NEWS & EVENTS
If you haven't yet clicked on My Happy Place Blog - do it now and you will be treated to a series of short blog that take you along with me on my happiness journey - personal and professional information that is designed to give you a weekly boost with ideas and inspiration to make your life full of positivities!
I will be at the Valley Arts Group table at the Sudden Valley Summer Fair on Saturday, July 13 from 10 to 3
I've become more involved with local art groups and currently serve as Secretary for the Whatcom Art Guild and President of Sudden Valley Arts Group.
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I'm preparing for 2024 Christmas season with committment for booths at:
Sea Meow Con - the biggest cat convention in Washington - at the Seattle Center Convention Hall November 2 and 3, 10-6
Bellingham Covenant Church Holiday Bazaar - 1530 East Bakerview - November 9 - 9-6
Written in the Northwest Book Fair - Lynnwood Event Center, Lynnwood - November 23 - 11-5
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My newest project has been a series of silly story party games. Each game includes instructions, a silly story with blank portions numbered to be filled in by guests, and lists of items for ten party guests to fill in, that will eventually be part of the story.. thus making it pretty darn silly. So far I have completed party games for Halloween "Spooky Silly Story", Christmas "Christmas Elf and the Magic Button", Winter "Snowy Silly Story", and Birthday "Superhero Silly Story". Coming soon will be a Silly Story for bridal showers. These are available to purchase at Whatcom Art Market and Art & Happiness, in Bellingham. They can also be ordered directly from me as per my contact page.
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These stores carry my books year round: Whatcom Art Market, Village Books, Hamann's Gallery and Gifts, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Lightcatcher Art Museum Gift Shop in downtown Bellingham, Northwest Art Museum Store in LaConner, Bad Rock Books in Columbia Falls, MT, Lone Pine State Park and Flathead State Parks Visitors Centers in Montana.
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Montana Cats won First prize honors from Chanticleer International Book Reviews in Little Peeps Children's Division 2022 and winner from Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Contest.
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I have a new email - Peggysbooks9@gmail.com
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I have a booth at Whatcom Art Market at 1103 11th Street in Fairhaven Historic District, in Bellingham where all my books can be found as well as notecards, party games, activity books and ready-to-hang art prints made from the illustrations. You might see me there, working one of my tri-monthly shifts. Open daily from 11-6.
Follow my instagram feed @peggysullivanbooks
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New! Family fun activity books for road trips. My series, Car Detectives, gives families and children ages 10+ a break from screen time and a reason to look out the window on car trips. The whole family can participate in searching for the assigned objects. Each book has a different theme: Trucks, Signs, Animals, Colors, Cultures, Fences, People, Recreation, Imagination, Stores, and Gardens. It includes a nice certificate of achievement for expertise in that field of study. Click on the Car Detectives tab to find descriptions and how to order. They are also available at Whatcom Art Market and Bad Rock Books, Columbia Falls, MT. as well as visitor centers at Flathead Lake State Park and Lone Pine State Park.
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If you missed it, you can still watch the recording of my live author's event .. Peggy Sullivan in conversation with Sean Dwyer about her book, Blissfully Single at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?Kv8WizicSE4
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First Prize from Chanticleer International Book Reviews in I & I division went to BLISSFULLY SINGLE
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Bellingham Theatre Guild received the donations from Tevye sales in 2022 and 2023. A donation was sent for the projection and screen fundraiser to Lynden Performing Arts Studio from all sales of Tevye the Magical Theater Cat, An Introduction to Community Theater from August through October 2021. In 2020 a reading was recorded by Dawnnie Mercado-Genochio in her sound studio for an assignment for her children's program for TADA Acting Studio, Tehachapi, California
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My author page is set up on Amazon.. all my books in one place -
check it out at https://www.amazon.com/author/peggysullivanbooks
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In my "spare time", I thought it would be great to brush up on my junior high Spanish. This resulted in a translation of Midnight and Moonlight in Spanish, with a lot of help from Google Translator and my friends: Susana Alfonso, Mary Michaelson and Spanish professor at Western Washington University, Sean Dwyer. Dos Amigos, Una historia de la amistad was read at Bellingham Village Books at the first ever Spanish Open Mike on January 27, 2020. It is available online and by order though your favorite book store and at Whatcom Art Market and Allied Arts. Buy both English and Spanish versions to brush up on your Spanish!
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Twelve Secrets of Happily Ever After Couples, A Love Prescription - third edition of my relationship book is now available as a paperback or Kindle book at Amazon and can be ordered through your favorite bookstore or signed copies can be found at Whatcom Art Market. It is also available at Allied Arts, downtown Bellingham
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People often ask me if my books are available at the library... that's easy... all you have to do is ask your librarian to order them and they will.
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Whether it is for special birthday or just for fun .. My lessons from a cat books make great gifts for all ages! Reading level is officially 6 years and up, however, my cat stories appeal to all ages of cat lovers who appreciate the quirks of feline behavior. Whether adults read the books to kids or for their own pleasure, they get the "feel goods" too.
Tevye The Magical Theater Cat - I had been contacting community theaters, looking for opportunities to partner with them, so I can give away my profits! A portion of proceeds from every sale is donated to community theaters. This book is offered as a fundraiser for community theater groups to sell at concessions, online store items, directly or at their community arts events. I am really excited about the promotions for this book! So far checks have been sent to Broadway Cares, Blaine Community Theater, Lynden Performing Arts Group, Bellingham Theater Guild, Stage West Community Theater, Big Forks Summer Playhouse, Tehachapi Community Theater/TADA Acting Studio (California). Copies were given as raffle prizes for Bellingham Theater Guild's 2019 Bentley Awards.
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