WHAT’S THAT SOUND?

Presented by Anne Randolph. M.A., M.F.A

Use Music, Noise, Rhythm and Blues to Spice Up Your Writing –Plus Learn to Read Your Writing Aloud!

Saturday, January 28, 2012
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Arvada Public Library
7525 W. 57th Ave
Arvada, CO 80002

Bring paper and pen to write, plus bring one page, double-spaced, of your writing or a sample from literature to read aloud. In the first hour, we’ll look at what it means to add sound to your writing, and in the second hour, we’ll cover the basic skills of reading your writing aloud.

PART I: ADD SOUND TO YOUR WRITING
• Augment your writing with Music and Metaphor
• Punctuate meaning with Noise, Chatter, and Sound

• Explore examples from Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison, Mary Higgins Clark

PART II: LEARN SKILLS TO READ YOUR WRITING ALOUD
• Been asked to read your work?
• Felt nervous or just scared?

• Discover how to prepare for a Reading?
• Stand tall, use your breath.
• Hold an audience with pitch, pace, and pause.
• Pre-scan your work.
• Rehearse, Practice and Present

RSVP to AnneRandolph- AT -KitchenTableWriting.com

It’s time to pick your best work published in 2011 for entry in the Colorado Authors’ League 2012 awards contest. Details about the contest and applications are at www.ColoradoAuthors.org. The deadline for entries is January 31, 2012.
Not a CAL member? Join! Join and enter your work.

Keep in mind that the CAL awards contest is not just for books! Entry categories cover the gamut of writing reflected in our organization’s broad membership—articles, short stories, essays, poetry, and specialty writing, as well as fiction and nonfiction books for adults and youth. Once again, judging will be independently conducted by SouthWest Writers, who did a fine job last year.

Now don’t dismiss our awards contest as some shallow beauty pageant whose winners get to flaunt a handsomely engraved glass award on their bookshelf or in their foyer (though the award is handsome). For one thing, the announcement of the finalists and the winners provide a precious opportunity for CAL to showcase our members’ best works to the statewide writing community, as well as the reading public, thereby strengthening the visibility and viability of our organization. Second, CAL winners tell us that they’ve used their awards to promote their winning projects and further their writing careers.

Bruce W. Most
2012 Awards Chair

Final judges for this year’s contest are Harrison Fletcher (creative nonfiction), author of Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, a Bakeless Literary Award finalist, and selection for the University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff, Dan Beachy-Quick (poetry), author, most recently, of Circle’s Apprentice (Tupleo 2011) and Wonderful Investigations (Milkweed 2012), a book of poetry and a book of essays, mediations, and tales (respectively). (poetry) and Jennifer Davis (fiction), author of Her Kind of Want, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction and Our Former Lives in Art, selected by Barnes and Noble for their Discover Great New Writers series. The judges will also serve as writing faculty for the 2012 Spring Literary Festival on Saturday, April 21.

New this year: we will be accepting electronic submissions only for art and literary pieces through Submittable, the online submission manager. For submission guidelines or about the Writers Studio, visit the Writers Studio Web site at ACC Writers Studio General Submission Guidelines<writerstudio

Nominations Must Be Received By January 13, 2012

DENVER, CO (December 21, 2011)–Colorado Humanities and its program department, Colorado Center for the Book, are accepting nominations until January 13, 2012 for the 21st annual Colorado Book Awards. The Book Awards recognize and promote Colorado’s finest writers, illustrators, photographers and editors. Finalists and winners will be honored in an award event to be held in Aspen next June as part of Aspen Summer Words.

The Colorado Book Award program is one of the oldest book award programs in the country, receiving 150 qualified submissions annually. Program Coordinator, Jennifer Long says. “Finalists will be announced in April 2012 followed by readings and book signings in the Denver metro and other areas. These readings are a great way to hear what’s hot by local authors and to enjoy an evening of fun discussion and hobnobbing with the local literati.”

To enter the competition with digital or printed books, authors, editors, illustrators, photographers and publishers should visit www.coloradohumanities.org, click on Programs/Events and select Colorado Book Awards. A $53 fee must accompany each entry. Fans and friends may send suggestions of books to be entered to Jennifer Long at long@coloradohumanities.org in advance of the deadline.

The public is also invited to participate as Selectors of the finalists in up to twelve categories. Applications to serve as a Selector are also available atwww.coloradohumanities.org.

The Colorado Center for the Book, founded in 1989 as a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is among the most active of the 50 state centers for the book. With at least five major projects and the strong support of Colorado Humanities, its host institution, it is making a difference in the lives of readers—and potential readers—in every corner of the state.

For more information about the Colorado Book Awards or the Colorado Center for the Book at Colorado Humanities, please contact Jennifer Long atlong@coloradohumanities.org or 303.894.7951 x21.

Did you publish a book in 2011 that features a woman’s or girl’s story set in the American West? If so, please consider entering it in the 2012 WILLA Literary Award competition. Women Writing the West, a nonprofit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women’s West, underwrites and presents the award. Books published in 2011 (in any form) are eligible. Professional librarians select Winners and Finalists. Awards will be presented at the WWW annual conference in Albuquerque, NM in October 2012.

Categories for entry include Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Scholarly Nonfiction, Poetry, Original Softcover Fiction, and Children’s and Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction.
Please visit the WWW website, www.WomenWritingtheWest.org for guidelines and an application form. Deadline for entry is February 1, 2012.

Thank you,
Suzanne Lyon
2012 Women Writing the West Past President and WILLA Chair
www.WomenWritingtheWest.org
www.suzannelyon.com

Maverick Book Marketing with Brian Jud
Millions of titles are now published every year with the “e” world in play. You are competing with them for shelf space, airtime, and your customer’s wallet. But there are better, easier, more profitable ways to sell your books – and Brian will tell you all about them. With a little creativity you can upstage, differ from, and outperform your competition. Brian will show you where to find thousands of prospective buyers in non-bookstore venues. He will help you stand out from the crowd of books displayed on retail store shelves. You will discover how to sell more books to non-bookstore retailers such as gift shops, supermarkets, discount stores, warehouse clubs, book clubs, catalogs, airport stores, and home-shopping networks. He’s bringing new information for 2012!
You will discover:
. how to sell more books in ways your never thought possible; . why niche publishing can be the best way to increase your sales, revenue, and profits;
. how to convert a nonfiction book into a money-making juggernaut; . how to market fiction to more buyers, more profitably;
. a new business model for exploiting today’s multiple marketplaces; . the best promotion, sales, and distribution tips to sell more books and make more money;
. how to create a mutually profitable proposal and effectively present it to your prospects;
. many ways to negotiate sales for people who hate to sell.
Brian will help you be more successful through new and different marketing actions – while adding a little fun to the ways in which you sell your books.
Register now! CAL Members pay Author U member rates. Lunch and Workbook included.
Register: http://authoru.org/bookcamp-maverick-marketing.html Date: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location: Hilton Garden Inn – Denver Tech Center

We spend thousands of dollars getting our book through the writing and publishing process. But is your book up to industry standards?

Find out on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at the Colorado Independent Publishers Association’s monthly meeting!

A fast-moving panel of experts will illustrate what it takes to create an award-winning book, how to get five-star reviews, and what the publishing industry is really looking for when using the term “high-quality?”

. You’ll see hands on what it takes to capture a judge’s attention and get answers from our award-winning layout and cover designers, who will show you samples of good design vs. poorly designed books.

. You’ll get expert advice from award-winning editors who will show you examples of good content vs. bad content, as well as correct copy editing vs. incorrect copy editing.

. You’ll learn the secrets to obtaining five-star reviews from some of the top book reviewers in Colorado and find out how to keep your book from receiving the dreaded negative review.

. You’ll hear from one CIPA member whose book has won 14 top awards, including a 1st place EVVY and 1st place in Writer’s Digest’s Self-Publishing contest. Find out what made his book stand out from the rest.

. Is your book ready to meet industry standards? Find out when we put you on the hot seat? Bring your book and have our panel of experts give your book live critique or praise.

Don’t miss this information-packed, hands-on event!

Saturday, January 21 from 8:00 a.m.-Noon at the brand-new Lone Tree Arts Center. See Map for directions.

Register Now! $15.00 CIPA members. $30.00 nonmembers at
http://www.cipacatalog.com

Join Certified Coach Cynthia Morris in an interactive
workshop where you’ll design your focus for the year, develop your set of action steps and find the accountability to stay committed to your vision. This is much more than a New Year’s resolution. Find your roadmap to your writing dreams.

Through her company Original Impulse, Cynthia Morris has
helped writers make their big dreams a powerful reality since 1999. Cynthia is the author of Create Your Writer’s
Life: A Guide to Writing with Joy and
Ease along with hundreds of articles on the creative process. She leads writing and creativity workshops throughout the U.S. and France. Join her creative tribe at www.creativeimpulse.com.

Wine, writers and hors d’oeuvres to help the creative
process!

When: Thursday,
January 19, 2012, 5:30 – 9:00 p.m.

Where: Denver Woman’s
Press Club, 1325 Logan Street, Denver, CO (free parking in the lot north of the clubhouse.)

Cost: Free to DWPC members; $25 for non-members.

Info: www.DWPConline.org

When: Thursday, January 12, 2012
Where: The Denver Press Club,
1330 Glenarm St., Denver, CO
Time: 7:00 p.m. dinner; 8:00 p.m. program
Cost: $20, includes colleagues, dinner and program (Cash and check only please)

Menu: TBA

Adult beverages are available at the cash bar downstairs

PROGRAM: Interviewing and Polygraphing Convicted Sex Offenders

Get the details on polygraphs and what it takes to monitor, interview and polygraph sex offenders. Tom Sheely worked for the Vail Police Department for 20 years from 1978 to 1998, was a street officer for 10 years and a sergeant for the last 10. During that time he worked as a juvenile/public affairs officer, swat team leader and finally as the administrative sergeant involved in hiring and event planning.

He returned to school to learn to do polygraphs and eventually interned with his current company Amich & Jenks Inc. They specialize in testing and helping to monitor convicted sex offenders. To date Tom has conducted approximately 15,000 polygraph test of which about 9000 were with the offenders. The firm also does pre-employment polygraphs for police and fire department, pre-conviction criminal tests and “fidelity” examinations. Tom works in several prisons across the state that have sex offender treatment programs.

RSVPs ARE MANDATORY. The reservation deadline is Monday, January 9, 2012. RSVP to Becky Martinez: rebgrace50@aol.com or call 303-522-1073. No shows and anyone not cancelling their reservation 72 hours in advance will be expected to pay since RMMWA will be billed for their reservation.

(The directions to the Denver Press Club, located at 1330 Glenarm Place in Denver, are as follows: Take 1-25 to 6th Ave. east. Turn north onto Santa Fe to Colfax Ave (15th) and turn right (east). Go about 4 blocks to Glenarm, turn left (north). The Denver Press Club will be about a block and half down on the right hand side, across from the Denver Athletic Club. It’s a small stone building with an awning. Parking is available to the south, in the lot next to the Press Club. Bring singles or a credit card. You must pay the machine and then leave the ticket on your dashboard. Otherwise, there is meter parking on the street, for which you will need quarters. The Denver Press Club telephone number in the event you get lost is
303-571-5260.)