Do you have 'Cream Money' stories?

Due to the success of our Egg Money book, which celebrates the lives of Saskatchewan pioneer women, DriverWorks Ink is inviting you to send us your short stories of collecting and selling milk and cream on your Prairie farm. These stories will be considered for inclusion in the new book Cream Money, celebrating that era of Canadian farming. 

Stories should be from 300 to 1,500 words and could include: a particular story about processing and/or selling the milk/cream including the women, men or children who collected the milk or separated the cream; memories of how your family used that cream money; any other story that comes to mind when you think of ‘cream money’ and all that goes with that way of farm life.

Please provide details including your name, address, phone number and email address, as well as the names, dates, location and other details of the farmers and farm in your story. We are looking for anecdotes and explanations - stories of heartache and hardship, humour and joy, sadness and celebration.

Please send your submissions before December 31 by email to: ddriver@sasktel.net or by mail to: DriverWorks Ink, 110 McCarthy Blvd. N., Regina, SK S4R 6A4.

Please phone DriverWorks Ink at 306-545-5293 if you have a cream money story to share but you do not wish to write it yourself. We will be happy to write it and help you share your story in that way.

All submissions will be accepted but not all submissions will be published. Those whose stories are published will receive two complimentary copies of our Cream Money book upon publication and will be able to purchase more copies at a 40% discount.

Thank you in advance. We look forward to receiving your stories.

P.S.  (October 30, 2014) We've decided to donate some of the proceeds of our Cream Money book to the Canadian Lung Association. We've donated to other charities from a portion of the sales of eight of our other books, and we'd like to continue giving back with this new book. We have a Driver family history of lung disease and we want to see more research that helps save lives, so we're going to help as we can with donations from sales of this book.