A Family Affair: Three Imady Family Members Are MSI Press Authors


We like to think that MSI Press is a family, but sometimes, we have families among our authors. One such family is the Imady family from Damascus, Syria.



Elaine Imady, the mother, met her sweetheart in New York and moved with him to his home country of Syria, where she raised three bicultural children. Her love story is told in Road to Damascus. Read more about Elaine and her book HERE.






  



Muna Imady, the daughter, wrote a beloved and popular book, Syrian Folktales. Not long after, she died following heart surgery, leaving a mostly finished, unpublished book, Damascus amid the War, due out in August 2020. Elaine and daughter #32, Sausan, put the finishing touches on the book, including a touching memorial to Muna that had been published in the New York Times. Read more about Muna, her life, and her books HERE.


Dr. Omar Imady, the son, is a professor of political science who has written a number of fiction and non-fiction books about Syria, Middle Eastern culture, and Islam (namely Sufism). For MSI Press, he wrote the following:




The Gospel of Damascus was a book of the year finalist. This book was later transferred to Villa Magna Press, since MSI decided not to continue with a fiction line. Villa Magna published the book in four languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, and French.







The Rise and Fall of Muslim Civil Society was Omar's dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania, adapted for a lay audience, right before troubled times befell Syria.









When You're Shoved from the Right, Look to Your Left: Metaphors of Islamic Humanism shows those aspects of Omar's personality and interest that parallel his sister's. These short moral stories work for any religion and we know at least one priest who has used them in his homilies for the Catholic Mass.






Read more about Omar and his books HERE.


A family of talented writers, the Imadys, within a family, MSI Press. It bonds us.





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In Memoriam: Carl Don Leaver

Image
  1948-2021 It is with great sadness that MSI Press notes the death of Carl Leaver, CEO of the Press and typesetter and graphic designer par excellence . Many authors have expressed not only condolences but also a sense of legacy from covers he designed that they love.  Here is his obituary: On August 16, 2021, Carl Don Leaver of San Juan Bautista passed into eternal rest. A forester with the US Forest Service in Idaho and Montana, he turned to nature photography while working in the Bitterroot National Forest. His photographs graced national magazine covers and on a weekly basis the local paper of Hamilton, MT, the Ravalli Republican. He later worked on photography projects for the US Army (AFEES) and taught photography at the New York Institute of Technology in Amman, Jordan. His final career change led him to computer graphics and publishing as co-owner of MSI Press LLC; his many typeset books and book covers have helped MSI Press authors win a large number of awards over the years,
Read more

A Publisher's Conversation with Authors: Book Marketing vs Book Promotion

Image
It is Tuesday. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side.  Today's post looks at the difference between book marketing and book promotion, two terms that are frequently confused. Leading to the confusion is that some of the same activities are needed for both. In fact, good marketing is dependent upon good promotion. Perhaps the essential difference is that marketing focuses on sales, and promotion focuses on awareness --  noting that without awareness, sales generally do not happen. Book Marketing Book marketing includes promotion, sales, and increasing awareness of the availability of the book. It generally starts with a marketing plan that identifies the target audiences and selects marketing t
Read more