Saturday, June 1, 2013.

The Frisco Room at The Library Station, 2535 N. Kansas Expressway, Springfield, MO

Critique group at 10:00 a. m. followed by lunch at Panera and our speaker at 1:00 p. m.

Author Beth Carter to present “The Marketing Mindset: 50 Free Ways to Market Your Book.”

Beth’s career in marketing spanned more than 20 years, in the fields of healthcare, banking and green heat, and she was previously a bank vice president.After 16 years of being a single mom and working in corporate America, Carter happily shed her bank suits, heels, and 8 a.m. meetings, and now writes from home in her pj’s. She fully admits to a slight obsession with T.J. Maxx, skinny vanilla lattes and guacamole (though, not at the same time).She is the author of two picture books, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE? and THE MISSING KEY. Her short stories and poems are published in three ECHOES OF THE OZARKS anthologies, as well as A Bad Hair Day anthology. Carter’s six-word memoirs were published in IT ALL CHANGED IN AN INSTANT, alongside famous authors and celebrities and SIX WORDS AT WORK, another six-word memoir collection.Carter lives in the Midwest and is a member of Ozarks Romance Authors, Sleuths’ Ink Mystery Writers, and Ozarks Writers League.She founded the one-month writing challenge, JANO, for Sleuths’ Ink in 2009, and served as vice president of Sleuths’.Follow her online at:BLOG: http://banterwithbeth.blogspot.com/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/beth.carter.1650?fref=ts
TWITTER: @bethsbanterGuests are welcome. Your first 3 visits are free. You’ll find us at The Library Station on North Kansas Expressway in Springfield, Missouri.Critique group is from 10:00 a.m. – noon. We break for lunch and head to Panera next door at noon. We reconvene in our meeting room at 1:00 for our guest speaker and meeting.

We are scheduled to be in the Frisco Room. This is one of the meeting rooms along the front of the building, facing the big windows.

Monthly Meeting–Saturday, May 4, 2013

The Frisco Room at The Library Station, 2535 N. Kansas Expressway, Springfield, MO

Critique group at 10:00 a. m. followed by lunch at Panera and our speaker at 1:00 p. m.

Author Tim Ritter

This month in leiu of a regular meeting in December, we will celebrate with writerly fellowship and food!

Join us first for the critique group from 10:00 a.m. to noon at The Library Station 2535 North Kansas Exp, Springfield Missouri. Bring 8-10 copies of up to ten pages of your work for kind and helpful feedback.

The Christmas Party will follow at noon. Bring a potluck dish or dessert to share along with a $5 Dirty Santa gift to exchange.

Hope to see you there!

Join us Saturday, September 1st at 1 pm in the Santa Fe Room at the Library Station for a presentation by Ben Reeder and D.A. Roberts.

Ben and D.A will be speaking on writing for the YA market, Ragnarock, and zombies.

My parents claim they found me in a pineapple patch in Hawai’i and brought me home.  I grew up in South Texas reading Tolkien, Asimov, and Robert E. Howard .  I’ve always loved telling stories, and in high school, I wrote pulp style action adventures for my friends.  Since then, I’ve been filling notebooks and hard drives with stories and ideas.