Your Book Is Your Hook Show - Write On! For Literacy & Lt. Col. Rob Waldo Waldman (2:41 mins)
http://yourbookisyourhook.com Dallas Woodburn, winner of the 2010 Glamour Magazine Best of You Award for volunteer work and the founder of the non-profit organization, Write On! For Literacy, will discuss the importance of building confidence in children through writing with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov. Shell talk about her own experience as a child author and her latest endeavor of opening up a publishing company called Write On! Books that champions young writers. The new company will debut its first anthology this summer and features submissions from more than 50 young authors from the U.S., Canada, Singapore and New Zealand.
New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, motivational speaker and former decorated combat fighter pilot, Lt. Col. Rob Waldo Waldman, will talk with radio personality and host Jennifer S. Wilkov about his remarkable book entitled Never Fly Solo: Lead with Courage, Build Trusting Partnerships, and Reach New Heights in Business and how he uses his book as his hook. Lt. Col. Waldman shares his specific tips for authors and the importance of having wingmen when undertaking your own book publishing endeavor.
Duration : 0:2:41
also’s Amazing Book Race is a fun-packed day where teams of 4-5 people race around to Ottawa’s downtown literacy checkpoints. At each location, the teams are given literacy-based tasks such as reading a story to a group of people or completing a word search. Once a team has visited all the checkpoints, they return to the starting point to claim their prize and rest with some much-deserved refreshments. There will be a celebrity speaker and fabulous entertainment as well. It is a great day out with family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours come and enjoy!