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Volume 8 Issue 4
Georgia Writers News/Mag

July - August 2001

MEETING DATES AND SPEAKER PROFILES
July 14 - Soar to another income level with business writing
Join us for an enlightening session during our July meeting with long-time Georgia Writers member Dr. Marcia Riley-Elliott. In advance of our meeting, she poses these questions:
     “While waiting for the publisher or editor to decide on your manuscript, have you ever considered using that time to earn money in the business world?
     “If not, why not?
 

     “You don’t know how?”
     Marcia will identify business-writing markets and share marketing tips based on her personal experience of soaring to another income level through writing. For more than twenty years, Marcia has provided writing, editing, proofreading and training services to many and various corporate, government, non-profit and academic clients across the country.
She is the author of three workbooks on written communications. These books are posted at Border’s Online Bookstore. And she’s a member of several national and international writing organizations.
Don’t miss this compelling and knowledgeable speaker. Discover how you can soar to another income level through business writing.

August 11 - Writing about crime for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Don Plummer, Assistant Metro Editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, researches and writes about crime in the Metro area.
     “The death of DeKalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown last December has turned into that most rare type of killing: a whodunit.
     “Someone shot the reform-minded sheriff-elect December 15 as he returned home shortly before midnight from a party celebrating the completion of his training to take office. DeKalb authorities were quick to label the shooting an assassination. If they’re right, Brown’s shooting may have been the first political assassination of an elected official in the United States in two decades.
     “Matthew Felling of the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs says that the idea that a high-ranking law enforcement official could be assassinated		   is a story that has grabbed national attention.
     “‘As frightening as random crime is, as compelling a story as it is, nonrandom crime is doubly frightening. Especially when it seems torn out of every gangster movie we’ve seen,’ said Felling, who first read about Brown’s murder while on vacation in Los Angeles. But in some ways Brown is just like other crime victims I’ve covered.
     “The toddler beaten to death by the live-in boyfriend; the mother blown away by a hired hitman in front of her two young sons; the teenager abducted from a Dunwoody parking lot and shot to death in a bean patch near Cartersville. They are more than stories. They are faces I see at night.”

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