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Please take time to sign our
ORA BLOG
Meetings
The first Saturday of every month.
Where
The Library Station
Frisco Room on
N. Kansas Expressway
Springfield, MO
When
Critique 10:00 a.m.
Lunch 12:00 p.m.
Speaker 1:00 p.m.
Business meeting follows
Bring up to 10 pages to the
10:00 a.m. critique.
Visitors Welcome
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judges Only
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To Ozarks Romance Authors Website
Our monthly meetings are informative and fun. Please join ORA and experience our wonderful speakers.
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September: David L. Harrison
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David Harrison's first book for children (The Boy With a Drum), was released in 1969 and eventually sold over two million copies. In 1972, David won national recognition when he received the Christopher Award for The Book of Giant Stories. Since then David has published seventy-seven original titles that have sold more than fifteen million copies and earned numerous honors.
He has been anthologized in more than one hundred books and appeared in dozens of magazines and professional journals. His work has been translated into twelve languages and presented on television, radio, cassette, and CD-ROM.
His poetry inspired Sandy Asher's school play, Somebody Catch My Homework, which has been produced in the United States and abroad. Jesse and Grace, a fourth-grade best friends' play in poetry, has been praised for its honesty of characters and use of art and music.
David's SKY HIGH ON READING program was the International Reading Association's nationwide winner in 2001. The Missouri Librarian Association presented him with its 2007 Literacy Award for the body of his work.
In the last fifteen years David has been a keynote speaker, banquet speaker, featured speaker, featured author, or presenter at eighty state, regional, and national conferences in twenty-seven states.
David holds science degrees from Drury and Emory universities and honorary doctorate of letters degrees from Missouri State University and Drury University. He has an elementary school named for him and is poet laureate of Drury. He lives in Springfield, Missouri with his wife Sandy, a retired guidance counselor.
Visit David's website at http://www.davidlharrison.com/
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| From the desk of ORA President, Kathy Mullins
July, 2010
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Conference time is upon us, and if you still are on the fence on whether
to attend or not, I have some reasons that may help make up your mind.
Many of us have doubts as to whether we really are writers. Insecurity
seems to be an affliction we all suffer from. Our conference is a great
way to receive confirmation of that calling and gain support from our
peers.
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Writing is a solitary venture, and it is good to socialize with others whoshare our passion (or addiction). Our family and non-writing friends cannot identify with our need to write. It is good to establish and maintain relationships with the other writers. And, our conference is a great place to network as well as learn from our talented conference speakers. Regardless of what genre you write in, you will find good advice from our speakers.
This year's conference will be filled with humor and usable information, good food, and conversation. I hope all of us will be able to attend. I do know this. All of us will be glad we did!
Kathy
I also want to encourage you to drop in to meet our speakers at their book signing from 4:00 to 5:30 at Borders. This is a great way to make them feel appreciated.
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