We are looking for workshop presenters for our 12th Annual Conference which will be held on April 1, 2023 at the Hilton Garden Inn, Hamilton, NJ. We are looking for workshops focusing on craft, writer wellness, technology for writers, marketing, and social media.

Workshops should preferably be an hour in length. If your workshop is chosen, your compensation will be attendance at the conference for free (including lunch) and attendance at the conference book signing as well as inclusion in various promotional materials for the conference. To submit your workshop proposal(s), please visit https://www.libertystatesfictionwriters.com/workshopsubmissions/.

Caridad Pineiro is taking part in an author panel with Isabel Cañas, Romina Garber, and Priscilla Oliveras. Many thanks to the Ashland Public Library and Bank Square Books for providing the authors with this opportunity to talk about their books! We hope you’ll be able to join Caridad and the other authors for the panel on September 13th at 7 pm EST. The panel will be done via Zoom and also live-streamed on Facebook. You can sign up for the panel at https://www.ashlandmass.com/Calendar.aspx?EID=922
3. You can also buy autographed books from the various authors at https://www.banksquarebooks.com/ashland-public-library-latina-heritage/aff/communications_9679. Thank you to @ashlandpubliclibrary and Bank Square Books for their support of this event!

Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Roz Lee on her new release! Here’s a little more about his story:

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝘆.
With development encroaching on his family’s vineyard, Wade Nightingale has his eye on the property next door. To get it, he’ll have to go through Serenity Granger, the reckless girl he had a crush on all through high school. She’s a grown woman now and determined to save her family legacy from foreclosure. It’s easy to admire her tenacity but impossible to keep his hands off her.
When Serenity Granger was ten years old, Wade Nightingale didn’t know she existed unless she was getting into trouble at his family’s winery, which she’d done more often than she wanted to recall, but now he’s paying attention. When things heat up between them, she has to wonder—could he be the answer to all her grown-up fantasies? Or is he a snake in the vineyard, after the only thing that matters to him—her land?

Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Elizabeth John on her new release! Backstage Butter Brittle is available at https://amzn.to/3nQMqAp and various retailers! Here is a little teaser for it:

Her thirtieth birthday is Anna’s deadline to succeed as a theatrical performer…only six months away. A crucial audition in her hometown puts her into the path of her ex-boyfriend. After only a few minutes together, she realizes she’s missed James. More shocking is that she receives an invitation to help with his family’s summer camp theater program.

Farmer James Tucker can’t believe the woman he once thought he’d marry is back in town, auditioning at the theater next to his ice cream parlor. He hopes for the impossible—that she’ll stay this time. But she wants bright lights, and he leads a simpler life. Can this reunion be their second chance at love?

Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Suzanne Trauth on her new release! What Remains of Love is now available at https://amzn.to/3P0FXyW and at other online retailers. Here’s a little teaser for it:

At the reading of her beloved father’s will, Kate, a divorced French professor, learns of his affair during World War II with a French artist named Emilie to whom he has left a substantial bequest. Kate, stunned to discover the existence of this woman who captivated her father, is determined to unravel the mystery of his past and unearth the truth. After the war had he abandoned passion for honor? Did he really love her mother, or was he compelled to marry her out of his sense of duty? How well did she really know her father? Or her mother? She embarks on a journey to the south of France to reconcile the past and confront her own demons, as well as the legacy of her father’s wartime love affair and the price he paid to live an honorable life. Kate’s life is changed forever…

Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Vicki Weisfeld on her new release! Architect of Courage is available at https://amzn.to/3IvxAZx and various online retailers. Here’s a little teaser for it:

Ordinary Man, Extraordinary Situation

In June 2011, September was weeks away, and the full dread of the approaching anniversary hadn’t yet settled on New York City’s residents. But from One Police Plaza to the FBI’s grim headquarters in Washington, D.C., the top brass harbor a rumbling in the gut. Each person who works for them down the line shares their unease, from every rookie cop walking the beat to the lowliest surveillance specialist. And Archer Landis is about to get caught up in their fixation.

Landis is not one of his city’s guardians, and a different sort of electricity runs under his skin on this warm Thursday evening. A highly successful Manhattan architect—a man you’d say has his life totally, enviably, in order—Landis works the room at a Midtown reception, shaking hands, being seen, accompanying his cheerful greetings with the convivial clinking of ice in an untouched glass of single malt.
When the noisy crowd becomes sufficiently dense and everyone present can say they’ve seen him, he will slip away. Out on Fifth Avenue, he will grab a cab for the run south to Julia’s Chelsea apartment. It’s a trip that will hurtle him into deadly danger. Everyone and everything he cares about most will be threatened, and he will have to discover whether he has the courage to fight his way clear.

Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Jacob Graysol whose flash fiction (700 words) Hate and Love was published on Yellow Mama Webzine. The story is free to read at https://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id2747.html.