Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tonight's meeting
It's been a long time since we met in November. Hopefully you've done lots of writing and are anxious to share and visit with your AWG friends. The weather won't stop us! At least if the freezing stuff stays away until we finish, which is the current prediction. We'll have a surpise speaker for this meeting, and later this year we'll hear from American Paint Horse Association Features Editor Jeannie Blancq Putney who had earlier been scheduled to travel here for tonight's meeting.
Barbara Rollins
Sunday, September 27, 2009
October and November programs
Program Information for October 22, 2009
A Ghost of a Story...Write It! Tell It! Sell It!
The AWG's cast of phenomenal speakers continues as Elizabeth Ellis, premier presenter for the National Storytelling Festival, steps into our midst to show AND tell the techniques that writers can use to make their supernatural stories super! Ghost stories are more popular than ever with kids and adults. Elizabeth will demonstrate the art of oral storytelling that you can incorporate into your writing. Meet Elizabeth at http://www.elizabethellis.com/. She'll have her CDs with her for purchase so you can take her stories of phantastic phantoms home with you after the program...if you dare.
Program Information for November 19, 2009
Meatloaf and Memories, Artichokes and Art!
Cookbooks remain one of the top three genres in book sales. However, there's more to compiling a marketable cookbook than meets the fries! If you've ever thought about combining meatloaf and memories, or artichokes and art to produce a cookbook people will gladly fork over money to own, you need to hear speakers Judy Godfrey who spearheaded The Amazing Grace collection honoring the 100th Anniversary of the Drake Hotel/Grace Museum, and Jeanie McDonald, editor of Come in To This House, a visual feast of art and aroma. Hundreds of copies of each of these cookbooks have been sold and will continue to sell not only for the recipes, but also for the unique design each incorporates that makes them more than a recipe collection. Judy recently retired from the Grace Museum and Jeanie and Company hail from San Angelo.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Thursday, September 24th Meeting
Hello! Welcome to the new look of the Abilene Writers Guild website. We're experimenting with this format so the members of the Board can participate in letting you know what's going on. We'll work on getting it polished and productive. Please bear with us.
Our program tomorrow night is Leland Harden. Join us at 7 PM at Rose Park Senior Citizens Center Thursday, September 24.
Our program tomorrow night is Leland Harden. Join us at 7 PM at Rose Park Senior Citizens Center Thursday, September 24.
Twitter? Tweet? Blog? Help!!!! How You Can Use "Social Media" to Sell Yourself and Your Writing!
Fast forward into the 21st Century with Leland Harden! Leland is an internationally recognized authority on online marketing and promotion who knows how to "speak Crayola" to explain and demonstrate how writers can use today's hottest Internet communication tools.
Leland is currently the vice president of institutional advancement at Hardin-Simmons University here in Abilene. He is in charge of all marketing and money-raising for the university. Leland is responsible for staying on top of the latest trends in Web 2.0 tools. His team has led the way in using online video, YouTube, iTunes, blogging, and social networking to market to their target student audience.
Leland began his career in the online business in 1985 as an account executive with DataTimes. In his second year with the company, he became the top salesman in the country. He then was recruited to help launch Medialink in New York City. Here he helped build the start-up into the world's largest distributor of video public relations materials. Next, he moved to San Francisco to set out on his own and launched Digital Conference Television, a national video conferencing firm. He then co-founded Cybernautics and also co-founded GiftCertificates.com. He's a much sought-after speaker and is the author of several best-selling books including Net Results: Web Marketing That Works (Macmillan), Net Results.2: Best Practices in Web Marketing (Pearson), and Digital Engagement: Internet Marketing that Captures Customers and Builds Intense Brand Loyalty (AMACOM).
This program will help you get past the confusion and into the fun! Bring your curiosity, questions, and friends for an evening of easy-to-understand information from one of the top professionals in the Internet marketing field.
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