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Chere Dastugue Coen will appear at the following locations to speak on her book, "Exploring Cajun Country":
Noel Acadien du Village on Satutrday, Dec. 17, at Acadian Village in Lafayette.
She will appear at the following locations to speak on her book, "Magic's in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris Bags and Sachets":
A workshop titled "Get Your Mojo Working" at 7
p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, at South Regional Branch Library in Lafayette, Louisiana.
At the Louisiana Book Festival Saturday, Oct. 29, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A workshop titled "Get Your Mojo Working" at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Greenwell Springs Road Regional Branch Library in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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The Writers’ Guild of Acadiana will
host a one-day seminar titled “Scare ’Em and Sell ’Em: How to Write a
Paranormal Novel” with author Deborah LeBlanc, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept.
10, in the annex building attached to the Rice Theater in Crowley. The cost is $45
for non-members, $35 for members. To register, mail your check or money order
to Writers’ Guild of Acadiana, P.O. Box 51532, Lafayette, LA 70505-1532.
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Best-selling author Heather Graham
is once again offering a workshop for writers in New Orleans, in which there
will be panel discussions, a dinner theater, editor appointments and more. The
Heather Graham’s Sixth Annual Writers for New Orleans Workshop will be Sept.
2-4 at the Hotel Montelone. For information and registration, visit the Writers for New Orleans Web site.
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| Sabrina Jeffries |
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Heartla luncheon
New
York Times bestselling author and New Orleans native Sabrina Jeffries, with
more than 5 million books in print, will be the guest speaker at the Heart of
Louisiana's Annual Romance Readers Luncheon Saturday, Nov. 5, in Baton Rouge. The
event will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Juban’s Restaurant, 3739 Perkin Road,
and will feature book signings in addition to Jeffries’ talk and lunch. Tickets
to the “Fall in Love With Romance” luncheon are $40 and available through the Heartla Web site.
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Jubilee Writer's Conference, Houma
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| Angelle LeBoeuf and Tina Calais |
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| Farrah Rochon and Trish Leger |
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| Rosary O'Neill and Ken Wells |
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| Ross Mays |
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| Christee Gabour Atwood and Jeanette Poole |
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More than 45 authors attended the Acadiana Book
Festival on Saturday, Oct. 30, at Cite des Arts, 109 Vine
St. in downtown Lafayette. The free festival sponsored by
the Writers' Guild of Acadiana brought in Poet Laureate Darrell Bourque
along with poet Ava
Leavell Haymon, movitavational humorous Christee Gabour Atwood (shown at left with Guild historian and cookbook author Jeanette Poole), food
writer Marcelle Bienvenu and a host of great talent. Authors included:
Christa Allan, Patricia Veazey Alvarado, Tom
Aswell, Christee Gabour Atwood, Marcelle Bienvenu, George Bishop, Jim
Booksh, Darrell
Bourque, Jude Bradley, Carl Brasseaux, Anne Butler, Morena Johnson
Caleb, Henry
Cancienne, David Cheramie, Chere Dastugue Coen, Barbara Colley, Sheila
Hebert
Collins, Donald W. Davis, Mark F. DeWitt, Ann B. Dobie, Terri Hoover
Dunham,
Woody Falgout, John Francois, Mary Gehman, Ron Gomez, D.B. Grady, Greg
Guirard,
Ava Leavell Haymon, Brandon Hebert, Jackie Hirschberg, Carla Hostetter,
Pam
Kaster, Sudie Landry, Mary Langford, Patrice Melnick, John Morella, Erin
Osborne, Todd-Michael St. Pierre, Jeanette Poole, Rose Anne St. Romain,
Carolyn
Shelton, Theresa Newport Singleton, Don Stanford, Carey Weeks, Cyril
Vetter and
Beverly Vidrine and many more. In addition, there were representatives
of LSU Press, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press
and Piggy Press.
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| Chere Coen and her fresh-off-the-presses book. |
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| Chere Coen and Jude Bradley, coauthors of "Magic's in the Bag," on KRVS promoting the festival. |
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Chere Coen teaches mass market novel-writing classes, genealogy research and writing and all-day seminars to jump-start a writing career at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Continuing Education Department. For more information or to sign up for her classes, visit ULL's Potpourri classes.
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