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5/07/07 |
From: Clay Stafford
Date: 2007/05/07 Mon PM 05:42:52 EST
To: semwa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [semwa] Roerden Wins Agatha
Congratulations to our own Chris Roerden for winning the Agatha Award
for Best Non-Fiction Book.
(For more information:
www.bellarosabooks.com) |
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3/14/06
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Authors 'round the South
A new and improved way to promote author tours
Columbia, sc, March 14, 2006: On March 14th the Southern Independent
Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) unveiled a new website: http://arts.sibaweb.com,
designed to bring authors and booklovers together at booksigning events
throughout the South. Authors 'Round the South (ARTS) is SIBA's new tool
to promote events at Southern independent bookstores. The site collates
the event schedules of SIBA-member stores and allows the browser to search
by date, bookstore, author and book title. Browsers can read detailed
information about any of the events, and request signed copies of books
directly from the store hosting the event.
With over 300 independent bookstores in the South among its membership,
SIBA hopes that the ARTS site will become a valuable tool for booklovers,
and a good resource for media and anyone involved in the literary
community. Authors 'Round the South is already recognized by publishers
and industry media as the premier resource for information about author
tours and appearances in the South.
Give your authors the best on-tour promotion possible! Be sure to
encourage stores on your author tour schedules to report their events to
http://arts.sibaweb.com. |
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1/28/06
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Southeast Mystery Writers
Elect Board for 2006
MYRTLE BEACH, SC—Novelist, film producer and actor Clay Stafford
of Franklin, TN, has been elected president of the Southeast Chapter of
Mystery Writers of America (SEMWA). He is CEO of American Blackguard,
Inc., a production company for projects in TV and film.
Stafford will serve with Karen McCullough, a romantic suspense novelist
from Greensboro, NC, vice president; Hilton Head novelist Kathryn Wall,
treasurer; Columbia, SC novelist Carla Damron, secretary; and Myrtle Beach
public relations counselor Mary Eaddy, publicity coordinator.
Veterinarian and author Linda Schultz of Suwanee, GA, will be editor of
the SEMWA newsletter. SEMWA immediate past president Charles Todd of
Winston-Salem, NC, part of the mother and son writing team that created
the Ian Rutledge series, will serve as eastern district representative.
Madison Tennessee resident Chester Campbell, author of the Greg McKenzie
mysteries, will serve a second term as western district representative.
The purpose of the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America is
to provide contacts and other resources for writing, publishing, and
marketing books, short stories and screenplays. Mystery Writers of
America, Inc. is the premier organization for mystery writers and other
professionals in the mystery field. MWA watches developments in
legislation and tax law, sponsors symposia and mystery conferences,
presents the Edgar Awards, and provides information for mystery writers.
Membership in MWA is open to published and not-yet-published authors,
editors, screenwriters, and other professionals in the field.
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12/10/04 |
MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA MEMBERS ELECT MARGARET
MARON PRESIDENT; SIX DIRECTORS SELECTED, SIX BYLAWS CHANGES APPROVED
NEW YORK—Author
Margaret Maron has been elected president of the Mystery Writers of America and
will serve a one-year term beginning in February, 2005, according to Noreen
Wald, the organization's executive vice president. Maron succeeds two-term
president Michael Connelly.
A past Best Novel Edgar award winner, in 1993
for "Bootlegger's Daughter," and a nominee in the Best Short Story category in
2002, for "Virgo in Sapphires," Maron currently is serving as chair of the 59th
Annual Edgars Week series of events that will celebrate the organization's
sixtieth anniversary in April, 2005.
MWA members nationwide also chose six members
to begin two-year terms as directors-at-large in February and approved by a
required majority vote six bylaws changes and an amendment to the articles of
incorporation.
The new directors are Steve Brewer, Reed
Farrel, Linda Fairstein, Gary Phillips Bob Williamson, and Lisa Scottoline.
Mystery Writers of America comprises more than
3,000 members in three categories of membership that include publishers,
editors, literary agents, and screen and television writers, as well as authors
of fiction and non-fiction books.
Further information:
MWA, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
phone: 212.888.8171; fax: 212.888.8107
http://www.mysterywriters.org
The EDGAR (and logo) are Registered in the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the Mystery Writers of America, Inc. |
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Southeast
Mystery
Writers of America
P.O. Box 10633, Greensboro, NC 27403
email info@semwa.com |
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