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Glenn Meade
Glenn Meade,
Thriller Novelist
and Playwright, Speaks at February KWG Meeting
Irish novelist and playwright Glenn Meade, author of eight internationally best-selling novels, including “The Second Messiah” (Howard Books, 2011) and “Resurrection Day” (Coronet, 2003), will speak at the Feb. 2 meeting of the Knoxville Writers Guild.
The event, which will be open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Theater, at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Streets (in Fort Sanders). A $2 donation is requested at the door. The building is handicapped accessible.
Mead will talk about his life as a writer and his book "The Second Messiah."
The novel centers on the discovery and theft of an ancient Jewish scroll which contains a potentially world-changing message. Protagonist Jack Crane, an American archaeologist, seeks the truth about the scroll, while Israeli and Catholic authorities work to stop him. “Publisher’s Weekly” said Meade “teeters on the edge of genius and sacrilege” with the novel.
Mead’s books are all international thrillers woven among both heart-stopping current events and recent history. His novel, “Resurrection Day” (Hodder Hb, 2002), seemed to predict the horrors of 9/11. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recommended “Snow Wolf” (St. Martins, 1996) to the then-prime minister of Japan, who became a fan. It is a novel about a covert international plot to execute Joseph Stalin .
Born in Dublin in 1957, Meade and his wife, Kim, a Speedwell native, live part of each year in Knoxville. Meade met Kim, a doctor of pharmacy, 12 years ago while on a book tour in Washington. They became friends and began corresponding. They married two years ago and now spend a few months a year at a home in Knoxville.
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Anthology!
The theme for this year’s anthology is “diversity.” Poems, essays, photographs, short stories, song lyrics, and even a novel chapter are represented. Contributors include Cynthia Markert, Connie Jordan Green , Brian Griffin, Marilyn Kallet, Linda Parsons Marion, Hector Qirko, and Jack Rentfro , among others.
To order copies of the book, please click here. Or, purchase the book at Union Avenue Books, 517 Union Avenue, in Knoxville or Southland Books, 801 East Broadway, in Maryville.
Portrayed in the anthology are an encounter with a Siamese twin, a ride on the night bus out Magnolia Avenue with a woman going home from work, and conversations at an Oak Ridge book club. Sitting in your armchair with this volume, you can travel from the Smokies to Paris to Greece to Old Mexico.
Many of the book's contributors live in far-flung place, but they all have one thing in common: a connection with East Tennessee. The anthology provides a forum for many whose work has never before been published. Each KWG collection in the past has served as a springboard for new writers.
Kay Newton and Doris Ivie edited the book, assisted by Martha Yarnell (Committee Chair), Kim West (Designer), Meg Bensey, Carole Anne Borges, Judith Duvall, and Cathy Kodra.
Pictured above is the cover to this year's anthology, "A Tapestry of Voices.
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KWG Offers Seminar on Writing a Query Letter
Cyn Mobley
Cyn Mobley, the USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty books, will teach a workshop on writing query letters from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave. Cost is $65 for members of the Knoxville Writers Guild; $75 for nonmembers. To register, please click here.
The purpose of the query letter is to get the agent or editor to request the entire manuscript,” Mobley said. “Nothing more, nothing less. Writers who follow my format average a 70 percent manuscript request rate.” Class size is limited to 15 people and will include email followup with Mobley. To register, go to www.knoxvillewritersguild.org or send your check to KWG Workshops, P.O. Box 10326, Knoxville TN 37939-0326.
“This is a workshop, not a seminar,” Mobley said. “Bring your current query letter or concept and let’s hammer out a letter that will work. Expect to participate. If you're just in the planning stages, this workshop probably is not for you unless you're working on nonfiction articles. Novelists and book-length nonfiction writers need to have a specific project at least partially completed.
Mobley, who writes both fiction and nonfiction, has been published by St. Martin's Press, Berkley/Jove, Avon, Lyons and Alpha Books, and has written for the television show JAG. NBC optioned her most recent nonfiction work, Gotcha! for a one-hour cable drama. A retired naval officer and former attorney, she publishes several imprints. She lives in South Knoxville with her husband and eight Greyhounds.
Feb. Workshop Tells How to Make Social Media Work for You!
Dale Mackey
Buffaloed by social media? KWG is offering help! On Saturday, Feb. 25, Dale Mackey and Shawn Poynter will lead a seminar that will introduce you to accessible tools for maintaining an online presence. You'll learn to use social media to grow your readership. The workshop will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Redeemer Church, 1642 Highland Avenue. Cost is $20 for members, 25 for nonmembers. To register, please click here.
Topics to be covered include: self branding, blogging, Facebook & Twitter, integrating media and shooting for the web. Dale Mackey currently works at Community Television of Knoxville and has worked as Outreach Coordinator for Appalshop Art and Media Center in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Shawn Poynter divides his time between freelance editorial and portraiture work and a full-time job at the Center for Rural Strategies, a nonprofit organization that makes creative use of media to improve life in small communities in the countryside and around the world. In 2010, Shawn and Dale founded Artistic License, an organization dedicated to fostering creative collaborations in the Knoxville community. Their next project will be a group exhibition by Knoxville artists in the fall of 2012.
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KWG Writing Groups!KWG now has 11 active writing groups, with others forming all the time. If you are interested in being in a group or helping to form a new one, take a look at our Writing Groups page and speak to Terry Shaw, President. We are always interested in starting new groups. Writing groups are central to the Writers' Guild. Join one!
Check out all the Writing Groups--click here!
Watch Us on Community TV!
The Knoxville Writers' Guild has its own Community Television Show now airing at 9 p.m. each Thursday on CTV (Channel 12 in Knoxville). The show can also be watched online at http://ctvknox.org/
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