Way to go, Joan!!!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Congratulations Joan!!
The winners of the Cheerios 'Spoonful of Stories' Contest have just been posted on the website Spoonful of Stories and ... all the members of my SW critique group are doing a happy dance because fellow member, Joan Stradling, was named one of the two runners-up and awarded $1,000.00 for her story, "Who Invites a Pig to Dinner?"
Way to go, Joan!!!
Way to go, Joan!!!
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
People Magazine Is Going To The Dogs
Jill Garnet
It’s that time of year when I begin gearing up for the Iditarod and The Yukon Quest. If you want to know about the Second Chance League and mushers, like Jill Garnet, who are trying to save the lives of the many unwanted sled dogs in Alaska check out the February 9 issue of People Magazine
Jill Garnet, a sprint musher living in Kasilof, Alaska, has a four-page spread inside. She is featured for her dedication to taking in unwanted sled dogs and training them to compete at a high level. She has won sprint races nine times with her rescued dogs. The article also mentions The Second Chance League of Fairbanks, of which I am a member, and I have done PR work for them in the past writing ads and flyers.
The dogs in the SCL video are all rescues and would have been euthanatized but for SCL and other mushers around the state who are proving that these “throw away” dogs, as I call them, are just as good, if not better, than those in the multimillion dollar racing teams. The first dog in the SCL video is Chance who was going blind and thrown away. SCL took him into the group, paid for his surgery, and found him a 'forever' home.
John Schandelmeier, of Paxson Alaska, a two time winner of the Yukon Quest was the first to race a team of SCL and shelter dogs in the 2007 Yukon Quest, placing 17th overall. Not bad for dogs who would have been dead. His wife, Zoya, finished the 2008 Iditarod with another team of rescue dogs.
Jill Garnet, a sprint musher living in Kasilof, Alaska, has a four-page spread inside. She is featured for her dedication to taking in unwanted sled dogs and training them to compete at a high level. She has won sprint races nine times with her rescued dogs. The article also mentions The Second Chance League of Fairbanks, of which I am a member, and I have done PR work for them in the past writing ads and flyers.
The dogs in the SCL video are all rescues and would have been euthanatized but for SCL and other mushers around the state who are proving that these “throw away” dogs, as I call them, are just as good, if not better, than those in the multimillion dollar racing teams. The first dog in the SCL video is Chance who was going blind and thrown away. SCL took him into the group, paid for his surgery, and found him a 'forever' home.
John Schandelmeier, of Paxson Alaska, a two time winner of the Yukon Quest was the first to race a team of SCL and shelter dogs in the 2007 Yukon Quest, placing 17th overall. Not bad for dogs who would have been dead. His wife, Zoya, finished the 2008 Iditarod with another team of rescue dogs.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Established Critique Group Has Openings
The Storyteller's Roundtable (SR) has two openings. We are a small critique group which has been in operation since 2004. SR is a combination of picture book, chapter book, MG and YA writers, both published and pre-published. Submissions have also included poetry and nonfiction, as all forms of children's literature are welcome. The members of SR pride themselves on their honest, yet helpful critiques
If you are a dedicated writer and this sounds like it might be the group for you, please tell me a little something about yourself:
1. How long have you been writing for children?
2 Would you consider yourself to be a beginner, intermediate, or advanced writer?
3. Do you have experience being in a critique group, either online or face-to-face?
4. What special skills/experience will you be bringing to the group?
5. Do you have conference/workshop experience? Which ones have you attended?
6. Are you published? If so, in what genre?
Please send your answers to the above questions, along with a writing sample to: whiskersink at yahoo dot com before the closing date of Friday February 6, 2009. Please put Critique Group Opening - Blogspot in the subject line.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon,
S A Putnam
If you are a dedicated writer and this sounds like it might be the group for you, please tell me a little something about yourself:
1. How long have you been writing for children?
2 Would you consider yourself to be a beginner, intermediate, or advanced writer?
3. Do you have experience being in a critique group, either online or face-to-face?
4. What special skills/experience will you be bringing to the group?
5. Do you have conference/workshop experience? Which ones have you attended?
6. Are you published? If so, in what genre?
Please send your answers to the above questions, along with a writing sample to: whiskersink at yahoo dot com before the closing date of Friday February 6, 2009. Please put Critique Group Opening - Blogspot in the subject line.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon,
S A Putnam
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