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B2B Newsletter - July 8, 2005
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Basics2Bylines: A WNY Writers' Network
Hello Fellow Writers!
Congratulations to:
Terri Skurzewski whose essay, "Telemarketers Intrude No Matter Where We Go," has been published in the Buffalo News: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050707/1038016.asp
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News Flash:
Jerry Goldberg has been promoted to Managing Editor of The Buffalo News and Steve Bell will be the new Editorial Page Editor.
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Basics2Bylines Writers' Groups News
Mark Your Calendars - The B2B Writers' Group, scheduled for the 4th of July, has been rescheduled and will now take place on July 11th.
Basics2Bylines Writers' Groups are held monthly at two locations for your convenience - the Lancaster Library at 5466 Broadway, Lancaster, NY on the third Tuesday of every month and Barnes & Noble on Niagara Falls Blvd. in Amherst, NY on the first Monday of every month. Please feel free to attend either one, or both. For more details visit our website: http://basics2bylines.org/B2BWritersGroups.html.
A huge "Thanks" goes to Maria Pascucci, freelance writer and writer for the Buffalo News, who joined our writers' group at the Lancaster Library to not only share her writing experiences, but also a wonderful essay about her Mom.
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Upcoming Events:
The 2005 Harlem Book Fair will be held July 8th & 9th in downtown Buffalo's Lafayette Square. There will be free outdoor events, exhibit booths, and book signings, as well as seminars and workshops for writers. Don't miss out on this opportunity to meet and greet celebrity authors.
Friday, July 8th - Writer Workshops - "Living Your Writing Dreams: An Insider's Take on Becoming a Writer" featuring best-selling author/journalist/screenwriter Alan Steinberg.
Saturday, July 9th, 2005 - BOOK FAIR- FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
10 am - 6:30 pm - Downtown Buffalo - Lafayette Square - Washington Street from Mohawk to Clinton/Broadway to Ellicott Street. Featured activities include:
Panel discussions with national and local authors/participants
Seminars: Reading, Heritage/Genealogy, Book Clubs
Reading Roundtable- Join Ujima Theatre Company's founder and actress, Lorna Hill as she leads a discussion about Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neal Hurston's book "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
Children's Forum: storytelling/author readings/book reviews by children
Specialty Literary Pavilions- national, regional and local poets will be present
Vendors - Individual Authors, Book Stores, Publishers, Small Presses, Retail vendors, Artists
For more info contact the Just Buffalo Literary Center at 832-5400 or visit their website at http://www.justbuffalo.org/.
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Renowned Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer GREGORY FROST teaches a workshop at the Writers Room of Bucks County on VIEWPOINTS AND COMPLEX CHARACTERS
July 16, Saturday, 1 pm to 5:30 pm
In the first half of this workshop, you'll consider all the viewpoints you might choose to write a story -- what the strengths and limitations of each might be, which you want to use for your particular story and why.
In the second half you'll look at ways to develop and deepen your characters -- how to "chart" characters to make them work off one another, to find out about their "secret" selves. Through exercises in dialogue and misdirection, you'll make them talk to you and to each other.
This workshop is open to all writers. Fee is $95 for Writers Room members, $105 for nonmembers. For more information, visit www.writersroom.net, call 215-348-1663, or email info@writersroom.net. The Writers Room is located in Doylestown, PA, near the SEPTA R5 Regional Rail and the TransBridge Bus station from New York City.
Gregory Frost has been a finalist for almost every major award in the fantasy field: Nebula Award, James Tiptree Award, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Short Fiction, Hugo Award, International Horror Guild Award, and the World Fantasy Award.
Frost's latest stories are "Tengu Mountain," in Datlow & Windling's anthology, The Faery Reel, "So Coldly Sweet, So Deadly Fair," in Weird Tales magazine, and "Dub," in Weird Trails, a faux-1930s pulp magazine anthology edited by Darrell Schweitzer. In June 2005 Golden Gryphon Press is publishing a collection of his short fiction, Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories.
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Writer's Tip:
Make time to write! It's great to keep current in the writing world with assorted writers' magazine, but don't overdo it. I have so many literary magazines piled up right now, that if I take the time to read them all, I'll be left with no time to write. Moderation is the key! Go ahead and pick up the current issue of your favorite literary magazine, but make sure you spend more time writing your own words, than you do reading the words of other. Now, if only I could follow my own advice…
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If you have literary news, please, share it with us, so we can share it with others! Send me an email at ediesuarez@basics2bylines.org and let me know what's up in your literary world.
From basics to bylines we want to help YOU get published!
Best wishes to all,
Basics2Bylines - A WNY Writers' Network
Edie Suarez
Writers' Group Coordinator
B2B Newsletter/Website Creator
Lynne Wallace-Lee
Writers' Group Coordinator
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