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FROM OUR PRESIDENT
November
– a month to vote, to remember, and to be thankful!
A
message from your president…
November brings many things to our group, among
them election of SASP officers. Please either email your ballot to our
webmaster or attend the meeting November 10th and cast your vote.
Another
ballot for your attention and action is the city, county, state, and national
issues and candidates on the general election ballot. Let your voice be heard,
and if you haven’t done so already, mail in your ballot or drop it in one of
the collection points by November 8th.
Veterans’ Day is November 11th, a
cause for us to remember why we still have the opportunity to vote. Many have
sacrificed much to ensure our freedoms.
Finally, Thanksgiving Day is coming up November
24th. One of our precious freedoms is to gather and celebrate, to
enjoy our families and friends, and to give thanks for all the blessings in our
lives.
See you November
10th at the Shadle Library.
Sue
Eller, President
FROM YOUR EDITOR, WEB-MASTER, TREASURER
This month’s issue will be the third
one in which I’ve used a member’s book cover on the front of the
newsletter. I’m learning as I go, so
hopefully the presentations will improve.
At the same time, many seem to be a little pixelated and that is due to
the copies I have being quite small. I
hope that doesn’t detract too much from the overall appearance. And again, if anyone would prefer I don’t use
the cover of your book, let me know.
Again, I’m working my way down our members list as it appears on our
web-site.
By the time you receive this, you should have
received a ballot for our annual elections.
Please return it to either the SASP e-mail or my e-mail address, or
bring it to our upcoming meeting. At
this point it looks as if we will simply be confirming our current slate of
officers and advisory board members for another year.
Again I remind you that as we near the end of
2022, it’s time to think about dues for 2023.
You are more than welcome to pay early.
And if you haven’t yet paid for 2022, there is still time to do so. Remember, you need to be current in your dues
to be listed on our Members Page on the web-site, and to have a link to your
Member Web-Page. Plus that, it’s a pain
to have to take member web-pages down when members aren’t current, and then put
them up when they pay later in the year.
I usually don’t do that for a couple of months, by why wait. And remember, since we now meet at the
library, we no longer have to buy a meal at every meeting, so all should have
some funds available for dues.
Paying dues is
easy. You can pay at any SASP meeting,
or you can send a check or money order for $15.00 to:
Spokane
Authors and Self-Publishers
P. O. Box
18573
Spokane, WA
99228-0573
I check the mail
weekly, and if we receive any dues payments, I take those payments directly to
our financial institution for deposit. I
also try to notify anyone who pays that the dues payment has been received… usually
by way of e-mail.
If your personal
situation means paying dues will pose a financial hardship, please contact a
SASP Officer or Advisory Board Member.
We will see what we can do to accommodate you.
FROM OUR PRESIDENT (Previous)
Fall has arrived!
A message from your president…
It is now officially fall, and our next meeting
will be Thursday, October 13, 2022. We continue to meet in the Events Room at
the Shadle Library, W 2111 Wellesley Ave. The room will be open at 1:00 p.m.,
and the meeting begins at 2:00.
This month, our speaker will be Shannon
Potratz, a local artist, cover designer, graphic novelist, and writer. I’m sure
you will enjoy his presentation and ask him lots of questions.
Next month, we will hold elections for officers
and board members. Please submit nominations to Dave McChesney in person or via
email at authors@spokaneauthors.org.
I would like to propose a ballot issue on
adding a second meeting each month. We will design the ballot so that you may
choose your first and second choices for an additional meeting. We really need
and appreciate your input and are willing to volunteer our time to make it a
success. The proposed additional meeting would be of a critique or
instructional format. It would be held in the evening or on the weekend so that
some members unable to attend a daytime meeting could join us in person. Voting
could be done online, mail-in, or in person at the November meeting.
Don’t forget that our regular meeting has been
permanently changed to the second Thursday of the month.
As for the picture (banner) at the top of this
month’s message, it is the banner I’ve been using on my website and on
bookmarks. I will update my other social media pages and business cards to
match. Hopefully, I will be updating my professional headshot soon. A few
things I’ve done consistently over the past few years haven’t changed, and I’ve
discovered that this is a part of developing a brand. Perhaps you have some
things that have become part of your writing persona. I hope we have time to
discuss branding in further detail at our October meeting.
Sue Eller,
President
FROM YOUR EDITOR, WEB-MASTER, TREASURER (Previous)
I didn’t have any response to last
month’s cover, and I guess that is a good thing. No one complained about it. I hope to continue using covers or members’
books as the cover for SASP NEWS. If for
some reason you would prefer I not use your book, please let me know. My intent is to start at the top of our
membership list as it appears on the web-site and work my way down. I’ll also try to utilize covers that are
appropriate to the season. I have a
feeling that it will take a while to work through all the books available from
fellow members of Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers.
Last month I mentioned the possibility of changing
the SASP e-mail account, as I found the current one a little difficult to work
with. Not long after that, while working
with it, I gained some insight into its operational features and decided that I
could deal successfully with them. So, I
renewed it for another year and will continue on with it. So if you are looking for a new e-address for
SASP, there won’t be one… at least for the foreseeable future.
As we near the end of 2022, it’s time to think
about dues for 2023. You are more than
welcome to pay early. And if you haven’t
yet paid for 2022, there is still time to do so. Remember, you need to be current in your dues
to be listed on our Members Page on the web-site, and to have a link to your
Member Web-Page.
Speaking of Member Web-Pages, if yours needs
updating, let me know. Ideally each one should
have a member bio, a photo or headshot of the member, as well as information
about any books or other publications by that member.
Paying dues is
easy. You can pay at any SASP meeting,
or you can send a check or money order for $15.00 to:
Spokane Authors
and Self-Publishers
P. O. Box
18573
Spokane, WA
99228-0573
I check the mail
weekly, and if we receive any dues payments, I take those payments directly to
our financial institution for deposit. I
also try to notify anyone who pays that the dues payment has been received…
usually by way of e-mail.
If your personal
situation means paying dues will pose a financial hardship, please contact a
SASP Officer or Advisory Board Member.
We will see what we can do to accommodate you.
or Advisory Board Member.
We will see what we can do to accommodate you.
Dave McChesney
Spokane
Authors & Self-Publishers
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DAM
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