Publishing
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Adventurers Against Their Will featured in Holocaust Education Book
by Joanie Schirm on October 12, 2016 Permalink‘Literature Can Help Bring Forward Every Aspect of Human Life.’ (from the book: Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches) An author’s life is never dull. After almost nine years, I’ve nearly finished my second and third books (My Dear Boy and Steadfast Ink). As they go through final edits, I’ve entered the stage
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I Love Book Clubs
by Joanie Schirm on March 21, 2016 PermalinkI LOVE BOOK CLUBS As a non-fiction author, it’s particularly meaningful when you have a chance to connect live with readers who’ve had the experience to “meet” your real life characters. This opportunity recently happened for me when I got an email invitation to attend a long standing book club who’d read Adventurers Against Their
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Help Build Confidence in a Writer
by Joanie Schirm on February 14, 2015 PermalinkHelp Build Confidence in a Writer…An Evening of Readings February 20, 2015 at Florida Institute of Technology Evans Library… What does a Shuttle astronaut, an honorary Brevard County Historian, the wife of a Florida former poet laureate and Joanie Holzer Schirm have in common? Nothing that I, Joanie, can figure out until February 20, 2015
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Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! 2015 Kicks off in Orlando!
by Joanie Schirm on January 27, 2015 PermalinkJanuary 26, 2015: On a perfect sunny day, with music, dance, drama, and book character impersonations, students, staff and dignitaries from Orange County, Florida’s Timber Creek High School kicked off Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! Florida Department of Education’s annual event celebrates the tremendous success Florida’s students have accomplished over the past decade. Recognizing “reading accelerates
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Earned Title: Author
by Joanie Schirm on January 12, 2015 PermalinkEarned Title: Author Seven years ago, January 11, 2008, I sold my Orlando engineering company. Having left behind the lofty title of President, I entered my next life chapter with a goal: Published Author. It was a position title I had to earn. Befuddled as to how to describe my new endeavor, my husband Roger
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Leaving an Old Friend
by Joanie Schirm on October 27, 2014 PermalinkI broke up with an old friend today. Since our friendship began in 1981, the whole situation was very upsetting. I have to admit this relationship was never a deep, intellectual connection. It mostly revolved around shopping. What maintained the bond the longest was travel. Together we trekked the world. The idea of a break-up
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A Piece of Great Advice To Start the New Year
by Joanie Schirm on January 2, 2014 PermalinkA Piece of Great Advice to Start the New Year Six years ago when I sold my engineering firm to begin my life as a full-time writer, I got some great advice from my friend Dr. Sandy Shugart. Known in Central Florida for his leadership of extraordinary accomplishments among the nation’s 1200 colleges, as President
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Friends make the world go round…
by Joanie Schirm on March 13, 2013 PermalinkDerrick Salisbury on Facebook Derrick Salisbury shared a link Video of Adventurers Against Their…: “My mentor and former boss at the Orlando Area Sports Commission has written a just released book that documents her father’s fleeing World War II Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Asia and eventually to the States. It’s a fascinating story that Joanie put