Minutes of the Wordweavers
Meeting – Thursday Sept. 16, 2014
- Diana Purser, Secretary
The meeting was called to order by out-going President
Jennifer McMurrain. We went around the table introducing ourselves. We had five
new people present.
Sharon Barrett, David Pennell, Marilyn Boone, Eloise
Needleman, Erin McMillan, Hank Hankinson, Irene Chang, Charlotte Smith, Barbara
Shoff, Rita Durrett, Janis Lussmyer, Mary Kincaid, Linda Derkez, Heather Davis,
Cindy Molder, Bob Long, Sara Gagan, Angel Rigg, and Penny Sharpton were
present.
At 7 p.m. we posed for a photo for the anthology taken by
Paula Young showing all the people present at that meeting. Those not present
who have items in our anthology need to send an individual photo to Jennifer
McMurrain by October 1st. More information will be sent to authors
involved in the anthology via e-mail.
OWFI NEWS: Jennifer
announced changes being made the categories for the annual writing contest as
well as a few price changes. All information will be made public in the October
issue of the OWFI Report. The OWFI web site is now being rebuilt, but its
domain name will still be OWFI.org.
Their newsletter NEEDS articles.
Submission deadline is Oct. 15.
Next
order of business: Our new incoming
officers will be as follows:
President
- Barbara Shoff
Vice-President
- Eloise Needleman
Secretary
- Diana Purser
Treasurer/PR
- Jennifer McMurrain
OWFI
Executive Board Members - Denise Jarmola and Jennifer McMurrain
OWFI
Delegates - Barbara Shoff and Charlotte Smith
Diana Purser secured a table for the WordWeavers at the
Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival and anyone who had published books was invited
to attend.
Anthology Sales: We
sold a few at the County Fair and some more over Amazon. Jennifer proposed that
we do a Promo Give-Away of Seasons
Remembered in October and then once again just before Seasons of Life comes out. That motion was made, seconded, and
passed.
Anthology Business: Cover Color – Coral was voted as final
background cover.
Anthology Contracts – Get those signed and then submitted to
Jennifer ASAP.
The Anthology Committee will be meeting soon to decide the
order for the stories in each section. The goal will be to help the book “flow”
from story to story as best as possible.
Once those decisions are made, Jennifer will start the formatting so
proof books can be ordered ASAP.
DUES for WordWeavers
($10) and for OWFI ($20) are now due.
Please send your checks to Jennifer McMurrain, our new Treasurer. E-mail
BvilleWordWeavers@gmail.com if
you need her address.
Out-going President Jennifer McMurrain made her “farewell
speech” saying that she is so very proud of all of the members for working so
hard and being so cooperative. She said that she could not have been a good
president without all the wonderful members. She will still be an officer –
Treasurer and Public Relations – so she will continue to be very involved and
available to answer questions. She wanted us to know that she will be cheering us
on as we continue to work on our various projects.
Our in-coming President Barbara Shoff also made her “opening
speech,” asking everyone to come to the October meeting with lists of each of
our strengths and weaknesses - lists of
ideas about which of our talents or areas of expertise we would be able to
SHARE with our fellow writers - and lists of suggestions about guest
speakers, projects, how to handle critique sessions, etc. She wants to hear from everyone about what
directions we think WordWeavers should go in the future.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 and opened to “Free Chat”
time so that we could all have a chance to meet and get to know the five new
people.
Our next WordWeavers meeting will be Tuesday, October 21st
at the Bartlesville Public Library, meeting room TBA.
