Heidi Ruby Miller, International Award-winning Author: Seton Hill June 2007 Residency Series

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Seton Hill June 2007 Residency Series - The Retreat

Since I graduated from Seton Hill this past January, this was my first official WPF Alumni Retreat. It was wonderful.

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IN YOUR RIGHT MIND - JUNE 22-24, 2007

Guest Speaker - Michael Bracken
Guest Agent - Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Agency

Friday:
Registration and Pitch Sessions
Elaine Ervin - Website Building and Blogging for Writers
Peer Critique Sessions
Ron Edison - Hearing with Your Ears
Carmine DeYoung - Techniques for a Successful Author Visit

Ron Edison and Rhonda Mason

Saturday:
Jennifer Jackson - Recipe for a Five Star Agent
Heidi Ruby Miller - Viral Networking
Michael Bracken - The Three Keys to Getting Published
Patrick Picciarelli - How to Write a Book Proposal
Roundtable Discussion - Shelley Bates, Sally Bosco, Michael Bracken, Diana Dru Botsford, Carmine DeYoung, Ron Edison, Elaine Ervin, Jennifer Jackson, Heidi Ruby Miller, Patrick Picciarelli

Catherine Asaro Presentation

Heidi Ruby Miller, Mary SanGiovanni, and Adam SanGiovanni

Sunday:
Shelley Bates - Writing for More Than One Market
Sally Bosco - How to Write Manga
Diana Dru Botsford - The Art & Business of Adaptation for the Visual Medium
Business Meeting

Jill Stevens, Donna Munroe, and Elaine Ervin

Mike Brendan

And, of course, the alums still participated in the residency social events so it was like a huge reunion for everyone.

Chun Lee and Mike Mehalek

Ron Edison and Shara Saunsaucie

The WPF Retreat is held annually and open to all writers, noy just those who graduated from Seton Hill. Next year there's talk of extending the retreat by a day for a Thursday writers' lock in. For more information you can visit the Seton Hill Alumni site or use the follwoign contact information:

WPF Reunion/Retreat
Mary Ross Cox
Seton Hill University
Seton Hill Drive
Greensburg, PA 15601-1599
724/830-1027
cox@setonhill.edu
FAX: 724/830-1858

Marge Burke, Ron Shafer, and Milt Anderson

Writing Popular Fiction, Heidi Ruby Miller, WPF Alumni Retreat, In Your Right Mind, Michael Bracken, Jennifer Jackson, writing, Seton Hill University

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READ IN 2020

BENGARIA'S WAR (Toppin)
BETTA'S STATION (Ruffin)
TEMPORARY PLANETS FOR TRANSITORY DAYS (Wendland)
CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE (Adeyemi)
NIGHT WITCH (Aaronovitch / Cartmel / Sullivan)
CARSON OF VENUS: THE EDGE OF ALL WORLDS (Betts)
IN THE HEART OF THE FIRE (Koontz)
MY EMBRACE (Joseph)
BODY WORK (Aaronovitch / Cartmel / Sullivan)
THOMASINE (Elizabeth)
WATER WEED (Aaronovitch / Cartmel / Sullivan)
INTO THE MIST (Murray)
WOLF SMOKE (Casavant)
LOVE ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (Various)
ALTERED CARBON (Morgan)
THE FURTHEST STATION (Aaronovitch)
MONALISA OVERDRIVE (Gibson)
THE HANGING TREE (Aaronovitch)
CHILDREN OF RUIN (Tchaikowsky)
MURDER ON THE HOUSE (Blackwell)
A COLLECTION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND SPACE OPERA SHORT STORIES (Toppin)
FOXGLOVE SUMMER (Aaronovitch)
THE RUST MAIDENS (Kiste)
PRINCESS OF MARS (Burroughs)

NEWS Starrie in Publishers Weekly

Nice review from Publisher's Weekly for Starrie (From the World of Ambasadora)!
"Miller’s short third novel in the space-faring, caste-bound, hierarchically polyamorous, and socially striated Ambasadora universe (after 2013’s Greenshift) manages to balance the exoticized presentation of the setting with relatable human interaction...the romance between Ben and Naela highlights the emotional side of reaching out to those who are different from you, even in a world where those differences are stylized and codified."

TALKING ABOUT MAN OF WAR

Science fiction is full of tales of displaced heroes, finding themselves involved in the conflicts of their adoptive worlds....Heidi Ruby Miller really runs with this concept, as Two Hawks finds himself equally used and abused by pretty much everyone he comes into contact with. Being a novella, it’s a fairly quick read, action-packed and gripping....I generally like to find something to criticise, no matter how small, just to avoid being taken for one of the current rash of meaningless five star reviewers that currently infest the internet, but I honestly couldn’t find anything to complain about. I genuinely hope Miller and Meteor House plan on continuing the story with further books." -DAVE BRZESKI, British Fantasy Society

TALKING ABOUT STARRIE

"Take authentic, straight-ahead space opera. Stir in a highly trained, kick-ass assassin on a mission of vengeance. Toss in a career soldier and watch them battle together, and grow together, as adversity piles on. Serve hot! Heidi Ruby Miller’s STARRIE serves up the perfect concoction of nonstop, take-no-prisoners SF action and romance, set against the intriguing backdrop of the brutal and dangerous world of AMBASADORA, and deftly leaves us wanting more." -Win Scott Eckert, coauthor with Philip José Farmer of The Evil in Pemberley House and author of The Scarlet Jaguar, winner of the 2014 New Pulp Award

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Seton Hill June 2007 Residency Series - The Retreat

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