Amateur Boat Seat Upholstery Work

Hello everyone, My fiance and I worked all day on putting new fabric on our Seadoo Bombardier. It is not professional by any means but it will work for now. I have been very busy and have not been able to blog in awhile. I shall return and speak about a few items. Have a great Monday! Cheers! Leslie M Jasper (Stakley, future)

(Young Adult version) Construction Tales: A Young Person's Guide to Accomplish Anything in Life

Hello everyone! I neglect to let people know that I have a young adult version of my book. It has the same cover. It is named a little differently. It is entitled, Construction Tales: A Young Person's Guide to Accomplish Anything in Life. The stories are the same. However, I felt uncomfortable having young people read my book. I edited bar and drinking references in the book. I tamed down some of the crazy antics by my coworkers. Despite editing the book, I think it delivers a positive message to young people. I entered a field of work at a young age not really knowing that I would encounter such pushback from some male coworkers. I didn't deal with that type of negativity in the military as a constructionman electrician in the U.S. Navy Seabees. Despite a few people who didn't think I belong, I continued to learn the trade from some good men willing to teach me. The book should give young people following in my footsteps a guide on how to survive the construction business. I know my book can encourage other women and minorities to step into a trade apprenticeship and learn to work with the tools. My job experiences have made me catch a small sliver of understanding of what minorities endure by people who discount them daily. In the beginning, I had to work unbelievably hard to earn an ounce of respect in the trade. Over almost 20 years, I finally have earned a great reputation. I can only understand a small portion of what it must be to be a minority. It is not easy being discounted based on your physical appearance and not by what you have or have not done. It used to burn me that people I worked with thought I was useless the moment I stepped onto the job. It wasn't until I showcased my strength, eagerness to learn, and smarts that I was given a chance for respect. I was willing to carry twice the amount of material and work as fast as possible just so I could earn the right to be on the job. Trying to earn my worth at work has taken its toll on my body. As a newly approaching 40 year old, I have more aches and pain than usual for my age. Despite the body aches, I am satisfied with my accomplishments in the trade. In retrospect, I would have used the same methods to work and earn respect. I may have used knee pads and other means to help protect my body. Should have wore ear plugs and masks to protect my hearing and lungs. I felt it was a weakness to have to use any of those supplies. My book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I am trying to get it ready for iTunes and the audio version soon. It is time to rest and gear up for my work week. Enjoy your week and make it a safe one! Cheers! Leslie M Jasper

Maryland and Delaware Library Association Book Fair May 6-7, 2015

Hi everyone! I just remembered that my teen version of my book was at the Maryland and Delaware Library Association book fair. It was held at the Clarion Resort Fontainbleau Hotel in Ocean City, Maryland. It went down May 6-7, 2015. I was offered to put my book in the exhibit for free. I am happy for the opportunity to showcase my book. The book is intended to encourage young people from any background to go for their goals and do not let anyone stop them from achieving their goals! I am working on making the book available for iTunes as well. The book fair report can be found at www.mdlib.org The book and book trailer was at the ALA Book Conference in San Francisco, CA last weekend. I was very active on Twitter promoting the book. I think I went into overdrive since that is my speed when I want to accomplish a goal. I may have upset people by my overzealous approach to marketing. I do apologize but it was not done to upset anyone. I am going to try to finish the last 2 chapters of the book Hard Hatted Women and then blog about it. I will then announce the name of my next book I plan to read in my downtime. I must go and get some stuff accomplished. As always, thanks for stopping by and reading! Have a great holiday!! Cheers! Leslie M Jasper (Stakley)

Originally Published on 6-29-15 -Huge Impact on Twitter This Weekend! The Power of Hash Tags!!!

FYI-My name #LeslieMJasper is in the purple area to the right above! Hello everyone! I was promoting my book heavily on Twitter- especially back in the beginning of it's release. Admittedly, I have dropped off the radar for a number of years. I have most recently gotten back on the marketing horse. Someone on Twitter, who is obviously into data and analytics, shared with me the traffic for a June 2015 book fair hash tag. I am just an aggressive and ambitious woman by nature and didn't do it intentionally. I certainly didn't want to piss the group off. That would have defeated my whole marketing strategy. I didn't realize that what I was doing was very clever in nature. He told me that pretty much anyone in the Twitter world involved with that book fair had crossed paths with my marketing material via the event hash tag. I have since devised a 2021 strategy to target market my book all year round to book fairs and their participants. A global pandemic makes it helpful since people will be searching the internet more rigorously than normal since attendance has been cancelled/tapered down. If I add a series of book fair hashtags to all of my blogs from all over the world, I should get more traffic. I am going to test this theory out then see monitor my traffic. I am doing this in the name of science, of course (cue cheesy grin). I shall provide an update, providing that I remember, say around June and December of 2021. My old strategy of reminding myself of book fairs then abusing the hashtag only pissed off people on Twitter. This approach is more of an organic way to offer my book content to readers around the globe. Fingers crossed. ;) I am interested in your marketing strategy. Do you have something similar in nature? Please offer some feedback- if you would like. I wish you a good week and a healthy 2021! Cheers! Leslie M. Jasper #Scholastic #nonfiction #bookstagram #DropEverythingAndRead #SpringBookFair2021 #LoveOfReading #Reading #ConstructionTales #books #funny #NYC #podcast #Spotify #VerballyDisastrous #bookfair #bookjoy #ReadAnywhere #LoveToRead #AllForBooks #Adult #FBF21 #LBF21 #BEA21 #IKBF21 #KLF21 #HKTDC21 #GBF21 #IIBF21 #LATFOB21 #SIBF21 #FILBO21 #EIBF21 #BAIBF21 #MIBF21 #BIDLDSP21 #BS21 #BBF21 #HIBF21 #IBTAF21 #IBBF21 #ITEF21 #JLF21 #JIBF21 #LBF21 #NDWBF21 #TiBE21 #TIBF21 #BCBF21 #LIVREPARIS21 #SDLDM21 #HBF21 #FIL21 #IIBF21 #SBF21 #BuchWein21 #VIBF21 #ADIBF21 #AIPF21 #bookstagram #book #bukuislami #b #bukumurah #islamicbookfair #buku #booklover #bukusejarah #buchberlin #booklove #cher #bookshelf #internationalbookfair #bookholic #jualbuku #jualbukumurah #reading #obralbuku #bukuindie #bukujogja #tokobukumurah #buchmesse #langka #pasarbuku #bukulangka #bhfyp #jualbelibukuonline #onlineshop #jualanonline #booklovers #anresbooks #readingbooks #booksofinstagram #boekuitstalling #buch #bookish #buchberlinkids #tokobukuonline #boimela #lesen #bookworm #poetry #gontor #fbm #bazarbuku #bookreview #berlin #read #writer #berlinerbuchmesse #buchmesseberlin #author #instabooks #boekverkoping #virtualbookfair #bookaddict

New York's Construction Tales Coming to San Francisco June 26-29th!!

Hello everyone! The book is coming to the ALA Book Conference next weekend in San Francisco, CA. It will be in Booth 2701 with The Combined Book Exhibit's New Title Showcase. The book and video trailer will be at the event. I look forward to any positive feedback from readers about the book! If anyone attends the event, please shout me out on Facebook!! Anyone who takes a picture with the book and shows me on any of my social media sites, I will mail you a copy of the book! As always, thank you for stopping by. I am going to share one of my pictures as a first year apprentice back in early 1996. I will have 20 years in the business in December. Thanks again for reading! Cheers! Leslie M Jasper (Stakley)

ALA Book Fair Coming to San Francisco The End of This Month! Construction Tales Book and Book Trailer Will Be There!

Upcoming Book Expo Events for Construction Tales!