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		*braggin' corner* Thank-you-very-much, Elvis SGWL member Marilyn Johnson's First $ale article appears in the November issue of Byline Magazine, titled "Thank-you-very-much, Elvis". The story of Ms. Johnson's encounter with Elvis Presley took place when she was a teenager. She broke into print in the Dallas Morning News with her account of the meeting on the tenth anniversary of the death of the rock star. Ms. Johnson wrote an essay about this event and brought it to a meeting of the SGWL Nonfiction SIG several years ago. Marilyn has since moved to Temple, but she maintains her link with SGWL and she continues to write. Congratulations, Marilyn! SIG Articles in Print Three members of the nonfiction SIG will see their work in print when the Barnes and Noble-WordWright book of essays titled The Noble Generation hits the markets in December. Sarah Bryce, Ginnie Voelker, and Joan Hollier all submitted excerpts from their memoirs that were accepted for the publication. Please Welcome New Column In The Williamson County Sun Joan Hall proudly announces the debut of her monthly travel column in The Williamson County Sun. Called "Roam with Joan," the column will take you to places not so far away they'd be difficult to get to. The first article, scheduled for publication Oct. 23rd, tells of a haunted destination--more delightful than frightful. The BRAZOS WRITERS awarded Dr. Lois Parker with 2nd place ($100) for her poem, On the Day of Rubble and Silt. The Williamson County Sun published one of Dr. Lois Parker's most recent poems on the Editorial page of the July 31 issue. Dr. Parker titles this poem To a Skyrocket Spent. Her friends in SGWL consider her their poet laureate. Congratulations, Lois, and thank you for sharing one more moment of inspiration with us.--Joan Hollier hollier Harvest Time, by June Venable, won First Prize for Mainstream Short Story in the Johnson County Creative Writers Contest for 2002. In an accompanying letter, judges wrote that the contest had a good response with submissions from all over the United States. Prizes consisted of a check and certificate honoring the winners. Cheryl Jackson 's newly released Pocketbook for Teen Survival: Self-help for 11 to 19 Year Olds provides a spiritual approach to problem-solving for teens. "As a female writer, I fully expected girls to embrace my book. My greatest happiness and sense of achievement came when mothers started telling me their sons and daughters carry the little books with them everywhere and use them as a reference tool." -- Cheryl Jackson "My fifteen year-old granddaughter read the book and wrote a wonderful critique. She particularly liked the many resources for teens mentioned in the book. I was delighted that she read the book, wrote her thoughts about it, and sent me the message." -- Joan T. Hollier (SGWL member) Sarah Bryce announces her book, Do Butterflies Carry Spare Parts?, a true story of medical, educational and spiritual miracles. “The book is going well. I get some sort of positive response on it almost daily, and it seems to be truly affecting. People write how greatly they are impacted or affected. That part is fun. It is hard to remember I'm only the scribe, and that it is the story that is so very strong. But, one reader said I must consider since it is true, my co-author is God.! How nice.” — Sarah Bryce Stacey Hasbrook and Joan Upton Hall have received some noteworthy interest regarding their book, Grand Old Texas Theaters That Won't Quit. Two national organizations have asked for review copies of the book: The Art Deco Society of Washington D.C. and The League of Historic American Theatres (offices in Baltimore). Check the June issue of Texas Highways, "Readers Recommend" feature, for a rave about the book as well. And here are three celebrity endorsements: "In small town America, before television, the moviehouse was the only place to go where one might escape locality. Here was the world beyond the town or village. Joan Upton Hall and Stacey Hasbrook are to be commended for their effort to document the often complex survivals of Texas movie-houses; that any survive at all is testament to our need to look outward, to a place beyond our own." — Larry McMurtry, author of The Last Picture Show and Pulitzer Prize winning Lonesome Dove "Most of us have fond memories of happy childhood hours spent in movie houses where Hollywood films were like magic carpets taking us to times long past, to lands we would never see, and showing us adventures we could never have. This book takes us back in memory to those movie palaces that are gone but also shows us many that still live, restored to their original glories." — Elmer Kelton, author of The Good Old Boys and The Time It Never Rained *"Every library in Texas should have a copy of Grand Old Texas Theaters That Won’t Quit."* — Liz Carpenter, author of Start with a Laugh and Unplanned Parenthood: Confessions of a Seventysomething Surrogate Mother During the week of March 28th, Barnes & Noble Round Rock listed its top ten best sellers. Along with John Grisham's The Summons, was Grand Old Texas Theaters That Won't Quit by Joan Upton Hall and Stacey Hasbrook. In Celebration of Texas Writers Month, May, at Barnes & Noble Westlake, the O. Henry Museum Writing Club presented students' best work. Ten authors were selected to read the winning entries, and SGWL's Joan Upton Hall was one of the authors so honored. Grand Old Texas Theaters That Won't Quit by Joan Upton Hall (co-authored with Stacey Hasbrook) at bookstores, the usual online stores, & www.wordware.com Elaine Coleman, author of Texas Haunted Forts will be going into a second printing very soon. this news came to me at the TLA conference from Diane Stultz. There are several booksignings Elaine will be doing in the next few weeks. She will be at the B&N @ 1612 University Drive in Fort Worth on Friday the 17th from 3-5, Mountain Antiques in Santa Anna on Saturday the 18th and then at the Belle Plain Cemetery Memorial Day celebration on May 27th. She will also be in Durant, Oklahoma on June 1 and Cross Plains at the Dairy Queen on June 8 to help celebrate the Robert E. Howard Day. Robert E. Howard was the author of Conan the Barbarian.
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