The Fearrington Writers’ Group is open to any resident interested in writing. Our aim is to:
-discuss the art and business of writing;
-aid one another in composition and publishing;
-share useful information; and,
-give participants a platform for our work.

Many members of the group have shown interest in family history, personal memoir, essays, creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry. The group meets regularly from September through May. The format of our meetings is influenced by input from members.

In general, we attempt to:
-provide useful information for writers and anyone who is thinking about writing’
-encourage members to share experiences from writers’ conferences and workshops;
-provide a forum for sharing your writing; and,
-encourage writing – in any form – for any purpose.

We encourage everyone to write something! There are two subgroups: one for folks interested in poetry (see below) and another one for those interested in prose writing (see below). We are eager to fine-tune our mission and change our meeting format to meet the needs of the group. We encourage any and all comments and suggestions.

Contact Laura T. Jensen at: prosebylaura@gmail.com
Facilitators:
Dick Merwarth (Prose Group) crmerwar@intrex.net
Bill Sommers (Poetry Group) bsommers@earthlink.net

Friday, January 25, 2013

Fearrington Village author Caroline Taylor

Fearrington Village author Caroline Taylor announces the release of her second P.J. Smythe, Jewelry from a Grave, a Five Star Mystery from Gale-Cengage Learning. A reading is slated for 2 p.m., Sunday, May 19, at McIntyre's Book Store.
Jewelry from a Grave features P.J. Smythe, a former Annapolis "skip tracer," who tracks down loan defaulters. P.J. is thrilled when her new employer, Chatham Confidential, offers her a significant bonus to track down antique jewelry lover, Yolanda Branson. In her attempts to locate Yolanda, P.J. unearths a file labeled "Funny Business," which contains a secret code that, when deciphered, exposes a jewelry-fencing operation involving several former Chatham employees and perhaps some current ones. One of them might be P.J.'s boyfriend, or even her boss. Before she can connect the dots linking a phony narc, some stolen jewelry, and one or more Chatham insiders, P.J. is forced to go for a midnight swim -- losing her car, her clothes, and almost her life.
Taylor's debut novel, What Are Friends For?, won praise for throwing in "enough laughs to please a wide audience." Suspenseful and quickly paced, Jewelry from a Grave takes readers on an equally breathtaking journey, Caroline Taylor's short stories and essays have appeared in a variety of publications including , Fiction365, The First Line, A Fly in Amber, Fresh Magazine, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, The Green Silk Journal, Long Story Short, The Oddville Press, Orchard Press Mysteries, The Dan River Anthology-2009, Workers Write!, Tales from the Capitol, and Work Literary Magazine. In addition to What Are Friends For?, Taylor is the author of Publishing the Nonprofit Annual Report: Tips, Traps, and Tricks of the Trade (Jossey-Bass, 2001). She is a member of Mystery Writers of America and the North Carolina Writers' Network.
For more information on the author, please visit www.carolinestories.com