November 2022 Newsletter

Editor: Colleen Green
Contact: colleen_grn@yahoo.com

Events of the Month

7th Annual

MEET THE AUTHORS

Christmas in Springboro

Books from Various Genres for Sale

Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 –

Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022

Springboro Area Historical Society Museum

110 S Main St, Springboro, OH 45066

Support local authors and enter a FREE drawing to win a bundle of books. Four bundles awarded! Great Holiday Gifts!

Schedule

Friday, Nov. 18

6 pm –9pm

Rochelle Bradley – Romcom/Paranormal Romance/Romantic Mysteries

Doyle Burke – True Crime

J.E. Irvin – Mystery/Thriller/Suspense

Jude Walsh – Self Help

Saturday, Nov. 19

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Rebecca Case – Childrens/Essays/Nature

Marisa Dillon – Historical Romance

Donna MacMeans – Historical Romance/Paranormal Romance

Tim Smith – Romantic Mystery/Thrillers

Saturday, Nov. 19

2:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Kimberly Beckett – Contemporary Romance

Juliette Hyland – Romance

Anne Marie Lutz – Adult Fantasy

Ed Rollins – Contemporary Fantasy

Sunday, Nov. 20

1 pm – 3 pm

J. E. Irvin – Mystery/Thriller/Suspense

Grace Curtis & Cathy Essinger – Poetry

Jeanne Estridge – Paranormal Romance

Sunday, Nov. 20

3 pm – 5 pm

Colleen Green – Romantic Suspense

Kristin Gambaccini – Contemporary/Historical/Fantasy Romance

Barb Markey – Self-Help

Jeff Ross – Mystery/Thriller/Suspense

Holly Jolly Fair

Warren County Fairgrounds-Welcome Hall
665 N. Broadway Street
Lebanon, Ohio 45036

Saturday, November 26, 2022
11am-4pm

Authors will be selling their books from various genres. Colleen Green will be there with her romantic suspense books in the Amber Milestone Series.

Come get a unique gift for your family and friends and something for yourself too!

Word of the Month

nadir

If a highly forgetful person loses his phone, his wallet, and then his car keys in separate instances all in one day, you could say that he has reached an organizational nadir. This means “lowest point.”

source: www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/nadir

Quote of the Month

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October 2022 Newsletter

Editor: Colleen Green
Contact: colleen_grn@yahoo.com

Event of the Month

Seminar: Writer’s Block 5o,000 Words in Under a Month

Speakers: Wright Writers of Dayton

Downtown Dayton library

215 E. Third St.

Dayton, OH 45402

Go to the “Ask Me” front desk and ask for the room number of the seminar.

Saturday, November 5^th

11am-12:30pm

The Wright Writers of Dayton will discuss plot, National Novel Writing Month, time management, outlines and staying motivated.

“Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a brand-new novel. You may know this mass creative explosion by the name National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo…”
Source from quote above. https://nanowrimo.org/what-is-nanowrimo

Word of the Month

Gargantuan

Gargantuan means “very large in size or amount.”

Example: Bigfoot is said to be a creature of gargantuan proportions.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day

Quote of the Month

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Winners of the Summer Season Short Story Contest

Congratulations to the winners of the Wright Writers of Dayton Summer Season Short Story Contest. Read their stories below and enjoy! Winners will be notified via email.

First Place

Summers Since

by B. A. Hughes

The school year was over. So was the war. Plenty and gladness were all around. Even a kindergartener knew there was something intriguing about this summer. But how could a boy know there may be other kinds of summers?

Chirpy birds pecked at the boy’s window, startling him to sunshine and a day of freedom. He left his school jacket on the nob and tapped his leg, calling Rudy to follow. Barefoot on the already-hot streets, the boy hopped gingerly to the cool creek. Hand-caught crawdads baited his fishing line and soon…breakfast. Mom fried the fish while her boy threw a softball into one of Dad’s bandana handkerchiefs. He tied it as a satchel and set out for the vacant lot. He slapped his leg to invite Rudy.

Neighbor kids were there by ten; other balls appeared but there was just one big wooden bat for the lot of them. They each had packed brown paper-wrapped sandwiches from home. A cast iron hand pump provided cool water throughout the day. Who knew who won which game that day? Who cared?

Same summer, a weekday afternoon the boy visited his country-side Grandparents. Grandpa engaged the boy in picking fat hand-sized lime green tobacco worms off the tall leaves. Grandma churned very vanilla ice cream and threw in a few tiny ripe strawberries. The three ate together straight from the wooden bucket.

Crickets began rattling, fireflies lifted from the lawn. The evening became an unexpected overnight. As the boy washed up at the pump, Grandma sewed a simple nightshirt for him from a pillowcase. He climbed into Grandpa’s lap on the porch glider. Sweet pipe smoke swirled and fell over the weary boy like incense wooing to the Land of Nod.

The almost first grader awoke the next morning to Grandma singing in the garden. Today was her first picking of string beans and her third planting of bean seeds. The boy drank milk from the goat and nibbled fresh-pulled carrots while he helped Grandma. For a full hour they trimmed off the ends of green beans, pulled off the strings, and snapped them into thirds. The boy threw a basketful of trimmings into the garden…where the gorgeous but vicious rooster flapped and squawked toward him. Who knew a rooster could run so fast?! The screaming boy bolted up a ladder into the hay mow. Grandpa came running, gave that mean old bird a good kick back to his hens, and, chuckling, helped the boy down.

Grandparents had a couple old bikes in the barn, so the boy rode the deserted country road until his cousins came to visit. They played hide-and-seek in the corn rows. The boy’s arms were slashed to bleeding by the sharp leaves, but still he played. He ran face-first into a giant spider web stretched between two plants. But still he played, yet he felt the invisible threads irritating his hair, ears, and neck the rest of the day.

Sunrises, sunsets, family, laughter, playing and growing; he remembers this summer as no less than idyllic. But there were other summers.

A long war a world away with names of villages and chemicals he could barely say, left him confused by angry TV faces: burning the flag, blaming young soldiers for horrors in Asia. But the young teen, was easily distracted by the pretty girl from Vacation Bible School. She agreed to walk with him to the July Fourth fireworks where her face reflected the exploding lights. This lit new fires inside of him pushing the war far away.

It was finally the summer of the young man’s thesis for his Botany Masters Degree. Upon moving into the off-campus apartment, a student office worker found him unloading the van and asked him to call home. His mom was crying. They were divorcing. It seemed epidemic. In just a couple years the divorce rate in America skyrocketed, he had noticed, and it stayed at sixty percent failure rate. This shook his own hopes for marriage someday, but the dutiful son helped each parent move into their own smaller apartments in his hometown. Rudy took turns every other weekend between the parents. The collegiate kept his sadness inside but found relief when promised a career as an ecologist in the Northwest US forests. He slapped his thigh and Rudy bounded along beside him.

Cool and rainy summers later, he loved a girl with native Indian heritage. He imagined an exotic future with her but could not imagine that this girl would prefer an abortion over marriage to him. She was adamant. He was adamant, but he had no rights. She slipped away, proud to be in charge of her own body. His ecology assignments continued, but he cried whenever more lenient legislation was demanded and passed with the lobbying of Planned Parenthood. Rudy’s long snout on his lap, the large drooping eyes offered a loyalty he could count on.

Ongoing summers throughout the rest of the West became hotter and hotter, in so many ways: race riots, power blackouts, earthquakes. Drought and wildfires consumed thousands of acres. He regularly traveled to freshly scarred forests, testing when, how, and where new life might spring from ashes. The hot summers, the troubled country, and his own heavy heart stripped from him the will to watch the sunset, canoe the lakes, contact family. He even left Rudy home more than not.

Depression made the man less careful in the wild. This summer he fell thirty feet from an unkempt wooded trail. The injury kept him in the hospital too many days and his doctors offered too many drugs. He was among millions who became doctor-prescribed addicts.

Then, he met the social worker who helped restore him, body and soul. This summer, love blossomed. He was thrilled to meet her three children and they loved Rudy. He returned part time to his ecology work and began writing for science magazines. After many more summers of epidemics, government debacles, and a return to world wars, this man retired to his own glorious gardens, a family of his own, and Rudy by his side.

Author Bio

B. A. Hughes writes, edits, and teaches the following: poetry, youth fiction, family curricula, and biblical studies. She is the author of the two middle school adventure books below.

Click below to buy her book.

https://www.amazon.com/Glimm-Light

Click below to buy her book.

https://www.amazon.com/Glimm-Too

Second Place

Checking Out

by Sarah Anne Carter

A bottle of shampoo. 3 cans of stew. A greeting card. Bungee cords. A Kit-Kat. A Coke. Lainey put the items into the flimsy plastic bags as the man fumbled with his wallet to get the exact change. He handed her the bills and then dug into his jeans pocket for a fist full of change. He slowly sorted through the pile and pulled out three coins and handed them to her. He gave her a nod as he put the rest of the change back into his pocket. He pulled the hood up on his sweatshirt and then grabbed the bags.

Lainey mulled his items over while waiting for the next person to come check out in her aisle. She always had the late shift at the dollar store, and she swore she saw the oddest combination of items being bought by people at those late hours. The store was open until 1 a.m. and she left at 1:15 every morning with a can of mace in one hand and her finger hovering over the emergency call button on her phone as she walked to her car. The parking lot was well-lit and there were other stores on the strip mall that closed at the same time, but as an avid reader of murder mysteries, Lainey had a vivid imagination for all the evils that could befall her at 1 a.m.

But she still had two more hours left tonight.

“Did you see the last order?” Lainey asked Bryce, her manager. He was a foot taller than her, probably 50 pounds lighter than her (and she was a normal weight) and 20 years older than her. He often startled people when they saw him at first, being so tall and lanky. But then he would smile at them and that combined with wearing glasses that were just a bit too small for his face, always had them smiling back.

“Yes, I did. What do you think?” Bryce said.

“Suicide.”

“What?”

“I know, I know, we’re supposed to pick a crime, but the only person he could hurt with those things is himself.”

Lainey had invented this game for them several months ago when a woman in a work suit came through buying two shower curtains, bleach, a mop and bucket, gloves and garbage bags. Lainey had told Bryce after the woman left that those were the perfect things to buy to clean up a murder. After that, whenever customers couldn’t hear them, they would invent a crime to go along with the customer’s purchases.

“I don’t know, Lainey, he could choke someone with the bungee cords.”

“Valid point. But the rest of the stuff made for a good last meal.”

Bryce sighed. “That was a depressing one. I don’t like to think of our game being something that could really happen.”

It was Lainey’s turn to sigh. Bryce was a great manager, but he was so naïve sometimes. He still lived at home to take care of his mother, who suffered from arthritis, since his father left them during Bryce’s senior year of high school. Bryce had no social life that Lainey knew about except for at the store.

“Okay, I won’t mention suicide again,” Lainey conceded. A customer came up and started unloading onto her conveyer belt. Maybe Bryce had thought about suicide at some point. She should be more sensitive. She knew reading about crime every night before falling asleep had desensitized her a bit to death. Well, that and already losing her parents, brother, boyfriend, grandparents and aunt all before she was 20. The only family she had left that she knew about were two uncles and one lived in Florida and the other in Alaska. She got cards from them at Christmas with a $20 in it, but other than that, she was on her own.

Marshmallows. Graham crackers. Chocolate bar. Potato chips. Pregnancy test.

Poison, she thought. The woman would plant a pregnancy test on her husband, claiming he had a lover and then she would poison him. She’d get caught, for sure.

She looked up at Bryce and smiled, wanting to tell him her theory. He was distracted doing a refund. She watched until the man moved aside to put in his credit card so she could see the item … rat poison.

He had lost his nerve, she surmised. She shook her head. She knew one day, she would have it in her to not only not lose her nerve, but not get caught. Until then, she plotted out ideas with people’s items checked out at this small store in the middle of nowhere.

Author Bio

Sarah Anne Carter is a lover of books. She is the author of The Ring, Life After and Orphan Wish Island. Writing stories since she was little, she is constantly thinking of ideas that could be used as a plot for a novel. She is a journalist by trade and has written numerous newspaper articles. She has also worked in the public relations and marketing fields. She grew up as an Air Force brat and has lived in many states and countries. Currently residing in Ohio, she spends her time enjoying her family, reading and writing. She is a lover of travel and cats.

Click link below to buy her books.
https://sarahannecarter.com/books/

September 2022 Newsletter

Editor: Colleen Green
Contact: colleen_grn@yahoo.com

Celebration of the Month

100 posts on this website!

To celebrate we’ve having a giveaway perfect for readers and writers!

You could win awesome prizes. The winner will receive books in a variety of genres by authors who are members of the Wright Writers of Dayton, recipes by Colleen Green and a packet with writing advice from the Wright Writers of Dayton.

Terms & Conditions Below

To enter a person must be a resident of the contiguous United States and at least 18 years old. Some books have adult content not suitable for minors. Winner contacted via email. Winner must respond to the email with their home address to be able to send the winner their prize. If the winner does not respond to the email within 20 days of being sent, Wright Writers of Dayton has the right to not send the prize to the person and run another giveaway to determine a winner. Wright Writers of Dayton are not responsible for lost or damaged mail.

Click below to enter to win!

https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/cd2e47b56/?

Quote of the Month

Word of the Month

Unabashed

Unabashed is a synonym of both undisguised and unapologetic. It usually describes someone who is not embarrassed or ashamed about openly expressing strong feelings or opinions.

Example: Despite his reputation as the strong, silent type, the lumberjack squealed with unabashed glee at the first sight of his baby niece.

Source: www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/unabashed

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Extended Deadline for Short Story Contest

New extended deadline to enter is midnight EST on August 25, 2022.

Wright Writers of Dayton are excited to announce the Summer Season Short Story Contest that is for residents from the Miami Valley area in Ohio and free to enter!

Winners will be announced on this WordPress site on September 5, 2022 and notified via email.

First Place Prizes

$25 Amazon gift card sent via email

Story posted on this WordPress site on September 5, 2022.

Second Place Prizes

$15 Amazon gift card sent via email

Story posted on this WordPress site on September 5, 2022.

Requirements to enter are below.

Must be a resident from the Miami Valley area in Ohio.
Deadline to enter is midnight EST on August 25, 2022.
The season of summer must be an integral part of the story.
Must be 1,000 words or less. Title does count toward the total words used.
Name and home address must be on the entry and will not count toward the total words.
Format of story must be a Microsoft Word document.
Attach the Microsoft Word document in an email to colleen_grn@yahoo.com. Email subject: Entry for Summer Season Short Story Contest.
Any links or writer’s bio may be included in a separate document if desired. These may be posted with the winner’s article on our website. Picture of writer may be attached to email if desired and may be included with the winner’s article on our website.

August 2022 Newsletter

Editor: Colleen Green
Contact: colleen_grn@yahoo.com

Book of the Month

“Amber Milestone’s life in New York City has been plagued by the Mafia for as long as she’s lived there. Her roommate, Fiona, and friend, Henry have had their lives ruined by drugs and mobsters, and the trio agree to share what they know with the police in the hopes of taking down the Bugiardini family once and for all. However, informing on the Mafia is not without risk, and Amber will have to be careful if she wants to make it out of the investigation alive.”
Alyssa B., Proofreader, Red Adept Editing

Click on link below to buy the book on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-End-Three-Amber-Milestone

Click below to enter to win a kindle edition of Beginning of the End.

https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d04251235014/

Quote of the Month

source: http://allpicts.in/inspirational-quotes

Word of the Month

ostentatious

Ostentatious means “attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy.” Things that are ostentatious tend to stand out as overly elaborate or conspicuous.

// His ostentatious displays of knowledge were often less than charming.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/ostentatious

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July 2022 Newsletter

Editor: Colleen Green
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Event of the Month

The Imaginarium Convention, now in its 9th year, is an event for writers, creatives, and fans of creators, of all genres, that features three days of panel and workshop programming, an expo, a film festival, entertainment, cosplay, and much more!

The Imaginarium Convention in 2022 will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Holiday Inn Louisville East, July 8-10.

Books from a wide variety of genres available for sale in the Creatives Alley (the hallway leading to the Main Expo Hall) & in the Expo Hall.

A broad array of guests and panelists will be featured in the programming, including authors, editors, publishers, filmmakers, screenwriters, game designers, comic creators, artists, actors, and many other creatives.

For a full list of the workshops, click on the link at the bottom of this list.

Plot Development: Presenter – Colleen Green. She will develop a plot to a story with audience participation to demonstrate effective plot development. (Sat 12:30pm / Ellis)

Interviewing Your Characters: Presenter – Lynn Tincher. Want to understand your characters better? Interview them. Join Lynn Tincher as she teaches you the art of the character interview. During the workshop, you will create a character and write a short story involving that new character. (Fri 2:15pm / Derby)

Writing the Urban Fantasy Novel: Presenter – J.B. Dane (Beth Henderson). The author of now five prequel novellas, three full length novels, and three “between the books” novellas in The Raven Tales, an urban fantasy PI mystery comedy series set-in modern-day Detroit.

• The differences between urban fantasy and paranormal romance • How to choose your city as urban fantasy usually requires a modern city, a touch of world building

• Whether to include comedy or not, the voice of the narration. The choice between first person delivery and third person delivery

• The cast: main character/s, returning supporting cast members, the perpetrators

• The series arc

• And a question-and-answer period for anything that hasn’t been touched on. There will be handouts that include a sampling of publishers interested in urban fantasy! (Sun 11:45am / Derby)

Directing Actors Workshop “Connecting Characters and Directors”: Presenter – James Fox. There’s just something special about that relationship between a director and their actors. This 90-minute session will demonstrate some methods for encouraging deep character connections, memorable performances, and also how to avoid some of the pitfalls that many find themselves mired in.

From Breakdown to Building a Career in Film: Presenter – Amy L McCorkle. Using her breakout hit Letters to Daniel as the cornerstone, Amy takes you from blog to book to script to film, using what you have and demonstrates how to defy the critics, while exceeding all personal expectations and building a career. (Fri 3:30pm / Derby)

Dive Deep: Presenter Virginia Smith – Getting the Most out of Point of View: Publishers often say the main reason they reject stories from new novelists is mistakes in Point of View. Learn from veteran author Virginia Smith how to master the basics of POV, then dive even deeper to make your characters come alive. (Fri 7:30 pm / Derby)

Click below for list of workshops for writers.

https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2022-panels-and-workshops/

Click below for tickets to the event.

https://www.entertheimaginarium.com/2022-event-tickets/

Quote of the Month

source: https://quotefancy.com/quote/62096/Sebastyne-Young-A-picture-can-tell-a-thousand

Word of the Month

debunk

To debunk something, such as a story, theory, or idea, is to show or expose the falseness of it.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day

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June 2022 Newsletter

Editor: Colleen Green
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Book of the Month

Dressage Dreaming

(Horses Heal Hearts Book 1)

A once in a lifetime horse, but only one of them can have him.

For very different reasons, Michael Stafford and Jessica Warren need the right horse to fulfill their dreams to compete in international dressage, and the black stallion Tempest is that horse. When Tempest’s owner requires them to compete head-to-head for Tempest, they discover the tension between them is not just about the horse, but about the strong attraction neither of them can deny.

Available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/

Word of the Month

Askew

Askew means “out of line” or “not straight.”

Sam noticed the picture hanging on the wall was askew, so she straightened it.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/askew

Summer Season Short Story Contest

Summer Season Short Story Contest for Miami Valley Area, Ohio residents. Winning entries get cash prizes and stories are posted on our WordPress site! Click the link below for submission guidelines and deadline to enter.

https://wrightwriters.wordpress.com/2022/05/16/summer-season-short-story-contest/

Inspiration of the Month

Source: https://www.bing.com/images/search

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Spring Season Short Story Contest Winner!

The Wright Writers of Dayton voted on the entries for the Spring Season Short Story Contest. The winning story is below. Enjoy!

Lucas is my inspiration for “Sammy”.

Sammy

by Colleen Green

I laid Sammy’s blanket onto the grass next her burial site. She was our beloved, furry member of our family. Ever since she passed away four springs ago, I’ve missed her every day. Each spring I planted a different kind of flower to create a colorful collection on top of Sammy’s burial site in our garden.

As I knelt onto the soft fabric the breeze blew the scent of her over me. It was the same smell I used to enjoy as I’d kiss the top of her head while rubbing her ears.

Sammy used to love to dig in this garden. Pushing the dirt back with her big, powerful paws as fast as she could while barking in excitement at the ground while constantly shoveling the dirt away from it. Eventually she would mold the ground into a custom shaped bed for her to lay in while keeping watch over her large yard. It was typical of a Great Pyrenees to be an avid digger and guardian.

I longed to be as close to Sammy as possible as my hands plunged into the soil. In my mind I was inches away from giving her a belly rub. Those used to be her favorite. I made a small hole with my hands. A tear escaped my eye and hit the dirt. I took a deep breath trying to get through the task.

“You got this,” my husband, Tyler said while sitting down on the blanket beside me.

I nodded then put the flowers from the pot into the ground and pushed the dirt around it making it snug.

“They are beautiful flowers, aren’t they?” I asked.

“They are.”

Soft fur grazed my leg as I looked down and saw her daughter, Bianca who had laid beside me. She looked up at me with the same dark chocolate eyes of her mother’s. I gave her a pat on the head.

Bianca and Tyler always helped me get through this process.

Bianca was my guardian angel if angels could have beautiful fur instead of wings. She was usually beside me while watching over me. Bianca’s mother, Sammy was a Great Pyrenees, and her father, Lucas was an Alaskan Malamute. When they had their daughter, Bianca, she was a furball of pure cuteness. She had a mixture of a light tan fur with black streaks. Her widow’s peak, big brown eyes and floppy ears made her so adorable that she could practically get anything she wanted!

I stood up, and Bianca and Tyler got up too. Tyler wrapped his arm around my waist drawing me close while Bianca rubbed her face against my leg as I gave her a pat.

Sammy had given birth to Bianca in the spring, and Sammy had died in the spring. Bianca was pregnant and any day now she’d give birth. I couldn’t wait to meet her puppies.

Colleen Green is the marketing director of the Wright Writers of Dayton. She is the author of the romantic suspense books in the Amber Milestone Series. The third book in the series will be released later this year. Link to her Facebook Page, Group and to buy her books below.

Author Colleen Green Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/authorcolleengreen

Fans of Author Colleen Green Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/195073408488728

Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q5GYTHV?ref_=dbs_p_mng_rwt_ser_shvlr&storeType=ebooks

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Events of the Month

7th Annual

MEET THE AUTHORS

Christmas in Springboro

Books from Various Genres for Sale

Schedule

Holly Jolly Fair

Word of the Month

nadir

Quote of the Month

Event of the Month

Seminar: Writer’s Block 5o,000 Words in Under a Month

Speakers: Wright Writers of Dayton

Word of the Month

Gargantuan

Quote of the Month

First Place

Summers Since

Author Bio

Second Place

Checking Out

Author Bio

Celebration of the Month

100 posts on this website!

Click below to enter to win!

Quote of the Month

Word of the Month

Unabashed

First Place Prizes

Second Place Prizes

Requirements to enter are below.

Book of the Month

Quote of the Month

Word of the Month

ostentatious

Event of the Month

Books from a wide variety of genres available for sale in the Creatives Alley (the hallway leading to the Main Expo Hall) & in the Expo Hall.

Quote of the Month

Word of the Month

debunk

Book of the Month

Dressage Dreaming

Word of the Month

Summer Season Short Story Contest

Inspiration of the Month

First Place Prizes

Second Place Prizes

Requirements to enter are below.

Good Luck!

Sammy