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Contents:
* JACQUELINE AT LEPRECON
* BUSINESS OF WRITING WORKSHOP DAY BEFORE WESTERCON 56
* WORLDFEST BRONZE REMI AWARD
* BYGONE DAYS
* AUTHOR INTERVIEW
* NICOLE GIVENS KURTZ CHAT
* BOOKSHELVES
* SHORT STORY COMPETITION
SITES TO REMEMBER
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS
HOW TO CONTACT EDITOR
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** JACQUELINE AT LEPRECON
Leprecon 29 will be held at the Embassy Suites Phoenix North in Phoenix, AZ, on May 16 through 18.

Jacqueline is scheduled for the following panels: Friday at 2 pm: "Applying the Seat of Your Pants to the Seat of Your Chair"
Friday at 4 pm: "The Vampire As Good Guy"
Sunday at 11 am: "Why I Love Buffy: Empowering Our Teen Characters"

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They enslaved her body, but not her heart. BROWNE CANDIDATE by Nicole Givens Kurtz. Available in trade paperback from Crystal Dreams Publishing and ebook from synergebooks.com .

** BUSINESS OF WRITING WORKSHOP DAY BEFORE WESTERCON 56
There will be a Business of Writing Workshop preceding Westercon 56. Details are located at http://www.wester56.org/workshopflyer.html . You may also use pay pal to pay for your membership to the workshop online, and there is a break on a Westercon membership if you attend the Workshop.

The Title of the Workshop is "Commercialize Your Crazy Ideas (or the Business of Writing)" Featuring Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 10 AM - 5 PM at SeaTac Double Tree Hotel.

Two award-winning, published writers of science fiction and fantasy will introduce you to ways to include a marketing perspective that keeps readership firmly in mind while developing writing projects. Topics will address the following:

How to decide what ideas will sell
When and how to get an agent
How to choose a publisher to submit your work to
What do you really need to know about contracts?
How much self-promotion can or should you do?
Using mailing lists (listservs) to share promotion ideas without drowning in social chatter
Which writer's organizations to join and what they can and cannot do for you
The electronic publishing contract
Taking your own writing as serious business
Keeping records for IRS purposes
Incorporating: How to decide if and when you should, and one gigantic pitfall to avoid

Workshop attendees are invited to a pay-your-own-way dinner with the authors of the workshop.

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Sime~Gen Inc. is a proud sponsor of TEAM ASA-GA and the Autism Society of America-Greater Georgia Chapter. Watch for TEAM ASA-GA, as they race in Disney World (Orlando FL) on January 11th, 2004, in the 11th annual Disney Marathon to raise funds for autism. Sime~Gen Inc., along with sponsors and team members, are helping to support the ASA-GGC and it's many programs. For more information on autism, or the ASA-GGC, please go to http://www.asaga.com/ .

** WORLDFEST BRONZE REMI AWARD
Lois Wickstrom has won the Worldfest Bronze Remi Award for her screenplay, VOODOO ON SOUTH STREET. Visit http://www.worldfest.org/PAGES/winners.htm .

** BYGONE DAYS
A new story has been posted on Bygone Days called "A Matter of the Flesh" by Jesse F. Knight .

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WESTERCON 2003 sponsors a writing workshop by Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg on How to Commercialize Your Crazy Ideas. See all the details at http://www.wester56.org/workshopflyer.html

** AUTHOR INTERVIEW
An interview with author N. C. Anderson is now posted at http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/mystery/ncanderson.html .

** NICOLE GIVENS KURTZ CHAT
Chat conducted on 8 May has been posted at http://www.simegen.com/writers/nikurtz/index.html .

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Elf lord, Rendolin, has done the unspeakable. At the direction of his god, he stole a human woman from Earth. How could he guess she would steal his heart? Now he must convince the sea elves that Kory is vital to their survival. Will his people ever accept her? Can he ever live without her if they do not? THE BINDING, Book I of The Silvan Wars Saga ~ fantasy/romance for all your senses.

** BOOKSHELVES
Bruce Gray announces that the bookshelves at SimeGen.com have been restocked for May and have a few new things and some old favorites.

Visit Hovaness's "Mysterious Mountain" and other great classical works in the Classical Music shelf.

In the Progressive Rock shelf, I have featured "Black Light Syndrome", a fairly new band with a harder sound to their music.

In the Christian Music shelf, I have featured Sonicflood's new PRAISE AND WORSHIP album and a couple of new discs you might want to try on your non-Christian friends.

In the new SF Films shelf is what may be the final installment of the Star Trek movie franchise -- NEMESIS.

In the new Fantasy Films shelf, I've featured one of the greatest Fantasy spoofs of all time -- SHRECK.

In the Trek bookshelf is the novelization of NEMESIS so you can see what this movie could have been.

In the RPG bookshelf is the new addition to Steve Jackson Games's line of World War Two sourcebooks.

Check out how to run for local office in the Politics bookshelf.

Find out the connection between Cooking and Oz in the Oz bookshelf.

Continue to read the Harry Potter books to your children in the Kids bookshelf.

Find out how to share your life's mission with others in the Christian bookshelf.

And check out the new "Recent and Re-readable" shelf to find out what people who come to our web site are reading today.

** SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Donard Publishing has a new, free to enter short story competition. The idea behind the competition is simple. Submit a story by the closing date (20th June 2003). The story is then published to our site, on its own page. Visitors to our site will then have the opportunity to read your work, and if they like it they can vote for it. The story that receives the most votes by the end of the voting period (1st July, 2003 - 31st July, 2003) is the winner. Further information, including prizes, can be found at: http://www.donardpublishing.com/story03.html . We are currently running a similar competition and it is proving very popular. You can view the stories from the current competition by visiting: http://www.donardpublishing.com/storylist1.html .

***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights

Chats

Romance articles

Reviews

Shopping

Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html .

To sign up for classes, go to http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html .

To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for the latest openings.

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