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Mark your calendar
- December 18, 2018:
Annual PEAVI Christmas Party 🎄
- February 2, 2019:
Workshops with Lori May
- Saturday mornings, 10:30 am:
Weekly coffee sessions at Breakwater Cafe, Ogden Point
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Join our coffee get-to-know-you sessions. Delicious food, stunning views, and excellent company!
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Annual PEAVI Christmas party
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It's almost Party Time again.
Who: Peavi members and their significant others
When: Tuesday December 18 (2018)
Time: 6 pm to 9-ish.
Where: Fran's Place - 2023 Meadow Place (Oak Bay border). Directions below . . .
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Gifts: Bring a wrapped gift for our fun gift exchange game. It could be a new item ($5 to $10) or something re-gifted that you know a fellow PEAVI-ite will cherish for years to come. Please take your lovely gift home with you — you can always bring it back next year to swap again! If you bring a guest, bring an extra gift for them to exchange too.
Food: Fran will provide a meat and a vegetarian chili, and a non-alcoholic punch. PEAVI will provide a splash of wine.
You are encouraged to bring some food to share: buns, salad, some finger foods, a dessert or something else you’d like to share. Since many have food allergies, please include a note of ingredients—allergens: dairy, eggs, shellfish, crustaceans, pork, onions. Gluten and dairy-free items most welcome.
RSVP: Please add your name to the Doodle poll here (if you are bringing another person, enter a 2nd name and a 2nd check): https://doodle.com/poll/wzvipu879an85ier
Directions: Meadow Place is on the east side of Foul Bay Road, two blocks south of the Fort / Foul Bay intersection, near the Oak Bay Save on Foods and the Oak Bay Rec Centre. Fran’s is the third house on the right. The party will be up the stairs; if you have difficulty with stairs, please let us know and we will help you. Parking on Meadow Place may be limited, but parking on Foul Bay after 6 pm is OK, and the Save on Foods parking lot is nearby. Anyone care to carpool?
We hope to see you there!
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Workshops with Lori A. May
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We're excited to have Lori A. May, a Canadian editor, writer and educator living in Seattle, coming up to share her expertise with us in two workshops. As a freelance editor, Lori has worked with Kaylie Jones Books (an Akashic Books imprint), Creative Nonfiction, and other presses and journals. She is the author of six books, including The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship & the Writing Life (Bloomsbury). She writes across the genres and has work published in The Atlantic, Brevity, Canadian Traveller, Midwestern Gothic, and Writer’s Digest. Lori also teaches in the University of King’s College-Halifax creative nonfiction MFA program.
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Workshop 1: Saturday morning, 10:00-noon
Literary Citizenship 101
Writing may be a solitary profession, but it is also one that thrives within a healthy community. Writers, editors, and readers rely on one another professionally and personally. This interactive session shares ideas and inspiration for audience outreach, networking, and community building opportunities. We’ll explore online and in-person options for enhancing your literary circle, locally and beyond.
Workshop 2: Saturday afternoon, 1:30-3:30
Marketing for Writers and Editors
Plan for your best freelance year to date! This interactive session explores passive and targeted marketing opportunities for expanding your audience and broadening your portfolio. We’ll discuss social media and your online presence, targeted marketing and pitches, along with networking strategies. Come with your goals in mind as we discuss short and long term action plans.
Early bird registration, exclusively for PEAVI members, will open the first week of December. Keep an eye out for that email, coming to your inbox soon. Regular rate member registration, as well as registration for non-members, will open in January. We will be advertising these workshops to the public after Christmas and you might like to share the details with your clients at that time. Space is limited.
Professional Development Team:
Susan Grant, Esther Hart, Jennifer Kaddoura
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Welcome new members
Welcome to new members Catherine Lang and Carolyn Bateman! We look forward to meeting you at one of the upcoming PEAVi functions.
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Member news
Ursula Vaira writes:
I’m the guest editor for the spring edition of WorkWorks, the magazine of the Federation of BC Writers!
It’s the publishing edition: I’m calling out to fellow members of PEAVI who have story ideas, article ideas to pitch, questions needing answers, or even advice for self-publishers approaching an editor for the first time. We do pay for publication. You can write to me at ursulavaira@gmail.com.
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Congratulations to PEAVI member Rowena Rae and her sister Elspeth Rae on winning a 2018 Moonbeam Award — a gold in the Reading Skills/Literacy category — for A Duck in a Sock: Four Phonics Stories.
The book is the first in Rowena and Elspeth's Meg and Greg series of chapter books for six- to nine-year-olds who struggle with reading. The stories are written for shared reading between an experienced reader and a learner.
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Veronica Knox's latest novel Lisabetta - a Stolen Glance is now available on Kindle, and the print version is scheduled for launch the first week of December. This is Veronica's tenth novel.
In order to reclaim her true identity, the embittered spirit of the Mona Lisa, trapped in her portrait for 500 years, must join forces with an autistic boy and his troubled mother. Described as art history delivered in a ghost story, Lisabetta - a Stolen Glance is "a biographical fantasy of reincarnation and lost identities based on the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, his kid-sister, Lisabetta Buti, and their 21st century counterparts 500 years later."
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Share your news
Do you have news you would like to share — an interesting project, perhaps, or a new job? Has a book you edited recently been published? We would love to hear your editing news.
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Interesting reads
We found these interesting and thought you might, too.
Submitted by Lenore Hietkamp, Chris Banner and Lynne Graham.
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On the lighter side
- Merriam Webster's Thanksgiving word quiz:
https://bit.ly/2PXucP2
- This story falls into a "head-desk" category more than humour, but as we don't have a head-desk category . . .
"Never fails to disappoint": Roxy Jacenko book pulped after cover misprint.
https://bit.ly/2FIztW5
- And what would the season be without a little Santa silliness! Consider the following blog your primer for seasonal conversations with anyone young in years or spirit. Enjoy!
From the Better Than Ordinary! blog: Santa's Subordinate Clauses, Ho, Ho, Ho
https://bit.ly/2RjUCHx
Thanks to Sally Jennings for sending this link.
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- And if you've always wanted to add paperback Christmas trees to your seasonal decor, here's how (with apologies to those who consider it sacrilege).
From the Kayla Aimee Writes blog: How to: Make a Paperback Christmas Tree.
https://bit.ly/1GJXznH
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Ideas? Content? Feedback?
Do you have content, ideas, or feedback to share, an idea for a monthly meeting topic or a suggestion for a particular speaker? We're all ears!
Please contact Lynne Graham at communications@peavi.ca.
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Island Editor is coordinated and compiled by Lynne Graham and copyedited by Dave Henry. PEAVI members provide the content.
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