Writers Conferences – go to one if you’re serious about your work!

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Dr. Mary Custureri – President of Taylor & Seale Publishing – 2019 key note speaker at SW Florida Writers Conference

If you are serious about writing, if you want to publish your work, one of the very best contributors to your success will be to attend a writers conference. After being a chairman of one I feel stronger than ever that these events are a catapult to gaining writing skills and the network to use them.

I’ve attend many of these and have learned loads at all but one or two. (These were book fairs disguised as a conference.) Literally, it eliminates a lot of the trial and error that goes into gaining the needed experience to turn out novels and articles you can take pride in. Ours was a real success. Not because we had 70 class sessions to choose from. Not because we had over 200 attend. Not because there were thirteen TRUE professional agents and editors there. I know it was successful because of the many folks who told me they learned so much in such a short time.

The Southwest Florida Writers Conference will be held again next year – April 18th, 2020. You can get information on the website http://www.southwestfloridawritersconference.com .

I’ll be there, and will be teaching a class. No, I won’t be towing the barge and lifting the bail, someone else is doing that this year. I’ll get to enjoy this one a lot more.

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The networking dinner at Luigi’s

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Jesse Samuel Owens – the cowboy poet – entertained us with some verse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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audience at a panel discussion

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Welcoming attendees

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dinner time

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Agents & editors tour Randell Research Center.

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listening to a speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

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