Welcome to the Space Coast Writers' Guild, dedicated to encouraging, instructing and developing writers of all genres. We're all about writers and writing, transforming wishes into reality, ideas into words. We offer a variety of programs and speakers at our monthly meetings, along with an opportunity to meet others who are dealing with deadlines, characters who won't cooperate, rejections, re-writes, contract dilemmas, unresponsive editors, and agent searches. Whether you have published for years and in several different languages, or are pre-published and hoping, the Guild has something for you. If this is your first visit, please take a moment to explore all we have to offer from the menus above.

The Main Meeting of the Guild takes place the third Saturday of the month at 1 pm at the West Melbourne Public Library, 2755 Wingate Blvd., on the corner of Minton Road and Wingate Blvd. The meeting begins with a brief business meeting with announcements, welcome of new members, introduction of the Board members and treasurer's report. Following the speaker, there is a time for socializing and book signings. We are now also hosting a "Second Saturday" meeting the second Saturday of each month at the Merrit Island Public Library (1195 N Courtenay Pkwy). The Second Saturday meetings start at 1:00 pm with socializing/book signings followed by announcements and the featured speaker.

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Second Saturday Meeting: February 13, 2010

Dianne Marcum: Using History to Write a Better Story

Main Meeting: February 20, 2010

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News

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Thank You, Jim

Jim Harris has announced his resignation from the SCWG Board of Directors. Please, when you see him, thank him for his many years of service and dedication to the Guild. Jim, we are sorry to see you go.

SCWG Members Win RPLA Awards

The Florida Writers Association (FWA) has announced that three of our members have won prestigious Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA). Shara Pendragon Smock�s Is This My Baby? won Second Place for Unpublished Essay. Kathryn Taromina�s The Legend of the Yule Log won Second Place for Unpublished Children�s Book. And John White�s Prodigious Savant won First Place for Mainstream (unpublished) and he received an honorable mention for Talonfire for Unpublished Flash Fiction. Congratulations all!

Congrats to Rose Padrick and Judy Mammay

Rose and Judy are both contributors to a new book: The ART of Grandparenting (ISBN978-1-933449-79-1 $19.95), an anthology of witty, wise and wonder-filled stories by professional writers from all over the USA and as far away as Israel. Insight abounds in these stories and are recapped in short lists of advice in the Tips & Tricks after each essay. The book's website is www.grandparentingbook.com. Visit it to find out more about the book as well as other information of interest to grandparents.

Let Florida Today Know About Your Book

"Local authors have a way to trumpet their new books. Space Coast authors can go to www.floridatoday.com/authors and fill out the form there. The information will go to our staff, and much of it will end up in a column on local authors in our Sunday books coverage. We'll also write features about some of the new authors. This is the best way to get your information to FLORIDA TODAY writers and editors. If your book has been published recently (August or later) or will soon be published, and you haven't already been mentioned in FLORIDA TODAY, please fill out the form. It will ask you, among other things, whether there's a review copy of your book available, so you don't have to send us a copy unless we ask for it. The form also asks for a summary of the book, information on the author and book signings, the price, where to buy it and more. Any time you have a new book to tout, fill out the form two weeks in advance, or as soon as you can, so we can publish the information in a timely fashion."