Book Launch!
The marvelous people at Mysterious Galaxy in Redondo Beach, CA, have decided to hold a special book launch event at their store 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26th 2012 for Sky Dragons.
So, if you're in the neighborhood, please drop on by!
Save the Cat! writes a novel
Jody Lynn Nye flew out to join me in a weekend Save the Cat! workshop the 28-29th of April.
It was a challenging and inspirational weekend ably led by Jessica Brody. If you're interested in learning a great technique for outlining, then consider attending the next Novel-writing Beat Sheet Workshop June 9-10 2012 in Los Angeles.
Purple Unicorns
Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta gave a great talk on writing at The Writers of the Future workshop in which they tossed out jokingly how they could never get stories for their Purple Unicorn anthology (which, of course, doesn't exist).
Challenge accepted.
The next day I emailed Kevin a copy of Rhubarb and Beets, a short story I'd written in those 24 hours dealing with — you guessed it — purple unicorns.
Real joy came when I realized that the story might possibly be a fit for an anthology I'd been asked to write for. Lo and behold, it was accepted. More details to come.
K. D. Wentworth
K. D. Wentworth was, among many other things, first reader and editor of the L. Ron Hubbard Presents The Writers of the Future, having been a winner herself early on.
She succumbed to pneumonia acquired during her fight against cervical cancer on April 18th, just three days after The Writers and Illustrators of the Future Award ceremony.
She will be sorely missed.