Storytellers & Legends Convention

31/03/2023

IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE

Please watch the video below as we announce the postponement of Storytellers & Legends Convention. We appreciate all of your support, and will be providing more updates via our Facebook and social media. We're looking forward to September 2023.

For questions, please contact via email at: [email protected]

27/03/2023

📣 EVENT UPDATE: 📣

Storytellers & Legends Convention is dedicated to providing an unprecedented family-friendly education oriented experience as the Rio Grande Valley's first literary pop culture experience, and we are excited to provide an innovative convention emphasizing literature and education, with safety at the forefront of all we do.

Taking many factors into consideration, Storytellers & Legends Convention announces that we will have our inaugural show April 3-5, 2023, as a 3-day event showcasing authors, composers, film producers, illustrators, voice actors, and more literary guests.

Our show schedule will be Monday, April 3rd - Wednesday, April 5th, with daytime hours being dedicated to our Rio Grande Valley students, who will attend the event, meet our special guests, and experience the RGV's first literary pop-culture convention.

After hours showtimes (3:30pm-7pm) will be available for the public to attend Monday, April 3rd - Wednesday, April 5th, and we are excited to show our innovative programming and guests we have in store.

We thank the City of Mission and the Mission Event Center for their continued support, and we thank you for your support and enthusiasm in making this event a truly special literary pop-culture experience for the Rio Grande Valley and beyond.

Stay tuned for more announcements!

20/03/2023

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to announce that Andrea Gutierrez Price, author of "Casita Brujita" will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

Andrea Gutierrez Price is a third-generation Tejana, bruja, and former elementary school teacher based in Austin, Texas. Inspired by her ancestors, her children, and her own spiritual practice, she was guided to write her first children’s book on Mexican-American folk magic, Casita Brujita.

Meet Andrea Gutierrez Price at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to reveal that Rhonda Brown, author of "Creation That's Me!" and "Created to Be, Yes It's Me!" will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

Rhonda Brown shares a few words about herself, "I am Rhonda Yvette Brown, I’m a native of San Antonio, I’m also a proud wife and mother of two adult children. I attended Angelo State University graduating with an Associates of Science Nursing Degree, then graduated from Wayland Baptist University with a Bachelor of Christian Ministry Degree, followed by completion of graduate work and receipt of a Master of Education in Curriculum Instruction from Concordia University. It is my life's work and my desire that every child be affirmed and equipped with the awareness and deep knowing that they are created for greatness, walking out their special destiny in life and living well. In August of 2020 I took a leap of faith and channeled my passion into the launch of my first children’s book titled "Creation That’s Me" -- a book affirming that we are all great by design, highlighting diversity as a strength, not a hinderance. It is my hope that we continue to band together during these unique times to amplify the light in every child we encounter. I see this embodied in one of my favorite quotes from Dr. Maya Angelou, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -- This is the mantra I live by as I continue to produce and publish children’s books."

Meet Rhonda Brown at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to announce that James William Peercy, author of "Cliff Fulton" mystery series, "Xun Ove," fantasy series, "Clan Ravensmith" series, and more will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

James William Peercy fell through a portal into the publishing biosphere in
2012. Previously, he had observed and recorded his own world since the
age of 10. James continued to write while attaining a degree in Computer
Science, getting married, raising dogs, and starting a business. Since all worlds simultaneously exist, he has written five book series: the Cliff Fulton mystery series, the Xun Ove fantasy series, the Clan Ravensmith series, Ivan, Universal Space Tech series and the Pieces of Mankind series. For those that like poetry, check out Within the Heart of Silence, a gold medal award winner that uses pictures and words to show the beauty of life in ordinary things. With a constantly moving mind, he devotes his downtime to writing, traveling, playing with his godson’s Olen and Wulfgang and adoring his wife, Claudette. If you like poetry, fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian and mystery, check out his website and follow him on his socials:

http://www.JamesWilliamPeercy.com
http://www.StoriesToTell.com
https://www.facebook.com/jameswilliampeercy
https://www.facebook.com/TheWallOutside/
https://www.facebook.com/Without.A.Conscious.by.JamesWilliamPeercy
https://www.instagram.com/jameswilliampeercyauthor
https://twitter.com/JamesWPeercy

Meet James William Peercy at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to reveal that Kendra Merritt, award-winning author of "Mark of the Least" series, "Mishap's Heroes," series, and more will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

Books have been Kendra's escape for as long as she can remember. She
used to hide fantasy novels behind her government textbook in high
school, and she wrote most of her first novel during a semester of
college algebra. Older and wiser now (but just as nerdy) she writes fantasy and science fiction with characters who have disabilities. If she's not writing,
she's reading, and if she's not reading, she's playing video games. She is the award-winning author of the Mark of the Least series, the Mishap's Heroes series, and she is a contributor in the Eldros Legacy series. Kendra lives in Denver with her very tall spouse, their book loving progeny, and a lazy black monster masquerading as a service dog.

Meet Kendra Merritt at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to reveal that Dr. Isaías C. Rodríguez, author of the "Mom, Are You Ready?/¿Estás lista, Mami?" will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

Dr. Isaías C. Rodríguez is a national early childhood consultant, a children’s book author, and a native Texan. Dr. Rodríguez has enjoyed working with children, families, university students, educators, and administrators for over twenty-five years as an author, bilingual teacher, mentor, administrator, consultant, lecturer/professor, and a speech language pathologist assistant throughout the state of Texas. He resides in South Texas where he enjoys sitting on his porch admiring his garden and nature, baking and cooking, traveling, and writing children's books.

Meet Dr. Isaías C. Rodríguez at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to announce that Patty York Raymond, author of the "The ABCs to Ranching", "It's Too Windy!," & "Aspire!/¡Aspirar!" will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

Patty York Raymond is a Multi-Award Winning Author and a native Texan. Her children’s book, It’s Too Windy! was honored with the International Latino Book Award for 2016 and 2017. The ABCs to Ranching, was awarded Best Children’s Interactive Book by The Texas Authors Association in 2018. It was also honored with two International Latino Book Awards in the Best Educational Children’s Picture Book and Best Gift Set categories also for the year 2018. Her most recent children's picture book Aspire!/¡Aspirar! is a flip over book in English and Spanish. It was honored with The International Book Finalist Award for 2021 for the Mind/Body/Spirit category. It was also chosen for the 2021 Skipping Stones Honor Awards in the Multicultural/International category. Other works include contributing writer to Poets Facing The Wall (The Raving Press, 2018).

Meet Patty York Raymond at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to reveal that Linnea Tanner, award-winning author of the "Curse of Clansmen and Kings" series, and "Two Faces of Janus" will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚🎊

Award-winning author, Linnea Tanner, weaves Celtic tales of love, magical adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia. Since childhood, she has passionately read about ancient civilizations and mythology. Of particular interest are the enigmatic Celts, who were reputed as fierce warriors and mystical Druids. Linnea has extensively researched ancient and medieval history, mythology, and archaeology and has traveled to sites described within each of her books in the Curse of Clansmen and Kings series. Books released in her series include Apollo’s Raven (Book 1), Dagger’s Destiny (Book 2), Amulet’s Rapture (Book 3), and Skull’s Vengeance (Book 4). She has also released the historical fiction short story, Two Faces of Janus. A Colorado native, Linnea attended the University of Colorado and earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry. She lives in Fort Collins with her husband and has two children and six grandchildren.

Meet Linnea Tanner at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖

08/03/2023

📣 GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣 We read on to reveal that Tracy Lawson, author of "The Resistance" series, "Ladies of the Revolution" series, and more will be attending Storytellers & Legends Convention happening April 3-7, 2023! 📖🎊

Tracy Lawson grew up reading mystery stories—and now she approaches the research she does for her writing with unbridled enthusiasm and a detective’s eye. Tracy is the author of the award-winning dystopian Resistance Series, and Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge, the first in the Ladies of the Revolution Series. She and her husband live in Wylie, Texas. They have one grown daughter.

Meet Tracy Lawson at Storytellers & Legends Convention in Mission, TX, happening April 3-7, 2023! 📚