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This year's Texas Book Festival is slated for the first weekend in November. Each year, it features nearly 200 authors and draws about 40,000 people.
Want to know how to be a selected author? Check out the festival's Web site.
NoirCon officials have put together audio clips from this year's conference in Philadelphia. Check it out.
Win a free ticket to attend
The hottest conference for thriller writers is fast approaching. Thrillerfest 2008 is set for July 9-12 at the Grand Hyatt in NYC. Sandra Brown and James Patterson are among guest speakers who will share inside stories of how they achieved their success and what inspires them.
And this year more than 35 top literary agents have signed up to hear pitches as part of Agentfest, a unique opportunity for aspiring writers to meet with business heavyweights.
Want to go? Find out more - and register for a free ticked to attend!
Saturday, April 12 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Ozark Folkways, Winslow, AR
Velda will teach you the process of writing stories and books drawing on your experiences, ideas and fantasies. From the Ozark tales you love to stories that reach into other worlds.
Registration is necessary as class is limited to 20. To register call Connie Wright at 479-634-3791 or Velda Brotherton at 479-634-3151 or vebrotherton@gmail.com. Prepayment of $25 for the class is requested.
You will learn the basics of good story telling and creative writing. This is a hands-on workshop, so come prepared to write a story or plan and plot a book.
Bring your ideas, photographs to kick your creative mind into gear, plenty of paper and pens or a laptop and lunch if you want, or you can plan on eating at Grandma's Café. We'll have coffee and doughnuts, but you'll have to bring your own soft drinks.
Ozark Folkways is located 4 miles south of Winslow, AR, or 1 mile north of Mt. Gayler on Scenic Highway 71.
Velda Brotherton is a published author with many fiction and non fiction books, short stories and articles to her credit. She has taught workshops in a three-state area for 15 years. For more information on her work go to: www.veldabrotherton.com
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WRITERS WORKSHOP ANNUAL FREE CONFERENCE
MARCH 8, 2008 8:30 to 4:00
AT HARVEY & BERNICE JONES HEALTH & EDUCATION BUILDING
CORNER OF BERRY AND EMMA STREETS
SPRINGDALE, AR
9 A.M. LINDA APPLE & VELDA BROTHERTON - THE LONG AND SHORT OF CREATIVE NON FICTION
Linda is an inspirational author with 9 creative non-fiction articles published in the CHICKEN SOUP BOOK SERIES. Much in demand as an inspirational speaker, she currently has an agent who is circulating her first novel.
Velda is multiply published in the romance field and has four creative non-fiction books currently available. She also writes weekly and monthly columns for newspapers and blogs. Her latest book is FLY WITH THE MOURNING DOVE, a biographical creative non-fiction.
10 A.M. LINDA RIGSBEE - E-PAINTING, THE NEW MODERN ART. Linda is a home-published author who often uses e-paintings for her book covers. She will demonstrate how to use Microsoft Paintbrush to create pictures, repair old photos and touch up new ones in ways that rival photo editing software. Ever have something come up on your computer screen that you can't print? She'll show you how.
11 A.M. RADINE TREES NEHRING - FINDING GOLD IN RESEARCH & PLOTTING
Her TO DIE FOR Ozarks mystery series began in 2002 with Macavity nominee, A VALLEY TO DIE FOR. A WEDDING TO DIE FOR, number four in the series, joined her other books in winning honors, including an Arkansas best book award. Her fifth mystery novel, A RIVER TO DIE FOR, will be released this spring.
NOON: LUNCH WILL BE ORDERED IN OR BRING YOUR OWN
1:30 P.M. VELDA BROTHERTON - PROMOTING ONLINE & OTHER COOL STUFF
Velda has spent the summer promoting her latest book online and will share many sites as well as some hints on getting a presence on Google, writing a blog and linking where it counts.
2:30 P.M. DUSTY RICHARDS - WRITING 101 & MORE COOL STUFF
Dusty was a double winner of the Spur Award this year for his western book and a western short story. His latest book, MONTANA REVENGE is a follow-up to THE HORSECREEK INCIDENT, which won the spur.
Published authors may bring books to autograph and sell.
TO REGISTER
Dusty - Dust@cox.net
Velda - vebrotherton@gmail.com
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Want to be at the Maui Writers Conference in Fiji - for free?
Then check it out online. Writer's Digest has teamed up with conference officials to offer portions of the retreat for free online viewing. Get the details here. This is only good for new members.
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
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There's a new conference coming to Philly. NoirCon will celebrate the darkest recesses of the human condition - and they are looking for authors who want to participate in panel discussions. Visit www.NoirCon.com for details. Here is a letter about the event from organizers Lou Boxer and Deen Kogan:
We all have a deep seated need to see the “dark, bleak and
lonely” side of life. Some people can bring it right into your house just
by opening a book. NoirCon is a celebration of these artists that shake
us to the core in the comfort of our favorite chair.
NoirCon offers the opportunity to look behind the faces and
the lives of the tortured souls captured on the canvases of Hieronymus Bosch,
Peter Brueghel and David Goodis.It will bring to life the sins, moral failings and dark
existential truths of the human condition. All of these will be set
against the backdrop of a living, breathing city – Philadelphia.
It will also be a gathering of some of the brightest
writers, academicians, fans, editors, publishers and movie lovers of the noir
genre today.
Please come and celebrate the incredibly visceral poetry of
Ken Bruen, as he will be the first recipient of the David Goodis Award.
The David Goodis Award is given to that individual who upholds the Goodis’ writing
style. We will also be celebrating the incomparable Dennis McMillan’s 25
years in the publishing business. Dennis will be the recipient of the
Kogan Award for Literary Excellence.
The first Kogan Award was given this
year posthumously to David Goodis at GoodisCon.We plan to have panels of writers, editors/publishers,
screen writers and movie aficionados of the Noir.
Other panels include
true crime specialists and various Noir trips in Philadelphia. However, we will not just sit back and passively observe the
“dark, bleak and lonely” side of life, rather we will actively try to help the
down trodden and the forgotten by having an auction to benefit the Awassa
Children’s Project –(http://www.awassachildrensproject.org/).
Out of the darkness, we will bring light and hope to those in need not
only in words, but through action!There will be ample time for people to meet, to discuss and
to share each others company. NoirCon is a symposium in the
truest sense of the word. Be a part of it! Do not miss out on the
opportunity to say you were part of the event that everyone will be talking
about! Register today!
www.noircon.com
info@noircon.com
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WW contributor Velda Brother headlines a workshop in Arkansas next month. Details:
Writing Stories from Ozarks Legends
Velda Brotherton's Fall Workshop
Saturday, Nov. 3
9:30 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.
Ozark Folkways, 4 miles south of Winslow, AR on Hwy. 71
What is a legend? It's simply a true story that is bigger than
life, a story that grows generation after generation until it becomes a
terrific tale of heroes and villains, of living, loving, laughing and
crying.
Perhaps your family has such stories, but the gaps keep you from
telling them. Or you recently ran across a tidbit gleaned from an old
newspaper article or family story and you'd like to see it become a
full-fledged fiction or nonfiction story or book.
Guess what? There are ways to research, study and interview
that will enable you to write complete stories from the bits and pieces
of these legendary tales until everyone will grab up your writings and
beg for more.
Is it lying to tell true stories like this? No, of course not.
You become the expert, then you know how the story would go, even if
you weren't there, even if you don't have all the information. Your
book or story becomes fiction based on a true story or creative
nonfiction memoirs or biographies. Or simply family stories written in
such a way that readers clamor to read them.
This workshop will help you learn to reach out for such pieces
of folk tales and fill in all the gaps with research and interviews. It
will help you recreate these characters who might otherwise fade into
the past. It will show you how to put together the story so that it
explodes with excitement, blooms with color, teases with mystery.
Velda Brotherton has been writing for more than 20 years. Her
historical columns have been published in several newspapers and other
publications. She has had several nonfiction books published as well as
many historical fiction novels and short stories, all of which are
based on true stories.
The author has also taught many workshops at writer's
conferences such as Oklahoma Writers Federation, Ozark Creative
Writers, Ozark Writer's League, Ozark Romance Authors, Tulsa
Night Writers, Sleuths Ink and others. This will be her fifth workshop
for Ozark Folkways, a nonprofit organization that regularly offers to
the community workshops teaching folk arts and crafts.
Pre-registering is recommended as the class will be limited to 20. To register, call Connie at 479-634-3791 or Velda at 479-634-3151. Cost of the workshop is $25, a portion of which is donated to Ozark Folkways.
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Get those pens and notebooks ready, Christian authors. The American Christian Fiction Writers will hold its annual conference Sept. 20-23 in Dallas, Texas.
Want the details? Check out www.acfw.com.
You still have time to sign up for the Deadly Ink conference June 29-July 1 in New Jersey. Wicked Wordsmith contributor Lee Lofland will teach a class on CS I Don't Think So. Plan a road trip, or book your flight today. Visit www.deadlyink.com/conference
Angela Wilson - Wicked Wordsmith
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