News
Listed below are acknowledgements
of our member's accomplishments,
book signing dates,
locations, and other items of note:
Recent
Newsletters now on Site
All issues of our recently revived
SASP Newsletter
are now posted and available on the
web-site. Simply go to the Newsletter
Tab
on our home page and click on the
month you are interested in. All content
of the e-mailed
or “snail-mailed” versions is there,
although format is changed somewhat.
Publishing
Accomplishments
Jim Parry’s book, Book All the Teachers,
is now available on most major
bookstore web-sites
(Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
And Yet another
Contest
The
second annual "Scare The Dickens Out of Us"
ghost story contest
offers
$1000.00 first place, $500.00 second place and $250.00 third place prize money
this year
for a new, original ghost story up to 5000 words.
Any genre is welcome.
This
literary contest is a fundraiser for the Friends of the Dr. Eugene Clark
Library
in
Entry
fee is $20.00.
The
contest is privately funded, all entry fees go to the
Friends for Library projects.
Full
rules are available at www.clarklibraryfriends.com
or .org.
Entries
will be accepted from July 1 to October 1 2010.
We are
also supporting a "Junior Scare the Dickens Out
of Us" ghost story
contest with a
$250.00 first prize. This is for ages 12-18 and requires a $5.00 entry
fee.
And
thank you. We appreciate your time.
Roxanne
and Gretchen Rix, contest coordinators "Scare The Dickens Out of Us" 2010
New “LINKS”
We’ve recently added several
“general interest” links
on the web-site page of the same
name.
Price Reduction
SASP Member and former President
Barbara Cagle
has announced that the price of her
book
16 x MOM: A MASTERY OF MOTHERHOOD
is now
$17.95
A Local Publisher
Recently, Ditto’s Print and
Gray Dog Press.
Besides publishing SPOKE WRITE,
The
of Art and Writing,
Russ Davis and his crew offer
three levels of printing and publishing for
local writers. Depending upon the writer’s desires and the
marketability of the work, Gray
Dog Press
will print self-published work,
publish in partnership with the author, or
publish totally at their expense.
For more information, go to:
A Most Generous
Offer
Writer Kirt Hickman has generously
provided SASP with several “how to” articles
on various aspects of
writing. He has also arranged to provide
a copy of his book to the group when it is released latter this year. It will make a great door prize for some
lucky SASP member.
We are now posting one of Kirt’s
articles on the WRITER’S TOOLS page of the
web-site each month.
Each will remain for approximately
one month or until replaced by the next.
This month we will rerun another
of the articles
Kirt sent us. If you would like copies of any of the
articles,
contact daveeva@comcast.net
If there is sufficient interest
amongst SASP membership, we will see
about ordering copies of Kirt’s book
for those who would want it.
A New Publishing Company
Hello
My name
is Bob Griffin. I have just started a small publishing company
that
will be publishing fantasy, science fiction and horror stories. Below
below
is my company's first press release. If anybody
is
interested in submitting their works of fiction, please visit us at
Publishing Company.
to
announce the launch of their publishing company and its online presence.
Absent Willow Publishing LLC is an
independent book publisher that will
provide
its readers with high quality stories of horror, fantasy and science
fiction. Its online efforts include The Absent Willow Review, which plans
to
publish stories in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genres while allowing
its
readers access to the magazine anywhere in the world. Additionally,
Absent Willow Review will
publish paperback anthologies from their collected
works.
“We are huge fans of the genres we publish,” remarked
started
this company to find great works of fiction and to locate the next
generation
of great writers.” With its online
magazine spotlighting new works and
its
print publications soon to be available through Amazon.com and other
retailers,
the Company is planning to renew interest in short works of
fiction.
“For new and established authors of short fiction in the horror
or
fantasy vein, the market is light,” DeCost added. “We are hoping to change
that.”
Rick
Decost & Bob Griffin
Absent
MFA
Request brochure FA35
by email: mfa@spalding.edu,
by phone: (800) 896-8941, ext
2423, or
see our website: www.spalding.edu/mfa.
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