CENTEX CHAPTER
CENTEX CHAPTER
CENTEX MONTHLY MEETING - December 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
CenTex's monthly meetings are held in the Lane House at the First Baptist Church, 306 Round Rock Avenue, in Round Rock, Texas, 78664. The Lane House shares a parking lot with the sanctuary. (For map and driving directions see: http://www.fbcrr.org/). The map is a pdf file so it may take a moment to load.
NOVEMBER MEETING PRESENTATION REPORT
Thank you, Tanya on your terrific presentation on Bestseller "X" Factors: How to Identify and Influence the Factors that will have the Most Notable Impact on Your Book's Success. Tanya Hall is with the Greenleaf Book Group. Visit the GBG website to learn more about this publisher and distributor dedicated to independent authors and small presses.
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Mosaic Arts Group - "Connecting Artists in Theatre and Film in Their Art and in Their Faith"
Visit their website for News and Events for November 2008
UPCOMING 2008 MEETINGS
Meetings in 2009
SPOTLIGHT on MEMBERS
A CenTex-sized Congratulations to Stefanie Morris on winning second place in ACFW's 2008 Genesis contest, Young Adult category with her novel The Dragon of Delarest in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 20, 2008.
MEMBER WEBSITES
MEMBER NEWS
Rene Banglesdorf
On September 23, Rene Banglesdorf was the visiting author and speaker at the Williamson County Juvenile Detention Center, where she spoke to about 50 teenagers and 50 adults. She shared her testimony and how she ended up writing. She gave free copies of her book "Battleground" to all 50 of the kids who requested it.
Ann Bell
Last spring Linworth Publishing submitted her name to be included in Thompson Gale's Contemporary Authors series for 2008. Gale's is a standard bearer in academic and school libraries. The online database version is available and the print version will be available in libraries in the near future.
Erin Casey
Editor Erin Casey is announcing that the magazine SUCCESS for Women was on the newsstands October 7th. The new magazine was also launched at the Texas Women's Conference in Houston on October 16th and in Long Beach, California at The Women's Conference on October 22nd. The ezine and website are now live.
S. Evelyn Evans
Evelyn has a story, page 180, in Wounded by Words published by New Hope, edited by Susan Titus Osborn, Karen Kosman, and Jennie Gordon. This book is a resource for women whose faith and families have been undermined by verbal abuse in the home and work place. Release day February 2008. Available in bookstores everywhere. For more information go to http://www.newhopepublishers.com.
Lila Guzman
Lila and Rick Guzman's thirteenth book for Enslow Publishers, "George Lopez: King of Comedy," has been published as the company's 8th addition to its Latino Biography Library series.
Lila did a booksigning on Sunday, August 3rd at the Power of Women event, held at the Marriott La Frontera hotel in Round Rock, Texas.
Forthcoming Books:
Lorenzo and the Pirate (Blooming Tree Press (BTP), Fall 2008) Mohammed (BTP, 2009) Jesus (BTP, 2009) Moses (BTP, 2009) Green Slime and Jam (BTP, forthcoming) George Lopez: Latino King of Comedy (Enslow, forthcoming)
Karen Hodges
Karen spoke to the Special Friends group at Sun City in Georgetown the first week in September. This is a group of senior citizens. She told personal stories and other entertaining tales. Karen also received a contract for an article she wrote for Library Media Connection (a librarians' journal). It will be published in the Austin/September issue in 2009.
Nancy Jo Jenkins
Nancy Jo spoke May 26th at the "Words for the Journey Christian Writers Guild" at The Woodlands, Texas.She's been invited to the the guest speaker at the Texas Baptist General Convention for Church Librarians to be held in Ft. Worth March, 2009. She's been invited to give a workshop for the newly-formed ACFW Woodlands' Chapter of ACFW - "Writers on the Storm" in early 2009. On August 1st, she'll be in a group of 40 authors in Houston for "Meet the Author" night at the Woods Edge Church in The Woodlands, Texas. Some of proceeds of all books sold will go to charity.
Alicea Jones
Alicea's article Consumed by Fear was published in Focus on the Family Magazine in August, 2008 under the pen name Simone Lee.
Stefanie Morris
Stefanie's manuscript, The Dragon of Delarest, won second place in the young adult category of the Genesis contest at the national ACFW conference in late September in Minneapolis.
Michelle Shocklee
Michelle has contracted with agent Les Stobbe for her 3-book historical series. The series was requested by three editors at the September national ACFW conference.
Lynette Sowell
Lynette was a guest at Dancing Word Writers chat on Friday, September 26th. Lynette's second Heartsong Mysteries novel, "The Wiles of Watermelon," released in September.
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Officers | Dorothy Featherling feather@austin.rr.com | Stefanie Morris stefi.paul@sbcglobal.net | Lin Harris linharris@austin.rr.com |
Join the CENTEX CHAPTER of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW):
CenTex Chapter dues is $10 annually.
First year membership in ACFW is $50 and is required prior to joining the CenTex Chapter. ACFW renewal fee is $40.
Download the CenTex application form
Contact Lin Harris for additional memberhship information.
CENTEX CHAPTER CONTACT:
Lin Harris
129 Fox Hollow Cove
Cedar Creek, Texas 78612-4844
(512) 601-2216
(240) 208-3201 fax
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