Apr 11, 2016

Happy April! I’m back in Oakland after a week on the East Coast and have a few updates to share with you:

1) I read two excerpts from UMDC at the Boston Public Library on April 7th. Thank you to everyone who came out (despite the rain) to support me! If you weren’t able to make it, here is a short recap from the library’s website:

http://www.bpl.org/press/2016/04/08/quincy-carroll-author-of-up-to-the-mountains-and-down-to-the-countryside-brings-a-captive-audience-to-rural-china/

2) UMDC recently won the Silver Medal for Contemporary Fiction in the IPPY Book Award Competition! First established in 1996, the IPPYs are considered one of the highest honors for books published by independent authors:

http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2045&urltitle=2016%20Independent%20Publisher%20Book%20Awards%20Results

3) WorldTeach, the program through which I volunteered in China, has agreed to purchase a copy of UMDC for each of their teachers in 2016! Applications are still open, so if you are interested in living/working abroad, check out their website:

http://www.worldteach.org/programs/china/

That’s all for now! If you could mention the book to 1 person this week, I’d really appreciate it. Also, here are the Amazon and Goodreads pages for the book, if you have time to leave a review. Thanks for your continued support!

Quincy