Month: August 2019

KCK resident publishes book

Bettse Folsom, a Kansas City, Kansas resident, has published a new book.

“How to Self-Publish Your Book: A List of ABC Key Steps on How to Self-Publish a Book,” is based mostly on her experience in helping her mother, Helen Walsh Folsom, publish her books.

Bettse Folsom, a former writer for the Wyandotte West and the Wyandotte Daily, said the new book covers self-publishing topics such as advice to writers, book contracts, cover pages, copyright, legal work and editing.

“A lot of people would ask me how to self-publish their book,” she said. “I started writing it down and made it simple.”

Everything she has done in her career has helped her become a self-publisher, she said. That includes writing, marketing, budgeting, and designing with computer graphics, she added.

She said she has met with three writers and discussed experiences in writing and publishing books.

“I believe everybody has a story in them that is unique and different from everybody else,” Folsom said. Her book tries to provide them with a healthy understanding of what they are tackling in self-publishing.

The paperback book, under 40 pages, is self-published and is available for $4.85 on Amazon.com. There is also a Kindle version available.

District attorney to deliver Grantham University commencement speech

District Attorney Mark A. Dupree Sr. will deliver the keynote speech at the Grantham University commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, Missouri.

Hundreds of students are expected to gather for the first time to celebrate their degrees from the online university.

“We are pleased to have such a distinguished member of our community to deliver our keynote,” said Anthony R. Petroy, D.M., Grantham University provost and interim president, in a news release. “His service to the citizens of Wyandotte County and involvement in the community, both as district attorney and as a senior pastor, has proven Mark to be an effective and charismatic leader with valuable advice to impart to our graduates.”

Grantham University has 1,709 graduates in the 2019 class, with graduates from all 50 states and from Canada, Germany, India, Italy and Singapore.

The youngest graduate is 19 and the oldest is 80, according to a spokesman. Sixty-one percent of the graduates are in the military, and 78 percent are the first generation in their family to complete college. Fifty-five percent of the graduates are minority.

“I am truly honored to be asked to deliver the commencement address at Grantham University’s graduation ceremony,” Dupree said in a news release. “I wholeheartedly believe in the university’s mission of making education both accessible and affordable. The university places the rewards of education in the hands of those willing to work hard to attain knowledge that can never be taken away, thereby opening up a world of possibilities. Grantham has never wavered in this commitment to students and the graduation ceremony will be a testament to that charge.”