October 22, 2008
7:00-9:00PM
50 University Ave, Suite 280
Los Gatos, CA 95030
408.395.6622
Borders
October 23, 2008
3:30-5:30PM
Mission Bay
200 King Street
San Francisco, CA 94122
415-357-9931
Borders
October 24, 2008
6:00-8:00PM
456 University Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-326-3670
Barnes and Nobles
October 25, 2008
12:00-2:00PM
Westgate Mall
1600 Saratoga Ave
San Jose, CA 95129
408-370-0444
Books of Wonder
November 15,2008
12:00-2:00PM ET
18 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-989-3270
Borders
November 15, 2008
3:00-5:00PM
576 2nd Ave.
New York, NY 10016
212-685-3938
Television Appearance
KPIX-TV (CBS)
“CBS 5 Eyewitness News”
Between 7:00-8:00AM PT
Anchor(s): Lisa Chan & David Vasquez
October 19, 2008
KRON-TV (MyNetwork TV)
“KRON 4 News Weekend”
9:15 AM PT
Anchor(s): Ysabel Duron & Marty Gonzalez
October 21, 2008
KGO-TV (ABC)
“View from the Bay”
Between 3:00-4:00PM PT
Anchor(s): Janelle Wang & Spencer Christian
November 14, 2008
WPIX-TV (CW)
“CW Morning News”
New York, NY
Between 8:00-9:00AM ET
November 15, 2008
WABC-TV (ABC)
“Eyewitness News Saturday Morning”
7:45AM ET
Anchor(s): Michelle Charlesworth & Phil Lipof
Ketaki's Radio Interview Schedule 2008
KETAKI'S RADIO INTERVIEW SCHEDULE 2008
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
- TalkStar Radio Network
Nationally Syndicated to 52 Stations
7:00PM PT/10:00PM ET
Simulcast on internet: www.talkstarradio.com
Host: Rob McConnell
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
- WACK-AM1420
Rochester, NY
5:10AM PT/8:10AM ET
Simulcast on internet: www.1420wack.com
Host: Dr. Rus Jeffrey - WOCA-AM 1370
Gainesville – Ocala, FL
6:05AM PT/9:05AM ET
Host: Larry Whitler & Robin MacBlane
Thursday, September 11, 2008
- WSTW-FM 93.7
Wilmington, DE
7:10AM PT/10:10 AM ET
Simulcast on internet:www.wstw.com
Host: Mike Yeager - Mario Solis Marich Show
Nationally Syndicated to 3 Stations
2:30 PM PT
Simulcast on internet: www.gotomario.com
Host: Mario Solis Marich
Friday, September 12, 2008
- WNAV-AM 1430
Baltimore, MD
6:35AM PT/9:35AM ET
Simulcast on internet: www.wnav.com
Host: Bill Lusby
Monday, September 15, 2008
- KION-AM 1460
Monterey, CA
6:35AM PT
Host: Mark Carbonaro
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
- Issues With Walt Shaw
Regionally Syndicated to 5 Stations in CA
7:00 AM PT
Simulcast on internet: www.khtkam.com
Host: Walt Shaw
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
- North Georgia Radio Group
Regionally Syndicated to 4 Stations in GA
6:30AM PT/9:30AM ET
Host: Lorri Harrison - WNTN-AM 1550
Boston, MA
7:00AM PT/10:00AM ET
Simulcast on internet: www.wntn.com
Host: Paul Roberts - Sirius XM Satellite Radio
2:00 PM PT/5:00 PM ET
Host: Jim Breuer
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
- KSCO-AM 1080
San Jose, CA
7:10 AM PT
Host: Rosemary Chalmers
Thursday, September 25, 2008
- WMFP-FM 107.1
Minneapolis, MN
6:05AM PT/8:05AM CT
Simulcast on internet: www.fm107.fm
Host: Ian & Margery Punnett
Friday, October 3, 2008
- WRGA-AM 1470
Atlanta, GA
6:10AM PT/9:10AM ET
Host: Nelle Reagan
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
- KCBR-AM1040
Denver, CO
6:05AM PT/7:05AM MT
Host: Tron Simpson
Saturday, October 25, 2008
- KFNX-AM 1100
8:00AM PT/ 11:00AM ET
Phoenix, AZ
Simulcast on internet: www.1100kfnx.com
Monday, October 27, 2008
- KHYL-FM 101.1
6:35AM PT
Sacramento, CA
Simulcast on internet: www.v1011fm.com - WOGL-FM 98.1
3:00 PM PT/6:00 PM ET
Philadelphia, PA
Host: Brad Segall
Monday, November 10, 2008
- Conscious Talk Radio Network
Regionally Syndicated to 3 Stations in WA
7:06AM PT
Simulcast on internet: www.conscioustalk.net
Host: Brenda Michaels & Rob Spears
Friday, November 14, 2008
- WOR Radio Network
10PM ET
New York, NY
Host: Joey Reynolds
One Good Kid: The Power of a Teen's Imagination
http://www.evliving.com/2008/07/29/961/sorceress-of-the-himalayas/
http://www.thecontentcorner.com/Article/One-Good-Kid--The-Power-of-a-Teen-s-Imagination/117354
Download radio interview with Ketaki
Can Your Teen Survive a Peer Pressured World?
Guest – Ketaki Shriram
Can Your Teen Survive a Peer-Pressured World?
Teen Dynamo Reveals Answers for Your Listeners
Discussion Topic
Nearly everyday we read stories of teens self-destructing: falling victim to bullying, acting out in violent ways, desperate for love, escaping through drugs and living in private iPod worlds. Children who have little ambition, even less responsibility and an extremely high sense of entitlement. Let Ketaki Shriram, 16 year old author of Sorceress of the Himalayas reveal how today's teens can survive and thrive in a peer pressured world.
Talking Points
- What prompted you to start writing a novel in your early teens?
- How has your writing helped you deal with the peer pressure and familial problems most teens are faced with?
- Do you have any tips for parents about how they can motivate their teens to make better choices?
- What advice would you give to teens that have experienced being ostracized?
- Have there been experiences in your life that helped to shape the characters in your book?
- How much of a role did your parents play in your success as a writer?
- What would you recommend to other teens to help them look beyond problems or upsets in their daily lives?
- With such a promising start, what are your plans for the future?
Topic Overview
Walking down the street, riding on the bus, shopping at the grocery store... we see them. It feels as if disrespectful children who have little to no ambition, even less responsibility and an extremely high sense of entitlement are lurking everywhere. Is this truly where our world is going? Is there any hope for our younger generations? Take a breath and relax... there are still some good, solid kids out there!
“I started writing in elementary school, but it wasn't until I began writing Sorceress in 2004 that writing played a larger role in my life,” says Ketaki Shriram author of the new book Sorceress of the Himalayas (Crystallius Press, $17.95). “Sorceress of the Himalayas has been an amazing experience to write and publish, because it has evolved along with me as I have grown over the past three years.”
Ketaki, who can definitely be classified as a "good kid" is far removed from the current group of despondent youth. A published author at 16, she has always had an intense love for writing. This is her favorite way to tackle her feelings about discrimination, bullying, abandonment, lost love and even death.
“Writing is awesome because I can work out the stresses in my life by writing stories inspired by people and events that have happened around me,” Ketaki says. “It's such a great way for me to better understand myself and other people around me."
But that is not the whole story. Ketaki, an outstanding student, is highly active in her high school's student government (as student body president) and is opinion editor on her school newspaper. AND she is currently working on her next novel. “I feel extremely fortunate to have found something that I'm passionate about so early in my life, and to be able to pursue that passion.”
So there you have it: if more kids could fill their time with positive activities that they were passionate about, maybe they would have less time to look for trouble.
About Ketaki Shriram
Ketaki Shriram www.sorceressofthehimalayas.com has been crafting compelling stories from the tender age of eight, when she completed her first short story for a local book fair. Over the next few years her love of writing grew so intense that by age 10 she had completed her first long form fictional story. By 13 she had completed her first novel, Sorceress of the Himalayas (Crystallius Press, $17.95), which she has now published at age 16. When she is not writing, Ketaki, an outstanding student, is highly active in her high school's student government (as student body president) and is opinion editor on her school newspaper. She is currently working on her next novel.
Fantasy Fiction Did Not Cease with the Final Harry Potter
For Review – Ketaki Shriram
Contact: Rachel Friedman, 727-443-7115, ext. 206
Rachel@newsandexperts.com
Fantasy Fiction Did Not Cease with the Final Harry Potter & Twilight Sagas
Book Review: “Sorceress of the Himalayas”
By 13 Year Old Author, Ketaki Shriram
“Power, eternal life, and wealth – it is all possible for the one who possesses the spellbook.” These are the words used by Kamsa,” the Pariah”, to justify a life spent researching and recording magic spells while neglecting his family. When Kamsa decides to sell his life's work to provide a suitable dowry so his only child could have a suitable marriage with an Indian such as herself, he is stunned by her refusal. Instead Rani demands the right to learn magic herself, escaping to begin a quest to find the bamboo grove at the top of Himalayas where sorcery could be learned. Her journey is ended when she meets and learns to love Li Shen, a Chinese general. Once again Rani defies tradition by joining with Li Shen in a mixed race marriage. The birth of their beautiful daughter, Tien Ming, expands their happiness. Until, that is, Kamsa tracks down his daughter, tearing her away from her new family. Trying to follow them, Li Shen is lost in a snowstorm, but not before securing the infant in bushes outside a mountain village.
Tien is discovered and raised by Wise Woman, an elder of the village. Taunted by the village children due to her mixed heritage, she learns much from her godmother. The misery of Tien's life changes when strange dark men come demanding the maturing girl be sent to find the missing spellbook of her grandfather. An evil Force is also seeking the book, and legend says only Tien could know the password, which would open the spells. Legend also has told that soon the moon and sun would occupy the sky at the same time, an event of great power. Should the Force hold the spellbook when this occurred, the world will turn dark, and all will die!
Thus begins the journey of the young sorceress, Tien, who is soon met by Zharabi the shape shifter, and Daya a golden snow leopard, to assist her in their quest for the fabled spellbook. Battling minions of the Force takes them from the magical bamboo grove to the Crystal River, the Sacred Forest, and finally to the Ghost Monastery, a breeding place for evil where phantom monks capture souls and keep them there for all eternity.
Novelist Ketaki Shriram uses the startling power of her imagination to humanize this stunning tale with talking animals, ghosts, faeries, unicorns, dragons, and other magical creatures. The adventure twists and turns through a variety of dangers and betrayals. Remarkably mature in her prose, Ketaki delivers a series of moral lessons as her characters rise above prejudice and malice to create a timeless, immortal world of hope. Intended for mature young readers, this adult found it as enjoyable as any of the many fantasy fiction tales I have read!
About Ketaki Shriram
Ketaki Shriram has been crafting compelling stories from the tender age of eight, when she completed her first short story for a local book fair. Over the next few years her love of writing grew so intense that by age 10 she had completed her first long form fictional story. By 13 she had completed her first novel, Sorceress of the Himalayas (Crystallius Press, $17.95), which she is now publishing at age 16. When she is not writing, Ketaki, an outstanding student, is highly active in her high school's student government (as student body president) and is opinion editor on her school newspaper. She is currently working on her next novel. www.sorceressofthehimalayas.com
To interview Ketaki Shriram or request a review copy of "Sorceress of the Himalayas" contact Rachel Friedman at (727) 443-7115 ext. 206 or email Rachel@NewsAndExperts.com Please include your name, publication, and mailing address with your request.
Press Release
Press Release
Contact: Rachel Friedman (727) 443-7115 x 206
One Good Kid: The Power of a Teen's Imagination
At a time when many teenagers respond destructively to stress, one girl fights back with words.
Menlo Park, CA- This new century is not kind to teenagers. Increasingly exposed to adult themes, living in a world of melting icecaps and crumbling economic dreams, they still must deal with all the classic adolescent angst. Will I be liked? Will I be loved? Who am I?
Every day, it seems, we see stories of teens self-destructing: falling victim to bullying, acting out in violent ways, desperate for love, escaping through drugs, living in private iPod worlds. And then there's Ketaki Shriram, novelist.
At 16, while caught up in preparing for her senior year in high school and readying her college applications, Ketaki has also managed to publish the fantasy novel she wrote at 13, Sorceress of the Himalayas (Crystallius Press, $17.95).
“Through writing, I have been able to grow as a human being and understand the depth of certain emotions in a more complex manner,” she says. “The more I wrote, the more I learned about myself and my world view.”
As parents of adolescents know all too well, one of the most difficult things for a teenager to do is to take a long-range view. Teens live in the “now”—deeply feeling the pressures and slights of today and deeply unconvinced that tomorrow can be different. Learning perspective and patience are the keys to maturity.
While Sorceress of the Himalayas has a youthful heroine, the maturity of the storyline comes from just such a perspective. The central character has to deal with such issues as discrimination, bullying, abandonment, lost love and even death, but they aren't the focus of the plot. The heroine rises above them on her quest to save the world and those she loves.
“I have been inspired to write by people and events that have happened around me as I have grown up,” Ketaki says. “Writing Sorceress was not only a way for me to teach others to look beyond their daily lives, but also a way for me to teach myself.”
Channeling her energies into writing started early. A good student, Ketaki has always enjoyed reading and writing, and completed her first short story, for a local book fair, when she was 8. She finished her first long-form fiction, a fantasy tale, at the age of 10, discovering a passion for fantasy in the process.
While Ketaki has the classic “good kid” profile – student body president, opinion editor on the school paper – she's also a typical teen, confessing “I became (and still remain) involved with my story to the point where I sometimes end up thinking about the characters or setting during a math or chemistry test!”
“What I often found was that the events occurring at a given point in time in my life would influence the kinds of scenes I wrote in the novel, and the way it progressed. This allowed a variety of emotions to seep into my book, sometimes subconsciously inserted as I wrote,” she says.
Both the book and its characters are remarkably unselfconscious. Set in Asia in the 1800s, the book is free of both modern pressures and teen angst; the heroine is too busy dealing with an important quest to do more than notice the obstacles of peer pressure and discrimination that sidetrack many teens.
Keeping busy while looking forward is what's driving Ketaki Shriram these days. “I am currently a junior in high school, which means that I don't have much time to write anymore! When I do get the chance, however, I continue to experiment with different plots, characters, and even different universes in my writing.”
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About Ketaki Shriram
Ketaki Shriram has been crafting compelling stories from the tender age of eight, when she completed her first short story for a local book fair. Over the next few years her love of writing grew so intense that by age 10 she had completed her first long form fictional story. By 13 she had completed her first novel, Sorceress of the Himalayas (Crystallius Press, $17.95), which she is now publishing at age 16. When she is not writing, Ketaki, an outstanding student, is highly active in her high school's student government (as student body president) and is opinion editor on her school newspaper. She is currently working on her next novel. www.sorceressofthehimalayas.com
To interview Ketaki Shriram or request a review copy of "Sorceress of the Himalayas" contact Rachel Friedman at (727) 443-7115 ext. 206 or email Rachel@NewsAndExperts.com Please include your name, publication, and mailing address with your request.
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