December 27, 2024
September 20, 2024
Renewal time
Last night the members contributed to the cost of the website – thank you. Today I logged into the website provider and renewed the domain. (hosting is in mid term at this time)
September 18, 2024
Wine Country Writers Festival – Pitching
Wine Country Writers’ Festival is putting on their fourth annual event – Sept. 27-29, 2024 in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. They have events to showcase the diverse literary community of writers, readers, and wordsmiths, while supporting your development of craft and business know-how. I’m aware of this because one of our members got an email regarding ‘Pitching 101’ – how to pitch your book to […]
September 18, 2024
2025 CBC Short Story Prize
The 2025 CBC Short Story Prize is now open — submit your new short fiction now! Winning the CBC Short Story Prize comes with some nice perks.You could win: Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The Prize is open until Fri. Nov. 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET. The winner of […]
April 15, 2024
Poetry Café Spring 2024
At the Grand Forks & District Public Library Thursday April 25, from 6PM to 8PM. There will be snacks, tea and coffee, and of course live poetry. Come listen toclassics and originalsand pleaseconsider sharing something you love– whether you wrote itor not. Disclaimer: The image above was originally created using Microsoft’s Co-Pilot and modified with Adobe Photoshop
January 20, 2024
Writers using AI – should they disclose and when
We’ve e had another story of a writer who has used AI in their work. In this case won a prestigious award in Japan and only at the acceptance ceremony revealed that 5% of their work was created by chat. GPT. https://futurism.com/the-byte/novelist-wins-award-then-reveals-she-used-chatgpt Picture above is is from https://nypost.com/2024/01/18/news/rie-kudan-used-ai-to-help-write-the-tokyo-tower-of-sympathy/ The Author, Rie Kudan, waiting until after judging for one of Japan’s most prestigious literary awards has […]
February 22, 2023
Lost in the Hustle
The competition writers face has evolved and we’re playing catchup now
September 28, 2022
Amazon bends
Today I found out that Amazon will be changing its much abused return policy for ebooks. What was happening? Readers would ‘purchase’ an ebook. Then they’d read it. Then they’d return it. Amazon would reimburse them if it was within 7 days of the purchase. Fine so far but how do Authors get hurt? If you, as an author, are in the Kindle pipeline then […]