Jon Nappa Projects
Jon Nappa is an award-winning author and international humanitarian.
This page specifically highlights his authoring work with information about the people and projects he works with and on, and also introduces his latest books as they become available.
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January Giving Back recipient is Storm Warriors! SWI is a not-for-profit foundation headquartered in Camden, Maine that is deeply engaged with rescuing, recovering, restoring and relieving real people in real crisis by deploying the arts in service to these causes. It partners with vital organizations involved with human trafficking, opioid addiction, homelessness, poverty, medical emergencies, natural disasters, and other humanitarian crises in Maine. SWI donates custom created media tools for each organization at no charge. The media tools save lives and they inspire, inform and mobilize people and resources including volunteerism and financial contribution to the selected organizations. Check them out at stormwarriors.org, or contact them at 207-230-8203, or visit their production headquarters at 89 Elm Street, 2nd floor, Camden, Maine (above TD Bank).
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Please consider Longfellow for Christmas...(thank you!)
Christmas will be coming soon and if you're looking for an inspiring Holiday-read, please consider What Longfellow Heard. It's an award-winning, critically acclaimed historical work that tells the story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his inspirational life, marriage and struggles during a time when the nation was polarizing and ripping apart. It's an inspiring work perfect for the times in which we are living. I hope you will check it out. Click here to learn more and purchase if interested: http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fiction/what-longfellow-heard/
What Longfellow Heard
Christmas will be coming soon and if you're looking for an inspiring Holiday-read, please consider What Longfellow Heard. It's an award-winning, critically acclaimed historical work that tells the story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and his inspirational life, marriage and struggles during a time when the nation was polarizing and ripping apart. It's an inspiring work perfect for the times in which we are living. I hope you will check it out. Click here to learn more and purchase if interested: http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fiction/what-longfellow-heard/
NAPPA'S LONGFELLOW BOOK CONTINUES TO GARNER RECOGNITION
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linkedin.com What Longfellow Heard - Finalist in 2018's Maine Literary Awards Jon Nappa's historical novel offering an impassioned telling of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's search for love, his suffering of incalculable losses, and his deep longing for a faith and art triumphant, was one of the three finalists in
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I am sorry to not be regularly updating this page during this season but it is only because I am neck deep in meaningful media through Storm Warriors. NIPI projects haven't gone away, but they are in a patient and courteous waiting mode until Storm Warriors is fully established and soaring as the vital not-for-profit mission it is. If you haven't already, visit the storm warriors international page or follow that page as well as this. For those that are keeping track, NIPI does have a movie of the week playing on INSP called County Line and the Longfellow book was a finalist in this years Maine Literary Awards. Meanwhile, Storm Warriors has been producing projects for multiple nfp's and ngo's in several areas of humanitarian need. Meaningful Media! It's what I'm involved with on a daily basis. Stay tuned on all fronts.....
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Storm Warriors has been awarded a $30,000 matching grant for any donations made to Storm Warriors between now and June 29th (only 11 days left). Help us help others and be a Storm Warrior today! Thanks to all who support us and the many great works we are deeply engaged with.
Whatever you give between now and June 29th is automatically doubled!
Maine Literary Awards - Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
What Longfellow Heard has been notified as one of three finalists for the 2018 Maine Literary Awards for fiction. The Award Selection and Announcement will be in Portland, Maine on June 14th - my 60th birthday. Here's some information about the award and festivities http://mainewriters.org/programs/maine-literary-awards/
mainewriters.org The Maine Literary Awards is an annual competition sponsored and coordinated by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance that's open to all Maine residents.
Help us help others! One more day to help us make the most of the match offer. If you donate between now and end of the day on February 28th, your gift is automatically DOUBLED.
Storm Warriors is deeply embedded in several projects including those serving Children in Mourning, Human Trafficking in the USA and American families in poverty. This month we have a generous $10,000 match for our upcoming project supporting the rescue and recovery of sex-trafficked young people right here in our own cities. Your donation is guaranteed to be doubled if you do it on or before February 28th. Please click the donate button on our page and help us help others.
JonNappaProjects are on a bit of a sabbatical for the first half of 2018 due to the launching of Storm Warriors International. SWI is taking most of Jon's time as he assembles creatives from around the state to help him produce media for multiple not-for-profit organizations. You can check it out at stormwarriors.org which also has a link from the jonnapprojects.com website.
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Christmas Shopping?...
What Longfellow Heard is a great Christmas gift. Part of the story it tells is how Henry Longfellow came to write, "Christmas Bells", more commonly known as "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."
http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fiction/what-longfellow-heard/
What Longfellow Heard
What Longfellow Heard is a great Christmas gift. Part of the story it tells is how Henry Longfellow came to write, "Christmas Bells", more commonly known as "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."
http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fiction/what-longfellow-heard/
jonnappaprojects.com Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was enormously famous in his day. Adults and children celebrated his poems, both in America and abroad. He was the first American poet admitted into the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey in England and was renowned for such works as “Hiawatha,” “Paul Revere’s Ri...
Exciting, exciting, EXCITING! Will soon release what's in the project pipeline for 2018....inspiring, entertaining and meaningful media coming soon!
Looking forward to this upcoming holiday season. Along with our traditional celebration of Thanksgiving and Christmas, which always warms, excites and inspires me and my house, there will be a holiday season promotion for the recent Longfellow book (which includes the true story behind "I heard the bells on Christmas Day"), and more updates about the soon-to-be-released Logbooks of Admiral Jake. Keep your radar up!
Here's a poster preview for my next book, coming out in 2018: The Logbooks of Admiral Jake. It's a series I've been working on my entire career. There are twelve books in the series and one volume will be released each year. Here are two links to learn more:
http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fantasy-adventure-fiction/the-logbook-of-admiral-jake-coming-christmas-2017/
http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fantasy-adventure-fiction/the-logbooks-sneak-peeks/
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Creative spaces where I live and breathe...
Waiting to see if Longfellow makes it into the Finals for the BookLife Prize...so far, so good....
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Jon Nappa is actively engaged in several media projects for inspirational and humanitarian purposes. This page highlights people and projects he works with
Nights at the Round Table
I love exploring the creative process with talented artisans. It often contributes motivation to my own work. Check out my "Nights at the Round Table" for enlightening and inspiring interviews with some of these incredible people. They're empowering - and free!
http://jonnappaprojects.com/television/nights-at-the-round-table/
What Longfellow Heard
The BookLife Prize Review for 2017 is in and Longfellow scores a big one to add to the others. Thanks to all who continue to support the project. Here are the reviews to date:
“It’s one of the very few I looked forward to getting back to when I had to put it down. Nappa offers such a wonderful sense of scene—the death when Clara comes in, the first meeting with F***y, that fantastic scene with the landlady and canker worms. The author shows a great eye for the particularizing detail.”
—NAEEM MURR, author of The Boy, The Genius of the Sea, and The Perfect Man.
“One of the main pleasures I have in these pages is the way Nappa brings the flavor of Longfellow’s language into his own prose. The period feels vividly imagined, from the clothes and the furnishings to the way people speak and write to each other in letters… The world of this novel is very compelling and made me care about Longfellow in a way I would not have expected.”
—ZACHARY LAZAR, author of Sway and I Pity the Poor Immigrant.
“I really liked it. Henry comes vibrantly to life in these pages, and the way Nappa massages in Longfellow’s poetry and writing process is very deft.”
—RICHARD RUSSO, Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool,
Bridge of Sighs, and many others.
“Jon Nappa’s Longfellow is remarkable. The book does an amazing job of humanizing Henry. It works brilliantly.”
—SHAYE AREHEART, founder/editor of the Shaye Areheart imprint of Crown Books
The challenge: tell a convincing tale in the voice of one of America’s most lauded wordsmiths. Talk about setting a high bar for yourself as a writer! But Nappa is more than up to the task. Writing with passion, compassion, wit, and erudition, Nappa delivers a compelling story laced with poetry and real insight into Longfellow’s life and his art. Best of all, it inspired me to re-examine the poet’s work, and with far greater depth and appreciation than before.
—ROY SEKOFF, founding editor of The Huffington Post, and creator of HuffPost Live, its awardwinning
live streaming video network.
Nappa’s first-person prose is earthy and rich, yet highly polished. The narrative voice is so authentic that the period-appropriate language does not distract from the book’s liveliness or humor. Dialogue is a particular strength, as Nappa’s fine ear brings animation and individuality to every character, including those with the smallest parts to play. Though based on the historical record of Longfellow’s life, the emotional depth of Nappa’s work makes it feel original and enlightening. Pitch-perfect in its voice and deeply sympathetic to its title character, the novel is an engaging and vivid portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s journey from childhood to immortality.
—THE BOOKLIFE PRIZE, 2017
If you're interested in obtaining a copy, you can order directly from my website for a personalized hardcover version or from any bookstore or bookstore website for trade paperback. Here's the link to my website, if you're interested:
http://jonnappaprojects.com/books/fiction/what-longfellow-heard/
jonnappaprojects.com I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day is an original poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1863. Today, it is often sung at Christmas time but without the following two verses which are from the original version:
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