The Lafayette, La. Times of Acadiana mentions Carry Me Home in it’s Books column. Another small step forward for self-marketing.
Carry Me Home in Lafayette Times of Acadiana Thursday, Jan 22 2009
Books and Carry Me Home and Flood and Hurricane Katrina and Mark Folse and New Orleans and recovery 4:27 pm
Now Available Monday, Jan 19 2009
Books and Carry Me Home and Flood and Hurricane Katrina and Mark Folse and New Orleans and recovery and Uncategorized deVille Books, Garden District Book Shops, independent book sellers, Maple Leaf Book Shop, Octavia Books 6:39 pm
Carry Me Home is now available at the following local book stores. I hope to add more as I call on owners to encourage them to carry the book. If you’re local bookstores isn’t listed below, ask for Carry Me Home by Mark Folse next time you stop in.
You can get the book online at Lulu and Amazon,
Carry Me Home is now available at these New Orleans bookstores:
- Maple Street Book Shop
7523 Maple St - deVille Books
134 Carondelet St. - Garden District Book Shop
2727 Prytania St. (at The Rink) - Octavia Books
513 Octavia St - Faubourg Marigny Art & Books
600 Frenchman St. - Beth’s Books (at Sound Cafe)
2700 Chartres St.
Book Signing at Maple Street Bookshop Sunday, Jan 18 2009
Books and Carry Me Home and Flood and Hurricane Katrina and Mark Folse and New Orleans and recovery Carrollton, local bookstores, Maple Street Book Shop, signing, Uptown 5:59 pm
The Maple Street Book Shop will host a signing of Carry Me Home on Saturday, February 14 from 12-2 p.m. Maple Street Book Shop is located as 7523 Maple St. in New Orleans in the Uptown/Carrollton area.
Carry Me Home is available online at Lulu.com and Amazon, but I encourage you to patronize your local bookstores listed at right.
Carry Me Home on Amazon.com Wednesday, Jan 14 2009
Books and Carry Me Home and New Orleans and Uncategorized Amazon.com 11:11 pm
Carry Me Home is now available on Amazon.com
Please remember, if you’re in New Orleans, support your local bookstores. The book is currently available at deVille Books, 134 Carondelet St. and very soon at other locally owned shops.
Online Reading Friday, Jan 9 2009
Books and Carry Me Home and Flood and Hurricane Katrina and Mark Folse and New Orleans and recovery Community Gumbo, reading, St. Francis Cabrini, WTUL 4:52 pm
Hear the author reading the original Wet Bank Guide piece on WTUL-FM’s Community Gumbo radio show here.
In The Brown Zone with Mother Cabrini
Available at deVille Books Friday, Jan 9 2009
Books and Carry Me Home and Flood and Hurricane Katrina and Mark Folse and New Orleans and recovery Carry Me Home, deVille Books 4:50 pm
Carry Me Home is now available at deVille Books, 134 Carondelet Street, New Orleans.
As part of my campaign to place the book locally in advance of it hitting Bowker’s Books in Print and the wholesale channels, I am working to place copies directly in local stores.
If you don’t shop on-line, watch this space for locations carrying the book.
Carry Me Home — A Journey Back to New Orleans Sunday, Dec 28 2008
Books and New Orleans book, Carry Me Home, essay, literature, Mark Folse, New Orleans 11:22 pm
NEW ORLEANS—Ex-pat Orleanian Mark Folse’s decision to move to New Orleans post-Katrina was featured on National and Minnesota Public Radio and in the Los Angeles Times. Now he tells his own story and that of the post-Katrina city of New Orleans, in Carry Me Home, a collection of essays based on his popular Katrina Internet blog, Wet Bank Guide.
The Wet Bank Guide was featured by French National Radio as one of the unique voices of the post-Katrina disaster in New Orleans, and drew praise from readers across the nation. The Times-Picayune plucked two pieces from its columns, and Carry Me Home collects the best of that work, refreshed and expanded for publication.
Suspect Device cartoonist Greg Peters has called Folse “one of the best writers in Louisiana,” and author Michael Tisserand, another regular reader of Wet Bank Guide, said of Carry Me Home: “Mark’s writing is about skill and heart. A blend of reporting, memoir and analysis, [the book] is as immediate as it is reflective. It’s more than a love letter to New Orleans—it’s a survival guide for post-Katrina America. Mark shows how to go through a disaster with your soul intact.”
The book is now available via Lulu.Com, and will be available in January 2009 at on-line book retailers and selected local book stores.
Mark Folse majored in English literature as the University of New Orleans where he was editor of the student newspaper. He worked as a journalist for a decade, winning a New Orleans Press Club and a Jefferson Parish Medical Society award. He served as deputy press secretary and speechwriter to Sen. John Breaux in Washington, D.C., and has worked in the computer and banking industries since leaving the political life in the early 1990s.
In the fall of 2005 he convinced his family—then residing in Fargo, North Dakota—to try to move to New Orleans even as water still stood in the streets. Now he and his wife Rebecca Noack and their children Killian and Matthew Folse are settled in the Mid-City section of New Orleans. He continues to share his observations on Crescent City life online at Toulouse Street—Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (http://www.toulousstreet.net).
