Webcasts - literature and languages: State Library Queensland Homepage

I love this software for writing!

Lately I have been listening to a lot of American authors talk about their craft.  I thought I would be a nice change to listen to other authors explain how they write.

 State Library Queensland, Australia:  Webcasts - literature and language.

Click on link above to see all webcasts available.
I hope you enjoy.

A Celebration of Women Writers

Mary Mark Ockerbloom has created an awesome website called

A Celebration of Women Writers

 Mary has collected books written by early woman authors.  The books are online for you to read to save.  She has also included images within the book!  I really like when an early books is republished and the authors take the time to scan the pictures.

 Books are listed under the following categories:

• Diplomatic Difficulties

 

• Newbery Awards

 

• Utopias & Science Fiction

 

• World's Fair Women

 

Mary Mark Ockerbloom: I'm married, with two small kids. My husband works as a digital library architect. I run a website that lists information about and books by women authors. As part of "The Celebration of Women Writers", I publish online editions of out-of-copyright books by women authors. This blog is used to announce new online editions of books being published by The Celebration of Women Writers.

I hope you enjoy!
Kateri





 

Books That Shaped America: Library of Congress List

Books That Shaped America

The Library of Congress, the world’s largest repository of knowledge and information, began a multiyear “Celebration of the Book” with an exhibition on “Books That Shaped America.” The books in the exhibition, along with several that were added reflecting the results of a public survey, are displayed below.

“This list is a starting point,” said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. “It is not a register of the ‘best’ American books – although many of them fit that description. Rather, the list is intended to spark a national conversation on books that have influenced American lives, whether they appear on this list or not.”

We hope you will view the list, discuss it with your friends and family, and most importantly, choose to read and discuss some of the books on this list, reflecting America’s unique and extraordinary literary heritage, which the Library of Congress makes available to the world. 

Library of Congress 

You can find the list here:  Books That Shaped America

Visit the online exhibition


Do you agree with this list?  What would you add or take off?
Kateri

Mystery Writers Discuss Their Craft: Library of Congress: Webcast

The Library of Congress > Read.gov > Webcasts > Mystery Writers Discuss Their Craft

SPEAKERS: Jo Dereske, Carolyn Hart, Katherine Page, Patricia Sprinkle, Jacqueline Winspear
EVENT DATE: 04/24/2006
RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes

DESCRIPTION:
Five popular mystery writers discussed the art of writing mysteries during a panel discussion sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division for the eighth annual Judith P. Austin memorial lecture. The Humanities and Social Sciences Division established and sponsors this lecture series as a tribute to Judith Austin and her many years of service to the Library of Congress. She served as head of the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room and the Main Reading Room.
Authors Jo Dereske, Carolyn G. Hart, Katherine Hall Page, Patricia Sprinkle and Jacqueline Winspear talked about their sleuths, their fans and their methods of conducting research.

Speaker Biography: Jo Dereske, a former librarian, lives in the foothills of Mount Baker in the state of Washington. She is the author of the "Miss Zukas" mystery series, the "Ruby Crane" mysteries series and books for young people. The "Miss Zukas" series features sleuth Helma Zukas, an "always correct and always correcting" librarian who lives in fictional Bellehaven, Wash.

Speaker Biography: Carolyn G. Hart, creator of the popular "Death on Demand" mystery series and author of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel "Letter from Home," is a native of Oklahoma and resides in Oklahoma City. She was one of 10 mystery authors invited to speak at the 2003 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Hart is the author of more than 36 novels with 2.5 million books in print. Her popular "Death on Demand" series features a young mystery bookshop owner, Annie Darling, and her husband, Max.

Speaker Biography: Katherine Hall Page is the author of the continuing mystery series about Faith Fairchild, a Massachusetts caterer and minister's wife whose amateur crime investigations are laced with some of the recipes she puts to use in her catering business. Page lives in Lincoln, Mass., and will be the guest of honor at the 2006 Malice Domestic Convention, an annual event in Washington, D.C., that salutes traditional mystery books in the vein of Agatha Christie.

Speaker Biography: Patricia Sprinkle describes herself as "basically a Southern writer of mysteries and inspirational works." Her "Thoroughly Southern" mystery series features MacLaren Yarbrough, a spunky, 60-something amateur sleuth and town magistrate living in the fictional town of Hopemore, Ga. Sprinkle, who lives in Smyrna, Ga., is a past president of Sisters-in-Crime, a worldwide organization founded to combat discrimination against women in the mystery field.

Speaker Biography: Jacqueline Winspear is British-born, but now resides in Ojai, Calif., where she writes the historical "Maisie Dobbs" mystery series, which explores the lingering and grave impact on the survivors of World War I in Great Britain.


I did not create the above, it was on the website from the Library of Congress.
I hope you enjoy!
Kateri

Stephen King and Family Speak About Writing: Library of Congress

The Library of Congress>>Read.org>>Webcast>Stephen King and Family Speak About Writing

Kateri uses this for my writing.

(No date listed for interview.)
DESCRIPTION:
The PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program, in collaboration with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, hosted world-renowned author Stephen King, his wife, novelist Tabitha King, and son, writer Owen King, in a reading and discussion for students at the Library. The King family read and discussed their work with students from Cardozo High School, IDEA Public Charter School and McKinley Technology High School.

Speaker Biography: Stephen King's newest novel is "Duma Key." King is the author of more than 50 books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the "Dark Tower" novels, "Cell," "From a Buick 8," "Everything's Eventual," "Hearts in Atlantis," "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" and "Bag of Bones." His acclaimed nonfiction book, "On Writing," was also a bestseller. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Speaker Biography: Tabitha King, a native of Maine, is the author, most recently, of the Southern gothic "Candles Burning," a novel she collaborated on with deceased author Michael McDowell. She has also published seven other novels. She and Stephen have been married since 1972 and have three adult children and three grandchildren.

Speaker Biography: Owen King is the author of "We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories." A graduate of Bangor High School and Vassar College, King holds a master's degree from Columbia University, and his stories have appeared in Book Magazine and the Bellingham Review. He has been nominated for a National Magazine Award and is a recipient of the John Gardner Award for Short Fiction. He currently resides in Brooklyn.


The above is from the website, I didn't write it.
I hope you enjoy the interview.
Kateri

Historical Ebook? Look At Late 1930s References

Welcome back!
I have a great reference for anyone writing an American historical novel based in the late 1930s early 1940s.

Federal Writers Project Books

The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. It was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal program.

Notable writers were:

Conrad Aiken Nelson Algren William Attaway Saul Bellow Max Bodenheim John Cheever Loren Eiseley Ralph Ellison Vardis Fisher Irving Fiske (Then Fishman) Fountain Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Eliot Elisofon

Weldon Kees Claude McKay Harry Partch Kenneth Patchen John Steinbeck May Swenson Studs Terkel Jim Thompson Richard Wright Frank Yerby Margaret Walker Dorothy West Anzia Yezierska Arnold S. Eagle

Where can I find the books?

I found a big list - every state is represented!
DigitalBookIndex - Federal Writers' Project : Mostly Traveled.

Be sure to tell me what you think... did you use any of the material for your book?
(Hint: This is a great way to let people know you are writing a book -- or published one waiting for readers!)

Kateri