by Sarah Purdy | Sep 4, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
Carol Van Klompenburg, author and retired Write Place owner, and Sarah Purdy, our book editor and publishing consultant, will be featured presenters for an event at the Pella Public Library Meeting Room on September 11 at 7 p.m. The evening kicks off with a short...
by Sarah Purdy | Aug 10, 2018 | Book Place, Book Releases & Events
Fortunate: The Fabulous, Fantastic Filly, written by Debbie Brady Shellady and illustrated by Victoria Peterson Laird, is the latest children’s book published by the Write Place. It tells the true story of Fortunate, a foal that is born three weeks before she is...
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...
