Writers' Conference Update & Yahhy for Oppression :)

Book Launches Feb. 28, 2012 :)

Aloha,

I attended the 26^th Southern California Writers' Conference this past weekend, and this is the first time I’ve opened my computer… in three days. That felt weird… but not bad:)

Oh my gash, dahlings, I simply must tell you how the weekend went!

But first, let's hop back in time to the 2011 SCWC, shall we? Come along now, lets stick close together.
...Morgan and Leigh, stop straggling and catch up.

Alex! Are you commenting on another blog? Hurry on with yourself. I know CassaFire is launching next week, too, but you simply must stop staring at the CassaFire button over there on the right hand side.

Lordy Lords, where is that child, Cassie Mae? Where did she wander off to now? And has anyone seen my can of Mountain Dew?

Sorry, where wa-, ah yes. There we were, on that first day of last year's conference, a small group of writers together for a seminar given by a wonderful editor called Jean Jenkins.

The Amazing Jessica Therrien (and some bald dude.)

In our small group was Jessica Therrien, an aspiring author from San Diego.

Quick! Jump in the DeLorean… whoooooosh!

Fast forward to this past weekend, and look :) There's Jessica - the author - signing copies of her new book, Oppression.

Published by Zova books, Oppression officially launches February 28.

That's like, next week! How exciting must that be for her :)

Catching up with Jessica was fun, but it was great seeing her at a table with a diminishing pile of books – her books – in front of her!

Hello, people, this thing, this dream, this goal of ours... it does happen!

(…We interrupt this regularly scheduled post to allow for one (1) quick Electric Slide and a shortened version of the White Man Can’t Dance Shuffle...
Thank you.
We return you now to our scheduled programming.)

Thanks, Jessica for being there, and making “it” real. Congrats again, and you go, girl :)

Folks, please check out her blog, and hit her up with some awesomeness and good wishes for the release of Oppression, which officially launches February 28^th.

Dude, you like said that already….

What… can’t one be happy, thrilled even, for another writer’s success, especially when you met them when they, too were looking to find an agent and/or a publisher?

Well, OK, then.

Good, thank you.

That’s how my weekend started. This might sound obvious, like, but if you’re serious about moving your writing forward, you have to – you have to – figure a way to attend one of these conferences.

Write On!

I mean, I know I don’t evah share my feelings or thoughts with y’all…

Whatevah, dude.

But I gotsta tell you, the mental batteries are charged, the pages are ready to be written, and I'm so friggin’ excited that the guys who monitor Major League Baseball stars would probably suspend me for a season - I am that PUMPED up.
(A steroid is something you listen to music with, right?)

My plan is to write another post and share some of the tools I picked up while at SCWC... I just need to get some sleep:)

For now, here are several rarely asked questions I thought might help:

Mark, I don’t live near a Writers' Conference…whaggh...

It’s OK; they have these things called aero-planes now. They will get you there.

But Mark, conferences are too expensive.

It’s OK. Start saving and stop writing in Starbucks – go to McDonald’s. Bring your own coffee.

But Mark, wha-

Enough with the whining.

Make it happen.
Your writing will thank you.

‘Nuff said.

I gotta go sleep write :)