December Newsletter

WRITE ON!

LA Writers/entrepreneurs, stop by for the December Write On!/Guided Goals hangout on Wednesday, December 3, at Peet’s Coffee, 1854 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles 90025. RSVP on Facebook. Our December Social Hangout will be in West LA on December 17 at 1pm.

Post your December Goals on Write On Online or Facebook and be entered in a drawing to win a book from Michael Wiese Productions. Congratulations to this month’s goal-posting winner Gloria Muhly Baer Bosticwho won a copy of Future of Television: Your Guide to Creating TV in the New World by Pam Douglas.

Write On Online has regular, ongoing content, including Q&As; Write On! Wednesdays; Guest Columns; and more.

NEWS

Authors Barbara Glover, Suzanne Lieurance, and Wendy Dewar Hughes are pleased to announce the release of their new sweet romance anthology, Sweet Christmas Love, from Creative Caravan Press. The book contains nine festive stories, just in time for the holidays. Find out more about the book here.

Do your kids love to write? Want to encourage them to hone and expand their writing skills? Check out Purple Pencil Adventures: Writing Prompts for Kids of All Ages.  Although it’s geared towards kids, there are plenty of prompts adults can use to exercise those writing muscles! Write on!

Write on members, get a free ecopy of Michael Wiese’s Onward & Upward. Sign up for the newsletter to receive your book.

The Tahoma Literary Review is accepting narrative nonfiction submissions on any subject. Full guidelines are here. Also accepting fiction and poetry submissions. They currently pay between $30 and $100.

Nowster.com is accepting submissions for content around technology, startups, and pop culture. Contact Steven for more information.

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EVENTS

December 3: Write On!/Guided Goals Hangout at Peet’s Coffee, 1854 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles 90025. We’ll have tables reserved inside, but, if the group’s too large, there’s space outdoors. RSVP on Facebook.

December 4: 60th anniversary screening of Seven Samurai at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. Skype intro by Richard Pepperman, author of Everything I Know About Filmmaking I Learned Watching Seven Samurai. Learn more.

December 10: Book Publicists of Southern California Holiday Mixer and Meeting at Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City, CA, at 5:30. Featured speakers are Carolyn Howard-Johnson, How to Do It Frugally series; Robin Quinn, president of Word for Word; and BPSC’s new marketing director Melinda Sue Norin. Theme is “50 Shades of PR for the New Year.” Reserve your spot.

December 15: Social Media Club LA Holiday Celebration from 6:30pm – 9:30pm in Santa Monica. Details and RSVP here.

December 17: Stop by for an informal social hangout in Westwood at 1pm. Location TBD. Stay tuned. RSVP on Facebook.

Through December: Writers who Exercise (or just want to) Join Steph Radkay’s “Banana Cake Movement and get the chance to win some rad activewear, Actio926. Let owner/designer/runner Radkay inspire you to get motivated to work out (get Actio) and sail through the last quarter of the year. Winners every week from October thru December!

January 5: New 4-week interactive e-class through WOW! Women on Writing – “Get Traffic to Your Website with Inbound Marketing” – begins. Website Optimization, Blogging Smart, Email Marketing, and Social Media Marketing. Details here.

Write On! Members: Let me know if you have a book being released or some awesome news, so we can include it in the next newsletter. Also, check out the Write On Online Facebook Page for regular opportunities to share your books and blogs: Tuesdays: Boast your Blog, Thursdays: Share your Twitter, and Fridays: Flaunt your Fan Page.

FRIENDS OF WRITE ON!

For even more writing support, check out BookPod, an online social platform for authors and aspiring authors centered around the world of books and publishing. Interested in joining BookPod? Email Jennifer Brody.

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Orange County Writers, check out Lit Central OC, an online magazine for news, reviews, craft articles and more for writers in the Orange County area.

Like Michael Wiese Productions on Facebook to learn about contests, workshops, special events, and new releases from the number one publisher of film books in the world.

She Takes on the World is a top blog for women entrepreneurs, career women, and young women professionals.

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