Thanks to everyone who came to the Write On! Workshop Cincy Style yesterday. Judging from the evaluations, and speaking for Val and me, a great time was had by all! And didn’t Colleen Zuber at the Refuge Coffee Bar serve us a great lunch? Steve Gillen’s presentation on Copyrights and Contracts (and all the extra [...]
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Fantastic Write On! Workshop Cincy Style
Posted in General, Writing Life, tagged contracts and copyrights, editing, fiction, get published, manuscripts, marketing, My books, nonfiction, self-published book, Speaking engagements, Stephen Gillen, traditional publishing, Valerie J. Lewis Coleman, Write On! Workshop, writing class, writing workshops on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Write On! Workshop Cincy Style: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Posted in Writing Life, tagged get published, manuscripts, self-published book, Speaking engagements, writing class, writing workshops on December 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
BY POPULAR DEMAND! You asked for it; here it is! An all-day writing workshop in Cincinnati. Wendy Hart Beckman and Valerie Coleman present Write On! Workshop Cincy Style. After holding several successful WOWs in Dayton, we’re holding one in Cincinnati on Sunday, January 15, 2012, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Refuge Coffee Bar in Covedale.
Come See Me at the Dayton Book Expo on April 30
Posted in Book Reviews, Writing Life, tagged My books, self-published book, Speaking engagements on April 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Or I will be horribly lonely.
The “Dayton Book Expo” (being held 11 to 4 at Sinclair Community College) is going to be a blast, full of first-time authors telling their life stories, experienced novelists with another edge-of-your-chair romance, and panels of folks for you to listen to. Many of the books have been self-published, so if you think you might want to follow that path, follow I-75 to Dayton.
Now about that loneliness thing….
Two X Chromosomes Do Not (Necessarily) an Editor Make
Posted in Writing Life, tagged editing, punctuation, self-published book, style guides on August 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m about to conclude another year as a judge in the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Competition. As always, I find myself thinking over and over: “Oh, this book could have been so good if only the author had hired an editor.”