Meeting of March 26, 2008

The regular Wednesday night meeting of the workshop began with the welcoming of 3 visitors. Then it was off to the stats:

Rejections: 2

Acceptances: Alex Martinez announced that he has a new publisher; Yvonne Isaacs had an agent request for sample chapter and book proposal; April Rose Holman had a report approved.

Submissions: Jessica Eldredge submitted a magazine article, Curtis Bales sent the 5th of his books to a new publisher, Sonja Cassella submitted several short stores; Iris Acuff sent in work to a potential collaborator, and Jo Lightfoot submitted 3 poems to a contest.

Announcements:

Georgette, our friend from Barnes and Noble North Richland Hills, announced that the store will be moving to the other side of the freeway. The new store is where Nordstrom Rack once stood, right next to Best Buy. She is sending invitations for their pre-opening party to all DFWWW members. The party will be held May 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be a display about DFWWW at the party.

Writer’s League of Texas conference June 20-22. A group of DFWWW members plan to attend as a group and share some costs. See Sonja Cassella for more information.

Booksigning: It's a "Texas Author Event" at the Lewisville Barnes and Noble, from 2-4 p.m. this Saturday, March 29. Candy Havens, Rosemary Clement-Moore, and Alex Martinez will be signing, among others.

General member announcements – please pay your 2008 dues if you haven’t already done so. Also, Steve Manning is collecting a list of member websites to be posted on this site.

News from March 18, 2008 meeting

We're continuing our post-conference trend of many visitors and many readers. Last night we had seven announced visitors, and we heard over 18 readers in four reading rooms.

The stats:

Rejections: 7

Submissions: Sonja Cassella and Kyle White reported submissions.

Acceptances: Alex Martinez received another offer for his new book, Andy Valentine will have an article on computer crime in the 2008 ABA Handbook; Curtis Bales' English publisher requested two manuscripts; Kyle White had several articles accepted; Shane Gupton had ad revenue for the first time on his blog.

Announcements:

2007 Barbara Wilson Award:

Each year we honor one writer in the DFWWW for having the most published short pieces. To enter, give to Joan McCord a list of all published pieces, with tear sheets showing you name, the publication, and the date. Entries are due by the end of April.

Writer's League of Texas Conference

The DFWWW hopes to send a delegation of our members to the biggest writer's conference in Texas, held in Austin June 20-22. We plan to carpool and some may share rooms. See Sonja Cassella to find out more.

2008 Short Fiction and Poetry Contest

Ally Haldren will be in charge of the 2008 contests. She will need two volunteers to help. If you are interested in being on the committee, see Ally.

DFWWW Conference 2009

We have secured initial officers for next spring's conference. They will be:

Dan Anders, Chair
Jeri Burbage, Co-Chair
Kyle White, Publicity
Paul Lamarre, Sponsorship
Michele Nordahl, Graphic design of program

More committee chairs to be announced.

Meeting report of March 5, 2008

Our monthly business meeting went off without a hitch, and in fact there was no new business, no unfinished old business, and no committee reports.

However, the “Rogues Gallery” of submission events went off at about the usual speed, to wit:

Rejections: Only two were owned up to.

Acceptances: Ginny Bivona has a new book coming out; Del Cain had a poem accepted by the Austin International Poetry Festival; and A. Lee Martinez had a book review of Automatic Detective in a mystery magazine.

Submissions: Anne Perry submitted two short stories; Chris Lee Moore submitted a synopsis and five pages to an agent; Curtis Bales submitted several previously published novels to a British publisher which has requested them; and Kendall Furlong submitted three short stories.

President Steve Manning announced that photos from the conference are available for on-line viewing and he also had prints at the meeting. He described the conference as “one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.” Planning for a new conference for 2009 has begun and recruiting for more than a dozen positions in the new conference are available. Steve hopes to have a date and location for the new conference decided by the end of the month.

Conference photos

I've created a Flickr page and uploaded several pages of conference photos.

Take a look:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24340496@N02/