Dear Readers,
Here so far is the Summer Pulpwood Queen Schedule of Author Events! Doing a little something different this summer to make reading BIG TIME FUN! Won't you join us!
Schedule of Events:
June 20 - 21, Writer's League of Texas Agent's and Editor's Conference in Austin, Texas. Kathy L. Patrick to be a featured speaker.
2008 Agents and Editors Conference
The 2008 Agents and Editors Conference will be held June 20-22, 2008, at the Austin Sheraton Hotel. Remember that the 2007 Conference was a sell-out, so register now. Check back regularly for updated announcements about the conference. See Agents and Editors bios, Registration information, Pre-Conference Pitching Workshops, a list of Conference Presenters, Lodging, and Marketing opportunities. Preview the full conference schedule with topics and speakers. Have questions? Check out the Conference FAQs. Read a conference success story!
Press Information
May 2008 Conference Press Release
For media inquiries, please contact Stephanie Mayabb at Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists, 512-478-2028, ext. 203 or smayabb@phenixpublicity.com
Agents and Editors
Keynote Speaker
Sara Nelson
Publishers Weekly, Editor-in-Chief
Author of So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Putnam, 2003)
Presenters
Chuck Sambuchino
Guide to Literary Agents, Editor
Screenwriter's and Playwright's Market, Editor
Writer's Market, Assistant Editor
Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists
Pre-Conference Pitching Workshops
The 2008 Conference features four Pre-Conference Pitch Workshops taught by an agent or editor. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn how to pitch your manuscript or non-fiction book proposal from an experienced veteran of the publishing industry. The pre-conference workshops are scheduled for Friday, June 20, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, and will take place at the Austin Sheraton Hotel, 701 East 11th St., Austin.
Pre-Conference Pitching Workshops and Instructors
Sponsors
Michael E. Glasscock III, M.D
Registration
Members: $309
Nonmembers: $354
Registrations are still being accepted and agents/editors consultation appointments are still available!
July 10th, 1:00 p.m at Newgate Mission in Longview, Texas - Lifewriting Class conducted by Kathy L. Patrick, author of "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life", Grand Central Publishing and held the second Thursday of each month.
Julye 10th, 6:30 p.m. at the Collins Academy in Jefferson, Texas - Lifewriting Class conducted by Kathy L. Patrick and will be held the second Thursday of each month.
For more information on these classes please contact: kathy@beautyandthebook.com or call Beauty and the Book, 903-665-7520.
July 18 - 19, AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Book Festival - Shreveport's Celebrations of the Written Word at the historic Municipal Auditorium, 705 Elvis Presley Avenue in Shreveport, Louisiana. Kathy L. Patrick will be one of the featured speakers, as well as many more authors including: Jewell Parker Rhodes, Deborah LeBlanc, Danny Brown, Kimberly Willis Holt, Lenora Worth, Jennifer Baumgardner, John Pritchard, and Jacques Couvillion. For more information please contact: llaird@authorauthorshreveport.com or 318-458-1666, or go to their website at www.authorauthorshreveport.com.
July 22, 6;30 p.m. at Beauty and the Book, 608 North Polk Street, Jefferson, Texas, Book Launch for author, Doug Crandel, of "Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed", Virgin Books hosted by The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs. More on this event to be announced!
August 12, 6:00 p.m. "Rolling on the River" author event with Charles Martin of "Where the River Ends", Random House hosted by The Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs at The Turning Basin boat landing off Old Karnack Highway on Big Cypress Bayou in historic Jefferson, Texas. For tickets to this event, please contact: kathy@beautyandthebook.com or call 903-665-7520
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joanna Pinsker
212-782-8941
WHERE THE RIVER ENDS
By Charles Martin
In the tradition of Nicholas Sparks, Charles Martin makes his mainstream debut with a heart-tugging novel about one man's unshakeable love for his dying wife. WHERE THE RIVER ENDS (Broadway Books; on-sale July 15, 2008; Hardcover; 978-0-7679-2698-0) by Charles Martin chronicles a love-filled, tragedy-tinged journey and a bond that transcends all.
They're an unlikely pair: Doss Michaels grew up in a trailer park in southern Georgia and works as a fishing guide and part-time artist in Charleston; Charleston native and current supermodel Abbie Coleman is the only child of the senior senator from South Carolina. For her family, it was not a match made in heaven.
After a decade of happy marriage, Abbie discovers a lump in her breast. That leads to four years of non-stop medical treatments, toxic drugs, and unending nausea--in short, the end of life as Doss and Abbie knew it.
When even her doctors throw in the towel, Doss still refuses to give up. But rather than let his wife waste away at home in the care of hired strangers, Doss packs their bags and slips out with Abbie in the middle of the night. Together they start a 130-mile river trip down the St. Mary's River--fulfilling a promise Doss had made to Abbie years ago.
To spur Abbie to finish the trip, Doss brings along her wish list--10 things she hoped to accomplish in life. There is nothing extraordinary on the list. No Mount Everest climbs, no ultra-marathons, no tours of remote corners of the globe. The wishes are simple, which is exactly the point. Because after all the hospital visits and excruciating treatments, 'normal' is a fleeting memory. Doss and Abbie want nothing better than to steal back some time together.
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While the Senator searches to find his daughter--along with most every major news network and law enforcement agency in the South, Doss makes a somewhat heroic push for the river's end. He encounters two problems: the river has a mind of its own and Doss has a secret he has not shared, not even with Abbie.
Charles Martin has written a powerfully emotional and beautiful story of heartbreaking loss and undying love.
20-City National Book Tour: Jacksonville, FL, Atlantic Beach, FL, Columbia, SC, Highlands, NC, Clayton, GA, Pawleys Island, SC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, Beaufort, SC, Savannah, GA, Shreveport, LA, Henderson, TX, Jackson, MS, Oxford, MS, Memphis, TN, Nashville, TN, Lexington, KY, Cincinnati, OH, Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, Montgomery, AL, Sea Island, GA, St. Simons Island, GA.
AUTHOR BIO
Charles Martin is the author of five heart-wrenching novels: Chasing Fireflies, Maggie, When Crickets Cry, Wrapped in Rain and The Dead Don’t Dance. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and their three young sons.
WHERE THE RIVER ENDS
By Charles Martin
Published by Broadway Books
A Division of the Doubleday Publishing Group
July 15, 2008/Hardcover
$19.95/384 pages/ISBN: 978-0-7679-2698-0
WORKING TOUR SCHEDULE FOR CHARLES MARTIN
7/14-15 Orlando, FL: CBA
7/16 Jacksonville, FL: Barnes & Noble
7/18 Atlantic Beach, FL: Bookmark Books
7/19 Daytona Beach, FL: Sam’s Club signing
7/19 Party hosted by author in Jacksonville
7/21 Boston, MA: Bookseller Dinner
7/23 Columbia, SC: Happy Bookseller
7/25 Highlands, NC: Cyrano’s Bookshop
7/26 Clayton, GA: Prater’s Books
7/26 Clayton, GA: Persimmon Creek Winery (w/Prater’s Books)
7/28 Blowing Rock, NC
8/1 Pawleys Island, SC: Litchfield Books (The Moveable Feast)
8/2 Mt. Pleasant, SC: Barnes & Noble
8/7 Beaufort, SC: Bay Street Trading
8/8 Savannah, GA: Books A Million
8/11 Shreveport, LA: Barnes & Noble
8/12 Jefferson, TX: Beauty & the Book
8/13 Jackson, MS: Lemuria
8/14 Oxford, MS: Square Books
8/21 Sun City, South Carolina w/University of South Carolina
8/26 Memphis, TN: Davis Kidd
8/28 Nashville, TN: Davis Kidd
9/3 Lexington, KY: Joseph Beth
9/4 Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Beth
9/16 Atlanta, GA: Margaret Mitchell House
9/18 Birmngham, AL: Alabama Booksmith
9/19 Montgomery, AL: Books A Million
9/23 Sea Island: The Cloister
9/24 St. Simons Island: GJ Ford
9/26-28 Mobile, AL (SIBA Trade Show)
11/5 Hilton Head, SC: Event w/Bay Street
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TBD: Borders in Florida
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