A few free fun adventures you can have this month:
- Free hotel room.March 31 is the last day to take advantage of that free hotel room deal I blogged about, you know, the one where you volunteer 8 hours and get the room free. Sounds like a come-on, but it’s really true. Here’s proof:
That's Hanni and me luxuriating free-of-charge in our lovely Blackstone room last December.
All you’ve gotta do is call one of the participating hotels and when you check in, bring a letter from your non-profit organization confirming you’ve volunteered 8 hours. Reward yourself! You deserve it!
- Free admission to Children’s Museum. It usually costs to get into the Chicago Children’s Museum, but on Thursday night, March 18 from 5 to 8, everybody gets in free. It’s their bring books to life Book Fair, and Hanni and I will be doing a couple of presentations and signing books for anyone interested. Come on by, it oughta be fun and hey, the price is right.
- Free Subscription. Now you can subscribe to my Safe & Sound blog and receive an email message any time I’ve published a new post. Thanks to my web master, a button (or is it a link?!) has been added somewhere below this post. So easy to subscribe, and trust me, I won’t give your email address out to anyone. I don’t know how!
This last adventure isn’t free, but it’s happening in March so I’m plugging it in this post anyway. This Sunday, march 7, I’ll be giving two sessions at University of Wisconsin’s Spring Writers Festival in Milwaukee. From their web site:
Whether your goal is to publish a novel, flourish as a freelancer, start a blog or complete a set of short stories, you can find the inspiration and confidence to beat the block and succeed as a writer at the UWM Spring Writers Festival – March 5-7.
The Festival is a three-day conference including panel discussions, manuscript reviews, pitch sessions and workshops. I’ll be presenting one workshop on getting personal essays on the radio and another on getting a children’s book published. Registration is still open for the entire festival, for more info just check out their web site.
Our trip to Milwaukee this weekend means, guess what? Hanni and I will be staying in a hotel again. Can’t wait to check out the free hotel robe…!
Hey, I just checked out that list of hotels in there is one in Milwaukee:
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mkeri-residence-inn-milwaukee-downtown/?corporateCode=lpr&toDate=&fromDate=&app=resvli k
Just thought you might want to know that if people who have volunteered somewhere sign up for the writers thingee they could get a free room while they’re thre….
Thanks for the list of freebees. And good luck in Wisconsin! Can’t wait to see the hotel pics.
Note to self: remember to pack the camera!
So glad to hear that you continue to present at this conference. Are you giving out candy bars this year? or is that top secret?
Ha! I’d forgotten all about those candy bars I gave out all those years ago in hopes of keeping my audience awake for my session!! Actually, this is not the same writer’s fest –that one was at UW-Madison, this one is at UW-Milwaukee. My session in Milwaukee this Sunday is at 9:30 am –maybe I should hand outPop Tarts?!
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