The picture above is 3 year old Lydia with her 96 year old Great Grandma Ruth Roy. This picture was taken just a few weeks ago and I was saving it to share this Christmas Eve as that is what it's all about. Sadly Ruth passed away peacefully last week so I'd like to dedicate this post to her as she spends her first Christmas smiling down on her family from above. I'd also like send out one last thanks to all of you for your support this year. This Christmas Eve may all of yo

We had a great weekend at the Mistletoe Magic event at the Dayton Convention Center that included meeting a lot of terrific folks who checked out/bought the book as well as meeting the amazing "Hoosier Santa" who was kind enough to send us the spectacular picture above! And speaking of spectacular -- wait until you see some of his various costumes below that he wore throughout the show. Amazing, eh? And that's just a few of them! We'd like to thank Hoosier Santa for the pic

The pic above is now the official "Off The Hook Coat Rack" which was a surprise gift from my Uncle Paul over the weekend. Paul specializes in woodworking and as you can see -- he can make just about anything you'd ever want from wood including coat racks inspired by books! So cool! As for the weekend -- the Arvai's had a great time working the Off the Hook table at the Pickerington Holiday Gathering and Wilmington Homespun events. There were great turnouts at both and a wh

I just received some exciting news in that the Off the Hook screenplay has been named an Honorable Mention in the Emerging Screenwriters contest. So out of 2,000 scripts entered in this contest Off the Hook placed in the top 13 -- very cool! This marks the 11th placement for Off the Hook in screenplay contests and comes after a great night selling Off the Hook books at the Pickerington Holiday Gathering (more on that later). Thanks for the honor Emerging Screenwriters! John