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2009 Write Hook Query Letter Contest

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PLRW is happy to announce the results of the 2009 Write Hook Query Letter Contest!

First Place: Betsy Norman for “My Life in the Void”
Second Place: Tina Radcliffe for “The Rosetti Curse”
Third Place: Kathleen Bittner Roth for “A Most Unusual Lady”

Thanks to everyone who entered, the judges, and the PLRW board for their help.

Tina Gallagher

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TUPELO HONEY by Tina Gallagher will be released by Phaze Books in May 2010.

Eileen Schwab

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Eileen Schwab sold her second book, SHADOWS OF A QUARTER MOON, to NAL/Penguin, to be released in July 2011. NAL/Penguin will release her first fook, PROMISE BRIDGE, on July 6, 2010.

Rosemary Goodwin

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FLEECED IN STONINGTON, the second mystery in the Kate Bart series by Rosemary Goodwin, will be published as an e-book on February 2, 2010. It will come out in print in several months.

Christine Bush

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Christine Bush’s one-act play, “The Desert Surprise Coffee Shop,” will be produced/performed at the Barley Sheaft Playhouse’s one-act festival in Lionville, Chester County, on February 6.

Dianne Gerber

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OBSESSED BY WILDFIRE, by Dianne Gerber w/a Autumn Jordon, was released on January 27, 2010 by The Wild Rose Press.

February Meeting!

Kathryn Craft will present Play Jenga With Your Prose: How to Make Room for Your Reader. Join us on Saturday, February 13, 2010!

Meeting Info

Meetings start at 10 a.m. every second Saturday (except July and December) at the Palmer Branch of the Easton Area Public Library, 1 Weller Place, Palmer Township, Pa. For Mapquest directions, click here.

2010 Speakers

  • March: Pattie Giordani--Write Your Own Press Release
  • April: Jonathan Maberry--What's Happening in the Publishing Industry
  • May: Fire Up Your Fiction with L.A. Banks
  • June: Raz Steel--Heroes With PMS: Phony Male Syndrome
  • July: Plot Party--Members Only!
  • August: Mary Ellen Van Buskirk--More on MS Word
  • September: Lori Donovan--Web Site Design and Content
  • October: Jerry Waxler--Self-Development for Writers
  • November: Kathy Coddington--Dressing Your Characters
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