The Muse Online Writing Conference is the best online conference I've found, and it's free. It allows those who can't attend a conference physically to have a chance to learn more about writing, submitting, promotion, and other aspects we need to know.
Registration closes September 25, so people MUST register now: After that the forum link to register will disappear .
http://themuseonlinewritersconference.com/joom/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=3
Also, the conferences has pitch sessions, where writers can pitch their manuscripts to agents and/or publishers. Check out the line up so far for workshops and pitch sessions, read the guidelines what and how to submit your pitches:
http://themuseonlinewritersconference.com/joom/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30&Itemid=27
I hardily recommend this conference. 4RV Publishing will have a forum, and I'll be holding a workshop forum, too.
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Heartland New Day BookFest this Saturday
Day after tomorrow the Heartland New Day BookFest begins. The night before (tomorrow evening) is the dinner with Jordan Dane as the keynote speaker and Mark Hollingsworth as MC. The meal will be delicious (prepared by EFC Women's Ministries) and the company delightful.
Over 70 authors registered for the book fest and will be present to sign any books purchased at the festival. Presentations and mini-workshops will be conducted all day Saturday. Publishers will be taking pitches from writers. Illustrators will present their work. Literary organizations will be present. Authors will donate books for Royal Family Kids Camp, to help foster and abused children have books of their own. Best of Books will be present to sell copies of books from authors who requested their services.
It's going to be such a great day, even if long. Registered participants will begin setting up at 7 AM so the doors can be open to the public at 9. Celebrities, such as Tommy Morrison and Lauren Nelson Faram, Miss American 2007, and local television personalities will read to children in three different reading rooms throughout the day. At 3 PM, the doors will close on the first annual Heartland New Day BookFest, hopefully successful.
A list of registered authors includes the following (I bolded the names of authors with books that made the finals of the competition and an * beside 4RV Publishing authors):
Linda E. Allen - award winning author
Art Anthony
Bob Avey
Eddie R. Beesley
Carl R. Bell
Sandy Hart Binkley
Deborah Bouziden
Nita Beshear
John R. Brooks
Kim Brumley
Glenda Carlile
Carlita Cartmill-Wheeler
Jordan Dane - best selling author and keynote speaker
Margaret Daley - award winning author
Elaine Davis
John "Doc" Davis
Paula Carmack Denson
Hall Duncan "Dr. D"
Edward Charles Ellenbrook
Dara England (Carol Green)
Darlina Eichman - dropped
Jim Etter with New Forum Press
David A. Farris - late registration
Peggy Fielding - dropped
Jacque Graham *
Jennifer Griffin
Tonya Hacker and Tammy Wilson
Nancy Hector
Randy Holcomb
Judy Howard - dropped
Barbara Howell
Holly Janangiri *
Louise Tucker Jones
Rashun Jones
Jess Davon Joslin
Tom Keith
Sherry Kelly
Jacqueline (Jackie) King - dropped
Suzy Koch *
Ann K. Larson
Kenneth Lay
Molly Lemmons - award winning author
Carolyn B. Leonard
Merline Lovelace - best selling author
Eric Mathe *
Susan York Meyers
Dennis McDonald - late registration
Vickie McDonough
Robby McMurtry
Stefne Miller
Ann Peeples Moore
Millie Nettles
Lisa Novotny
Galand Nuchols * late registration
Eyvonna Rains
Phil Rigsby
Greg Rodgers
Krystal Russell - Tall Tails Publishing
Tammi Sauer
Lori Z. Scott
Nicci Sefton
Bob Shephard
Cheryl Steele
M. Carolyn Steele
Daryl Talbot - author/illustator
Gloria Teague (Shirley)
Touchmark Writers
William R. Van Osdol
Beatrice Woodbury Warren
Dana Warren *
Steve Wheeler
Marvin Wiebener
Lisa Willis *
Vivian Zabel *
The judges for the essay contest and published book competition were unknown by anyone on the book fest committee except the facilitator and had no contact or connection to or with the book fest. The winners will be announced at the dinner Friday evening. Only the judges and facilitator know the results.
I'm sure I didn't note all the award winning authors above. The list of authors is impressive.
Also, five small publishing companies will attend: 46th Star Press, Literati Press, New Forums Press, Tall Tails Publishing, and 4RV Publishing. Four registered illustrators who are not also authors include: JP Jones, Nicholas Clayton, Cody Frusher, and Tabitha Smith.
Lunch will be available for purchase during the festival. Registered participants, volunteers, and the public will not have to leave to eat.
I realize this a very long post, but I wanted to let everyone know what an awesome event this will be.
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Whew, another Muse Online Writers Conference finished
Later this month I'll post information about how people can register for next year's Muse Online Writers Conference, but for now, I'm finishing up this year's. Today is the last day.
The week was busy but interesting. Lea Schizas added a new activity: authors could pitch, in writing, to publishers, editors, and/or agents. 4RV ended up with two pitch sessions, fourteen pitches in one and twelve in the other. We may have some good submissions as a result.
The pitch sessions gave writers a chance to present their work and receive some professional feedback. Yes, real agents, editors, and publishers attended.
Hopefully, life can get back to normal (whatever that is) now that conferences are over and only one more book festival to attend this year.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Heartland New Day BookFest finally makes news
After sending news release after news release to area publications, the committee began to think that we would never have any publicity. Finally, today The Oklahoman had a small article. Hopefully it will bring in some registrations, but at last the book fest make a paper.
Heartland New Day Book Fest
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Burn the house to avoid a cockroach equals CPSIA
Whizbang had an interesting post "Who would want to poison our children?" posted January 19. The entry begins with
A good rule of thumb is that when everyone in Washington agrees on something it's either inane or you better hide your wallet. Of course, there's nothing that will rally together Congress faster than a law written "for the children". So it should come as no surprise that the innocuously named Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) proposed following the lead-paint-in-childrens'-toys-from-China scare last year received almost unanimous support. It passed by a vote of 89-3 in the Senate and 424-1 in the House.
What should also come as no surprise are the unintended consequences CPSIA will have on everyone from toy manufacturers to public libraries.
The post continues with Yet another classic case of razing the house because someone saw a cockroach. The blame here is obviously bi-partisan, and this abomination was signed into law by President Bush. Clearly, no politician (other than Ron Paul) will stand up when they might be shouted down as wanting to poison the children. But either large numbers of Congress-critters supported this law without fully reading and understanding its impact or their intention all along was to saddle makers of kid's goods with an exasperating suite of regulations that will yield no significant improvement on children's health.
Commentary from Forbes, "Scrap the Consumer Product Improvement Act" (by Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Rule of Lawyers and other books. He edits Overlawyered.com), is quoted in the above post. One section of the commentary by Olson needs to be emphasized:
As CPSIA opponents mobilize, the phrase "unintended consequences" is often heard. Part of the irony, after all, is that the Hasbros and Targets, with their standardization and economies of scale, can afford to adapt to such rules as part of their business plan, while the sorts of enterprises that initially looked to benefit most from the Chinese toy scare--local, organic and so forth--are also the ones who find it hardest to comply.
But the failure here runs deeper. This was not some enactment slipped through in the dead of night: It was one of the most highly publicized pieces of legislation to pass Congress last year.
And yet now it appears precious few lawmakers took the time to check what was in the bill, while precious few in the press (which ran countless let's-pass-a-law articles) cared to raise even the most basic questions about what the law was going to require.
Yes, something's being exposed as systematically defective here. But it's not the contents of our kids' toy chests. It's the way we make public policy.
Hopefully, someone will do something before our house is burned to the ground.
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A good rule of thumb is that when everyone in Washington agrees on something it's either inane or you better hide your wallet. Of course, there's nothing that will rally together Congress faster than a law written "for the children". So it should come as no surprise that the innocuously named Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) proposed following the lead-paint-in-childrens'-toys-from-China scare last year received almost unanimous support. It passed by a vote of 89-3 in the Senate and 424-1 in the House.
What should also come as no surprise are the unintended consequences CPSIA will have on everyone from toy manufacturers to public libraries.
The post continues with Yet another classic case of razing the house because someone saw a cockroach. The blame here is obviously bi-partisan, and this abomination was signed into law by President Bush. Clearly, no politician (other than Ron Paul) will stand up when they might be shouted down as wanting to poison the children. But either large numbers of Congress-critters supported this law without fully reading and understanding its impact or their intention all along was to saddle makers of kid's goods with an exasperating suite of regulations that will yield no significant improvement on children's health.
Commentary from Forbes, "Scrap the Consumer Product Improvement Act" (by Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the author of The Rule of Lawyers and other books. He edits Overlawyered.com), is quoted in the above post. One section of the commentary by Olson needs to be emphasized:
As CPSIA opponents mobilize, the phrase "unintended consequences" is often heard. Part of the irony, after all, is that the Hasbros and Targets, with their standardization and economies of scale, can afford to adapt to such rules as part of their business plan, while the sorts of enterprises that initially looked to benefit most from the Chinese toy scare--local, organic and so forth--are also the ones who find it hardest to comply.
But the failure here runs deeper. This was not some enactment slipped through in the dead of night: It was one of the most highly publicized pieces of legislation to pass Congress last year.
And yet now it appears precious few lawmakers took the time to check what was in the bill, while precious few in the press (which ran countless let's-pass-a-law articles) cared to raise even the most basic questions about what the law was going to require.
Yes, something's being exposed as systematically defective here. But it's not the contents of our kids' toy chests. It's the way we make public policy.
Hopefully, someone will do something before our house is burned to the ground.
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