[stylist] Writers' Division Monthly Telephone Gathering- Reminder of January's special guest, editor of "Magnets and Latters"

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Hi you all! 

RE: January's gathering is just two Sunday's away

 

Date: January 27th 

Time: 8:30 PM ET, 7:30 PM CT, 6:30 PM MT, 5:30 PM PT

Phone#: 1-218-339-4300 

Access Code: 568839Pound

 

Getting published, I think, is one of all of our goals as a writer. I
believe you will also agree, that getting to know where publishing
opportunities are, and having the chance to visit with an editor of a
magazine, is always a great step toward getting into print. This month's
guest is someone to know, she has many years of experience in being
published, and now is the publishing editor of an on-line magazine, and has
much to share with us. Below is her BIO:

 

Marilyn Brandt Smith blossomed among the blue bonnets and mesquites in south
Texas. She was born with glaucoma, and became totally blind after an
accident at school when she was thirteen.

 

Twelve great years at the Texas School for the Blind were followed by a
teaching degree from the same teachers' college attended by her parents, now
known as Texas State University. When she was unable to obtain a teaching
position because of her blindness, she changed vocational horses. After her
teaching experience in the Peace Corps, she obtained a master's degree in
counseling psychology from Texas Tech University, far enough west in Texas
to feel like the desert. She worked as an administrator, counselor, and
teacher for blind adults in Washington, D.C. and in Utah before returning to
work in Texas.

 

Marilyn was first published in a poetry anthology during her college years. 

Articles about her Peace Corps work led to other essays about disability. 

She edited composite reports about clients for rehabilitation centers and
agencies. In hobby time, she chose informative pieces on technology and
music for newsletters of clubs in which she was active. She assisted blind
college students with research and copyediting.

 

Marriage to a Kentuckian eventually brought her to her present home in
Louisville. An adopted daughter from Korea and a son born in Texas arrived
five months apart. Between diapers and school buses, Marilyn assisted her
husband at his piano store and vending facility while he finished his
education degree.

 

She has always had a kitty cat for a pet, and learned to love her husband's
guide dogs. For ten years the family bred and sold boa constrictors. She
loves singing harmony with the family, and favors groups in various musical
genre, especially bluegrass and barbershop harmony. She cooks family
favorites and hopes to compile a book featuring specialties she has
contributed to cookbooks and "how-to" magazines.

 

Recent writing experience aside from her new book, "Chasing the Green Sun," 

has focused on flash fiction-those surprise endings stretch her creativity
in new ways. She edited the first anthology for the Behind Our Eyes group of
writers with disabilities, and edits their online magazine, Magnets and
Ladders. A new anthology is forthcoming, and her team of editors is working
on the next magazine issue. Check www.behindoureyes.org and
www.magnetsandladders.org for current status and information about
contributing if you are a disabled writer.

 

 

 

Robert Leslie Newman

Personal Website-

Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment

http//www.thoughtprovoker.info

NFB Writers' Division, president

http://www.nfb-writers-division.net 

Chair of the NFB Communications Committee   

Vice President- NFB of Nebraska Senior Division