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Promoting My Graphic Novel: I've Learned From The Best

by Alison Garwood-Jones
How I learned to promote my graphic novel, I Miss My Mommy

I've had to learn how to promote my graphic novel to reach my audience. It's like building a house from the ground up.

Posted in Book marketing tactics, Book promotion tactics, Books on Grief, Digital Marketing for Books, Father's Day Gift Ideas, Five Stages of Grief, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Orphaned Adults, Promoting Your Book

Drawings That Didn't Make It Into My Book

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Drawings That Didn't Make It Into My Book
  CUTTING ROOM FLOOR Like Kevin Costner in The Big Chill, this drawing never made it into I MISS MY MOMMY, my graphic novel about the long and win...

What is Your Grief Story?

by Alison Garwood-Jones
I Miss My Mommy, the book for orphaned adults
I Miss My Mommy takes you right to the heart of the five stages of grief through 150 portraits, some grim, some funny, but all relatable.The ...
Posted in Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Fatherless, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic Nov, Graphic Novel, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Grief And Loss, Grief Journey, Grief Quotes, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Motherless, Mothers Day, Orphaned Adults, Orphaned In Adulthood, Parental Death, Picture Book

I Miss You Too, Daddy

by Alison Garwood-Jones
I Miss My Mommy: 150 Portraits of Orphaned Adults by Alison Garwood-Jones
My new book is called I Miss My Mommy, but fathers are just as integral to the story for orphaned adults.For Father’s Day, here’s a preview of how ...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books on Grief, Books on Losing Your Parents, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Father's Day Gifts, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief, Grief Quotes, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Managing Grief

Giveaway

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Giveaway
  GIVEAWAYThank you to my readers from Toronto to San Francisco to New York and back for letting me know that your copy of I MISS MY MOMMY has la...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books for Orphaned Adults on Mother's Day, books on grief, Elisabeth Kubler Ross, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Orphaned Adults, The five stages of grief

About the Author

by Alison Garwood-Jones
About the Author
I didn’t set out to create a book on grief ... Hi, I’m Alison. As a magazine writer, I’ve interviewed:• Olympic boxers• Presidential candidates*•...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books on Grief, Books on Losing Your Parents, Grief Quotes, Grief Support, Losing your parents, Mother's Day Gift Ideas, Orphaned Adults, The Five Stages of Grief

Press for I Miss My Mommy

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Press from The Hamilton Spectator for I Miss My Mommy by Alison Garwood-Jones
Anne Bokma’s compelling Mother’s Day column in today’s Hamilton Spectator shows how fraught Mother’s Day can be for adult orphans, particularly wom...
Posted in Books for Orphaned Adults, Books on Grief, ElisabethKublerRoss, graphic novels on grief, Grief support, Mother's Day Gifts, Orphaned Adults, The Five Stages of Grief

Practicing what I preach in class

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Article about How Alison Garwood-Jones uses the marketing skills she teaches at SCS to reach the right audience for her new book about navigating grief.
I sat down with Sarah McDonald of the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies to talk about my new graphic novel, I MISS MY MOMMY. High...
Posted in Book marketing tactics, Book promotion tactics, Books on Grief, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support

"I Miss My Mommy" was on TV!

by Alison Garwood-Jones
"I Miss My Mommy" was on TV!
When Carla Lucchetta and the crew from The Agenda with Steve Paikin left my home, after an afternoon talking about grief and deceased parents, I f...
Posted in Books on Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, Managing Grief, Motherless adults, MothersDay, Orphaned Adults, Parental loss, ParentalDeath, The Five Stages of Grief

Grief and Male Friendships

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Grief and Male Friendships
I’m at the start of a book tour for my graphic novel, I Miss my Mommy, and I’ve been glad to see as many men as women reaching out to me to share w...
Posted in Books, Books on Grief, Books on parental grief, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, illustration, Living without parents, Managing Grief, Orphaned Adults, The Five Stages of Grief

"I Miss My Mommy" - What Readers Are Saying

by Alison Garwood-Jones
Cover of I Miss My Mommy by Alison Garwood-Jones
This is my time to say thank you to the folks who read the advance reader copy of I MISS MY MOMMY, my new picture book for big people without pare...
Posted in Books on Grief, Books on parental grief, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Graphic novel on grief, Graphic Novel on Grief for Orphaned Adults, Graphic Novels on Grief, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, GriefAndLoss, GriefJourney, GriefQuotes, Managing Grief, Motherless, Motherless adults, MothersDay, Orphaned Adults, The Five Stages of Grief

A visit from the TV Crew of "The Agenda"

by Alison Garwood-Jones
A visit from the TV Crew of "The Agenda"
  Last week, a team from the current affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin joined me in my studio for a heart to heart discussion on the...
Posted in Books, Books on Grief, Books on parental grief, ElisabethKublerRoss, Fatherless, Fatherless adults, Five Stages of Grief, Gift Ideas, Grief, Grief Resources, Grief Support, GriefAndLoss, GriefJourney, GriefResources, GriefSupport, Living without parents, Managing Grief, Motherless, Motherless adults, MothersDay, Orphaned Adults, Parental Grief, Parental loss, ParentalDeath, The Five Stages of Grief, Toronto illustrator