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January 2005
TWA PROGRAM ARCHIVES
Tampa Bay Mystery
Writer Lisa Miscione
to Speak January 5
Tampa
Bay author Lisa Miscione, whose mystery novels, Angel Fire
(2002), The Darkness Gathers (2004), and Twice (2004),
have ranked her as a rising star among American mystery writers, will
discuss her writing career at the monthly meeting of the Tampa Writers
Alliance on Wednesday, January 5. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in
the Auditorium of the John F. Germany Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr.
The public is invited to attend free of charge.
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A fottrmer New Yorker who left a career in publicity
to pursue her dream of becoming a full time writer, Miscione has
achieved both critical and popular success with her thrillers featuring
true crime writer Lydia Strong. Her debut novel, Angel Fire,
was hailed as "gripping and terrifying" by Publishers Weekly
and as "a real winner" in a starred review by Library Journal. Of
The Darkness Gathers, Booklist reported,
"The second in Miscione's series is a winner... An exciting story
enriched by a glamorous writer-heroine who carries a Glock and know how
to use it." When Twice, the latest entry in her series, was
released last year, January Magazine called it "a compelling
and creepy suspense novel."
An accomplished public speaker at festivals,
workshops, and conferences, Miscione has appeared on NBC, World
Talk Radio, and at the St. Petersburg Times Festival of
Reading. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she grew up in Holland,
England, and New Jersey and is a graduate of the New School for Social
Research. She is a member of The Authors Guild, Mystery
Writers of America, and Sisters In Crime (female mystery authors).
Miscione and her husband live in Tampa Bay.
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The Tampa Writers Alliance
Annual Awards Banquet
was held on Thursday,
January 20, 2005, 6:30 p.m.
at Mise en Place Restaurant, 442 West Kennedy Blvd., Tampa --
$30.00 per person
Winners of
the 2004 TWA Writing Contest were announced.
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February 2005
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Winning Scripts in 2004 TWA Writing Contest
to be Performed at Meeting February 2
Staged
readings of the four winning scripts in the Tampa Writers Alliance
Annual Writing Contest will be presented on Wednesday, February 2, at
the group's regular monthly meeting to be held at 7 p.m. in the
Auditorium of the John F. Germany Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The
public is invited to attend free of charge.
THE WINNING SCRIPTS
1ST
PAUL MAY..........................................................................
DISNEY SECRET SERVICE
2ND WARNER CONARTON.....................................................................
STAGE (EN)NOIRE
3RD SANDRA KISCHUK..........................................................................
DREAM CATCHER
HM CHRIS BATTLE.............................................................
TASTES JUST LIKE CHICKEN
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March 2005
TWA PROGRAM ARCHIVES
Poetry Will Be Topic of
March 2 Tampa Writers Alliance Meeting
Poets Sandy McIntosh and Eileen Tabios
will discuss poetry and read from their works at the monthly general
meeting of the Tampa Writers Alliance, Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the
Auditorium of the John F. Germany Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The
public is invited to attend free of charge.
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April 2005
TWA PROGRAM ARCHIVES
TWA's Annual Writers
Workshop Set for April 6
Featuring
short and to-the-point presentations (with handouts), the Tampa Writers
Alliance's Annual Writers Workshop will be offered at the group’s
monthly meeting, Wednesday, April 6, at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the
John F. Germany Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. Topics to be presented
by TWA members and friends will include getting an editor's interest,
online research methods, liability issues in writing and photography,
self-publishing, and using photography in your writing. The public is
invited to attend free of charge.
Five mini-seminars will be
designed to help all writers in areas of common concerns.
1. How to get an editor's interest...the ins and outs of writing
and sending effective query letters. Presenter - Sandra Kischuk
2. Getting the facts straight: On-line research methods. Presenter
- Lucy Parker
3. Liability issues for writing and photography. Presenter - Attorney
Kevin Astl
4. Self publishing - Making it profitable. Presenter - Author and
Publisher John Taylor
5. The use of photography in writing. Presenter - Photographer Bruce
Hunt
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May 2005
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TWA's May 4 Topic Was On
Outdoor Writing
TWA's monthly general meeting on Wednesday,
May 4, featured a presentation on "Outdoor Writing" by Captain Fred
Everson, fishing boat charter captain, member of the Outdoor Writers
Association of America, and author of two books and many outdoors
magazine articles. The
meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the John F. Germany
Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The public is invited to attend free of
charge.
A member of the Tampa Writers Alliance,
Everson is a full time outdoor writer and fishing guide, fishing out of
Bahia Beach Marina in Ruskin, Florida. His writing can be found at many
of the fishing and hunting websites, and he recently published a book
on fishing, Catch Snook! which has been praised by Sports
Afield and the Tampa Tribune.
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June 2005
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June 1 TWA Topic:
'What Having Your Own Website Can Do for You As A Writer'
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As a writer, just
how important
is it to have your own website?
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Do YOU
have your own website?? If not, WHY not? |
What
can having your own
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TWA’s monthly General
Meeting was held
Wednesday, June 1, at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the John F. Germany
Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr.
Our featured speaker was John Hughes
from Majoc (pronounced "magic") Multimedia. John filled us in on how
you go about setting up a your very own website, what is involved
(cost, time), how writers can build their own websites, how to
properly format your website and what bells and whistles can work for
you. We learned from John’s personal experiences how websites can
help businesses and writers in general.
Check John out at www.majoc.com
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July 2005
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'The Essentials
of Editing'
Will be Tampa Writers Alliance Topic at
July 6 Meeting
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Kirt Dressler addresses TWA members
on editing essentials at July 6 meeting. |
The piece is finished. What next? Edit… then
edit… then edit some more.
On Wednesday, July 6, the Tampa Writers Alliance will present
Kirt Dressler, President and CEO of Superior Writing
Services, Inc. of Tampa, who will discuss the essential need for
editing. Kirt’s credentials include being a successful creative
writer, poet, ghostwriter, editor, and playwright. A must for writers
working in non-fiction and fiction of all genres, including poetry,
Kirt’s program will deliver an overview of the editing process
and the avenues available for this critical step in the writing cycle.
After self-editing, is it really important or necessary to involve a
second party in the editing process before seeking publication? And
where can the writer go for this type of help?
Kirt will tackle these questions and many more at 7pm, July
6, in the auditorium of the John Germany public library, 900 Ashley
Street, downtown Tampa. The event is free and open to all interested
people. Parking is available in the city parking garage across from the
library or on the street.
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August
2005
TWA PROGRAM ARCHIVES
Novelist Kal Rosenberg to speak on
"Self-Promotion
for Writers" at Tampa Writers Alliance August 3
Novelist and TWA
member Kal Rosenberg will speak on "Self-Promotion for Writers"
at the next Tampa Writers Alliance general meeting on Wednesday, August
3, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the John F.
Germany Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The public is invited to attend
free of charge.
Kal writes, "I'm the lonely TWA member
who lives in Gainesville. My novel, Sold As Is [(Behler
Publications) is now in "pre-release." It will be released to the
public in October. The setting is the car-salesman subculture in
Miami's "Cocaine Cowboy" days. See http://behlerpublications.com/titles-rosenberg.asp,
or e-mail me at 2kal4U@gru.net for
info or an advance copy.
"Not only is this book an authentic
portrayal of the car-salesman world, but it's also about toe-to-toe
arguments with God, magic powers, the clash of old philosophies and new
ideas, and incurable mental illness. I like this book a lot. So does my
Aunt Molly.
"Also, at this year's Clockhouse Writer's
Conference at Goddard College, I will be offering a workshop in 'The
Art of Self-Promotion.' Thing is, after you're lucky enough to get your
book in print, you think you are at the finish line, but soon learn
you're back in the starting gate all over again. So you need a promo
campaign or you are sunk. Unless you're a big name, the thing that best
promotes your work is YOU."
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September 2005
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AN INSIDER'S LOOK AT POLICE WORK
presented by
DETECTIVE CHUCK
MASSUCCI
Talks by crime specialists have been among the Tampa Writers
Alliance’s most successful programs in recent years, popular with
both mystery writers and writers in other genres. On Wednesday,
September 7, 2005, Tampa police detective Chuck Massucci will discuss
"An Insider's Look at Police Work" at at 7 p.m. in the
auditorium of the John F.
Germany Main Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The public is invited to attend
free of charge.
Massucci’s wife, Julie, also a Tampa police detective,
has previously addressed the group.
Massucci has been a member of the Tampa Police Department for
15 years and a detective for nearly six years and has had major
experience with the Narcotics Bureau. He worked with the QUAD Squad for
six years and with the Federal Narcotics Task Force for four years.
Operating undercover during this 10-year period, he worked on
several cases that involved wire taps, national distribution groups,
and international suppliers. Since June of 2003, he has been assigned
to the Homicide Bureau where, as he puts it, “I have gained
extensive experience in the investigation of death!”
Massucci holds a bachelor’s degree in communications
and a master’s degree in history from the University of South
Florida.
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October 2005
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Increasing
Drama and Suspense
Is Topic for Tampa Writers Alliance
October 5 Meeting
"Doctor
Karpman's Magic Formula for Drama and Suspense" will be the title of
Zephyrhills-based writer and writing coach Warner Conarton’s
presentation to the Tampa Writers Alliance on Wednesday, October 5,
building on a similar program he offered the group in 2004. The monthly
general meeting will be held at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the John F. Germany Main
Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The public is invited to attend free of
charge.
Conarton is the former
coordinator of the twice-monthly Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group
and currently the group's Poetry Workshop Coordinator. He says that
understanding a common pattern which runs through many relationships
can help writers build drama and suspense.
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is based on the work of California psychiatrist Stephen B. Karpman,
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Warner Conarton developed the "Drama Circle," to help writers
add drama and suspense into their fiction, based on the famous
Karpman Drama Triangle. |
It holds that one
individual often rescues another from his or her responsibilities, then
feels victimized and persecutes the rescued person. One observer has
described the “dysfunctional dance” of persecutor, rescuer,
and victim, as “so sneaky and ambiguous that it is sometimes very
hard to recognize and acknowledge."
Conarton has had advanced training in Transactional Analysis
(which includes the Karpman Drama Triangle as a key concept) and is a
Certified Practitioner of Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP), an
advanced system of psychotherapy. He also studied psychology and
creative writing at Michigan State University. Currently still in
contact with Dr. Karpman, Conarton is the creator of the “Drama
Circle,” which he developed to make the triangle more useful to
writers.
A former staff writer for the Miami-Dade County New Bureau
where he set several records for articles picked up by newspapers and
magazines internationally, Conarton was the coordinator of
Scriptwriter's Roundtable at Barnes & Noble on South Dale Mabry in
Tampa for two years and was thrice president of Lansing (Michigan)
Writers.
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November 2005
TWA PROGRAM ARCHIVES
Monsters,
the Supernatural, Space Travel, Parallel Dimensions…"
Science
Fiction Is
Dr. Rick Wilbur's Topic on Wed., Nov. 2
Anyone with a great
imagination can project into worlds far beyond the reality of daily
life —
and, with a little talent, can
bring those worlds to life and share them with others through the magic
of science fiction writing. That’s the topic of the next Tampa
Writers Alliance general meeting on Wednesday, November 3 at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the John F. Germany Main
Library, 900 N. Ashley Dr. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
Creating
bone-chilling horrors, exploring the landscapes of still unknown
worlds, delving into the minds of alien beings and making it all seem
real - that’s the challenge for science fiction writers,
according to Dr. Rick Wilber from the School of Mass Communications at
USF.
Dr. Wilbur will shed an
eerie light on the genre of science fiction writing. What markets are
available? How can a writer break into the field? What makes a good
science fiction tale? One of Dr. Wilber’s activities is editing
and producing a science fiction publication.
Rick Wilbur addresses TWA members on Science Fiction writing at
November meeting.
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December 2005
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