By Lexie Smith The 2012 Third Thursday series began where authors might like to end-up – at an awards presentation for their book. Thank you to all of you who came to applaud your fellow writers. Congratulations to the 2011 WLT Book Award winners. Fiction – Russian Winter by Daphne
By Lexie Smith We wrapped up the Build Your Book series with the final Third Thursday of 2011. The topic “The Book Launch and Beyond” focused on presenting your book to the public through a book launch event. Our panelists were author John Pipkin,the Book People children’s’ events coordinator and marketing director Mandy Brooks and literary publicist Stephanie Barko. The
By Lexie Smith “Hey! Did you hear about my book? “ “I’m writing a book. It’s gonna be awesome.” “Please buy my book. “ Pestering your friends, family, and foes is one kind of marketing, but the “I’ll buy your book so you’ll shut up” sale is not public relations
By Lexi Smith September’s Third Thursday program took us “Behind the Publishing House Curtain” with two booksellers and a publicist. Gillian Redfearn is a Key Account Manager for MacMillian Publishing, Gianna La Morte is a Sales Manager at UT Press, and Colleen Devine Ellis is the Publicity Manager at UT
By Lexi Smith We continued our “Building a Book” series with July’s Third Thursday program, The Mating Game: How to Land an Agent. The panel featured editor Erin Brown, literary agent Jim Donovan, and author Laurie Drummond and was moderated by WLT executive director Cyndi Hughes. Today’s post includes highlights
7pm, July 21 The Writers’ League Office 611 S. Congress Ave, Suite 130 ADMITTANCE IS FREE! Attention, book lovers! Third Thursday is going to work a little differently this month. For July only, we’re moving the panel from its usual location at BookPeople and bringing it to our office instead.
The Writer’s League of Texas is proud to announce that we have secured space at BookPeople to host critique groups for writers. Simply show up at 6 p.m. prior to the WLT Third Thursday meetings this July through November in the third floor meeting room at Book People. (Just remember:
The May edition of the Building a Book series was “The Big Windup: Prepping Your Pitch, Proposal, and Synopsis and How to Decide Between Traditional & Non-traditional Publishing” with editor Lari Bishop and novelist Rhiannon Frater. The Windup As a writer, the windup for your pitch is about content and
As always, we had a great time at Third Thursday, this time with a panel on preparing yourself for publishing. One of our panelists, the lovely and talented Rhiannon Frater, was inspired to continue the conversation! Thank you for the lovely evening last night. I had a lot of fun!
By Lexie Smith In today’s publishing climate it’s more important than ever to polish your writing as much as possible if you want to sell it. That means you must revise your work. To help with this part of your writing life, April’s Third Thursday program was That Revision Thing:
