ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Chattanooga
Writers Guild
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:00 PM
Downtown Branch: Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library
Improving your Craft
This meeting is free and open to the public
Join us for
a workshop session for writers of all genres. Joyce Walters will discuss Stephen
King’s book On Writing. Ray Zimmerman will lead two activities for writers
wanting to structure their journaling experience and develop a journal as a
source of raw material useful for refinement into nonfiction, fiction, and poetic
works.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
#65 News and Views you can use
www.chattanoogawritersguild.org
Publishers are starting to Giveaway Books Online
A science fiction and fantasy site not quite like any you’ve seen before, mixing news, commentary, original stories and art, your own comments and conversations, and more. A place on the net you may find yourself wanting to visit—and participate in—every day.
Once you register, you’ll receive our newsletter and a link to download a digital book, as well as free wallpapers from bestselling and award-winning SF and fantasy authors and artists. And you’ll receive a link to another new book, and new wallpapers, every week. Additionally, you’ll be entered in our Watch The Skies Sweepstakes to win the very cool Asus Galaxy EEE mobile PC.*
The current free book is Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest. Next week’s book will be Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott. So sign up. Stay in touch. And watch the skies http://www.tor.com
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HarperCollins is giving ebooks away
HarperCollins: The News Corp-owned book publisher will begin offering free e-editions of some of its books on its site, including a novel by Paulo Coelho, among others. HarperCollins also plans to upload a different title by Coelho each month for the rest of the year. Again, the idea is sampling, but the company is crippling the service from the start: these editions would be available only for one month, and readers would not be able to download them to laptops or to an electronic reader like Kindle. The print function will also be disabled, but readers will be able to link to retailers like Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) to buy copies of the books.
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CWG Members Forum
Over 25 members have joined the Discussion Forum and posted remarks, poetry, rebuttal of other members wild writing ideas, and has become a method of exchanging ideas for members who are not able to come to our small group critique meetings. All members are encouraged to visit the forum at least once a week. Do it at work when things are slow or check it out late at night. Make it a habit. Only CWG members in good standing are allowed to join the Forum.
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Tennessee Writers Alliance Contests
TWA has a poetry and fiction contests that you should check out: www.tn-writers.org
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The Atlantic Monthly
This issue's choice of quality writing that you can find online. Keep those suggestions coming. We are putting together a new section of our Web Page that will contain a large number of quality reading. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/
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Poetry Contest Winners
Winners of the first annual CWG/InTheCity Poetry contest will soon be announced. The stacks and stacks of submissions have been culled down by independent local judges and the finalists sent to the out of town [and out of fire] experienced poetry judge who has made the decision on the winners. A venue for the public awards will be made soon.
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Google docs
This is a great place to share writing with someone else. Perhaps some of our small groups might like to see if it will work to share writing/editing rather than emailing versions back and forth. Or you might have a newsletter that several people need to feed. Here is a video on how it works. Take a look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
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Article in Chattanoogan.com
Good article in the Chattanoogan.com about the Beatnik Poetry
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_127453.asp
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Buy a Book by the Chapter
Random House, will start selling individual chapters of a popular book, to figure out if readers are interested in such unbundling. It will sell the six chapters and epilogue of ”Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die” for $2.99 each. The chapters are posted here. Of course, the book is such that separate chapters can stand by themselves. If you can buy pizza by the slice why not a book?
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