DENTON WRITERS LEAGUE
FIRST EDITION
 June 2010 VOL. 21 NUMBER 5

DWL Home Page: http://byjoni.com/dwl

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please contact Joni Latham-dentonwritersleague@verizon.net.

WHERE WE MEET AND WHEN

The second Saturday of every month, at the

Denton Library-Emily Fowler Branch - click here for map 
502 Oakland St
 Denton, TX

General Meeting 10:30 a.m.

Lunch at Noon at the
TBD
Denton, TX

NEXT MEETING: June 12, 2010

Guest Speakers

June 12 - Danny Puckett - Emily Fowler Library
July 10 - - Emily Fowler Library
August 14 - Cindy Vallar - Emily Fowler Library
September 11 - Cindy Vallar - Emily Fowler Library
October 9 - Karolina Blaha-Black - Emily Fowler Library
November 13 - - Emily Fowler Library
December 11 - - Emily Fowler Library

GUEST SPEAKER

Danny Pucket was born and raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma and has lived in Texas almost 20 years. He worked at Medical City Dallas Hospital for 11 years helping provide surgical supplies for over 20 Operating Rooms. He was ready for a career change in 2005 and prayed to the Lord to help him discover the career he was designed to do. In early 2006, his request was answered as he did volunteer work at one of the City of Denton libraries. He applied to and was accepted by the UNT School of Library Science later that year and graduated in May, 2009 with a Master's degree in Library Science.

He is employed with the Lake Cities Library in Lake Dallas and have been since October, 2009. His favorite part of library work is assisting the patrons in meeting their information needs.

If you have something you would like Danny to help you research for the next meeting, please e-mail me before the June meeting and I will forward it to him.

 It's Membership Renewal Time!

The new fiscal year for the Denton Writers League starts May 2010 and runs through April 2011. The dues remain the same. $15 for the year. You may renew at the April or May meeting or mail your membership fee to:
Joni Latham
2005 Lakeview Ln
Denton, TX
76208

We have a busy year planned. The speaker openings for this year are almost full and we are going to try our hand at publishing another anthology.

 Renew Your Membership Today.
Denton Writers League Anthology

Update:  Since no one is booked for July, I think I will use that meeting to plan for the new anthology.  Please think about how you would like to proceed with this project and the part you would like to play.

It seems that everyone would like to do another anthology this year.

Due to the varying genres of our members, we will not limit the content to just one genre. Non-fiction will be accepted too. It has been suggested that any non-fiction pieces be related to writing and any aspects of writing (ie, marketing, publishing, editing).

We'll need 4 or 5 editors. At the moment, I have two volunteers plus myself. The editors will read the submissions for acceptance. Once accepted, the submissions will be divided amongst the editors for content and grammatical editing. I'll format the manuscript for publishing. We also need to decide if we want to go through Dan Case or publish it ourselves through lulu.com.

Besides volunteers for editing, we will need to decide on a submission deadline, a title and cover art. I think due to what I learned last time, we'll limit the short stories and essays to 5000 words and the poetry to 25 lines but no limit on the number of poetry submissions. Some of the poetry in the last anthology were so long that it carried over to another page and sometimes over to two pages which made the flow hard to maintain which in turn made the poem hard to read.

The requirement is that if the submission is accepted and they are not already a member of the DWL, that they join since it is a DWL Project.

POETRY CORNER

Poetry Group
3rd Saturday
10:00 am
Emily Fowler Library
502 Oakland St
Denton, TX

Basement Poetry
1st Wednesday
7:00 pm
Hydrant Cafe
208 W Oak St
Denton, TX

ANNUAL CONVENTIONS
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CONVENTIONS

Convention                   Month    Place                    URL             

ConDFW                   Feb     Dallas, TX       http://www.condfw.org/
AggieCon                 March   Bryan, TX        http://aggiecon.tamu.edu/
Dreamin' in Dallas       April   Dallas, TX       http://www.dallasromanceauthors.com/conferences/
Texas Frightmare         May     Dallas, TX       http://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/lifetype/
ApolloCon                June    Houston, TX      http://www.apollocon.org/
Conestoga                July    Tulsa, OK        http://www.sftulsa.org/conestoga/
Armadillo Con            August  Austin, TX       http://www.fact.org/dillo/
Mythcon                  August  Norman, OK       http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon37.html
Bubonicon                August  Albuquerque, NM  http://www.bubonicon.com/
Fencon                   Sept    Dallas, TX       http://www.fencon.org/
     A comprehensive list of other conventions    http://www.fencon.org/links.html#calendar
World Fantasy Con        Nov     Austin, TX       http://www.worldfantasy.org/ 

On-Line Writers resources

Author's Network-for writers about writing based in Europe, but interesting- http://www.author-network.com/
Copyright Forms- http://www.loc.gov/copyright/forms/
The New Covey Cover Awards - http://thenewcoveycoverawards.blogspot.com
Dallas Screen Writers- http://www.dallasscreenwriters.com/
Denton Public Library - http://www.cityofdenton.com/pages/library.cfm
Flashing Swords Magazine - http://flashingswords.sfreader.com
Fort Worth Book Blog - http://booksblog.guidelive.com/
Glimmer Train Press, Inc.-A quarterly magazine of about 260 pages of literary fiction - http://www.glimmertrain.com/
How Stuff Works - Want to know how something works, try this link - http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Lulu.Com - A Self-Publisher - http://www.lulu.com/
MeetUp.Com - A place to find MeetUp groups in your area  - http://www.meetup.com/
   Jeff Crilley's DFW Do-It Yourself PR Group - http://freepublicity.meetup.com/1/
National Association of Women Writers - http://www.naww.org
National Writers Union - http://www.nwu.org/
Next Day Flyers - bookmarks, postcards, business cards, flyers, etc - http://www.nextdayflyers.com/printing/
Northeast Texas Writers' Organization - http://www.netwo.org/
Para Publishing Website - a good writing, publishing, and promotion source - http://www.parapublishing.com/sites/para/
Preditors and Editors-a resources to check out agents and publishers http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/
Printing for Less - Good prices and I understand good product - http://www.printingforless.com/index.html
Ralan's Webstravaganza-speculative fiction resource http://ralan.com/
Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators - http://www.scbwi.org/
Suite 101 - read articles on a variety of subjects or post your own - http://www.suite101.com/
Texas Coalition of Authors, Inc. - http://www.texasauthors.org/
The Market List-the online resource for genre fiction writers http://www.marketlist.com/
The Novelist's Workshop-essays and advice on how to publish your book- http://www.monash.com/writers.html
Vista Prints - inexpensive business cards, postcards, etc - http://www.vistaprint.com
Writing for Dollars - Good resource on paying markets with a weekly newsletter -   http://www.writingfordollars.com/
Writers Conferences and Centers - http://writersconf.org/
Writer's Exchange - http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/
Writer.com - on-line classes and other writer's information - http://writers.com/
Writers' League of Texas - http://www.writersleague.org/
Writers Net-source for information for writers, editors, agents, and publishers - http://www.writers.net
Writing-World.Com - http://www.writing-world.com 
Writing.Com - Community for readers and writers of all skills levels and interests - http://www.writing.com

There are multitudes of writing resources available on the Internet. Go to any search engine and ask for writer's resources, writer's markets, writer's contests, writer's conferences, etc

DWL OFFICERS:

President       Joni Latham ( dentonwritersleague@verizon.net) - 940/382-4865
Vice-President 
Newsletter      George Avera ( george.819471@verizon.net) - 940/387-8315

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