Gayle Harper

Photographer ~ Author ~ Traveler

NEW BOOK TRAILER for Roadtrip with a Raindrop!

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Calhoun County, Illinois

Calhoun County, Illinois

Hello my friends!!!

LOTS of news from Serendipity-land!

FIRST – I’m very excited to share with you the BRAND NEW BOOK TRAILER – Just posted! Here’s the link…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zmzxmkj4s

If you are a follower on the Author Facebook page www.facebook.com/GayleHarper.MississippiRiver you’ve seen the wonderful media coverage lately for Roadtrip with a Raindrop!

You can also go to the “News” tab on gayleharper.com where you’ll find links to radio & tv interviews as well as newspaper and magazine articles about our little raindrop!

The calendar for the year is looking VERY busy!

Soon, I’ll post the Book Tour and hope to see you somewhere! Let me know if you’d like the raindrop tour to come to your community!

In the meantime, stay warm, my friends! Spring will come!

Love, Gayle

RECONNECTED!!

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Whew! It’s SO good to have you back!

In the process of rolling the existing blog into the brand-new website gayleharper.com , there were a few technological hiccups! For a period of weeks, my ability to communicate with you through this blog wasn’t working! Then, there was that random re-send of an archived post from waaaayyyy back! Technology is SWEET when it works and hair-pullingly frustrating when it doesn’t!

AND the good news is, the issues seem to be resolved and I’m told we are solidly reconnected!

If you’ve been able to follow the adventures of our little raindrop on facebook.com/GayleHarper.MississippiRiver or other social media (which I’ll list at the bottom), you know that it’s been a VERY exciting launch so far!

There have already been seven different Book Signing/Presentation Events, all of which were wonderful. Sharing these stories and hearing how hearts are touched is SO much fun, it sometimes feels like my heart just might explode with Joy.

On Saturday, Barnes & Noble said “Bring us more books! We are sold out and people are asking for them.” I did – and on Sunday when I walked in to find they had made a display of Roadtrip with a Raindrop right up front at the Information Counter, it brought one of those crystallized moments of pure gratitude and humility. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to be involved in this amazing project!

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There’s been lots of GREAT media coverage too (and it’s from word of mouth as this is the “soft launch” and we haven’t done News Releases yet). I’ll update the “News” section of the website with links very soon.

Meanwhile, Roadtrip with a Raindrop is now available in these ways…

  • Signed and/or personalized copies are at gayleharper.com
  • Unsigned are at Amazon and Barnes & Noble online
  • In Stores –
    • at Barnes & Noble Stores (if your store doesn’t have it yet, you can request it)
    • in St. Louis at Left Bank Bookstore
    • in Springfield, MO at Renaissance Books and at the MSU Bookstore

WHEREVER you choose to get yours, it would be a GREAT help if you would make a “Reader’s Review” on Amazon and/or Barnes & Noble. It’s easy and no purchase is required. Readers DO value your opinion greatly!  Thank you!

Thank you, my friends, for traveling with Serendipity and me! Know that, however noisy or quiet this Holiday Season may be for you, the same underlying Love and Peace is always present for all of us. May your heart be filled with that.

Love, Gayle

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FIVE STAR REVIEW!!

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FIVE STAR REVIEW!

“Roadtrip with a Raindrop” has just received its first official review! Here’s what “Readers’ Favorites” has to say!

Review Rating: 5 stars!
Reviewed By Jack Magnus for Readers’ Favorite

Roadtrip with a Raindrop: 90 Days Along the Mississippi River is a non-fiction travel book written by Gayle Harper. Harper is a travel writer and photographer who’s had a lifelong love of the Mississippi River. While she always had the inkling of a thought about a full-scale adventure on the river, it wasn’t until she saw a factoid on the National Park Service’s website that her thought bloomed to its full potential. The site said that a single drop of water falling at the headwaters of the Mississippi travels for 90 days to reach the Gulf of Mexico. Harper calculated that that drop would travel about 27 miles a day on its 3-month long journey; then she decided to call that drop ‘Serendipity’ and to travel along with it, and her project was born.

I settled into an easy chair with a cup of tea and Gayle Harper’s non-fiction travelogue, Roadtrip with a Raindrop: 90 Days Along the Mississippi River, and found myself falling in love with the headwaters of the Mississippi and the marvelous natural settings of Minnesota. I had to keep reminding myself that it gets very cold there in the wintertime, and then I continued reading on, and studying one stunningly beautiful picture after another as Harper and her raindrop continued their journey south. There were so many places to see and stories to hear; all quite new for someone who’s only ever lived on a coast and barely seen the arch of St. Louis flash by on a road trip. Roadtrip with a Raindrop: 90 Days Along the Mississippi River is an exceptionally good travel book that reads as smoothly as fiction and is filled with history, nature and the warmth and kindness of strangers soon to become friends. It’s a splendid read, and it’s most highly recommended.