April 20, 2026

Alexa Bigwarfe of Write, Publish, Sell, is a writer, publisher, and book marketer, and understands the struggle many writers have when dealing with the business side of being an author. She’s offering a free webinar, Learn to Love Marketing! on April 29 at 2pm ET/11am PST, and if you can’t make it live, she’ll send…

July 16, 2025

We had a lively meeting today, and covered a number of subjects – too many to fit into one post! So there’s more to come on Monday. But check out the events and contests happening before the end of July… On Thursday, July 24, at 6:30pm, one of our members, Chris Myers, will be at…

May 21, 2025

We had another great meeting today, with the focus on different ways to publish, submitting to contests, and more. Here’s the first half of the update – it includes an interesting webinar for memoir writers tomorrow, Thursday, May 22, which is why I’m posting a little faster than usual. If you’re a memoir writer intending…

February 26, 2024

Apart from some new writers’ events, we talked about self-publishing, book launches, and marketing and dictating your book – and came up with some suggestions. Head to Byrd’s Books in Bethel on Sunday, March 10 at 4pm for an afternoon of poetry at the store and on Zoom. The series of three events starts with…

December 22, 2023

Landing in the middle of the holidays, I wasn’t expecting many (if any) people for the last Writers Rendezvous of the year, but thirteen stalwarts turned up – thank you! The conversation covered new year classes, and book marketing among other topics, with some overlap between the two. A couple of people asked me for…

February 16, 2023

Seventeen of us showed up for the February meeting yesterday, and we covered a lot of ground. Read on to find out about events for writers, a number of them free. So let’s get going! The APSS (Association of Publishers for Special Sales) is offering a free webinar this Saturday, February 18, from 10:30–11:30am ET, on…

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