Author: Donovan Scherer

Meet the Author!

Visit us on Friday, September 1, 2023 at Studio Moonfall from 4pm to 7pm to meet Children’s Books Author, Randi Moxi.

Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, A Pittie Pool Party:

Becca has to tell her newly rescued puppy Sister some hard truths about the way people view her breed. But her friends save the day by showing love to them both in a very special way!

This beautiful story starring a rescued pit bull type dog and the girl that saved her brings wonderful lessons and blessings to families and classrooms. It’s great for all ages and the perfect gift for those who want to share the power of friendship, nonjudgement, acceptance and animal rescue. The Pittie Pool Party encourages the gift of sharing emotions with friends and family, laying a healthy groundwork for communication and accepting vulnerability. It also establishes an understanding of how judging any person or creature before knowing them as an individual can cause harm to them and us. This book embodies the incredible power of friendship, inclusivity, acceptance, and rescuing animals.

A portion of all proceeds will go to animal rescue.

Get a sneak peek at A Pittie Pool Party at https://bookshop.org/a/9574/9798987659502

Randi Moxi grew up in an animal shelter in West Virginia that was run by her grandmother, Sally. She’s seen firsthand how out of control the pet population is in America and asks that you please rescue and spay and neuter your pets. She hopes you treat all animals as the individuals they are and learn their preferences together through communication and proper, positive and loving training methods.
She was exposed to all dog breeds throughout her childhood but did not fully understand the plight of the most bullied breed in the world, pit bull type breeds, until moving to Chicago. Pit bulls are superior in intelligence, strength, and loyalty. When taught to do wrong things, they are efficient in accomplishing what they are asked or made to do to survive. Animals teach us so much and we must help save and guide them to better lives than this. Teaching important lessons through pit bulls to children is her way to give back to the breed that has changed her life in more positive ways than she could ever describe.
Randi lives in the suburbs of Chicago with her loving husband and 5 amazing pitbull mix fur children. She is a certified dog trainer, animal communicator, life coach, event producer, brand strategist and motivational speaker.

See you from 4pm to 7pm on Friday, September 1, 2023 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with Randi Moxi!

Meet the Author!

Visit us on Friday, August 18, 2023 at Studio Moonfall from 4pm to 7pm to meet Literary Fiction Author, Kaitlyn Bolyard.

Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, Mystical Music:

When Marek Dabrowski, a disillusioned pianist, stumbles into Madame Rosivda’s divination shop, he isn’t looking to have his fortune told, just an escape from the rain. Still, he takes her up on a free tarot reading. Out of curiosity, he returns for another reading and then another. Before long, he starts to see a direct correlation between the cards and his life. Judgment is a street-corner trumpet player named Abaddon. Death is a waitress from a local jazz club named Nyx. At the same club, he hears and immediately falls for Olive, a singer with secrets of her own. Soon Marek starts to hear the music in a new and exciting way, with just a hint of magick to guide him.

Get a sneak peek at Mystical Music at https://amzn.to/3YiqyPG

Kaitlyn Bolyard teaches writing and literature at DePaul University and Carthage College. She lives in Wisconsin with her chef husband, who keeps her well-fed. She writes mostly poetry because it can be finished in one sitting, but she has recently released her first novel, Mr. Wilson’s Wives.

See you from 4pm to 7pm on Friday, August 18, 2023 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with Kaitlyn Bolyard!

Meet the Author!

Visit us on Sunday, August 13, 2023 at Studio Moonfall from 4pm to 7pm to meet Fantasy Author, T.R. Nickel.

Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, Light of Evanora:

The Legends of Limoria, Light of Evanora, is book one of a five-book series. These legends will take you around the Realm of Limoria and tell you about the incredible journeys of those who find it to be their home.

Light of Evanora focuses on a female half-elf named Xylia who, through a series of love, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak, finds herself in a battle against temptation and her very own morality. With the support of her mentee and the help of an exiled prince, she attempts to do the seemingly impossible; discover who she truly is in a world that has cast her race aside. With nothing but a book and a voice ringing in her mind, they guide her to a truly legendary story.

Get a sneak peek at Light of Evanora at https://amzn.to/3YistUu

T.R. Nickel is more known by her family and friends for her intense imagination and desire to make others smile. Since a young child, living in the state of cheese, she has been fascinated with books and the craziness that goes into creating something so magical. Starting off with writing poems that she would jot down into a tiny bright yellow memo pad, grew an intense passion to create and fill a world with her own craziness.

See you from 4pm to 7pm on Sunday, August 13, 2023 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with T.R. Nickel!

Meet the Author!

Visit us on Friday, August 11, 2023 at Studio Moonfall from 4pm to 7pm to meet Science Fiction Author, Jeri Shepherd.

Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, At Fault:

The fault lines are forming, not just in the earth, but between the people who live there; for the woman the world discarded and the one they chose to lead them. Zoe Baja is drowning . . . dying . . . a ghostland waiting to sink into the ocean while the Zoeans cling to a resolve to be gloriously human. The cityships are running out of room and reserves . . . can they stand in the storm? The violence of the fleet families grows as they struggle for power. The Global Union of the 2900s is losing people . . . and losing control.
Follow the journeys of Linda in the year 2552 and Miriam in the year 2908 as they both deal with the consequences of the earth that man created and, each in their own way, try to make the best of their world for the people they love.

Get a sneak peek at At Fault at https://bookshop.org/a/9574/9798985696004

Known to friends and colleagues as “Red,” the author of 107 genre fiction and general audience works (and growing), has written for nearly three decades in playwriting, children’s books, sportswriting, biography, leadership, ministry, writing resources, fiction, games, planners, and so much more. She is genre-fluid, unable to keep her keys off anything that draws her interest. She also owns Lucy’s Lantern Literature, the exclusive publishing partner of “For The Love Of” books and other works by Kim Rogne and Associates (www.fortheloveoflivingbig.com).

Red is a member of the International Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors (IASFA), Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA), 20Booksto50K, National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE), and past member of Writer’s Guild of America – East.

The author has been many-times award-nominated, including books for the prestigious Newberry Medal and Caldecott Award, and she is, at the time of this website update (July 2023), a 14-Time #1 Internationally Bestselling Author, through traditional and independent publishers, across many genres, with Combined Sales of Over 700,000 Books and Plays since 1997.

See you from 4pm to 7pm on Friday, August 11, 2023 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with Jeri Shepherd!

Meet the Author!

Visit us on Friday, August 11, 2023 at Studio Moonfall from 11am to 2pm to meet Fantasy/Romance Author, D. Lieber.

Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, Once in a Black Moon:

Chicago journalist Erin Nichols isn’t about to give up when she’s fired for writing an exposé. But when a combination of murder, magic, and celestial events transports her through time and space to Canada’s western frontier, city hall corruption becomes the least of her worries.

Panicked and adrift, she awakens in a body not her own, which was found left for dead in the wilderness.

Erin is relieved to take shelter with the local Mountie-the picture of upright Canadian fortitude. But as tragedy stalks the nearby First Nation reserve, Erin learns from a Romanian mystic that magic is dying, and the fae are turning to their darker natures to survive.

While the reserved and sexy Mountie helps her navigate a time in which she doesn’t belong, the mysterious and seductive conjurer helps her try to find a way home. As they alight feelings and desires Erin never knew she was capable of, she begins to wonder where she truly belongs.

Going back could cost her heart but staying could cost her life.

Get a sneak peek at Once in a Black Moon at https://bookshop.org/a/9574/9781951239008

D. Lieber has a wanderlust that would make a butterfly envious. When she isn’t planning her next physical adventure, she’s recklessly jumping from one fictional world to another. Her love of reading led her to earn a Bachelor’s in English from Wright State University.
Beyond her skeptic and slightly pessimistic mind, Lieber wants to believe. She has been many places—from Canada to England, France to Italy, Germany to Russia—believing that a better world comes from putting a face on “other.” She is a romantic idealist at heart, always fighting to keep her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds.
Lieber lives in Wisconsin with her husband (John) and cats (Yin and Nox).

See you from 11am to 2pm on Friday, August 11, 2023 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with D. Lieber!

Meet the Author!

Visit us on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at Studio Moonfall from 4pm to 7pm to meet Thriller/Horror Author, Jessie Rose.

Hang out at the shop and take a peek inside their book, Atomic Love:

Los Angeles, 1986. Jenny Stone, a blossoming art student, is lured into the L.A. underground by a blue-haired, goth street artist with a purse full of drugs and a not-so-lucky rabbit’s foot. Lost, she lands at the feet of charismatic rock star, Evan Reed. Not a Sunset glam rocker, Evan is the lead singer of rock n’ roll’s loudest, angriest band, embodying the dark side of the “The Strip.” Handsome, charming and enthralled with the young artist, he wants her paintings–then he wants her. A dangerous cocktail of narcissistic love bombing and manipulation keeps her in his orbit. His demons and need for control threaten every aspect of their lives together. There were warnings, one red flag after another. Yet, Jenny is pulled into money, fame, and excess. Will she survive or succumb to the violence that surrounds her? Atomic Love is Sharp Objects meets heavy metal memoir and will appeal to fans of Emma Cline and Gillian Flynn. (Trigger warning: This book contains graphic scenes of violence, sexual assault & the death of a child).

*Atomic Love is a faux memoir and is not based on real persons or events.*

Get a sneak peek at Atomic Love at https://bookshop.org/a/9574/9780578564166

Jessie Rose is a thriller/horror and fantasy writer who grew up in Appalachia, moved to Chicago (the city of her heart) and made a home in Wisconsin. She is the author of Atomic Love, a psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Emma Cline, Stephen King and rock n’ roll memoirs. She is currently promoting Atomic Love while working on her long awaited vampire series Underneath A Black Sky (A House of Black Novel).

She is co-founder/writer/editor for The Beautiful Wild Magazine which focuses on music, art, culture and social justice. Co-founder of Love Letters to Russia, a project created to support Russian LGBTQ+ youth. She also writes with Stefanie Leigh for Write Furiously, a writing resource site to help new authors. In other words, she’s busy! She’s also a mom to two cats, the beautiful & hilarious Oli & equally funny partner Bryan (The Grizz).

See you from 4pm to 7pm on Thursday, August 10, 2023 at Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue with Jessie Rose!

Attention all Bookworms! 

The Kenosha Book Festival is back at Studio Moonfall for this year’s fifth chapter! Save the date for Sunday, August 27th, from 10am to 3pm, at Kenosha’s indie-est of indie bookstores, Studio Moonfall, located at 5031 7th Avenue.

Jump into the genre of your choice with a ton of local authors and find your next favorite book: 

Jessie Rose, T.R. Nickel, Sean Sorce, Kaitlyn Bolyard, Ana Michelle, Al Lytle & Toi Blasier, Debra Oas, Phyllis Fadness, M.C. Beeler, Mynk Baylor, Ashley Goodman, George Adamczyk, Zee Lacson, TJ Morris, Kari Pohar, Ron Daiss, M.P. McDonald, Sharon Angelici, Riley Preston, Kyra Cheese, and Studio Moonfall’s Donovan Scherer.

Back to School is right around the corner, so let’s squeeze in some summer before that!

Goodie Bags for the first 100 attendees!

Along with a handful of cool little whatnots, if you’re one of the first 100 attendees of the Kenosha Book Festival, you’ll get an autograph poster that you can get signed by all of our guest authors to have something super cool and one of a kind to remember this awesome day. You’ll also get a ticket for the Raffle of Awesome…

The Raffle of Awesome!

Win cool prizes! For each book that you buy from one of our guest authors, you’ll get an entry ticket to win something from our incredible Pile o’ Prizes. What could it be??

Even better, your ticket rolls over for the next drawing if you don’t win, and winners stay eligible for the SUPER GRAND PRIZE to be drawn at the end of the festival season in September!

Get a sneak peek at Kenosha’s coolest film festival with special guest, Port of Fear. Who knows… maybe you’ll find a book by one of these local authors that’ll inspire you to make your own movie to submit to next year’s Port of Fear. Go for it!

Got crayons? We’ve extended the deadline of the Color of Kenosha coloring contest to August 31st so let’s get coloring!

Lumpia Lady and That’s a Wrap are here to serve up lunch to keep your book-shopping adventure going all day long.

Engage in the enticing Studio Moonfall Employee of the Month Quest—a thrilling adventure you won’t want to miss! Be sure to join the 2pm Award Ceremony to applaud the victor.

Spend your day engrossed among our expansive collection of $1 used books. And the cherry on top? Your purchases contribute to our Little Library Fund, bolstering our commitment to propagate the love of reading.

Don’t forget to mark your calendars, rally your fellow literature enthusiasts, and gear up for the festival! Stay updated by visiting www.KenoshaBookFestival.com. Let’s make this fifth chapter of the Kenosha Book Festival an unforgettable experience!

Join us on Sunday, August 27th from 10am to 3pm at Studio Moonfall – 5031 7th Avenue. See you there!

CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE FACEBOOK EVENT!

And a BIG, BIG, BIG thanks to this Chapter’s sponsors!

By supporting the Kenosha Book Festival, these local businesses are helping us reach more people and get more books out into readers’ hands.

And since they were part of the Color of Kenosha, we’ve got free coloring pages for you!

• CCW Studios – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• B&J’s Pampered Pup Bakery – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• Copy Center – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• Tree Frog Service – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• Paddy O’s Pub – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• The Lumpia Lady – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• KTown Connects Podcast – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• Cheffrey’s Fine Foods – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• BAKarons – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

• Blue House Books – Click here to learn more about them – Click here to print their coloring page

If you color up one of the pages, be sure to bring it by Studio Moonfall in case I have some kind of contest going. If not, I’m sure I can come up with something for you!

Hello, Kenosha!

It’s time to bring on the crayons, colored pencils, or whatever else you can find to add a splash of color to this year’s Color of Kenosha coloring book.

DEADLINE: July 30th, 2023 – Winners Announced Monday, July 31st Extended to August 31st, 2023 at 7pm – Winners Announced September 1st

Join the contest this July for your chance to win all sorts of prizes and color your favorite places around Kenosha. This year’s book includes:

Actor’s Craft, LLC

Angels of Hope

Aquanut Water Shows

B&J’s Pampered Pup Bakery 

Beyond Bubbly

Blast from the Past Pizza

Blue House Books

Brat Stop

Bridges Community Center 

Carthage College

Century Pub

Chiappetta Shoes

Coopers Uptown

Copy Center

Creator Farms

Cut Stone Foods

Diver Dan’s Scuba Center

EXP Realty

EZ Pack N Ship ETC

Genesis Chiropractic

GFWC Woman’s Club of Kenosha 

Good Value Pharmacy 

Hawthorn Hollow

Hydn Cheese

Jockey

Kaiser’s

Kenosha Art Market

Kenosha Auto Insurance 

Kenosha Book Festival 

Kenosha Harbor Market 

Kenosha Human Development Services 

Kenosha Pride

Kenosha Public Library 

Kenosha Streetcar Society 

Khroma Nail Salon

Kindred Kitties

Lakeshore Pedal Tours

Little Europa

Lou Perrine’s

Lumpia Lady

Mars Cheese Castle

Mike Bjorn’s Clothing 

Millhouse Auto Body

Millie Bo Peep

Modern Apothecary

Patton Law Office S.C. 

Peacetree Originals

Proko Funeral Home

RK News Hallmark

Roll With It

Sandy’s Poppers

Scrubby Duds Laundromat

Soap & Sensibility

Soul Reaper’s Haunted House 

Studio Moonfall

The Coffee Pot

The Lettering Machine

Tree Frog Service LLC

United Way of Kenosha County 

Valeo’s Pizza

Visit Kenosha

Visit Pleasant Prairie/Rec Plex

Go Downtown Kenosha Inc. featuring guest artwork by Elishai Riley!

Talk to your favorite place to see if they have anymore copies of the coloring book or print up free copies of the pages at www.ColorOfKenosha.com. Just click into any of the past books to find free, printable coloring pages.

Submission Categories:
Since these books are for all ages, let’s make categories for everyone. And for the adult entries, we’ll break it up by what you use to color your page. Here are the groups from which we’ll choose our winners:

• 5 years old and under
• 6 to 8
• 9 to 12
• 13 to 17
• 18+ – Colored Pencil
• 18+ – Crayon
• 18+ – Marker
• 18+ – Other/Mixed Media
• 65+ – This one is a super cool double bonus option so participants 65+ would be eligible to win both in one of the 18+ subcategories or the general 65+ category.
• Plus one randomly selected Lucky Duck winner which anyone could win

Prizes:
Want to win the best prizes? Better invite your friends!
The monthly prizes will get better based on how many participants among all categories enter the contest. Can we unlock over $500 worth of rewards???

1 to 19 entries – Button Pack
20 to 49 entries – Mystery Stickers
50 to 149 entries – Crayons, Colored Pencils, and a Studio Moonfall coloring book (your choice!)
150 or more entries – $25 Studio Moonfall Gift Card!!!

For these prizes, they stack as we get more participants. So, if we get 150 entries, one person from each of the age groups/categories will recieve all the goodies – A Button pack, Mystery Sticker pack, Crayons, Colored Pencils, a Coloring Book, plus a $25 Studio Gift Card. Ten winners for all this stuff!

Submissions:
Each participant only gets one entry but if you color one and submit it, then color another page that you think is waaaaay better, we can replace your first entry.

To submit yours, drop off your coloring page entry at Studio Moonfall – 5031 7th Ave. Kenosha, WI. You can find up to date store hours at https://studiomoonfall.com/calendar/ and for Mystery Hours, check the Facebook page!

If you stop by while the shop is closed, you can slide your entry into the mail slot on the door.

Be sure to include the following on the back of your coloring page:

• Name
• Phone Number
• Email
• Age Group/Category

You can also mail your entry to:
Studio Moonfall
5031 7th Ave.
Kenosha, WI 53140

Make sure to give mail entries enough time to reach us by the deadline.

And be sure to share your work in Camp Colorama on Facebook!!!

I look forward to seeing your masterpieces!

Looking for some fun during the week in downtown Kenosha?

Of course, you are!

Check out Third Thursdays with Go Downtown Kenosha. Various local businesses are adding special events to bring some fun to your week. Click here to see what’s going on.

At Studio Moonfall, we’re open for extended hours from 10am to 7pm, plus we’ve got a super cool, once per month, bonus thingamajig!

Draw Your Own Button!

Let’s see your masterpiece and slap it on a 2.25″ button! Print up your own sheet to draw at home or stop by Studio Moonfall and borrow some crayons. Once you have your art, give me $5 to feed the interns because they are very hard-working, and I’ll make up your one-of-a-kind button!

Mark your calendars for an exclusive author meet-and-greet on Friday, July 14, 2023, at Studio Moonfall! Between 11am and 2pm, you’ll have the chance to meet the talented short story author, Ron Purtee.

Purtee’s literary journey is as compelling as his stories. As a self-professed horror fanatic from the tender age of seven, after accidentally seeing the Texas Chainsaw Massacre at his father’s place, Ron cultivated an appreciation for all things spooky and macabre. However, his artistic journey truly took off when he produced his first film, ‘Becoming Undead,’ shortly after his 32nd birthday. This unleashed an unstoppable creative streak in Ron, and he spent the following decade making films. Now, he’s transferred his visual storytelling prowess onto the written page.

At the event, you’ll get a glimpse into Purtee’s book, ‘The Never Ending Road.’ In this collection of gripping scripts and stories, he promises to deliver a thrilling roller coaster ride, leaving you on the edge of your seat with anticipation.

Before the event, you can get a preview of ‘The Never Ending Road’ at https://amzn.to/3PLCG9W.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to meet a remarkable author and immerse yourself in his captivating world. Come down to Studio Moonfall, 5031 7th Avenue, and spend an enriching afternoon with us and Ron Purtee. We look forward to seeing you there!