Write something down...quick!

This Saturday, October 23rd, join us for SCRIBE meeting at 10:00am in Quad 4. This is the critique/workshop meeting, so we encourage you to bring something you've written or something you're currently working on and share it with your small group to get valuable feedback. We won't be having the critique meetings in November or December, because they would conflict with Thanksgiving and Christmas. So this is your last chance in 2010 to hear your fellow writers respond to your creative output.
We will, of course, have our other meetings in November and December. On November 13th, our guest will be author David Ciambrone, and on December 11th, we will welcome P.J. Pierce.
There's always a good reason to attend SCRIBE. I'd love to see you there!

Shameless self-promotion

Fellow SCRIBErs, if you missed the meeting last weekend (and many of you did), you missed a good time with our guest, Donna Ingham. At that meeting, I also announced that I had decided to try self-publishing an ebook version of my novel. It is currently available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. One of the reasons I wanted to do this--aside from wanting people to read my book--was to learn about the process so I could share it with SCRIBE members. We're in an exciting time right now when publishing is going through all sorts of changes. In many ways, it has never been easier to publish your work for an audience to purchase. We will be talking about this in future meetings, too, but I set up another blog to record my experiences in working through the self-publishing maze; I suggest you start at the bottom (oldest) post and work your way up. I'm also dipping a toe into the "Publish On Demand" waters which will allow authors to sell actual printed copies of their books without having to pay to have them printed. And yet another exciting possibility is a Texas publisher I've learned about which accepts many books from Texas authors. We're going to have a couple of those authors as guests in future meetings, so we'll find out if this publisher is right for YOU! There is much to learn about the changing marketplace for writers, but I'm going to try to keep you up to speed. In the meantime, though...you gotta write something!