Hoschton Fall Festival features a display of the products such as array of food vendors, craft/info/game vendors, parade, parade waiver, scarecrow 5K run and much more.

With the Fall season upon us, comes the changing of the leaves, cool crisp air and our ever so popular Fall Festival. Stop by and do some early Christmas shopping with over 75 craft vendors that will line Oak Rd. in front of City Hall. The smell of festival food will fill the air to bring you flavors that will satisfy any palate. A wide variety of food will be available for purchase throughout the day.

The Snellville Senior Center will also be having an Arts and Craft Fair in conjunction with the Fall Festival from 12 - 5 p.m. that is held in the Senior Center. You won't want to miss out on some of the great homemade crafts that will be for sale. Every year, we offer live entertainment, costume contests, and All Day Activity Band is only $10.00 and includes: Bungee Jump, Rock Wall, Inflatables, Trackless Train, Hay Rides and 9-Hole Mini Golf.

If you are interested in becoming a vendor, please click Fall Festival Exhibitor Application Packet

For further information contact Kelly McAloon at 770-310-0429.

Join the Gwinnett County Public Library for this workshop dedicated to aspiring authors/writers, illustrators (new or aspiring), and new authors/writers. Gain insight from international author and speaker, Rhonda Knight, and our established panelists (three authors and an illustrator). Enjoy a Q&A with the panelists, interactive activities, and plenty of fun. Share your first page of writing or an illustration.

This workshop takes place on Saturday, September 21 at 1:00 pm at the Five Forks Branch, 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30044. Free and open to the public.

For more information, please visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.

History of the AJC Decatur Book Festival

In February 2005, while driving back from the South Carolina Book Festival with a friend, Daren Wang wondered aloud: Why could Columbia sustain a successful festival while metropolitan Atlanta could not?

Atlanta is well known for its many festivals: Dogwood, Music Midtown, The Inman Park Neighborhood Festival, and Virginia Highland Summer fest, just to name a few. These events shape the summer landscape of Atlanta. But despite several earlier attempts, there still was no free festival celebrating the written word.

Over the course of that drive from Columbia, Wang hatched a plan to establish a book festival modeled after the overwhelmingly successful Decatur Arts Festival. Decatur, a small town five miles east of Atlanta, is one of the most pedestrian-friendly towns in Georgia, with a strong emphasis on smart growth and independent restaurants and stores. With a MARTA station in the city center, Agnes Scott College forming its Southern border, and Emory University just two miles away, it seemed to be the perfect place for a big book party.

Soon, Wang had enlisted Tom Bell––who had worked with him on both his literary magazine, Verb, and his syndicated public radio series, The Spoken Word––to concoct a new hare-brained scheme, The Decatur Book Festival.

For more information go to www.decaturbookfestival.com

It is official, I registered today for a 10 x 20 space, twice the space we had last year.  The other Snellville writers group decided they wanted to get their own booth, so that made my mind up that I would register for a booth twice as big as last year, but not the 4 times as big that I had hoped.  But as they say, you get born, you crawl, you stand and totter, you walk, and then you run!.  I think Scribblers is somewhere between crawling and tottering.  Hopefully next year we will be walking or maybe even running!

So, The cost of the booths was $1,350 and I order two additional tables for $70.  So the total paid today was $1,420.  I asked for the same area we were in last year, but this year the entire end cap of that row of booths instead of just half.  I beleive that will give us the room to actually have 6 - 7 tables.  There will be 4 chairs supplied by the festival, and I thought it was easier for us to bring additonal chairs and save the money.  Perhaps next year I will even buy the tables, to save the additional fees for that as well!  I think you can actually purchase the tables for about what we are renting them for.  Of course then we have to haul them there, and haul them out!  

The cost per author coming this year is $100 for the first book and then $5.00 for each additional book.  I believe we will have space for 14 authors and like last year I will put together the space and time plan for the show.  Right now we have seven authors committed to coming, representing 20 books. 


Please review the attached spread sheet and please send me the names of the books you will have on display, and if you are not on the sheet please confirm with me that you are coming:

• Charles A de Andrade
• Frannie & Doug Watson
• Mike & Leda Owens
• Donna Barron
  
• Luanne Scrogan
• Pat Smith
• Marilyn Hart

I charged the booth, which buys us about 21 days before I will need to pay the charge card.  So, if you are planning to come to the Book Festival please bring your check to our March 14th meeting that will occur at the library.  We are meeting on Thursday March 14, 2019 at the Five Forks Branch Library located at 2780 Five Forks Trickum Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30044-5865.  We will be meeeting at 6:00 PM to do the filming for the Speakers Bureau.

Make your checks payable to:  Scribblers - CdA Consultants Inc. 

If you are not yet listed, it is because I have not heard from you diffentively that you are coming.  If you do want to be included, please let me know as soon as possible.   Also, let me know how many titles you will be bringing. Seven Authors have registered and we have space for at least seven more.   Right now, we will have 20 books, and I suspect we will be closer to 40 once the final authors join in. 

I will be sending out another e-mail tomorrow related to the Library and our next meeting.  

Until then...already getting excited about August 31st and September 1!

Grace and Peace,

Charles

Join Pat Smith for the signing of her first book!

Snowball Investing tells the tale of when Pat Peoples Smith was suddenly faced with a family member’s health crisis, she was confronted with her own crisis: as a single woman, she was unprepared for retirement or any unforeseen health crisis that might come knocking at her door. Snowball Investing traces Pat’s financial footprints as she digs her way out of debt and begins to rebuild her future portfolio one financial snowflake at a time. Sprinkled with childhood stories and the school of hard knocks, she shares the exact path that she followed to pursue her goal. Pat invites you to follow her onto the slopes and allow the lessons from blizzards, mud, and perfect strangers help you: Confess the Financial Mess; Defeat the Debt Alien•Find Millions in the Mud; Build a Sizable Financial Portfolio for Retirement; Even Discover Spiritual Riches Beyond Your Imagination!…and don’t forget your shovel and a big brown sack!

Her Book Signing will take place:

1-3pm, Saturday, February 16
Beans & Butter Coffeehouse
River Oak Plaza, 851 Oak Rd
Lawrenceville, GA 30044

We'll See you there!!