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information on upcoming writer events of interest to Houston
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Member News
Kelli
Meyer's fantasy short story, "One for
Sorrow", won an Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard
Writers of the Future Contest. If you're not familiar
with it, it's a international contest for fantasy and
science fiction writers with a $5,000 prize. They
receive about 1,000 entries per quarter and about the top 10
percent receive honorable mentions.
HARRY
HUNSICKER's third novel, Cross
Hairs, is in bookstores now. Published by
St. Martins Press, Publisher's Weekly describes Harry's
writing as "Hunsicker has a flair for turning phrases,
and his broken, wounded characters could have stepped
straight from the pages of Cornell Woolrich's despairing
stories."
ROSEMARY
POOLE-CARTER new book, Women
of Magdalene, has been released. Booklist describes Women of Magdalene as
"a fine mix of thriller, historical fiction, and
Southern Gothic."
L.B.
COBB was a guest author at the International
Mystery Writers Festival June 12-17, 2007 in Owensboro,
Kentucky. L.B. gave a master workshop and signed her novels,
Splendor
Bay and Promises
Town. The line up of mystery guest authors included Sue
Grafton, Stuart Kaminsky, Robert Levinson, Cordelia Frances
Biddle, James W. Hall, Beverle Graves Myers, Tasha
Alexander, Kit Ehrman, and James J. Holcomberg, Lance
Rucker, John Jakes, and Ira Levin.
JOE MARZIOTTI announces that Chris: A
Memoir, the story of his son's stuggle with lukemia, is now
in bookstore. Chris: A Memoir is gathering five-star
reviews.
Fall is the time for nationwide Sisters in
Crime events and several FBWG members participated in book
events at area book stores that included Texas mystery authors Susan
Albert, Robert
E. Armstrong, Bill
Crider, L.
B. Cobb, Diana
L. Driver, Dottie
Enderlee, Kay
Finch, L.C.
Hayden, Julie
Wray Herman, Pauline
B. Jones, Leann
Sweeney, Gayle
Wigglesworth, and Vickie
Williams.
Roger
Paulding's THE
PICKLED DOG CAPER, recently released. is a
five-star read.
L.B.
COBB's set-in-Houston mystery, PROMISES
TOWN, made the HTexas Magazine's list of "Hot
Summer Books." In the May 1995 print edition of HTexas
Magazine, Meghana Kulkarni's spotlight on local writing
talent described Promises Town as "a perfect read for
any mystery buff."
RICK
RIORDAN has two releases: MISSION ROAD, which
continues the Tres Navarre mystery series, and THE LIGHTNING
THIEF, the first in a series geared toward ages 9-14.
Samples of CHRIS
ROGERS' new book, SLICE OF LIFE, is posted on her
website. Chris, author of the smash hits BITCH FACTOR, RAGE
FACTOR, and CHILL FACTOR.
LB
COBB's second novel, PROMISES TOWN, received glowing
reviews from Mystery Scene Magazine and Review of Texas
Books. It has been selected by the Texas State Library and
Archives for the Talking Book Program, which provides free
audio books to Texas library patrons with disabilities.
TEENA MAENA's feature article about the
Rosenwald schools received the Texas historical Commission
award and an honorable mention in Writer's Digest feature
article category.
PEGGIE
HERRON MILLER's novel, The
Lucas Stick, was released by Panther Creek Press.
JOAN
UPTON HALL has signed a 3-novel contract for her
futuristic suspense trilogy with Zumaya Publishing, a
British Columbia company with a branch office in Austin.
If you have member book news, email
HWG.
If you're a member with a website and would like to exchange
links with Houston Writers Guild, first put a link on your
site, then send
an email to webmaster. |
 MEMBER WEBSITES
L.B.
Cobb
Joan
Upton Hall
Sam
Havens
Julie
Wray Herman
Harry
Hunsicker
Joe
Marziotti
Kelli
Meyer
Rebecca
Nolan
Mike
Orenduff
Roger
Paulding
Rosemary
Poole-Carter
B.K.
Reeves
Rick
Riordan
Chris
Rogers
S.
Owen Smith
Rodney
Walther
MEMBER BOOKS
DALE NAPIER - Tai Chi In Your Life: 8 Principles That Can Change Your Life While Learning and Growing with Tai Chi
Frank
CARDEN: The Prostitutes of Post Office Street
L.B.
COBB: Splendor Bay,
Promises Town
Old-Fashioned Recipes
Michelle
DEVLIN: Afraid of the Dark
Barbara
EWING: Till Murder Do Us Part
Kay
FINCH: Final Decree
Joan
Upton HALL: Demystifier
Julie
Wray HERMANN: Three Dirty Women Mystery Series
Harry
HUNSICKER: Still Rivers, Cross Hairs
IRELAND,
DAWN: The
Puppy Baby Book
MARTIN,
Joan: Yankee Girl
JOE
MARZIOTTI: Chris: A Memoir
MIKE
ORENDUFF: The Pot Thief Murder Mysteries
Roger
PAULDING: The
Pickled Dog Caper
Rosemary
POOLE-CARTER: What
Remains, Women of Magdalene
B.K.
REEVES: My
Buffalo Soldier
Chris
ROGERS: Bitch Factor, Rage Factor, Chill Factor
S.
Owen SMITH: Year of the Tiger
ARE YOU A MISSING LINKS?
If you are a "dues paying"
member who used to have a website link from HWG but now find
it missing, that's because we got a "page not there"
message the last time we did a links check. To get your link back,
first add a link to Houston Writers Guild on your links page (or
even your home page), and then send
an email to our website
coordinator with a link to your current website address
to have a
link to your website added to this page.
Use this link for linking to
Houston Writers Guild: http://www.houstonwritersguild.org.
If you are a new member with a
website or a book, first put a link on your website to HWG and
then add a link to Houston Writers Guild to your website and send an email to the website coordinator with a link to your
website and a link to your book at the Amazon or Barnes and Noble
website. Then be patient. Websites updating is a volunteer
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