Shara Smock's Comments

Thanks Shara. I will do that right now.
Keep in touch!
Shirl

I may actually be touring with my books in Florida this fall, one of which is about writing -- The Voice of the Muse: Answering the Call to Write. Would love to speak at your group, if that's a possibility.

Thanks for you invite Shara. I am in New Mexico so it would be a bit far for me to come to meetings. I may come that way in the near future with book signings though.

Thanks Shara. I will certainly look in to this. Thank you for the invitation to do so.

I'm working on a humorous book about garbage collectors and recyclers: Let's Talk Dirty about Garbage. My co-author and I have interviewed many garbage men and women across the nation. Lots of stories!

If you know anyone who'd want to be interviewed about their stories (with their name or anonymous) let me know.

Take care,
Shara

Hello again, Shara. As you can see, I am still doodling around here. My day is going great, busy but great. I have a writing project that I am working on for a client. Actually, I am rewriting and editing it. This client hopes to self-publish his master piece. When all is finish, it should be a pretty good nonfiction read.
I love staying busy, what about you? When I am not working for someone else, I am working on my projects. I have a new children's book coming out in the near future. I am really excited about it and I love the cover art. I am sure it will grab the attention of our young readers.
Now, what have you been doing, since you are catching up?

Chat with you real soon,

Winona

Hello Shara,
Thanks for your message. I will look into the information that you provided with me. It would be nice being connected to Florida since I have a deep desire to move there. With this activity, perhaps it will bring me closer to my dream.
Have a great and blessed day.

Winona

Hi Shara

My email let me know you'd stopped by. I'm afraid not much is going on for me here. I'm so short on time to take part in these sites and we I do put a post up on my blog, no one ever responds so I figured I wasn't getting many visits to my page anyway. I do try to answer folks when they contact me though. I'm busy editing myself. Copy editing a long manuscript - 640 pages! It's an incredible story, though, so I'm enjoying it tremendously.

I would love to join Shara, I like having my site linked to one in Florida. My editing skills have no boundaries. I work for people as far away as Europe. Thanks for the heads up...
Charleen/EDITOR

Hi Shara

Thanks and it's good to 'see' you! You are one busy lady. Sorry I missed Orlando this year.
Have a great Thanksgiving!

Susan

Hi Shara,

I'm glad to meet another Florida writer. Your profile is quite impressive. I'm looking forward to learning more about your work.

Nadia

Shara, Love to know more about the Florida writers group. Where? When? Who? I turned in my manuscript last week and I'm finally coming up for air.
Janet

Shara, it was great to meet you as well. Yes, I agree, the time we spent together was too short.

Shara,

Sounds like we were almost neighbors! I love being in central Florida. Currently spending a lot of time in Portland Oregon with my husband, and love being here too.

Thanks for writing and for the invitations.

Jenny Gallagher
Life Balance Coach, Registered Yoga Teacher, Author, and Motivational Speaker
www.jennygallagher.com

Shara, thanks for inviting me to be on your friends' list. Happy Thanksgiving.
Anita C. Lee
Personal Life Coach, Speaker, Writer
"Helping you become the person you were created to be"

Hi Shara,

Somehow your post got lost! It just now came through my inbox. Sorry to reply so late.

I've attended my local FWA quite regularly and gleaned great information. Just that recently life has been overwhelming and making the meetings aren't always easy. That's one of the reasons I've turned to the Internet to connect with writers.

Thank you for your suggestion about joining. Perhaps after christmas.

Have a good night.

Paula
w/a Aithne Jarretta
Paranormal Romance Author
http://myspace.com/aithnejarretta

Hi Shara, I went and joined the Florida Writers Assoc. as you suggested. I went to the members websites page and tried to email the person listed to ask that my website be listed there, but the email (fwasecretary@floridawriters.net) came back as no such person listed there. Can you put me in touch with the correct person so that I can get my website listed on their page? I would like to list http://www.creativewordspoetry.com - Thanks!

Hi,

Nice to meet you, Shara.
Electronically, at any rate.

I was kind of hoping we might be able to do it personally when I'm in Florida. That will be in late December and early January. (Book Tour. More details on my website.)

I confess I didn't know where Palm Bay is, so I looked it up.

Whoops! You're much closer to the Black Hole of Orlando than you are to Miami.

Why the Black Hole?

Well, there's a thread going on at the moment on Dorothy L. Fans are complaining that (mid-list) authors don't go there those of us who are authors are complaining that nobody seems to want us north of Deerfield Beach.

It's driving my publicist nuts.

But maybe we're wrong when it comes to Palm Bay. Nobody has checked-in from your area as yet.

Have you got any local knowledge that might give us a different perspective? If so, please join the thread and help us out!

It might already be too late for me to profit from any indications you might be able to provide (when I finish the tour I'm off to Europe for two months, then back here to Brazil for three), but if you come up with something, I 'll slot in in for the fall.

And we can meet.

And I can lay groundwork for "Buried Strangers", the book I just sent to my publisher last week and will be coming out only in January of 2009. (You ever notice how the American publishing industry seems to move with the stately pace of an elephant? I mean, really, a book that is being line-edited in the course of next week is gonna take thirteen months to bring out? Give me a break! )

But I digress. I wanted to finish with something about your kind invitation to join the FWA.

Frankly, I'm of two minds. The little guy with the halo who is sitting on my left shoulder says, "hey, a group of Florida Writers. You spend a lot of time in Florida. And you're a writer. You should join."

But the guy on the other shoulder says, "Hold on a minute, fella. You're already a member of MWA and, by extension, their Florida chapter. And you're also a member of SIC, which has a Florida chapter. And you're a member of the Thriller Writers Association and the International Crime Writers Association and just keeping up with the e-mails from all of them is a drain on writing time. So do you really need to join another group? Forget it, pal. You got books to write and the internet is already draining too much of your time."

While the two little devils fight it out, I'll be following the FWA forums. I've got the site bookmarked.

Best Regards,

Leighton

Best Regards,

Leighton

Hi Shara,
thanks so much for the offer.. i would love to join and look forward to what the future holds!

All the best,
kim