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WHERE WE MEET, AND WHEN
The second Saturday of every month, at the:
City Hall In The Mall next to the Old Country Buffet at theGolden Triangle Mall.
Business meeting 10:00 a.m.,
General meeting at 10:30 a.m.
Lunch at the Old Country Buffet at noon.

Program:
AGENT TO VISIT IN MAY.  Courtney Dreslin of DHS Literarywill be the guest speaker at our May Meeting.  Web Site - http://www.dhsliterary.com/ Courtney is a representative of David Smith, literary agent to SusanneFranks among others in the fields of fiction, non-fiction and comics. She has a BA in journalism, and was a practicing lawyer for three yearsbefore joining DHS.

 June's Speakers will be Jim Cline, CTO and Vice-President and Carol Woods, Senior Editor of Timberwolf Press.  Their topic willbe Writing Exciting with Q&A afterwards.

Timberwolf Press was founded in 1999 by Internet Pioneer Patrick Seaman. It is a unique multimedia company that is working to help reinvent thepublishing industry by going beyond traditional boundaries in creatingand employing new media innovations in print audio, Internet broadcasting,and video opportunities.  When acquiring the rights to a book, Timberwolfacquires all the rights to its titles and seeks to fully develop them inall media forms.  The company believes that successes in one mediahelp build the other media, increasing the overall lifetime and potentialof a title.
 
Timberwolf prefers works in a contemporary or future setting, including:

"Hard core:"
Science Fiction, preferably hard or military but open to others
Extraordinary Fantasy
Mystery-Suspense
Techno-Thrillers
Espionage/Spy Thrillers (post cold-war: Think China, India/Pakistanand other flash-points)
Military Historical Fiction
 
Although they will not accept any submissions at the meeting, you areencouraged to submit.  They accept e-mail submissions of completedmanuscripts only.  Send the following to: submissions@timberwolfpress.com.
 
An email query letter. Query letters should be brief and to the point.If you cannot summarize your work in one page-- you need to spend moretime refining your query letter.

A synopsis. The synopsis should describe the book at a "strategic" level.It should provide an overview of the storyline, along with a sense of whoyour characters are and their motivations.

An outline. This is a "Joe-Friday" outline. Just the facts. No proseallowed. If it takes the author more than an hour to write the outline,then something is wrong. The outline will help Timberwolf evaluate thepacing of the story, since we will write a script based on it for the AudioTheatre adaption.

Optional: Character sketches. A character sketch is generally a onepage description of each of your *major* characters that should read likea dossier.
 
Website:  http://www.TimberwolfPress.com
http://www.timberwolfpress.com/ 

On-Line Writers resources

Society of Children's Writers and Illustratorshttp://www.scbwi.org/
Writer's Market http://www.writersmarket.com/index_ns.asp
New Writer's Market http://hge.members.atlantic.net/
eBook Writer's Market Directory http://www.ebookwritersmarket.com/
Ebook Connections http://www.ebookconnections.com/
Preditors and Editors-a resources to check out agents andpublishers http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/
The Novelist Workshop http://www.monash.com/writers.html
Writer's Exchange http://www.writers-exchange.com/
WritersNet http://www.writers.net/
There are multitudes of writing resources available on the Internet.Go to any search engine and ask for writer's resources, writer's markets,writer's contests, writer's conferences, etc

President - Joni Latham (joni@verizon.net)- 940/243-5200
1st VP - June Powell - 940/565-1013
2nd VP and Program Chairman - Oleta North - 940/458-3960
Treasurer - Florence McClain - 940/497-3433
Secretary - Rae Nell Causseaux - 940/321-2739
Newsletter - George Avera (gavera@chatter.com)- 940/382-8161