DENTON WRITERS LEAGUE
FIRST EDITION
November 2008
VOL. 19 NUMBER 11
DWL Home Page: http://byjoni.com/dwl
If you would like a copy of the newsletter e-mailed to you
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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
Evergreen Super Buffet
- click here for map
1006 W. University Dr
Denton, TX
NEXT MEETING: November 8, 2008
Guest Speakers
December 13 - General Meeting
2009
January 10 - Hastings
February 14 - Cindy Vallar - Emily Fowler Library
March 11 - Dianne Sagan - Hastings
April 11 - Emily Fowler Library
May 9 - Dr. Alexey Root - Emily Fowler Library
June 13 - Emily Fowler Library
July 11 - Hastings
August 8 - Emily Fowler Library
September 12 - Emily Fowler Library
October 10 - Emily Fowler Library
November 14 - Emily Fowler Library
December 12 - Emily Fowler Library
GUEST SPEAKER
Cindy Vallar was born and raised in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, She spent her formative years reading books and writing poetry. While in college, she saw a movie based on the life of Jean Laffite, a gentleman pirate who helped Andrew Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Intrigued by the mysterious, she started researching and writing a novel about Laffite. Graduation, career, and marriage put that manuscript on a shelf where it remained until she started working as a school librarian for seriously emotionally challenged teenagers. she returned to writing to relieve the stress inherent in working in special education facilities. During a boring staff meeting, she wrote about a caped figure who crossed the Scottish Highlands during a fierce some storm. After twelve years and numerous revisions, that kernel of an idea blossomed into her first published novel, The Scottish Thistle. She is currently working to complete that pirate novel started many years ago while researching another novel set in the Dust Bowl of western Kansas during the Great Depression. She also writes a monthly maritime history column entitled Pirates and Privateers. She reviews books for Historical Novels Review and Pirates and Privateers. She teaches online courses and in-person workshops on maritime piracy and Scottish history and culture. She is also an editor and copyeditor for Wings Press, as well as a freelance editor. she writes an editing column for The Historical Novel Society's Solander magazine, of which she is an associate editor.
Vist her website at http://www.cindyvallar.com/
I'm in the process of booking guest speakers for 2009. If you know of
anyone who would be interested in speaking to the group, please let me know.
We cannot pay a speaker fee but we do take them to lunch and they are welcome to
bring their books or other merchandise to sell to the members.
ANTHOLOGY UPDATE
We still editing the submissions and should be finished soon. Shortly, I will ask for short bios and pictures to include with your stories. A picture is not necessary, but it will need to be in digital format if you want to include one. If you don't have one, we can arrange for one to be taken at one of the meetings.
HOWDY PARDNERS!
Mosey on up to the bar and and let me tell you about the darnedest, silliest,
most outrageous Western anthology this side of the Mississip'.
Ya'll heard right!
CyberAliens Press'll be spittin' out another one 'o them themed antho's on
May 1, 2009.
We'll be featuring hilarious stories of the Wild West, some sappy Prairie
Romance, and even a little bit 'o SteamPunk - as long as it's
knock-us-on-our-butt funny! We're also lookin' fer cowboy poetry and limericks,
art and comics, and anything else that's sure-as-shootin' silly.
So saddle yer ponies, get them doggies ta market then set yerself down and write
us the silliest bunch a words what never come outta that pencil a yers.
In plain language:
We are looking for short stories from 500 to 3500 words in
length, poems, jokes, puns, limericks and general silliness. All submissions
must be on one of the following themes:
Submissions open November 1, 2008 an' close on February 28, 2009. Acceptances and declines will be ongoing through the submission period. No early or late submissions will be accepted. Put "SUBMISSION: [TITLE]" in the subject line, and address all correspondence to The Editors (there's two of us) and email them to: sillywestern@gmail.com - ¿Comprende? Now saddle up and write.
POETRY CORNER
Poetry Group
3rd Saturday
10:00 am
Emily Fowler Library
502 Oakland St
Denton, TX
Open Mic Night
4th Wednesday
7:00 pm
Recycled Books
200 N Locust St
Denton, TX
I found this website awhile back and have used it on several occasions. I thought some of you might benefit from it.
Dan Poynter's ParaPublishing.com Website - http://parapub.com/sites/para/
Wherever you are in the development of your book (thinking, planning, writing, producing or promoting stage), we have the tools to make your venture faster, easier and more successful. This site has hundreds of pages of information and free documents plus books (both ours and those from other publishers), reports, disks and tapes. Just click on your area in the menu below. For specific information, use the search feature.
Request a Free Information Kit
Some books, reports, tapes, and disks are listed more than once because they cover more than one of the listed areas. Some (shorter) resources are available immediately while others will be airmailed to you.CONVENTIONS
Convention
Month Place
URL
ConDFW Feb Dallas, TX
http://www.condfw.org/
Texas Frightmare Feb
Dallas, TX
http://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/lifetype/
AggieCon March Bryan, TX
http://aggiecon.tamu.edu/
Dreamin' in Dallas April Dallas, TX http://www.dallasromanceauthors.com/conferences/
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/
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/
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
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 (
joni1957@verizon.net) - 940/382-4865
Vice-President Kelly Christiansen
Newsletter George Avera (
george.819471@verizon.net) - 940/387-8315
