October 21st 2007

Today we held our October meeting at Bella Cafe. Next month’s meeting will be brief and will be held right ahead of our Book Release Party on Saturday, Nov. 17 at 2 PM at Northwoods Bank Community Room.

PRESENT:
Sharon, Duane, Betty, Jerry, Scott, John T, Jan, Jim, LuAnne.

WORKSHOPS:
Get signed up for the Mark Munger workshop coming up soon on Monday October 29 from 7 to 9 PM at the Park Rapids library. Email Cindie at cindiee@hotmail.com or call her at 218-652-4257. Also on October 30: Beagle Books 10-12 Noon book signing, HCLL presentation at the library 1 PM.

WRITE A NOVEL IN A MONTH:
Contact Cindie at cindiee@hotmail.com to sign up. Write a novel of 50,000 words in just 30 days in November. Check out www.nanowrimo.org.

WRITERS WEEK:
Second Annual Wadena Writers Week at Borealis Books in Wadena. Contact Gillette L Kempf at bookseller@borealisbookstore.com.

TALKING STICK 16:
The finished books should be back in about 2 weeks.

PAST EVENTS:
We had quite a few readers and a few listeners at the Museum for Art Leap. Many artists had an open house that day, great event.
The Deborah Keenan poetry workshop was a success. 25 people attended. She also had a book signing and a reading for HCLL.

BRAINERD WRITERS ALLIANCE:
Niomi won first prize for Nonfiction. Congrats, Niomi.

BROKEN HART:
Jerry is doing well selling the Broken Hart books. He has been doing lots of readings. Go to www.jackpinewriters.com, click on Meet Us and go to Jerry’s member page to read about his two books.

SINCLAIR LEWIS WRITERS WORKSHOP:
Jerry and Jan attended. This is an annual event, well attended. Gary Paulsen was the main speaker.

Thanks to everyone who attended. Hope to see you next time!!