W. Lloyd Williams

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Lloyd wins SCWC Keyword-Themed Story Contest

For the past three days we attended the Southern California Writers' Conference in San Diego. Over two hundred and fifty writers from around the world attended. A group from Australia flew in early to attend, a woman from Columbia, several from England and Europe also attended. The rest came from Canada and the States.

The speakers included best-selling writers, award winning screenwriters, agents, and editors. We enjoyed the talks by Warren Fahy (Fragment), Mike Sirota (Fire Dance), Derek Haas (3:10 to Yuma and Wanted, Eric DeLabarre (Saltwater Taffy, a great new YA novel), Eric Bork (From Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers), Lisa Fugard (Skinner's Drift), Michelle Scott (several mystery series), and Alexandra Sokoloff (The Harrowing, The Price, The Unseen, The Hidden).

Mark Clements (6:02, Children of the End, and Lorelei) led three outstanding Read & Critique sessions each evening that continued late into the morning.

Overall we were disappointed that the level of the conference was very basic, though we can always learn from someone and we both left with a few gems. We met many wonderful people excited about writing and passionate about the future of digital publishing. Conferences always inspire and we look forward to spending the next several weeks holed up and working on our respective projects.

The conference hosted a Keyword-Themed Story Contest. I entered and was surprised when they started reading my story from the lectern. Pamela was wonderful as always and edited all my grammatical and spelling errors late the night before the deadline. I always incorporate her suggestions, so I share the win with her. -L