Saturday, April 28, 2007
FORMER TAMPA GROUP LEADER RECEIVES AWARDS
FWA member and former Tampa Group Leader Tracy A. Akers is pleased to announce that her novel, The Fire and the Light, Book One of the Souls of Aredyrah Series, has been named the Winner in the Young Adult Fiction category of the Eric Hoffer Awards. This awards program was established to honor independent books of exceptional merit. All of the honored books are covered in the annual anthology, Best New Writing.
In addition, The Fire and the Light was recently recognized as an Award Winning Finalist in two categories of the Indie Excellence Awards: Young Adult Fiction, and Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Previous awards for The Fire and the Light include being named a Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards (winners to be announced June 1,) and a Bronze Medal Winner for Young Adult Literature in the Florida Book Awards. As a result of the Florida Book Awards, The Fire and the Light will be a highlighted title in the Florida Humanities Council's summer edition if their quarterly publication, Forum.
For additional information about Tracy A. Akers and her series of books, please visit www.soulsofaredyrah.com.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
TAMPA GROUP MEETING FOR APRIL
Greetings everyone,
I'm alerting you sooner than normal about our April 21st meeting because our guest speaker is Bo Savino, who is Editor-in-Chief of Koboca Publishing. She'll talk about why manuscripts are accepted/rejected and take questions thereafter for a total speaking time of forty-five minutes.
What's really cool is following her talk, Bo will READ MANUSCRIPTS ON THE SPOT. Do you want to be a published author? Do you want to find out the inside scoop about what works and what doesn't? Do you want to make a connection for the future, particularly if your manuscript is a work in progress? If you've answered yes to any or all of the above questions, I urge you to come to our meeting.
INSTRUCTIONS: READ CAREFULLY
To have your manuscript read, you must be a FWA member in good standing.
To have your manuscript read, you must have a number. Respond as quickly as possible because news has leaked out of Bo Savino's coming. Numbers are being scarfed up. If you want your manuscript read, please contact either Julia Thornbrough, The Tampa Group Leader at jthornbrough@tampabay.rr.com or Kaye Coppersmith, our resident editor of FWA at sunnyskyes@earthlink.net.
Bring only the first five pages of your manuscript. If Bo wants more, she'll ask you to send it along with a query letter and synopsis.
On the cover page of your manuscript, type your genre. Drop down a few lines and type, couble-spaced in a 12 point Courier or Times New Roman font, a three to five sentence blurb (think 30 second pitch) covering what your books' about.
Bo Savino will allot five (5) minutes per manuscript. We'll have a stop watch and someone will call time.
MEETING LOCATION:
WHERE:
Barnes & Noble (Carrollwood location)
11802 North Dale Mabry HWY
Tampa, FL 33618
813-962-4799 (of store)
WHEN:
Saturday April 21
10 AM - noon
WHO:
Bo Savino
Editor-in-Chief of Koboca Publishing
WHAT:
What works and what doesn't in manuscript submission
Will review manuscripts on the spot
LUNCH AFTERWARDS
WHERE:
Will review manuscripts on the spot
LUNCH AFTERWARDS
WHERE:
Nicki's Omelette and Grill
11610 North Dale Mabry HWY
Tampa, FL 33618
813-908-3447
(Is located in same business strip as Carrollwood's Outback restaurant.)
Julia Thornbrough
Group Leader
Hillsborough County
11610 North Dale Mabry HWY
Tampa, FL 33618
813-908-3447
(Is located in same business strip as Carrollwood's Outback restaurant.)
Julia Thornbrough
Group Leader
Hillsborough County
