Saturday, April 25 at 10 am Writer's Workshop with Michael Stackpole

Legendary writer Michael Stackpole is holding a Writer's Workshop at the Poisoned Pen on Saturday, April 25 at 10 am

Topics to be covered are: Editing and Publishing for the 21st century

Fee: $35

Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times Best Selling author, an award-winning novelist, an award-winning editor, an award-winning game designer, an award-winning computer game designer, an award-winning comics writer, an award-winning podcaster, and an award-winning screenwriter.

He is best known for his work in FASA's BattleTech© universe and for his Star Wars© X-wing comics (from Dark Horse Comics) and bestselling Star Wars© novels from Bantam Books.

Michael Stackpole started his career as a role-playing and computer game designer before turning to writing. With his bestselling Star Wars novels, Michael Stackpole proved himself to be one of Spectra's fastest-growing mass market authors. No Kidding he has written a ton of stuff click here to peruse a list

New York Times Best Selling Novels:

I, Jedi
Rogue Squadron
Wedge’s Gamble
Krytos Trap
Bacta War
Isard’s Revenge
Dark Tide: Onslaught
Dark Tide: Ruin

If you love SF literature, are an author or aspire to become one, you'll enjoy this workshop!

Saturday, April 11 at noon Writer's Workshop with David Hewson

Hey all you writers, don't miss this opportunity to hone your craft with award winning author, David Hewson as he presents a Writer's workshop

Fee: $10, no pre registration required

David will cover a split talk: the first part on research and organization, second part on writing.
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Garden of Evil is the seventh Roman novel featuring Nic Costa and his colleagues, is new in PB.

David Hewson’s novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino and won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award.

Dante’s Numbers, is his thirteenth published novel.

Click here for more information about David

Saturday, January 31 New Writers Workshop with author Barrett Tillman

Please join us on Saturday, January 31 from 10 am to noon for a Writers Workshop with author Barrett Tillman.

Tillman, currently collaborating with Harold Coyle in a series of thrillers, will teach a workshop. One hour will be on collaborative authorship, a fascinating topic. Then we'll have a coffee break and do an hour on Queries, Pitching your work, Proposals. Fee: $10. No advance registration required.

Barrett Tillman is an American author who has written an astonishing number of nonfiction titles as well as:

• Warriors (1990)
• The Sixth Battle (1992) (with John L. Tillman) Detailed Book Review
• Dauntless (1992)
• Hellcats: A Novel of the Pacific War (1996)
• "Skyhawks Forever." Combat (2001) (Steve Coonts, ed., et al)
• "I Relieve You, Sir." A Date Which Will Live in Infamy (2001) (Brian Thomsen and Martin Greenberg, eds., et al)
• "Flame On Tarawa." Victory (2003) (Steve Coonts, ed., et al)
• Pandora’s Legion (2007) with Harold Coyle
• Prometheus' Child (2007) with Harold Coyle
• Vulcan's Fire (2008) with Harold Coyle

Please join us for this interesting workshop

Next Worshop is Wednesday, June 18 12:30-2:00 pm.

Wednesday, June 18 12:30-2:00 pm. Jenna Rhodes, a Fantasy author who writes also as Elizabeth Forrest and other pseudonyms, will cover writing hooks for queries and agents, as well as basic book plotting: leads, structure, character..."what I call my LOOK method." She says. She'll also have the group do some light exercises. Workshop to be followed by a booksigning for her new epic fantasy The Dark Ferryman (Daw $25 ), Book 2 in the Elven Way Series after The Four Forges ($7.99); and Twilight's Fall ($16) as Forrest, a Dean-Koontz endorsed trade paperback pairing Death Watch and KillJoy, novels of supernatural suspense serial killers.

She also writes as Elizabeth Forrest, Emily Drake, Charles Ingrid, Anne Knight and a few others.

I'm looking forward to this one!

Some of Our Past Workshops

WRITERS WORKSHOPS
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore
Free: Registration not required.

Saturday. May 31 10:30 am, STACEY COCHRAN presents How to Get Published.
We had 22 writers show up for this one

He has a DVD ($15) for sale too: "How to Publish a Book; How to Get a Literary Agent"
This event was free, there was no registration required.

Stacey Cochran (born October, 1973) is an American author best known for his action-suspense stories that combine elements of science-fiction and crime fiction. Cochran was a finalist for the 1998 Isaac Asimov Award, a three-time quarter-finalist for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, and his PI novel “Culpepper: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Shotgun” was selected as a finalist for the 2004 St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. Stacey Cochran currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also the author of The Kiribati Test(2004 - a collection of short stories), Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone and The Band (2004).

For the Aspiring Writers Among Us

On Saturday, May 3 from 10:30 am – 2:30 pm at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore we held a creative writing seminar taught by author Earlene Fowler. The cost of the seminar was $10 and included refreshments.
Click on the link to read Julia Spencer-Fleming interviewing Earlene Fowler

This workshop consisted of two two-hour sessions: Creating Memorable Characters; and The Art of Rewriting. Earlene Fowlerl provided detailed handouts and answered questions.

Earlene Fowler is the author of the beloved 12 book mystery series featuring Benni Harper, curator of the Folk Arts Museum and Artists Co-Op. Ealene has also written The Saddlemaker's Wife which was nominated for the Agatha Best Mystery Award.
After the workshop Earlene signed her new paperback, Tumbling Blocks
There is no new hardcover.

GM Ford's Writer's Workshop

Author GM Ford was at the Poisoned Pen on Saturday, March 01, 2008 to host How to Pace a Mystery. He inspired many.

Nameless Night

His new book Nameless Night is a stand-alone novel, featuring a man with no name, no past—and at the center of a conspiracy so pervasive he's forced to run from the only home he's ever known—straight into the abyss—in his search for truth. . . .

Discovered lying near death in a railroad car, his body broken, his mind destroyed, Paul Hardy has spent the past seven years living in a group home for disabled adults, his identity and his past lost—seemingly forever. Then, after a horrific car accident, he awakens a new man, his face reconstructed, and his mind shadowy with memory. With only a name and a vaguely remembered scene to guide him, he goes on a cross-country quest to find out who he really is. But his search for the truth makes a lot of people uncomfortable—from the DA's office to the highest levels of government. Soon Paul is being tailed by an army of pursuers as he finds himself at the center of a government cover-up that has already claimed too many innocent lives—and the numbers are mounting. It's the kind of thing that could make even a man on the outskirts of society feel the pull of justice. A justice that might be worth killing for. Or dying for . .

Welcome One, Welcome All

Hello all you fellow writers out there.

Whether you have an idea, an on going project or a finished manuscript, I invite you to join our group at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore as we learn from veterans everything from how to hone the craft, secrets to finding an agent, to the ins and outs of the nitty-gritty world of publishing.

We try to have one workshop a month. Come join the fun.

To receive information on upcoming workshops send me an email with your information Lorri@poisonedpen.com and I will put you on the list!

Hope to see you soon! Please email Lorri@poisonedpen.com if your are planning to come.