Book Tour Highlights

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Jean mingled with friends and fans at Webster University .
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Jean with husband Gary at the St. Louis County Library’s Star Catchers Gala.
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Gary Stanberry with author Craig Johnson.
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Jean and husband Gary mingling at the St. Louis County Library’s Star Catchers Gala.
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Jean and husband Gary taking in a late season Cardinals baseball game against Milwaukee.

A book tour is a high point for any successful author and Kingsmuir Press author Jean Marie Stanberry just returned from a very successful book tour in her home town St. Louis, Missouri.  St. Louis has suffered in the press recently with tales of racial tension and protests in the township of Ferguson but when one of their own is back home in the spotlight St. Louis has a way of welcoming them with open arms. Continue reading Book Tour Highlights

Fast Update for a door, by Jean the Queen

What can you do when you have ugly hollow core doors and don’t have the budget to replace them all?  Get creative!  My husband and I plan on eventually replacing all our hollow core doors, but unforeseen hits to our budget mean not right away.  Most of the doors we will sand down and re stain a darker color to help disguise their ugliness, but I had another idea for our pantry. Continue reading Fast Update for a door, by Jean the Queen

New Event!

Just confirmed this morning!  For all our fans of Jean Marie Stanberry living in the Midwest, we have another date for you to keep in mind.  On Saturday September 20th Jean will be at the St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Star Catchers Gala, an annual fund raiser for the Library foundation which will feature a western theme this year, which will no doubt,  make Jean feel right at home.  Local celebrity Art Holiday will serve as the MC and the featured guest of the evening will be Craig Johnson, author of the “Longmire” series of books on which the hit TV series was based. Continue reading New Event!