Let's Meetup to Discuss Book-sales & Com-icons for Writers & to Share Work!

Hey BWC-

The summer season is upon us and hopefully that means a little downtime for you plus catching up on some reading and writing!!! Anyone heading to the beach like me?

This week I am excited to announce that member Paul Heingarten will have a presentation on setting up at Com-icons as a writer and how it could help you get more book-sales!!! If you’ve been curious about increasing your book sales and setting up a book signing, this may be the thing for you! The meeting is going to be fantastic and Paul is great at Q & A too! So bring your questions this week because this is going to be really good!

Here's a little more about Paul:
Paul Heingarten writes science fiction and fantasy, with the occasional detour into general fiction. His novel, "Cataclysm Epoch," was selected as a semifinalist in the 2017 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Writing Competition, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. A musician for most of his life, and an IT professional because it pays the bills, he lives in South Louisiana with his wife, Andrea. In addition to sharing his passion for writing with his wife and the local Bayou Writers Club, he’s also a diehard Saints fan.

In addition to the presentation, we are having a little contest…
Dennis threw out a great idea last month and this is the last week to bring in your submission!!! Our friendly contest is to see who can write the WORST opening line ever! Please bring in your worst opening line and be ready to share it with the group. I will ask attending members to vote anonymously on their favorite. We will vote and announce our winner at the end of this (May 28th) meeting. I cannot wait to hear them all!!!

We will also have time for Reading like a Writer if anyone would like to bring something in to share.

READING LIKE A WRITER: We have time for 2-3 volunteers, five minutes each, to share something they have read by an author that represents a great writing technique. It can be an author who writes excellent dialogue, has a unique writing voice, uses thought-provoking imagery, is gifted with world-building, etc. This segment is much loved by our group and is based on the techniques/information learned through the book Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose. Please message Dennis Lavoie or me if you have any questions about this.

READING YOUR WORK: As usual, we will wrap up our meeting by sharing some of our work. If you haven't shared anything in a while or are new to the group, please consider bringing something in to read. Many of us are working on projects or have been busy. However, as writers, we must continue to write something new, even if it's to exercise our writing muscle. As always, these short pieces of work (1,000 words or less- give or take a few) can be from a writing prompt, a couple of pages from your current project, poetry, journal, etc...if you write it, we want to hear it! PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR READING BEFORE THE MEETING TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN GET IT DONE IN THREE OR FOUR MINUTES!!!

Until then, Happy Writing.

-L