Barbara Casey joins 2008 presenters

Barbara Casey is president of her own literary agency, a manuscript consultant, and the author of numerous articles, poems, and short stories. She has written five award-winning novels for both children and adults which have received national recognition, including the Independent Publishers Book Award. Her most recent novel, The House of Kane, is being considered for a Pulitzer nomination.

See Barbara's web site here.

Every day's a holiday

Lots of people write a page every day, but a whole short story every day? Listen to the NPR story about Bob Powers and his story blog, based on holidays you wouldn't think to celebrate, here. Go to the blog here.

Evelyn Coleman presenting at HAWC 2008

Evelyn Coleman is an award winning writer for children, young adults, and adults. See her full bio on our 2008 Presenters page.

HAWC Authors Booksigning

Southern Scribes Paige Cummings, author of Under the Liberty Oak, and Dac Crossley, author of Guns Across the Rio will be signing books at BookExpo America, Los Angeles, May 30 - June 1, 2008, courtesy of their publisher, BookSurge (an Amazon Company).

See more about BookExpo America here.

See more about the Southern Scribes here.

What kind of writer should you be?

Click on the title of this post to take the quiz from blogthings.

Bobby Nash interviewed @ Jazma On-Line

Richard Vasseur over at Jazma On-Line interviewed Bobby Nash recently, talking about everything from the upcoming Domino Lady anthology to the upcoming YinYang graphic novel. Click on the title of this post to see the interview.

From the Writer's Almanac

From the Writer's Almanac - 19 February 2008

It's the anniversary of the first state literature censorship board in the country. On this day, 55 years ago (1953), the Georgia Assembly unanimously voted to create the Georgia Literature Commission, a censorship board that would keep "obscene" literature out of the state. The commission defined obscenity as "literature offensive to chastity or modesty."

Three men made up the commission; one of them, a Baptist minister. If these three men decided something was obscene, they had the power to prevent its sale and could also recommend criminal prosecution.The commission took offense to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, among others, but the commission found its match when it ruled Alan Marshall's Sin Whisper obscene. Its war against the book marked the beginning of the end for the commission, as its decision was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The board faded out of existence after 1973, a victim of budget cuts.

Bobby Nash at the Atlanta Comics Expo

Bobby Nash, a presenter for 2007 and 2008, was a guest at the Atlanta Comics Expo on Feb. 8-10. A recap and photos from the show are at www.comicspace.com/bobbynash (galleries are on the right of the page) and/or www.myspace.com/bobbynash (under PICS).

John Grisham has no illusions about writing

Click the title to go to the article. The key quote: "He got 15 rejections before his first book, "A Time to Kill," was published. He made $9 million last year."