Despite odds, Calif. city becomes 2 newspaper town
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The latest experiment in American journalism is a throwback: a new daily newspaper to compete against an established one in a big city.
With Monday's debut of the Long Beach Register, the ambitious owners of the Orange County Register are expanding their bet that consumers will reward an investment in news inked on paper and delivered to their doorsteps.
The competition is the Long Beach Press-Telegram, which was founded more than a century ago and maintains an average weekday circulation of about 55,000.
As a result of the budding newspaper battle, this city of 468,000 is joining the likes of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston as what has become a rarity in 21st century America — the two newspaper town. Never mind shrinking circulations and online news migration.
"We believe that a city with the size and vibrancy of Long Beach should be happy to support a great newspaper of the variety we want to provide," said Aaron Kushner, who since buying the Orange County Register a year ago with a partner has surprised industry watchers by expanding reporting staff and page counts. "If it is, we'll make healthy money. If it's not, that'll be unfortunate for everyone. But we believe we'll be successful."
By launching the Long Beach Register, Kushner, publisher of the Register and CEO of Freedom Communications, is taking his contrarian instincts outside of Orange County.
Media business analyst Rick Edmonds said the last time he can recall a major U.S. city adding a new daily paper was around World War II, when Chicago got the Sun-Times and New York got Newsday. A brewing newspaper war in New Orleans between that city's Times-Picayune and a challenger based about 80 miles away in Baton Rouge, La., is the closest to what's unfolding in Long Beach.
"How will it play out?" asked Edmonds, of the Poynter Institute, a journalism foundation in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Don't really know until it happens."
Long Beach is a diverse city better known for its sprawling container ship port — one of the world's largest — than its beaches.
While its oceanfront drive features a large aquarium and the historic Queen Mary ocean liner, it also has big city problems including gangs. Bordering Orange County's urbanized north, it is in Los Angeles County, about 20 miles south of downtown LA.
In their small, sunlight-flooded newsroom, reporters for the new Register were greeted Thursday by two boxes of doughnuts and the kinds of issues that bedevil startups: who sits where, how come this outlet has no power, and how to get an Internet connection?
After a round of introductions, editor Paul Eakins told his staff that with at least 16 pages to fill each day, the paper would both cover "hyperlocal" news and welcome contributions from readers. In all, the paper has about 20 editorial employees.
Write about a boy becoming an Eagle Scout? Yes. Opening of the new dog park? You bet.
"I don't think they quite know what's coming," Eakins said of readers.
The plan Monday is to distribute 10,000 copies, publisher Ian Lamont said. It will be wrapped around the Orange County Register, so readers will get coverage of Long Beach's schools, sports, courts, happenings and City Hall — plus news from around the region and world. There will be no separate Long Beach paper on weekends.
Several reporters at the Long Beach Register are Press-Telegram alums, and though Eakins downplayed any rivalry, at the staff meeting there were gentle jabs about besting an old employer.
For their part, the Press-Telegram's bosses are giving no ground.
"We're not going to let a competitor come into our city and take it," said Michael A. Anastasi, vice president of news and executive editor of the Los Angeles News Group, which owns the Press-Telegram and eight other daily papers in the area.
The competition's certain winners, Anastasi said, will be local residents.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
AOL's Patch Begins Massive Layoffs
AOL’s Patch Layoffs Coming Friday
August 15, 2013 at 8:49 pm PT
Tim_armstrong will begin laying off employees at its Patch unit on Friday, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.
Last week, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced that he would shutter or try to find partners for up to 400 of his 900 local news sites. I don’t know if Armstrong was able to find takers for any of the sites, but we should learn more about their status when the cuts begin today.
If I hear more about their scope, I’ll update this post. If you’re an AOL employee who would like to share your story, feel free to reach me at peter@allthingsd.com.
Armstrong co-founded Patch in 2007, when he was still running sales at Google. After taking the top job at AOL in 2009, he had the Web giant buy the local news startup, and since then has poured a lot of money into the venture, to the concern of AOL investors.
It’s relatively easy to understand Armstrong’s bet on Patch. No Internet company has truly cracked the local news and information business at scale. And if someone could do that, they could capture a huge pool of ad money that has yet to migrate to the Web.
But Patch hasn’t done that, either. Last year, it lost money on $35 million in revenue. Earlier this year, Armstrong promised that Patch would become profitable by the end of 2013.
But it’s hard to see how that would happen without significant cuts. As Bloomberg’s Ed Lee pointed out in June, even if Patch doubled its sales from last year, to $70 million, it would still be much less than its operating expenses of approximately $140 million.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130815/aols-patch-layoffs-coming-friday/
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Balow's Warning on 'Doomsday Words'
Industry veteran Dan Balow (whom I admire very much) has a good, reasonable perspective on the future of the industry in this blogpost from Steve Laube's blog:
Doomsday Words
by Dan Balow
“Nobody is buying print books anymore”
“Nobody is buying printed magazines or newspapers anymore”
“No one shops at bookstores anymore”
“No one is reading anymore”
“No one goes to the trade shows anymore”
“No one needs a traditional publisher anymore”
“Everyone should just self-publish”
When the speed of change is faster than we can easily comprehend, our language has a difficult time catching up with reality, so we have a tendency to use over-stated terms to describe what is happening. Our very choice of words open the door to making some very poor business decisions. How? Rather than seeking wise solutions by understanding the facts, we make fast decisions based on incomplete information. Simply…it’s faster.
Nobody, no one, everyone, always, never, etc.
Not limited to publishing, over-stated language fills our political process, the financial markets, our personal lives and even our churches.
Overall, eBooks represent about 25% of all book sales…so digital-only books miss 75% of the market.
Print magazines, newspapers and trade shows are a lot alike…they reach a point where the cost cannot justify continuing, even though hundreds of thousands of people still read them or thousands of people attend an exposition. Readers Digest declared chapter 11 bankruptcy but had millions of print subscribers.
Bookstores still sell half of all print editions of most books. Sure, it is less than it was years ago, but it is still significant.
Traditional publishers still publish hundreds of thousands of new titles every year and account for significant majority of all books sold. Alternative methods of publishing have surpassed the title output of traditional publishers, but hold a small % of the overall dollar and unit volume.
So why use the word “nobody” to describe 75% of the market or “no one” applied to something that still holds a majority of a segment’s business? Information and facts always make things complicated. Wise decision-making is harder to come by. Take time, see the truth, then make wise decisions and hold realistic opinions.
As the great social commentator and sage Yogi Berra once said, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
Doomsday Words
by Dan Balow
“Nobody is buying print books anymore”
“Nobody is buying printed magazines or newspapers anymore”
“No one shops at bookstores anymore”
“No one is reading anymore”
“No one goes to the trade shows anymore”
“No one needs a traditional publisher anymore”
“Everyone should just self-publish”
When the speed of change is faster than we can easily comprehend, our language has a difficult time catching up with reality, so we have a tendency to use over-stated terms to describe what is happening. Our very choice of words open the door to making some very poor business decisions. How? Rather than seeking wise solutions by understanding the facts, we make fast decisions based on incomplete information. Simply…it’s faster.
Nobody, no one, everyone, always, never, etc.
Not limited to publishing, over-stated language fills our political process, the financial markets, our personal lives and even our churches.
Overall, eBooks represent about 25% of all book sales…so digital-only books miss 75% of the market.
Print magazines, newspapers and trade shows are a lot alike…they reach a point where the cost cannot justify continuing, even though hundreds of thousands of people still read them or thousands of people attend an exposition. Readers Digest declared chapter 11 bankruptcy but had millions of print subscribers.
Bookstores still sell half of all print editions of most books. Sure, it is less than it was years ago, but it is still significant.
Traditional publishers still publish hundreds of thousands of new titles every year and account for significant majority of all books sold. Alternative methods of publishing have surpassed the title output of traditional publishers, but hold a small % of the overall dollar and unit volume.
So why use the word “nobody” to describe 75% of the market or “no one” applied to something that still holds a majority of a segment’s business? Information and facts always make things complicated. Wise decision-making is harder to come by. Take time, see the truth, then make wise decisions and hold realistic opinions.
As the great social commentator and sage Yogi Berra once said, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
Friday, May 31, 2013
Reporters often cry along with the rest of us in sorrowful times like these
By Mark Masse for The News-Sentinel
Friday, May 31, 2013 - 12:01 am
Once again, the death of innocent children in an American elementary school dominates the news. This time, the fatalities are a result of violent weather — a devastating tornado — not a deranged gunman. But our emotions of shock, sorrow and grief are the same, as are many of the questions.
How could this happen? Why did some live while many died? How are surviving family members and friends coping with the unbearable loss of loved ones? Will they ever really recover?
Some of those asking such questions stand in front of the cameras, holding reporters’ notebooks or voice recorders. Still others take photos or video to capture the details on the scene. They are bearing witness so the rest in society can try to understand the import and impact of such an unfathomable act of God, nature, fate or bad luck. And many of those journalists are crying while they ask their questions, observe acres of destruction, gather their facts and compile their narratives.
Most of these are caring, professional reporters, not unfeeling “info-bots.” Certainly, there are notorious exceptions — on and off camera — of news media workers who manipulate people to garner emotional reactions. But, thankfully, these are rarer in an era where American tragedies and traumas arrive in waves and are universally known by just uttering a few words: Oklahoma City, Columbine, 9/11, Katrina, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Newtown and, once again, Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City journalists have been frontline first responders through major crises during the last two decades: the bombing in 1995 that claimed 168 lives, killer tornadoes in 1999, the airplane crash in 2001 that claimed members of the Oklahoma State University basketball team and then more deadly tornadoes through the young 21st century, notably the one that struck on May 20 in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, leaving a 17-mile path of destruction.
Contrary to the old newsroom myth stating that journalists are supposed to suspend any emotional involvement in their news coverage, a more enlightened generation of contemporary media workers realizes that observing the suffering of others indeed takes an emotional toll and carries serious responsibilities: Take care of yourself while being empathetic and respectful to those affected by tragic circumstances; ask questions sensitively so as not to retraumatize those dealing with loss; above all, be professional so audiences can better understand the world, especially in times of trouble.
Joe Hight, former managing editor of The Oklahoman newspaper and founding president of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, calls the current reform movement in the news media “a culture of caring” for journalists, their sources and communities affected by tragedy and trauma. Yes, print, broadcast and online reporters can be emotional while doing their jobs. And they can cry along with the rest of us at sorrowful times like these.
Mark H. Masse is a professor of literary journalism at Ball State University. He is the author of “Trauma Journalism: On Deadline in Harm’s Way” (2011, Bloomsbury) and other book-length works of narrative nonfiction as well as two novels.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Chicago Paper Lays Off Photographic Staff
Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff
By Robert Channick Tribune staff reporter
1:14 p.m. EDT, May 30, 2013
The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, and plans to use freelance photographers and reporters to shoot photos and video going forward, the newspaper said.
A total of 28 full-time staffers received the news Thursday morning at a meeting held at the Sun-Times offices in Chicago, according to sources familiar with the situation. The layoffs are effective immediately.
The newspaper released a statement suggesting the move reflected the increasing importance of video in news reporting:
"The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news. We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements. The Chicago Sun-Times continues to evolve with our digitally savvy customers, and as a result, we have had to restructure the way we manage multimedia, including photography, across the network."
The company is also preparing to supplement its freelance staff with reporters to shoot more video and photos, according to sources.
Among those laid off was longtime Sun-Times photographer John H. White, who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 1982. In winning the award, White was praised for his “consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects.”
By Robert Channick Tribune staff reporter
1:14 p.m. EDT, May 30, 2013
The Chicago Sun-Times has laid off its entire photography staff, and plans to use freelance photographers and reporters to shoot photos and video going forward, the newspaper said.
A total of 28 full-time staffers received the news Thursday morning at a meeting held at the Sun-Times offices in Chicago, according to sources familiar with the situation. The layoffs are effective immediately.
The newspaper released a statement suggesting the move reflected the increasing importance of video in news reporting:
"The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news. We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements. The Chicago Sun-Times continues to evolve with our digitally savvy customers, and as a result, we have had to restructure the way we manage multimedia, including photography, across the network."
The company is also preparing to supplement its freelance staff with reporters to shoot more video and photos, according to sources.
Among those laid off was longtime Sun-Times photographer John H. White, who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 1982. In winning the award, White was praised for his “consistently excellent work on a variety of subjects.”
Friday, April 12, 2013
How Many Christians Are There in Newsrooms?
from Poynter.org
There’s no good data on how many Christians are in newsrooms
by Andrew Beaujon Published Apr. 12, 2013 3:52 pm Updated Apr. 12, 2013 4:20 pm
Matt K. Lewis says newspapers need to hire more Christians: “Media outlets who want to understand America should at least have a few journalists hanging around who share — or at least, aren’t hostile to — the Christian faith.”
But Lewis doesn’t quantify his claim that Christians are unwelcome in newsrooms: He cites a New York Times obituary of McCandlish Phillips — an evangelical who said there were no fellow-travelers when he started at the paper in 1952 and who was leading prayer meetings there before he left in 1973 — and says that if more journalists were Christians, there’d be more coverage of Kermit Gosnell’s trial.
Lewis didn’t reply to a query about whether he had any data about Christians in newsrooms. Another problem: As happens way too often in media criticism, he lets the Times and The Washington Post stand in for all of newspapering.
The American Society of News Editors surveys newsrooms across the country annually about sex and race, but not religion, Executive Director Arnie Robbins told Poynter in an email. The closest I could find to industry-wide data was a 2007 Pew study that surveyed journalists on their churchgoing habits. The table is on page 55; here’s a somewhat hard-to-read screenshot (click to view a little bigger):
8 percent of journalists at national publications and 14 percent of those at local publications reported attending worship services weekly, compared with 39 percent of the general public who reported the same. But attendance and belief don’t always correlate neatly, and it’s important also to note that newsroom employment has plunged between 2007 and today.
So that leaves anecdotal evidence. Reached by phone, Huffington Post religion reporter Jaweed Kaleem said he’s had Mormon and evangelical colleagues approach him after he’s written a story touching on their faiths: “Sometimes it takes writing a story to have people come and let you know they are there,” he said. HuffPost senior religion editor Paul Raushenbush, for instance, is an ordained American Baptist minister, and HuffPost reporter Jon Ward, as Lewis noted in his piece, described himself as a “sinner saved by grace” in a recent interview.
Kaleem said he agrees with Lewis’ call for more religious diversity. “I agree on that broad point,” he said. “I just don’t know what numbers back that up.”
Marvin Olasky is the editor-in-chief of World Magazine and the dean of the World Journalism Institute, whose mission is to “recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the newsrooms of America first and then the world.”
Reached by phone, he said he hadn’t seen any data about Christian representation in newsrooms but said encountering a politically conservative and “theologically Christian” employee at a major newspaper is akin to “spotting a unicorn.”
When training students at WJI, Olasky said, “I basically say to kids that are going to work on secular newspapers if you can actually follow the various journalistic codes” — writing balanced stories, giving equal space to, say, pro-life and pro-choice voices — “you’re doing a lot better than most newspapers tend to do.”
Christian reporters at some newspapers, he said, “run into a wall, they’re told implicitly we don’t want you giving equal space to the other side.” Journalism is a great discipline for a Christian, Olasky said: “What distinguishes the evangelical way of looking at things is you take experience very seriously, and you also take the Bible very seriously. And at least what I’ve seen in the 37 years I’ve been a Christian and journalist is they go together.”
Reporting on poverty, for example: “It is easy to find particular verses that you can use to justify one set of policies or another set of policies,” said Olasky, whose writings on poverty deeply influenced President George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservative” philosophy.
Reporting out stories and letting facts take you where they will informs his understanding of the Bible and his subject, he said. “It cuts both ways.”
There’s no good data on how many Christians are in newsrooms
by Andrew Beaujon Published Apr. 12, 2013 3:52 pm Updated Apr. 12, 2013 4:20 pm
Matt K. Lewis says newspapers need to hire more Christians: “Media outlets who want to understand America should at least have a few journalists hanging around who share — or at least, aren’t hostile to — the Christian faith.”
But Lewis doesn’t quantify his claim that Christians are unwelcome in newsrooms: He cites a New York Times obituary of McCandlish Phillips — an evangelical who said there were no fellow-travelers when he started at the paper in 1952 and who was leading prayer meetings there before he left in 1973 — and says that if more journalists were Christians, there’d be more coverage of Kermit Gosnell’s trial.
Lewis didn’t reply to a query about whether he had any data about Christians in newsrooms. Another problem: As happens way too often in media criticism, he lets the Times and The Washington Post stand in for all of newspapering.
The American Society of News Editors surveys newsrooms across the country annually about sex and race, but not religion, Executive Director Arnie Robbins told Poynter in an email. The closest I could find to industry-wide data was a 2007 Pew study that surveyed journalists on their churchgoing habits. The table is on page 55; here’s a somewhat hard-to-read screenshot (click to view a little bigger):
8 percent of journalists at national publications and 14 percent of those at local publications reported attending worship services weekly, compared with 39 percent of the general public who reported the same. But attendance and belief don’t always correlate neatly, and it’s important also to note that newsroom employment has plunged between 2007 and today.
So that leaves anecdotal evidence. Reached by phone, Huffington Post religion reporter Jaweed Kaleem said he’s had Mormon and evangelical colleagues approach him after he’s written a story touching on their faiths: “Sometimes it takes writing a story to have people come and let you know they are there,” he said. HuffPost senior religion editor Paul Raushenbush, for instance, is an ordained American Baptist minister, and HuffPost reporter Jon Ward, as Lewis noted in his piece, described himself as a “sinner saved by grace” in a recent interview.
Kaleem said he agrees with Lewis’ call for more religious diversity. “I agree on that broad point,” he said. “I just don’t know what numbers back that up.”
Marvin Olasky is the editor-in-chief of World Magazine and the dean of the World Journalism Institute, whose mission is to “recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the newsrooms of America first and then the world.”
Reached by phone, he said he hadn’t seen any data about Christian representation in newsrooms but said encountering a politically conservative and “theologically Christian” employee at a major newspaper is akin to “spotting a unicorn.”
When training students at WJI, Olasky said, “I basically say to kids that are going to work on secular newspapers if you can actually follow the various journalistic codes” — writing balanced stories, giving equal space to, say, pro-life and pro-choice voices — “you’re doing a lot better than most newspapers tend to do.”
Christian reporters at some newspapers, he said, “run into a wall, they’re told implicitly we don’t want you giving equal space to the other side.” Journalism is a great discipline for a Christian, Olasky said: “What distinguishes the evangelical way of looking at things is you take experience very seriously, and you also take the Bible very seriously. And at least what I’ve seen in the 37 years I’ve been a Christian and journalist is they go together.”
Reporting on poverty, for example: “It is easy to find particular verses that you can use to justify one set of policies or another set of policies,” said Olasky, whose writings on poverty deeply influenced President George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservative” philosophy.
Reporting out stories and letting facts take you where they will informs his understanding of the Bible and his subject, he said. “It cuts both ways.”
Upcoming Writers Conferences
Upcoming Christian writing conferences & book events:
April 12-13, 2013ACW Mentoring Retreat, Nashville, TN
http://www.acwriters.com/
April 17, 2013: Santa Barbara Christian Writing & Book Marketing Sym.Santa Barbara, CA www.cwgsb.com
April 20, 2013:North Alabama Book Fair, Albertville, AL
http://northalabamabookfair.weebly.com/index.html
April 27, 2013: Writing Success One Day Conference, Stoneboro, PA
http://writingsuccess.info
May 15-18, 2013: Colorado Christian Writers Conference, Estes Park, CO
http://www.writehisanswer.com/
May 17-18, 2013ACW Mentoring Retreat, Charlotte, NC
http://www.acwriters.com/
May 17-18, 2013: Northwest Christian Writers Renewal, Redmond, WA,
http://www.nwchristianwriters.org/
June 20-22, 2013: KY Christian Writers Conference, Elizabethtown, KY
www.kychristianwriters.com
July 21-26, 2013: Montrose Christian Writers Conference, Montrose, PA
http://www.montrosebible.org/writers.htm
July 31-Aug 3, ’13: Greater Philly Christian Writers Conference, Langhorne, PA
http://www.writehisanswer.com/philadelphia/
Aug. 22-24, 2013: Catch the Wave Writer’s Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.christianauthorsguild.org/201202catch-the-wave-writers-conference-conference/
Sept 13-15: ACFW 2013 Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
http://www.acfw.com/conference
October 10-12, 2013: AntelopeValley Christian Writers’ Conference, Lake Hughes, CA http://www.avwriters.com/
Oct. 17-19, 2013: CLASS Christian Writers Conference, Albuquerque, NM
www.classeminars.org
Upcoming secular writing conferences and book events:
April 12-14, 2013, NY Writers Workshop Perfect Pitch Fiction Conference, NY, NY http://newyorkwritersworkshop.com/category/conferences/fictionpitch
April 12-14, 2013: Texas Mountain Trail Writers Retreat, Alpine, TX www.texasmountaintrailwriters.org
May 17-19, 2013: Pennwriters Conference Pittsburgh, PA http://www.pennwriters.org/prod/
June 22-23, 2013: CA Crime Writers Conference, Pasadena, CA
http://www.ccwconference.org/index.html
June 9-23: Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City, IA http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/
June 8-13, 2013: The Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Santa Barbara, CA
http://www.sbwriters.com/conference
Sep 20-22, 2013, Southern California Writers' Conference, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.writersconference.com/la
April 12-13, 2013ACW Mentoring Retreat, Nashville, TN
http://www.acwriters.com/
April 17, 2013: Santa Barbara Christian Writing & Book Marketing Sym.Santa Barbara, CA www.cwgsb.com
April 20, 2013:North Alabama Book Fair, Albertville, AL
http://northalabamabookfair.weebly.com/index.html
April 27, 2013: Writing Success One Day Conference, Stoneboro, PA
http://writingsuccess.info
May 15-18, 2013: Colorado Christian Writers Conference, Estes Park, CO
http://www.writehisanswer.com/
May 17-18, 2013ACW Mentoring Retreat, Charlotte, NC
http://www.acwriters.com/
May 17-18, 2013: Northwest Christian Writers Renewal, Redmond, WA,
http://www.nwchristianwriters.org/
June 20-22, 2013: KY Christian Writers Conference, Elizabethtown, KY
www.kychristianwriters.com
July 21-26, 2013: Montrose Christian Writers Conference, Montrose, PA
http://www.montrosebible.org/writers.htm
July 31-Aug 3, ’13: Greater Philly Christian Writers Conference, Langhorne, PA
http://www.writehisanswer.com/philadelphia/
Aug. 22-24, 2013: Catch the Wave Writer’s Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.christianauthorsguild.org/201202catch-the-wave-writers-conference-conference/
Sept 13-15: ACFW 2013 Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana
http://www.acfw.com/conference
October 10-12, 2013: AntelopeValley Christian Writers’ Conference, Lake Hughes, CA http://www.avwriters.com/
Oct. 17-19, 2013: CLASS Christian Writers Conference, Albuquerque, NM
www.classeminars.org
Upcoming secular writing conferences and book events:
April 12-14, 2013, NY Writers Workshop Perfect Pitch Fiction Conference, NY, NY http://newyorkwritersworkshop.com/category/conferences/fictionpitch
April 12-14, 2013: Texas Mountain Trail Writers Retreat, Alpine, TX www.texasmountaintrailwriters.org
May 17-19, 2013: Pennwriters Conference Pittsburgh, PA http://www.pennwriters.org/prod/
June 22-23, 2013: CA Crime Writers Conference, Pasadena, CA
http://www.ccwconference.org/index.html
June 9-23: Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City, IA http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/iswfest/
June 8-13, 2013: The Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Santa Barbara, CA
http://www.sbwriters.com/conference
Sep 20-22, 2013, Southern California Writers' Conference, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.writersconference.com/la
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