Local Authors and so much more at Penned Con

Local Authors and so much more at Penned Con

Brad R. Cook

PENNED CON 2016, is a book fair featuring over 150 authors from across the country and locally from Missouri and Illinois. The event takes place on September 23 and 24, 2016 and offers a chance to learn from industry leaders about how to publish, market and grow your brand, join us for our keynote speakers, join in with games hosted by authors, panels, a luau awards ceremony and more! Penned Con is all about charity too, 100% of their profits from the event go to Action for Autism based in St. Louis. Since starting Penned Con in 2014 they have donated over $21,000 to the Penned Con Scholarship Fund and helped 6 families in the St. Louis area with therapy services.

If you want to learn more about their charity work check out my earlier post about Penned Con. http://www.thewriterslens.com/2016/07/penned-con-bringing-authors-and-readers_13.html

This time I wanted to focus on the authors who will be at Penned Con. It’s one of the largest lists of authors from varying genres that I have ever seen. If you like books, or need a gift for the book lover in your life you won’t want to miss this event.

Here is a list of the 150 authors who will be attending.

Some of the local authors who will be there include:

Eric Asher

Nicole Evelina

Claudia Shelton

Maggie Adams

Mark Pannebecker

Alexis Kennedy

Amy Hale

David Lucas – panelist

And those are just the authors I know about, I’m sure there are more. For a complete list of authors and links to their books visit https://pennedcon.com/author-lineup/

There are more than just authors, Penned Con has panels as well.

St. Louis Writers Guild President David Lucas will be talking about Villains at 3pm on Friday, September 23.

For a complete list of panels visit https://pennedcon.com/panels/

For a complete schedule of events visit https://pennedcon.com/event-schedule/

Get tickets to Penned Con by visiting https://pennedcon.com/penned-con-tickets/

And you can ever register for up to four free two-day tickets to the event by using the QR code or link below.

I’ll be at the St. Louis Writers Guild table representing the organization which is a sponsor of the event. So stop by and say hi, and then check out all the great authors and support a great cause.

To learn more visit www.PennedCon.com

Meet writer/artist Marilyn Brown at 6 North

Meet Marilyn D. Brown, local author and artist, from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 3, at 6 North Café.

6 North Café
14438 Clayton Road
Ballwin, MO 63011
(directions) 

IF NOT AT 65, THEN WHEN?

After having been told in her thirties that big publishing houses wanted already published writers and in her sixties that they wanted new cutting-edge writers, at an age when people used to retire Marilyn Brown formed her own publishing company, setting a goal of bringing out a book a year for ten years; and, so far, White Canoe Productions has exceeded that goal.

Some say, “Wow, you just crank them out,” but she says forty years of writing is hardly cranking. Also a painter, she has seen quite a bit of her work run away; but some of it has found a permanent home on her book covers.

Now in her seventies, her preference in selecting work to publish ranges from her memoirs of a fulltime caregiver for her mother (told from both perspectives) to the questioning poetry and essays of an introspective mind, to light and humorous mysteries, even to a book of cartoons. Her own favorite, FINDING APRIL HOLLOW, can be described as metaphorical fantasy/realism for adults who work with children.

Don’t look for thrillers in her Nosemitt & Sniffle stories; look for quirky aging women who are logical and intuitive but whose outlook is unconventional. This author aims much, not all, of her fiction toward women of a mature age who aren’t looking for steamy romance (or even any at all) but who like a challenge to the mind and a chuckle or several along the way.