Need a conference or meeting speaker?   Contact:   Mary Montague Sikes   Mary Montague Sikes has co-authored Published! Now Sell It, a book of helpful suggestions for fellow writers wishing to market their books successfully. Sikes is available to speak on writing about and photographing places you visit; keeping and illustrating a travel journal; promoting your published work with visuals and photographs; choosing and developing an appealing setting for your book; using ghosts, reincarnation, and other paranormal elements in your work and much more. Sikes will talk about painting and drawing. She will also taylor a talk on writing or art for your group. Please contact Sikes at P. O. Box 182, West Point, VA 23181 or e-mail her at monti7olen@verizon.net.

EVENTS 2008

March 21 - James River Artist Speaker -"Experimental Water Media"     April 19 - Newtown Barnes & Noble - Book Signing, 6-8 p.m. Williamsburg, VA   April 25 - Public Safety Writers Conference, Las Vegas, NV Featured Speaker, Promotion and Marketing   April 27 - Book Signing 3 - 5 p.m. Cheesecake and Crime Henderson, NV   May 12 - Radio Interview 8:05 a.m. XTRA FM 99.1 Neal Steele   May 17 -Book Signing 11a.m. -2 p.m. Twice Told Tales Gloucester, VA   June 6 - Book Signing Richmond Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau gift shop and visitors center, Greater Richmond Convention Center, 405 N. Third St. Richmond, VA   July 19 - Book Signing 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Waldenbooks, Boone Mall Boone, NC   Friday, Sept. 19, 6 p.m. Sat., Sept. 20 - Sun., Sept. 21 Prose in the Park Speaker Taylorville, Illinois   Sunday, Sept. 21, 3 p.m. Barnes & Noble White Oaks Mall Springfield, IL   Saturday, Sept. 27, 3 - 5 p.m. Book Signing Barnes & Noble 5101 Main Street Williamsburg, VA   Oct. 15 - Speaker Richmond Writers Short Pump Barnes & Noble Richmond, VA

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