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The Denton Writers League is a group of readers, and published and unpublished writers who help each other hone their craft through external critique groups, guest speakers, and workshops. The League meets the 2nd Saturday of each month at 10:30 a.m. in Denton TX in the Emily Fowler Branch of the Denton Library located at 502 Oakland St. Dues are $15 a year. |
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Saturday, September 11, 2010 Join Us! Visitors are always welcome! The yearly membership fee is $15.
Guest
Speaker
A retired librarian, Cindy Vallar began researching maritime history while
working on The Rebel and the Spy, a historical novel about Jean Laffite and the
Battle of New Orleans. She is the Editor of Pirates and Privateers, a monthly
column on the history of maritime piracy. She also reviews maritime fiction and
non-fiction, maintains an annotated list of the best piracy and maritime sites
on the web, and compiles specialized maritime resource lists. She is the
Associate Editor of Industry for Solander, the magazine of the Historical Novel
Society, and writes the “Red Pencil” column where she profiles authors and
compares a selection from their published novels with an early draft of that
work. She also reviews for their journal, Historical Novels Review. She is a
freelance editor, a content editor of Pyrates Way magazine, and a workshop
presenter at conferences and organizations’ meetings. She belongs to the
Historical Novel Society, the Laffite Society, the Louisiana Historical Society,
the National Maritime Historical Society, and the Clan Cameron Association of
North America. She is the author of The Scottish Thistle, her debut historical
novel about Scotland’s Rising of 1745, and Odin’s Stone, a romantic short story
of how the Lord of the Isles settled the medieval feud between the MacKinnons
and MacLeans on the Isle of Skye. She invites you to visit her award-winning web
site, Thistles & Pirates (http://www.cindyvallar.com/),
to learn more. Our first annual anthology, Leaves in the Wind,
is on sale now. Flower Mound Writers Group group meets at: Flower Mound Public Library Meetings start at 7:00 PM and general run 90 minutes. For calendar of meeting days and events, please
visit their website at: Hastings Bookstore Any member wanting to set up a book signing or to
place their books in Hastings on consignment , should contact Jason
or Ginny at 940/565-1764 For
inquiries or to submit articles to the newsletter, please contact
Joni Latham-dentonwritersleague@verizon.net or George Avera-george.819471@verizon.net. This page created and maintained by
Joni Latham. |
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