Rudy Shur has talked with many authors and writing groups in his long career. He’s learned that lots of authors get ripped off by people they thought were going to help. And he points out, the book world is a rather large marketplace—it can be hard to know who will really help.
Continue reading Rudy Shur on PublishingHilary trained in book publishing at PSU, which is the only such program on the West coast. Others in the US are in NYC. Hilary focused on agents and acquisitions but was open to any questions on publishing.
Continue reading Agents, Editors and Publishers with Hilary and Alan Deeth| There were between 16 and 20 members participating in the meeting; some had to leave early. As Sheila was absent, Ron headed the meeting. |
The first Writers’ Mill meeting of the year was well-attended with over 20 members present. If you missed it, you missed a lively discussion with best-selling author John Hoover generously talking to us and answering questions for the whole two hours! Where else could we get such well-qualified one-on-one advice without spending half a fortune? Many thanks to John, to Joe for inviting him, and to Jean for making sure we got him on the schedule.
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes Jan 2022With several new members, we started our meeting by reminding everyone of who we are: the Writers’ Mill, writers helping writers, meeting on the 3rd Sunday of every month. We all agree that our librarian is fantastic and Zoom is wonderful (if occasionally challenging). And maybe one day there’ll be mixed real-and-virtual meetings—it’s a dream, but please be thinking about how it might work. And on the subject of dreams… we run monthly contests online for which this month’s topic was dreams. Von announced the results, and you should have already received them from our contest coordinator, unless you’re a new member (in which case I’ve only just added you to the list):
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes 202101Our speaker this month was Joe Biel, a self-made autistic publisher and filmmaker, the founder and CEO of Microcosm Publishing https://microcosmpublishing.com/, and the co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium. He has been featured in Time Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Art of Autism, Utne Reader, Oregonian, Broken Pencil, Punk Planet, Bulletproof Radio, Spectator (Japan), G33K (Korea), and Maximum Rocknroll. He is the author of many books, director of five feature films and hundreds of short films, and he lives in Portland, Ore and his work can be found at joebiel.net
Continue reading Writers’ Mill Minutes October 2020Maryka writes historical fiction based on real characters, so her talk began with the world of historical research. First, how do you prepare to write your historical novel? You’ll need to delve into the past, perhaps using:
Continue reading Research, a talk by Maryka Biaggio