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Learn the basics and begin the collection and assembly of a cookbook of favorite family recipes, traditions, photos and memories.
Using the medium of food, students will learn how to collect and compile favorite family recipes, memories and traditions, to create their own "Song of Home."
At the end of the class, students will have a working plan, with samples, to continue developing a collective family cookbook of recipes, family photographs and memoirs/stories.
All instruction materials, discussion, and assignments will be posted through the course YahooGroup. Students will be expected to prepare and participate in class discussion of each unit of study.
Instructor: Sylvia Dickey Smith, author of Divorcing God, Dance On His Grave, Deadly Sins Deadly Secrets, Dead Wreckoning, A War of Her Own, and Sassy Southern Classy Cajun.
Story Cicle Network members: $256. Non-SCN members: $320.
For this gathering of members from all facets of the writing community, this year’s program seeks to offer workshops and presentations on the creative side of writing as well as discussion of publishing trends and changes which impact all writers. If attendees wish, there is also plenty of room to roam and write on their own.
You'll find a list of planned workshops on the website. Additional programs (with more in the works) include a panel of Authors and Editors discussing Working Relationships, a Panel on New Directions in Publishing, opportunities to “meet and pitch” with editors and agents (TBA), Friday evening “Cookout and Campfire Under the Stars” with music and readings, Saturday Luncheon honoring WILLA Finalists and Banquet honoring WILLA Winners, and
Bookstore.
Conference Fees:
$215 - Women Writing the West member
$245 - Non-member
$165 - Registration at the door
Make guest room reservations directly with the Rancho de los Caballeros.
Panel discussions with over 25 literary agents and small-group query letter and opening pages workshop critiques.
Attendance limited to 120.
Backspace is an online writers organization with over 1,200 members in a dozen countries. A third of our members are agented and published, and include nearly a dozen New York Times best-selling authors.
Send an email to Christopher Graham to be put on the seminar mailing list. (chrisg@bksp.org)
Not much info on the November Backspace conference is on the site yet, but you can check the site to see the speakers, agents, authors, editors and other professionals who attended the May conference.
We’re setting aside the entire first day for an in-depth program we’re calling Brainstorming: The Future of Publishing.
Ours goals are both specific and general: The roles of publisher and author in the rapidly changing landscape of book publishing. Delivery systems — those now existing, and those still on the drawing board. Melding publisher publicity and promotion with author self-promotion, for the benefit of both parties. Copyrights.
Speakers include:
Lou Aronica, Publisher, The Story Plant
Lucienne Diver, The Knight Agency
Eileen Fallon, Eileen Fallon Literary Agency
Heather Graham, NYT Bestselling Author
Donna Hayes, Publisher and CEO
Melinda Haynes, M.Ed. CH
Brenda Hiatt, Author
Kay Hooper, NYT Bestselling Author
Angela James, Executive Editor, Carina Press
Alan Kaufman, Literary Attorney
Barbara Keiler, Author
Christopher Kenneally, Director, Author
J.A. Konrath, Author, Blogger
Sue Lange, Publicity Coordinator, Book View Cafe
Dr. D.P. Lyle, Author and Lecturer
(see site for full list)
No idea of the cost, since it appears you have to be a member of Novelists, Inc. to even see the cost, let along sign up.
Scheduled to be on the cruise:
Author Cynthia Riggs
Lee Emory, owner of Treble Heart Books
Jinx Schwartz
Artist and author Mary Montague Sikes
Author Austin Camacho
Beverly Hills agent Ken Sherman
Author Peggy Ehrhart
Author Marilyn Meredith
Madeline Gornell
Author Marion Moore Hill
Attorney Dorinda Ohnstad
Lou Allin
Author Sunny Frazier
Sunday: Leave Los Angeles
Monday - Tuesday: Fun Days at Sea
Wednesday: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Thursday: Mazatlan, Mexico
Friday: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Saturday: Fund Day at Sea
Sunday: Los Angeles
Prices start at $487.00 per person, complete. Each person will get a group t-shirt, an invitation to a private cocktail party, and each cabin will get $50.00 onboard credit.
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