WAG talks at Southwold Library

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The Waveney Author Group (WAG) had their first library event at Southwold Library yesterday (Mon 17^th Aug 2015). A lovely small library, managed by Charlotte Clark. Although small it has nearly everything, in fact it would be hard to find what it doesn’t have.

Before starting this author event a holiday maker popped in with some courgettes that had grown into marrows (she had popped home to Norfolk to check on her garden) and asked Charlotte if she would like to sell them, along with the plants that the library was selling. The courgettes /marrows were huge!

Here are some photos, in no particular order:

  

Pam Finch talking about her new book, Minho Moments

 

Helen Milligan talking about her new book, ‘…and the ship sank’

 

Enid Thwaites talking about her book, Petals of Laughter

 

Elizabeth Manning-Ives talking about her new book, Living Under The Shadow

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Waveney Author Group

Today we met in Beccles Library to discuss social networking, after all, if you’re writing a book you want people to know about it, right? We had intended looking at all aspects of social networking and started by booting up the laptops and looking at blogging using the WordPress site. We soon found that the WiFi connection was not strong enough for us all to be on line at the same time and unfortunately we achieved very little but we had fun. Many thanks to all at Beccles Library for letting us use their room.

  

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The Waveney Author Group

The Waveney Author Group

All working to write and publish individual books by 10th July.

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Waveney Author Group goes to Halesworth

On the train going to The Cut at Halesworth.

 

 

 

 

At The Cut.

It’s very busy at The Cut and we order our food as soon as we can (so we can eat and get started on our work).

After we’ve been fed and watered we get our laptops out and get down to do some work. It’s really busy and noisy but we manage (just about) to discuss fonts and formatting the pages of our current work.

We played around with these measurements…

Novel-font BOOK ANTIQUA 10 or 12

Poetry-font BOOKMAN OLD STYLE 11.5 OR CALIBRI 12 for a less formal look. For ebook, COURIER NEW is a good one to use.

Size of page-

Margins- Top 2cm  Bottom 2cm Left 2cm Right 2cm

Paper-width12.7cm height 20.29cm

Layout-header 1cm footer 1cm

Then it was time for some more food…

All fired up and eager to get home to do more writing we left The Cut and walked to the station to get the train. Fortunately this sign below told us we were on the right platform (inside joke).

A super day with super writers!

 

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Waveney Author Group meeting

Suzan Collins, Pam Finch, Helen Thwaites, Enid Thwaites, Helen Meneghello, Carole Gomez-Cornejo and Jo Wilde met in November at a Just Write It! writing workshop. All seven of the authors have agreed to publish their works in time for the Author Fair/Pop up bookshop at The Coconut Loft, in Lowestoft, this July. Their works include novels, autobiographies and memoirs.

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