by Sarah Purdy | Jun 18, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
Carol Van Klompenburg, author and retired Write Place owner, started her first flower garden 25 years ago. “When I announced my plans to plant flowers in front of our house, my husband was skeptical,” she recalled. “I had tried a vegetable garden years earlier, and it...
by Sarah Purdy | Jun 8, 2018 | Creative Nonfiction, Our Books
by Carol Van Klompenburg As you open Tending Beauty, prepare to chuckle, wince, and experience wonder. Whether you garden a lot, a little, or not at all, you will relish your forays into the garden alongside Carol Van Klompenburg. Using prose, poetry, and pictures,...
by Sarah Purdy | May 30, 2018 | Children's Books, Our Books
by Debbie Brady Shellady On a chilly March morning, a beautiful foal named Fortunate is born…three weeks before she is expected! She is small and shivering, but her mother, Bonnie Lass, and their human friends at West Branch Horse Farm love Fortunate very much. They...
by Sarah Purdy | May 7, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
“We all have problems,” said author Paul V. Zylstra of Bussey, Iowa. “We have these enemies at the root of our trials—the world, the flesh, and the devil—and through study of Scripture I’ve found that God has ways of helping us deal with them.” This is the main...
by Sarah Purdy | Apr 30, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
Flitterfly, written and illustrated by Barbara Schultz of Rose Hill, Iowa, is the latest children’s book published by the Write Place. It tells the story of Flitterfly, a dragonfly who lives on the land surrounding Schultz Pond. Over the course of a few sunny summer...
