'The Bubble Collector' gets a great review from Publisher's Weekly!

The folks over at Publisher's Weekly gave 'The Bubble Collector' a pretty nice review, using adjectives like 'Freewheeling', 'Wisecracking', 'Impish', 'Punchy', Screwball' and 'High-Spirited'. Thanks, Publisher's Weekly!

"School, family, mealtime, animals, and imaginary creatures are among the everyday and outlandish subjects Madan visits in this freewheeling compilation of 100 poems. The poetic styles represented are just as varied, including punchy short rhymes, longer narrative poems, limericks, parodies of well-known poems, and nonsense ditties. The overall tone is more uniform, tending toward the wisecracking and impish ("Franken-Jack and Franken-Jill/ Lurching, lurching up the hill/ Testing out the new physiques/ Doctor Stein has built this week"). Another common denominator is humor (the narrator of "Things I Learned the Hard Way" shares some useful advice: "Don't stuff sausage in dad's shoe/ Don't fix broken eggs with glue/ Don't hide treasures in the waste/ Don't brush teeth with garlic paste"). Madan also plays with words for the sake of the rhyme: "Our mums make us do yoga/ They say it'll help us grow-ga/ We wear our little toga/ And quietly tiptoe-ga." The author's screwball, black-line cartoons work in tandem with the text, in some cases delivering the poems' punch lines. A high-spirited read-aloud. Ages 6–12. " - http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4823-9761-1  

Bubble Collector gets a 6-Star Review!

The Kid-Lit-Reviews blog posted a book review of 'The Bubble Collector' this weekend - and gave it 6-Stars (out of 5)!!! Go-on over and read it here:

http://kid-lit-reviews.com/2013/05/25/review-the-bubble-collector-by-vikram-madan/

Thanks Kid Lit Reviews!!! :)

A recent blog interview

Matt Forrest was kind enough to interview me (as part of national poetry month) about the experiences leading up to my publishing 'The Bubble Creator'. Read it in detail here:
http://mattforrest.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/national-poetry-month-the-bubble-collector/

Bubble Collector Giveaway

*Update* - the Giveaway completed on April 14. The 2 lucky winners were from Texas and Washington. Thanks everyone who participated. Stay tuned for the next Giveaway.
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I'm doing a test giveaway of 2 copies of 'The Bubble Collector' on GoodReads.com - this giveaway will run for a week April 7-14. (Depending on how successful it is, I will follow up with a bigger one - more copies, more time). Feel free to enter -what have you got to lose ? :)

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Bubble Collector

by Vikram Madan

Giveaway ends April 14, 2013.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Bubble Collector: It's LIVE !!!

Here it is folks, the moment we, I mean, I have been waiting for :The Bubble Collector is now LIVE!

Purchase from Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482397617/

Or from Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bubble-Collector-Drawings-Vikram/dp/1482397617


Visit the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheBubbleCollector  and of course the page on this blog: http://www.1000poems.com/p/bubble-collector.html

If you haven't already seen it, make sure to watch the new trailer:

Bubble Collector: Getting closer to the finish line ...

Hard at work, trying to get the book out the door. So close, I can almost taste it ... I guess when you wear all the hats yourself (publisher, editor, author, illustrator, book designer, proof-reader, marketer, mail-room guy ... ) things are going to go a bit slower ...

Stuff that's been happening in the last 4 weeks:
* Checked and edited several rounds of proofs for the book.
* Updated book with the few endorsements I could rustle up
* Set up a new page with more detailed, book-specific information. You can click on it from the bar up above or go directly to it using this link: http://www.1000poems.com/p/bubble-collector.html
* Got domain names http://www.BubbleCollector.com and http://www.TheBubbleCollector.com (Hate when you have to get both the links - note-to-self: next time dont use a title with the word THE in it). Also got some QR Codes to put on the back of the book
* Created a better book trailer (you can see it off the new page)
* Investigated publicity and marketing options (which can be pretty darned over-whelming) ...

Almost there now ...

My upcoming poetry collection: The Bubble Collector

If you've stopped by my blog recently, you might have noticed that I've been missing-in-action for the last couple of months. The reason for my absence is that I've been heads-down for the last 3 months finishing up my first collection of self-illustrated humorous poetry, titled The Bubble Collector: Poems and Drawings by Vikram Madan. I'm happy to say that the finishing line is finally in sight. I received my first proofs this week and, some additional tweaking not-withstanding, I hope to release this collection within the next month or two.

Here is a quick video peek to whet your appetite: