Quiet Storm Services

03/03/2025

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What is the best love 💟story of all time?

02/23/2025

A meeting of the minds! Writing a book is hard work & there's PLENTY more that comes after the time the book is written. This is a labor of love! 🤩

02/23/2025

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02/20/2025

It's fun to visit book stores with future authors! Holly and I gathered inspiration for their upcoming book cover, Be More Pollyanna, which will be released this August. It's going to be BOLD - COLORFUL - AND AWESOME!

Stay on the lookout 👀for the and info.

02/18/2025

National Library Lover's Month in February is dedicated to the people who love whole buildings devoted to reading, housing, organizing, categorizing, finding, studying, and otherwise loving books.

02/15/2025

We are excited to host Toni Federico for in March!
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02/14/2025

Some of our favorite books are on this list! The amount of books bans is troubling. 🥺

What books are banned in 2025? These are the 11 most banned books of the 2023-2024 school year. The banned books list for 2025 includes "Nineteen Minutes," by Jodi Picoult.

02/11/2025

I can't believe we missed day! Maybe we could opt for a week instead. 🛁🛁🛁

Did You Know - - "The origins of reading in the bath possibly originated from the Roman Empire around 500 B.C. The Romans loved their baths, and they were the first to thoroughly embrace the culture of bathing. Those who owned the bathing facilities usually decorated the rooms as a mini or full library filled with scrolls. It was a way of fitting every luxury into one setting, possibly to save expenses. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire, sanitation and bathing disappeared subsequently in the Dark Ages."

National Read In The Bathtub Day is here! And we have the activities, facts, and tips to encourage your soak in with good literature.

02/11/2025

It was an honor to speak with Bijal Shah this morning of Book Therapy. They are pioneering this impactful field of work. She shares how readers can leverage their reading to acknowledge, accept and process emotions and life events.

Her book, "Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading," is a mixture of and . It's a, 'sumptuous celebration of reading that will invite to see books as more than just an escape, but a legitimate form of self-care.'

Bijal Shah is a bibliotherapist, counsellor and author of Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading. She's the founder of Book Therapy, which offers biblio...

02/11/2025

It is a true gift 🎁 to do the work you LOVE! This morning we get to conversate live with Bijal Shah about a beautiful topic: BIBLIOTHERAPY.

“Bibliotherapy (aka book therapy or therapeutic storytelling) is a creative arts therapy that involves storytelling or the reading of specific texts. It uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy.”

02/10/2025

Tomorrow we go live on YouTube w/ Bijal Shah! ☕
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Comment below for a chance to win a copy of her book! 🤩

02/04/2025

There’s a LOT going on in the world right now. It couldn’t be a better climate to practice Intentional Gladness.

Please help us congratulate a new Quiet Storm Services author, Holly Terrill on their upcoming book, “Be More Pollyanna! Essays & Ideas to Inspire Intentional Gladness.”

Cover reveal coming soon. 📖📚

01/29/2025

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Name a book that has helped you get through a hard time. 🥺

You will automatically get entered to win 'Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading" by Bijal Shah of Book Therapy!!

01/29/2025

Check it out!

Next Open Reading Period: February 1 – March 15, 2025
**Submissions will be taken via Submittable starting February 1!

What are we looking for?

Fiction:
We are open to full-length novels or collections of short stories. While we will consider manuscripts of any length, a minimum of 50,000 words is recommended for fiction submissions.

Any genre will be considered, but we are especially interested in stories that take place in the Midwest and/or follow themes or characters that have a strong Midwest connection.

Nonfiction:
We are most interested in publishing full-length memoirs, true stories of growing up, lives lived, in the Midwest. While we will consider manuscripts of any length, a minimum of 50,000 words is recommended for memoir submissions.

We are looking for memoir writers who draw us in with story, who can make us feel the experience of living in a particular time or place.

Other types of nonfiction with a strong Midwestern appeal will also be considered. If you have a complete manuscript that you feel is a fit for Meadowlark, send it along!

Poetry:
Full-length poetry manuscripts (55 page minimum) will be considered. Poems may be previously published in journals and/or anthologies, but not in full-length, single-author volumes. For our Open Reading poetry collecions, we welcome manuscripts with a mix of poetry and prose.

Please read our guidelines before submitting:
https://www.meadowlarkbookstore.com/submission-guidelines-for-authors