Scribbles # 357 - Thursday, March 8, 2007 -
Howdy, Scribblers!
I saw Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky tonight at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival. It was quite good, and runs through March 18th. Check it out at http://www.shakespearefest,org/
Celebrations:
HEAD GAMES, by Tom Cavanuagh, was just selected as a "Killer Book" selection for March by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (http://www.killerbooks.org/). Congratulations, Tom!
Here is a lovely review of work by a Scribbler from Romance Reviews Today. Way to go, Terry!
FINDING SARAH combines raw suspense with an intricately woven romance between two people who clearly can use a little bit more in the emotional attachment department. Randy is afraid to let himself become involved with Sarah and tries to step far away from the thin line that runs between cop and victim. Sarah, deeply in love with her deceased husband, cannot imagine allowing herself to become emotionally involved with another man. But her heart calls out for closure and the need to heal, and she may very well find that in Randy. Terry Odell successfully melds suspense and romance and creates one fine package in FINDING SARAH. Details of Sarahs emotional torment and Randys steady determination to do what is right no matter what his body is calling out for prove just how right one is for the other.Readers simply cannot go wrong with FINDING SARAH and will definitely want to add it to their February/March reading list. Check it out at Cerridwen Press as soon as possible!
Amy Cunningham
www.terryodell.com
Short stories from The Wild Rose Press
http://www.wildrosepublishing.com/authors/terryodell.htm
Finding Sarah, February 15, 2007
http://www.cerridwenpress.com/
Also, take a look at the attached pdf to see what Dan Odell has been up to!
A Julie Compton short story, "Flying Lessons" has just been published in the Winter 2007 issue of the online literary magazine, Hamilton Stone Review. "Flying Lessons" was a top 25 finalist in Glimmer Trains Short Story Award for New Writers, Spring 2000. You can learn more about the origins of the story at http://www.julie-compton.com/; just click on the Notepad. Happy for you, Julie!
Winners announced for Florida Book Awards
New Smyrna Beach resident Kelle Groom is the Bronze Medal Winner for her poetry collection, Luckily, in the first Florida Book Awards. Luckily, her second book, was published by Anhinga Press in 2006. Groom is grants administrator and communications manager for Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach. Kudos, Kelle!
John Cole, director of the Center for the Book at the U.S. Library of Congress, calls the Florida Book Awards the most comprehensive initiative of its kind in the country.
The Florida Book Awards feature seven categories. The judges were appointed statewide by the co-sponsoring organizations, including the Florida State University Program in American and Florida Studies, the Florida Center for the Book, State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Historical Society, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Florida Library Association, "Just Read, Florida!," Governors Family Literacy Initiative, Florida Association for Media in Education, and Florida Center for the Literary Arts.
Winners will be recognized in Tallahassee on March 23. Details are available by calling Julie Phinney, Strozier Library, 850-644-5211. The Gold Medal Winners will receive additional recognition on March 28, also in Tallahassee. Call Jennifer Womble at the State Library and Archives, 850-245-6604 or visit http://www.fsu.edu/~ams/bookawards/
The winners are as follows:
General fiction: Gold Medal Winner: Tony D'Souza, Whiteman; Silver Medal Winner: Carl Hiaasen, Nature Girl; Bronze Medal Winner: Elizabeth Dewberry, His Lovely Wife
Nonfiction: Gold: Michael Grunwald, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise; Silver: Daniel S. Murphree, Constructing Floridians: Natives and Europeans in the Colonial Floridas, 1513-1783; Bronze: Bill Belleville, Losing It All to Sprawl; Martin A. Dyckman, Floridian of His Century; J. Stanley Marshall, The Tumultuous Sixties: Campus Unrest and Student Life at a Southern University
Spanish language: Gold: Daina Chaviano, La Isla De Los Amores Infinitos
Poetry: Gold: James Kimbrell, My Psychic; Silver: Jay Hopler, Green Squall; Bronze: Kelle Groom, Luckily; Peter Meinke, The Contracted World
Young adult: Gold: Adrian Fogelin, The Real Question; Silver: Joyce Sweeney, Headlock; Bronze: Caridad Ferrer, Adios to My Old Life; Tracy A. Akers, The Fire and the Light
Children: Gold: N.E. Bode, The Somebodies; Silver: Laurie Friedman, In the Business of Mallory; illustrator Barbara PollakPopular fiction: Gold: James O. Born, Escape Claus; Silver: Ward Larsen, The Perfect Assassin; Bronze: M.D. Abrams, Murder and Wakulla Springs; Randy Wayne White, Dark Light; Brad Meltzer, The Book of Fate
Help send Holly Riggs off to Boston in style. See the attached flyer for details ….
Scribblers Sharing Info:
Below is a note from Susan Cross, who tragically lost her grand-daughter recently in a hit-and-run accident, and seeks our help:
The link below is the article I wrote describing the accident as my son told it to me. It has all of the information. We have not yet set up a reward fund or an account to help cover his medical expenses. My husbands company took up a collection and I have to go to the bank this morning to find out how this is done. When I spoke to the FHP a few days ago, the trooper said, "Mrs. Cross, we WILL catch this guy!" His voice had such conviction that he made me believe him. He said to keep it in the media and that is the only reason we went on TV (WFTV on Friday and Fox News 35 on Sunday). I also spoke to a reporter at the Palm Beach Post and the Miami Herald and they both ran articles with a photo of Addy.
I wrote my own article to get it onto this national website in the hope that if the driver is from out of state, someone might hear something and report it. People have been circulating this everywhere.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/166881/child_killed_in_hit_and_run_accident.html
I have a friend in the National League of American Pen Women who also belongs to several other national writers organizations. She has circulated it throughout each organization and they are passing it along. Any help would be appreciated. Nothing can bring Addy back, and I am not vengeful. I simply want the driver to know that his/her actions caused the death of a child and be sure that he changes his driving habits and doesn't do it again. Of course, we would like to see this person apprehended, but even if he just finds out about it, I think that will serve a purpose.
I will keep you posted if we set up a reward or trust fund. Thank you again.
Susan Cross
Do you remember the magic of your first book? A First Book Local Advisory Board is now forming in Orlando with the goal of providing children from low-income families with an opportunity to read and own their first new books. Volunteers and Advisory Board members are needed. All Orlando leaders/book lovers with a passion for improving youth literacy are encouraged to attend the next First Book-Orlando meeting, to be held on March 22nd from 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. at Borders bookstore in Winter Park Village. (600 Orlando Avenue/Winter Park, FL 32789) Snacks and beverages will be provided. Contact Advisory Board Chair Cris Phillips-Georg for more information at firstbook.orlando@gmail.com. To learn more about First Book visit http://www.firstbook.com/.
The Writers Institute of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College runs from March 28-31, 2007. Go to http://www.flcenterlitarts.com/
for details.
The Adventures in Christian Writing Group will meet
On Saturday, March 17th at 9:30 a.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Florida
Edington Ministry Center, Room 310-B
We are overjoyed to welcome as our speaker this month,
Vonette Bright, best known as the co-founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
She is the author of several books: "My Heart in His Hands",
"The Sister Circle" and "Building a Home in a Pull-Apart World"
She will be speaking to us about her books and her inspiration for writing.
The assignment for the March meeting is to write a childrens story.
The next 8-week Silver Fern Writers Workshop is scheduled to begin at 7 P.M. Monday, March 19, 2007. This workshop is open to anyone, from novice to accomplished writer and anywhere in between. The workshop is conducted using the principles of the Amherst Writers & Artists and provides a unique setting in which you, the writer, can grow in your creativity while practicing and developing your writing craft. The environment is safe, confidential, non-hierarchical, and creative, where you are encouraged to take risks in your writing as you experiment with finding your unique writing voice. The emphasis in this workshop is on encouraging you with what is good about your writing, not clubbing you with what is wrong with it. The workshop is led by Janet & Geoff Benge, accomplished writers with over twenty years experience in the publishing industry. If this sounds like the type of writer's workshop for you, then come to join the Silver Fern Writer's Workshop and see your writing take off. For more information on the workshop visit our website: http://www.Silverfernwriters.com, or call (407) 628-8947.
What is Happening:
Mark your calendar! Poet Georgiana Orsini from Captiva Island, Florida, will read and sign books at 7 pm on Friday, April 20th at Urban Think!
Calls for Submissions:
The 76th Annual Writers Digest Writing Competitions deadline is May 15, 2007. You may find out more and enter online at http://www.writersdigest.com/
Deadline Reminder: CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition deadline is March 15. Anyone can enter. See guidelines and entry form at http://tinyurl.com/365l.
Source: Writers-Editors eZine, © CNW Publishing. Sign up for a complimentary subscription at http://www.writers-editors.com/.
The Central Florida Romance Writers is pleased to announce its Touch of Magic Contest, open to all unpublished RWA members. All finalists are judged by acquiring editors, and several entries from our contest have been requested by editors in previous years. This is a great way to get your work out of the slush pile.
Fees: CFRW Members, $30 Non-Members, $35
NOTE: Fees now include return postage!
NEW: Finalists will have a chance to revise before entries are sent to editors.
Receipt Deadline: March 15, 2007
Enter: Up to the first 25 pages of your manuscript (prologue included in page count), plus a synopsis (not judged, 3 double-spaced pages, max).
Categories:
Series Contemporary
Paranormal
Historical
Single Title Contemporary
Novel With Strong Romantic Elements.
Judges: experienced/certified, published
Final round judges:
Series Contemporary, Charles Griemsman, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Paranormal, Kate Seaver, The Berkley Publishing Group
Historical, Helen Rosburg, Medallion Press
Single Title, Megan McKeever, Pocket Books
NSRE, Diana Ventimiglia, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Top prize: Touch of Magic award, certificate, announced in RWR.
For more information, entry form, and rules, visit the CFRW website at www.cfrwa.org or send an SASE to:
Touch of Magic, c/o Terry Odell
6102 Sand Pines Estates Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32819.
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Darlyn Finch
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