Hope your writing is going well and you’re looking forward to attending some conferences, pitching to some editors and agents and getting published in 2011. What a
great time to be a writer, for we are no longer limited to selling to big publishers, or even small ones, for that matter. Take a look at Kindle, Nook, Amazon and many POD and E publishers ready to put your work out there in this new electronic age.

The Northwest Arkansas Writers Workshop Free Conference is scheduled for March 12 from 8:30 to 4 p.m. at Ozarks Electric 1 mile west of Fayetteville and I 540 on exit #64. The conference is free and we invite published writers to bring their books to sell. Lunch
is $7.00 or you may bring your own. This year we will present some of our group's members who are making huge inroads in the publishing and promoting fields of the craft of writing.

These include Linda Apple, who has been published in 12 Chicken Soup books. She will tell you how to do the same; Patty Stith aka Clare Croxton, who went to work online to build a super trailer for her latest book and will show you how. See her trailer at: clarecroxton.com; Jeanie Horn, who is multi - published in magazines and is also a professional editor will lead you to finding paying markets; Velda Brotherton, an award winning writer who will speak on creating a sense of place in your fiction and nonfiction; Dusty Richards, a writer with over 100 published books to his credit will teach you everything you need to know about the craft of writing.

Hope to see a lot of you there. To register email Velda at vebrotherton@gmail.com or
dusty at dustyrichards@cox.net Check out our website at http://www.nwawriters.org

My Spring Writer’s Workshop will be held at Ozark Folkways on April 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As always, I will work one - on - one with up to 20 writers. Whatever you have in mind, I will help you with. From memoirs, biographies and creative nonfiction to short stories and novels. Bring a journal that I can help you transform into salable stories or articles; family stories that can be turned into fiction or nonfiction; an idea for a story. We can also discuss the viability of ebooks or Kindle for your work and show you how to get started.

To register send $25 to Ozark Folkways, 22733 N. Highway 71, Winslow, AR 72959. As always, lunch is on your own. The group goes to Grandma’s House or you may bring your own lunch and join us there. A part of the proceeds from the workshop goes to Ozark Folkways, a nonprofit organization that offers workshops and is an outlet for original arts and crafts handmade in the Ozark region.

If you will stay overnight, make reservations early at Sky Vue Lodge across the highway. Call 800 - 782 - 2003; or Chester House Inn about 9 miles down the road. Call 479 - 369 - 4441. Fayetteville is 25 miles away and there is plenty of lodging along I 540 there if you miss out on getting something nearby.

A reminder that I will speak at Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., in Oklahoma City the first weekend of May. I am speaking on Finding a Small Publisher for
your work and Promoting Your Book in all the right places. Register early. See their website at http://www.owfi.org See my latest video interview at http://www.tinyurl.com/2e8478k Join me on my website www.veldabrotherton.com or Facebook, LinkedIn, Authors Den and Twitter. Like my Facebook page, at
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Read my blogs at http://veldabrotherton.blogspot.com — a writer’s journal and http://vbrotherton.blogspot.com — thoughts on the craft of writing

My latest two books are: The Boston Mountains: Lost in the Ozarks– $34.95, order an autographed copy from me, add $2 postage, or order direct from http://www.oldampub.com

Arkansas Meals and Memories: Lift Your Eyes to the Mountains– $21.95 plus $2 postage, from me or order direct from http://www.goldmindspub.com

I’m shopping for an agent with one of my women’s fiction novels and just finished a first draft of another. Getting interested in Kindleizing my backlist and some unpublished novels so watch for my crazed reports on that.

Hope to see you at one of my events this summer. Check them out on Facebook.