January 2020

Present: Jennifer, Sue, Marilyn, Jackie, Eloise, Pepper, Rick, Jayleen, Natalie 
*NEW Rhonda Stiles-Cole

Reports
President:
VP:
Treasurer:  no anthology sales, balance $540.55
Secretary:
PR: a little behind on PR, looking into a twitter account,

New News:

Jennifer: Joy at Quail Crossings coming in Feb/Mar
Sue: working on 3 different stories
Marilyn: almost finished with a Christmas Book, getting stuff ready for writing contests
Jackie: getting back into writing to finish trilogy
Eloise: took some time off but writing again, pulling old stories to make "new"
Pepper: finished synopsis for a fantasy novel that was originally a short story, running an OLLI class again starting 13th (6 weeks, Artificial Intelligence)
Rick: originally wrote as a hobby, retired and now it's a full time job! Pepper is a mean editor!
Jayleen: currently writing poetry, probably because that's what I'm teaching right now
Natalie: has 5-6 illustrations left to finish book!
Rhonda: *new* made a resolution so that's why she's here. writes articles, poetry, adult fiction, at home mom, taking care of combat disabled husband, scared of the writing/publishing process

Agenda:

Contest Deadline OWFI and FOL February 1st

OWFI

• Scholarship from WordWeavers? Would be $175 for a full scholarship. Rick moves to award a scholarship and not do a category sponsorship. Pepper second, all approved. We will draw for scholarship next meeting.
• Jackie: since we are non-profit can we get sponsorship for the scholarship? Look into it for next year.
• May 1-2 at Embassy Suites
• We have a table because we won the basket wars last year by $2. 
• Basket Wars: Bridging the Gap is contest theme, be thinking about a theme for basket!

Anthology (Romance)

• Glenn and Ann have been doing edits. Take corrections into careful consideration but make sure you keep your voice. 
• Final edits, bios, pic, contracts due Feb 5th. (hard deadline)
• To be released February 11th!

Next: Locally Set due Friday!
Okay wait, let's table the locally set and move on to poems.

• Poem submissions due June 1st
• Do we want to continue to take Brandy up on Poetry book cover. It's FREE so YEAH.

Next meeting Feb 18th 6:30pm upstairs.