Mr. Good News Comes A’Calling–or, How We Came Up With the Good News About Retailing Name

Good News About Retailing LogoAs we approach our 10th anniversary, we’ve been talking a good deal about the early days at The Armarium Press. One of the questions we’ve been asked most over the years (other than “so, what is an armarium?”) is how we came up with the name for the good news about retailing series.

In fact, we didn’t come up with the name at all. It just came to us. We’d been talking about how negative some of the other how-to business guides had been of late. Especially those which described their readers as “dummies” or “idiots.” Eddy Kay’s books promised to educate with words of inspiration and promote ideas that would instill real hope and change for small-business owners. There was a good reason he’d been dubbed Mr. Good News by his happy clients a long time back.

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New Ipswich Kids Prepare for the First Day of School at Chaucer’s Book Launch Party

Chaucer prepares to welcome fans at his book launch party at the New Ipswich LibraryIllustrator John Clarke joined Chaucer the Dog at the New Ipswich Library yesterday for a tail-wagging good time with local kids to mark the official launch of Learning Is Cool… It’s the First Day of School! The first book in the Chaucer in the Classroom series rolled off the presses earlier this month.

After Chaucer “read” from the book and handled the Q&A portion of the presentation (with a little assistance from the rest of The Armarium Press staff), he turned the floor over to his illustrator and settled in for a rest. (Well, more of a nap really. Fame can be so exhausting.)

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Award-Winning Artist John Clarke to Illustrate Chaucer in the Classroom Series

John ClarkeWe’re thrilled about the latest development at Canterbury Tails Books, our new imprint for children’s titles: We have been fortunate to sign award-winning illustrator John Clarke of Salem, Massachusetts to create the artwork for the first six books in the Chaucer in the Classroom series. Learning Is Cool… It’s the First Day of School!, the first title in the series, will be released in August.

John Clarke had already captured Chaucer’s look perfectly for the travel book we published last year, Tube-Sock Tricks, and 101 Other Tips for RVing Success, which was also “written” by the literary fox terrier.

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We’re Entering the Children’s Book Market! The Armarium Press Announces Canterbury Tails Books

Chaucer the Dog is at it again. The literary fox terrier is now busy “authoring” a series of elementary school titles for Canterbury Tails Books, our new children’s division. Learning Is Cool… It’s the First Day of School!, the first of six books in the Chaucer in the Classroom series, is due out in August.

Subsequent titles in the series will address President’s Day, Valentine’s Day, the 100th Day of School, Career Day, and school anti-drug campaigns (such as D.A.R.E. programs and Red Ribbon Week).

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Good News Comes to Vegas (and the AQUA Retail Show)

Armarium Press author Eddy Kay at the 2002 AQUARetail ConferenceNothing like a quick road trip to Vegas! Sales trainer Eddy Kay was scheduled to teach a seminar at the 2002 AQUA Retail Conference and Expo earlier this month. The annual event for pool and spa retailers seemed the ideal forum for selling Kay’s book, Thriving in the Shadow of Giants: How to Find Success as an Independent Retailer –and for advertising the news that his first book got a mention in Publisher’s Weekly.

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