I self published a second quilting science fiction novel, When Chenille Is Not Enough, with coauthor Ann Anastasio. We were offered a free ad in the program for the Studio Art Quilt Associates conference in April. Since quilters are our target audience, we jumped at the opportunity. We didn’t read the fine print, however, which stipulated the size […]
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Gretchen McNeill will be the guest speaker at our next monthly meeting on Saturday, May 18, 2013, at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, clown, and writer. She has written the Young Adult horror POSSESS about a teen exorcist which debuted in 2011. Her follow up, TEN
J. K. Royce has published Pilz, her first novel. It is a suspense story that explores the sleazy underside of the medical profession, a world she witnessed when she was a state assistant attorney general in Michigan. Pilz is available on amazon.com in printed and Kindle versions.
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Congratulations to Vicky Hudson, a participant in the Pulitzer Remix project which unites 85 poets to create found poetry from the 85 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction-winning texts. Beginning April 1, each poet will write and post one poem per day on the project website, http://www.pulitzerremix.com. The project will generate more than 2,500 found poems.
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April is National Poetry Month, a celebration to increase awareness and appreciation of our beloved poets. Take a moment this month and read a poem. Below is an excerpt from “An April Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). When the warm sun, that bringsSeed-time and harvest, has returned again,‘T is sweet to visit the still wood,
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Susan Sachs Lipman’s program in March gave me lots of ideas for my as-yet-uncreated website, and my needs-to-be-updated blog site, as well as the impetus to become an expert in my field (what, you didn’t realize you need to know about quilting science fiction?). I left the meeting feeling enlightened and energized. So what should
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No, I don’t mean odds. The odds are against me would be a cliché, not an acceptable title for a modern blogger. See, there it is again—the OG in blogger—a person who writes a blog. That would be me as I hurl this post into the blogosphere (another OG) where blogs reside. Add a single
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Linda Lee will be the guest speaker at our next monthly meeting on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Four Points by Sheraton, 5115 Hopyard, Pleasanton. What should a great author’s website look like? Linda Lee will discuss the key components of a website including social media badges, a sales page for your book, sample
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“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Silence,” a poem by B. Lynn Goodwin is to be published in the next Story Circle Network‘s True Words Journal focusing on silence.
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I read a column by SciFi great Robert Silverberg about his writing desk, the one he has used for fifty years. It’s gray steel, with drawers, made in America. My desk is also gray and made in America (by my husband). I’m not sure what Silverberg envisioned when he installed the desk in his New York
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