Local Artists
These artists are available to help create your book art!
Click here to watch their presentations from our Book Art Resource Webinar.
Artists highlighted:
Damian Synadinos (https://www.idrawstrangers.com/)
These are author-friendly businesses that have been and may be open to having author readings and signings.
Please note that you (the author) are responsible for contacting and connecting with the business.
Destination Outlets & Gismos Toy Lab: 740-419-8004 (8310 Factory Shoppes Blvd. Jeffersonville, OH)
Sorso Coffee: Robin@sorsocoffee.com (7849 Refugee Rd. Pickerington, OH)
Ohio Audiobook Narrators
Meet them at the next Into the Springs Writers Workshop!
Learn more about what they will discuss at the workshop here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lGdSpxW92vpikZYHCz3p8u7tdXQ_iW9w/view?usp=sharing
Find them on Facebook
Lorin Turpin is available to read your book in order to fulfill your dreams of having a audiobook!
Lorin works with ACX, an arm of Amazon. View more about Lorin here: https://voice123.com/voice-actor/lorinbagpipeunicycle

Voice Talent available to make your book into an audiobook!
PLEASE EMAIL OTHER BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN AUTHOR-FRIENDLY TO NEWS@WRITENOWCOLUMBUS.COM. THANK YOU!
If you are an artist, voice talent, editor or small publisher who is looking to advertise your services to our authors, please email us!
Listing is $5/month or $50 for the year!
Upcoming Opportunities at Local Libraries:
Are you an Ohio author interested in participating in the ReadLocal Author Fair?
Download and submit an application.
Completed forms must be received by July 1, 2024.
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ReadLocal Author Fair on Saturday, September 14, 2024
Amanda Flower Featured Author Presentation – 11:00am
Local Author Book Sales and Signing – 12:00pm to 2:00pm
No ticket is necessary for this event.
Celebrate our local authors from all around Ohio at the 4th ReadLocal Author Fair! Local authors, both self-published and formally distributed, will be present to share their talents. Our featured speaker will be sharing her story on her writing process and journey to becoming a published author. Book signings will take place after the featured author presentation. All authors will have copies of their books available for purchase.
Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over fifty mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she had been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. Her first Emily Dickinson Mystery, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, was an Agatha Award winner and Mary Higgins Clark Nominee. A former librarian, Flower and her husband own a farm and recording studio, and they live in Northeast Ohio with their adorable cats.
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Are you an Ohio author interested in participating in the ReadLocal Author Fair?
Download and submit an application.
Completed forms must be received by July 1, 2024.