We’re counting down to the 8th Annual Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference and we hope you will be able to join us there. Today we’re sharing some photos of some of the readers and writers attending the 2014 conference.
Vicki Weisfeld Short Stories in the News!
Vicki Weisfeld’s short story “Breadcrumbs” was published in Issue 3 of Betty Fedora, a journal whose tagline is “Crime Fiction for Kickass Women”!; her story “A Slaying Song Tonight” was published in the January/February issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine; and “Burning Bright” will be published by Level Best Books in the anthology “Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat” in April. Reprints of two of other stories appeared in Kings River Life (10/16) and a John Greenleaf Whittier foundation anthology (forthcoming: April 2017).
Tina Gabrielle has sold a three book cozy mystery series
Tina Gabrielle, writing as Tina Kashian, has sold a three book cozy Mediterranean Mystery series to Kensington Publishing Corp. The first book, “Hummus and Homicide” will be released in 2018.
Eileen Watkins signs 3 Book Deal!
LSF Writers member Eileen Watkins has signed a three-book contract with Kensington Books to launch a new series, the Cat Groomer Mysteries. Her stories will feature 27-year-old Cassie McGlone, who owns and operates a cat grooming and boarding business in the fictional small town of Chadwick, N.J….and ends up solving murders on the side. The first in this series, The Persian Always Meows Twice, has already been accepted and is due out in October 2017. For more information on Eileen, please visit www.efwatkins.com.
Editor/Agent Appointments are now open!
Editor/Agent Appointment registration is now open for registered conference attendees!
A list of attending editors and agents is available here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/editoragent-appointments/
There is an embedded spreadsheet of their interests on the page, but there is also a link to a pdf version on that page.
You may register for editor/agent appointments here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/editor-agent-appointments/
If you still haven’t registered for the conference you may register here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/create-something-magical-conference-registration/
Finally, you have any questions you can contact the Conference Chair/Committee here:
https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/editoragent-appointment-question/
Hope to see you at the conference.
#LSFWrites Member Lois Winston Interview
Exclusive Interview with Lois Winston at THE WORLD OF PUNCTUATED PUBLISHING – http://bit.ly/2jsF86x
Looking forward to LSFW conference!
Will they be able to tolerate me? Will crowds part and leave a wide swath when I pass? Will I meet new people who will ask me why I have a white streak in my hair (FYI: homage to Rogue)? Looking forward to meeting kindred spirits who may/may not do some/all of the above.
The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry
Today’s Magical Read is The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry
Liberty States Fiction Writers World Premier!
Join Jonathan Maberry at the LSFW Conference to purchase his newest novel before public release!
Saturday 09:11 Hours: A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured… 10:09 Hours: Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate. The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen. Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and within hours is attacked by a hit-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak.
Soon Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences begin tearing down the veils of deception to uncover a vast and powerful secret society using weaponized versions of the Ten Plagues of Egypt to destabilize world economies and profit from the resulting chaos. Millions will die unless Joe Ledger meets the this powerful new enemy on their own terms as he fights terror with terror.
Jonathan Maberry is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU and They Bite. His work for Marvel Comics includes the Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for TV by Sony Pictures.
All of these titles and more will be available at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference book fair on March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm.
Dance of the Rogue by Cris Anson
Today’s Magical Read is Dance of the Rogue by Cris Anson
Love-’em-and-leave-’em bad-boy Rolf has met his match, and she’s nothing like his usual dalliances. Older, plus-sized Fantine is a woman who embraces her curves and revels in her femininity. A weekend of pleasure that begins as a sizzling sexual distraction to both sparks a deeper need that neither was looking for, a connection neither is able to relinquish.
Fantine also brings Rolf a gift beyond measure-a link to the dark-eyed, dark-haired father he always suspected was his, not the blond-haired, blue-eyed sire of his brothers. Amid the joy of learning of his new family and a tempestuous relationship burgeoning with steamy sexuality and newfound emotions, a new side to Rolf emerges-the man he never thought he could be, and the lover of Fantine’s deepest fantasies.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s magical read. All of these titles and more will be available at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference book fair on March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm.
Hope in Love by J. Hali Steele
Today’s Magical Read is Hope in Love by J. Hali Steele
Book 1 in the Angels in Love series.The world is changing. Hope is fading. Darkness beckons. And one angel holds the answer.Tired of death, destruction and mankind’s race to ruination, Ramiel, archangel of hope, finds it harder and harder to care about those he’s meant to help. Now the Fates have decreed that Ramiel must mate with Yael, an exulted human.
On his shoulders rides the universe’s only hope for survival, but the ties that bind him to Yael force him to face his own unexpected reckoning.Yael, elevated to Heaven to live out her days in peace, recoils from the sadness and shadows of death in Ramiel’s eyes. Yet the need to ease the despair haunting him is stronger. During nights of searing sensuality, Yael and Ramiel light an erotic fire between them that will not be extinguished.As the combined forces of the heavens try to tear them apart, Ramiel must find a way to hold on to the love he finds with Yael or an end will come, so devastating that Heaven will drop to its knees.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s magical read. All of these titles and more will be available at the Liberty States Fiction Writers conference book fair on March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm.