cj Sez: Wanted, Readers and Writers.
The 2018 Mobile Literary Festival kicks off on March 3 at the Ben May Main
Library, and if you’re in the Mobile area, we’d love to see you there.
Excerpts from press
releases:
How do you begin? Where do you go from there? How do you get
from brilliant idea to “I hate every word,” to published novel? The Emerging
Writers’ Workshop will explore story creation, world building, and character
development methods, including Michael Hague’s Six-Point Plot Structure, story
mapping, free writing, and spider diagrams. The workshop features Emily
Blejwas, Carrie
Dalby Cox, Angela
Quarles, and Joyce Scarbrough,
and participants will be given the chance to discuss their own story ideas with
these distinguished authors.
And for you fans of Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, magical
realism, or the supernatural: Transport, beam, or ride your broomstick over to
the Ben May Main Library for a Speculative Fiction discussion panel featuring
authors Craig Price, Jr., Meleesa Swann, Steven Moore, and Lee Ann Ward. Readers
and writers will go behind the curtain of their favorite genres. Following
Speculative Fiction, audience members can explore the genres of Women’s Lit,
Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Poetry, and Hybrid
Fiction.
Find more updates and the day’s schedule on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MobileLiteraryFestival/
I’ll be there as well, so be sure to stop by and say “Hi.”
PIECES ANTHOLOGY…The
Mobile Writers Guild has published a collection of short stories and poems
by more than 20 authors from the Gulf Coast of Alabama, including USA TODAY best-selling
authors Carolyn Haines and Craig A. Price Jr.
Other authors featured in the anthology include: Candice
Conner, Joyce Scarbrough, Lady Lester, Frances Roberts, Ron Polizzi, Mavis M.
Jarrell, Dee Jordan, Oksana Leslie, Rachell Jackson, Carrie Dalby, Caren Rich,
Isabella N. Jetten, D. Dean Carroll, Steven Moore, Ross Conner Smith, Christa
Stanley, Jodie Cain Smith, Jim Hancock, and
Me, cj petterson. The collection is available at http://amzn.to/2BTiqt5
Valentine’s Day is
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mysteries spiced with romance and all
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Question: What’s your favorite book that made it to the big
screen?
My answer: Without a
doubt, my favorite is Charlotte Brontë’s JANE EYRE. Neither of the characters
is perfect, not in features and not for each other. They are deeply flawed;
yet, they make it through somehow. It’s the ultimate romance story.
Now you: What’s your favorite book that made it to the big
screen?
cj Sez: That’s
all for this post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the
same.
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