Brenda Haire gave an excellent presentation on how to expand your email list and how to reach new customers that would potentially buy your books. Here are some of the pictures of that presentation;     

On October 14, we had a great night of storytelling as we shared spooky stories and anything that we wanted to share. It was at the Genecov Room at the Chamber of Commerce at 6:30. We had plenty of refreshments too. Here are some pictures of the event:

Before she began, April Coker presented an award of lifetime free membership to charter member, Pat LaVigne. Afterward, Sharon started with a brief introduction of her life and her experience and then asked us a series of questions, as follows: Do you have a talent? What were you good at as a child that you…

We had a great time at the 20th Anniversary Banquet at the Javi’s restaurant in Tyler. A crowd of about 30 people were there to celebrate it. April Coker, our president, gave a brief history of the club. Then we ate as we listened to John Moore speak about writing in general and his own…

Much Ado About Writing: 10 Lessons from Shakespeare Even after 400 years, Shakespeare is still popular. The Guinness Book of Records lists over 400 movie and TV shows that use Shakespeare’s plots. From Othello, we learn the perfect antagonist is in direct conflict with the protagonist. From The Merchant of Venice, we learned there should…

   How to Set Your Guilt Aside: What’s causing it? Visualization What can you do? The Different Kinds of “Stuck”:  Inaction because everything has changed. No pressure which drives you in other directions. Proximity to an annoyance. Distraction which increases anxiety. Procrastination: cure would be doing housework or something monotonous to motivate you to return…

A creative drawing and writing exercise proved to be very helpful as we explored our artistic abilities. Got our creative juices flowing and our brains stimulated. These pictures of the event summarize what we learned. We sketched and then used paint to color our churches from her theme of Santa Fe, New Mexico where she…

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