Please send accounts of recent achievements to:
John Romjue
(email preferred, to reduce errors!)
105 Lockmere Court, Yorktown, VA 23693
Patsy Bickerstaff: Prize poems, in Grandmother Earth, 2010.
Austin Camacho: Panelist–”Moonlighting--Unlikely Sleuths,” VA Festival of the Book, March 20. Presenter- “Writing Mysteries,” Maryland Writers Association Conference, Hunt Valley, MD. April 24. www.marylandwriters.org; Panelist-“Thrills and Chills: Books That Take You on a Wild Ride” on May 2 at 10:20 am at the Malice Domestic mystery
convention, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA www.malicedomestic.org; Panelist–”Book Promotion in the New World of Publicity,” Washington Writers Conference, June 12. www.amerindywriters.org.
Sheila Dane: Winner, 2009 Family Choice Award for book, Fairy Hunters, Ink (www.fairyhunters.net).
Patricia Daly-Lipe: Books, All Alone, Washington to Rome: A ’60s Memoir, and A Cruel Calm: Paris Between the Wars, both XLibris Corp., March 2010. Review author’s books at www.literarylady.com. Author radio station interviews, Boston; Ocala, FL; Baltimore; Sacramento; Colorado Springs, and Atlanta, ref. Messages from Nature, January-February 2010.
Austin Gisriel: Book, Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley, Augusta Free Press, January 2010.
Available at www.rebelsbaseball.biz
James Morrison: Second Place, Big Read Roanoke
Valley contest for writing new ending for Ernest J. Gaines 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, 2010. Article, “Down Home in Moneta,” Cooperative Living, Association of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Electric Cooperatives small-town article series, 2009.
Becky Mushko: Book, Ferradiddledumday: An Appalachian Version of the Rumpelstiltskin Tale, Cedar Creek Publishing, January 2010. Author interviews: Blue Ridge Regional Library System telecast “Cover to Cover,” December 29, 2009; Cable 12 “Rise and Shine Show” and WYTI “Our View”, 2010. Book signings: Franklin County Library, January 26, and Westlake Branch Library, January 28; the General Store at Westlake, 2010. Panelist: Roanoke Regional Writers Conference, Hollins University, January 23, 2010, and at “Ask the Authors,” Bluebird Grill and Bakery, Roanoke, March 2010. Participant, Westlake Branch Library “Comedy Cafe,” February 11.
Michelle O'Hearn: Poetry Chapbook, Hysterias & Happiness, Polican Publishing Co., March 2010.
Harvey Tate: Mystery thriller, Death Takes a Number, Champagne Books (champagnebooks.com), January 2010, also available on Amazon Kindle.
Jack Trammell: Book, Down on the Chickahominy, nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Panelist - “Local History,” VA Festival of the Book.
Helen Rodman: Book, With Dearest Love, Cedar Creek Publishing, December, 2009.
Sally Roseveare: Novel, Secrets at Sweetwater Cove, a mystery set at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, Infinity Publishing, July 2009.
Jennifer (JB) Stanley: Book, Hope Street Church Mystery Series, Stirring Up Strife, St. Martin’s Minotaur, January, 2010.
John M. Wills: Book signings for novels, Midnight Battles in the Windy City, and Gripped by Fear (both Chicago Warrior Thriller Series), University Cafe, Fredericksburg, January 4 and Orleans Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 20, 2010. Wrote foreword for novel, Child Finder Resurrection by Mike Angley, Total Recall Publications, January 2010. Author supplied 24 copies of his novels to Mill Creek, Washington, police officers as sympathy gift following murders of five officers of the police department. Authored book review for New York Journal of Books, January
26, 2010. Book signing, Borders Books, Central Park, February 13, 2010. Panelist, “Why We Write, What We Write: Authors Share Their Varied Works,” VA Festival of the
Book, March 17.
GUIDELINES for MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS
Achievements are featured in our electronic and print newsletters, and on this page.
Submit achievements in a timely manner, e.g., as they occur.
Be complete: furnish title, publisher (or periodical), and publication date.
If you have published a book within 60 days, you may submit a cover image to be placed with your announcement, space permitting (*.jpg, *.tif, or *.png format only, please).
Send clipsheets for writeups (these cannot be returned, so you may want to send a photocopy).
Works in progress and work not yet published is not eligible for inclusion herein.
Vocational postions are not reported herein unless one is newly appointed.
Organizing, directing or presenting at a workshop or conference can be reported herein.
News not directly related to writing will not be included in these reports.
