The Write Stuff
The Official Newsletter of Mobile Writers Guild
Sept 3, 2014
Volume 5 Issue 1
From the President:
Wow, it’s September already! I feel like we just slipped into summer! I hope everyone had a safe and productive and fun-filled summer! We’re gearing up for the start of our new calendar year and I’d like everyone to take a deep breath and think about what you’d like to accomplish for the year. Don’t focus on any failed milestones or goals from this past year. Start now. Think about where you want to be when we have our May meeting, then break that down into smaller, achievable milestones. Bring the first one to the meeting tomorrow which will be your goal to complete for October’s meeting. We can all get to where we want to go if we set out realistic, achievable goals. Good luck and see you tomorrow!
-Angela Trigg w/a Angela Quarles
2014-2015 MWG President
Upcoming Events/Opportunities:
Our next monthly meeting is this THURSDAY, September 4, in the first floor meeting room of the West Regional Library from 6-7:30pm. The presenters at the first meeting of our new calendar year will be–YOU! We’d like to kick off the first meeting by reacquainting ourselves and introducing new folks. If you have published books, please feel free to bring them to sell and be prepared to give a SHORT elevator pitch (1-2 succinct sentences). Even if you don’t have published books, we want you to introduce yourselves. Let us know what you’ve been up to, what projects and goals you have planned for the upcoming year! We’ll also see if anyone is interested in forming critique groups.
Page and Palette will be having their First Friday Author Roundup First with Ken Kilner, Philip Levin, Warren Freeman, Jacqueline Schnitzer this FRIDAY, September 5. For more information, visit: http://www.pageandpalette.com/event/first-friday-author-round-philip-levin
NY Times bestselling author Charles Martin will be having a Book Signing and Author Discussion THURSDAY, September 11th at 6pm at the Celebration Church of Fairhope. Tickets to the event are free and available to pick up at the bookstore. This $10 value is a gift to the community compliments of Page & Palette and Celebration Church.
Are you a writer? A poet? Sense wants to hear from you! Sense, a local magazine, welcomes short fiction, essays, humor and poetry submissions. Submit your edgy, eclectic work to editor@thesenseofitall.com and it could be published in the next issue of Sense!
Member News:
Two of our members landed literary agents! Congratulations to Lee Ann Ward for signing with Katie Reed at Andrea Hurst Literary Management for her two YAs, SEE and GLIMPSES OF WILDERNESS, and Candice Marley Conner for signing with Priya Doraswamy of Lotus Lane Literary for her YA Mystery, THE EXISTENCE OF BEA PEARL! Your hard work paid off! Can’t wait to hear more news from you two!
Congratulations to Joyce Scarbrough! She’s had a very productive summer. SYMMETRY’s worldwide release and paperback release were on July 30. AFTER ME released in August in both e-book and paperback. It will also be included in the PAL member book sale and signing party at the SCBWI wik’14 conference in Birmingham on Oct. 11. She also republished her first two novels via KDP as well as four short stories. Woohoo! Way to go!
Angela Quarles (feels weird talking about myself in the 3rd person) released her debut novel MUST LOVE BREECHES, a time travel romance in both print and ebook format on Sep 3rd.
Continue to send in your writing news and author events to mobilewritersguild@gmail.com so we can share your milestones with the community.
Where to find us:
www.mobilewritersguild.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Mobile-Writers-Guild/132422949536?ref=hnav
On Twitter: @MobileWriters
Email: mobilewritersguild@gmail.com
Remember that comments, suggestions, and questions are welcome—both online and at the meetings. Thanks for your continued support!
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