Posts filed under 'Books'
Book in a Month: Novel Writing Tool Kit
Novel Writing Online Class with Kit Frazier
Kit Frazier
Self study, online course
starts Oct. 26 – Nov. 30, 2009
$149 WLT members / $209 nonmembers
Kit Frazier
Just in time for National Novel Writing Month! Whether you’re thinking about writing a novel or mired in the middle of your work in progress, this is the class for you. The intensive course of study reviews Christopher Vogler’s The Hero’s Journey’s three-act structure and Debra Dixon’s Goal, Motivation, and Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction, and breaks these concepts down into a manageable, 30-day writing regimen, with particular emphasis on those all-important first five pages and middle-of-the-story conflict.
The Book in a Month Tool Kit includes:
- PowerPoint Videos of Class Instruction
- Personal Goal Tracker Calendar
- Character Worksheets
- Character Goal, Motivation & Conflict Sheets
- Story Board Worksheets
- Time Tracker Worksheets
Add comment October 22, 2009
The Writers’ League of Texas 2009 Bookish Brunch
Reservations extended until Wednesday, October 28th!
The Bookish Brunch
Honoring:
Texas Book Festival Authors
Click on their image and read the author’s bio.
Also honoring the 2009 Writers’ League of Texas Book Award Winners
9 to 10:30 am, Sunday, November 1
At the home of Frances Townsend & Ted Gilman in Austin
$40 WLT members/$50 nonmembers
Proceeds benefit the Writers’ League of Texas
For more information, please visit our Bookish Brunch page.
Add comment October 2, 2009
Monthly Program
“Build a Book” Series: Meet Your Publisher and Editor and Marketing Reps and Publicist and …
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- Deltina Hay
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- Colleen Devine Ellis
Once your book is signed, you’ll have a whole team of people working with you. Find out more about the publishing team who will bring your book to the market. Arrive early, seats fill up fast!
Panelists: Publicist, Colleen Devine Ellis, market rep, Gillian Redfearn and author/publisher, Deltina Hay.
For more information, please email us at wlt@writersleague.org or visit our website.
Before the program, join us at Doc’s Motorworks Bar & Grill, 1123 S. Congress (two blocks south of the WLT office) for a very special “Mix and Mingle Happy Hour.”
Add comment September 11, 2009
Summer Writing Retreat Submission: Gerald Warfield
Itwas Adark and Stor Mynight
by Gerald Warfield
Itwas Adark and Stor Mynight lounged at the edge of the purple pool. Stor raised her crystal glass, delicately, in her pincer claw. “Itwas,” she said, “there may be no gods to bless you, but you bless yourself with this act of kindness and compassion.”
Itwas raised her crystal, too, though not as high, and spread her third pair of legs in a sign of deprecation. “My dear, no one is more deserving than you. The accident that destroyed your eggs last season was tragic in the extreme. The least I can do for so unfortunate a friend is to provide a nest pool.”
“But the silver it must have cost …”
“Nonsense. My barnacle was already here. I only had to have the pool itself carved, and the entrance channels.”
Stor raised her eye stalks and looked out onto the blue ocean. Great waves broke upon the rocks only a few spans from (more…)
Add comment September 4, 2009
Google Settlement Teleconference
The Writers’ League of Texas Presents
The Google Book Settlement:
What’s an Author to Do?
Teleconference Call with Media Attorney Steven D. Smit
4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2
Free to Writers’ League members / $10 for nonmembers
Register here
Steven D. Smith
If you’re an author who has received an opt-out letter regarding the Google Book Settlement, it’s hard to know what opting out or staying in actually means for you. And with the opt-out deadline of Sept. 4 approaching, authors are scrambling to make a decision.
As a service to our members and other authors, the Writers’ League of Texas is hosting a teleconference call with attorney Steven D. Smit, of Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody in Austin. Steve has been monitoring the Google settlement and will give an overview of the settlement and review the pros and cons of opting out.
NOTE: The conference call is limited to the first 90 registrants; you MUST register here. The dial-in number and pass code will be sent to registrants in an e-mail confirmation.
For more on the Google Settlement, see our previous post, “The Google Settlement: Opt Out or Stay In?”
Add comment September 1, 2009
John Pipkin at BookPeople Tonight!
John Pipkin officially launches his debut novel, Woodsburner, tonight at 7 at BookPeople in Austin. Come on out, Leaguers, and support John!
And in case you missed it, John received a glowing review in the New York Times on Sunday. My favorite line? “Woodsburner” is, in effect, a wily fictional prequel to “Walden.”
The kudos just keep coming!
Add comment May 7, 2009
John Pipkin Is on Fire!
Well, that made you look, didn’t it? John Pipkin isn’t just our dear departed Writers’ League Executive Director Emeritus. No, he’s lit a fire under book reviewers with his debut novel, Woodsburner, coming next week from Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
The Washington Post just weighed in with a spectacular review. Kirkus ended its starred review with this little gem: “A superb historical fiction as well as a complex and provocative novel of ideas—Pulitzer Prize material.” And Woodsburner is going to be Amazon’s Best of the Month pick for May. More reviews are here.
John’s official book launch party will be at Book People in Austin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 7. We invite his Austin-area WLT friends to come out and support him and grab a copy of this hot little property. He’ll also be traveling around the country this summer, so check out his upcoming events.
Add comment April 22, 2009
Bookmark This: DailyLit
Want something to read in a hurry? Check out DailyLit. You can read books and stories by the likes of James Patterson and Edgar Allan Poe — all in short installments. And of course, this being a Web site, you can build a profile and follow other readers, not to mention link into Twitter and get RSS feeds, etc. Oh, yeah, and follow the DailyLit Blog!
Who KNEW reading could be so, well, social?!
Add comment March 26, 2009
Natalie Goldberg Book Signing
Natalie Goldberg Book Signing
Congregation Beth Israel
Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7 p.m.
Best selling author Natalie Goldberg shares her wisdom on writing and
life in her latest book, Old Friend From Faraway: The Practice of
Writing Memoir.
Goldberg’s ground-breaking book, Writing Down The Bones: Freeing The
Writer Within (1986), cracked open the world of creativity and started
a revolution in the way writing is practiced in America. The book has
sold over one million copies and been translated into fourteen
languages. Since then she has written nine other books, including the
novel Banana Rose.
For more information, call Jennifer Smith, 454-6806.
Add comment March 25, 2009
The Business of Writing
ResumeRX to the Rescue with Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon
2 pm – 5 pm, Saturdays, April 4 and 18
Writers’ League Office, 611 S. Congress Ave., Ste. 130, Austin
“ResumeRX” is back by popular demand! Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon is expanding “ResumeRX” into an interactive two-part session that will assist anyone writing or revising a resume in search of a new job, including writers and publishing professionals seeking to develop their own platform or pitch their books in the new economy.
Registration is still open! $99 members; $159 nonmebers.
Add comment March 23, 2009
