A Busy News Night Full of Contest Finalists, Westerns & Dead Robots

A sum­mer down­pour did little to thin the ranks at the June 30 mee­ting of the DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop, as six visi­tors and two new mem­bers joi­ned the already sizea­ble crowd.

In a busy news night, A. Lee Mar­ti­nez was inter­vie­wed by The Dead Robot Society Pod­cast about his series of fan­tasy novels. Richard Young’s book-length manusc­ript, Ame­ri­can Health Scare, is a top 20 fina­list in a con­test spon­so­red by The May­born Lite­rary Non­fic­tion Con­fe­rence. Harry Hall’s short non-fiction narra­tive, “Michael Hylands Marathon Vic­tory over Cys­tic Fibro­sis” is also a fina­list in the same con­test, but in a dif­fe­rent cate­gory. Books in Motion purcha­sed George Gold­waithe’s newest novel, Bugles and Bag­pi­pes. Also, George atten­ded the Wes­tern Wri­ters’ of Ame­rica Con­ven­tion where three dif­fe­rent agents reques­ted manusc­ript sub­mis­sions. Rose­mary Clement-Moore sta­ted that the hard­co­ver edi­tion of her newest book, The Splen­dor Falls, has gone into its second prin­ting. Addi­tio­nally, Rose­mary will speak on Thurs­day, July 8 at 2 p.m. at the Has­let Public Library.

Finally, Rus­sell Con­ner remin­ded mem­bers that next week, Wed­nes­day, July 7, is the final vote on the pro­po­sed amend­ments to the Workshop Bylaws.