{"id":23832,"date":"2013-06-10T00:17:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T04:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=23832"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T19:18:31","slug":"gulf-coast-writers-association-meeting-scheduled-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/gulf-coast-writers-association-meeting-scheduled-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Coast Writers
Association Meeting Scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013, 10:00 -12:00 NOON<\/p>\n

NOTE NEW LOCATION FOR THIS MEETING<\/p>\n

HODGES UNIVERSITY, 4501 COLONIAL BLVD., FORT MYERS<\/p>\n

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DR. BEN BOVA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SPEAKER: DR. BEN BOVA<\/p>\n

TOPIC: TEN THINGS I WISH I KNEW BEFORE I STARTED WRITING<\/p>\n

Dr. Bova is a frequent commentator on radio and television and a widely-popular lecturer. He was an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry.\u00a0Ben Bova\u2019s novel, TITAN, won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of the year 2006.”<\/p>\n

He says,\u00a0“The question, ‘Am I writer?’ is irrelevant. The real question is, ‘Do you want to write?’ Writers write. You get up every morning and hit that keyboard. You get the words down and build stories.”<\/p>\n

For more than a decade Ben Bova has been creating novels about the human race’s expansion through the solar system. From the Moon to Mars, Venus, Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt, his novels show the adventure and excitement of our advance across the space frontier.<\/p>\n

The author of more than 100 futuristic novels and nonfiction books, Dr. Ben Bova has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age. President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America, Dr. Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation in 2005, \u201cfor fueling mankind\u2019s imagination regarding the wonders of outer space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Directions: Enter through the front main entrance; take the elevators on the left to the third floor; exit elevator, go left and follow hallway straight to the end, Room 364.<\/p>\n

Members $3, Non-members $5, First-time attendees, free.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Gulf Coast Writers Association please visit our website at www.gulfwriters.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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