Marla & Kelly on Dayton Public Radio

February 3rd & 5th, 2009

Marla Fair & Kelly Smith of The Gallimaufry Writers' Group will be featured on ArtsFocus hosted by Larry Kensington on Dayton Public Radio WDPR 88.1 & WDPG 89.9 in a two-part segment airing February 3rd & 5th. The first part of the interview will air on Tuesday the 3rd at 7:55 a.m. and 4:55 p.m., and the second at the same times on Thursday, the 5th. Larry was a kind and gracious host and asked all manner of interesting things. Please tune in and support both the program and the Gallimaufrians! If you miss the segments, they will be archived after it airs at www.dpr.org/artsfocus.html

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The first week of February 2009, Marla & The Gallimaufry Writers' Group will be featured on Dayton Public Radio. Dates and times will be posted as soon as they are known.

February 7th, 2009, Marla and The Writers of Gallimaufry will hold a book signing at New and Olde Pages Book Shoppe in Englewood, OH. Come and buy a romance or romantic historical for Valentine's Day and give that special someone in your life a few ideas! Featuring the books of Marla Fair, Beth Henderson, Rebekah McCoy & Nioma Stephan. Contact Marianne Guess, owner, at 937-832-3022or 1-800-887-2665. Olde and New Pages Book Shoppe is located at 856Union Road, Englewood, OH. Hours are 10 - 7 Monday through Saturday.

Titles available from Marla at the signing will be: COPPERHEAD: Book One Son of the Silver Fox, Goodnight Robinson: A Tale of Love Across Time, My French Rebel: Book One of the General's Daughter & *NEW* The Flowering Thorn: Book Two of the General's Daughter.

March 13 & 14, 2009, Marla & The Writers of Gallimaufry will appear at the 2009 Book Lovers Festival in Troy, OH. Event dates will be March 13 and 14, 2009 so mark your calendars now. For more information visit http://www.aroundaboutbooks.com/ or call the book store at (937)339-1707. Registration is $35 and covers: A goodie bag filled with all kinds of goodies, refreshments on Friday night, breakfast on Saturday morning & lunch on Saturday Afternoon.

To register use this link and tell Sue we sent you.

http://www.aroundaboutbooks.com/book_fest__09

Hope to see you at one or all!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all of you! We finished the season at the Piqua Historical Area for the second year with 'A Dickens of a Murder Mystery on the Farm'. Yours truly was arrested three times for murdering old Ebenezer Scrooge (who had gone back to his miserly ways). We had a great time and performed the play three times to a sold out audience. If I can figure out how to, I'll post a bit of video from it some time in the future.

As this year ends and another new one begins, I wish you all peace and contentment, and may the Light shine in your lives throughout the coming months.

Marla

Author and Book Center Opening

AUTHOR AND BOOK CENTER OPENING

This is a site dedicated to promoting authors and their books. Many of them are independently published as I am. Please check it out when you have time. Here's the welcome from the main page:

Today (December 1) is our opening day! Welcome to our brand new Website created especially for book lovers! Please look around.Here you’ll find up-to-date book reviews, upcoming author and book lover events, and the personal pages of numerous talented published authors!We also have an active chat room where you can mingle with the authors and discuss your favorite books with book lovers like yourself.New authors and book lovers are joining everyday and we’re all excited to be a part of this great new site! We look forward to meeting you and sharing some great books!

Check it out at: http://bookeventcenter.ning.com/

Book signing successful

Even though Judith proved shy (she decided lattes were not for her) and Marla attended instead, the books signing was successful. I had a great day and sold a fair amount of books. The best part of the sales were the ones to total strangers. I love my friends for buying, but when someone you have never met and have no contact with comes up to you and requests a certain book, you know that all those hours on Facebook and your writers' sites have meant something. Someone knows your books are out there, and knows your name.

What better perk could an independently published writer have on a chilly day in downtown Troy OH?

My group, Gallimaufry, is planning a Valentine's signing as well. I'll let everyone know about it here first.

Marla

Book Signing Saturday

Judith Kingsley, 18th century woman and fiance of William Foxwell of South Carolina, will be making an appearance at Around About Books this Saturday, November 29th, 2008. Though a bit confused by all of the horseless carriages and fireless torches, she intends to 'carry on' in the English tradition and speak to those in attendance regarding her fiance's daughter Miriam and her forbidden love, COPPERHEAD. Judith will most likely also be sipping lattes and handing out fliers advertising the event. Please come and join us if you are in the area.

PS I really just wanted to play around in the costume now that I have panniers to wear under it! As Miriam put it in COPPERHEAD, 'the wrath of God' should be called 'down upon the man who had decided that a ‘proper’ woman must wear soft leather shoes and skirts three feet wide.'

We're signing books! Come and join in.

The writers of Gallimaufry (including me) will be at Around About Books in Troy, Ohio on November 29th between 2:00 and 4:00. This is our first individual group book signing and we are excited.

Come visit historic downtown Troy and meet the writers including Beth Henderson, author of 25 titles with over 600,000 copies sold worldwide, Marla Fair, author of Goodnight Robinson and COPPERHEAD, Rebekah McCoy, author of Rockstar, and Nioma Stephan, author of Low Bridge. It's the busiest day of the Christmas shopping season, so come on out and join the madness! There will be books galore at great prices and, best of all, there's a coffee shop next door!

If you're curious, check out our sites and you'll see, the trip is worth it!

Marla Fair http://www.marlafair.com/

Beth Henderson http://www.romanceandmystery.com/

Rebekah McCoy http://www.rebekahmccoy.com/

The location: http://www.aroundaboutbooks.com/

The town: http://www.troyohio.gov/