July 2020 Meeting (Virtual)

Present: Jackie, Jennifer, Marilyn, Debbie, Natalie, Jayleen, Denise, Ann, Olive, Pepper

President:

Vice President:

Treasurer: Roughly $535 in account, nothing in or out but one anthology sold (Red Roses in Green Country) on July 19th

Secretary:

PR: need more links to published works, excerpts, bios, social media for book of the week sharing on our FB page. Send email to Jackie jslarmore32112@gmail.com . Cover art will be needed for the anthology.

Old News:  OWFI banquet at WritersCon Labor Day weekend. This is where they will hand out certificates. If you can’t attend, they will be mailed.

New News:

• Washington County Fair: $60 for a booth
• Do we want one?
• Election year so booths will go fast
• Manning the booth could be difficult
• Yay or Nay?
• If yay, author’s will pay for it, not WordWeavers
• Officer Elections in September, if you are interested email Jennifer.
• John Darrouzet meet with us next meeting? Any objections?
• No objections, scheduled for August 18th

Jennifer: working on chocolate for two out in September, maybe a holiday one in December

Olive: my internet stalled i’m sorry!

Jackie: creating a website in the past couple months. Some stories for the anthologies, working on fantasy and blogs. 

Natalie: goal to finish one children’s book per month

Denise: pulled out a novel and is motivated! Key word for school: flexible

Ann: editing. Re-reading a lot

Pepper: had a wipe out on computer and is having to restore/rewrite 

Rick: Xhanga is out on audio, finished draft of novel

my internet stalled during personal updates so I missed some stuff!

Anthology:

• Poetry Anthology out by Sept. 15th
• Halloween can just be Spooky, doesn’t have to be “Halloween”
• Holiday doesn’t just have to be Christmas

• August 3rd-  poetry critiques (Zoom mtg)
• Brandy has offered cover design skills for Anthologies for this year. She has some premade, might ask her for another one to choose from. 
• Poets of Green Country is the approved title for poetry anthology
• Halloween spooky submissions due August 1st: 7000 words total (short story or poems)
• Holiday season submissions due October 1st: same rules
• SHARE SHARE SHARE - marketing is key! We are talented writers and we deserve the accolades. 
• Concern over having “Bartlesville” on the front cover, for safety reasons, when “sharing”. Agreed to use only WordWeavers on anthologies
• Throwing around ideas for a website or other places that we can sell books. Jackie could make one, but concern over IF she ever left PR position could someone else do it?
• Agreed that Jackie should do a workshop over website builder!

Next Meeting: Tuesday, August 18th @ 6:30, probably ZOOM. Workshop with John Darrouzet: Writing Decisions