Monthly Archives: March 2017

A Poem a Day

A nice find as I wandered around the Internet this morning.

Live to Write - Write to Live

Jane Yolen is one of the most prolific and lauded children’s writers of our time. She has written more than three hundred books including many picture books and middle grade novels in a variety of genres and worlds of her own imagining. Her awards are many including (from her website), “the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award among many others.” She is also a generous supporter of other writers, often speaking at conferences, teaching, and maintaining a lengthy For Writers page on her own website.

My favorite Yolen book is one that seems to be out of print called The Wild Hunt. It’s one of my favorite winter reads and a story that I come back to…

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Newsletter Archive Update…Finally!

I have updated the Writers Forum Newsletter archive here at the blog. I was only about a year behind. <heavy sigh>

The archived newsletters are exactly as sent to the printer and delivered to the WF membership. That means that I did not go back and clean  up typos. Real and raw!

Follow the link at the top of the page to Newsletters.

Thanks!

Geo.

March Program: RESEARCHING YOUR NOVEL

RESEARCHING YOUR NOVEL

 Don’t Let Them Get You

Writers Forum member Jennifer Levens has written both historical and contemporary novels. At our March 11 meeting, she speaks about research as it applies to historical novels for accuracy, and to contemporary novels for dates and accuracy of methodology. Levens explains how to avoid the problem of readers who write to the author about the slightest inaccuracies in a novel, or even worse, readers who put the book down unfinished and move on to another author. She will explain how to avoid this by using meticulous research to identify reliable primary and secondary sources. Jennifer Levens is a Master of Education who also holds a degree in English Literature. She is an actress, director, musician, writer and teacher who has been writing most of her life, and thinks making people laugh is the highest form of therapy.

The meeting is this Saturday from 10:30am-12:30pm at All Saints Episcopal Church in the Memorial Hall.  Doors open at 10:00am so that we can get started promptly at 10:30am.  All Saints Episcopal Church is located at 2150 Benton Drive, Redding, CA.

See you there!

Newsletter Delay

My apologies for getting the newsletter out late this month. I try to have it in your mailbox one week before the monthly meeting. That didn’t happen this time. It will be at the printer tomorrow (Monday, March 6) and mailed a day or two after that. You should have it before Friday.

My apologies for any inconveniences.

George Parker, Newsletter Editor