Events for November

November 2012
Native American Heritage Month

NAHM resources




Because of Hurricane Sandy, be sure to check the websites for any changes in venue or events scheduled for the East Coast.



1 - 4 November, World Fantasy Convention, Toronto, Ontario Canada

3 November, Children's Festival of the Book
9am - 5pm Bozeman Public Library, Bozeman, Montana

8 - 11 November, Sanibel Island Writers Conference
Sanibel Island, Florida

9 - 10 November, Georgia Literary Festival
Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, Georgia

8 - 10 November, Hillerman Writers Conference
Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

9 - 11 November, Philcon 2012
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Philcon is hosted by The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.





PLAN NOW: Ohio State University Press (OSUP) announces submission information for its 2013 short fiction prize. Open to all writers in English. The manuscripts must be postmarked during the month of January, 2013. Details at OSUP.

Pubit! Author Services

At an all-time low.
Barnes & Noble Pubit!, which has never been good at communicating with their authors, has sunk to a new low. Books uploaded to the site in September are still "processing" with no information about  a remedy for problem forthcoming from BN.

But then, BN doesn't have a support department for the Pubit! system. GITP has written them several times about an apparent glitch in the processing, only to be told Pubit! doesn't have a tech staff and, basically, "get over it.".

Today the squawk line in the Community forum--the only meager contact with Pubit!--is really buzzing, with a few "how do I remove my books?" questions.  The crux of it all lies in the never-ending "processing" procedure, that has no explanation and doesn't seem to be ending soon.

And Pubit! really expects to compete with KDP and KOBO? Even Apple responds better than this.

The Big Get Bigger

Maybe.
A merger of Penguin and Random House is in the works. If successful, the new corporation could control nearly 25% of the book sales in the UK and U.S. 

Good?
Bad?

Hmm.

Events in October

October is a really busy month. Too bad teleportation isn't a reality. So many interesting things to do, and spread out across the county.

October 2012
National Cyber-Security Awareness Month

• 29 September-6 October, Banned Books Week
• 4 - 6 October, 13th Annual Humanities Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, Montana
• 4 - 7 October, 52nd Annual Western History Association Convention, Denver, Colorado
• 4 - 7 October, Boucheron 2012, Cleveland, Ohio
  includes Sisters in Crime events
• 11 - 12 October, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, South San Francisco, California
• 12 October, Sisters in Crime 2012 Retreat to the Woods Workshop, Confluence, Pennsylvania
• 12 -14 October, 24th Annual Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, Tennessee
• 12 - 14 October, Capclave, Gaithersburg, Maryland; This literary convention has a program that usually focuses on the short fiction.
• 13 - 15 October, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, Tacoma, Washington
• 19 - 20, October, High Plains Bookfest at various locations in downtown Billings, Montana
• 19 - 21 October, 44th Annual MileHiCon, Denver, Colorado
• 20 October, Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Author Feast and Trade Show, a cruise aboard the Queen Mary, Long Beach, California
• 19 - 21 October, 18th Annual Women Writing the West Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 19 - 21 October, 22nd Annual South Carolina Annual Writers Conference, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
• 19 - 21 October, 11th Annual Florida Writers Association Conference, Orlando, Florida
• 27 - 28 October, Texas Book Festival , State Capitol, Austin, Texas
• 1 - 4 November, World Fantasy Convention, Toronto, Ontario Canada