Candy's new book cover

The group has had a lot of success lately! And the latest example: Candace Havens has posted the cover of her next book on her web site.

It's Charmed and Ready, the sequel to Charmed and Dangerous. It comes out Sept. 5.

Congratulations, Candy!

Bloggers wanted

The new blog seems to be going pretty well. Thanks to the contributors for posting news, events and information about writing resources here.

If any other Workshop members would like to contribute to the blog, please get in touch with me.

Know any good quotes about writing?

We're always looking for more notable quotes to put into the random rotation in the upper right corner of this web site. If any members have some, please submit them by posting to the Yahoo group. The only requirement is that they be real and be about the craft of writing in some way.

New Texas Anthology

New Texas is a literary anthology focusing upon Texas. New Texas is open to fiction, poetry, & nonfiction either by Texans, focused on Texas, or featuring Texas as a backdrop. We allow creative latitude; the fictional pieces may focus on the spiritual landscape of Texas as its connection to place.

Granbury event offers workshops, readings, more

First call has gone out for papers and participants at the upcoming weekend, Sept. 6-9. The program will feature readings, panel discussions, critical papers, fiction and poetry workshops, musical selections, art and photography exhibits, a film screening and almost anything associated with writing, drama, film and music. Registration is $50. Authors are invited to bring their books for sale.

Wordspace literary series to be held at Undermain

Wordspace, the Dallas literary organization, will present its new series, Texas Unbound 2006, over two weekends of readings, music and performance at the Undermain Theater in Deep Ellum, Aug. 10-13 and Aug. 17-20.

Dallas Invitational Poetry Slam

As a run-up to this year's 20th annual National Poetry Slam,
which begins in Austin on Aug. 10, the
Dallas Invitational Poetry Slam will be held
Sunday, Aug. 6 at
Pugsley's Library
2442 Walnut Hill Lane
Dallas, Texas

Family Circle Magazine Fiction Contest Announced

One grand prize of $750 and possible publication in Family Circle.
Two runner-up prizes of $250 and possible publication on familycircle.com.
Official rules: www.familycircle.com/fiction.

Send an original, fictional short story of no more than 2,500 words to:

Family Circle Fiction Contest
c/o Family Circle Magazine
375 Lexington Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10017

All entries must be typed, double-spaced and page numbered on 8.5” x 11” paper and must include:

Name
Address
Daytime Telephone Number
E-Mail Address (optional)

No purchase necessary to enter or win.

Contest runs from 7/1/06 to 9/15/06 (postmarked on or before 9/15/06 and received before 9/22/06).

Entries must be original, unpublished, and may not have won any prize or award.

Multiple entries accepted, but each entry must be a unique story.

Open to: amateur writers who are legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, ages 21 or older.

JournalismJobs.com

Most of the positions are full time, permanent, and somewhere else, but a few are in Texas and some are freelance. The search engine allow you to list jobs by location, position, job status or keyword, making checking the site easy. They also have good coverage of daily journalism news.

Laurie Moore Speaks

DFWWW member Laurie Moore will be speaking at the La Hacienda restaraunt this Saturday, July 15th, at 10am on DIALOGUE. This is the monthly meeting for the North Texas Romance Writers ( http://www.ntrwa.org ). Everyone is welcome! ($1 cover charge)

WHO: Laurie Moore
WHEN: Sat July 15th, 10am
WHERE: La Hacienda restaraunt, Colleyville on 121 (see map on website)

NTRWA website http://www.ntrwa.org

Winners Read This Sat!

The winners of the recent Barnes & Noble 1500 Word Speculative Fiction Contest will read their work this Saturday at the North Richland Hills Barnes & Noble at 7pm.

Everyone is welcome to join us. Refreshments will be provided.

For more info, contact Georgette Radford, NRH B&N CRM at
Barnes & Noble
8525 Airport Freeway
North Richland Hills, Tx 76180
817-281-6285 fax 817-281-7436

or Alley Hauldren at alleypat@comcast.net or 972-641-6423

Cover Art For Rosemary's 1st Book!

DFWWW member,
Rosemary Clement-Moore,
has received her cover art for her first book
PROM DATES FROM HELL,
published by Delacorte Press,
to be released Spring 07.

Winners of the NTSFW & B&N Story Contest!

CONGRATULATIONS!
to the following winners in this year's 1500 word
Speculative Fiction Short Story Contest
sponsored by Barnes & Noble (North Richland Hills)
and the North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop.

WINNERS
1st Place: KILLING TIME by Becky Huffman
2nd Place: A CHILD'S STONE by Sean Allen
3rd Place: A SIGN by Mark Dowdy

HONORABLE MENTION
The Ballard of Smokin' Dad Harlan by Laura Seaborn
EVIL GENIUS BEGINNINGS: THE HIGH SCHOOL EDITION John & Alison Golden
Righteousness Visited by Ken Ingle

NTSFW would like to thank Georgette Radford, CRM for the North Richland Hills Barnes & Noble Bookstore, for getting this off the ground and for all the hard work she did on organizing and getting the judges.

A big thank you to the judges:
Trudi Robertson ~ Adjunct Lecturer at UTA since 1997
Taught 1st year composition, American, World and British Literature at Tcc Southeast, Advanced exposition at Texas Wesleyan, Poems published, Scholarly papers presented for SCMLA, SSSA, and Gorgias

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Saturday, July the 15th, the winners will read their work at the North Richland Hills Barnes & Noble at 7pm. Everyone is welcome to hear these wonderful writers share their work. Refreshments will be provided by Barnes & Noble.

For more info, contact Alley at alleypat@comcast.net or Georgette at the B&N NRH Bookstore 817-281-6285 fax 817-281-7436 .

www.BN.com
www.NTSFW.com

Evil Editor Critiques Your Query

Scott McFadden alerted me to this link last night at the Workshop: it's a blog by an apparently knowledgeable editor who re-writes your fiction query for you. Unfortunately he also rips you up in the process; however, even those who are too faint at heart to undergo the blue ink of Evil Editor's pen can learn something by seeing the treatment he gives to others not so shy.

As Evil Editor [EE] himself writes:

You may not submit a query for a private critique. You must be willing to be humiliated (or praised) in a public forum. The lessons to be learned from having your query critiqued are probably available in the critiques of other authors' queries, however, so if you don't have the guts to submit, read the archives.

Cover art for Alex's next book

Thought you might like to see the cover art for Workshop member A. Lee Martinez' next book, In the Company of Ogres, coming out in August from Tor Books.

Congrats, Alex!