Here’s part two of the writers’ updates for September. This one includes a couple of book festivals (we have a lot of them here in Connecticut), where to buy tickets for BookCon (New York) and a lot of places to submit. BookCon is officially returning to the Javits Center in New York City on April 18-19,…
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…
Writing events and classes really ramp up in the Fall. Here’s a selection. Susan Hood will be launching her new book, Harboring Hope, at the Pequot Library in Southport, CT on September 21 at 7pm . Come celebrate the 80th anniversary of one of the most inspiring events of WWII—Denmark’s successful evacuation of its Jewish…
Libby Waterford is a friend and a best-selling author of ten contemporary romance novels, where lust always leads to happily-ever-after. Many are set in California, and, though I don’t read many romances, these are so well written that they’re hard to resist. Her latest is no exception. Take a Bow, which releases today, follows Take…
We had a great meeting yesterday, with contributions from everyone who attended. People are getting things done in the writing sphere. Maybe not quite as much as they’d like to, but making progress all the same. Kudos to them all for persevering when there’s so much else to think about. On Thursday evening, November 19,…
Only three courageous souls braved the icy weather to read their work at the WritersMic this month, but today’s Rendezvous had 14 attendees. Yay! It was held at the Fairfield County Story Lab, where we were hosted by the owner, Carol Dannhauser. Members admired the shared writing spaces available, as we sat around drinking coffee…
