Category: New Orleans

• Pre-order Your Copy of Snoballs for All; Release February 2015

  Alex McConduit is teaming up with Pelican Publishing to re-release Snoballs for All in February 2015! The best part of a hot, humid New Orleans summer is slurping up a big, round, icy-cold, brightly-colored snoball. That’s exactly what Paul wants to do, but he can’t find the snoball festival! He searches all through the city…

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  December 22, 2014

  Book, New Orleans

  alexander mcconduit, childrens book, kids book, pelican publishing, snoballs for all

• (8/25) Book Signing at Octavia Books for Thorn In My Horn

  Sunday, August 25th I’ll be reading and signing books at Octavia Books at 1pm. Come  to get your autographed copy of Thorn In My Horn! One of the best things about this book is that there is music written for each scene in the story. So to help bring the entire story to life, my friend Jarell Foreman,…

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  August 17, 2013

  Book, Events, New Orleans, Readings

  alex mcconduit, alexander, author, big boot books, black author, children’s books, kids book, new orleans, new orleans book, nola book, self publishing, thorn in my horn, young author

• (7/27) Book Signing at Community Book Center

  Join me Saturday morning at 11:30 for a reading and book signing at Community Book Center, 2523 Bayou Road. This is my first time signing books at Community Book Center so please come out and bring the kids to grab a book and have a good time!   

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  July 26, 2013

  Book, New Orleans, Readings

  alex, author, big boot books, children’s books, kid books, mcconduit, new orleans, new orleans books, self published, snowballs for all, the little who dat who didnt, thorn in my horn, writer

• Thorn In My Horn in The Advocate

  Thorn In My Horn made today’s front page of the Community Section of The Advocate. The photographer took this picture of me while reading at Pleasure Zion Baptist Summer Camp a few weeks ago. I loved having coffee with the writer Margaret Quilter and I think she did a great job writing the article. Check…

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  July 25, 2013

  Book, New Orleans, Press & Reviews

  alex mcconduit, author, big boot books, children’s books, kid books, new orleans, newspaper, nola books, self published, snowballs for all, the advocate, the little who dat who didnt, thorn in my horn, writer

• (7/13) Book Signing at Maple Street Book Shop

  Join me this Saturday, July 13th at 11:30 pm for my first book signing at Maple Street Book Shop. Maple Street has been selling my books since I started writing and I’m happy to finally host an event at their store. If you want to purchase a copy in advance and bring it to the…

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  July 8, 2013

  Book, New Orleans, Readings

  alex mcconduit, author, big boot books, book signing, maple street book shop, new orleans books, snowballs for all, the little who dat who didnt, thorn in my horn, young author

• Essence Book Signing Fail! Thank you/Sorry!

  I want to apologize to anyone who came out to my book signing at the Essence Music Festival and was unable to make it into the Essence Bookstore. The Essence Empowerment Series, located directly behind the bookstore, was filled to capacity and consequently the entire area that the bookstore was in was completely roped off.…

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  July 8, 2013

  Book, Events, New Orleans

  alex mcconduit, alexander, big boot books, essence bookstore, essence music festival, new orleans, snowballs for all, the little who dat who didnt, thorn in my horn

• 2nd Annual Sno Ball (To-Go) Day at Morris Jeff Community School

  First off, this day could not be possible without the great people at Sno Balls To Go! They provided all of the kids at our 2nd Annual Sno Ball Day free New Orleans Famous Sno-Balls To Go and the kids at Morris Jeff Community School loved them. The celebration also coincided with the student’s last…

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  June 22, 2013

  Book, Events, New Orleans, Pictures

  alex mcconduit, author, big boot books, black author, children’s author, childrens book, darrell rollo, illustrations, kids book, nola, picutre book, sno ball day, snowballs for all, the little who dat who didnt, thorn in my horn

• Fund Dat takes 3rd Place at Start Up Weekend New Orleans

  This weekend I had the opportunity to participate in Start Up Weekend New Orleans.      My team worked very hard and we came in 3rd place. Last Friday, everyone at Start Up Weekend had the opportunity to pitch an idea that they wanted to work on over the next three days. On Friday, I pitched FundDat,…

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  April 9, 2013

  New Orleans, Press & Reviews

  alex mcconduit, big boot books, crowdfunding, entrepreneur, idea village, indiegogo, kickstarter, new orleans, propeller, snowballs for all, start up, start up weekend, the little who dat who didnt

• Alex McConduit named Honorary Board Member of First Book-GNO

  Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, kids an pets!!! I’m happy to announce that I have been selected as an Honorary Board Member for First Book-Greater New Orleans. That’s a big deal to me and I’m very proud to work with such a great organization. At first, I didn’t really know what to think. I…

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  January 25, 2013

  New Orleans

  alex mcconduit, beaula mccoy, board member, book donations, book giveaways, first book, first book-greater new orleans, literacy, lynetta rhodes, reading

• W.R.I.T.E. LIVE on Real Talk with Wild Wayne on Q93

  This morning tune in to Q93 to hear me talk about W.R.I.T.E. and other things going on in our community. We only have 40 hours left to raise $2500 to help 2nd Graders at Sci Tech in New Orleans publish their own books so please check out the interview and donate here! Tune in through…

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  October 6, 2012

  New Orleans, WRITE

  2nd grade writing, alex mcconduit, black authors, elementary school, indiegogo, nola authors, published authors, sci tec, snowballs for all, the little who dat who didnt, W.R.I.T.E., write, young authors