The Interns their first “blizzard” in this week’s psychological immersion experience of Bookstore Simulator.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work in a bookstore?

Of course, you have!

Well, now’s your chance. Throw on your metaverse mind monitor and jump into the Bookstore Simulator. We’ve got two initial programs you can download into your brain. Expect future uploads every week!

Need something to do this winter?

Want to win some prizes while you’re at it?

Come down to Studio Moonfall and pick up your Winter Challenge mini comic!

Inside, among all sorts of other goodies, you’ll find a stamp card. To collect the stamps, you’ll have to visit the shop once a month January through April. And if you collect all four stamps…

… You’ll be eligible to win the GRAND PRIZE!!!

(just don’t ask what it is yet because I still have a few months to figure that out)

We’ve got the extra special versions of the stamp cards in the shop but if you want one right away, you can CLICK HERE for a printable version.

Just in case you can’t collect all four stamps, there will also be some prizes available based on how many you do get. Another thing I haven’t figured out yet. But that doesn’t matter, right now. You’ve got stamps to collect!!

Starting NOW

Deadline: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 by 3pm CST

It’s colorin’ time, Kenosha!

I want to see some of these coloring books I keep drawing up in color so I need your help. And I’ve got prizes to make it happen.

Let’s see if we can pull off monthly coloring contests this year and we’ll be starting off with the Color of Kenosha. And not just one of them. We’ve got pictures choose from out of SIX books!

You can find all of the free, printable pages when you click through any of the Color of Kenosha coloring books at http://www.colorofkenosha.com and if you want some inspiration for which ones to choose, I’ll be posting sets of them daily for the next three weeks at http://www.facebook.com/studiomoonfall

I’m planning to have each contest run about four weeks long so we can spread the word. Three weeks to spread the word since I’ve got SO MANY coloring pages to choose from for you, and then a week or so to wrap up entries before award the potentially over $500 worth of prizes.

Submission Categories:
Since these books are for all ages, let’s make categories for everyone. And for the adult entries, we’ll break it up by what you use to color your page. Here are the groups from which we’ll choose our winners:

• 5 years old and under
• 6 to 8
• 9 to 12
• 13 to 17
• 18+ – Colored Pencil
• 18+ – Crayon
• 18+ – Marker
• 18+ – Other/Mixed Media
• 65+ – This one is a super cool double bonus option so participants 65+ would be eligible to win both in one of the 18+ subcategories or the general 65+ category.
• Plus one randomly selected Lucky Duck winner which anyone could win

Prizes:
Want to win the best prizes? Better invite your friends!
The monthly prizes will get better based on how many participants among all categories enter the contest. Can we unlock over $500 worth of rewards???

1 to 19 entries – Button Pack
20 to 49 entries – Mystery Stickers
50 to 149 entries – Crayons, Colored Pencils, and a Studio Moonfall coloring book (your choice!)
150 or more entries – $25 Studio Moonfall Gift Card!!!

For these prizes, they stack as we get more participants. So, if we get 150 entries, one person from each of the age groups/categories will recieve all the goodies – A Button pack, Mystery Sticker pack, Crayons, Colored Pencils, a Coloring Book, plus a $25 Studio Gift Card. Ten winners for all these stuff!

Winners will be contacted, first by text message, on January 29th, 2023, around 7pm CST.

You’ll have until Sunday, February 26th, 2023 at 3pm CST to stop by Studio Moonfall to claim your prize. However, if we reach the Studio Moonfall Gift Card tier, I can set that up by your email.

Note: I’m totally guessing on these submission entry levels so this may change for the next contest.

Submissions:
Each participant only gets one entry but if you color one and submit it, then color another page that you think is waaaaay better, we can replace your first entry.

For our January Color of Kenosha Coloring Contest, it begins NOW and the deadline to submit your entry January 29th, 2023 by 3pm CST.
To submit yours, drop off your coloring page entry at Studio Moonfall – 5031 7th Ave. Kenosha, WI. You can find up to date store hours at https://studiomoonfall.com/calendar/ and for Mystery Hours on Tuesdays, check the Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/studiomoonfall
If you stop by while the shop is closed, you can slide your entry into the mail slot on the door.

Be sure to include the following on the back of your coloring page:
• Name
• Phone Number
• Email
• Age Group/Category

You can also mail your entry to:
Studio Moonfall
5031 7th Ave.
Kenosha, WI 53140

Make sure to give mail entries enough time to reach us by the deadline.

I look forward to seeing your masterpieces!

Throughout October, guest authors will be visiting Studio Moonfall from 5pm to 7pm. Come meet your next favorite storyteller from a wide variety of genres and voices – all from local writers.

Every event is free to attend and we’ll also be doing gift card giveaways every day we have a guest author. When you come by for the Meet & Greet, you’ll be entered into the drawing. Winners will be announced that day. But if you don’t win, your name will roll over to the next drawing. So, come meet all the authors for more chances to win Studio Moonfall gift cards!

There will also be a separate special prize drawing for October…

Prizes are cool and all but authors are better! Let’s see who’s coming over (5pm-7pm):

Tuesday – 10/4/2022 – Dan Stika – https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-L-Stika/e/B003WZC2XS

Thursday – 10/6/2022 – Kaitlyn Bolyard – https://kaitlynbolyard.com/publications/

Friday – 10/7/2022 – Ana Michelle – https://www.facebook.com/AnaMichelleAuthor

Saturday – 10/8/2022 – TR Nickel – https://www.trnickel.com/

Tuesday – 10/11/2022 – Richard Bell – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004VGXVG4

Thursday – 10/13/2022 – Sharon Angelici – https://www.skangelici.com

Friday – 10/14/2022 – Jessie Rose – https://jessieroseauthor.com/

Saturday – 10/15/2022 – Phyllis Fadness – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578358670/

Tuesday – 10/18/2022 – Aliyah Jackson – https://bio.fm/aliyahjanay

Wednesday – 10/19/2022 – Mynk Baylor – https://www.facebook.com/shadowmynkbooks

Thursday – 10/20/2022 – Mary McDonald – https://mpmcdonald.com/

Friday – 10/21/2022 – Debbie Oas – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09RNS7NYT

Saturday – 10/22/2022 – Ties That Bind Publishing – https://www.tiesthatbindpublishing.com

Tuesday – 10/25/2022 – Miya Kressin – https://www.amazon.com/Miya-Kressin/e/B004MJ02BC

Wednesday – 10/26/2022 – Riley Preston – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1513663488/

Thursday – 10/27/2022 – Nicholas Ravnikar – https://bio.fm/nicholasmichaelravnikar

Friday – 10/28/2022 – Al Lytle & Toi Blasier – https://www.facebook.com/AlLytleAuthor

Saturday – 10/29/2022 – D Lieber – https://www.dlieber.com

Come meet them all at Studio Moonfall!

CLICK HERE TO FIND ALL THE FACEBOOK EVENT PAGES

Check out my interview with TMJ4 in Milwaukee!

We talk about the Kenosha Book Festival, Studio Moonfall, Fear & Sunshine, and more.

Click here to watch the interview

The Kenosha Book Festival will be back in April 2023! To follow the news on it, click here

I should have kept my day-long mayorial campaign going after the current mayor left his car in my Harbor Market spot. I just got recognized as Kenoshan of the Week by Kenosha.com!!

I don’t know that I get a new car or cake or anything at all but you can click here to read the whole article.

It’s got all sorts of good bits about opening the shop and running it for the past three years, as well as how things went this weekend for the Kenosha Book Festival. Which was incredible!

The plan is to bring back the festival next April and then again in September. But before that, we’ll be starting up Authtober, our daily feature of authors during October. Stay tuned for details on that one.

Oh!

And the $1 used book Little Library fundraising will keep going through the end of September so come by and load up on books!

During August, we had all sorts of giveaways going on. If you were in on them, I’ll be contacting everyone today and announcing winners on Facebook. If you want a head start to see if you’re among the victorious, check out the blog post here.

And hey. If you didn’t win that AMAZING ZomBean backpack, you can order one here.

Okay.

It’s been a long few weeks. Shop will be closed over the weekend, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

So, I’ll see ya today for Free Book Friday or next week.

Happy reading,

• Donovan

Pro-Tip. Don’t run multiple giveaways with a bunch of weird prizes at once.

Let’s figure this out.

The Giveaways

1. Helpful Minion Helper Drawing. One Prize: An Incredible ZomBean Backpack.
2. The Back to School Giveaway. Prizes: 24 winners of the Zombie Guide to English Grammar. One Grand Prize Winner of the Zombie Guide plus a ZomBean Backpack.
3. August’s Giveaway – A to ZomBean. 2 winners of Night of the Living ZomBeans: Volumes 1 & 2, and ZomBeans of History. One Grand Prize Winner of the three coloring books plus a ZomBean Backpack.
4. The Summer Long Artist Alley Stampcard Giveaway. The big one. 5 Sadness Consolation Prizes for people who weren’t able to collect 5 stamps. The 5 Stamp Prizes – One $100 Studio Moonfall Giftcard and five $20 gift cards.

Hmmm.
For the Summer one, we seven people eligible to win the gift cards. So… we’ll do six of the $20 gift cards. Also, the Sadness Consolation prizes are pretty cool.

Okay.

Let’s go.

Helpful Minion Helper Drawing…
Shelby from Lemon Street wins a ZomBean Backpack!!!

Next one – 24 Zombie Guide to English Grammar winners…

1. Beth
2. Michael
3. Natalie
4. Zoe
5. Robert
6. Ryan
7. Randy
8. Levaiiya
9. Esther
10. Isaiah
11. Mandy
12. Ryan
13. Rich
14. Paul
15. Cassie
16. Henry
17. JoAnn
18. Lori
19. Ryan
20. Jeanne
21. Mike
22. River
23. AJ
24. Lori

And our Back to School Grand Prize Winner of both a Zombie Guide and a ZomBean Backpack…
Krystal!! Way to go, sport!

Before we get to our bigger prizes, let’s sneak in here with the Artist Alley Stampcard Sadness Consolation Prize. Remember, if you want the big prizes, plan on coming to Studio Moonfall EVERY Sunday next summer to meet our guest authors and artists!

1. Eliza
2. Marie
3. Doug
4. Lily
5. Audra

Great job. Keep up the good work.

Alright.

August’s A to ZomBean Coloring Book Giveaway. First up, we have two winners for Night of the Living ZomBeans: Volumes 1 & 2 and ZomBeans of History. Let’s see who we’ve got…

1. Carol
2. Gregg

Wow. You’re so good at this!

And for our A to ZomBean Grand Prize winner of the three coloring books and our last ZomBean Backpack…
Congratulations, Veda!

Well, then.

It’s time for our gift card drawings. Are you ready?

For our six $20 Studio Moonfall gift cards, here’s who’s getting them…
Amber, Beth, Emma, Luis, Paolo, and Randy!

Grand Prize $100 Studio Moonfall gift card goes to Leah!!! Congratulations!

Big thanks to everyone you participated in these silly games and supported Studio Moonfall in this month of chaos. On to the next weird idea to bring to life!

Signups for the Fall/Winter 2022 edition of the Color of Kenosha coloring book are here!

This is Donovan Scherer from Studio Moonfall, Kenosha’s all-ages book publisher of illustrated adventures and more.

Full of custom illustrated coloring pages of businesses throughout Kenosha County, the Color of Kenosha coloring book series is the most creative way to reach your customers, providing a fun way for them to spend time with your business between visits.

Along with being featured with Kenosha’s favorite places in a one-of-a-kind way of marketing, your custom illustration can be used for promotional graphics, coloring contests, and even custom t-shirts. You can see the first five books of the series along with printable samples of all of the businesses involved at http://www.colorofkenosha.com

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll get:
• Artwork designed by Wisconsin author/illustrator Donovan Scherer of Studio Moonfall.
• A printable file and web link for your coloring page that you can share with fans.
• Social media graphics and a poster to promote the coloring book.
• A countertop display to promote/sell your copies of the book to recoup the cost of signing up.

For an Early Bird Special, sign up by August 31st to get $50 off the price of signing up for your custom illustration and printed books. The coloring book is planned to launch early November 2022.

Signing up is set up with optional discounts on the printed coloring book to give away or sell for a profit!
The books sell at retail for $10 MSRP.
– $400 ($350 with the Early Bird discount) includes 40 copies ($10 per book)
– $450 ($400 with the Early Bird discount) includes 60 copies ($7.50 per book)
– $600 ($550 with the Early Bird discount) includes 120 copies ($5 per book)

• • • Ready to Sign Up? • • •
>>> CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE NEXT COLOR OF KENOSHA COLORING BOOK <<<

Spots are limited, so sign up soon. If you have any questions, email me at hello@studiomoonfall.com, call 262-945-5055, or visit Studio Moonfall at 5031 7th Avenue.

I look forward to drawing your business!

Donovan Scherer