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Melody Rendom
There are a number of writing projects that I have been involved in during my past career. From 1994 to 2006 I had my own publishing company. I had many hats. I was head of public relations and wro...view moreThere are a number of writing projects that I have been involved in during my past career. From 1994 to 2006 I had my own publishing company. I had many hats. I was head of public relations and wrote all the press releases. I set up the book signings and interviews for the authors. My husband and I also were involved in the sales and signing on distributors.
The books we published were mainly about Native American Spirituality. My husband, Manny Twofeathers wrote a book called, “My Road to the Sundance” and was about his spiritual journey. This book was picked up within a year by Hyperion (Disney) Publishing at an auction, for $72,000.00 advance. When Hyperion was through with this book and gave us our rights back, we updated it and the revised edition enjoyed three more printings. It was also sold to German and Italian publishers.
His second book, “Stone People Medicine” was also sold to an Italian publisher. New World Library picked it up and again when they gave us our rights back we updated it and reprinted. Again we had two more printings of it.
His third book was “Kokopelli’s Dream…the Emergence of a Legend” and chronicled the life of a deity from the southwest. It was a work of fiction, presented as what may have happened when Kokopelli was alive. Though this book did well and we received good reviews and two printings, Manny’s cancer brought the promotion of this book to a standstill, and the sales died with him.
My background before I met my husband was I worked as an entertainment publicist in Toronto and wrote press releases for eleven different venues. My boss at the time was the premier publicist in Canada. He also managed various artists including Tony Bennett.
At the same time, I was the Lifestyle Editor for a paper in Toronto, called “The Link” and wrote articles on many different subjects.view less