Over 100 writers from across the Midwest and beyond assembled for Missouri Writers' Guild's 2013 Annual Writers' Conference, Bringing Writers Together, in St. Louis for the third consecutive year. This event, held April 26 though 28th at the Sheraton Westport Hotel, attracted writers of all levels, including beginning writers, first-published writers and established authors. We met each other and the numerous literary agents, editors and industry professionals to discover new creative talent, learn new techniques to improve our writing and make important business contacts and formed new friendships.: Missouri Writers Guild.org Despite the persistent rain, we huddled inside to share good food, ideas and our work with the writing and publishing world, Agents, in particular, showed great interest in this years crop of new books, and authors received many invitations to submit to agencies and publishers in New York, Toronto, Chicago and St. Louis. |
"TAPPY" WINS SECOND PLACE IN SLWG SHORT STORY CONTEST Peter Green's urban short story,"Tappy," about two lost souls adrift in the big city, received Second Prize in St. Louis Writers Guild's 2012 Annual Short Story Contest. Mystery writer Christine Matthews judged this long-established competition, won by Tennessee Williams in 1925, with his story entitled, "Stella for Star." In the big city, who can you trust? Ego-challenged architect Cedric Lucas Finn, or Luke, as he prefers to be called, pities and desires the deprived but beautiful teen waitress at the corner café. But when he reaches out to her, he invites her world in. The work is currently under submission, in search of print and audio publication. Peter has also prepared a a 15-minute MPG audio, which will be released in the near future. Watch this site for more information. |
FATAL DESIGNS, A PATRICK MACKENNA MYSTERY,ARRIVES SOON The final edit is proceeding with L & L Dreamspell, London, TX, publishers, for the release of Fatal Designs, the second in the Patrick MacKenna Mystery, series, about a St. Louis architect-amateur sleuth's challenges and perils. When an earth tremor causes an avalanche, roils the river and separates seventeen-year-old Erin MacKenna's group from the main party, she and a younger girl from the inner city witness the burial of a murder victim and are kidnapped by the perpetrators. Crushed at the disappearance of his daughter, her father, architect and amateur sleuth Patrick MacKenna, must also scramble to protect his clients’ emergency response structures in a city threatened by a major earthquake. Despairing of ever seeing his daughter again, Patrick calls sexy Italian FBI Special Agent Bobbi Romano, his friend from a previous case, to examine crime scene evidence. She quickly concludes that Erin’s captors are the murderers of a Metro East mayor who sought to regulate the sex shops, prostitution and drug trade in his Illinois riverfront town. Fretting that his rebellious teen daughter will be enticed and fall victim to the sleazy glamor and the perceived freedom of the night clubs, he works frantically to set her free. To protect her own life Erin fights to escape and solve the case, but she is hampered by a secret she cannot even tell her father. Coming soon! Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know.
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Monotint ink wash (c) 2013 by Peter H. Green Where in the world is Patrick MacKenna?
mystery. Identify his location, as hinted above, and you'll be entered in a drawing for a free download of Crimes of Design.
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Local Publishing News MISSOURI WRITERS GUILD COMES TO ST. LOUIS--REPORT "TAPPY" WINS SECOND PLACE IN SLWG SHORT STORY CONTEST |
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