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Spotlight: We're Pleased to Present...
David Alan Lucas II
Kirkwood Community Center, 2nd floor
111 S. Geyer Rd., Kirkwood, MO 63122
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Date: Saturday,
May 5, 2012
Time: 10 AM until noon
SLWG members attend for FREE; $5 fee for non-members
Please register in advance
Whether you are using WordPress, Blogger, or Tumblr every writer needs to be blogging, but it can be a strange and unfamiliar world. David Lucas, who writes for not one, but many blogs, will discuss why writers should blog, what a book blog tour is, how blogs can be a great way to market a novel, and how to draw traffic to your site. If you are a blogger, have thought about blogging, or have no idea what a blog is – this workshop will you navigate the blogosphere.
David Alan Lucas II
David Alan Lucas is a writer, poet, martial artist and a prolific blogger. He has blogged interviews of emerging musical bands for "Rolling Stone" type ezines, writing techniques, self-defense, and health care law. Some of his blogs about overcoming learning disabilities have been used by professors in universities both in the United States and Great Brittan.
His fiction includes Paranormal, Horror, Science Fiction, and Mystery/Crime Drama.
David is a Sandan (Third Degree Black Belt) in Tracy’s Kenpo under Tim Golby and David Hofer and brings his knowledge of martial arts, physical and psychological combat to his self-defense articles and his fiction writing.David holds a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education from the University of Missouri—St. Louis and a Masters Degree in Business and Leadership from Webster University. He is also a certified paralegal.
When David is not writing he is reading, working with the community, traveling, camping, studying martial arts, or otherwise looking to get into some kind of adventure that will likely spawn other story and poetry ideas.
In David's "To Blog or Not to Blog, There is No Longer a Question," he will go into the does, don'ts and musts of blog writing. Many of these will be from personal experience.
David currently blogs actively on his own Coffee with David blog site (http://davidalanlucas.blogspot.com) as well as The Writers' Lens (http://www.thewriterslens.com) and he can be followed on Twitter @owlkenpowriter
Lecture Spotlight: We're Pleased to Present...
Gerry Mandel,
Author of Shadow and Substance:
My Time With Charlie Chaplin
Writing the Breakout Hit!
May 17, 2012
From 7 to 8 p.m.
Maryville University Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141
Free and open to the public!
Please register to attend.
Gerry Mandel didn’t just write a novel about Charlie Chaplin, his first novel is a breakout hit that is selling very well. Gerry spent years researching and penning this unique vision, then had it published by Hue Vista Publishing, and has marketed it through venues such as Amazon and StL Books. Learn about his passion for Chaplin, as well as how he wrote and marketed this breakout hit.
Gerry Mandel
Gerry Mandel went to Washington U. in St. Louis and studied chemical engineering, then liberal arts, and finally business administration. He then spent 30 years as a writer/producer/creative director for national ad agencies. Go figure.
He might be considered a local version of one of the “Mad Men.”
Gerry presently is a freelance writer, focusing on short stories, essays, plays, and his blog (when the spirit moves him).
He has been published in Untamed Ink, Toyon, Big Muddy, and Palo Alto. His novel about Charlie Chaplin, for whom he holds a lifetime passion, was published last year and was accepted by the Chaplin Archives in Montreaux, Switzerland. His plays have been produced by St. Louis area theater companies, and a documentary he wrote and directed won an international award. He also produces video biographies for his company, The Life Preserver.
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