May 31 - spring workshop"Selling Your Story" with Bill Kenower June 12 - member meeting"Perfect Your Pitch" with Gerri Russell
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Dear PNWA member,
E-Notes is your monthly electronic newsletter full of the latest news about the literary world. Our newsletter is a member benefit.
If you have an announcement about your work or the world of writing, please send us an email at pnwa@pnwa.org so we can include it in next month's E-Notes (80-100 words maximum, please).
(Announcements must be received by the 19th of the previous month to be included).
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June Member Meeting
Thursday, June 12 @ 7:00pm
King County Library Service Center
960 Newport Way NW, Issaquah, WA 98027
Perfect Your Pitch
Presented by Gerri Russell
Whether you are pitching your story to an agent, on social media, or during a booksigning, crafting and perfecting your pitch is essential. Join us and learn the essentials behind the perfect pitch.
Those who are attending the PNWA Summer Conference will find this session especially helpful.
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PNWA Summer Conference: July 17-20
We hope you'll be able to join us this summer for our 59th annual PNWA Conference. With over 50 different workshops, onsite bookstore, and the opportunity to pitch your work to multiple agents and editors, this is an event you won't want to miss.
Back by popular demand, PNWA members who sign up early will receive their choice of an extra Pitch Block (2 blocks total) or a special Query Feedback session with agents and editors. All conference attendees receive one Pitch Block of their choice, and this year you can sign up for your block ahead of time -- no more waiting in line!
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member news
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Kim Foster announces the release of her second novel, A Magnificent Crime, published by Kensington Books on June 5, 2014. It's the second book in her Agency of Burglary & Theft series, sequel to A Beautiful Heist (Kensington, 2013), and follows the adventures of Cat Montgomery, a Seattle-based professional jewel thief. Visit Kim at kimfoster.com
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Karen Morison-Knox (writing as Ariella Moon) is thrilled to report that the second novel in her Teen Wytche Saga, Spell Struck, was nominated for a 2014 RONE Award. Spell Struck previously received a 5-star review and Crown of Excellence from InD'tale Magazine.
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Janice Clark's Hall of Doors series of chapter books, which went out of print when Orchard House Press went out of business, have been picked up by Solstice Publishing. The first three books of the series ( The Mountains of the Moon, The Door in the Sky, and The Mirror Door) are now available as a combo e-book, and a print edition will follow shortly. The Secret Door and The Water Door are awaiting editing, and the publisher has asked for more. The wonderful illustrations by J.W. Kalin will still be included. Books are available on Amazon. See www.janiceclark.net for more information.
--- Claire Gebben announces the publication of her debut novel The Last of the Blacksmiths (Coffeetown Press). Following his dreams of freedom and prosperity, a 19th-century blacksmith from the Bavarian Rhineland travels to Cleveland, Ohio to pursue an artisan way of life that will ultimately vanish. Visit Claire at clairegebben.com --- Jared Files, a 21-year-old author, is excited to announce the release of his debut young adult science fiction novel, Elementals: The Seven Spheres. Published by StarGen Press, Elementals is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It is also available on iBooks. For more information please visit www.jaredfiles.com --- Judith Kirscht will discuss and read from her new novel, Home Fires (New Libri Press, 2013), in the Readers Gallery at Village Books in Bellingham on Friday, June 6th, at 7pm. Set on the Santa Barbara coast, Home Fires is the story of a woman whose idyllic world disintegrates when, after discovering her husband's infidelity, she makes decisions that carry her family deep into the murky underbelly of her husband's past. Her actions soon split her family and mire her in uncertainty. What is real? What happened? Who is guilty of what? Visit Judith at www.judithkirscht.com --- Barry Brennessel's story collection, A Special Kind of Folk, and his novel, Paradise at Main and Elm, have both been named finalists in the 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. Winners will be named at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas on Friday, June 27th. Paradise at Main and Elm was a finalist in the 2013 PNWA Literary Contest's mainstream category (under the title Ezra), and a novella appearing in A Special Kind of Folk was a finalist in the 2009 PNWA Literary Contest's mystery/thriller category. For more information, visit www.barrybrennessel.com ---
Austin Gary's novel The Queerling has also been named a finalist in the 2013 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, as well as a finalist for the Bisexual Book of the Year Award. ---
Kenneth Bennett is pleased to announce the release of his new sci-fi thriller, Exodus 2022, through Booktrope Publishing. Kenneth met Booktrope's co-founder, Katherine Sears, at the 2013 PNWA Summer Conference. Exodus 2022 was recently featured on SF Signal's list of new recommended sci-fi titles. He also wrote this feature post for Writers' Village with some great advice for first-time novelists.
---  PNWA past presidents Peter Kahle and Don McQuinn recently joined 2000 Zola Helen Ross Founders Award recipient Evelyn Gibb on the occasion of Evelyn's 90th birthday. Evelyn is best known for her nonfiction YA adventure Two Wheels North (OSU Press 2000) about her father and his best friend, just out of high school in 1909, riding their bicycles from Sonoma, California to Seattle, Washington to see the Alaska Pacific Yukon Exposition. She studied with Ross in her legendary critique group, and in addition to her book has published more than 200 articles and short stories.
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Emerging Writers Getaway Contest
2014 Emerging Writers Getaway Contest for unpublished authors of novel-length crime fiction, presented by the Whidbey MFA Alumni Association. Submissions (first 25 pages) due by May 23, 2014.
First, second and third place selected by Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of legal thrillers The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm, Murder One, Damage Control, and The Conviction. Winning entry reviewed for possible representation or referral by Laurie McLean, of Foreword Literary, Inc. Proceeds benefit student writing scholarships.
Submission guidelines at
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