I am way behind on blogging and am working on blending my
librarian life and my writing life a little better. August 12th,
2017 was one of those days where it all worked. (Yeah, I know that was months
ago. Told ya I was way behind J)
WT Bland Library of Mt. Dora, FL held their annual Writer’s
Expo. This year they talked about some fantastic programs that were coming to
Mt. Dora and Leesburg Public Libraries. (Hopefully the rest of the Lake County
Library System soon!)
The conference talked about the Self-e, PressBook, and
BiblioBoard options for publishing. If you hold a library card for either of
these libraries you can use these products to help you self-publish your novel.
Libraries aren’t just for checking out books these days they’re for creating them
too!
The Friends of the Mt. Dora Library offered refreshments for
the event as well, but that wasn’t all. Writers One Flight Up writing group of
Mt. Dora sponsored a nanofiction contest with two categories. Romance and It Happened
in Mt Dora.
I am proud to say I placed first with my entry in the It
Happened in Mt. Dora category. My fellow Lake Writers member and author Sally
Max took first place in the Romance category. I was totally taken by surprise and
more than thrilled of course.
Below is my winning nanofiction entry. It Happened in Mt. Dora…
“Bartender, refill.” This was a hell of a case. The kind
that made an investigator chase his tail before he could get a decent lead.
How’d he get mixed up in this chaos?
He gave a snort and knocked back the fresh glass of bourbon.
A doe-eyed skirt who sauntered into his Donnelly Street office with a sad story
and tear in her eye, that’s what. There was probably an onion in that silk
hanky.
He motioned to the bartender for another. “Just leave the
bottle. Old Jim here and I need a long conversation about a dame.”
I’m looking forward to the next contest. Which happens to be
taking entries right now through Jan. 20, 2018. The theme is Please be mine….
and is sponsored by Writers One Flight Up and WT Bland Library. For details on
the contest click HERE.
Now back to noveling, after all it is NaNo November.
