Murfreesboro Writers Group: March 2012

Friday, March 30, 2012

Live Love and Write!: Come and have coffee with us Saturday!!

Live Love and Write!: Come and have coffee with us Saturday!!: Jo Zoara Coffee Shop in the Oaks Shoppping Center Murfreesboro TN 1-3 PM ---Great Cofoffee--Author readings --book signing ...

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Live Love and Write!: Oh Google! Speak English to me!!

Live Love and Write!: Oh Google! Speak English to me!!: Oh Google My book is about a UFOI cult but I cant use the term UFO (trademark!) http://www.closingthegate.com/ My untold stor...

Live Love and Write!: Right Words to take you 2theTop!

Live Love and Write!: Right Words to take you 2theTop!: The Right Words in the Right Places (RWRP) “Ross Jones” of 2theTop Website Design and Promotion I attended last night’s session o...

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Live Love and Write!: 5 ways to get your book into bookstores

Live Love and Write!: 5 ways to get your book into bookstores: 1. Getting Your Book into Barnes & Noble I naively assumed that once my children’s book was published, my distributor would submit it to th...

Monday, March 26, 2012

Live Love and Write!: 15th Anniversary--Heavens Gate Class Member Depart...

Live Love and Write!: 15th Anniversary--Heavens Gate Class Member Depart...: https://patriciahysell.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/mother-ship/#comment-5899 http://ahharsfnews.com/2012/03/23/15th-anniversary-of-heavens-ga...

Heaven's Gate Class Members: Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Heavens Ga...

Heaven's Gate Class Members: Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Heavens Ga...: Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Heavens Gate mass exodus.....and the beginning of the end of my brothers life. We launched his l...

Heaven's Gate Class Members: Live Love and Write!: Heaven's Gate back in the ne...

Heaven's Gate Class Members: Live Love and Write!: Heaven's Gate back in the ne...: Live Love and Write!: Heaven's Gate back in the news as the 15th anniver... : http://allafrica.com/stories/201203220373.html Heaven's Gate i...

Friday, March 23, 2012

Live Love and Write!: 15 years ago Monday .....

Live Love and Write!: 15 years ago Monday .....: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/23/week-in-san-diego-history/ 15 years ago: A cult, a comet, a mass suicide The Heaven's Gate c...

Live Love and Write!: Do you know about the Souther Literary Trail?

Live Love and Write!: Do you know about the Souther Literary Trail?: http://www.southernliterarytrail.org/trail_towns.html THE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRAIL connects southern places in Alabama, Georgia and Mississ...

Live Love and Write!: Southern Literary Festival Nashville March 2012!

Live Love and Write!: Southern Literary Festival Nashville March 2012!: http://southernliteraryfestival.com/ For the 2012 Southern Literary Festival, hosted in Nashville for the first time, we hope to celebrat...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Live Love and Write!: Heaven's Gate back in the news as the 15th anniver...

Live Love and Write!: Heaven's Gate back in the news as the 15th anniver...: http://allafrica.com/stories/201203220373.html Heaven's Gate is just one of the many of the so-called UFO religions dotting the globe toda...

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Live Love and Write!: Tick -tock...counting down to Saturday March 24th!...

Live Love and Write!: Tick -tock...counting down to Saturday March 24th!...: Jimmy's story --Closing The Gate The UNTOLD Story of the HEavens Gate Cult --a personal side divulged as the 15th anniversary of the mass s...

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Live Love and Write!: Closing The Gate now on sale!

Live Love and Write!: Closing The Gate now on sale!: Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and most online booksellers; Will be in Hastings Murfreesboro store by end of March Book Launch Ha...

Friday, March 9, 2012

Live Love and Write!: The UNTOLD Story--now on sale!! Barnes and Noble, ...

Live Love and Write!: Report: U.S. threatens Apple, book publishers with...

Live Love and Write!: Report: U.S. threatens Apple, book publishers with...: http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2012/03/08/report-u-s-threatens-apple-book-publishers-with-price-collusion-suit/ Report: U.S. threatens Ap...

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Using Pinterest

Writers can consider using Pinterest to introduce characters, places, and quotes from their work by creating a board and pinning the information to it. For example, here is a board posting characters from my novel, Crossing the Bridge of Sighs. http://pinterest.com/susanamichael/crossing-the-bridge-of-sighs/.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Live Love and Write!: Branding for authors.....

Live Love and Write!: Branding for authors.....: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/03/branding-where-marketing-and-writing-become-friends/

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About Susan....

Meet Deb Simpson

Deb Simpson writes non-fiction, fiction and poetry. Her poems have been published in literary journals, newspapers, magazines and industry publications

She is a founding member of the MWG.

Deb's most recent book, Closing The Gate: A Heaven's Gate Cult Biography, premiered March 24, 2012 and is receiving 4 and 5 star reviews!

Deb has been busy with book readings and signings, usually with Susan Ashley Michael, June Hall McCash and David Fann. Watch for upcoming events!!

Closing The Gate ISBN 978-0-9848968-0-6 $15.95

Meet David Fann!

Biography

I was born and raised in Murfreesboro, TN. I have enjoyed reading poetry for as long as I can remember. Although I have been writing for several years, I only started being serious about it a couple of years ago. My first book, Walking with God, a collection of original poems, was published in 2009. I am currently working on a second book of poems, as well as a short story. I still live in the middle TN area with my wife, Debbie, and our two adopted sons. My literary influences include Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and William Blake.

Meet Pete McNally--in his own words....

I was born in Boston. We moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee when I was three. I attended the University of Chattanooga and graduated from UT Knoxville; moved to Nashville in 1978 to work for the Health Department as a systems analyst; earned secondary math teaching certification at Tennessee State University; taught math at Spencer Youth Center in Nashville and at John Carroll High School in Birmingham Alabama; returned to Nashville to analyze computer systems for Human Services; studied English at MTSU. Currently my wife, Kathy, and I live in Smyrna where I enjoy reading, movies, music and writing short works. I enjoy the Murfreesboro Writers Group; the members have improved my writing and inspired me.

Robert (Bob) Michael

Robert Michael was a Professor Emeritus of European History at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he taught the Holocaust. Dr. Michael published poetry and more than 50 articles and eleven books.

He also taught at Central European University in Budapest, Inter-American University in Puerto Rico, and lectured at the University of Vienna, the Ateneo Veneto and University of Venice, University of South Florida, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida State University, and Middle Tennessee State University.

He co-founded, along with his wife Susan, the Murfreesboro Writers Group.

Meet June Hall McCash -Georgia Author of the Year-1st Novel!

June Hall McCash writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She is the author, co-author, or editor of seven books, including Almost To Eden, Jekyll Island’s Early Years, The Life of Saint Audrey, The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony, The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, The Jekyll Island Club, and Love’s Fools. June’s poetry and articles have been published in numerous magazines and journals. She was recently named Georgia Author of the Year for her first novel, Almost to Eden.

She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Emory University. For many years she taught French and humanities at Middle Tennessee State University, where she served as the founding director of the Honors Program (now Honors College) and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She is now a full time writer dividing her time between Tennessee, where much of her family lives, and Jekyll Island, Georgia, where she owns a cottage and does much of her writing.

June is a member of the Tennessee Writers Association and a founding member of the Murfreesboro Writers Group. She is also a member of the Georgia Writers Association. She has appeared in three A&E film documentaries and on “Good Morning America.” She is also a frequent speaker, having done presentations for the Georgia Humanities Council, various historical societies, libraries, and universities, as well as the Georgia Center for the Book, the Georgia Library Association, the Jekyll Island Museum, and the Jekyll Island Club Hotel.

She has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Education as well as the recipient of her university's Distinguished Research Award (1996) and Career Achievement Award (2003) along with Agnes Scott College's Outstanding Alumna Award (1996). She has served as chair of Humanities Tennessee and trustee of the Jekyll Island Foundation. At present she is completing her second novel and is also about to publish a new nonfiction work. She also continues to write poetry.

Her website is http://junehallmccash.georgiawriters.org/.

William Visher, Visher Ink

William Visher is the owner and operator of Visher Ink Publishing, a business that specializes in all types of freelance writing services.

William earned his B.S. (Bachelor of Science) degree in Human Ecology: Early Childhood Education: PreK-4 from UTC (Go Mocs!). He went on to get a M.Ed. (Master of Education) in Early Childhood Education from the University of West Georgia and an Ed.S. (Education Specialist) in Curriculum and Instruction from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN. He is also a certified reading specialist.

He taught developmental writing at Dalton State College and now does freelance writing from his home in Murfreesboro.

Meet Ken Vanderpool

Ken Vanderpool is a life-long fan of Crime and Thriller fiction who began to write in 2005, following an eye-opening medical procedure and an intimate encounter with his mortality.

Ken graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with his degree in Psychology and Sociology and a focus on Criminology. He has also graduated from the Metropolitan Nashville Citizen Police Academy and the Writer’s Police Academy in Greensboro, NC.

Ken’s first novel, WHEN THE MUSIC DIES will be released in November 2012, and he is currently at work on his second novel in the Music City Murders series, FACE THE MUSIC.

He has spent his entire life in Nashville and Middle Tennessee and proudly professes, “There is no better place on this earth.” Ken currently lives near Nashville in Murfreesboro, TN with his wife Sandra and their Cairn Terrier-ist, Molly.

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