This month, FishEye Photography is shining the spotlight on Fairview’s own Richard & Mary Rensberry, owners of QuickTurtle Books. Both Richard & Mary are the authors & illustrators of over 35 books, including Richard’s series entitled “Conversations with Sasquatch”. Richard is currently working on his fourth book in the series.
Originally from the Alpena area, Richard’s interest in Sasquatch started as a young boy while fishing on the bank of the Thunder Bay River, where he spotted a Sasquatch down stream fishing as well. This sparked a life long interest in the elusive and world renowned creature. As Richard said, “You don’t find them, they find you”.
Mary’s background is in education with her teaching skills spanning pre K – high school. She’s taught at charter, public, private, homeschool and parochial school systems, earning her Master’s degree in Instructional Technology in 2005. Mary has recently finished co-authoring a book called “A Genius in Every Child”. Mary is also heavily involved in local volunteer groups that are oriented in community development.
The couple met in 2012 while at a social event that Mary’s son was attending. Her son, who knew Richard, told him that he simply had to meet his mom during her visit from Texas as the two shared similar interests and he thought they’d hit it off. With introductions made, the beginning of a beautiful partnership began to bloom.
The couple relocated back to Fairview in 2016 as they “fell in love” with the dynamics and spiritualness of the area. Richard attributes this to the previous Indian influence that existed as well as the current Amish contribution to the area. They feel the beauty and demeanor of the community suits them perfectly.
The Rensberry’s are a delightful couple with a host of fascinating stories and accomplishments too long to list here. They write, illustrate and publish custom books for charitable groups and local businesses. For more information on their books and where to purchase them, go to their website, http://www.booksmakebooms.com. For Richard’s Sasquatch series, visit http://www.conversationswithsasquatch.com
How about a free copy of Conversations With Sasquatch, The Encounter at:
We at QuickTurtle Books wish you all the very best for the Holidays. You will find some new products in our store.
Besides books, we have a wide assortment of lighthouse cards and prints in our Lighthouse Series. the featured Oak Leaf Lighthouse is available in our online card shop.
Our Book of the Week is our kid’s rhyme, If I Were a Lighthouse. written and illustrated just for kids. It is available in our online bookstore.
Grand Haven Lighthouse cards and prints available here.
Marquette Lighthouse cards and prints plus many others here.
Keepers of the Light book filled with the paintings by Richard Rensberry accompanied by a delightful rhyme for kids. 6 x 9 paperback
Our store is brand new and up and running! I hope you stop by and check out our artwork and books.
“Berry Berry Sweet” rhyme for kids is our new custom book about a local strawberry farm called Fairview Berries. Please shop and buy local. It means a lot to your community. It also means a lot to Mary and I if you would buy and review our book. It is available in paperback at this link: https://amzn.to/3elfauR eBook: https://amzn.to/2AYZOxB https://www.booksmakebooms.com
Custom Books Can Be Your Small Business Marketing Solution!
Small Business Marketing requires a town crier like Paul Revere or an entrepreneurial spirit like Johnny Appleseed to spread your businesses’ message of how your products and services can be of help to your community. It is letting everyone know you have the valuable final products and services that will fulfill their needs.
Books Make Booms writes, illustrates and publishes custom books to deliver that message. We write custom books specifically for and about your business that act as your very own public relations and marketing ambassadors. Our small business marketing strategyusing personalized books is meant to help your small business or cause spread the word far and wide. Our custom books are a modern day Paul Revere or Johnny Appleseed.
It is our belief that small business marketing also contains the vital necessity of Public Relations. Public Relations is the art of making your good products and services well known and well liked by a specific public in need of those valuable final products and services. Part of public relations and small business marketing is good will, honesty, integrity and genuine care. Our custom books are designed with this definition of public relations in mind.
The Quest We Share is an example of a customized book we recently created to help Artists For A Better World.
We have created and developed a unique niche of writing business-oriented kids stories for small businesses and causes. These stories are designed to perform small business marketing magic by generating affinity, reality and communication about your business. It is a unique way to disseminate your business story far and wide. Our personalized books, by being inclusive of the whole family, also help create a positive and lasting public relations impression in the present and for generations to come.
We love writing and marketing for local small businesses and helping build a strong brand for each small business we partner with. Our specialty, once again, is kids stories that deliver your brand’s message for new and old customers to talk about.
Community Sustainability
We believe firmly in community involvement and sustainability.
I get my truck fixed at Cliff’s Repair just a few miles down the road. He didn’t start the business to please shareholders or to separate himself from the operations to play golf and rake in corporate profits. Cliff started the business to help those in his community because that is what he is good at, and that is why he is a small business success.
We purchase our farm fresh meats from Pampered Beef, also just a few miles down the road. We buy or eggs from Fairview Berries. We support our local coffee houses and restaurants. We buy all of our farming and home needs from our local feed store and local lumberyard. We love our Amish General Store and Country Corners Bulk Foods. These are all successful Michigan small businesses dreamed up and started by local residents with the goal to help.
It does not matter whether you live in a big city or a rural setting like ours, there are community members that have one intention for their business, and that intention is first and foremost, to help and serve those in their community.
Books Make Booms Small Business Marketing is no different. We use our small business building savvy by creating business specific kids stories and educational books that create affinity, reality and communication directly from your business products to your customers. We strive to help you build sustainable brand and product recognition both locally and far reaching through our creative small business marketing solution. What we offer is a marketing idea like no other. We are the first on the block to focus not only on the present, but on future generations to come. We believe very strongly in small businesses that are in the business of building and helping sustain the needs of their communities.
BooksMakeBooms would like to help your small business with our custom books.
My wife and Iare American authors residing in Fairview, Michigan.
As book writers, we are driven by a strong desire to help.
We love to build partnerships with small businesses and causes that strive to help. We feel that purpose to help is the foundation that all successful small businesses are founded upon.
A major part of building a successful small business can be considered an art. A valuable part of that art is applying personal character strengths and virtues to create and build that business brand. Success can depend on many things, but I believe the make or break point of almost all start-up businesses rests on the application of basic virtues: such as manners, truth in advertising, true help, keeping one’s word, reliability and so forth. The Best of Me from a to z is a list of virtues for life and business that when correctly applied, can elevate that art. It is beautifully illustrated for children and adults. This book was winner of the 2018 TCK Readers Choice Awards and is applicable to our everyday walk through life and business.
Natural selection came in the night and trimmed our forests. The power went with the trees that fell and the limbs that broke from the burdens of wet snow. Not even the snowplows were ready for this one. Next springs lilacs are going to look like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree.
I am involved in a pilot seed growing program for creating a kenaf seed bank here in Michigan.I just planted my allotment of seed furnished to me by Kenaf Partners USA (kenafpartnersusa.com).
The essential to kenaf as a rotational cash crop for Michigan farmers is a viable seed in quantities to meet future demand.I am hopeful for viable results emanating from this pilot program which is being conducted all over the USA.
is an introduction to kenaf as a rotational cash crop for American farmers and was written in conjunction with this pilot seed program.
This will be an important phase in the creation of possibilities for kenaf in Michigan and across the USA.I will try to update as the season progresses.
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