For the month of April I'm doing a reader special

Hey here is some Petite Pride for my USA readers!

For the month of April I'm doing a reader special for Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model that also includes a signed copy of my modeling memoir Almost 5'4". 

Get both books personalized for $25 / includes shipping.

Almost 5'4" is my true life memoir of my early modeling pursuits in New York City, it includes the grit and the glory involved with taking a chance on yourself, despite the risk and doubt, it's me, sharing the tough moments and the attitude that believing in yourself IS everything when it comes to chasing a challenging dream.  You can read an excerpt of Almost 5'4" here. And you might find where I wrote the book to be also intriguing, read about it here.

Short Stuff, shares on the job modeling adventures that happened after Almost 5'4", and also includes modeling tips for short chicks. This book was inspired by my blog readers actually. Read sample here.

If you'd like a personalized copy of Short Stuff and Almost 5'4" please contact me through my website and let me know who to personalize the book for. Or put your name below so I can sign the book for you!

Please put your name here so I can sign the book for you!

If you live outside the US but are interested in this special promotion you can let me know of your interest by emailing me through my website and we'll try to work something out.

http://www.isobelladreams.com/EmailForm.html

~Isobella

P.s: If you have an iPhone remember you can read the mobile edition of Model Life, my graphic novel on your device, just download the free Comics + app, and then search for Model Life. :) Enjoy it!

Reader Special: Signed copy of Almost 5'4" for $17

Hey Girls,

Spring is in the air and it's a beautiful day in NYC!

This week I'm holding a reader special for my modeling memoir Almost 5'4" for $17.

Price includes shipping and handling in USA and personalized signed copy of Almost 5'4", and also a personalized note with my top modeling tips for self-made models of all sizes and levels (just let me know what type of level you are within your modeling pursuits, the early stage of a model’s pursuits, the growing stage of a model’s pursuits or if you've already booked work with brands and magazines and are a working model but want some tips on getting more opportunities and self-marketing. I'll share with you how to strive and get opportunities no matter where you live or your size).

To order contact me through my website www.isobelladreams.com

Since it's personalized, please let me know who (name) to sign the book for.

Read an excerpt of the book here and read about how I wrote it at the Apple store here.

If you'd rather read Almost 5'4" as an ebook you can find it on Amazon and BN.com and on the iBookstore too. 

This Limited Promotion starts today and ends Sunday March 18th.

Remember height isn't everything so aim high and strive on!

~Isobella

Get a Signed and Personalized copy of Almost 5'4" or Short Stuff!

Hey!

Guess what! I'm spending the weekend in San Francisco and I'll be sharing some pics of my favorite little things while I'm there. I'll be posting them on my Twitter and Facebook.

Also, by the way, if you'd like a signed and personalized copy of  my books Almost 5'4" or Short Stuff let me know. Stop by my website here: http://www.isobelladreams.com/GetasignedcopyofIsobellasBooks.html

Short Stuff: on the job with an x-small model has stories from on the job and also modeling tips for short chicks and Almost 5'4" is my modeling memoir about my early modeling days (and I wrote the manuscript for the book at the Apple store when I didn't have a computer at the time)

Aim high and strive on!

~ Isobella

Reading Rocks!

snap! click! Stopped by BN Union Square today, bought some books (to hold in my hand and read) and a journal and said hello to Almost 5'4" and Short Stuff, go check out the signed copies :)
P.s: My new coat from China, makes me feel like little red riding hood again.

P.s again: Reading ROCKS!

More on my books (printed and ebooks) is here www.isobelladreams.com

Height isn't everything! ~Isobella

Signed copies of Short Stuff and Almost 5'4" in Barnes and Noble Union Square

Hey Girls, I stopped into Barnes and Noble in Union Square, NYC this past week and here are some images from my visit. There are signed copies of Almost 5'4" and Short Stuff in the biography section, I hope you can check them out. ~Isobella

Or, check out Almost 5'4" on BN.com
Or, check out Short Stuff on BN.com

The sounds of New York City fire me up! Almost 5'4"

Hey Girls, Remember I mentioned how I bought these charm necklaces from Szeya Designs, and I mentioned the Seahorse charm necklace and the camera charm! Well here is the camera one! I love it. It might be my new lucky charm.

Also yesterday this was my lovely mess on my coffee table, coffee on my coffee tables, dripping down the sides of my cup on my own book, what a lovely mess huh!

In my modeling memoir Almost 5'4" I share my journey as a shorter than average model in NYC, I mention how I graduated college and went to Miami and then came back to New York City, this is an excerpt from the book about 'coming back to the city I love'---

The jerking of the trains, the bumpy sidewalks, and the sounds of the construction sights were running through me, every movement around me was a piece of luck. It gave me an appetite for becoming a New Yorker again. The street performers, and the screeching dump trucks, the sirens of the ambulance, the honking yellow cabs and swearing drivers, the whistles and cat calls I started to get again. Every single sound was hearty and spiritual, almost musical and seemed to seep up from the sidewalk cracks and from the gutters and out of the jazzy women’s mouth and into my skin. Of course, to tease me and fire me up, the tall Giraffes I passed again gave me more motivation to continue to try even harder. ~from my modeling memoir, Almost 5'4"

Writing from the Apple store essay Figment.com: Almost 5'4"

Hey Girls,

I wrote this essay/blog for the awesome YA community writing site Figment.com, about my writing from the Apple store,-- hence writing my first book, my modeling memoir Almost 5'4", at the Apple Store in SoHo on Prince Street in NYC.

I'm writing a weekly writing series at YA site Figment.com called The Beautiful Undead, and you already might know about my experience writing Almost 5'4" at the Apple store but here is some more details:  http://blog.figment.com/2011/01/24/writing-from-the-apple-store-by-isobella-jade/



Also you can read Almost 5'4" as an eBook and check it out here on Amazon and here on BN.com
Also for my US readers, if you would like a signed and personalized copy of Almost 5'4" see the right side of this blog where it mentions to order a signed copy or email me at petitepride@yahoo.com

I first self-published Almost 5'4", then HarperCollins in the UK brought it out, and you can find it online and in stores and I wrote it for the underdogs who are chasing a dream and their chance.

"As I put on one of the five coats I had once owned, I suddenly missed my old apartment in Astoria. I missed living in the college dorms. I missed the comfort of feeling normal and complacent, and yet complacency frightened me. My hopes to succeed as a model always won out over complacency, and it was worth it because in my hungriest, lowest moments a job would always appear at the last moment, as if to exercise my strength and patience. " from the prologue of Almost 5'4"

 

Aim high and strive, and always try,

~Isobella

Photography book trailer for my modeling memoir Almost 5'4"

Hey Girls,

If you read my modeling memoir Almost 5'4" these images will make sense, in the book I lived in Brooklyn Heights, Astoria, Harlem, and a few other places, and these images, shot by Robert Caldarone, represent moments in the book of places that meant a lot to me. ~Isobella

Also here is a video of the images as a slideshow on Youtube.

You can have personalized a signed copy of my memoir Almost 5'4"

yay, I recently added to my website/ blog that you can have personalized a signed copy of my memoir Almost 5'4": http://www.isobelladreams.com/IsobellasBooks.html Check it out on my website. Or see below. ~Isobella

LOOK to the right...you will see the personalized icon :) ~isobella

P.s: Or if you just to check out the book, find Almost 5'4" on BN.com

Or on Amazon.com

Book and Beauty giveaway, Origins and Almost 5'4"

Books and Beauty meet. I am giving away a free copy of my modeling Almost 5'4", which recently débuted in the UK through an imprint of HarperCollins, and also Origins sent me GinZing eye cream net wt. 0.5 oz./15 ml, that brightens the eyes like a shot of espresso. It is about a $30 value.

Hurry! Email me at petitepride@yahoo.com with a natural beauty shot that could be implied as a skincare ad image of your face, or showing your beautiful bright eyes.

It doesn't matter what city you live in. No height requirement. Deadline 2/17

I will show on this blog the winners beauty shot on Thursday 2/18!

not settling for the so-called model life

Today on Bella Petite Radio I spoke about how the goal of aspiring models should be to get infront of the right agents, the right brands, and especially the right professional photographer.

I have had my own share of struggles and write this blog to advocate from what I have first-hand learned and experienced, and my memoir Almost 5'4" and graphic novel Model Life also are a form of sharing insight on overcoming the odds.



Having a profile page on a social site, even on a so-called Model Site, is not professional and will not help you appear professional. It is just a show-off tool, not something respected agents and professionals use.

I do not use my website to market myself as a model. I use it because I am an author and for my brand, for inspiring my readers and those who want to model.

Most of my readers are new to modeling and the best thing I can advise is NOT to use the Internet to promote yourself as a model. To be professional, to get a compcard, headshot, to mail to an agency and to strive for more, to aim higher than the "show off" factor. To really model, to really call yourself one you have to "model" something. A product. A brand, for something.

Unless the editorial in the magazine is about YOU, you should be focusing on modeling "products" and really modeling if you want to.

A website alone will not help your modeling pursuits, most agents still use compcards, or their own website to feature their models, and unless the photos are only professionalthe do-it-yourself method and only using your website, can lead you stuck.... If you really want to model, think about how you can use what you do have to modeling something, and create a compcard that is marketable towards brands and agents, which then leads to modeling jobs.

I wrote about the modeling opportunities I have found through the Internet, and a few were helpful, but mainly looking for work through the Internet castings can be a waste, for me, the REAL quality modeling jobs did not come from the Internet at all.
They come from my agent, or by myself approaching brands and working with photographers who are professional and work with clients and brands and magazines.

They came when I left the Internet behind and focused on marketing my assets to agents and brands. I've been in ad campaigns and product ads by marketing myself with a compcard, and headshot, to the right agents, or approaching the brands when I did have experience and over time built my own portfolio. It is not an over night thing, it comes from pure work, pure effort, pure trying. Knowing what is marketable about yourself and capturing that in photography you use to market yourself. If you are trying to model without a compcard you will not be going far, you need these tools, it is a MUST to work with agents and book quality work.

Isobella

A chat with Mediamoiselle.com on modeling, books and striving

Enjoy this fab interview with Jennifer of Mediamoiselle.com. I talk about the journey of striving as a model and how being indie and creating your own is possible, along with sharing insight into my memoir Almost 5'4" and my graphic novel Model Life, which I also hope you enjoy!



Or your can find the interivew on mediamoiselle.com or Youtube.