Welcome back to a good day,
a good book and a tasty treat.
Always a great combination.
But is it too early to be thinking pumpkin?
Not at one of Toledo, the Toledo
area's premier independent bookstores.
Denise Phillips and Shannon Holn
are here from gathering volumes
in Perrysburg with The Pumpkin,
a great book and a competition.
Good morning, ladies.
Thanks for being here today.
Thank you.
You know, I saw someone posting about
Halloween and pumpkins on social
media the other day and they're like,
I'm ready, I'm ready.
So no, I guess it is not too ea.
People love fall around here and folks
are already tired of the hot weather.
Huh.
So this event you have coming up
next weekend has to do with the
new book that's coming out. So.
So walk us through the event.
Yeah.
So Darcy Hanna is a fabulous,
somewhat local author up in Michigan,
and this is actually the
third time we've had her.
In to the store and she's
helped us raise money for the
Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festiv.
So we've done a baking competition with
her each year when her books come out.
So this book releases on Tuesday
and so on Saturday we're havinga
big a pumpkin baking competition
and and she'll be in for a
traditional author visit as wel.
But the the for the baking
competition you can come in,
you donate to the teen book
festival and you get to taste
test and vote on your favorite.
It item from
the competition.
So it looks like you made
cup little mini cupcakes.
I did mini pumpkin cupcakes.
So was it easy to find the supp?
You found the pumpkin OK in the stores?
Yeah, absolutely.
All year round they do, right.
So who can you still enter
to even to, you know?
Put your food out or Absolutely, Yeah.
If you're a Baker, you'd love
to showcase your baking skills.
Go to our website and sign up fr
the event and we'll get y'all set up.
OK And then I'm more of an eate.
Oh yeah, versus a Baker.
So I would be more inclined
to just come in and taste
everything and and give my vote.
Talk a little bit about this prm
that you're raising money for
for the Northwest Ohio Team Book Festival.
So we this will be well.
2024 will be our third year.
March 9th, 2024 will be the Northwest Ohio.
Team Book Festival #3 and we
bring in about 20 / 20 authors
each year and illustrators.
So graphic novels are really popular.
So we have cartoonists every yer
as well talking about how to
write a graphic novel and and ks
from around the area can sign u.
We have some schools that send s
and we have sponsorships through local
businesses if a school wants to.
Send a bus will help cover the t
of the busing of the students.
And it's all day Saturday at Rossford
Junior Senior High and there's
over 30 sessions.
The students can choose from 4 breakouts
and they choose a session for eh
breakout so they can learn about writing,
publishing and meet their favorite authors.
And and you know,
adults come to I fangirl over ey
other there. So adults are welcome as well.
But it's really geared around
teens and tweens so that they can stay
excited about reading and keep them reading.
And completely free
to everybody in our community.
So we wanted to make this as
free as accessible to everybody,
provide free transportation,
free lunch for all of the studes
there at our book festival.
So throughout the course of the year,
we do a lot of fundraising
to make that happen.
This is a delicious sounding fundraiser too.
I like it. Why? Pumpkin though?
It has to do with the book, right? Yeah.
Every of her books has a baking theme.
So last year was blueberry.
We had a blueberry Bake Off.
So this year at Pumpkin,
we thought pumpkin in July,
Halloween in July.
Such an awesome kind of idea for an event.
Very cool. So I am going to
taste these in just a minute.
But first I want to talk about another
event you have coming up as wel,
which is 2 days after.
Yeah, on Monday, July 31st.
Janet Beard is coming to town.
She's most well known for
writing Atomic City Girls,
which was an international.
Bestseller, huge book for World War Two.
Her new book is The Ballad of
Laurel Springs and we're actualy
celebrating the paperback relea.
So the event is a ticketed even,
but with the ticket you get a copy of
the the new paperback of the bo.
And the book is geared around women and
Appalachia and it's based off folk songs,
Appalachian folk songs.
So a really great book about fay
and and a culture that I am.
I love books about Appalachia.
I don't know what it is,
but a culture that a lot of us.
Don't know a whole lot about.
And so she's going to come
town talk about the book.
We're going to have someone
perform some of the folk songs d
it's at Six Fifths Distilling,
so they'll be food and drinks as well,
kind
of across the street.
It's in the very similar
area to gathering volume.
So tell us again what time the baking
competition fundraiser is going.
2:30 next Saturday.
So put that on your calendar.
And then there's a costume contest, too.
We can't forget about that.
It's Halloween, right?
So kids will probably love that
costume contest, baking contest.
Or you could just come in and
sample meet with the author, ri?
So it's silly there as well.
And then the second event is
on the 31st at 6:30 at 6:30,
So that one's an evening one. O.
I wanted to taste one of these.
Tell us again for folks
who haven't visited you,
where you all are located in.
How they can come check you out.
Yeah.
So gathering volumes, we're in Perrysburg.
We're right down the street
from the junior high.
For those that know the junior h
in the same complex as Hershey'e
Cream and Rite Aid for those tht
know that know those landmarks. Yeah.
So we're very central in Perrysburg and.
And yeah, we're open seven days a week.
And. And support
your local. Yeah, support your
local bookstore. I'm going to
support a local Baker here.
That's good. Delicious.
All right, Very good.
You, you guys have some tough
competition coming up here.
Thank you, ladies for being here today.
We appreciate it.
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