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Easy links to Harriers for use in blogs
We are bloggers, too. I thought it would make life easier to provide you with easy-to-copy links to various size images of the book.
You can choose from links to Amazon (affiliates), Amazon (non-affiliates), our site, or images only. There are also some exclusive sound bites for the blogosphere below.
If you blog about the book, drop a line to lora @ mrexcel.com, and we will link back to your blog. Thanks for your consideration.
If you are an Amazon affiliate, copy these links to your blogging software, replacing billjelen with your associate id.
- Large (200x300):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932802959/billjelen"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers200x300.jpg" border=0></a>
- Medium (150x200):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932802959/billjelen"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers150x200.jpg" border=0></a>
- Small (100x150):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932802959/billjelen"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers100x150.jpg" border=0></a>
- Thumbnail (65x100):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932802959/billjelen"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers65x100.jpg" border=0></a>
- Text Only:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932802959/billjelen">Harriers: The Making of a Championship Cross Country Team></a>
For general links to the Amazon page (without the affiliate program code), use these:
- Large (200x300):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932802959/"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers200x300.jpg" border=0></a>
- Medium (150x200):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932802959/"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers150x200.jpg" border=0></a>
- Small (100x150):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932802959/"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers100x150.jpg" border=0></a>
- Thumbnail (65x100):
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932802959/"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers65x100.jpg" border=0></a>
- Text Only:
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932802959/">Harriers: The Making of a Championship Cross Country Team></a>
For general links to the publisher's page for Harriers, use these:
- Large (200x300):
<a href="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers.html"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers200x300.jpg" border=0></a>
- Medium (150x200):
<a href="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers.html"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers150x200.jpg" border=0></a>
- Small (100x150):
<a href="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers.html"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers100x150.jpg" border=0></a>
- Thumbnail (65x100):
<a href="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers.html"><img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers65x100.jpg" border=0></a>
- Text Only:
<a href="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers.html>>Harriers: The Making of a Championship Cross Country Team><a>
For image links, use these:
- Large (200x300):
<img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers200x300.jpg" border=0>
- Medium (150x200):
<img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers150x200.jpg" border=0>
- Small (100x150):
<img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers100x150.jpg" border=0>
- Thumbnail (65x100):
<img src="http://www.freshwritersbooks.com/harriers65x100.jpg" border=0>
Here are some exclusives, snippets of information for people with blogs about running or cross country:
- The story is the boy's account of a true story. A new coach takes over a lagging XC team. They manage
to finish third in the state meet, only to have their entire appearance at the state meet erased in a courtroom.
The book tells the story of the next year.
- During the lead-up to the next year's state meet, the team is beaten by their rivals. With their confidence
shaken, assistant-coach Rich Wilson delivers my favorite quote from the book, "If you had taken first today, you woulda come back home and yawned and said, 'Yep, I guess we're gonna win state.' But in the back of your mind woulda been a little bit of doubt and you'd be wonderin' if you just might lose. "Well, you saw today the only way that's gonna happen. Could any of you have run any worse? . . . Now we're gonna see 'em again at state, and they're gonna think they've already won. Pffft. They're done. But we're gonna say, 'You may 'a' beaten us last week, when we all ran with our tails between our legs. But we got a 55-gallon barrel o' butt-whuppin', and you can just get in line.'"
- The authors are cousins who were sophomores on the team that finished 3rd in the state meet. They were juniors during the season written about in this book.
- They co-wrote the book during the summer between their junior and senior years. An epilogue mentions their return to the state meet during their senior year, when both the boys and girls XC teams were state champs. Additional Shivers cousins were on the girls team.
- The book came about because the boys entered a book proposal in the Fresh Writers Book contest. This Ohio program provides summer internships between the junior and senior year to encourage high school students to pursue literary careers.
- This is the 6th book produced by students in the program. While previous books have done well in Ohio, this is the first book to break out and be selling well across the country. The book was the #5 track and field book at Amazon during July 6-7, 2006.
- The book is dedicated to their grandmother, who passed away the week before the state meet in their senior year.
- Paul is the faster runner, the 2nd runner on the XC team. Joe spent the season as either the 7th man or the alternate.
- Paul Shivers will be a red-shirt freshman at Ohio State in the fall. Joe Shivers was named to the USA Today top 50 seniors list and will be attending Harvard.
- The book gives a look into the thoughts and feelings of the adolescent athlete.
- One adult customer mentioned that the book brought back a flood of memories from her high school XC seasons. She bought additional copies of the books for her running friends.
- The book is winning acclaim from XC coaches, saying it would be a good recruiting tool for their teams. For any coaches teaching short fiction or Reading classes, the book would make an excellent selection for classroom reading. We were careful to keep the book curriculum safe.
- At 180 pages, the book is priced at $5.95 - affordable for the high school XC runner. If the coach is interested in buying a book for the whole team, the publisher offers a 40% discount on purchases of 6 or more copies. School purchases orders are gladly accepted.
This page current as of May 24, 2007 8:43 AM
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