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SEPTEMBER 2012 E-NOTES:

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PNWA NEWS:
 

September Member Workshop and Meeting

 

Thursday, September 13, 2012 @ 7:00pm   

 

NEW LOCATION:
Chinook Middle School's temporary location @ Ringdall

11650 SE 60th St.
Bellevue, WA 98006

 

Speakers:  Northwest Independent Editors Guild panel
(Corbin Lewars, Kyra Freestar, and Nancy Wick)

 

Topic: How to Work with an Editor: Building Strong Author-Editor Relationships

You know you want help from a professional independent editor, or you've been assigned to one by your agent or publisher. What's the best way to approach this part of the publishing process? How can you build a strong, stress-free working relationship, making things easier on your editor and yourself? In "How to Work with an Editor," editors from the Northwest Independent Editors Guild will tell you all about author-editor pairings that worked - and those that didn't. They'll give you insider tips on how to cultivate a collaborative and beneficial connection with just about any editor. You'll also get an overview of what editors do, why they do it, and how best to work together so your book is the best it can be.  

 

Founded in 1997, the Northwest Independent Editors Guild is a network of editorial expertise, made up of more than 220 professional editors in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to producing a conference every two years, the Editors Guild offers bimonthly meetings in Seattle and the South Sound, a members-only discussion list, and a website, which includes a job board and a member directory. For more information, visit www.edsguild.org or www.facebook.com/edsguild.     

 

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Live Access to Member Meetings

During this week's monthly Member Workshop and Meeting, you have the option of listening to the workshop from the comfort of your home as we continue to provide members with live webinar access to our monthly workshops. If you are unable to attend our meeting or webinar, you can also listen to a recording of the workshop online from PNWA's member website a few days after the workshop.

 

To enjoy this new feature you must be a current PNWA Member. Click here to join or renew your membership.

 

To access our webinar, please check one of the two instructions listed below:

 

1. Open your PNWA email next Wednesday, September 12th. Subject line: PNWA Webinar

  • Click the "Join the Webinar" link and follow the instructions.

OR

 

2. Log in to the PNWA Member Site (if you forgot your username and/or password, contact us before Wednesday, September 12th by 3:00pm to retrieve them)
  • Click on the Member Meeting link located on the left-hand side of the page.
  • Paste the registration link into your browser.

 

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PNWA's 2012 Fall Workshop Series

Classes offered this fall include:

 

- "An Author's Master Class" presented by William Kenower (September 29th)

 

- "Breaking the Rules" presented by Terry Persun & Nicole J Persun (October 6th)

 

- "Writing for a Living" presented by Terry Persun & Nicole J Persun (October 6th)

 

- "Choose Your Words Carefully" presented by Lindsay Schopfer (October 20th)

 

- "Handling Writer's Block" presented by Lindsay Schopfer (October 20th)

 

- "An Author's Master Class" presented by William Kenower (October 27th)

 

- "How a Book is Born" presented by the Editors Guild (November 3rd)

 

- "Writing Sex: Breaking the Self-Censoring Barrier" presented by Sarah Martinez & Jack Remick (November 3rd)

 

PNWA MEMBER BONUS: buy three workshops ($50.00 each) and receive the FOURTH WORKSHOP FREE!

 

For workshop details and registration forms, visit our homepage.

   
MEMBER NEWS:

 

PNWA member Deb Mohr is pleased to announce the publication of her new novel, The Flume Tender's Daughter. Set early in the 20th century, Linnie Bede, daughter of a flume tender/logger, lives in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. She sees people in her world as repressed and stifled by ignorance and poverty. Educating this population about "family limitation" is crucial. The path she takes leads her into the intense world of suffragists, the International Workers of the World (The Wobblies), and a deep but conflicted love for Frank Dobbs, a "Wob" of great influence. She endures the death of loved ones, an unhappy marriage, threats, scorn and incarceration to emerge as a strong-willed woman proud to be a flume tender's daughter. Available through Amazon, as an e-book, or ordered through bookstores.

 

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PNWA Member Mary E. Trimble announces the publication of Tubob: Two Years in West Africa with the Peace Corps.  Tubob is a memoir of a newly married couple who discover themselves in new light as they work and learn about a different culture in a third-world country. They find strength and frustration trying to make a difference. Caught up in a military coup, they seek refuge in a house with 116 other people, wondering if their lives will ever be the same. Tubob is Trimble's first work of nonfiction; her other three books are contemporary western novels. Available through local bookstores, Amazon.com and the author's website, www.MaryTrimbleBooks.com

 

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PNWA member Theresa Danley announces the release of her second archaeological thriller, Deity, (Whiskey Creek Press, June 2012).  While on the hunt for two missing colleagues in Mexico, anthropologists Anthony Peet and Lori Dewson find themselves centered between two opposing paramilitaries gridlocked in their own clandestine war. Combed from the land where even gods are known to fall, subtle clues sweep Peet and Lori from majestic Mayan pyramids to Izapan mythology to the Long Count Calendar's cosmology. In this world, truths are distorted every step of the way and they must determine which friends cannot be trusted, which enemies to befriend, what finds were never lost and which losses should never be found.

 

Visit Theresa at www.theresadanley.com

 

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PNWA member Tricia Corbett's novel, The Raven's Quest, written with her sister Susan's help, has now been e-published and is available on many sites including Barnes & Noble and Amazon. The novel is a historical mystery set in 1066 just prior to William the Conqueror's invasion of England. To aid in his quest for the throne, William needed the Catholic Church's backing, which he obtained. The proclamation was to be sent with a papal  legate who was to rendezvous in Tournus, France, with one of William's men, Roger Corbeau. Roger was to escort the legate to Normandy. The delegation did not arrive, having been ambushed just south of Tournus. The remains of the delegation were found two days later, but the legate and the papal proclamation were not among them. Roger is determined to find them.  Roger Corbeau (Corbet) is an ancestor of the authors. The setting surrounding this mystery, and several of the characters involved, are historically accurate. How the mystery is solved is fiction.

 

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PNWA member Dee Williams announces the release of her latest book, Yoga for the New Millennium. Dee is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). Her yoga journey began after 20 years of dedication to Buddhist study, prayer, and meditation. During much of that time, she worked in information technology. In 2001, Williams began her study and practice of yoga. From that point, her personal and professional experience with yoga has evolved into her own unique vision that integrates asana, meditation and selfless service.

 

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PNWA member Candace Murrow is pleased to announce the release of Zak and the Mystery Girl, a short, sweet fantasy/adventure novel about a 12-year-old boy's  journey to a mystical world. It is an uplifting, heartfelt tale for ages 10 and up. Published by RWG Press, the book is available in print and e-book formats. To read an excerpt or for purchasing information, go to www.candacemurrow.com.

CLASSES/WORKSHOPS:

 

Take your novel to the next level

Workshops taught by Pam Binder, PNWA President, through the UW Extension Program.

 

Popular Fiction I

Autumn 2012

Explore the backbone of the commercial fiction industry. Examine the art of captivating readers through strong plots, powerful scenes and three-dimensional characters. Learn how to construct a suspenseful and complex storyline, write believable dialogue and hone your craft.

Start date: October 10, 2012

Location: UW Seattle

 

Popular Fiction II

Autumn 2012

Complete and edit your full-length novel. Strengthen your fiction-writing skills through lectures, guest speakers, in-class writing exercises and group critiques. Gain expertise in the revision process and learn self-editing tools. Learn the importance of marketing and social media as well as how to prepare your manuscript for submission to agents and publishers.

Start Date: October 9, 2012

Location: UW Seattle

 

For more information, visit http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/writing/

 

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Write Your Novel in a Month  

Saturdays, October 10th - December 1st

10:00am - 12 noon

No class 11/24

 

Is writing a novel one of your lifelong dreams? Join this 8-week Bellevue College class as it hooks up with 100,000 writers worldwide for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The first classes prepare you for the noveling process, with practice in characterization, setting, plot, voice, and dialogue. Then we're off and writing our 50,000-word manuscripts. During the last class we plan for revision. This is a great way to write your novel in a supportive environment.  Cost: $189  

 

Questions?  Contact [email protected]

To register go to Bellevue College continuing education:  http://www.campusce.net/bc/course/course.aspx?C=12256&pc=17&mc=81&sc=

 

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"He Said, She Said"
A Workshop on Structure & Craft
September 14 to 16, 2012

Award-winning, bestselling novelists Terry Persun and Susan Wingate have been teaching this highly informative and inspiring workshop throughout the Pacific Northwest since 2011. Participants rave... "This is one of the best ever workshops I've attended since I began writing." ...and "Because of your workshop, I finished my first novel."

What you'll get: An extreme and intensive workshop with several writing exercises each day.

For full details, visit http://susanwingate.wordpress.com/he-said-she-said-with-terry-persun-susan-wingate/

 

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October Lock-Down Retreat at Captain Whidbey Inn in Coupeville

"First Write the Book; It's All in the Craft," October 12-14, is a retreat for writers who are serious about taking their work to the next level. Only twenty-four registrants can be accommodated; fees for the event include meals, lodging, manuscript critique, instruction and one-on-one mentoring by successful authors and popular teachers, Terry Persun, Bharti Kirchner and Stephanie Kallos.

 

Persun is a novelist and poet with a special expertise in book marketing, especially as it relates to social media. Persun's instruction will include insights gained from writing poetry, such as applying poetic devices to invigorate the telling of a story.

 

Kirchner is the author of nine books - five novels and four cookbooks. She will show retreat writers how to use food as a tool for plot movement and character development. Kirchner's classes will also emphasize the importance of setting in a novel or memoir, providing many tips and techniques that will help make the "place" in your novel vivid in the reader's mind.

 

Kallos challenges retreat participants to answer the question: "Are you sure this is the book you want to write?" Once devastated by this question herself, Kallos says before you write a word, think long and hard as to whether there may be a disconnect between the story you yearn to tell and how the reader may receive your intent - clarity between writer and reader is critical.

 

The retreat is designed to encourage writers of all experience levels - published authors as well as first-book writers. Discipline, craft, rewriting and how to take the work to final will be emphasized.

 

Registrants must submit 2,500 words of a prose manuscript or 5 pages of poetry by September 15, for review by the instructors. Individual attention and extraordinary camaraderie are key features of the Writers Lockdown Retreat. Last year's fees are available until September 10. Application forms and additional information are available at http://www.nila.edu/wiwa_retreat.htm or call 360-341-2910.

CONTESTS/SUBMISSIONS:

 

Spirit of Writing Contest

Sponsored by the Whidbey Island Writers Association and Sno-Isle Libraries

 

Open to Whidbey Island full-time and part-time residents, and to WIWA members - wherever they live! All winners receive a copy of SPIRIT OF WRITING 2012, a literary magazine of winning works, and are invited to participate in programs of readings in the Sno-Isle Libraries. Grand Prize winner is awarded tuition to the 2013 Whidbey Island Writers Conference and is published in SOUNDINGS REVIEW, the literary journal of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. All manuscripts are returned with judges' comments. Don't miss out!

 

POETRY - SHORT FICTION - NONFICTION/ESSAY - MEMOIR -    

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE

    

Get busy: DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 13, 2012, 5:00 PM.

New for 2012: ENTRIES ARE BEING ACCEPTED ONLINE!

Guidelines and Entry forms available at all Whidbey Island Sno-Isle Libraries or online at http://www.nila.edu/wiwa_contests.htm Must be 18 years of age or older. For more information, call 360-331-2038 or email [email protected]

 

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Missouri Review Annual Contest

$5,000 Fiction * $5,000 Poetry * $5,000 Essay

 

The Missouri Review is now accepting submissions for the 22nd Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize competition.

 

In addition to the $15,000 awarded to the first place winners, three finalists in each category receive cash awards and are considered for publication. Past winners have been reprinted in the Best American series.

 

Page Restrictions:

Fiction and nonfiction entries should not exceed 25 typed, double-spaced pages. Poetry entries can include any number of poems up to 10 pages in total. Each story, essay, or group of poems constitutes one entry.

 

Entry Fee:

$20 for each entry (checks made payable to The Missouri Review). Each fee includes a one-year subscription (digital or print!) to The Missouri Review. Please enclose a complete e-mail and mailing address. We are also accepting electronic submissions. For details, go to www.missourireview.com/contest

MISCELLANEOUS:  

 

Internship opportunity

Are you interested in publishing? Are you a dedicated fiction/nonfiction reader? Apply now to be an editorial intern at Andrea Hurst & Associates Literary Management

 

4-to-6 month unpaid internships provide hands-on, professional experience for interns interested in the book publishing industry.

Internships available immediately and year-round,  but positions are limited, so apply now.

 

Location: Casual environment on beautiful Whidbey Island, Washington

 

Responsibilities: Read and evaluate incoming nonfiction and fiction queries and  manuscripts; attend acquisition meetings to discuss manuscripts and proposals; assist with book editing, book proposals, and publishing materials; research appropriate publishers and write pitch letters; compile information for conferences  and classes; track submissions and general correspondence.

   

Requirements: A strong background in reading and writing, editing experience a plus; experience with Microsoft Word and Excel, and phone skills required; online marketing skills highly desirable and computer design program efficiency

 

For more information, see http://www.andreahurst.com

To apply, please email resume and cover letter to Andrea at [email protected]

 

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!


 

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