Fall 2015 Events

September 15, 2015

Good Morning,

          It‘s the middle of September, hard to believe, summer is not official over, but reality is . . .  it is considered finished with the weekend of Labor Day.

          Summer is supposed to bring a lazier way of life, the days of vacation and playing in the sun.  Not so true at my house. Summer usually brings projects around the property, as well as long awaited visits from family and friends.

          This spring we moved into our new house. The interior of the house completely finished by my husband Cliff, so the summer brought projects of finishing the details, and redoing the outer buildings to match the exterior of the new house. All was going well until July 21 when my husband fell from a platform at least 12 feet off the ground. Needless to say the ground won and my husband broke his back. He is recovering nicely. He has a couple of more days in the brace, so he will be more mobile soon.

          I spent most of my summer before the accident putting the final changes on my new novel She Promised Her Heart. I’m in the final rounds of edits as I type and do hope to have a release date to announce soon.

          With that in mind I have scheduled several events where I will be participating to show off my current novel A Case of Hearts and hopefully before the calendar gets to far down the road have the second novel ready for publishing.

          I believe I have booked some fun events that will be enjoyable to many readers.

The first event I will be involved in is the What Women Want Expo I will be sharing a table with talented authors, Nan McAdams and Daniel Kencade Amsden  this event takes place this Saturday September 19^th at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines. The event runs from 9am to 6pm details can be found at  http://www.desmoines-womens-expo.com/  Hope to see several of you there.

The next event will be Saturday September 26^th at the Brenton Skating Plaza, 20 Robert Ray Drive this event is the Iowa Author Fest in Des Moines, the information on this event can be found at this website .

 http://desmoines.eventful.com/events/iowa-author-fest-/E0-001-083832395-4 I will join a number of author for this event. Please mark the date.

The next day September 27^th you will find me at the Fireside Winery in Marengo, Iowa. The event will take place at the Fireside Winery from 1pm to 5pm where there will be multiple authors on site.  Along with authors and books, there will be music provided by Jordan Danielsen. Of course there will be wine tasting from the Fireside wine collection. This is a fun event for readers and wine drinkers alike.

http://www.firesidewinery.com/our-events/

October 17^th will find me in Altoona, Iowa The 3^rd Annual Iowa Dirt Devils Craft/Vendor Fundraiser. 9am to 4pm in the Iowa and Grand Ballrooms, Adventureland Inn 3200 Adventureland Drive Altoona, Iowa .For more information check out the Facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/events/886455684745190/

I have an event booked in Minnesota I will participate in the Midwest Book Lovers Unite Event October 22-25 at the Radisson Blu Mall of America. There will be 50 authors that will participate in this reader event you can find out more by going to  https://midwesternbookloversunite.wordpress.com/  This will be an event focused on readers.

We move in to November where I have two events booked: 

Saturday, November 7^th I will be at home in Pella at the Pella High School Fall Craft Show. The show is held at the Pella Community High School, 212 University Street, Pella, Iowa. The show runs from 9 am to 3 pm approximately 120 crafters and vendors will be at this show.

The 21^st of November I will be in Des Moines at the Animal Rescue League’s Fundraiser Craft Show. The address is 5452 NE 22^nd Des Moines, Iowa. The event will run from 10am to 3pm

December 5^th I will be close to home at the Knoxville, Iowa  One Stop Christmas Shop Annual Vendor/Craft Event at the Skate Pit in Knoxville from 9 am to 3pm

The calendar is filling up for the rest of the year. I will continue to look for events. I will keep you updated as events get closer.

Do hope you will mark your calendars, come, support reading, and find a few unique holiday gifts too.