Your Scribbler would like to introduce you to Carolyn Flynn of SoulFire Studios. Here’s what she has to say about her author client, Myra Travin:

SoulFire author client Myra Travin splashes into the world  with her just-released book “School of You,” a revolutionary talk at South by Southwest Interactive, and a future-shattering op-ed piece in the Austin American-Statesman.

Myra’s message is that you must become your own learning curator. “Make no mistake: Learning is survival.”

Her book is likely to spark a lively debate in the education industry, where she is known as a futurist in the field of learning design. It’s a call to action to a bill of rights for learners, to be part of a new breed: self-directed, agile and free-thinking.

“Don’t put your future in the hands of other people, organizations, dogmas or institutions,” she says. “Be the curator of your own learning. Your future depends on it.”

In her op-ed, “Saying Goodbye to the Future,” she takes it one step further: She talks about the loss of worth we feel in a globalized marketplace, and what agile learners can do about it.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/travin-saying-goodbye-to-the-future/nqffY/

Travin speaks at SXSWedu in the panel “LX Design: Because Learning Design Requires UX” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, at the Austin Convention Center, Room 16AB. More information on her discussion is available at http://schedule.sxswedu.com/events/event_PP57430

And this is what she said about working with me (Carolyn Flynn), for which I extend eternal gratitude:

Others might say they have a vision for what you can become as an author — Carolyn knows how to make your vision real step-by-step. Relentlessly postive, she sees the best in you and has the talent, savvy and experience to get you to the next level.  I have great respect for her willingness to be a guiding light in the future. It takes a person of vision to realize the visions of others. She is that person.

You can check out her book here.

http://www.amazon.in/School-You-Overload-Guerrilla-Learner-ebook/dp/B01CBYFU3O

 

Carolyn Flynn +  SoulFire Studios

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Tampa’s Greg Neri will sign copies of Tru and Nelle at Bookmark It on Wednesday, March 9th from 6-8 p.m.

From Neri’s website:

As a child, Truman Capote lived for a few years in Monroeville, Alabama. With his fancy New Orleans clothes and eccentric ways, Tru had a hard time making friends in this small town of the Deep South—until he met Nelle Harper Lee. Nelle didn’t have many friends either. Her tomboy ways didn’t match with people’s views on how a young lady should act. But Tru didn’t care. Nelle was smart, imaginative and she loved detective books, just like he did. They were two misfits looking for adventure and struck up a friendship that would last for years.

Truman Capote and (Nelle) Harper Lee went on to become two of the most heralded writers of the 20th century. Truman’s acclaimed works include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Grass Harp, A Christmas Memory and In Cold Blood—a crime story that reunited him with Nelle in 1959. Until recently, Nelle had only published one book, but To Kill a Mockingbird has become an enduring classic that won the Pulitzer Prize and sold more than 40 million copies.

Excerpt:

When Truman first spotted Nelle, he thought she was a boy. She was watching him like a cat, perched on a crooked stone wall that separated their rambling wood homes. Barefoot and dressed in overalls with a boyish haircut, Nelle looked to be about his age, but it was hard for Truman to tell — he was trying to avoid her stare by pretending to read his book.

     “Hey, you,” she finally said.

     Truman gazed up from the pages. He was sitting quietly on a wicker chair on the side porch of his cousins’ house, dressed in a little white sailor suit.

     “Are you . . . talking to me?” he said in a high wispy voice.

     “Come here,” she commanded.

     He straightened his little white suit and wandered slowly past the trellises of wisteria vines and japonica flowers until he came upon the stone wall.

     Truman was taken aback. He scrunched up his face; he’d been confused by Nelle’s short hair and overalls. “You’re a . . . girl?”

     Nelle stared back at him even harder. Truman’s high voice, white-blond hair, and sailor outfit had thrown her for a loop too.

     “You’re a boy?” she asked, incredulous.

 

In Tru & Nelle, G. Neri recasts their time together, rearranging events into a single small town mystery worthy of their active imaginations. The result is a flavorful bowl of Southern home-style yarns. Tru & Nelle may be fiction, but it captures the poetic truths of a brief moment between two writers before they became famous, Harper Lee and Truman Capote.