My Autumn is filling up.  Here is where I’m scheduled to speak and to give classes and presentations during Autumn, 2017:

September 7, 2017:  Writing Your Story, a one day program for veterans who want to learn to write a book, at the Audie Murphy VA Center in San Antonio, Texas, with my friends Don Helin and Valerie Ormond

September 8, 2017:  Writing the Serialized Novel, MWSA Annual Meeting, Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

September 9, 2017: Writing about the War that Didn’t End all Wars, a panel on the stories, research, and legacy of the United States in World War I. MWSA Annual Meeting, Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas

September 22-23, 2017: ‘Writing Bygonese:’ Techniques to write historical fiction that makes the reader feel he or she is there.  Historical Writers of America Convention, Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort, Bernalillo, New Mexico.

Among the other participants are Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove, and George RR Martin, author of the Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) novels.

November 2: Life after Law:  My Literary Life, State Bar of Texas, Austin, Texas.

I do hope you’ll join us. It will be nice to see you and catch up.  – Jack

 

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