Third Wednesdays
Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library
5234 LaVista Road
Tucker, GA 30084
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter Leader:
Charles de Andrade
5234 LaVista Road
Tucker, GA 30084
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Chapter Leader:
Charles de Andrade
The Southeast Homeschool Expo focuses on educational products and services, books, family structure material, game creation, movie making, web design training services and much more.
Scribblers attended and shared in the fun, encouraging new authors, and giving away books! Mike Owens was interviewed on the on the Doug Dahlgren Show on
Friday October 25, 2019 14 Authors represented Scribblers at the Decatur Book Festival held on Saturday August 31st, and Sunday September 1st. The weather was beautiful, and as a group we sold 108 books. Three authors made money with Portia Wayne being our big seller with her "Dinosaurs in Decatur" being the top seller. This was followed closely by Mike Owens with his " I Hate Vegetables" poetry book taking second place.. Of the 14 authors, only one had no sales, everyone else had sales. We will be reviewing the show at each of the upcoming meetings. We will be reviewing improvements that can/should be made for next years show. All four of our chapters were represented at the show. Book signing season is fast approaching!
Mike and Leda Owens, two of the Norcross members, have a book signing this Friday at the Southern Pen Bookshop in Monroe. If you can, stop out to support them. I have a book signing at the same location on Saturday November 17th! Again, if you are in the area, please stop on by. Finally, we will have the Scribblers Book Sign at NewSong Church on Saturday December 1, 2018 in Monroe. I have attached to this e-mail the copy of the advertisements that have been run for the various book signings and meetings. I have circled each of the advertisements that have appeared in all of the November Hometown News magazines. Much thanks to our "resources" who have helped defray the cost of the advertisements. I have also attached an invitation sheet that Luanne made for the event. Please begin circulating this to all of your "sphere of influence" folks. If each of us can reach 100 - 200 friends, family, church members etc, and if even a small % show up, it will be a real success. A good part of our meeting on the 15th will be spent preparing our marketing plan for our book signing event. Also, I will give a report on the work I am doing with RebellBooks - Rodney Bell's group, marketing my books. Please let me know if you are able to attend the meeting. I need to advise the restaurant again of the number of seats to set up for us. Regards, Charles Mike has been writing since Middle School – short stories about friends and their adventures in strange and exotic places. Stories that would wind up, sooner or later, buried in some trash can by a mother who believed a neat and tidy room was next to godliness. It was no big deal at the time- a career in writing wasn’t in his thinking. It was just a fun thing to do while entertaining himself. As a senior in high school in Metairie, Louisiana, Mike won the Journalism Gold Medal Award; a prize he cherished - especially since he was competing against some of the smartest students in the class. Even at this point, he still never considered writing as more than a pleasurable pastime. He continued to write in college and was recognized for his attributes in writing, especially by his history professor, Dr. Thomas Howell. In his first job at Pinecrest State School in 1974 as a Speech Therapist,, he collaborated with Nathan Canella, the music therapist, to produce Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! an Easter musical that was performed at the school for many years afterwards. He also wrote his first instructional manual for teaching sign language to non-verbal students at the school. Later, as an Educational Consultant for the Department of Education in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he wrote numerous training manuals for special education teachers and administrators covering a variety of special needs students. In 1995, Mike traveled to Costa Rica and taught there for three years. He continued writing about the wonderful people he encountered while traveling around the country. The bug to write was still there, but the thought of becoming a published author, was not part of his life’s equation. It wasn’t until about five years later, after returning to the states, did the urge to publish take hold. It took almost ten years to finish writing two young adult books. It was after retiring, and a move to Georgia before he realized the opportunity to become published. Only after becoming a part of the Scribblers’ Christian writers group in Norcross did publishing his works become a reality. Mike gives much credit to Charles de Andrede, the leader of Scribblers, for his direction and encouragement to him personally in the completion of his first two published novels. A year and a half after arriving in Georgia, Mike married Leda Still, a budding artist with whom he collaborated to produce a third book jointly called “The I Hate Vegetables Book of Poetry for Kids” due out for Christmas 2017. Additional books, as well as Leda’s artwork displayed at Leda’s Loft, are in the works. As they become available, announcements will be made on this website and blog. For more on Mike, visit his website! |
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