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MEDIA RELEASES FOR TRI STUDIO - MOST RECENT FIRST

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Media Release        Kathe Gogolewski, TRI Studio Authors, LLC, 4978 Marin Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056
Website:: http://www.TRI-Studio.com Email: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net Phone: 760-643-9019

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Contact: Kathe Gogolewski
E-Mail: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net

     New Online Feature for TRI Studio LLC Honors Guest Poets

TRI Studio LLC, a company of authors writing for a number of publishers, magazines and ezines, announces a new online
feature honoring a different guest poet every month. A bio, a TRI-Studio interview with the poet, photos and listing of
publications will be included with several poems. Interested poets are invited to submit their work for consideration as a
Featured Poet. The page is located at: http://www.TRI-Studio.com/GuestPoetryPage.html.

Tri Studio’s first poet, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, also an award-winning novelist, will be featured on the site throughout
September. Her first chapbook of poetry, Tracings, published by Finishing Line Press, will be released in the fall of 2005.
Tracings will touch chords for readers interested in nostalgia, tolerance, culture and aging. Howard-Johnson's poetry has
appeared in literary journals such as the Mochila Review, Banyan Review and Poetic Voices, as well as a variety of journals
and magazines, both print and online. One of her poems won The Pedestal Magazine's first annual Readers' Award. Her
poetry has also been honored by Long Story Short.

The author's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. Her book of creative nonfiction has won three. Her fiction,
nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She was recently awarded
Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by the California Legislature. Her how-to book, THE FRUGAL BOOK
PROMOTER won USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004”. Interested parties may learn more about Carolyn at http:
//carolynhowardjohnson.com

TRI Studio Members include Kathe Gogolewski, author of TATO, a middle grade fantasy adventure published by Wings Press
at http://www.Wings-press.com , Ann Durand, author of A Promise to Keep, a romantic suspense published by Double
Dragon Publishing at http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com and Ray Grant, author of short stories and flash fiction.
Interested poets may submit their work for consideration as a TRI Studio Featured Poet by emailing AnnDurand@TRI-Studio.
com Visit TRI Studio at http://www.TRI-Studio.com

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Media Release        Kathe Gogolewski, TRI Studio Authors, LLC, 4978 Marin Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056
Website:: http://www.TRI-Studio.com Email: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net Phone: 760-643-9019

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For Immediate Release
Contact: Kathe Gogolewski
E-Mail: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net

Students Like Juan Moran to Benefit from Author’s Scholarship Raffle

It’s been a rough road back from addiction and a broken home, but Juan Moran got his second chance, and he’s not wasting
it. This time, he’s embraced the opportunities and programs available to him and is gustily reaping the benefits.

As a student at Los Angeles City College (LACC), one of nine colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District, Juan
is part of a debate team that is taking top awards across the country. They placed first in the Novice Division at the University
of Berkeley and at the Northern California Forensic Association Tournament at the University of Pacific in Stockton. They were
also the first community college team in twenty-five years to break in the elimination rounds at the national level of
competition held in Georgetown University this year. Juan is also gainfully employed in the campus “English Lab” tutoring
other students.

Achieving this status has not been an easy exercise for Juan. He details a childhood that was “very ordinary” he said, until he
reached high school. There, he immersed himself in speech and debate, honors advanced placement coursework and
academic decathlons, and a world of pressure. “I was militantly pursuing academia” he said, and in an effort to live up to
everyone else’s expectations, “wasn’t paying attention to myself.” He paid a price for that neglect as he became increasingly
more involved with drugs, “to drown out my feelings.” As a result, by the time he was a junior, he had become a “habitual
user of pot” or marijuana. It was, he says, “my drug of choice.” No longer willing and able to sustain the pressures of his
junior year, Juan left school and went to live with his father, who had separated from Juan’s mother when he was 9.

Juan credits his father as the “catalyst” that turned him around and set him on the right path. It was “the power of love,” he
says, that provided him with the impetus to change. He joined a recovery program and “got closer to my father. He helped me
personally rather than academically.” This time, when Juan returned to school, he was prepared. He started courses at
LACC, received his GED and has thrived ever since on the curriculum and guidance he has received from the college. He
eventually plans to attend law school.

Community colleges across the country offer students like Juan a new opportunity to succeed. Alexandra Maeck, head of the
English/ESL Department at LACC, says classrooms are filled with students of differing ethnic, economic, and age
diversities. They take classes because “they can get in, they can afford it, and they can work at the same time.”

Proceeds from TRI Studio Raffle will provide writing scholarships for students like Juan that deserve that second chance.
Tickets may be purchased online at Double Dragon Publishing at double-dragon-ebooks.com. Click on “Feeling Lucky?” Or
they may be bought at the LA Times Festival of Books at the Authors’ Coalition Booth, Booth 610, Zone F next to the Barnes
and Noble Pavilion. Checks, payable to TRI Studio LLC, may also be mailed to TRI Studio, 4978 Marin Dr. Oceanside, CA
92056. One ticket will be awarded for every dollar submitted. Buy ten tickets and receive an extra two, free of charge.
Donation receipts issued.

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Media Release Kathe Gogolewski, TRI Studio Authors, LLC, 4978 Marin Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056
Website:: http://www.TRI-Studio.com Email: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net Phone: 760-643-9019

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Contact: Kathe Gogolewski
E-Mail: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net

Children’s Book Released for Retired Teacher Turned School Volunteer

TATO, a middle grade fantasy adventure by retired schoolteacher, Kathe Gogolewski, was released from Wings-Press.com
November 1, 2005.

TATO captures children’s imaginations by recognizing their desire to earn the admiration of the adults closest to them. The
story casts Michael Tate, an inventive and willful boy, and his bossy older sister, Nicole, into a strange world filled with
fantastic beings and incredible events in order to rescue their parents, held hostage by the evil power that rules the realm.

Gogolewski, a retired elementary schoolteacher, wrote a teachers’ supplement for the story, which includes both a language
arts and science component. She will pilot the program in a fourth and fifth grade classroom at Lake Elementary, California,
where she teaches writing and science as a volunteer. She will also pilot the program in various schools in the West Contra
Costa School District and Palo Alto Unified School District. As the story revolves around a boy and a lot of magic, Gogolewski
will use science experiments to explain a number of illusions in the story. Children will also engage in language arts activities,
such as character report cards and wanted posters of the villain.

TATO is the second novel for Kathe Gogolewski, who published a romantic suspense, A Promise to Keep, in February, 2005
available from Double Dragon Publishing under her pen name, Ann Durand. She is also an editor for The Muse Marquee, an
ezine for writers. She has won awards for her short stories and poems, which have been published by Long Story Short,
JacoByte Books, Penwomanship, and Storyteller Magazine. She has contributed to two anthologies: The Muse on Writing, is
due from Double Dragon Publishing in April, 2006, and Spiritual Visitations, is due from Zumaya Publications in 2008. She is
a board member for Authors’ Coalition and the Museitup Club, an online writing critique group and one of Writer’s Digest “Best
101 Writing Sites, 2005.”

In her review for Midwest Book Reviews, senior reviewer Shirley Johnson wrote about TATO: "This is a fun read, entertaining
from beginning to end; but also one that will teach children lessons of life. Very highly recommended." Learn more about
Kathe or purchase TATO at http://www.tri-studio.com/kathegogolewski.html

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Double Dragon Publishing Releases New Series on Audio Classes for Writers

Double Dragon's Newest Offering -- POD Radio courses! Listen to award-winning authors as they share secrets and
know-how that helped them get published, sell books and build a reader base.

Recently, five published authors got together to create a series of audio classes for writers. After they recorded their first
class, Double Dragon Publishing offered them contracts, and established a brand new imprint to produce a series of 30
audio classes. Moderated by Allyn Evans, found of http.queenpower.com, it is taught by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
http://carolynhowardjohnson.com , Kathe Gogolewski http://www.TRI-Studio.com , Joyce Faulkner
http://www.joycefaulkner.com , and Marilyn Peake http://www.marilynpeake.com.

Instructor Marilyn Peake responds, "I love doing these classes! I feel like I'm chatting with good friends who really know
how to discuss writing in-depth. I feel invigorated after each and every class, with my writing batteries completely
recharged!"

Evans adds, "Besides having a blast, I have learned so much. I must confess it's hard to scribble down notes while trying
to moderate a show, but all four of our experienced writers have so much to share."

The series will include three categories: Writing, Technology related to writing, and Book Promotion. All classes will be
available in both MP3 and CD formats.

The first audio class is FREE in MP3 format (and can also be purchased as a CD). The first audio class is Radio: A
Do-It-Yourself Guide to Promoting Easy and Cheap! The second audio class is available for purchase in both MP3 and CD
formats and is the perfect gift for any writer. The course - Promote or Perish! The Greatest Myth of Publishing: Your Book Is
Written, Now Let the Publisher Promote It - is now available at Double Dragon Publishing. Remaining classes will be
recorded in 2006.

To listen to a 5-minute excerpt from the audio class Promote or Perish! The Greatest Myth of Publishing: Your Book Is
Written, Now Let the Publisher Promote It, click here:
http://tri-studio.com/kathegogolewskiPODCASTEXCERPT.html

To learn more about the courses being offered, visit:
http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/imprintlist.asp?imprint=PODRADIO

To learn more about Authors' Coalition go to: http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com

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Media Release        Kathe Gogolewski, TRI Studio Authors, LLC, 4978 Marin Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056
Website:: http://www.TRI-Studio.com Email: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net Phone: 760-643-9019

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Contact: Kathe Gogolewski
E-Mail: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net

  Charity Raffle Given by E-authors to Benefit LA Community College

Nine authors of electronic books have teamed up to present a raffle with proceeds providing scholarships to benefit students
in the Los Angeles City College writing programs. Free CDs and goodie bags with information about the raffle and the author’
s books will be distributed at the LA Times Book Festival on the UCLA campus, April 23 and 24, 2005 at the Author’s
Coalition Booth 610, Zone F, while supplies last. It isn’t necessary to attend the fair to participate in the raffle.

An array of fifty-three great prizes beckon potential winners, including two in which a winner’s name is written into a novel.
There are also autographed copies of books by well-known authors, complimentary dinners at restaurants in the Santa
Monica and Westwood areas of Los
Angeles, a hand-blown glass Fairie Light, antique hatbox and more. Tickets are $1 and may be purchased at the Double
Dragon Publishing and TRI Studio websites.

The authors are involved with the project include Carolyn Howard-Johnson, whose book, The Frugal Book Promoter, was
named USA Book News “Best Professional Book 2004.” She is the winner of the California Legislature’s renowned
“Women of the Year in Arts and Entertainment” award. Other authors include Marilyn Peake, award winning author of the
children’s book The Fisherman’s Son, as well as Ann Durand, award winner of flash fiction and author of the highly rated
novel A Promise to Keep from fictionwise, the top independent seller of ebooks in the world. Other participants are Sandra
Leigh, author of Mercy’s Ransom, K.L Nappier, who won awards for her novel Full Wolf Moon, Susan Merson, award winning
actress and author of YOUR NAME HERE: An Actor and Writer’s Guide to Solo Performance, Sheri McGathy and Peter
Prellwitz, and award winning children’s author, Kathe Gogolewski.

The fair is one of the country’s premiere literary events and is free to the public. The Festival promises endless booths, book
signings, poetry readings, and an extensive children’s area with books for sale.

Raffle tickets may be purchased now at www.double-dragon-ebooks.com . Click on FEELING LUCKY? Or make checks
payable to the California Community College Foundation and mail to: TRI Studio, 4978 Marin Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056.

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Media Release Kathe Gogolewski, TRI Studio Authors, LLC, 4978 Marin Dr., Oceanside, CA 92056
Website:: http://www.TRI-Studio.com Email: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net Phone: 760-643-9019

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        Contact: Kathe Gogolewski
        E-Mail: kgogolewski@sbcglobal.net

Tri Studio Authors Take Seven Awards at 2005 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll

Oceanside, CA—Feb 2, 2005—Four authors at TRI Studio, LLC, http://www.TRI-Studio.com finished in the TOP TEN for
the 2005 Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll. Kathe Gogolewski’s fantasy adventure novel for middle grade readers, TATO,
placed third in the Mainstream Novel category. http://tri-studio.com/kathegogolewski.html. TRI Studio Author, Ray Grant,
placed sixth in the Short Story category with A Strange Feeling, as well as sixth in the Best Poem category with The Ship.
http://tri-studio.com/RaymondGrant.html. Ann Durand, author of A Promise to Keep, placed fifth in the Romance Novel
category. http://tri-studio.com/anndurand.html In addition, TRI Studio Guest Poet, Marilyn Peake, placed fifth in the Best
Poem category with her poem, Memory of New Orleans. http://tri-studio.com/Guestpoetrypage4.html She also ranked
eighth for Best Poet. Ann Durand writes a monthly column for the writers’ ezine, The Muse Marquee, which was also a
TOP TEN FINISHER. http://tri-studio.com/ResourcesforWriters.html

Preditors & Editors, established as a comprehensive guide to publishers and writing services for serious writers, also
includes information for artists, composers, game designers, poets and writers of all genres. A representative of the site
writes, “As part of our overall effort to assist and promote writers, we are proud to conduct the Preditors & Editors Readers
Poll. We hope this small effort helps all publishers and writers on the Internet to thrive in what is still viewed as a highly
experimental and strongly competitive environment.”

TRI Studio Authors LLC has two releases expected this year. Ray Grant’s book of short stories entitled Flashes in the
Pan, 50 Short Stories for the Impatient, will be released by October, 2006 from Double Dragon Publishing. http://www.
double-dragon-ebooks.com. Ann Durand’s science fiction novel, Flight of the Gryphon, will be released from Double
Dragon Publishing in December, 2006.

   Kathe Gogolewski’s children’s book, TATO, is recommended by science fiction and fantasy author, Piers Anthony, as
“compelling” and “well-written.”

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