To Do: A Social Media Spring Clean

In doing a cleaning out of my inbox, I finally made a category for posts from this blog, Catherine - Caffeinated,  which is always informative - and humorous. Here's today's post, with some good advice about an author's online presence. Enjoy! Ellen

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Special Presentation of POEMSCAPES on April 11

Carol Pearce Bjorlie will read, play the cello, and collaborate with photographer, Ruthie Rosauer at the Hendersonville, NC library on Friday, April 11, at 2:00 pm.

Carol and Ruthie have developed, POEMSCAPES, a landscape slide show/reading/performance event.

For more information, please contact Carol at:  bjorlie.carol@yahoo.com.

Author of Southern Fried Lies, Susan Snowden, on Fiction

Meet Susan Snowden, author and editor who will be a presenter at the Netwest Writers Conference on May 10 in Sylva, NC.

An Atlanta native, Susan Snowden moved to the mountains of western NC in 1995 to have more time to write. Since then her work—fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry—has been published in more than forty literary journals and anthologies. She has received seventeen honors and awards for her writing, including a gold medal in 2013 for her first novel, Southern Fried Lies (IPPY Award; Best Fiction, Southeast Region). 

Susan has taught writing at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and at Blue Ridge Community in Flat Rock, NC. She’s also worked as a freelance book editor since 1985, editing fiction and nonfiction for publishers and authors. (www.SnowdenEditorial.com).  

The conference will be a one day event at the beautiful public library of Jackson County. This building is the former majestic courthouse sitting on a hill that can be seen for miles around the picturesque little town of Sylva. Recently renovated, it is now the Jackson County public library and event center.

Registration information for the conference will soon be available at www.netwestwriters-west.org

Google+

This is a call for assistance to our Google+ savvy members. I've been trying to get up to speed so that we can have a workshop - trouble is, I'm kind of slow. So if any of you can help out, please let me know. 

Also, I've set up a page for NetWest, and I hope that you will check it out and add us to your circles. 

March Coffee With the Poets and Writers Features Deanna Klingel

On Wednesday, March 12, Coffee with the Poets and Writers features author Deanna Klingel, who lives in Sapphire Valley, NC. The literary event takes place the second Wednesday of each month at 10:30 am at Blue Mountain Coffee and Grill located at 30 Hwy 141 in Cherokee County, NC. 

The public is invited to come and enjoy the author of five novels including Cracks in the Ice and the young adult series, Avery's Battlefield and Avery's Crossroads, based on a fourteen year old boy who lives during the Civil War era. Deanna will read from her new book to be released in March, Rock and a Hard Place, a Lithuanian Love Story, based on real people living today and she will talk about the truth in fiction.

The NC Writers' Network West sponsors this gathering of writers and poets and welcomes those attending to participate in open mic and to stay after to have lunch together. 

Contact Glenda Beall at 828-389-4441 or nightwriter0302@yahoo.com