Story Circle Network: Austin NewsFlash



		January 2007 To read this Newsflash on our web site, click here: storycircle.org/AustinChapter/Newsletters/070122.html

with Karen Kreps

Sunday, January 28
2-4pm
LCRA Colorado Room,
3801 Lake Austin Blvd
Free

Join us as Karen Kreps, a certified independent consultant with Heritage Makers, will present a new Web-based service you can use to easily self-publish archival quality hard cover books containing your own stories. She will show sample storybooks, talk about the power of story and encourage everyone to share their stories using the Heritage Makers system, available on Karen's web site.

Storybooking is the unique process of combining photographs with personalized story text into one or more professionally hardbound storybooks for ages one to 101. Heritage Makers is the first and fastest growing storybooking company in the world that takes memories to a new level. What scrapbooking was to the last century, storybooking is to this new century.

Karen Kreps has 25 years experience as a professional writer, editor and Web developer. She wrote a best-selling diet book (The 60-Day Diet Diary, Dell 1982). She writes the "Intimacies" column about love, sex, romance and relationships in The Good Life Magazine, a local Austin monthly publication. She is Senior Editor of Integral Yoga Magazine, and writes for InnovationMatters, a semi-monthly e-newsletter about technology commercialization. For 14 years she was a film critic for Boxoffice magazine and has also written for The New York Times Co., the Washington Post, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, Diversion, Success and Experience Austin magazines.

So take this opportunity to introduce your friends to Story Circle Network, and bring a few along to hear Karen talk about storybooking.

More info including a map can be found on the Be Our Guest web page

See you on the 28th!

Lifelines
A Story Circle LifeWriting Retreat

March 16-18, 2007
Festival Hill, Round Top Texas

"A Created Version of the Past":
A Weekend Memoir Workshop
with
Susan Wittig Albert

Register now so you won't miss out on this truly wonderful retreat.

Led by our founder, Susan Wittig Albert, and located at the beautiful Festival Hill, this is a great opportunity to benefit from Susan's expertise.

For complete retreat information, please visit the LifeLines web site.


March 25, 2007 2-4pm	Readings from and Discussions of What Wildness is This, SCN's new anthology. LCRA Colorado Room, 3801 Lake Austin Blvd Susan Wittig Albert will moderate the program, which will feature several contributors to the anthology reading from their work, talking about the importance of place-writing, etc. There will also be a book sale / book signing.
June 7-9, 2007	A Land Full of Stories: A Conference and Celebration of Writing about Place and Personal History Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX This weekend writing conference will mark the publication of What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest. For more information, visit the conference web site.




This Newsflash is a publication of the Austin Chapter of the Story Circle Network, (P.O. Box 500127, Austin TX 78750-0127). It is provided free, via e-mail, for women interested in lifewriting in the Austin area. ©2007 Story Circle Network Feel free to forward this Newsflash to friends & colleagues with appropriate credit to Story Circle Network. This Newsflash is edited by Peggy Moody and Danelle Sasser.
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