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The first Saturday of every month.

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The Library Station
Frisco Room on
N. Kansas Expressway
Springfield, MO

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Critique 10:00 a.m.
Lunch 12:00 p.m.
Speaker 1:00 p.m.
Business meeting follows

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March Speaker: Brenda Minton on, Researching Agents and Publishers

    I'm Brenda Minton, wife, mother and author for Steeple Hill Love Inspired.

    I live in the Ozarks with my husband and three children, a few dogs and one insane cat. What I say about myself probably isn't as important as what others would say. My daughter says I'm 'coffee crazy.'   She isn't afraid to share that news with complete strangers.  I've been married twenty-three years, and my husband still likes me. We actually have fun together. Our favorite past-time: embarrassing our kids. My middle son thinks that I'm really embarrassing when I wear fuzzy pink slippers to pick him up at school.  My oldest son doesn't comment. Pretty smart kid.

    I'm a country girl who loves to travel. My dream home is on the beach, waves crashing against the shore and a deck where I could have coffee and watch the sun come up. What do I do when I'm not writing? My kids say I talk on the phone a lot. That's probably true, and I'm looking into a 12 Step Program. Unfortunately I have a lot of enablers who also like to talk on the phone.

    When not talking on the phone, I love to canoe, hike, and shop.
 

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From the desk of ORA President, Kathy Mullins

February, 2010

February is the month of love.  Store shelves empty themselves of garlands and tinsel to make room for big red hearts and teddy bears and chocolates.  Flower vendors count on this month to put them in the black. The Hallmark Greeting Card Company’s bank account swells.  In short, we love, love!

As writers, we want to inspire our readers with strong heroines and honorable heroes who overcome the impossible and walk away arm in arm into the sunset.

No matter if we haven’t met that gorgeous man riding the white charger.  We can write him with a cleft chin, and black wavy hair, or blonde, tan, and rippling with muscles.  He may be the renegade who makes his livelihood gambling, or rides bulls in circuit, or strikes an imposing figure in his suit as he manages big business.  He can be the strong silent type, or a poet at heart.  He can be well educated, well read, and well traveled, or a simple man, honest and hard working, fiercely dedicated to his family.  We’re in control.  He is who we wish him to be.

For those of us who have the great honor of having found the man our dreams, we can re-tell our own stories, censoring and editing as we choose.  The first kiss. 

The best kiss.  The longest kiss.  Those lean times when we discovered why we are all we truly do need.  That we are enough.   We can write of supper-time at the kitchen table with kids and grandkids all around, everyone talking at once.  The simple joys of family with a strong father at its head.  Overcoming when we find the bonds of true love are stronger than resentment, or misunderstandings, or illness. 

What a great time to focus on love. We can vicariously live it through our characters, or re-visit our own history with small alterations.

I lift my cup of Earl Grey tea, and toast to February, the month of love!  May your heroes be all you want them to be!     

Happy Writing, and Enjoy your Valentine’s Day!  

      Kathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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