What is “Front Matter?” I don’t know this one either, but Wikipedia does:
Front matter is the first section of a book and consists of the following: Contents, Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgement, Introduction, Dedication and Prologue. Wikipedia lets you know whose voice each of these sections should be in, too. Check it out at: Wikipedia. “Back Matter” was discussed in previous blog:
http://www.slonightwriters.org/2010/03/31/back-matter/
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by July 29 – Only $129.00
Calling all Writers!
The 26th Annual Central Coast Writers’ Conference at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, CA takes place on Friday evening and all day Saturday, September 17-18. If you register by July 29, you will have an extra $30 to upgrade your room at the Inn at Morro Bay or enjoy Central Coast wines with your fresh seafood dinner or have a great lunch in SLO when you attend the Central Coast Book and Author’s Festival at Madonna Plaza, a benefit for the SLO Library Foundation. But if you must wait until September 13 to register you’ll still get a bargain at $159, but why wait? www.communityprograms.net.
http://www.facebook.com/CentralCoastWritersConference
Sheri McConnell is the President of the National Association of Women Writers (http://www.naww.org/). She helps women writers and entrepreneurs discover, create, and profit from their intellectual knowledge! Free reports for writers available with subscription to NAWW Weekly. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband Seth and their four children. Contact her at naww@onebox.com or her toll free number at 866-821-5829.
1. You Must Find YOUR Market. Know who you are writing for. It’s critical!
2. You Must Create a Community. Speak, teach, social network. Get out there.
3. You Must Create a Database. Create fans at your fingertips.
4. You Must Have a Call to Action. “Act now,” “limited time offer” are proven winners.
5. You Must Have Fun. The more you love your project, the more your reader will.
Congratulations to SLO NightWriters’ second-place Poetry Contest winner Evelyn Cole. We are proud to publish her poem.
Destry Ramey, author of the “Pug Series“, is having a second surgery on July 15th and she requested our prayers. Jim Leonard wrote a special prayer for her:
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I’m attending. Are you? The deadline for early registration is July 29th. Hurry, please don’t miss this wonderful event. For more information contact:
www.communityprograms.net
http://www.facebook.com/#!/CentralCoastWritersConference?ref=ts
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Through a freak accident we lost our beloved horse, Finn McCool. He was pictured in post http://www.slonightwriters.org/2010/05/21/mavens-of-literature/ on this site.
Read more about him at:
http://www.kritiquekritics.com/2010/07/wanted-second-best-horse-in-the-world/
When I trusted Finn and let him take me over my first jump, I gained the confidence to trust my writing voice and to lead a critique group. I found out that when you do something that you don’t think you can do, you gain great confidence from the effort–even if you don’t achieve your goal like I did. Thank you, Finn.
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