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Good luck and have a wonderful time to all who are attending the Fernie Writer's Conference. Wish I were there, too! It looks like such a fabulous conference. Perhaps next year!

As in a horse race, when one race horse's credentials, his pedegree, are over the top, they clasify him, as an allowance horse, a stake horse, we might call him, making him amoungst the best, in the world, as was our celebrated author, who won coffee shop autor, Ranjini, whom when I first read that she won, thought the winner was a male, from the name alone. She is a beautiful woman, and a brilliant one too, I might add, a P.H.D.

Thanks to Amy McDonald for writing this article about Ranjini George Philip and the Coffee Shop Author contest for The Mississauga News:

http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/836216--author-wins-award

My great, great, grandfather from the 1800's, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, explorer, writer, scientist, etc, guides my hand. He puts my characters in the right places, changes things that he doesn't agree with, like erasing a whole page, here and there, showed up in the mirror, behind me, a grey cloaked figure, no face, just wanted to let me know, he is there with me. With him by my side, I cannot go unpublished, he insists that I carry his name into the future, and also write his story, once more. If you are interestd in knowing my muse, google him in.

Q&Q has picked up the Toronto Star article about Coffee Shop Author!

http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/14/ill-have-a-venti-...

Coffee Shop Author, and the winners of this first contest, have received a terrific shout-out from Leslie Scrivener in today's Toronto Star!

Read the article: http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/822707--got-writer-s-block-t...

We are very pleased to announce the names of the winners in the first-ever Coffee Shop Author Contest! They are:

First Place
Ranjini George Philip - Miracle of Flowers: The Way of an Emperor, A Goddess, A Story and a Tiffin Stall (Creative Non-fiction)
iCoffee - Mississauga

Second Place
Theresa J. Wouters - Children of Hobbema (Teen Fiction)
Esquires - Grande Prairie, AB

Third Place
Ron Stewart - A Boy Growing Up In London (Poetry Collection)
The Little Red Roaster - Komoka, ON

Honorable Mention
Cristy Watson - The Coffee Shop Series (Poetry Collection)

Congratulations, to the writers who made the list, and to Mermaid, on her wonderful news, all the best to all of you, out there, like I said, we all share the stage, its just a matter of time, before our star is born. God Bless, and keep writing, I am well into my next novel, loving it!!! for now, airlover

My gratitude extends to Coffee Shop Author. It has been an amazing opportunity for me to step into greater confidence as a writer. I send out congrats to all of us for our efforts in continuing with our writing, and of course for those who made the long list.

Congrats to all on the short list and the best of luck. (To my neighbor in particular!)
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