Post #58 – Women’s Memoirs, News – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Take Advantage of Early-Bird Pricing: Pre-Conference and Conference Memoir Writing Workshops
Is this rooster an “Early Bird?” More on his story below.
The early-bird conference fee for the annual conference of The Association of Personal Historians (APH) ends on July 31. You can still attend if you make up your mind later, but the prices do go up. APH is meeting in Las Vegas this year, October 16-20.
Kendra Bonnett and I are pleased to be presenting a pre-conference workshop on our Writing Alchemy methodology. This new memoir workshop on our popular writing approach is loaded with games, writing opportunities, learning and insights. If you haven’t had a chance to take one of our Writing Alchemy workshops before, now’s your chance. Here are the details:
Writing Alchemy: Reach New Horizons in Your Writing
Sunday, Oct. 16, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Coffee service provided 8:00-8:30am & 10:00-10:30am. Lunch on your own, noon-1:00 p.m.)
Description:
WRITING ALCHEMY is back as an intensive pre-conference seminar… with six hours for writing, sharing, discussion, and in-depth teaching.
We have developed two writing games to get your imagination sparked and your understanding fired up. Kendra Bonnett and I will equip you with unique and innovative writing tools that will make your words fairly explode with emotion, sensory detail, and energy. Whether writing personal history, memoir, company bios or fiction, Writing Alchemy ensures you always find the best way to tell a story. Our trademark Writing Alchemy process draws from social sciences and real-world observation to put you in control of the words and to help you craft beautifully written stories.
This is a hands-on session. We’ll use PowerPoint to introduce the concept of Writing Alchemy and take you through its 5 elements. You’ll have multiple opportunities to write and share with others in the pre-conference session. We’ll discuss how using each element changes the focus of our stories and even our understanding of the story we want to tell. After finishing the writing exercises, you’ll review the results to determine the strongest, most powerful elements for telling your story. You will leave equipped with the theory of Writing Alchemy and techniques for putting it to work. A fun and remarkably easy process, once you know how.
Registration Fee Information with Link to Register
Want Help with Promoting Your Books? We’re Offering a Second Memoir Writing Workshop
We are also giving two workshops on the practical points of publishing on Tuesday October 18:
1. Expanding Horizons for Your Book, Part 1: Promotion Ideas Every Author Needs
2. Expanding Horizons for Your Book, Part 2: From a Publishers Point Of View
About the Association of Personal Historians
Do you know the Association of Personal Historians (APH)? If not, then you’re in for a treat. Here’s how APH describes itself:
The Association of Personal Historians, Inc. is a not-for-profit international trade association. The purpose of the Association is to advance the profession of helping individuals, organizations, and communities preserve their histories, memories, and life stories. APH focuses on providing educational, training, and networking opportunities to help professional personal historians, from beginners to advanced, build their personal history businesses.
Want to learn more about the conference and the incredible room rates that APH has secured for conference attendees? — Rooms are just $65 a night for pre-conference and conference attendees. Click here to go to their conference page.
We hope you’ll consider joining us at APH for our workshops and for the many other valuable program offerings. Remember, your best price ends July 31.
Besides,
you just might hit the jackpot while in Las Vegas, a fun city. And with the great room rate, you’ll have money for fun, a show or even a little gambling when you’re not in sessions.
And What About that Memoir Early-Bird Rooster?
When Kendra and I discussed this post, she asked laughingly, “What are you using for a graphic? An Early Bird?” I replied, “No, I’m using a photo with three dice.”
Of course, as soon as we hung up, I went looking for a photo of an “Early Bird.” Since there isn’t such a thing, I decided to use a rooster, remembering a story from a couple of years ago. When I lived in California, our neighbor Julie had a rooster and beautiful, exotic hens that meandered her property, even in the front yard of her ten acres. The rooster often crowed at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. or just about anytime that he felt like it. Since I often work late at night or even during the night, the rooster was simply an amusing facet of country life. Julie’s other neighbor eventually grew tired of this middle of the night crowing and said to her, “You’d better get that rooster an alarm clock that works or I will.” Loyde was a generous and wonderful neighbor, so I assume he was mostly teasing. However, Loyde didn’t like the “Early Bird” that awakened him when he preferred to sleep.
We promise that this Early-Bird Special Memoir Conference Price won’t crow in the wee hours of the morning. But, if you want to take advantage of the special, don’t wait past July 31 or you’ll find that the rooster is gone.
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