http://archive.aweber.com/chatroomThe Writer's Chatroom mailing listWed, 23 May 2012 13:14:33 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/5AHvE/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Topic_Chat.htm The Writer's Chatroom www.writerschatroom.com Newsletter Archive What's the easiest way to start your online social networking? Is it a blog, a website, Facebook page, ??? Nope. The easiest of them all to start is Twitter. Create an account, and you're in business. No page to build, complicated set-up to wade through, or special software to buy. Just connect and start talking. Mary Demuth posted 7 ways to learn from Conan O'Brian on Rachelle Gardner's blog. This is an older post, but still relevant. Take a quick lesson. Join us tonight to discuss Twitter for the first hour. We'll take any other questions you may have in the second hour. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for an editor for a short story or novel? Write Your Way: Your Words, Only Better Lisa J. Jackson, editor (AKA Lisa Haselton) http://lisajjackson.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having problems with your writing? Need plot advice or marketing tips? Looking for suggestions on who/what to read next? Come on in! If we don't know the answer, we'll make something up. We are creative people, ya know. 8 pm EST (check the clock above the login screen) the door will open. Type in the name you want us to call you by, and click the login button. No password needed for scheduled chats. Support The Writer's Chatroom! recent supporters: Benjamin Theis C. Hope Clark (Funds for Writers) Sally Franklin Christie Damnation Books Jim Curran Flo and John Stanton We look forward to chatting with you! Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin ChristieWed, 23 May 2012 13:14:33 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/L9aWE/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Presents.htm The Writer's Chatroom http://writerschatroom.com Chat with John Rosenman John Rosenman recently retired as an English professor at Norfolk State University where he designed and taught a course in how to write Science fiction and Fantasy. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Horror Writers Association and has published approximately 350 stories in places such as Weird Tales, Whitley Strieber's Aliens, Fangoria, Galaxy, The Age of Wonders, and the Hot Blood anthology series. John has published nearly twenty books, including SF action-adventure novels such as Beyond Those Distant Stars and Speaker of the Shakk (Mundania Press), A Senseless Act of Beauty (Crossroad Press) , and Alien Dreams (Drollerie Press and Crossroad Press). Shorter books include A Mingling of Souls and Music Man (XoXo Publishing), Here Be Dragons (Eternal Press), The Voice of Many Waters (Blue Leaf Publications), Green in Our Souls (Damnation Books), and Bagonoun's Wonderful Songbird and Childhood's Day (Gypsy Shadow Publishing). Recent developments: MuseItUp Publishing published three SF and/or paranormal romance novels, Dark Wizard; Dax Rigby, War Correspondent; and Inspector of the Cross, as well as three stories, More Stately Mansions; The Blue of Her Hair, the Gold of Her Eyes (which won Preditors and Editors Annual Readers Poll for short SF/F), and Steam Heat (erotic horror). Another story, Wet Dreams, is also erotic horror and due in June. Musa Publishing will publish his time-travel tale, Killers, in early May. Visit John at his website, www.johnrosenman.com, at his blog. And at http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1164323809 https://twitter.com/Writerman1, and http://s631.photobucket.com/albums/uu31/jrosenman/. Two of his interviews are at Working Writers http://workingwritersandbloggers.com/2009/08/18/interview-john-b-rosenman/ and at MILSCFI.com http://tinyurl.com/d7f5vfa WHEN? Sunday, May 20, 2012 Eastern USA Time.....7 PM Not sure what time that is wherever in the world you are? http://www.worldtimeserver.com WHERE? The Writers Chatroom at: http://www.writerschatroom.com/Enter.htm Scroll down to the Java box. It may take a moment to load. Type in the name you wish to be known by, and click Login. No password needed. Please note: The chatroom is only open for regularly scheduled chats. Don't forget the topic chats on Wednesday nights, 8-10 pm EST! Door Prize John has donated an ecopy of Inspector of the Cross. This will be awarded to a lucky chatter during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible! Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups who may be interested. Thank you. If I Should Die by Sally Franklin Christie Murder, Embezzlement, Betrayal and Silence: If I Should Die is a suspenseful journey into the lives of many people. The choices and impacts are repulsive and inspiring. Silence will never sound the same. Please check the Chatroom Schedule for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. Visit our Previous Guests page to catch up on what you've missed. The Team Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin Christie Copyright © 2012 The Writer's Chatroom. All Rights Reserved.Fri, 18 May 2012 13:06:53 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/NQS5U/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Topic_Chat.htm The Writer's Chatroom www.writerschatroom.com Newsletter Archive (Sally Franklin Christie is in charge tonight) 9 Signs Self-Publishing Is Out of Control: Opinion, or Fact? To paraphrase the immortal words of Truman Capote, there's a difference between writing and typing. And, to put it gently, we can say with a good amount of confidence that most self-published books were typed, not written. Because communicating with letters assembled into words is a skill most learn by the age of 5, and because written communication has become so ubiquitous in American life, everyone now thinks he's a writer. Until recently, the publishing industry had been our sea wall, protecting us from a tidal wave of boring life stories and dreadful novels. But now, the ease of self-publishing threatens to drown us all in mediocrity. Here are nine signs the situation is out of control. This is from http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/9-signs-self-publishing-is-out-of-control-opinion-or-fact/ Join us tonight to discuss whether or not self-pub is out of control for the first hour. We'll take any other questions you may have in the second hour. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for an editor for a short story or novel? Write Your Way: Your Words, Only Better Lisa J. Jackson, editor (AKA Lisa Haselton) http://lisajjackson.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having problems with your writing? Need plot advice or marketing tips? Looking for suggestions on who/what to read next? Come on in! If we don't know the answer, we'll make something up. We are creative people, ya know. 8 pm EST (check the clock above the login screen) the door will open. Type in the name you want us to call you by, and click the login button. No password needed for scheduled chats. Support The Writer's Chatroom! recent supporters: C. Hope Clark (Funds for Writers) Sally Franklin Christie Damnation Books Jim Curran Flo and John Stanton We look forward to chatting with you! Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin ChristieWed, 16 May 2012 12:25:38 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/IaskU/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Sunday_Open.htm The Writer's Chatroom http://writerschatroom.com Chat with us! Due to the restriction of only 24 hours per day, our chatroom team was not able to find a guest for tonight's chat. But don't let that stop you! We'll be in the chatroom 7-9 pm ET, ready and waiting for you to show up with brags, news, questions and conundrums. Tonight will be an open chat. Next week, we'll dive back into guest chats. WHEN? Sunday, May 13, 2012 Eastern USA Time.....7 PM Not sure what time that is wherever in the world you are? http://www.worldtimeserver.com WHERE? The Writers Chatroom at: http://www.writerschatroom.com/Enter.htm Scroll down to the Java box. It may take a moment to load. Type in the name you wish to be known by, and click Login. No password needed. Please note: The chatroom is only open for regularly scheduled chats. Don't forget the topic chats on Wednesday nights, 8-10 pm EST! Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups who may be interested. Thank you. If I Should Die by Sally Franklin Christie Murder, Embezzlement, Betrayal and Silence: If I Should Die is a suspenseful journey into the lives of many people. The choices and impacts are repulsive and inspiring. Silence will never sound the same. Please check the Chatroom Schedule for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. Visit our Previous Guests page to catch up on what you've missed. The Team Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin Christie Copyright © 2012 The Writer's Chatroom. All Rights Reserved.Sun, 13 May 2012 15:38:34 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/GVmfU/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Topic_Chat.htm The Writer's Chatroom www.writerschatroom.com Newsletter Archive Why isn't my book selling? We hear that a lot. We try to help where we can. But now there is another place for you to ask the question. http://booknotselling.blogspot.com/ I picked one of the submissions to discuss tonight. http://booknotselling.blogspot.com/2012/04/mystical-circles.html I think the suggestions were very good, and the author took them in a professional manner. Take a look, then let's talk. Join us tonight to discuss why some books don't sell, for the first hour. We'll take any other questions you may have in the second hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for an editor for a short story or novel? Write Your Way: Your Words, Only Better Lisa J. Jackson, editor (AKA Lisa Haselton) http://lisajjackson.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having problems with your writing? Need plot advice or marketing tips? Looking for suggestions on who/what to read next? Come on in! If we don't know the answer, we'll make something up. We are creative people, ya know. 8 pm EST (check the clock above the login screen) the door will open. Type in the name you want us to call you by, and click the login button. No password needed for scheduled chats. Support The Writer's Chatroom! recent supporters: C. Hope Clark (Funds for Writers) Sally Franklin Christie Damnation Books Jim Curran Flo and John Stanton We look forward to chatting with you! Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin ChristieWed, 09 May 2012 13:29:33 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/CYqVk/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Presents_The.htm The Writer's Chatroom http://writerschatroom.com Chat with the authors of The Haunted Mansion Project: Year One What happens when you put a dozen writers and artists together in a haunted house for the weekend? You get The Haunted Mansion Project. Join us to discuss the project with some of the authors involved. Kim Richards lives in northern California with her husband and two feline mistresses. Born and raised in Roswell, New Mexico, Kim has always enjoyed the fantastical genres: horror, science fiction, and fantasy. She writes those genres, as well as erotica under a pseudonym and a few non-fiction pieces.Her most recent works include a serial murder thriller, Death Masks. Short stories or chapters in A Firestorm of Dragons Anthology, Mother Goose is Dead anthology, and The Complete Guide to Writing Paranormal Stories--which she also edited. Her most recent erotica is titled Paper Chains by Sharie Silva. Kim and her husband own and run Damnation Books LLC which publish books under the imprints of Eternal Press and Damnation Books. Visit her website at www.kim-richards.com . Rain Graves is a Bram Stoker Award (2002) winning poet and writer currently living in San Francisco. She is the fearless Hostess of the Haunted Mansion Writer's Retreat, and an experienced, sought after Tarot Specialist and Intuitive Medium. She began her professional writing career in 1997, writing for anthologies, magazines, and webzines. Publisher's Weekly has hailed her work in Barfodder: Poetry Written in Dark Bars and Questionable Cafes (2009, Cemetery Dance) as "Bukowski meets Lovecraft." In 2011 she completed long-fiction for IDW Publishing's Zombies vs. Robots anthology series. Her latest book, The Four Elements (written with Charlee Jacob, Linda Addison, and Marge Simon) will be released in June 2012 by Bad Moon Books. She is a well known wine enthusiast, with commissioned pieces for Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyards, and her poetry can be seen on the corks of Gentleman Farmer's 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon. She is also a retired dance instructor, and former musician. Visit her at http://www.raingraves.com or on Facebook: http://www. facebook.com/raingraves , and twitter: http://www.twitter.com/raingraves . Nichole K. Boscia is the founder and lead investigator of Ghost Girls, a paranormal investigation group located in California. Outside of ghost hunting, she is a senior network engineer at NASA Ames Research Center in the Advanced Supercomputing group. In her teen years, she had a first-hand encounter with the paranormal which made a lifetime impression and spurred her interest in finding a way for science and the supernatural world to coalesce. http://www.ghostgirls.org . E.S. Magill likes to wear the two hats of writer and editor. She is the former reviews editor and columnist for Dark Wisdom magazine. Her most current short fiction can be found in the Horror Writers Association's anthology Blood Lite III. She has an M.A. in English, specializing in the post-modern gothic. By day she teaches middle school English; night is a whole other story. Southern California is home to her and her husband Greg and their menagerie of cats and Corvettes. Daniel Weidman is a supernatural enthusiast. He is just beginning his horror writing journey and enjoying the life-long friendships he made during the Haunted Mansion Weekend. He also dabbles in stop motion animation and is a fan of pop culture. WHEN? Sunday, May 6, 2012 Eastern USA Time.....7 PM Not sure what time that is wherever in the world you are? http://www.worldtimeserver.com WHERE? The Writers Chatroom at: http://www.writerschatroom.com/Enter.htm Scroll down to the Java box. It may take a moment to load. Type in the name you wish to be known by, and click Login. No password needed. Please note: The chatroom is only open for regularly scheduled chats. Don't forget the topic chats on Wednesday nights, 8-10 pm EST! Door Prize Kim Richards has donated two copies of The Haunted Mansion Project, one print and one ebook. These will be awarded to two lucky chatters during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible! Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups who may be interested. Thank you. If I Should Die by Sally Franklin Christie Murder, Embezzlement, Betrayal and Silence: If I Should Die is a suspenseful journey into the lives of many people. The choices and impacts are repulsive and inspiring. Silence will never sound the same. Please check the Chatroom Schedule for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. Visit our Previous Guests page to catch up on what you've missed. The Team Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin Christie Copyright © 2012 The Writer's Chatroom. All Rights Reserved.Sun, 06 May 2012 11:59:24 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/4rkZk/h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Topic_Chat.htm The Writer's Chatroom www.writerschatroom.com Newsletter Archive So...what kind of chat do we have when Audrey forgets what day it is? An open chat! After two days of fighting a migraine, I was just happy to feel better. It was the middle of the day before I realized I hadn't set up a topic for tonight. So join us at 8 pm ET to talk about...whatever you want to talk about. Bring your questions, problems and answers, and we'll try to hit them all. Anything writing-related is open game tonight! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for an editor for a short story or novel? Write Your Way: Your Words, Only Better Lisa J. Jackson, editor (AKA Lisa Haselton) http://lisajjackson.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having problems with your writing? Need plot advice or marketing tips? Looking for suggestions on who/what to read next? Come on in! If we don't know the answer, we'll make something up. We are creative people, ya know. 8 pm EST (check the clock above the login screen) the door will open. Type in the name you want us to call you by, and click the login button. No password needed for scheduled chats. Support The Writer's Chatroom! recent supporters: C. Hope Clark (Funds for Writers) Sally Franklin Christie Damnation Books Jim Curran Flo and John Stanton We look forward to chatting with you! Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin ChristieWed, 02 May 2012 18:56:09 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/7d85./h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Presents.htm The Writer's Chatroom http://writerschatroom.com Chat with Jennifer Militello Jennifer Militello's first collection of poems, FLINCH OF SONG, won the Tupelo Press First Book Award, and her second collection, BODY THESAURUS, was named a finalist for the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award by Marilyn Hacker and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She is also author of the chapbook ANCHOR CHAIN, OPEN SAIL. Militello has been published widely in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North American Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, and anthologized in Best New Poets 2008. Her work has been awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and the 49th Parallel Award fromBellingham Review in addition to grants and fellowships from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She has taught at Brown University, The Rhode Island School of Design, and The University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is director of the creative writing program at River Valley Community College. She lives in New Hampshire. WHEN? Sunday, April 29, 2012 Eastern USA Time.....7 PM Not sure what time that is wherever in the world you are? http://www.worldtimeserver.com WHERE? The Writers Chatroom at: http://www.writerschatroom.com/Enter.htm Scroll down to the Java box. It may take a moment to load. Type in the name you wish to be known by, and click Login. No password needed. Please note: The chatroom is only open for regularly scheduled chats. Don't forget the topic chats on Wednesday nights, 8-10 pm EST! Door Prize Jennifer has donated a copy of Flinch of Song. This will be awarded to a lucky chatter during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible! Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups who may be interested. Thank you. If I Should Die by Sally Franklin Christie Murder, Embezzlement, Betrayal and Silence: If I Should Die is a suspenseful journey into the lives of many people. The choices and impacts are repulsive and inspiring. Silence will never sound the same. Please check the Chatroom Schedule for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. Visit our Previous Guests page to catch up on what you've missed. The Team Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin Christie Copyright © 2012 The Writer's Chatroom. All Rights Reserved.Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:29:16 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/72Mt./h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Topic_Chat.htm The Writer's Chatroom www.writerschatroom.com Newsletter Archive Yep, I'm talking about blogging again. But you're not surprised, are you? We've talked about how to get people to come to your blog. But sometimes people visit once, and don't come back. What happened? Alexander Heyne of Milk the pigeon has some ideas at http://www.problogger.net/archives/2012/04/04/3-reasons-no-one-comes-back-to-your-blog-and-how-to-fix-it/ . Good ideas, too. Join us tonight to discuss why people don't come back to your blog, for the first hour. We'll take any other questions you may have in the second hour. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for an editor for a short story or novel? Write Your Way: Your Words, Only Better Lisa J. Jackson, editor (AKA Lisa Haselton) http://lisajjackson.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having problems with your writing? Need plot advice or marketing tips? Looking for suggestions on who/what to read next? Come on in! If we don't know the answer, we'll make something up. We are creative people, ya know. 8 pm EST (check the clock above the login screen) the door will open. Type in the name you want us to call you by, and click the login button. No password needed for scheduled chats. Support The Writer's Chatroom! recent supporters: C. Hope Clark (Funds for Writers) Sally Franklin Christie Damnation Books Jim Curran Flo and John Stanton We look forward to chatting with you! Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin ChristieWed, 25 Apr 2012 13:23:17 -0400http://archive.aweber.com/chatroom/M4GZ./h/The_Writer_s_Chatroom_Presents.htm The Writer's Chatroom http://writerschatroom.com Chat with Karina Fabian (Karina's main character, Vern the Dragon PI, will be joining us in chat) If there's such a thing as ADD of the imagination, Karina Fabian has it--in spades. Craft books, devotionals, serious science fiction, comedic horror and chilling fantasy--she follows her interests and the characters that tell her their stories. Even before she could write, Karina strung tall tales about everything from making human pyramids in Kindergarten to visiting alien worlds. Her first attempt at novel writing was in fourth grade; she completed her first novel in college. However, her first published work was an anthology of Christian science fiction, Leaps of Faith, an EPPIE finalist for best anthology in 2006. Her next anthology, Infinite Space, Infinite God, featured Catholic characters and themes and won the EPPIE for science fiction. The second Infinite Space, Infinite God anthology came out in 2010. Watching the comedy improve show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway, inspired her noir-style dragon detective, Vern. Vern and his partner, Sister Grace, have solved mysteries and saved the Faerie and Mundane worlds numerous numerous times in the DragonEye, PI stories and novels. Their serial story, World Gathering, won a Mensa Owl; and the novel, Magic, Mensa and Mayhem (Fabian's first published novel), won the INDIE for best fantasy in 2010. At a friend's request, Karina wrote a funny story about a zombie exterminator, which grew into the Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator novels. The first, Neeta Lyffe, Zombie Exterminator, won the 2011 Global E-Book award for best horror. She also writes serious science fiction. Her first SF novel, Discovery, is currently under consideration, and she's working on a second on, The Old Man and the Void, based loosely on Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, but taking place in the accretion disk of a black hole. Karina has a strong faith, which she explored in her devotional, Why God Matters: How to Recognize Him in Daily Life, which she wrote with her father Steve Lumbert, and which won the 2011 Christian Small Press Publisher Award. She also writes Catholic school calendars and has written three craft books for the Little Flowers/Blue Knights clubs. Fabian is married to Colonel Robert A. Fabian of the USAF. They have four children, a dog and a cat. When not writing, teaching writing, or chatting about writing, she's hanging out with her kids or swinging a sword in haidong gumbdo. WHEN? Sunday, April 22, 2012 Eastern USA Time.....7 PM Not sure what time that is wherever in the world you are? http://www.worldtimeserver.com WHERE? The Writers Chatroom at: http://www.writerschatroom.com/Enter.htm Scroll down to the Java box. It may take a moment to load. Type in the name you wish to be known by, and click Login. No password needed. Please note: The chatroom is only open for regularly scheduled chats. Don't forget the topic chats on Wednesday nights, 8-10 pm EST! Door Prize Karina has donated two e-copies of Live and Let Fly. These will be awarded to two lucky chatters during the chat. Remember, you MUST be present to be eligible! Please feel free to pass this announcement on to anyone or any groups who may be interested. Thank you. If I Should Die by Sally Franklin Christie Murder, Embezzlement, Betrayal and Silence: If I Should Die is a suspenseful journey into the lives of many people. The choices and impacts are repulsive and inspiring. Silence will never sound the same. Please check the Chatroom Schedule for information on upcoming guests and writing-related chat topics. Visit our Previous Guests page to catch up on what you've missed. The Team Audrey Shaffer Lisa Haselton Sally Franklin Christie Copyright © 2012 The Writer's Chatroom. All Rights Reserved.Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:10:10 -0400