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Monday, July 24, 2023

Meeting Highlights for July 19, 2023

Members Present: Alan, Jackie, Judy, Karen Patty, Pete, Valia

Members decided to move the meeting day to the second Thursday of the month.

Valia read his poem “Lovebirds” about two chickens, written in 2010 and published in Literary Veganism: An Online Journal https://www.litvegan.net/2020/09/poetry-by-hardarshan-sing-valia.html. He then read another poem entitled “November 1984 in Delhi” about the violent attacks and murders of nearly 4,000 Sikhs after Indira Gandhi was killed by two of her Sikh guards 39 years ago.

Pete read two riddles and members guessed the answers. PenIt publishers would like him to send in 40 poems for consideration which, ironically, is the amount of poems he has ready. Pete then reported a Lowell art teacher has agreed to illustrate his poem about the grave yard.

Alan read “Angel and the Magic Badger”. Alan is interested in self-publishing Poems of the Pioneer Spirt (a collection of poems he wrote as well as other poets) and another book of poems for children. Members then discussed illustrations in childrens’ books and their cost and impact.

Karen read Chapter 2 of Haunting Mom. She said an agent who loves ghost stories is interested. The book is complete and ready to go. Karen and Patty discussed the percentage of profit writers and illustrators generally split, the illustrator taking a bigger cut if they are well known.

Patty read Chapter 7 of The Iron Ladies and the query letter she has been working on. She actually took a class on submissions and query letters. Members offered some editing suggestions.

Jackie will send two versions of her fractured fairy tale picture book to Alan, both with and without her illustrations. She started the book over a decade ago and never finished the artwork.

Judy passed out copies of the article she wrote on Uncle Sam for her residential community’s July newsletter. Members can offer critique via email since we ran out of time.

Next Meeting: August 10, 2023 at 6:30 at Rosati’s.

JSH

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