I recently gave a speech to a local group called the Victoria Writers’ Society on the Mysterious Evolution of Publishing.
An engaging crowd of over thirty writers and editors attended. My focus was on electronic publishing and blogging and how I have used ebooks to give a couple of my novels a second life. My efforts appeared to go over well as there were numerous questions and much discussion after.
One of the best things occurred about a week later when the president, Debra Henry, kindly emailed me a sweet thank you note for “an information-packed evening that was both engaging and inspirational”.
She added the following:
A poet in the audience that night spoke to me a few days later and said she’d never considered the web when submitting poems for publication. After your talk she went home and sent poems to a dozen online venues for her work. She was up until the wee hours of the morning, well past her bedtime, and blamed it on you. Ha!
Now, that’s what I call inspirational!
My thanks to the Victoria Writers’ Society. Anyone interested in joining an obviously thriving wordsmithing community should check them out; they’ve got all sorts of stuff happening, including a monthly meeting, critique groups, writing contests and a summer e-camp.
