Hello,
&
Happy JUNE
From
Anne & Jan
STORYOLOGY
DESIGN & PUBLICATION
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DID YOU KNOW THAT JUNE IS ICED TEA MONTH?
To take the bitterness away, use a pinch of baking powder.
Click
here
for a simple recipe from Lipton Tea.
Interested in a slow sun-steep iced tea recipe?Click
here
A quick way to make sweetened iced tea? Use pre-sweetened tea bags! Click
here
for Lipton's
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WANT TO KNOW WHAT OTHER JUNE CELEBRATIONS ARE UPCOMING?
DAYS OF THE YEAR
WEBSITE
FOLLOW THE
DAYS OF THE YEAR BLOG
HERE
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If you are in the Atlanta area and are venturing out, drop by her booth.
View the display of the real letters from C
é
cile, purchase an autographed book, and shop the C
é
cile Collection - as well as other antiques and jewelry!
Mention this newsletter and get a 10% discount off selected items!
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1321 Atlanta Highway
Cumming, GA 30040
Phone: 770-889-3400
Friday 9-5 Saturday 9-6 Sunday 10-5
Tickets $3 - Good All Weekend
Children Under 12 Free
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Jan visited with a lovely group of ladies of Lake Oconee for their June Book Club.
(Everyone attending
is Covid negative,
if you're wondering).
They declared it their
"best book club ever!"
We are booking fall book club visits now, virtually or in-person. Please contact Anne if interested.
If in person, we bring
a trunk show of
gifts and delights!
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Who is author Tori Bailey?
Tori's characters may speak with a southern drawl, but their stories are universal. She is the author of the Coming Home series: A Second Chance at Goodbye, Ethel's Song, and Love-Made from Scratch. Her books bring a mixture of romance with a tinge of suspense. Her characters could easily be your next door neighbor. The one you enjoy sitting on the front porch, sipping something stronger than sweet tea, and "discussing" everyone's lives but your own.
A native of Georgia, Tori lives in the Athens area and swears she bleeds red and black. Her five children speak the language of "mew" with an occasional disgruntle "meh." Somewhere under all the cat hair is her husband of twenty plus years. When not cleaning cat up-chuck, litter boxes, or refereeing the latest test of wills, Tori enjoys scrounging through thrift stores, antique auctions, and finding the next "honey-do" project for her husband.
A SECOND CHANCE AT GOODBYE
is Tori's five-star read available from
THE SOUTHERN PEN BOOK STORE
or from
AMAZON
. It's a "second-chance story" set in the place I went to college: Athens, Georgia. What's not for me to love? You will too!
Anne Harris could not find any tears to shed as they laid her father, Mac, to rest. The only emotion she felt was resentment toward him and his business- Mac's Flying Service. Soon it would be hers to sell and there was a buyer eager to purchase it.
Maggie Cosby yearned for the carefree days of flight instructing and being with Mac. News of his death will beckon her to return to the place that is home for her - a World War II hangar and Athens, Georgia.
Together, Anne and Maggie, will realize how little they knew about Mac. Anne will discover the father she refused to know. Maggie will have to decide to live in the past or accept the love of the present. Each will wish for a second chance to say goodbye to the man that sacrificed his life for them.
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by Angela Jackson-Brown
I am proud to say I am a Spalding MFA alum of Angela Jackson-Brown. This novel of hers is heart-wrenching and insightful, especially in light of the continued fight for racial justice and equality.
Available paperback and Kindle on Amazon.
Who is Angela Jackson-Brown?
Angela Jackson-Brown is an award winning writer, poet and playwright who teaches Creative Writing and English at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She is a graduate of the Spalding low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing. She is the author of the novel Drinking From A Bitter Cup and has published in numerous literary journals. Angela’s play, Anna’s Wings, was selected in 2016 to be a part of the IndyFringe DivaFest and her play, Flossie Bailey Takes a Stand, was part of the Indiana Bicentennial Celebration at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. She also wrote and produced the play It Is Well and she was the co-playwright with Ashya Thomas on a play called Black Lives Matter (Too). In the spring of 2018, Angela co-wrote a musical with her colleague, Peter Davis, called Dear Bobby: The Musical, that was part of the 2018 OnyxFest in Indianapolis, IN. Her book of poetry called House Repairs was published by Negative Capability Press in the fall of 2018, and in the fall of 2019, she directed and produced a play she wrote called Still Singing Those Weary Blues
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1978. The year I turned ten and the year my mama killed herself. She was thirty-five, and dying is the last thing that should have been on her mind.
After the death of her mother, Sylvia Butler's father, a man she knows only from an old photo, takes her from Louisville, Kentucky to Ozark, Alabama to live with his family. But his wife resents everything about this intruder, from her out-of-wedlock conception to her dark skin and nappy hair. When the wife's younger brother Charles returns from Vietnam, Sylvia thinks she has found a friend and confidante, only to be hurt again, but this time, in a manner she never could have imagined.
Set under the backdrop of the Deep South in the 70s and 80s, this coming of age story of redemption and grace follows Sylvia in her journey from awkward girl to confident young woman, at last standing on her own.
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Jan and I are pleased
to announce that
will be carried in
The
Southern Pen Book Shop
is the brain child of independent author Tori Bailey. The store is located in the
Monroe Mercantile Building
in downtown Monroe, Georgia, described on its website as "
your one stop shop for gifts, home decor, monogramming, furniture, and dining."
You can visit The Southern Pen Book Shop's website
here
and learn more about Tori's romantic-suspense books
here
.
and follow her blog
here
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LOOKING FOR A WAY TO HELP SAVE THE BEES?
TO COUNT THE WORLD'S BEES!
What You Can Do to Help
To participate,
download the World Bee Count app
and engage through several social media channels.
Taking a picture with an app is a simple yet powerful way
to allow anyone with a smartphone
to take part, interact, and get educated
around pollinators and bees.
They've been there for us, so let's bee there for them!
Anne has been submitting pictures to the app - see below.
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An inspirational message about
OPTIMISM, PERSISTENCE, AND DETERMINATION!
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Over ten years ago when Jan and I first met and began collaborating on
WITH KISSES FROM
CÉCILE
, a friend of Jan's, photographer
Cheryl M. Stewart
, snapped this picture of a rooster that reminded her of Herkimer. At that time, Jan sent me this copy of the picture as a sweet birthday card.
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After a lightning strike burned down my house the summer of 2017, I thought this card to be lost along with almost everything else - but, to my delight, I found it in a box of papers that the restoration company finally returned last month!
The fire, smoke, and water damage had seared the envelope to it, which I carefully managed to steam apart.
I consider this surviving card an inspiring prized possession. for it symbolizes the traits of
optimism, persistence and determination
we all need in order to persevere during this crazy time of COVID-19 and the fight for racial equality -- not to mention other personal difficulties that are not front page news but we each face in our lives.
These traits are especially important for a writer's psyche. An author can toil for
years
without any story ever being published. Regardless, the writer continues to write for the stories in her heart must be written.
Even though Jan's prediction in her birthday note to me did not come true that year, we never lost faith. Over a decade later our dream came true when we published
WITH KISSES FROM
CÉCILE
.
For those who've read the book -- Is this how you pictured Herkimer?
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Summer is here and the country is slowly re-opening,
BUT
COVID-19
is not gone
!
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For the men in your life, click
here
for purchase of masks whose sales proceeds go to charity!
Other members or your family or friends need masks?
Click
here
for more masks whose sales proceeds support charities!
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Want to do something to help out
during this pandemic?
Click on the these links.
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EMBOLDENED KISS
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Click on the video below
&
visit the Paris Exhibit of 1900 to which
THE CAROUSEL TRAVELER Mirabelle Montgomery
is transported
to solve a mystery in the past
that holds the key to her future.
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