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The story can now be told. In 1999, an elite interdisciplinary team
headed by Nobel laureate Andrew Danicek gathered in California to
carry out a ground-breaking time-travel experiment. While the rest
of the world remained unaware, Julius Caesar was successfully
transported from the last day of his life to a
specially-constructed covert facility. Four days of conversation
with historians and Latin scholars were planned, followed by
Caesar's return to the moment from which he was extracted. But
despite the team's meticulous efforts to maintain secrecy and plan
for all possible exigencies, a kidnap attempt plunges Caesar into
peril. Fully aware that the future of civilization may hang in the
balance, one team member must summon strength she didn't know she
possessed to return Caesar to the Ides of March. The shocking
details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have
been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.
"Picture a beautiful young woman racing down the freeway in a
classic red Corvette with a distrustful Julius Caesar riding
shotgun...A wild ride from start to finish." —Booklist
MagazineWhen 20-something Cassandra Fleury is invited to join an
elite team of classicists and scientists to test new technology for
dating ancient artifacts, she jumps at what appears to be the
opportunity of a lifetime. But after signing a heavy-duty
nondisclosure agreement, she learns the truth: the project’s real
mission is to transport Julius Caesar from a moment right before
his death on the Ides of March, 44 B.C.E. to a lab in California,
where he’ll stay for four days. Now everything makes sense.
Cassandra’s good looks and experience as a cocktail waitress
combined with her fluency in Latin make her an ideal interface
between Caesar and the other members of the team. A thrilling time
travel adventure begins with Caesar’s arrival. Nothing goes as
planned, resulting in excruciating ethical dilemmas, hilarious
misinterpretations, a crazy road trip to Las Vegas, and an unlikely
romance. Caesar returns to the Ides of March, but the world will
never be the same.
Publicity and Promotions - $19,850 marketing and publicity budget,
coordinated by Smith Publicity, which has been been successfully
promoting New York Times bestsellers since 1997 - Key outlets:
Publisher's Weeky, Library Journal, Booklist, Foreword Magazine,
NPR.org Books, Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Sun - Will be available
on NetGalley, June 22, 2017 - National radio and TV interviews -
Promotion on the author's website MeganEdwards.com - Promotion and
giveaways on Living-Las-Vegas.com - Promotion and giveaways on
RoadTripAmerica.com - Promotion and giveaways on Imbrifex.com -
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking
engagements - Intensive 6 months media publicity to romance, music,
women's literature and social media outlets.
When a wildfire destroyed her home and worldly possessions in the
hills above Los Angeles, it didn't take Megan Edwards long to
recognize an opportunity. It took her husband a little longer
("Give me five minutes to grieve!"), but they were both soon
planning to make the most of their sudden "stufflessness" and hit
the road. They did so a few months later in a freshly built
four-wheel-drive motorhome that was even more unusual because of
the office in the back instead of a bedroom. This all happened back
when "Internet" had not yet entered the lexicon but "email" had.
The mobile office would allow Edwards to file stories with the
newspapers she wrote for by cell phone. That was the idea, at
least. At the beginning of 1994, cell service was patchy,
unreliable, and expensive. They also thought they'd be traveling
for six months or so, when, they believed, they'd settle down and
get back to normal. But five years and thousands of miles later,
they were still on the road. In that time, they'd watched the
Internet grow from a mysterious fad prized by people in remote
locales into an unstoppable universal phenomenon. They started a
website, RoadTripAmerica.com, to share road tripping tips and
ideas. Slowly, their dream of being "at work, at home, and on the
road, all at the same grand time" became a reality. This edition
marks the twentieth anniversary of Edwards's memoir, which was
first released in 1999. At its heart a story of making lemonade
when life gives you lemons, this memoir is also a riveting and at
times hilarious look at the early years of the World Wide Web. With
a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Chris Epting,
enjoy an armchair adventure across North America when the Internet
was young. This edition also includes 22 photos dating from when
the author lived on the road.
This book equips early childhood educators and service providers
with tools to support emerging social-emotional development and
positive behavior in the first five years of life. It begins by
providing an overview of social-emotional development, including
how this development is intertwined with other areas of growth,
environmental influences, and short- and long-term child outcomes.
The educator's influential role is discussed within the context of
the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) framework
and the Pyramid Model. Guiding principles and specific,
research-based strategies for supporting children's success are
presented, with numerous specific examples of how to foster healthy
social-emotional development and adaptive behavior in center- and
home-based settings. The final chapters discuss how teachers and
service providers can overcome potential roadblocks to implementing
PBIS, build and maintain positive relationships with families, and
ensure good communication, consistency, and shared accountability
across support networks. Included are numerous examples and
vignettes, textboxes on collaborating with families, quotes from
parents and educators, and supplemental exercises. These elements,
along with the author's direct, user-friendly approach, make this
content highly accessible for early childhood personnel seeking
practical, engaging ways to support early social-emotional growth.
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