Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Self-Published Authors Regional Conference
Holiday PARC S SPARC self-published authors regional conference.
November 16 and 17 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM
3190 Tyrone Boulevard North Street, St. Petersburg, FL 33710
Come browse and buy special books from talented local authors.
Book sales benefit the children and adults at the multi-hazard shelter complex campaign for PARC (Pinellas Association for Retarded Citizens)
For more information contact: Marcia Freespirit of Jimsam Inc. at 813-748-9523 or mfreespirit@jimsaminc.com
Also visit PARC at their web site http://www.parc-fl.org/
"Years ago I took a tour of the PARC facilities and it is amazing what good they do for the mentally handicapped. I was greatly impressed."
Eugene Orlando
Regional FWA Director
Hillsborough County
Friday, October 19, 2007
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest
This is an unpublished fiction novel contest open Oct 1 – Nov 5 accepting the first 5,000 entries. NO ENTRY FEE! You register online for one of the 5,000 entry spots and have up to 7 days to submit your full manuscript. For more details, go to the amazon.com home page, scroll down to “Amazon Services” (on the left side) and “For the Community” and click on “Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest”. I just registered on Oct 18, and they were still taking entries. Grand prize is a contract with Penguin and a $25,000 advance on royalties.
Eugene Orlando
FWA Regional Director/Hillsborough County
FWA St. Pete November Meeting
The Florida Writers Association (FWA) will hold its November 8th meeting at the West Library on the campus of St. Petersburg College, 67th Street and 7th Avenue North.
The meeting begins with networking at 6:30 p.m. with the program at 7:00 in the conference room. The evening will be spent in a round table discussion focusing on punctuation with emphasis on why, what, where, and when. Come prepared with questions, realizing this discussion may slide into the realm of verb tenses and other tense issues of writing.
If you have specific written material where you can’t make a decision, bring it with you and present your dilemma to the panel of experts.
Contact Freda Ward at fredagowerward@earthlink.net.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
October Meeting
Greetings everyone,
This Saturday we have a real treat for you. How many of you out there are creating characters for your award winning novel or story from your cerebral? You know, descriptions like, Joe’s a policeman, has brown hair, oldest of six children, and always wanted to be a cop. The character is actually pretty flat. Right? Our guest speaker, Dr. Terra Pressler, received her doctorate in screenwriting and is an attorney. If there’s anyone who knows how to work both sides of the brain, it’s Dr. Terra Pressler. Instead of creating our characters from the head up, she’s going to show us how to go full body and give our characters an exciting three dimension.
You’re not going to be passively sitting. Oh, no! She’s going to have us up and moving about. Once we learn her technique, it should be pretty interesting. Come one! Come all. Let your hair down and allow yourself to be a kid again. Life is fun. Characters are fun, if we let them come alive.
Following our meeting, we will join our guest speaker for lunch at Nikki’s.
WHAT: How to Create Characters with Pizzazz
WHERE: Barnes & Noble (Carrollwood)
11802 North Dale Mabry
Tampa, FL 33618
813-962-4799
WHO: Dr. Terra Pressler
WHEN: Saturday October 20 -- 10 am to noon
Lunch follows at Nikki’s.
Julia Thornbrough
Friday, October 05, 2007
2nd Pitch Workshop
Everyone,
If you missed the first opportunity to perfect your pitch, have no remorse. Another chance awaits you. Molli Nickell has graciously agreed to return to Piccadilly on Tuesday, October 16. As before, we will gather at 5:30 for dinner. From 6:30 – 8:30 we will take turns practicing. Whether you have something ready to go or are in the process of crafting your work, it never hurts to be prepared. When opportunity knocks, you definitely want to be ready.
Please remember to buy dinner. We need at least ten participants. This is our way of giving back to Piccadilly for being so kind and generous to us. We’ll be meeting in the back room.
You can let Kaye Coppersmith know if you plan to practice your pitch by e-mailing her at sunnyskyes@earthlink.net.
Molli Nickell is a publishing consultant who will be leading a workshop on October 13 from 9 AM to 5 PM on “Getting Published Now.” You can check out her website at www.gettingpublishednow.biz. Her e-mail address is mollikatee@yahoo.com And she can be reached at 727-772-8270.
Thanks to all.
Julia Thornbrough
