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September 20-22

Southern California Writers Conference in Newport Beach, CA. Workshop: Maybe We Need to See Other People or Take Some Time Off: How to change up your relationship with your manuscript during the editing process. Tricks, approaches, techniques.

June 6

Interview with Jaime Boler at Bookmagnet.

March 21-24

Left Coast Crime mystery convention, Colorado Springs, CO. Panels: Literary Inspirations for Traditional Mysteries and Where Do Come Down on Genre?

February 15-18

Southern California Writers' Conference, San Diego, CA. Join me at this wonderful conference for writers and readers and visit me at my workshop: Leaving a Virtual Imprint.


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December 13, 2012

Just in: HarperCollins will publish a print edition of The Qualities of Wood in 2013!! Look for a mid-year release and watch for news here!

November 1

Book Club Visit
Book Club Visit, Irvine, California

October 25

"The Issue of Genre" Guest blog at authonomy.com

September 23, afternoon

Book Club visit, Newport Beach, CA

September 21-23

Southern California Writers' Conference in Newport Beach, CA. I'm leading a workshop entitled "Outside Genre: How Story Trumps Convention." Info and registration available here

July 25

Interview with Alison Wells at Ireland's premier site for writers, Writing.ie.

July 24

Featured article at Author magazine: "From Hand to Screen: Technology and the Writer"

July 1

Interview at The Object: An Interactive Serial Novel.

May 23

An interview with Penny Ehrenkranz at One Writer's Journey

International Book Awards

May 22

The Qualities of Wood awarded the International Book Award in the E-Book: General Fiction category

May 17

Author Q&A on Literary Inklings

April 28

Featured article in the Orange County Register: "Irvine author publishes mystery ebook."

April 27, 1:00-2:00 PST

Guest host of live Twitter chat with @LitChat. Join me as I discuss The Qualities of Wood and my route to publication. Use #litchat to participate.

April 23

Article on Caroline Smailes' blog: "About authonomy, the changing face of publishing and authonomy's first published novel."

April 11, 4:00-4:30 PST

Interview with Dr. Mary of The OC View radio program. Listen to a recording of the interview on my blog.

April 6

"From Isolation to Affirmation" Guest post on Yamina Today.

March 23

Book Club Visit
Book Club Visit, Irvine, California

February 28

"How Did I Get Published?" Guest post on Fire and Ice

February 25

Interview at the Book Stop

February 19

"Q & A with The Qualities of Wood author, Mary Vensel White" at My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors

January 31

The Qualities of Wood debuts on Amazon as a recommended "Hot New Release"

Article about the influence of music while writing The Qualities of Wood at The Undercover Soundtrack

Guest blog at authonomy.com about the writing life: "Writing into the Void"


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October 12

HarperCollins announces a new digital imprint, to publish books discovered on the authonomy.com website, and the first book is...mine! The Qualities of Wood will be published in 2012. Read the exciting announcement.


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