Savannah Writers Group

As you look back on 2013, may you have the fondest of memories. Here's to an even better 2014! Who has some writerly resolutions for the new year!? We'd love to read them. Leave them in the comment section! Our first meeting of 2014 will take place on Tuesday, January 14 at 7 PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. Remember, we meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. Please bring work you'd like to share, critique forms if you'd like feedback, and your ideas for future programs. Here are some resolutions I discovered over at: Jeff Goins' blog Write what you’re called to write. Your job is not to pander or entertain. It’s to create, to share stuff from the soul as you are moved. If others are moved, well, then that is merely coincidental. Consider it “gravy.” Your job is to write. Leave the results to the readers. Tell the truth. No matter what, regardless of what is at stake, we must write what is true — true to us and true to the world. Anything d

Book Buzz   SBF Needs You!  Volunteer for the 2014 Festival 1. Raise Your Hand It takes a village to make the Savannah Book Festival run smoothly, from helping visitors find their way to the venue where their favorite authors are speaking to counting how many seats are filled to escorting authors to the signing tent.  Come join us for a literary adventure.  To volunteer today, CLICK HERE >>     2. Southern Hospitality   To accommodate Festival-goers, the City of Savannah will provide parking in all city garages for a $5 flat rate on the main day, Feb. 15, 2014.  To plan your trip downtown, CLICK HERE >>     3. New Author Named There really is The Up Side to Down , according to author and Bloomberg View columnist  Megan McArdle , who posits that the better we fall and get back up, the more quickly we'll succeed.   Important Dates to Remember  Dec. 20                     Last day to buy books online for Christmas *Note: Members

Sorry that this message is a little dated, folks, but you can support the Armstrong Atlantic Youth Orchestra by shopping the Barnes and Noble online fundraiser. Bookfair ID# 11241056 When checking out, please mention that you support the Youth Orchestra , and Barnes and Noble will donate a portion of their profits from your purchase to our fundraiser.   Shop online: Visit BN.COM/bookfairs   Dec. 8th thru Dec. 13   When checking out enter: Bookfair ID 11241056   ~I hope to see you at our holiday party Tuesday night @ 7PM @ The Crystal Beer Parlor!

Here is a quick look at our meeting calendar for the remainder of 2013! Tuesday, November 26th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. DECEMBER Tuesday, December 10th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Crystal Beer Parlor, for a Holiday Gathering! Check out their website to preview the menu. They are located at 301 West Jones Street Savannah, GA 31401 (and have an actual parking lot!). As the fourth Tuesday in December is Christmas Eve, I daresay we will not meet that evening. Be thinking of program ideas for 2014!

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be held at the Atlanta Bread Company on Tuesday, November 12th at 7 PM. Bring your writing to share and bring along ideas for future programs.  Bring writing prompts if you've got 'em. Also, bring suggestions for our Christmas dinner meeting. Which restaurant would be good?

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be held at the Atlanta Bread Company at 7 PM on Tuesday, October 22nd. We hope to see you there!

Lose Yourself in Books! View this email in your browser Book Buzz Scott Turow, Mitch Albom and Eben Alexander  Blockbusters for the 2014 Savannah Book Festival . 1 . Meet the Headliners Best-selling authors Scott Turow , Mitch Albom and Eben Alexander  will take the podium at Trustees Theater during the 2014 Savannah Book Festival, Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 13-16, 2014. Turow kicks off the Festival on Thursday night, Feb. 13, with his new mystery-thriller, Identical .  Albom delivers the Festival’s keynote address on Friday, with his latest book, The First Phone Call from Heaven .  Alexander, a neurosurgeon, will fittingly close the Festival on Sunday, Feb. 16, with his personal nonfiction narrative, Proof of Heaven,  which has been on the NYT best-seller list for 49 weeks. These blockbuster authors will speak at Trustees Theater in Savannah’s Historic District. Tickets for headline events are $10 each and go on sale Jan. 3, 2014

Tuesday, October 8th: GUEST SPEAKER, ROWAN WOLFE We're proud to welcome guest speaker, Rowan Wolfe, Author of Incident at Tybee Island & The Trial of Evan Gage : Action-packed, fast-paced crime/military thrillers . Please check out Rowan's website . The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. This meeting is free and open to the public! More about Incident at Tybee Island : A nuclear device is missing.  Al Qaeda is the prime suspect. So where and when are the terrorists going to detonate the bomb? Fact:  On February 5, 1957, a B-47 carrying a nuclear weapon was involved in a mid-air collision off the coast of Georgia. Fiction: (or is it?)  After the events of 9/11, the renewed Air Force search for the bomb takes on new meaning, but it soon becomes apparent that someone has beaten them to it. Flying passenger aircraft into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is one thing.  A nuclear bomb in the wrong hands is quite ano

We hope you can join us at the next Savannah Writers Group meeting on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:00 PM at Atlanta Bread Company in the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center.  W e will welcome Amy Adams, author of Book of Love: Poems to Light Your Way Home as our speaker. For more information follow the link . Also check out the Connect Savannah : Fall Literary Arts Calendar

Hello Savannah Writers, I have some info on a couple upcoming events! The Crossroads Writers Conference is happening in Macon on Oct. 4-6 in Macon. Visit their webpage for more details! www.crossroadswriters.org   A list of speakers can be found here (scroll all the way down and check out pix and bios): http://crossroadswriters.splashthat.com ~ Also, the 2nd annual Short Story America Festival and Conference is happening from September 26-29th , in historic Beaufort, South Carolina.    Over a dozen authors from all over the country will participate in workshops, lectures, readings and book signings.   Authors include Ann Serling, author of the memoir As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling , Eric Witchey, James Goertel, Marjorie Brody, Mathieu Cailler, Katherine Tandy Brown, Richard Hawley and Gary Lawrence.  All are masters of their craft and eager to share the joys and techniques of writing.   The eight workshops offered touch on subjects such as dra

Be sure to keep an eye on our Calendar page! We have some exciting guest speakers headed to upcoming meetings of the Savannah Writers Group! SEPTEMBER Tuesday, September 10th: The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. Tuesday, September 24th: GUEST SPEAKER, AMY ADAMS We're proud to welcome guest speaker, Amy Adams, Author of Book of Love: Poems To Light Your Way Home .  Please check out Amy's website . The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. OCTOBER Tuesday, October 8th: GUEST SPEAKER, ROWAN WOLFE We're proud to welcome guest speaker, Rowan Wolfe, Author of Incident at Tybee Island & The Trial of Evan Gage : Action-packed, fast-paced crime/military thrillers . Please check out Rowan's website . The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. Tuesday, October 22nd:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread

Our next event is the Summer Social to be held at Johnny Harris Restaurant on East Victory Drive August 27 th at 7:00 PM.  Please RSVP to Sally by Saturday, August 24 th  by emailing customer(at)coastalnow(dot)net . Mention how many will attend so that she can reserve the proper number of seats. http://www.johnnyharris.com/info_pages.php?pages_id=9  Hope to see you there! We will not be meeting at the Atlanta Bread Company on August 27th.

YES, we will be meeting Tuesday, August 13th at 7 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company! The Savannah Writers Group meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. I know sometimes there is confusion, but we do not meet "every other Tuesday", we meet the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month. Also, we had previously decided to cancel the August 13th meeting and have a Saturday social gathering instead, but that idea has been scrapped for now. In fact, let's discuss ideas for the summer social when we meet on Tuesday, August 13th! I'll see you there! Happy writing!

Interview: Hugh Howey by The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Published July 2013 | 8242 words Hugh Howey is a self-described “bum,” who for the past twenty years has bounced from job to job—computer repair, roofing, yacht captain, bookstore clerk. In his spare time he wrote science fiction, and after growing impatient with the long waits and uncertain rewards of traditional publishing, he began self-publishing his work on Amazon.com. Just a few years later, his post-apocalyptic novel Wool , typed out in a storage room during his lunch breaks at the bookstore, was earning him over $100,000 a month on Amazon, had secured him a six-figure book deal from Simon & Schuster, and had been optioned for film by Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner and Alien . This interview first appeared on Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. Visit geeksguideshow.com to listen to the entire