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Colorado Book Organizations Events
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2006 DIY Book Festival
Call for Entries The DIY Book Festival will consider self-published or independent
publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's
books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, photography, art, comics, 'zines,
fan fiction, poetry and e-books published on or after Jan. 1, 2004.
Read on ...
Pikes Peak Romance Writers
has scheduled two
interesting workshops on character and plot this summer for writers
of all genres. Go to
www.pprw.org
for more information.
August 25-27, 2006
Yosemite Writers Conference
Editors, agents to speak at annual Yosemite Writers Conference
Keynote speaker: T. Jefferson Parker
Eighteen magazine and book publishing professionals, including
best-selling novelist T. Jefferson Parker, will speak to aspiring and
published writers at the 2006 Yosemite Writers Conference, Aug. 25-27 at
the Tenaya Lodge. Cost is $350, and the Tenaya Lodge is offering a
special group rate.
On Sunday, August 27th at 9:00 a.m., Parker will read from his newest
book, The Fallen, followed by a booksigning that will be open to the
public. General admission for this event is $10. Students free.
The conference will feature one-on-one meetings with editors and agents,
as well as workshops on how to write fiction, nonfiction, memoir,
poetry, thrillers, inspirationals and short stories. Two new features of
the conference are a Magical Mystery Walk with thriller novelist Bonnie
Hearn Hill and mystery novelist Sheree Petree; and a Literary Nature
Walk with songwriter John Koontz and award-winning nonfiction writer
Cindy Wathen—available to the first 20 to register and claim them. Free
one-on-one consultations are also available to those who register early.
Winners of the Yosemite Writers Contest and the 2006 Sheila L. Stephens
Scholarship will also be announced.
Writers have traveled from as far away as Virginia, Florida, Kansas,
Ohio, Georgia, Mississippi, Bermuda, Thailand and Scotland to attend the
conference.
Keynote speaker T. Jefferson Parker is a two-time winner of the Mystery
Writers of America Edgar Award for Best Novel. A Southern California
native, his first novel, Laguna Heat, written on evenings and weekends
while he worked as a journalist, was published to rave reviews and was
made into an HBO movie starring Harry Hamlin, Jason Robards and Rip
Torn. The paperback made The New York Times bestseller list in 1986.
Parker's following novels—all dealing with crime, life and death in
sunny Southern California—were published to rave reviews and appeared on
many bestseller lists. His writing has been called "potent and
irresistible" (L.A. Times) and "resonant, literate and powerful" (Kirkus).
The New York Times wrote that "T. Jefferson Parker is a powerhouse
writer." Writing in the Washington Post, reviewer Carolyn See called The
Triggerman's Dance "a masterpiece." Where Serpents Lie and The Blue Hour
appeared for five weeks on the L.A. Times bestseller list. Red Light and
Silent Joe made No. 1 on that list in May of 2000 and 2001, respectively
and Silent Joe went on to win the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award
for Best Novel and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best
Mystery/Thriller. Cold Pursuit was named Novel of the Year by the
Southern California Booksellers Association. California Girl won Parker
his second Best Novel Edgar.
Local faculty members, including mystery novelist Sheree Petree,
thriller novelist Bonnie Hearn Hill, editor/nonfiction author Cindy
Wathen and Hazel Dixon-Cooper, the Cosmopolitan Bedside Astrologer, will
also speak. Editors and agents include: Laura Dail, Laura Dail Literary
Agency, Inc.; June Clark, The Peter Rubie Agency; Stacey Barney,
Kensington Books; Kristen Godsey, Writer's Digest magazine; Andrea
Brown, Andrea Brown Literary Agency; Maggie Griffin, Maggie Griffin
Creative Enterprises; Doris Booth, authorlink.com and Authorlink
Literary Associates; Anne Hawkins, John Hawkins & Associates; Erin
Hosier, The Gernert Company; Regina Brooks, Serendipity; Irene Webb,
Irene Webb Agency (film agent); Randy Heyman, University of California
Press; Aaron Wehner, Ten Speed Press; and Kassia Krosier, booksquare.com.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has
received from The James Irvine Foundation.
Additional information is available at
http://www.yosemitewriters.com or
by calling 877-849-0176
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Sunday, September 24th
PPRW Regular
Meeting
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Falcon Police Station
7850 Goddard Street, Colorado Springs, CO
Kally Jo Surbeck, Writing Comedy
Kally Jo SurbeckLearn how to inject humor into your work without making
it appear forced when Triskelion author Kally Jo Surbeck speaks on this
more-difficult-than-you-think subject.
Kally Jo is the 2005 president of Colorado Romance Writers and an active
RWA member since 2000. She's has published seven books with LooseID,
Triskelion Publishing and Vintage Romance Publishing, including For The
Love Of, a 2005 EPPIE winner and 2004 Dream Realms Awards finalist.
Visit her website at
http://www.kallyjosurbeck.com/
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September
14th = Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers
Join the
Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America for dinner with
David B. Weiding at the Denver Press Club. David started out as an
enlisted man, classification E-1, scrubbing decks and floated up to a
mid-level Intel officer briefing the HPSCI. His range of stories
included: *at sea in WestPac on a destroyer as the EW/Intel/Cryppie guy
dodging TU-95s and Soviet Intel collectors and typhoons. *Battling
within the Intel Community around the beltway (probably boring),
including being in the IC as we prepped for Iraq and my own tales of
chasing WMD. *chasing Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan (probably the
most pertinent), being in country as an Officer In Charge of a special
intelligence detachment and receiving my Bronze star. He promises to be
very interesting and entertaining!
Dinner will be
served at 7:00 p.m., with the program starting at 8:00 p.m. NOTE:
because of changes at the Denver Press Club, dinner will now be served
by Food For Thought, a Denver caterer. The meal on the 14th will
include: a spinach salad, a chicken Breast wrapped in bacon in cream
sauce served with rice and mixed vegetables, rolls and butter, carrot
cake for dessert, and water and/or iced tea as a beverage. Coffee, soft
drinks and other assorted beverages are available to order from the
Denver Press Club cash bar. Cost of the meal is $15 per person, and
reservations for dinner are a must! Please RSVP to chris (at) christinegoff.com,
and be prepared to pay for your meal with cash or by check at the
meeting. No Shows will be expected to pay. Deadline for reservations
and/or cancellations is Tuesday, September 12th.
September 19th
RMMWA Mystery
Critique group at the Denver Press Club. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.
Contact chris (at) christinegoff.com for more info.
(The directions
to the Denver Press Club, located at 1330 Glenarm Place in Denver, are
as follows: Take 1-25 to 6th Ave. east. Turn north onto Santa Fe to
Colfax Ave (15th) and turn right (east). Go about 4 blocks to Glenarm,
turn left (north). The Denver Press Club will be about a block and half
down on the right hand side, across from the Denver Athletic Club. It’s
a small stone building with an awning. Parking is available to the
south, in the lot next to the Press Club, for $4. Bring singles or a
credit card. You must pay the machine and then leave the ticket on your
dashboard. Otherwise, there is meter parking on the street, for which
you will need quarters. The Denver Press Club telephone number in the
event you get lost is 303-571-5260.)
Saturday, November 11
The Big Book Bash at the annual Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL)
Conference!
Hello Authors,
What do you get when you put hundreds of librarians and hundreds of
authors together in one gigantic room?
The Big Book Bash at the annual Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL)
Conference!
Clear your calendars and watch your email! We’ll be sending out
registration instructions very soon. You do not need to reply to this
message.
What: 4th Annual Big Book Bash
Where: Colorado Association of Libraries Conference,
John Q. Hammons Convention Center/Holiday Inn
DIA (I-70 & Chambers)
Denver, CO
When: Saturday evening, November 11th
For those of you who are unfamiliar with this event, the Big Book Bash
is an opportunity for Colorado authors to share their literary works
with librarians from around the state. There is no cost to participate
in this two-hour networking event. A book vendor will be on site,
selling copies of participating authors’ works.
***The CAL Conference also offers opportunities for individualized
presentations.*** If you are an excellent speaker and have interest in
presenting a program, workshop or lecture at the CAL Conference, please
visit http://www.cal-webs.org to submit a program proposal.
Sincerely,
Rita Conley & Jennifer Hoffman
Big Book Bash Committee Chairs
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Saturday, July 15, 2006
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Sunday,
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Writer's Digest Poetry Awards! Regardless of
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2007 Poet's Market.
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