Pen-to-Paper

To provide a home for the surrounding community to engage with the arts.

Pen-to-Paper

About Pen-to-Paper

Windmore’s first writing group published two anthologies in 1992 and another in 1996. The group slowly became inactive. In 2007 the group Pen-to-Paper was started. They met in the office spaces at the Culpeper Train Depot on the first Tuesday of every month. When the changes were made to the depot space, the group moved to the Culpeper Library. The writers met at 10 AM and started a 5 PM writer's meeting months later. This time was established so that people who worked could also join the group. When the group first started meeting, only two older writers had published their books. They shared their experiences with getting an agent, formatting the books, and then finding a publishing company to accept their books. Self-publishing was just becoming popular.

Since that time, many of the writers have self-published or used publishing companies to print their books. The members of Pen-to-Paper vary in age and abilities. We have people who write poetry, fiction; mysteries; children’s or young adult stories; family histories; and historical books. These members of Pen-to-Paper acknowledge that the writers’ group gave them the encouragement and support they needed to continue writing to reach their goals.

There are now six anthologies that Windmore published. The editors are currently reviewing submissions from Windmore Foundation for the Arts members

who have submitted writings to be considered for the anthology.

For more information contact Pen-to-Paper@windmorefoundation.org. If you are a writer, you are encouraged to come to a meeting of the writer’s group on the first Tuesday of every month. Meetings are only canceled if the Culpeper Schools are closed due to inclement weather.

Windmore’s Pen-to-Paper Writers’ group has published a new anthology, Some Other Words.

This 270-page book is full of stories, poems, and illustrations from twenty-two Windmore members. They have also included eight stories in Memoriam to honor writers from the past. The Anthology Committee worked with Les Walters to design the cover. Fran Cecere edited the book with a team of beta readers, and Caryn Moya Block formatted the book. The book includes stories and poems for all ages. Included are stories about Celebrations, Animals, Family, Love, and just plain Fun. The illustrations add life and special appeal to the selections.
The anthology is available on Amazon for $11.99 plus shipping and handling. eBooks are available for $3.99 from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords.

Purchase The New Anthology "Some Other Words"

Windmore pen-to-paper authors

Allita Irby

Sally Humphries

Book Titles:

Fourth Sunday, the Journey of a Book Club by B. W. Read Her pen name is B. W. Read. Fourth Sunday written by B.W. Read (Allita Irby) is the tale of seven women and their journey towards friendship by way of a simple book club. Over time, their friendship grows beyond books, as their lives, relationships, and careers become a s

Book Titles:

Holiday Musings by Lake Authors (Contributing author)
America 2020 by Riverside Writers (Contributing author)

Other Titles:

River Tides by Riverside Writers (Contributing author)
Lake Authors of the Wilderness Cookbook by Lake Authors (Contributing author)

Media:

Allita Irby is on several social media sites.

FaceBook: Allita Irby
Instagram: allitairby
Twitter: @airby9
Contact: airby9@gmail.com

Her website is under construction

Also available on Amazon. Fourth Sunday

Comments: Pen-to-Paper is a great writers' group. It is a collective creative writing with critique, writer development, and encouragement.

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Sally Humphries

Book Titles:

The three Cally books, Cally Tales, Cally & Friends, and Cally Goes to the Dogs are written by my calico cat and describe her adventures with her furry friends, including d-o-g-s. She writes from her viewpoint. I advise.
My own books are about people in the American Revolution. Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution was the first, followed by Courageous Men and Women, spotlighting African Americans, women, and Jewish settlers. The latest in the series is America’s Adolescence, which tells how the new nation was almost destroyed in its first thirty years by bankruptcy, deep division over the French Revolution, and the continued terrorism of the British Empire.

Cally Tales: Cally’s Adventures and Those of Her Friends (as told to her Staff, Sally Humphries)
Cally & Friends
Cally Goes to the Dogs
Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution: Profiles of More than 20 Behind-the-scenes Patriots
Courageous Men & Women of the American Revolution: Celebrating more than 21 Patriots
America’s Adolescence: A Young Nation Beats the Odds.

Media:

Available on Amazon or from me personally at book signings in Culpeper. They are also available for checkout at the Culpeper Public Library.

All are available on Amazon or from me personally at book signings in Culpeper. They are also available at the Culpeper Public Library.

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Carolyn Szabad Osborne

Fran Cecere and Caryn Moya Block

Book Titles:

My books extend from the start of the Holy Roman Empire through the Middle Ages, the British Raj, and America’s settlement and expansion. They personalize stories of four families living in extraordinary times and places. Three books of the collection are in print and e-book now: A Perfect Plan, a true Regency romance about two rather wonderful people, Rule! a nine-story collection that spans the globe, and A Good Place, the true story of a Catholic who goes as an indentured servant to Jamestown. The final two books are in progress.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15, 2022.

The Moving Frontier tells the story of Mattie, Martha Poage Moore, from 1821 to 1888. Her marriage to Abram Still—an intense, complex Methodist circuit rider, doctor, and Southern Abolitionist serving frontier communities—took Mattie and their children ever westward as the frontier expanded. Mattie made log cabins into homes, gave birth to and raised nine children, and faced dangers and experiences she never anticipated in her dreams of marriage. Handling these challenges and running her household in Abram’s frequent long absences, Mattie grew as a woman, a friend, a wife, a mother, and a Christian leader.

The book takes you from the farms and woods of 1820s Southwest Virginia to camp meetings, the great wilderness of northern Missouri, Methodist conference meetings, a Shawnee Mission school in Kansas, Civil War battlefields, and Kansas prairies. You’ll meet Freedmen, Abolitionists, slaveholders, runaway slaves, Jayhawkers, feminists, churchmen, Border Ruffians, plantation owners, displaced Shawnee, militiamen, and spies. You’ll experience frontier life, religious revivals, love and loss, the personal family heritage of a massacre, and the passion that drove the legendary circuit riders of the early 1800s.

The Moving Frontier is an inspiring, true story of courage, personal growth, diversity, and faith during America’s strife-filled expansion of the 19th Century. At its heart, it is a real-life story of love that goes far beyond romance. Promise: The Moving Frontier is the fourth book in my Helena’s Stories series. The fifth and final book, Promise: The Golden Hills, will follow in a year or two. Each book in the Helena’s Stories series is complete and stands alone as a personal story or stories of real people in historically important times.

The book will be released on September 15th and is now available for pre-order as an eBook on:

Amazon (paperback will be available on September 15, 2022)

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6443333392

Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Carolyn%20Osborne%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall

Kobo

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/promise-the-moving-frontier

Smashwords (paperback will be available on September 15, 2022)

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1163126

Media:

Website: http://carolynowrites.com
Facebook: Carolyn M. Osborne Author

Carolyn Osborne’s books are available in print or as ebooks through Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble (online), Apple, and Goodreads. She uses the pen name Carolyn M. Osborne.

Comments:

I cherish Pen-to-Paper for the warm welcome it extended to me when I had no idea how and what to write, and for being supportive every step of the way. I doubt I’d ever have gotten my books written and published without the technical and emotional support this group provides along with the friendship of authors at all stages. Writing is an exercise in constantly growing your skills and the wonderful group of writers in Pen-to-Paper make that challenge fun and positive.

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Fran Cecere and Caryn Moya Block

Caryn Moya Block pictured below

Book Titles:

Fran Cecere and Caryn Block edited and published these Windmore anthology books. The Anthologies have authors of historical fiction, memoirs, or true family history stories.

In Other Words
Images in Ink
Words Across Time

Media:

Website: Pen-to-Paper at Windmore Foundation for the Arts
Facebook: Fra

Caryn Moya Block pictured below

Book Titles:

Fran Cecere and Caryn Block edited and published these Windmore anthology books. The Anthologies have authors of historical fiction, memoirs, or true family history stories.

In Other Words
Images in Ink
Words Across Time

Media:

Website: Pen-to-Paper at Windmore Foundation for the Arts
Facebook: Fran Cecere
Website: Caryn Moya Block
Facebook: Caryn Moya Block

The anthologies are available on Amazon.

Comments:

The Pen-to-Paper meeting is at the top of my “must attend” list. This group provides encouragement and suggestions. The members offer to be Beta Readers for other authors who write in the same genre. At some Tuesday meetings, the subjects are very funny and we appreciate the writers with comedic talents. I always leave the meetings with excitement about the writing talent we have in our community.

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Purchase: In Other Words Anthology