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December Meeting Minutes 2014

Hello Everyone,

Today we held our December meeting. The next meeting will be on Sunday, January 18, 2015, from 12:30 to 3 PM at Bella Caffe in Park Rapids MN.

PRESENT:

Sharon, Mike, Deb, Ryan, Scott

TALKING STICK 24:

We will be sending out the next Call for Submissions soon with a deadline of March 1, 2015.

We are working on the TS judges now and also the workshop on the day of the Book Release Party—tentatively September 19, 2015.

WRITING EVENTS:

Deb had her students write books again this year. All together, they did 75,000 words and 600 pages.

SCI-FI CONVENTIONS:

This topic came up in discussion today. Scott said if you plan to go to some of these conventions, be sure to check out ahead of time who will be there. Meeting people there can be very helpful.

Scott is very involved now with Charlton Arrow comics. PopCult picked its 2014 Top 5 Fave Comics and Charlton Arrow made the list. Scott says that social networks are now very important for spreading the word about comics, books, etc.

We all brought things to read and critiqued each others work. Good meeting! Hope to see you all next time.