Press Minnie and Melvira

PRESS RELEASE:
September 28, 2009




“Dropped after 22 years of service, GM auto-worker reinvents himself through illustrating children’s books.”




Larry Ball has turned the proverbial lemons into lemonade! A lifetime Detroit area resident and employee of the car companies, his twenty 22 year service to General Motors ended as abruptly as thousands of others did in Michigan when economic times for the big three tanked. Despite his experience and work record, at nearly 60 years old and a heart patient, Ball found himself unemployable.

Enter William Joseph K Publications, a small indie press begun in 2007 by Larry’s son Matthew and his wife Lisa Ball, who quickly solicited Dad to become an illustrator of their next children’s book called “Minnie & Melvira.”

Dusting off an old talent for drawing forestalled years ago by the responsibility first of serving during the Vietnam War era and second of a growing
family that numbered a wife, three sons, and a mother-in-law, Larry set about the task of bringing to life the message and vision of Minnie & Melvira.

Now published and available on both Amazon.com and Barnes
& Noble, Minnie & Melvira is a hit! Larry has become a published
illustrator and has found a new career path, with an intent to release another book next year called “Fred D. Fly,” a comic children’s story he created as a bedtime tale for his own children 30 years ago.


View the book trailer on YouTube.com Minnie and Melvira the book trailer


Lisa Ball
Editor in Chief
William Joseph K Publications
elbe@williamjkpub.com

REVIEW COPY:
Available upon request

WEBSITE: www.williamjkpub.com



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