MEMBERS
PRESENT:
George Miga, Sharon Buckman, Kathy Flotz, Donna Douglass,
Sharon Dorelli, Beverly Stanislawski, Tom Spencer, Jane Burns, Gail Galvan, Ron
Trigg, Michelle Vargas, Neil Bedeker, Julie Perkins, Sharon Palmeri
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the April 17, 2013 minutes
was first given by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI
and seconded by SHARON DORELLI.
NEW
BUSINESS:
SHARON
PALMERI reminded the members
that the month of May was Get Caught
Reading month.
LITERARY
NEWS:
KATHY
FLOTZ stated that she would like to recommend a book entitled, Invisible
Bridge, written by Julie Orringer.
The book is a true story that basically takes place in Hungary and Paris
during the World War II.
RON
TRIGG announced that he had sent in two query letters concerning
his memoir, The Alluring Temptress, and received a letter of interest from the
Maria Carvainis Publishing Agency.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI stated she had recently sent in nine poems to a
Mississippi Poetry Contest. One of her poems won second place
and and three received honorable mentions.
MICHELLE
VARGAS mentioned that “writersdigest.com”
spotlights new literary agents who are currently open to submissions.
JULIE
PERKINS announced that she had three poems published on Blaze Vox, an online literary journal.
GAIL
GALVAN made the statement, “I love Create Space!” (Amazon’s
self-publishing site) Create Space is currently checking proof of the revised
edition of Sneezing Seasons 2013 – The Inside Story About Allergies and Immunology. She mentioned that the book has also been entered in a book cover
design contest for Five Star Publications.
She also mentioned that Dr. Glasser, who wrote The
Body is the Hero has agreed to write a foreward for her book -- however, he
cannot get to it until June. She will
then write an update file when she has received the forward. Gail also mentioned to the members that May
is Asthma Awareness Month.
READINGS:
GEORGE
MIGA
continued with his novel, Medal of Dishonor. Having reached a conclusion in the investigation
for the proper Medal of Honor recipient, President Johnson stated that Cordell
Jackson also should be considered for the Medal of Honor as well as a
Distinguished Service Cross for Geary, another veteran who thus far had not
received any attention for his heroism.
SHARON
BUCKMAN continued with the sequel to her first book, Canopy
of Leaves. In this part of Beyond
the Canopy, Anne accidentally
discovers the general store where her captor had sold his furs, also
discovering why he had returned to the cabin so quickly to discover she had
escaped.
KATHY
FLOTZ read her four stanza poem entitled, “Autumn
Snapshots.” Her beautiful poem
relates to “nature’s garden” and how the sunshine illuminates the beautiful
colors of autumn days.
DONNA
DOUGLASS read her eleven stanza poem entitled, “In School, A-Mer-E-Ca.” The
poem tells the story of one of Donna’s students from Nepal who decided she did not want to stay in an
American school and yearned to return to her own country.
SHARON
DORELLI read her eight stanza poem entitled, “Star-Crossed Lovers.” The
poem, accompanied with a beautiful picture of a full moon going down behind a
sun rise, only briefly meeting and ending with the line, “Like ships upon a
starry sea, destined to follow separate paths.”
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her second place poem that had been
entered in a Mississippi poetry contest,
“The Royal Visit.” The seven stanza
poem related to Elvis Presley’s visit to a Mississippi town and the elation of
the teenagers as “his rhinestone jumpsuits shone so bright.”
TOM
SPENCER brought his six stanza poem entitled, “Autumnal Metamorphose.” The poem related to the beginning of
autumn which included a beautiful phrase, “A gentle amber breeze, the sound of
falling leaves, Cicada serenade.”
JANE
BURNS continued with Chapter 10 of her novel, Atalanta. This part of her novel, entitled “The Messenger,” told of Atalanta being
asked to lead the Elders to Tegea, later finding out that the injured messenger
had said something about encountering a monster.
GAIL
GALVAN read several pages relating to her new novel, Sneezing
Seasons 2013, The Inside Story about Allergies and Asthma. The chapter
segment entitled “Emergency Lane, 9-1-1:
A Call for Help and the Emergency is . . .”
The caller, to the EMS, stated he
was a “hypersensitive, self-attacking and malfunctioning immune system,” trying
to issue a medical alert for people suffering from asthma.
RON
TRIGG read his four page memoir entitled, “Off to War.” The memoir,
taking place in 1969, began with Ron saying goodbye to his parents as he began his journey to Vietnam. After
encountering a not-so-pleasant beginning in Saigon and being greeted by
“war-hardened veterans,” Ron was pleasantly surprised when he found he had been
assigned to a large airy barracks that was close to the South China Sea, a
beautiful area that was like, “a picture out of a travel brochure.”
MICHELLE
VARGAS continued with her novel ,
Striving After Wind. In
this part of her novel, Tabitha encountered Patrick, the father of William, the
boy she had raised. After telling
Patrick that he could not take William away she soon followed William into the ice-house and locked the door. Later,
exiting the ice-house, a game warden approached her, hitting her over the
head. This part of the story ended with six
year old William shooting and killing the game warden.
JULIE
PERKINS read her six stanza poem entitled, “Refugees.” The poem related
to how she would feel if she were forced to leave her home, “running for
survival and fear,” and ending with the thought – could this happen in America.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:05 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
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