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📚 The Buckeye Bookmark
The countdown is officially on. With only 67 days until the Buckeye Book Fair, every day is packed with planning, organizing, and preparing for the celebration of Ohio’s incredible literary community. The pace is fast, the excitement is real, and the news keeps coming. This year is shaping up to be extraordinary. Stay tuned, stay…
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Your Guide to Ohio’s Literary Events
One Connection at a Time If you’re a reader who tears through books like candy, curates your shelves like a personal museum, and believes a Saturday spent wandering among authors is peak self‑care, Ohio’s literary scene is basically your natural habitat. But here’s the fun part: our state offers many kinds of book‑centered events, each…
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Finding Her Place: Charity Pleasant Returns to the Buckeye Book Fair
By Christina Hartmann-Benchoff Christina Hartmann‑Benchoff, founder of Prickle Forrest Books and a devoted advocate for Ohio’s indie and self‑published authors, will be writing a new column spotlighting the state’s independent literary talent for the Buckeye Book Fair. For author Charity Pleasant, community is more than simply being surrounded by other people. It is a place…
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A Breath of Fresh Air in Ohio’s Literary Landscape
In every thriving literary community, there are people whose presence quietly strengthens the entire ecosystem. You know so many of them… The people who bring clarity, care, and a deep understanding of why stories matter. At the Buckeye Book Fair, one of those people is Hannah McCartney, a rural Ohio librarian whose love of books…
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A Message to Our Community About Safety and Creative Integrity
The Buckeye Book Fair would like to share an important update to help protect its community of readers, authors, and illustrators. A fraudulent email address has recently started sending what appears to be AI-generated messages misappropriating the name of Kimberly Jarvis, Executive Director and the Buckeye Book Fair. These messages are not from Kimberly or…