Member Jamie Harrington Secures Agent Representation

The Octo­ber 28 mee­ting of the DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop was a night of exci­ting announ­ce­ments and scary Halloween-themed reads.

Jamie Harring­ton sta­ted that she has sig­ned a con­tract with lite­rary agent Vic­to­ria Horn of the Lisa Daw­son Asso­cia­tes. Jamie’s book, Sketch, is a Young Adult superhero novel. Addi­tio­nally, Mary Mal­colm com­men­ted that the full manusc­ript of her romance novel, Texas Billionaire’s Runa­way Wife, was reques­ted by Melissa Jeglinks of The Knight Agency.

In other news, A. Lee Mar­ti­nez will speak at the monthly mee­ting of the Mys­tery Wri­ters of Ame­rica — South­west this Satur­day, Octo­ber 31 at the Texas Land & Cattle res­tau­rant in Richard­son, Texas. Workshop mem­bers were remin­ded that nomi­na­tions for the 2010 Board of Direc­tors opens during the Novem­ber 4 busi­ness mee­ting. Gabe Gue­rrero, win­ner of the Glenn Bavou­sett Con­fe­rence Fund, gave a pre­sen­ta­tion about what he lear­ned at the Bed­ford Wri­ters’ Workshop pre­sen­ted by fan­tasy author Sarah A. Hoyt.

Finally, seve­ral brave souls met in a dark room deco­ra­ted with plas­tic skulls, tombs­to­nes, and lots of Hallo­ween candy. They read to a glow of a flic­ke­ring elec­tric candle, and enjo­yed this fun holi­day tra­di­tion at the Workshop.

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