Trish Lapidus's Kitchen Table Writing Group in New Haven

Dear Writing Sisters,

I am starting a kitchen table writing group this fall. I offer to host the group in my home on the first Sunday afternoon (second Sunday if the first is a holiday) of each month from 3:00 to 5:00pm. I live in the Westport area of New Haven at 33 Farnham Avenue, Apt 40 just before you get to Southern CT State U. Easy to get to from Route 15 and from Whalley Avenue. As a landmark, I live within easy walking distance of the face of West Rock Ridge.

Please let me know if you would be interested in writing and sharing around my kitchen table. Also, if you know of other women who would be interested, please pass the word. I will also ask Elizabeth Julia to post this notice in the next issue of Network, the newsletter of the Guild.

Patricia/Trish Lapidus
Writing Consultant, Life Coach, Author

Including Sweet Potato Suppers, a New eBook
and Long Awaited, Swamp Walking Woman


http://swampwalkingwoman.blogspot.com/

Mary Carroll Moore is inviting you to a Book Release Party!

You’re Invited to the Book Release Party and Author Reading

Tuesday, October 13, 7:00 p.m.

The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center

Sleepy Hollow, NY

www.writerscenter.org



Thursday, November 5, 7:00 p.m.

The Loft Literary Center

Minneapolis, MN

www.loft.org


Nominated by publisher for a PEN/Faulkner Award


Qualities of Light, a novel by Mary Carroll Moore, is being released this week from Spinsters Ink/Bella Book, and Mary would love support from fellow IWWG members to spike sales on Amazon.com. It's being offered at a pre-order price of $10.17, so if you're interested, please visit amazon today and purchase a copy. Tell your friends!

Mary's gotten some great pre-pub reviews. Ann Bannon, best-selling author of The Chronicles of Beebo Brinker, wrote, "How many writers have caught that lightning-in-a-bottle that is young love? The story, set in lush summer in the Adirondacks, suffuses the young lovers with those qualities of light that illuminate the water, the woods, and the human heart. This is a tender and lively coming-of-age tale told with delicate insight, a romance etched in moonlight--the one we all wish we had had in our seventeenth summer."

Qualities of Light explores the budding of forbidden romance in the face of family tragedy, the forging of a new relationship between a daughter and her gifted, difficult parents, and an adolescent girl's confrontation with her own qualities of light and darkness.

Catherine Friend, author of Hit by a Farm, wrote, “Mary Carroll Moore’s skill as a painter blends beautifully with her sensitive portrayal of first love in Qualities of Light. She successfully layers Molly Fisher’s many struggles---guilt surrounding her brother’s accident, frustration that she and her father don’t understand each other, and confusion over where she fits in a group of lake friends. Shining through these layers are Molly’s vivid voice and her deepening love for a young woman named Zoe. Moore’s skillfully crafted novel both moves and entertains as she follows Molly’s summer journey.”

Ellen Hart, Minnesota Book Award winner, wrote, “Qualities of Light, by Mary Carroll Moore, isn’t just a beautifully nuanced contemporary lesbian romance, but a sensitive exploration of the cruelty and kindness--the intricate balancing act--that is family love. I couldn’t recommend it more highly.”


Please support a fellow IWWG member! Thank you!


To order from amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Qualities-Light-Mary-Caroll-Moore/dp/1935226061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249898663&sr=8-1

Award-winning writer and editor Adele Annesi is launching a new website

Award-winning writer and editor Adele Annesi is launching a new website, AdeleAnnesi, on the theme of place as inspiration to complement her Word for Words and Writing Linx blogs for editors and writers.

Come visit the site to leave a comment on the Contact Me page. It would be great to hear from you!

Adele
Adele M. Annesi
Publicity Chair, CT Authors and Publishers Association

Visit my blogs

Word for Words
http://wordforwords.blogspot.com/

and

Writing Linx
http://writinglinx.blogspot.com/

The Adirondack Writer's Retreat

Dear Writers--

As the Adirondack Mountain Writers' Retreat draws near (August 20 - 23), I find myself with two slots left open. I want to fill them, and I want to do my best to make them affordable to interested writers. For that reason, I am offering a $50 discount to any registrant who is a member of the IWWG.

But WAIT! I can do better!! If TWO IWWG members sign up, I will deduct an additional $50 from the fee of each. Time is short and I will have to accept registrations on a first come, first served basis.

This note so far has discussed only money. I don't want to make the message unduly long, but I must add that this will be an outstanding creative writing workshop (fiction, memoir, personal essay) with gifted writer and teacher Irene Sherlock. Writers are urged to bring a work in progress and "workshop it" for the four days through seminars, discussion and consultations, pushing it toward publication. There's lots more information on my website (PersisGranger.com) and I'd be delighted to answer questions by phone (518-623-9305) or email. Please share this information with writers whom you think may find it of interest.

Many thanks--
Persis Granger
Registering Now - The Adirondack Mountain Writers' Retreat
August 20 - 23, 2009, a 4-day Creative Writing Workshop with Irene Sherlock
Visit PersisGranger.com

Suite 101 - Therese Haberman

For anyone who lives or works in the local Newtown area of the Constitutional State -


Therese Haberman has just been named to the Feature Writer slot for Suite 101, "Parenting a Gifted Child" Section.

http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/mstherese
http://parentingagiftedchild.suite101.com/
http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/mstherese


She is listed as Therese Haberman,
Facilitator, White Oak Women Writer's Group
Newtown, CT