Meetings are held the third Tuesday of every month, unless stated otherwise. Please be sure to check the dates listed below before attending.
Billeting is available
for out-of-town participants!
Meeting Place
July 20, 2010: Monthly Meeting
Our own Shannon Bolger will present: Publishing Woes: A cautionary tale about signing the dotted line before doing your homework.
August 17, 2010: Monthly Meeting
Shelley Bates, presents: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Writing Category and Single Title Romance
What are the differences and peculiarities of selling category romance, mass market romance, trade size, and women’s fiction? If your category romance is rejected, is it really just a matter of adding a subplot and a werewolf to make it a single title? And what do you mean, there’s no happy ending in women’s fiction? Join RITA winner Shelley Bates to hear about the niches and niceties of the romance market—and discover where your book might find the most success.
Whether typing search warrants and making undercover phone calls as an admin for the Calgary RCMP, or editing advertising for the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley, Shelley Bates has found that everyone has a story. Most people have stopped telling her theirs in case she puts them in her books. Shelley holds an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction and teaches in the graduate program at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania. Grounds to Believe, the first book in her Elect Trilogy, won the 2005 RITA Award®, and the sequel, Pocketful of Pearls, became a RITA finalist the following year. Shelley also writes inspirational young adult novels as Shelley Adina, and the second book in her All About Us series, The Fruit of My Lipstick, shortlisted for the Christy Award in 2009. Between books, Shelley enjoys playing the piano and Celtic harp, making historical costumes, and spoiling her flock of rescue chickens rotten. Visit her on the web at www.shelleybates.com or www.shelleyadina.com.
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September 21, 2010: Monthly Meeting
Barry Yzereef is a full time instructor in the Drama Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary. He has been a theatre professional for overthirty years and has directed such plays as: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Richard III, and an all female version of Love’s Labours Lost. He has also directed both parts of J.W. von Goethe’s Faust as well as Tasso. Other selected directing credits include, The Beggar’s Opera, La Ronde, Hosanna, Bobby Supreme, The Mikado, and The Talisman.
Professor Yzereef staged the North American premiere of Ivan Turgenev’s operetta The Last Sorcerer as well the recently discovered 16th century manuscript Marriage Upon Marriage (The Osborne Project). In February 2008 he directed Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro in honour of the Mozart celebrations. He also staged three plays by the prolific Victorian author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton and has toured these productions to the playwright’s ancestral home at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. Most recently he directed Jean Racine’s great masterpiece Pheadra.
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