The St. Joseph Writers Guild will be meeting Saturday, July 20, 2013, at 1 p.m. at the Joyce Raye Patterson Senior
Citizens Center, 100 South 10th, St. Joseph, Missouri.
Julie Casey has arranged a special guest speaker, Regina Sirois.
Julie Casey has arranged a special guest speaker, Regina Sirois.
Author
Regina Sirois received national recognition through the Amazon Breakthrough
Novel Award (ABNA) competition. Her book, On Little Wings, was the winner in
the young adult division of the original 5,000 entries through a series of
judging and advancements conducted by Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com,
and a panel assembled by Penguin Publishing. After having already been
self-published, it is now published by Penguin.
Regina
Sirois is a native to Kansas City currently
living in Olathe
with her husband and two young girls. Publisher's Weekly describes her debut
novel, On Little Wings, as a heartwarming tale of reconnection and redemption.
On Little Wings was launched January of this year it has been warmly received,
featured on the Amazon Kindle home page, reached the #7 best selling literary
fiction book on the Kindle, and received nearly 300 reviews, with an average
score over 4 stars. Any of these accomplishments are rare for a first time author.
