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Author Sarah Geddes pens Henry the Sleeping Dragon

August 27, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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Life as a dragon should be amazing. You can soar across the sky and breathe fire. However, when you are a young, clumsy dragon who sneezes fire at all the worst moments, it makes life a little challenging. Desperate to make friends and finally feel accepted, Henry takes off across the savanna, but trouble seems to follow him at every turn.

Summary for To the Moon: A Jacob and Trevor Adventure
Jacob and Trevor are brothers and the best of friends. They have avid imaginations and love to play make-believe. Their favorite thing is playing on their saucer swing and pretending to fly to the moon. One day when Jacob loses a tooth, the tooth fairy comes – but she has run out of money and decides to leave fairy dust instead. The boys use the fairy dust to go on an adventure of a lifetime!

Bio: Sarah Geddes is a 6th grade Language Arts teacher. She has taught middle school in a virtual setting since 2007 and loves to help students explore the world and their imagination through books. She has two boys (ages 5 and 7) who love to cuddle up and read. Watching their eyes light up when turning the page of a book has inspired her to put her own stories down on paper.

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Wild Blueberry Festival in Paradise

August 13, 2024 Author Emma Palova Leave a comment

Stop by for three fun days in beautiful Paradise on Whitefish Bay in Michigan’s UP this Friday, Aug. 16 through Sunday, Aug. 18.

The festival venue is on the Whitefish Township Community Hall grounds on M-123. Whether you’ve been coming here for years, or this is your first time get ready for pure Michigan treats like wild blueberry pancakes, pies, and sausages, pie eating contests, and wild blueberry sales.

The signature staple of the festival is the Arts & Crafts show on all three days, Friday from 9 to 5 p.m., Saturday from 9 to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 10 to 4 p.m. Browse through 130 booths with artists and artisans from all over Michigan.

You will find your precious treasures here and make memories for years to come. Support your favorite Michigan Authors as they bring their books in different genres to the festival.

They are in alphabetical order: authors Michael Carrier, Mikel Classen, Jean Davis, Mary Kremer, Emma Palova, and Joan Young. Carrier writes mysteries, Classen is a history and short story writer, Davis writes fantasy and sci-fi, Palova is the author of The Lost Town and Greenwich Meridian Memoir, short stories and Young is the author of Anastasia Raven Cozy Mysteries. Young has written several books about her hiking adventures on the North Country Trail (NCT).

Play the Fish Bowl which benefits local organizations.

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Author Summer Porter pens A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island II

August 2, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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This delightful “Squeak-quel” to A Mouse Tail on Mackinac Island illustrated by Maggie Chambers takes the mouse family on a vacation to the one and only historic Grand Hotel. Listen in for a chance to win a signed copy of the book.

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Authors Emma Palova and Ingar Rudholm invite you to the 49th Lake Odessa Art in the Park

August 1, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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Being a part of the Michigan Authors group on Facebook, we take pride in attending the Michigan Arts and Crafts shows around the state. Meet authors Emma and Ingar at the 49th Lake Odessa Art in the Park on Saturday, Aug. 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Emma will be in booth #122, and Ingar will be in the children’s area.

Listen to what to expect at these shows, which are unique to each community. No two shows are the same. Marketing guru Ingar advises newbie and Indie authors with tips from shows and friends.

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The Bluestocking Bookshop offers used books

July 29, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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Aimee Chipman opened The Bluestocking Bookshop located in Holland in September of 2019 after being a known avid reader all her life.

“I’ve always been a nerd for books and authors,” Aimee said.

She is passionate about education through reading and keeping books accessible to all, regardless of age, income, or education level.

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Author’s events this summer

July 22, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

I am excited about my summer schedule at the following venues:

Saugatuck Village Square Art Fair, July 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Booth 402

I will be at the village art fair with my books and 80 other vendors in this beautiful resort on Lake Michigan. It was precisely this town that inspired my best-selling book Shifting Sands: The Lost Town more than 20 years ago. As I stood in front of the historical marker in downtown Saugatuck, I knew the nearby town of Singapore buried somewhere in the dunes would make for a great story.

The Holland Sentinel headlined the article about my book Town’s Tale ‘Just Stayed With Me.’ Sometimes it even haunted me, but it wasn’t until 2021 that I sat down and penned the manuscript during National Novel Writing Month.

The Lost Town

The historical fiction novel is set in Singapore on the shores of Lake Michigan at the foot of the sand dunes adorned with white pines. Beautiful Ida is torn between her hometown of Chicago and her new home on the other side of the lake and between two men. Developed by New York investors, the once-thriving settlement of Singapore nurtured the dreams of adventurers and pioneers like Oshea Wilder. Singapore would rival Chicago and Milwaukee. It almost did with its sawmills, hotels, boarding houses, stores, and a “wildcat bank.” Entrepreneurial Ida struggles to adjust to the rough environment but finds more than support from her boss who invited her to Singapore to be the “Mistress” of the Big House. A “wildcat bank” was established in Singapore in 1837.

Who will win Ida’s heart?

I will be in booth 402 on Butler Street, so come on down to the heart of the book’s action. This is my first time selling books in Saugatuck, so I am looking forward to meeting new fans.

Lake Odessa Art in the Park, Aug. 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Booth 122

This will be my first time selling books in Lak-O at Art in the Park. I’ve covered many stories here as a journalist for The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, and I absolutely love the lake, and looking forward to meeting new fans.

Wild Blueberry Festival, Paradise, Aug. 16-18. Booth 34

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Cross the Big Mac and head up to the UP for three days of the best festival. It’s three days of Pure Michigan fun UP style.

Fallasburg Village, Sept. 14 & 15

Cross the Covered Bridge and step into the historical village of Fallasburg to meet author Emma Palova at the one-room schoolhouse.

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Author Stefanie Gilmour pens Fear the Wolf

June 28, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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It’s going to get GROWLY in author Stefanie Gilmour’s first book in the Alex Steward series.

From the moment she shifted into a werewolf, Alex was terrified. First, of the man who attacked her—then of the creature within her.

Alex wants to build a life in Hopewell, but she struggles to keep her savage passenger caged. If her inner wolf breaks free again, people could die, and she’ll be the one hunted.

For help, she relies on her best friend Emma, a wizard and the only person she trusts with her secret. But Emma has her own secret: Mitch. He’s twisting her into someone unrecognizable…and he may be harming other vulnerable supernatural citizens.

To save Emma, Alex must make alliances with wizards and werewolves alike, face the Committee, unravel deadly conspiracies, and confront her own worst fear—herself.

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Author Wade Walker pens Bite of the Wolf

June 24, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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Author Wade Walker’s first book is a mix of horror and espionage inspired by James Bond, and secret agents. The main character secret agent Val West finds himself bitten by a werewolf, and he must unravel the deadly secrets of the werewolf that bit him. Will he stop this mysterious monster’s diabolical plans in time and find a cure? Will the building romance between agent Val West and archaeologist Tanya Nimble live or die?

“It’s kind of like WikiLeaks when the files were decrypted,” Walker said in a recent podcast interview on For the Love of Books Podcast show with host author Emma Palova.

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Author Jessica Hartsfield pens debut book The Kingdom of Orion

June 17, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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In part one of The Sisters Three saga, Esme Halle thought she had finally found peace. Creating a life in Avalon on the continent of Mar, she had worked hard to distance herself from her sordid past in the neighboring Kingdom of Orion. So hard in fact that she could barely recall any memories of her previous life, and she preferred it this way. Now all of the secrets she had kept hidden so deeply even from herself, may be the only key to saving everything she holds dear. The sisters three, Esme’s name for her mother and aunts, have brought the kingdom of Orion to its knees, information has grown scarce, and her dreams show her the past is the key to all.

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Modern History Press publishes U.P. Reader Volume #8

June 7, 2024 emmapalova Leave a comment

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“It’s the perfect gift for Father’s Day. Don’t give your father, The World’s Greatest Dad mug, or a barbecue apron. He doesn’t care. He needs something else to feed his brain,” Victor Volkman, senior editor at Modern History Press said in the newest episode of For the Love of Books Podcast on Thursday.

Give him U.P Reader Volume #8 instead. The hefty publication with a beautiful cover photo of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore between Munising and Grand Marais is filled with fiction and non-fiction stories, essays, poetry, memoirs, humor, and history.

It’s 181 pages long with historical archive photos and includes six stories from the winners of the annual Dandelion Cottage contest from all of the UP’s participating schools.

“It feels very solid and very significant,” said Volkman. “This is the biggest it’s going to get, ever. We’ve expanded it with the first, second, and third-place winners of the contest. Kids like to write long.”

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