Celebrating Children's Book Week May 4-10, 2015

We're excited to announce that we're celebrating Children's Book Week (CBW) for the first time this year.

For 96 years CBW has been promoting literacy, and it's about time this local comic shop became involved.

As you know, we promote reading with Rolly's Reading Program, a program that provides a deep discount on all our children's titles, and Rolly's Summer Reading Program, which ran for the first time in 2014.

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We're offering the following two specials for CBW, May 4-10, 2015:

• 25% OFF all comic book titles for Children (from the young children's wall) and for Teen readers. Young children and teens must be present with an adult/parent for this offer to be valid.
• Comic Book Trade: When children/teens create their own comic book (1-page minimum required) and give it to us, we'll let them choose 1 free comic book (from select titles). Download and use our 1-page panel layout or make your own. 

"Children's Book Week is administered by Every Child A Reader, a 501(c)(3) literacy organization dedicated to instilling a lifelong love of reading in children."
(Source: http://www.bookweekonline.com/about)

The official hashtag for CBW is #CBW15.

New Writing Group In Sacramento

Typebars in a 1920s typewriter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Every Thursday night from 5-8pm we are offering writers a place to get creative. 

New Sacramento Writers Group

Write your novel or screenplay or short stories or fan fiction or stage play or comic book script or non-fiction book with us! 

Get out of the house and come down for some dedicated, distraction free writing where you can meet other local writers, get inspired and put some valuable words to paper.

What to Expect

We have tables and chairs and outlets available if you prefer to use your laptop. We carry water and sodas in the store. In our shopping center, there is a Pizza Hut, a Mediterranean food restaurant, and an American food restaurant. Feel free to bring some snacks for yourself or to share.

We play a variety of musical genres in the store, so if you're musical palate is finely tuned to your own collection, you may wish to bring headphones.

This is just a taste of what's new at Empire's Comics Vault in 2015!

Write A Novel, Screenplay or Comic This November

All month long, November 2013, we're participating in NaNoWriMo -- National Novel Writing Month. Of course, we realize that you may not want to write a novel but a comic or movie screenplay instead. Write what you want! Every Friday night starting at 5pm.

What is NaNoWriMo?

NaNoWriMo is an annual event that takes place each November with the goal of motivating professional and amateur writers to complete writing 50,000 words of their novel.

Naturally, because the comic book creating and writing community is so important to us, we've expanded to include anyone who wants to join a motivated group of people to write something.

Write With Us Every Friday Night

Come down to Empire's every Friday night, starting at 5pm, in November to meet others who are working hard to write, and put in some serious writing time. This is the 3rd year we have participated in this and it has been a lot of fun. We hope to see you all there.