006 at 10:30 AM.
Barnes & Nobles BookStar Book Store of Memphis, TN will
be hosting a book signing for Tempie's Feelings on September 16, 2006 from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.
Barnes & Noble Wolfchase Galleria of Memphis, TN will be hosting a book signing for Tempie's Feelings
on August 26, 2006 from 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.
Publish America's New Author
Award
Feelings
by Tempie
SORMAG
(Shades of Romance Magazine)
On-Line Writer's Conference
State Promotion Package received for "exemplified participation in writing
discussions and workshops of the conference"
Feelings UP IN LIGHTS WITH PA!
(for the 4th time 8/22/06)
Feelings Featured in Five Mississippi
Counties
Tempie is pleased to announce that her book, Feelings is featured in thirteen libraries,
spanning five Mississippi counties.
Each of the thirteen libraries are
Branches of the First Regional Library, and there are branches in DeSoto, Tate, Panola and Lafayette counties.
In
addition, Tempie has been asked to participate in the annual Fall Fest at the M.R. Davis Public Library in Memphis, Tennessee
in October.
Davis-Kidd Book Seller of Memphis, TN will be hosting a book
signing for Tempie's Feelings on August 5, 2006 at 1:00 p.m.
Successful Live TV Appearance and Booksigning
8/8/2006, 9:07:47 AM |
Author is very pleased with her debut TV Appearance on Live@9TV WREG-TV a CBS Affiliate Fri 8/4/06 at 9am.
Both TV Co-Hosts Marybeth and ALex interviewed and welcomed the Author back to her hometown of Memphis, TN after been gone
for over twenty years. They supported and announced for others to come out and get her book, Feelings noting, "It was a book
that would resonate a lot of folks with it's many universal themes..."
The Booksigning held at Davis-Kidd BookSellers
on Sat 8/5/06 at 1:00pm was an absolute success as well. The author has been invited to return to Live@9TV Wreg-TV and Davis-Kidd
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Publish America Announces
Feelings, UP IN LIGHTS!!!
(for the 3rd time! 7/18/2006)
Tempie to Be on LIVE TV
Tempie, author of the novel Feelings has been invited to appear on CBS Channel 3's LIVE
TV on August 4, 2006 to discuss her book.
Publish America
Announces Feelings, UP IN LIGHTS!
(for the 2nd time!
6/12/2006)
Tempie Invited to White Lotus Hollyhock Retreat Workshop
Tempie, the author of Feelings, has been invited to speak and participate at The White
Lotus Hollyhock Retreat
Workshop in Cortes Island, British Columbia with Ellen Bass, an award-winning
writer who has been a support and inspiration to other writers for 35 years.
Tempie was invited to speak by the Writer's
Resource Center's California chapter to speak at the event, which will be held from July 2nd through July 7th
2006.
Tempie was chosen for this honor so that she could "share [her] talents, knowledge and resources with other writers
and authors."
A book signing for Feelings may also be scheduled in the future, sponsored by the Writer's Resource
Center.
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Author's Letter was Forwarded to Al Gore at
his BookSigning
6/28/2006, 9:07:47 AM |
Author is excited to receive a reply from Davis-Kidd
BookStore's PR Event Manager that her letter sent was forwarded to Al Gore at his BookSigning at Davis-Kidd BookStore in Nashville,
TN on Friday 6/23/06. In Author's letter she also invited Mr. Gore to her BookSigning at Davis-Kidd BookStore in Memphis,
TN on Aug 5th, 2006.
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Listed as a July-August Book of the Month in CFRR
6/9/2006,
8:58:17 AM |
Author was excited to recieve an email stating:
Your
book is listed on the BOOKS OF THE MONTH on the Christian Family
Reading and Resources
site for July-August.
Congratulations.
Joyce
Ann
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| Author: Tempie |
Booksigning at a Barnes & Nobles Bookstar Book Store
!!!
5/15/2006, 1:27:26 PM |
Both Store Manager and Author are excited for
a Book Signing scheduled for Saturday September 16,2006 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Book Store Manager is ordering no less than
60 copies of Feelings, bulletin displays, voice advertisement of all incoming calls of event, post cards mailed out and offered
to be contacted if anything further is needed.
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Book Signing
5/1/2006, 9:03:31 AM |
Tennessee's Independent Book Seller for over
25 years... Davis-Kidd Memphis is excited to host a Book Signing introducing their new local author, "Tempie" on Sat August
5th from 1:00pm until. They plan on rolling out the red carpet. They will be ordering the books, featuring author and her
new fiction novel, Feelings on their website, taking care of the the press release to the newspapers, preparing an on line
newsletter as well as an hard copy newsletter to hand out to all of their customers in store, send out post cards closer to
the date, table set up and displays and more!!! All are excited!!!
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Feature Author in SORMAG Magazine for April 10th
4/12/2006,
8:46:59 AM |
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Author excited to have been asked to be the Featured Author
in SORMAG Magazine for April 10th.
http://sormag.com/
For Readers and Writers of Multicultural Literature.
Selected
by Writers Digest as One of the 101 Best Websites for Writers 2002!
Featured in the August 2003 issue of ESSENCE Magazine.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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Publish America announces Feelings, UP IN LIGHTS
on 4/5/06 |
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Tempie King Wins Promotion Package from Book Entrée
Tempie King, author of Feelings won a one-month state promotion package from Book Entrée
when she attended the SORMAG (Shades of Romance Magazine) On-Line Writer’s Conference. Ms. King was notified of her
winning entry on October 27, 2005, and was told that her prize would be held until her book was published in February 2006.
This
State Promotion Package consisted of Two Newsletters from Book Entrée, sent twice monthly to thousands of librarians in the
states of Tennessee, Mississippi and Illinois. Ms. King's book has also been placed on the Unsung Great Books page, indefinitely.
Tempie
King received this award for "exemplified participation in writing discussions and workshops of the conference."
For
more information, please visit BookEntree.com.
Author News
PA Up In Lights!!!
4/5/2006, 8:49:29 AM |
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Author is so excited and honored that she and her book, Feelings
and her State Promotion Package Prize she won are PA UP IN LIGHTS!!!
http://www.publishamerica.com/upinlights.htm |
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Local Authors Up Close and Personal State Newsletter
TN, MS and IL
3/30/2006, 8:51:32 AM |
Local Authors Up Close and Personal
Book
Entree's State Newsletter March 2006
in this issue
Feelings
A Conversation with Tempie...
Greetings!
This
month, it is with great pleasure that we spotlight Tempie, author of Feelings.
We sincerely hope you will invite this
author to visit your library to meet your patrons as well as sign books very soon.
Cassandra Vaughn
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Novel Featured in Book Entree's Unsung Great
Books Collection
2/28/2006, 9:19:29 AM |
Book Entrée
Introducing those "unsung"
great books! February 15, 2006
in this issue
Feelings
In this issue, we are happy to present a powerful coming
of age story immersed in civil rights and injustice--Feelings by Tempie. We do hope her writings "scratch" your soul as it
has ours.
A library is an arsenal of liberty. ~Unknown |
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Recieved Author Copies Just in Time!!!
2/17/2006, 8:52:17
AM |
The author is still in amazement!!! She received
her author copies the other day and wish to thank all of Publish America for working with her in making her ten year dream
come true!!! She stated the timing was excellent!!! Her novel is dedicated to the recent loss of both her parents and she
was very proud to have been able to salute them in memory with my new book, "Feelings" that Fed Ex brought to her door step
a day before her father's birthday had he still been alive. She thanks God for being able to do that!!!
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Very Excited!!! Listed as a New Release!!!
1/26/2006,
12:39:49 PM |
Proud to announce a New Release !!!
Feelings
by Tempie
Manerva R. Jones is trapped in her Southern roots until she discovers her freedom is deeper than life itself.
Her sense of passion, power, and spirit cause her to fight injustice at all cost. And it is injustice that takes her on a
journey to Chicago where she meets two important people in her life. The three of them realize the irony of their freedom.battling
love and lust.wanting to do the right thing.knowing God will forgive them..They are torn between living life to please family
and following their hearts to their own happiness.
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Book Signings
| Publish America Massive Book Signing
Port Richey Florida |
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Created by D'Maria Scaglione - Author of "A Unique
Bunny" has five star reviews at www.amazon.com
On March 17-18 2006 at the Gulfview Square Mall in
Port Richey Florida. This will be sponsored by the Mall and Waldenbooks. Twenty authors will arrive at the mall, and they
will support a charity of their choice for this incredible Author-Thon.
"A Unique Bunny," by D'Maria Scaglione has
five star reviews at www.amazon.com. She is also the illustrator for her books and helps to design the covers.
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Press Release
YOU HAVE A NEWLY PUBLISHED AUTHOR IN TOWN!
Frederick MD -- 03/01/06-- PublishAmerica is proud to announce
that it has acquired the rights to publish Feelings by Horn Lake, MS author, Tempie. Executive Director Miranda Prather
expressed confidence today that Tempie’s book will quickly resonate with audiences: "Feelings is an eloquent
work of contemporary fiction that is well-tailored to our characteristic style. PublishAmerica champions books by, for,
or about those who surmount profound obstacles by turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones. We believe that Tempie is
a promising talent of this genre."
About PublishAmerica:
PublishAmerica is the home of 17,000 talented authors.
PublishAmerica is a traditional publishing company whose primary goal is to encourage and promote the works of new, previously
undiscovered writers. Like more mainstream publishers, PublishAmerica pays its authors advances and royalties, makes
its books available in both the United States and Europe through all bookstores, and never charges any fees for its services.
PublishAmerica offers a distinctly personal, supportive alternative to vanity presses and less accessible publishers.
Contact:
Darcy
Smittenaar
Public Relations Department
pr@publishamerica.com
www.publishamerica.com
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Pre-release
letters will be sent,
and your book can be pre-ordered for delivery as soon as they are printed.
PublishAmerica provides
a cover picture and other pertinent information to
the online stores, such as B&N ,Amazon and Borders.
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Publish America sent out Pre-release letters to each of the 100 names and addresses I provided to them of people that
I thought would be interested in helping me succeed dated February 7, 2006 and offering the special pre-release discount
price of $16.95. (*Retail price is $19.95) |
| Media/Electronic Marketing Kit |
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A press/media kit is available. A list of questions that will produce a good interview, and a list of previous
interviews that have been done (when and where and copies of any print interviews/reviews/articles is available when received).
A copy of my book is available also.
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