March 7th 2009 - attending the Central Brevard Library Author's Book Fair.  1pm until 4pm.  I am going to find similar minds and people that inspire me.

March 14, 2009 - Newspapers, the Web & Your Book.  Chris Kridler, reporter for Florida Today.
Her writing has appeared in Newsweek, Premire, Maryland Poetry Review, Charlotte Poetry Review, bOING bOING, and many newspapers.   Part of the Space Coast Writer's Guild.
1pm until 3:30pm.  Merritt Island Public Library 

May 17-22, 2009 Florida Institute of Technology Creative Writing Institute. Florida Institute of Technology's Creative Writing Institute, registration and Keynote Speaker (Philip Deaver) Sunday with  classes held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9:00AM to 10:30 PM  ( http://411.fit.edu/cwi/) Anna Flowers, who will speak on Wednesday, May 20, 3:45 to 4:45 (http://annaflowersbooks.com/)

July 29 - August 1, 2009  The Anhinga Writer's Studio Summer Workshop
Including Diana Tonnessen, Bev Browning, Mary Anna Evans, Lauren Groff, Rhys Bowen,
Peter Meinke, Gayle Wilson, Roxanne St. Claire and Charlaine Harris (Author of  The Southern
Vampire Mysteries, now a weekly HBO series, "True Blood".) ( http://www.anhingawriters.org )

July 28-31, 2010 The Anhinga Writer's Studio Summer Workshop
Including Diana Tonnessen, Bev Browning, Mary Anna Evans, Anne Hawkins (Agent), Jeanne Leiby (Editor of "The Southern Review"), Bob Morris, and Peter Bowerman.   Featured speaker is George Hirsch, Publisher of "La Cucina Italiana" and Runner's World and founding publisher of New York Magazine.(http://www.anhingawriters.org/)