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Florida Writers Association Annual Conference

Orlando Marriott Lake Mary

3 days of workshops with writing and publishing pros. Pitch to agents and publishers.

More information here.

Novel In a Day Workshop

Comfort Suites at the Fairgrounds
4506 Oak Fair Boulevard
Tampa, Florida 3361o

An intensive full day workshop — Benefits Florida Writers Association. More information available here.

Orlando Area Writers

University Club of Winter Park
941 N. Park Avenue
Winter Park, Florida 32789

“Book Promotion 101” Workshop, 6:30pm

Georgia Literary Festival

Jekyll Island Convention Center
5 7North Beachview Drive
Jekyll Island, Georgia 3527

More information here.

Novel in a Day

The next Novel in a Day workshop is scheduled for Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Flagler College in St. Augustine. This is a benefit for the Florida Heritage Book Festival. Details to follow soon.

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Upcoming Releases

You’ll be glad to know that Bring Down the Furies is now available for purchase as a Kindle eBook, and soon will be in print for those of you not into digital reading devices. Please Subscribe to the Parker Francis enewsletter to learn when the trade paperback version becomes available.

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Contests on the way

The first Quint Mitchell book give-away is over. Congratulations to Anna Rabhan and Randy Austin, winners of a Kindle copy of Bring Down the Furies. They won it after purchasing a copy of Blue Crabs at Midnight and entering the contest by forwarding a copy of  their receipt.

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Novel in a Day Workshop

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
4225 NW 34th Street
Gainesville, FL

Full day workshop on key elements of writing a novel. Presented by Writers Alliance of Gainesville. Contact Wendy Thornton for details or to register, floridawendy@cox.net