Meetings
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
General Meetings are held the 1st Thursday of the month at Apollo's Restaurant in Olympia and go from 6 to 9 p.m.
| 2008 | SPEAKER - AGENDA |
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| May 3rd Saturday morning, at the Urban Onion,
from 10 a.m. until Noon. |
Yasmine Galenorn! Yasmine recently hit the extended NYT Bestsellers List with her
book 'The Darkling'! This is the third in her exciting book series about three
half-human, half-Faerie sisters: The Witchling, the Changeling and the Darkling...
Yasmine will be speaking on "The Organized Writer--How to Juggle Your Business
With Your Art." She will cover a broad variety of issues: promo, organization and
business aspects, including what you can do to prepare before you publish.
(And of course, after you publish!)
Yasmine is an accomplished speaker, and relates well to her audience.
If you have questions about how to promote your work, how to persevere, etc.,
then please come and ask her. I know you will greatly enjoy her talk!
Please note a change of our usual time and place:
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| June 5th |
Self-Coaching For The Writer
Terrel Hoffman will show writers how to apply some of the techniques she uses as a life coach
to achieve their goals and stay on track.
Terrel is the founder of Courageous Thinking, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to
teach critical thinking skills to at-risk individuals and groups. During the six months she worked
with her own life coach to bring her dream into the realm of possibility she realized the power of
the disciplines philosophy. In 2006 she completed the core curriculum defined by the International
Coaching Federation. Terrel practices the Co-Active Model of life coaching.
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| July 3rd |
Summer Break. No meeting.
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| August 7th |
Summer Break. No meeting.
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| September 4th |
Connie Johnson, a local freelance editor, will join us as speaker. Connie has an MFA and currently edits novels and non-fiction books for writers. She does free appraisals and offers hourly rates as well as project rates.
At this point, she has not specialized in a particular genre of fiction, but that may change. Connie also writes fiction, so she understands where writers are coming from.
She will join us to explain "Layers of Editing," and give us pointers on making our editing better. She will take questions, and give encouragement.
Note: The drawing for the 100 club prize.
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| October 9th |
Samhain Executive Editor Angela James will be talking about publishing with small presses and some of the myths of e-publishing.
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| November 6th |
Pam Bowerman, writing as Jami Davenport, will be delivering vital news to all of us tonight. As a recent multi-published, e-published author, Pam took the initiative to study up on many of the e-publishers. She has generously offered to share her findings with us!
Her talk will touch on important topics for authors: Which epubs are more author-friendly? Which ones provide the really good covers? Which ones follow through on what they tell the author they'll do? And, What about marketing?
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| December |
Holiday Brunch. Date and Time: TBA
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