I apologize for being so late in posting this information. I fell at work recently and suffered a mild concussion. But I’m okay now.
Marcia Moston
We’ll be meeting tomorrow, Saturday, January 21st in the conference room of the Downtown Greenville Airport from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Our speaker will be Marcia Moston, [...]
Ellis Vidler
As a child in the South, Ellis Vidler spent long, hot days imagining herself an Indian or pioneer or musketeer. At night she (and her whole family) read. From Tarzan and D’Artagnan to Anne Shirley and Nancy Drew, she lived them all. No angst in her childhood. So what did she do as an [...]
Mark your calendar for December 17th and the AAWC Meeting! It’s that time again!
What: AnAuthor World Community Meeting
When: Saturday, December 17, 2011
Time: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Place: Conference Room in the Downtown Greenville Airport
Address: 100 Tower Drive
Directions: from N. Pleasantburg, turn onto Tower Drive at the the light; [...]
Here’s an email from Highlights Foundation that I wanted to share with y’all:
Bobbie Combs and Laurina Cashin, cofounders of welovechildrensbooks.com, know a thing or two about the children’s book industry. Their combined experience spans every corner of the book market, including writing, retail and library wholesaling, marketing and sales, trade and self-publishing, collection development, book [...]
A Facebook post from a friend of mine in Houston, Thelma Zirkelbach:
Hi, Facebook friends, I’m guest editing a book on widowhood with Silver Boomer Books, so this is a call for submissions. Either prose or poetry on some aspect of widowhood will do. Check out www.silverboomerbooks.com for more information.
Silver Boomer Books
www.silverboomerbooks.com
“We didn’t mean to [...]
Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 19th. That’s our next AnAuthor World Community meeting!
Our speaker will be Ann Ross, author of the Miss Julia series. She’ll be discussing “How I Get My Ideas” and using examples from her books. I love talks like this, because I’m always amazed at the origin [...]
Lynette EasonMeet Lynette Eason, our speaker for tomorrow’s AnAuthor World Community meeting! She’ll be talking on “How to Go from Bad to Worse and Make Your Readers Beg for More.” AAW Community will meet tomorrow, Saturday, October 15th from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the conference room at the Downtown Greenville Airport (100 [...]
We are canceling the conference. We just didn’t have enough attendees to meet our expenses. I know that people often wait until the last couple of weeks to sign up, but we have decided not to take that chance. I want you to know how much I appreciated all the hard work [...]
(Thanks to Melinda Brown Long. This is from her Facebook post.)
TEEN TRACK: LET THE STORIES BEGIN!
In the first AM Session we will:
* Have fun. Explore. Improvise.
* Learn how to “Show, Don’t tell!” and how to learn from literature.
* Learn about the Writing-Revising Cycle.
* Exercise “Muscle Words.”
* Mine our lives for feelings and experiences which will inform our stories.
Second AM Session:
* Identify great characters. Learn [...]