If any Shebeeners are interested, we can do a carpool. Please drop me an email or put a comment on this blog entry and I’ll organize it.

Lorraine

The Powell River Festival of Writers annual Fall Fest is coming up fast.

Nov 4, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the French Club, 5110  Manson, we will gather for a full day of inspiration. For only $40, you will learn from the best in their fields:

Daniel Wood, “Writing Non-Fiction That Sells”
Sheila Munro, “How To Write Your Memoirs”
Wayne Lutz, ” What Self-Publishing Has Taught Me”

Author bios, registration forms and  details on the writing contest to win your registration can be found at: http://www.festivalofwriters.com/

Call or email me if you have any questions and please pass this on to your friends.
Join us for the pure pleasure of being surrounded by authors, their ideas and their books.

May each day bring new inspiration into your life.

Barb Rees/President

Powell River Festival of Writers
#14-7624 Duncan St.
Powell River, BC,V8A 5L2
Phone: 604-485-2732
Toll Free: 1-866-373-2607

It’s this Sunday for Word on the Street, and a bunch of us are meeting at Jimmy’s pub across the street at 11am to make a day of it. Here’s even more incentive to check it out: Monique Trottier will be participating in a panel discussion there. Here are the details:

12:15 Writing and the Web

How will the Internet affect the book? Will Amazon kill the local
bookstore? Will book-scanning projects such as Project Gutenberg and Google Books change our definition of the library? Will the language of Internet communication and cross-platform novels change the nature of writing? Is our commons for civic dialogue being undermined by media
fragmentation, or will the specialized interests served by both the Internet and books profit from a grand new synergy that benefits us all?

The one thing we know for certain is that the enormous push and pull of the Internet creates an opportunity for lively, contentious discussion.

Tyee Books website editor Charles Campbell will moderate a panel featuring Steve Zio, author of Hot Springs: A iNovel (see p. 29); SFU Master of Publishing Progam’s technology specialist John Maxwell; Raincoast Books’ Internet marketing manager Monique Trottier; and Crawford Kilian, Capilano College teacher, blogger and author of Writing for the Web.

Presented by TheTyeeBooks.ca.