I am leaving for San Jose, CA tomorrow morning for 3 days to sell my book. I will let you know how it goes…Jennifer Martino has graciously paved the way for my arrival giving out cards to competitors and spectators about my arrival to the competition for book signing and sales. It seems that Jennifer has been busy with her marketing in between competing! She has relayed to me that people are more aware of my book because of the wonderful reviews and the advertising. Yea!!!! Furthermore, David DeCaprio has sent me glorious character discriptions from our days at the Skating Club of Boston! I have plenty to keep me entertained on my long flight to CA …I will write about my adventures when I return.
8/30/09 So, I have returned and obviously I have put some time in between my writtings… but I have been very busy with the development of LambieAnn as a prototype stuffed lamb ( who will beultimately marketed with my book, The Champion Behind the Champion) and teaching since returning from the ISI World Competition in San Jose, CA. There are only so many hours in the day to do it all…. If I xeroxed myself, I think there would be more time to accomplish what I would really like to be able to do.
Anyway, ISI Worlds were truly fun!!! I plan to incorporate events that they host, which I think are so beneficial to our sport/art. I think ISI has a great outlook on the development and purpose of skating. Everybody cannot be a national or world champion, but they can be accomplished skater in their own right! That may be a tough concept for some, as I think there are many levels of perception of accomplishment. The bottom line in my perception is whether the person has benefited from having learned something to some level of expertise in the art/sport of figure skating which will enrich their life or someone elses.
I plan to precent an excerpt from the ISI Competition in my next book. This was the first time I had the opportunity to experience an ISI Competition and I detected and felt a a very positive overall atmosphere attached to the events. I liked that and was impressed! The kids & parents seemed quite happy and excited with their particpation in their chosen events. The kids were a joy to meet as they dropped by my venue to say hi to LambieAnn ( who was really “Christiana Lambie”.
Now that I have finished the actual prototype of LambieAnn, she is a reality! The kids who have met her love her and the adults chuckle . They are getting a charge out of her! I am posting pictures shortly of my little LambieAnn that is the size of a three year old on skates. She is a hit! She is a diva! She took me 3 days to design and make from scratch, but she is now a real skating lamb as a result of my efforts!
I will post LambieAnn’s picture and also post the pictures of the cute kids from the ISI World Competition… By the way, LambieAnn is on Twitter, but she is so busy, she rarely has time to let people know what she is up to. Sorry about that.