A Huge Success

The Grand Lake Area Literature Festival is in the history books and marked off as a huge success. Several authors were there from the Celina/St. Mary, Ohio area. Others came from places as far as Cleveland Heights, Ohio, as well as areas of Florida, and Pennsylvania.

Something for Everyone

Writers of non-fiction were there to represent that particular genre. Children authors, as well as writers of Young Adult (YA), Historical and Romance fiction, and lots of in-between were also there. But the most fascinating part of the day was that all the authors were available to answer questions about their genre as well as the stories they told. On top of that, a panel of authors was available to answer questions about the craft as well as the business side of writing.

Thank you!

A big thank you goes out to our sponsor, The Arts Place, in St. Mary’s Ohio, as well as a huge shout-out goes to Chris Noble and Beth Keuneke, co-chairs of The Grand Lake Area Literature Festival Committee. Without their vision (and sweat-equity), the event wouldn’t have taken place.

Let’s do it again!

I’m ready to drive the miles (and there were many) to participate in this festival again. This event was focused on the reader and aspiring writer. And what could be better than being in an atmosphere where writers encouraged other writers. Truly, a was a colossal success.

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Can a woman on the run find herself again?

Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.