PACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATION
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Dear (Contact First Name),
E-Notes
is your monthly electronic newsletter full of the latest news about the
Northwest literary world. Our newsletter is a PNWA Member Benefit.
Please send us an email if you would like to place an announcement in next month's E-Notes: enotes@pnwa.org
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PNWA NEWS:
October Meeting:
Thursday, October 15th.
Location: Chinook Middle School 2001 98th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98004Time: 7:00 P.M. (Board Meeting begins at 6:00 P.M.)Topic: Trends in the industry.Speaker: TBAWriting Connections 2009:(In association with Skagit Valley Writers League.)Saturday, October 17, 2009Location: Mount Vernon Community & Senior Center 1404 Cleveland Mount Vernon, WA 98273Time: Noon - 4:00 P.M.Program:Jane Alynn - local poet, teacher and author of Threads and Dust.Liz Adair - Mystery author and workshop leader. Writing Family History as Fiction.Mary Trimble - Prolific nonfiction and award winning fiction author. Writing for Pleasure, Marketing for Profit. Chuck Robinson - Instant Books with Espresso Book Machine and Marketing to Bookstores.This event is free and open to the public.Seating is limited, please RSVP to Ann at (360) 445-2507 or brittan@nase.org.Member News:PNWA Member Looking for North Sound
Critique Group
I am a Skagit County writer in
the mystery and thriller genre and am
interested in forming or joining a small critique group in the area (Snohomish,
Skagit, Whatcom counties) consisting of members interested in similar genres
(but mixed genres are okay). Published and first-time writers
welcome. Ideally, the group would be open to meeting both online and
in-person. Anxious to have constructive technical and story critiques.
Please contact Clayton at cking63@hotmail.com
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CONTEST/SUBMISSIONS:
PNWA Literary Contest:
It's
your chance to shine. Every writer knows there comes a time to send
their work out into the world. Don't miss this opportunity to put your
work to the test and compete with some of the best at the Annual PNWA
Literary Contest. There are 12 categories, cash prizes and accepted
entries receives two valuable critiques. In addition, finalists' entries are read and judged by an agent or editor to determine the top three in each category. Winners are announced every
year at the Summer Conference in front of writers, agents and editors
Featuring Twelve Categories:
- Mainstream
- Historical Genre (NEW THIS YEAR)
- Romance Genre
- Mystery/Thriller Genre
- Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Young Adult Novel
- Non-Fiction Book/Memoir
- Screen Writing
- Poetry
- Short Story
- Children's Picture Book or Chapter Book
- Adult Short Topics (Article/Essay/Short Memoir)
Please visit our website (www.pnwa.org) for details and contest entry form.
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CLASSES/WORKSHOPS:
PNWA Fall Workshop Series: Structuring the Novel.
Dates: October 14th, 21st and 28th thru
November 4th, 11th, and 18th
Location: Chinook Middle School (2001 98th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98008)
Course description: Structuring the Novel This is a six-week course designed
for those who have written a novel or a partial novel, and cannot seem to get
to the next step. Consisting of both lecture and group critique, with some
limited homework assignments, the class will focus on the planning and analysis
required in both writing a novel and editing it. We will discuss plotting,
characterization, scene and sequel, Point of View, Backstory, Dialogue, the
concept of show-don't-tell, and the utilization of theme and subtext in writing
the most compelling novel possible.
Instructor: Megan Chance
Megan Chance is the critically acclaimed,
award-winning author of several novels. The Best Reviews has said she writes
"Fascinating historical fiction." A former television news photographer with a
BA from Western Washington University, Megan Chance lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters.
Workshop Fee:
PNWA Member = $250.00
Non-member = $300.00
CLICK HERE to download workshop registration form.
SIGN-UP NOW 4 SPOTS LEFT!
PNWA Fall Workshop Series: How to write a New York Times Best Seller.
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2009
Location: Chinook Middle School (2001 98th Ave NE Bellevue, WA 98008)
Course description: Robert Dugoni will teach a one day seminar on how to
write a New York Times Best Selling Novel. Storytelling Techniques to increase
your chances of publication and bring your writing to life. This seminar will be held on Saturday,
November 7th.
Instructor: Robert Dugoni
Robert Dugoni was born in Pocatello,
Idaho and raised in Burlingame, California. He attended UCLA law school
and practiced full-time in San Francisco as a partner at the law firm,
Gordon and Rees. In 1999 he made the decision to quit the full-time
practice of law to write novels and settled in Seattle to pursue his
dream. (He is currently of counsel for a law firm in Seattle.) For the
next three years, Dugoni completed three novels, two of which won the
1999 and 2000 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association Literary Contests.
Dugoni's nonfiction expose, The Cyanide Canary, became a Washington
Post Best Book of the year, and the Idaho Book of the Year. His debut
novel, The Jury Master became a NewYork Times bestseller. Deadly
Pleasures Mystery Magazine chose it as one of three "Best of the Best"
debut novels of 2006. Dugoni's second novel, Damage Control, reached
number 8 on several national independent bookseller's lists. Dugoni
recently signed a two book deal with Touchstone/Fireside, a division of
Simon and Schuster. His novel, Wrongful Death, a sequel to The Jury
Master, has received critical acclaim.
Workshop Fee:
PNWA Member = $150.00
Non-member = $200.00
CLICK HEREto download workshop registration form.
U.W. Extension Popular Fiction Course:
Instructor: Pam Binder
Pam Binder, president of PNWA, will teach a
Popular Fiction I, year long series, through the UW Extension Writer's
certificate Program. A percentage of her salary will be donated to PNWA's Robert
Dugoni Scholarship Fund.
Pam's
first Popular Fiction class is full, but the University of Washington
will open up a second class if enough students sign up. Please contact
Roxanne Ray (rray@extn.washington.edu) to place your name on the waiting list.
2009 Wordstock for Writers - Tickets on sale now!
World-class writing workshops will be held
at the Oregon Convention Center this October.
Created for writers at all
levels, Wordstock for Writers has
gathered all the tools and hands-on techniques to improve your prose and
poetry. Led by some of the finest writers in the country, the workshops will
cover both the creative and the business sides of writing.
The workshops will take place Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11, 2009,
at the Oregon Convention Center. These two days of
workshops were designed to allow students to see most of the world-class
readings at Wordstock and attend
classes, without leaving the building.
Space
is limited. Do not miss your
opportunity to learn and be inspired. For a list of workshops and to purchase tickets, go to wordstockfestival.comand click workshops.
Novel Writers Workshop and
Warrior Writer Workshop:
New York Times bestselling author Bob Mayer will be running a Writing Workshop on November
7 and a Warrior Writer Workshop on November 8 at the Saratoga Inn on Whidbey
Island, Washington. The Writing Workshop focuses on your writing. The Warrior Writer focuses on developing you as an author. Both workshops
are limited in size to ensure one-on-one feedback on your book.
If you register before
October 26, you receive $25 off the cost. As a member of PNWA, you can enter
the following discount code when you register-- PNWA10 -- which saves
you another $10 off registration for either or both workshops, Additionally, Bob
Mayer will donate $20 to PNWA for each person registered with that code.
For more
information go to www.bobmayer.org
Dark and Stormy Book Weekend in Manzanita
Where better to be inspired to write, read or
listen to reading than the beach in November? Manzanita will be full of
book-related events that weekend.
Writing Workshops
Saturday, November 7: Helen
Gallagher, author of Release Your
Writing: Book Publishing Your Way!, will present a workshop on today's
options in self-publishing.
The workshop will explore the
differences between self-publishing, print-on-demand (POD), and e-books, and
analyze the benefits of each method. Attendees will go home with a list of
resources and a guide to the practical matters of your rights, royalties, and
costs for each type of publishing.
Sunday November 8: Susan G.
Wooldridge, author of the well-loved book poemcrazy:
Freeing Your Life with Words, and of the new Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative
Process, will present a poetry-writing workshop.
Anne Lamott said about poemcrazy: "This is a wonderful book,
smart, wide-eyed, joyful, helpful, inspiring. You're going to love it and love
writing poetry more for having read it."
In the workshop Wooldridge brings
exercises from the book to life, exercises that help free up your writing,
expand your range of images and words, and generally shake up your thought
process.
Author Readings:
The weekend will provide many
opportunities to hear authors read from their books and writers read at open mic
venues.
The weekend is a joint
event of the Manzanita Writers' Series/Hoffman Center and the Manzanita
Business Alliance. Details and workshop registration information to follow. Save
November 7th and 8th before your calendars filled up with
other events.
Contact: Kathie
Hightower, 503-739-1505 or Kathie@jumpintolife.net
Or
Vera Wildauer, 971-344-5691, or
vwildauer@gmail.com
Seattle Center for Book Arts Classes and Events:
Fall 2009 Class Schedule
Space is limited! Register now!
All classes located at:
2100 Building, 2100 24th Ave. S.
(in Rainier Valley),
Seattle, WA
Book and Document Repair and Conservation
with Gudrun Aurand
Date: Sunday,
October 25, 9 A.M. - 1 P.M.
Location: 2100 Building, 2100 24th
Ave. S. Seattle
Cost: $75
In this
introductory workshop, you will learn how to repair tears, cuts and holes in
paper, and learn some basic principles of repair and conservation.
Please register by October 18.
Stained Glass Paper Embellishment Technique with
Randi Parkhurst
Date: Saturday
& Sunday, October 31 and November 1,
1 - 5 P.M.
Cost: $110
Learn to make
semi-transparent, luminous papers for lanterns, book covers and more. We'll
sandwich threads, postage stamps and ginkgo leaves between two sheets of paper
and paint them with rich acrylic paint colors. These papers have a vellum-like
texture and are strong and flexible.
Please register by October 24.
Secret Belgian Binding
with Jenny Craig
Date: Sunday,
November 8, 10 A.M. - 4 P.M.
Cost: $90
Learn to bind using
this innovative structure in an exciting one-day workshop.
Please register by November 1.
Writing for the Artist Book with Jen Bervin
Date: Saturday
& Sunday, November 14 & 15,
10 am - 4 P.M.
Cost: $150
This workshop
will offer a physically expansive sense of what writing could be in the artist
book and an exciting range of innovative approaches to writing, composing,
editing, structuring, and pacing artists' books.
Please register by November 7, 2009.
Seattle
Antiquarian Book Fair
"The
Premier Pacific Northwest Rare Book Event!"
Saturday, October 10th
10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
and
Sunday, October 11th
11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Seattle Center Exhibition Hall
$5.00 at the door
(good for both days)
Children under 12 admitted free.
Seattle Center
for Book Arts' Third Annual Accordion-a-thon
"Seattle's
Book Arts Party!"
Featuring accordion bookmaking activity, ood and drink, music by Hell's Bellows, and a
do-not-miss silent auction!
Saturday, October 17th, 7:00-10:00 P.M.
Pratt Fine Arts Center,
Print Studio
1902 South Main Street, Seattle
Tickets $15, or 2 for $25
Children under 12, $10
The
2010 Pen to Press Writers' Retreat!
This
is a one-of-a-kind writers' retreat you simply can't pass
up! Come excited and leave inspired, ready to improve your writing and get
that manuscript published!
Pen to Press Retreats are five intense,
hands-on, inspiring days that teach participants how to shape and present a
saleable manuscript. You'll learn in a variety of settings, from workshops to
one-on-one mentoring sessions to seminars. To that end, you will write and
revise, have portions of your manuscript critiqued, and revise some more. This
is a remarkable opportunity to transform your writing!
To top it off, throughout the last two days
of each retreat, all of our participants are given exclusive, one-on-one time
with agents and editors to whom they can pitch their work.
With this retreat under your belt, who can
stop you?
Activities:
Participants will be assigned to a class of twenty
students and a team instructor. Our instructors are all successfully published
authors, many New York Times and U.S.A. Today bestsellers and award-winners,
and all are excellent teachers. With this group, you will spend five days
working on specifics to improve your manuscript. During classes and panel
discussions, you'll learn details about characterization, plot, dialogue,
pacing, voice, marketing, pitching, contract negotiations, etc., all of it
geared around your specific work.
Agents and editors will be on hand the last
two days of the retreat, and they'll be there to spend one-on-one time with
you, our participants ---writers who now have a polished pitch for a promising
work!
We've even established a payment plan to
help participants who are accepted into the 2010 program stretch the cost of
the retreat out over time.
Join
Us
The dates for the 2010 Pen to Press Writers
Retreat are May 25-29, 2010, and the location will be in beautiful downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interested writers must submit a two-page
synopsis of a completed novel or novel in progress along with the
first five pages of that novel. From those submissions, a maximum of
160 participants will be selected.
To find out more about the 2010 Pen to Press
Writers' Retreat, visit our website at www.pentopressretreat.com. There you'll find
in-action videos and testimonials from past participants. So jump on over
to the website and have a look. And we hope to see YOU at the 2010 PPW
Retreat!
Revising Your Life: turning true events into compelling stories.
It may happen in the shower. On the way to work.
Taking a crowded elevator. Suddenly a story idea seizes you. You must write it
down! You find a pen and piece of paper, plunge into the story, and write
nonstop until you finish a first draft. You put it aside. A day goes by.
Two
days. You pick it up again. Sure there's some good stuff there, but the
rest of it is, well, less than perfect.
If you're like most writers, you put the material in
the drawer and hope some day to get around to finishing it. How do you push
beyond the messy first draft most writers produce to craft a compelling story
or book chapter? This eight-week class in nonfiction and fiction will show you
how to make that happen. You'll learn essential techniques of research,
interviewing, writing scenes, character sketches, structuring, revision, and
how to put the finished manuscript into the hands of the right editor.
The course will run October 14 to December 2 on
Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 P.M. in Room 221 of the Good
Shepherd Center
in Wallingford
(4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.)
There will be six assignments, including a 100- to
250-word story idea, a 250-word scene, a 500-word profile, a 750-word first
person story, a revised 1,000-word profile or first person story, and a
250-word cover letter. In addition to the classroom work, I will schedule
individual conferences with each student. This will give me a chance to go over
your work with you one-on-one and suggest ways to improve it.
Texts: Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, and Best
American Essays of the Century edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Both titles are
available at the Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street, Seattle,
WA 98104,
206-624-6600.
To enroll, please send a check to Nicholas O'Connell for $525
to 201 Newell St., Seattle, WA 98109. Enrollment is limited to 15. For more
information, contact me at nick@Thewritersworkshop.netor 206-284-7121.
Power Writing and Subplots
Jessica Page Morrell, author
of several excellent books on writing including Between the Lines and Bullies,
Bastards, and Bitches will be giving a workshop on Power Writing and
Subplots October 24th, in Monroe, WA. The price is $80 and
pre-registration is required.
Please contact Lisa Stowe at 425-923-3844
or at lmstowe@yahoo.com, and reference
'workshop' in the subject line.
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EVENTS/SPEAKERS:
Columbia City's 2009 Seattle Book Fest
Remember the old Northwest Book
Festival on the waterfront? Seattle's Columbia City community is bringing it back. It's
going to be a very cool event with at least fifty authors in attendance and
over eighty exhibitors. This is a grassroots effort with all the funding coming
from participants. In order to get started we need you to sign up now.
The event will be held October 24-25
at the Columbia City
Events Center,
a charmingly converted historic school building at 3526 S. Edmunds, a block off
Rainier and a block from the Columbia City
Light Rail Station. So far the response has been terrific with dozens of local
writers and bookstores already committed.
Booths are the standard ten-foot by ten-foot
space with an eight-foot table and two chairs. They cost $150 if paid by July
31, $200 if paid by August 31 and $300 if paid by September 30. Don't delay.
Send in your booth reservation and check now to:
Seattle Book Fest
4816 Rainier Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98118
Seattle Free Lances Meeting
Attorney Gary Marshall will speak on "Publishing Contracts" at the next meeting of Seattle Free Lances Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Lake City Elks Club, 14540 Lake City Way NE. A social hour will begin at 5:15 P.M.with dinner at 6 P.M..
Reservations are required at least one week prior to the event.
For reservations, e-mail freelancesinfo@aol.com.
2009 Oregon Book Awards Finalists and Special Awards Recipients
Award winners will be announced at the
Twenty-third Annual Oregon Book Awards Ceremony
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Location: Gerding Theater at the Armory
- 128 NW 11th Ave, Portland
Tickets at brownpapertickets.com| 800.838.3006
Prices start at $17
Literary Arts is pleased to announce the finalists and special awards
recipients for the Twenty-third Annual Oregon Book Awards. Tom Bissell will host the ceremony, which honors the state's
finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction,
literary nonfiction and young readers' literature. Proceeds from all tickets
benefit the Oregon Book Awards and Oregon Book Awards author tour.
2009 Oregon Book Award Finalists
Ken Kesey Award for Fiction
Judge: Robert Olmstead
Miriam Gershow of Eugene, The
Local News (Spiegel & Grau)
Gina Ochsner of
Keizer, The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight (Portobello Books)
Barbara Pope of Eugene, Cezanne's
Quarry (Pegasus Books)
Jon Raymond of Portland, Livability:
Stories (Bloomsbury)
Leslie What of
Eugene, Crazy Love: Stories (Wordcraft of Oregon)
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry
Judge: Matthea Harvey
Alicia Cohen of Portland, Debts
and Obligations (O Press)
Matthew Dickman of Portland, All-American
Poem (American Poetry Review)
Endi Bogue Hartigan of Portland,
One Sun Storm (Center for Literary Publishing)
Andrew Michael Roberts of
Portland, something has to happen next (University of Iowa Press)
Crystal Williams of
Portland, Troubled Tongues (Lotus Press)
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General
Nonfiction
Judge: Luis Urrea
Tracy Daugherty of
Corvallis, Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme (St. Martin's
Press)
Bonnie Henderson of
Eugene, Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris (OSU Press)
John Laursen of Portland, Wild
Beauty (OSU Press)
Donna Matrazzo of Portland, Wild
Things: Adventures of a Grassroots Environmentalist (IUniverse)
Jeffrey St. Clair of
Oregon City, Born Under a Bad Sky: Notes from the Dark Side of the Earth (AK
Press)
Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative
Nonfiction
Judge: Ted Conover
Bibi Gaston of the Dalles, The
Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries, and Her
Granddaughter's Search for Home (William Morrow)
Debra Gwartney of Finn Rock, Live
Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
John Kroger of Salem, Convictions:
A Prosecutor's Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves
(Farrar, Strauss, Giroux)
Floyd Skloot of Portland, The
Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life (University of Nebraska
Press)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for
Children's Literature
Judge: Sarah Weeks
Deborah Hopkinson of Corvallis.
Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson,
Co-discoverer of the North Pole (Peach Tree)
Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult
Literature
Judge: Sarah Weeks
Carmen Bernier-Grand of
Portland, Diego: Bigger Than Life (Marshall Cavendish)
David Greenberg of Portland, A
Tugging String (Dutton)
Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego,
Calvin Coconut, Trouble Magnet (Wendy Lamb Books)
Roland Smith of Wilsonville, I.Q.
Book One: Independence Hall (Harcourt Paperbacks)
Virginia Euwer Wolff of Oregon
City, This Full House (Harper Teen)
In addition to recognizing the finest achievements of Oregon authors in several
genres, Literary Arts recognizes individual contributions with the Stewart H.
Holbrook Literary Legacy Award and the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy
Award. This year's recipients will receive their awards at the
ceremony on October 26.
The Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy
Award
The Stewart H. Holbrook Award is presented to a person or organization in
recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon's literary community. Past recipients
include Brian Booth, founder of the Oregon Book Awards, Paulann Petersen and
Marlene Howard.
2009 recipient: Matt Love
Matt Love is the founder and publisher
of Nestucca Spit Press, an independent press on the Oregon Coast that
publishes books about Oregon. He has published several hundred Oregon writers in his
anthologies, and arranged reading tours throughout the state. In 2009, he
published Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon's
Sesquicentennial Anthology which contained 63 original essays by Oregon
authors, and 61 excerpts from primary documents related to Oregon history.
Love is also a regular editorial and book review contributor to the Oregonian's ongoing Lost Northwest Books
series, and writes a column "On Oregon" for Powell's Books. He's also
a member of the Oregon Council for the Humanities speaker bureau for their
Chautauqua series. From 2005 to 2009 he served on the board of directors for
Writers on the Edge, a nonprofit dedicated to literary arts in Lincoln County,
and the organization that oversees the Nye Beach Writers Series.
The Walt Morey Young Readers' Literary
Legacy Award
The Walt Morey Award is presented to a person or organization in recognition of
contributions to young readers literature. Past recipients include Claudia
Jones, Wallowa County youth librarian; Barbara J. McKillip, founder of the
Libri Foundation; Jerry Isom, director of Books 4 Kids; and Mark Mizell, high
school English teacher.
2009 recipient: The Dove Lewis Animal Hospital
Read to the Dogs Program
The Read to the Dogs Program is
sponsored by trained volunteers from Dove
Lewis Animal Assisted Therapy & Education program. The program pairs
young readers with trained therapy dogs and their handlers. Fourteen Multnomah
County Library locations schedule Read to the Dogs events for their
communities. Children who register for the half-hour sessions at their library
choose books to read to the dogs. The program is particularly helpful for
children who are struggling with reading.
Oregon Book Awards Special Awards candidates are nominated by the public, and
reviewed by the Oregon Book Awards Advisory Committee and the Literary Arts
Board of Directors. For more information, please visit www.literary-arts.org.
Many of this year's finalists will be reading at Wordstock on Sunday, October
11 from 2:00-4:00 P.M. on a stage dedicated to the Oregon Book Awards
finalists. Several of this year's finalists will tour the state in 2010 as part
of the Oregon Book Awards author tour. All finalists are promoted in libraries
and bookstores across the state.
Since 1987, the Oregon Book Awards have been presented annually for the
finest accomplishments by Oregon writers in genres of poetry, fiction, literary
nonfiction,drama and young readers' literature. Out-of-state judges choose
finalists and the winner in each category,. Judges are asked to use literary
merit as the sole criterion.
The Oregon Book Awards are sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust and the
National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by Brian &
Gwyneth Booth, Betty Bradshaw, Leslie Bradshaw Endowment, The Collins
Foundation, Rocky & Julie Dixon, Gard Communications, Gray Family Fund of the
Oregon Community Foundation, Robert H. & Cecelia Huntington, Maybelle Clark
Macdonald Fund, Mancini Family, Walt Morey Endowment, Multnomah County Library,
Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Center for the Book at the Oregon State Library,
Oregon Writers' Endowment, the Oregonian,
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Regional Arts & Culture Council
and Work for Art, Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust and U.S. Bank.
King County Library System Events
Meet
the Author: Vicki Robin
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to
Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence
Thursday, October 1, 7 P.M.
Covington Library
27100 164th Avenue SE, Covington, WA
Meet the Author: Garth
Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Thursday, October 8, 7 P.M.
ParkPlace Books, 425.822.2459
348
Park Place Center
Kirkland WA
Hear about this wonderful
and bittersweet tale of love, loyalty and family loss as told by Enzo, a canine
narrator and practical philosopher.
Meet
the Author: Bree Loewen
Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on
Rainier
Monday, October 26, 7 P.M.
Shoreline Library, 206.362.7550
Thursday, October 29, 7 P.M.
Auburn Library, 253.931.3018
(For adults)
Being a climbing ranger on Mount Rainier proved to be a life-altering experience for
Bree Loewen. As one of a handful of women on staff, she fought to prove herself
among the men in the field, while dealing with the public and a mountain that
shows no mercy. Come hear her about her experiences!
Meet
the Author: Richelle Mead
Tuesday, October 20, 4:30 P.M.
Auburn Library, 253.931.3018
(For teens)
Join us for a visit with
Richelle Mead, author of the popular Vampire Academy series. Plus, win a free copy
of her newest book, Blood Promise.
Meet
the Author: Amanda Hubbard
Thursday, October 29, 7 P.M.
Woodmont Library, 253.839.0121
(For teens)Meet Amanda
Hubbard, author of Prada &
Prejudice, the witty retake on the classic Pride and Prejudice. The author will
read from the book and answer questions from the audience.
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MISCELLANEOUS:
Andrea Hurst Literary Management Recruitment
Interested in learning the publishing business from the inside
out? Andrea Hurst Literary Management is looking for a couple of
motivated intern/volunteers to work with
incoming query letters, read manuscripts, and assist with pitching books to
publishers. If you have the interest, and 4-6 hours a week to
spend for this unpaid training opportunity, please contact andrea@andreahurst.com.
Agency
located in Coupeville, Washingtonon
Whidbey Island.
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