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May 21, 2008

Ishmael Beah returns to Sierra Leone

11:40 AM Wed, May 21, 2008 |
Michael Merschel   E-mail   News tips

beah.jpgThe author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier says, "I decided to write because I wanted to shed light on this experience from my own personal point of view. I never claimed I was going to write a history of the war."

Full story follows.

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Writers League of Texas conference in Austin

10:54 AM Wed, May 21, 2008 |
Michael Merschel   E-mail   News tips

The Writers League of Texas is planning its 2008 Agents and Editors Conference in Austin June 20-22.

Yours truly will be serving on a panel, but don't let that dissuade you. The likes of Sara Nelson and Ron Hogan will provide actual insight, I am sure. Or maybe you'll be too busy standing in the hallway getting an agent to take on your evocative novel about an intelligent yet oddly attractive literature fan who and spends his/her time reading Texas-based books blogs.

The Writers League is a nonprofit group but will charge you to attend. (Disclosure: A few cents of that will go to cover the cost of me driving from Dallas to Austin. So thank you.)

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