Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Seton Hill Writers Updates for November 2010

November news for Seton Hill Writers:

Meg Mims is a new staff writer for Lake Effect Living, an online magazine about life along the shore of Lake Michigan. Meg's column is Lighting the Lake.

W. D. Prescott talks about Literary Horror on Goodreads and interviews Andrew Wolter at The Non-Horror Reader Survey.

Jessica Freely's Rust Belt is a finalist for the Mystery, Suspense, and Adventure Erotic Romance Category of the 2011 EPIC eBook Awards Competition™.

Mary SanGiovanni's Funky Werepig Interview is available for streaming or download.

Michael A. Arnzen's Halloween poetry readings are on video at The Morgantown Poets Society.

Damsels in Regress are running The Little Blog on the Prairie Contest until Friday, November 26, 2010.

Heidi Ruby Miller interviewed Pearl North for her PATHS TO PUBLICATION series.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Seton Hill Writers News

Here is an update on publications and appearances by Seton Hill alums and mentors:

Alum Mary SanGiovanni, author of the Bram Stoker-nominated The Hollower and its sequel, Found You will be a judge for the Black Static Magazine and WHC 2011 Short Story Contest.

Mentor Michael A. Arnzen will appear with several other Raw Dog Screaming Press authors at Backlist Books (39 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, OH 44646) on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 3:00 PM.

Alum Chrsitopher Paul Carey's "Philip José Farmer and ERB: A Shared Mythography" is part of The Burroughs Bulletin tribute issue to Philip José Farmer.

Alum Bridget Midway is the cover girl on the March issue of RT Book Reviews magazine. There is also a feature article about her inside.

Alum Penny Dawn received a 4 star review in RT for The Carman Chronicles.

Alum Laurie Alice Eakes's first Heartsong Presents from Barbour Publishing will be out in May in large print.

Alum Kaye Dacus's A Case for Love, book 3 in the Brides of Bonneterre series was released February 1, and has spent several weeks on Amazon's Christian Romance best-sellers list. A Case for Love received a 4 star review at RT.

Kaye will be teaching at the North Louisiana RWA chapter's conference the weekend of March 5-6 in Shreveport, Louisiana. More info can be found here: http://www.nolastars.com/node/81

During July 18 - 31, 2010, mentor Kathe Koja will be a Shared Worlds instructor at Wofford College in South Carolina.

Mentor Jessica Freely sold reprints of three stories ("Hero", "Stay", and "Scars") to Loose Id.

Alum Venessa Giunta, Senior Editor for Loose Id will be a guest at Frolicon (www.frolicon.org) in April. She will be participating in several panels on writing, both craft and business

Alum Heidi Ruby Miller has a poem in the April 2010 issue of Beyond Centauri.

Alum David Corwell's southwestern fantasy short story, "Conqueror of Shadows," will be published in Tales of the Talisman, Volume 6, Issue #2, due out in Autumn 2010 and his short-short Halloween story entitled "The Harvest" will appear as a reprint in Daily Flash: 365 Days of Flash Fiction, which will be published by Pill Hill Press in December 2010.

David now represents all Fantasist Enterprises titles in New Mexico, including Cloaked in Shadow which showcases his story "The Legacy of the Quedana". A list of upcoming events can be found at his BookTour site: http://booktour.com/author/david_j_corwell. He is also a book reviewer for ReadingNewMexico.com, a site dedicated to reviewing books about New Mexico or by New Mexican writers.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Seton Hill Writers News for January 2010

In no particular order...

#1: Seton Hill Alum and Mentor Nalo Hopkinson was interviewed by Nick Liptak in The Book Bench section of The New Yorker online. She discusses her books and her fabric designs.

She is also the Guest of Honor for the 31st Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, which will take place March 17-21, 2010, at the Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, Florida.

#2: Seton Hill Humanities Chair and Mentor Michael A. Arnzen and Alum Michael Mehalek became members of Pennwriters.

#3: An article about Seton Hill Mentor Anne Harris's alter-ego Jessica Freely is up at The Advocate.

#4: New York Times Bestselling Author and Seton Hill Mentor Tobias S. Buckell is the Guest of Honor at Context in Columbus, OH, this year: August 27 - 29, 2010.

#5: Seton Hill Alums Matt Duvall and Natalie Duvall offer tips on "How to Get Your Heroine Out of a Headlock" and other fight scene scenarios at Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal.

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