Quite the past couple of weeks for several SCWC*LAers. Author Darlene Quinn’s Twisted Webs, the sequel to her 2009 National Indie Excellence Award-winning Webs of Power, just won the 2011 International Book Award for General Fiction. The prequel to the series, Webs of Fate (Greenleaf), isn’t out ’til October but Darlene’s going to be with us at LA9 so we’re just going have to throw a launch party for the highly anticipated new release–a bit of a deviation from the first two titles, actually, in that it ramps up the suspense by opening with a murder. Or is it? And look at who all else is getting deserved recognition:
That incomparable author/writing provocateur Judy Reeves just got word that her fully revised, 10th year anniversary edition of A Writers Book of Days: A Spirited Companion & Lively Muse for the Writing Life (New World Library) is a finalist a 2011 San Diego Book Award, Nonfiction (be sure to watch & share the 1-min. trailer with all your writerly friends). On the Contemporary Fiction front, NovelCram immersion track leader Drusilla Campbell’s The Good Sister (Grand Central) is a finalist, as is LA8 special guest Ellen Bryson’s The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno (Henry Holt and Co.), up for Best Historical. Many other of our favorite SCWC author/workshop leaders have been nominated. Be sure to check out the San Diego side of the site to learn who, because right now we’re all about Newport Beach!
The latest additions confirmed include Nancy Ellen Dodd, author of the very cool The Writer’s Compass: From Story Map to Finished Draft in 7 Stages, out June from Writers Digest Books. Former Harcourt Children’s Books editor, now fulltime YA author Deborah Halverson is aboard. Her latest, Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies, is out July. Prolific award-winning contributor to Mars and Venus in Love and Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and numerous print and online publications, B.J. Taylor is with us. Andy Ross Literary Agency’s own Andy Ross will be at the conference, as will others to be announced.
Once the bulk of the remaining LA9 staff is confirmed we’ll open up the advance submission readers list in the registration cart and print form. That’ll happen early June. We’ll start filling out the schedule then, too. In the meantime, the $75 Early “Bard” Discount expires at month’s end. Save your spot by saving today and join us in September. You’ve earned it!
