The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) features “The Pie, The Pie, and Oh that Smell!” by Connie Smith

Connie Smith’s masterpiece, “The Pie, The Pie, and Oh that Smell!,” was featured in the summer issue of The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) Magazine of 2024.

Current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed in The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), a weekly paper magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times (an American daily newspaper with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to be a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers). It is one of the most well-known and significant book reviews in the business.

“The Pie, The Pie, and Oh that Smell!” by Connie Smith, published by Author Reputation Press, was one of the nominees for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award. Eric Hoffer Book Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its establishment, it has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.

Connie Smith was a landfill co-owner. She lives in Utah. She has four beautiful girls: Angela, Amber, Jenny, and Summer. Connie loves gardening and beadwork.

She is an author who has published books of lessons and inspiration. She has published books of different genres. Aside from “The Pie, The Pie, and Oh That Smell!” which has a French and Spanish edition, she also wrote “Great Gobs of Goose Grease: An Account Of A Stroke Happening And The Trial And Struggles To Comeback.”

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This masterpiece was highly praised by Michael Radon of the US Review of Books, acknowledging that “Images in the book of the happy family working together to not just make food but also clean up the inevitable mess that follows can make even the hard work look like fun. Children may also want to read the story multiple times to appreciate the upbeat attitude and good message but also to find a hidden chicken in every illustration. This book, with its large illustrations, colorful characters, and warm, inviting tone, not only shows kids how parents need and deserve gratitude for their efforts but also opens up the conversation about children pitching in on tasks that they may take an interest in when they are old enough to handle them.”

Last year, “The Pie, The Pie, and Oh that Smell!” by Connie Smith was among the books displayed by Author Reputation Press during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 18–22, 2023. The Frankfurter Buchmesse, reportedly known as the world’s largest trade fair for books, opened its doors to participants around the globe celebrating books and their authors.

It was displayed during the much-anticipated annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2023, held on April 22–23, 2023, at the University of Southern California. It was attended by nearly 500 authors and hundreds of exhibitors. The festival was launched to connect individuals who read books with those who write them. The range of book genres exhibited at the festival captivated readers of all ages. In the same year, it was displayed at the 2023 Guadalajara Book Fair. The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) (from its Spanish name, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the most important publishing gathering in Ibero-America. It is the go-to event for Spanish- and English-language content. More than 1900 publishers attend, with over 20,000 professionals from 44 counties and 700,000 attending from the public. It is the most important publishing gathering in Latin America.

Also, the Publishers Weekly Magazine featured this book. Publishers Weekly celebrated its 150th anniversary; it is familiarly known in the book world as PW and “the bible of the book business.” Focused on the international book publishing business, it is a multimedia news platform with full horizontal coverage of book publishing, beginning with the author-as-creator to the publisher, printer, and distributor to the end consumer. Its varied products are targeted at publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors, book lovers, and the media. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestseller lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best-known service is prepublication book reviews, of which it publishes nearly 9,000 per year.

Recently, “The Pie, The Pie and Oh That Smell! (Coloring Book)” by Connie Smith is now available for purchase via ARPress Bookstore:https://authorreputationpress.com/bookstore/the-pie-the-pie-and-oh-that-smell/.